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‘Faculty master’ title scrapped

Title removed due to racial insensitivity CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor-elect

Penn has announced that it will stop using the title “Faculty Master” for its college house leaders, a term some see as evocative of slavery. The

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position will now be called “Faculty Director.” The change comes after weeks of student protests on college campuses nationwide over racial discrimination. Harvard University and Princeton University have already chosen to eliminate the “Faculty Master” title, and Yale University has said it will make a decision by the summer.

In an announcement sent to college house faculty last Wednesday, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dennis DeTurck explained the change. “The faculty and staff of [College Houses and Academic Services] have been mindful of ongoing developments on campuses across the country. These include concerns

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about the historical connotations of the title of ‘Faculty Master,’” DeTurck’s email read. “This small but important step will be taken immediately, and over the next few weeks all references in college house literature and on CHAS websites will be amended to reflect it.” SEE FACULTY MASTERS PAGE 9

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Newly elected freshmen reflect on campaign process

SEAS women: challenges and hopes for future

Candidates criticized superficial election goals but enjoyed meeting classmates

Women more represented in student body than faculty

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Since its election in mid-September, the Class Board of 2019 has spent a successful semester at the helm of its 2,435-member freshman class. As a group, the Class Board of 2019 is particularly diverse. Out of 11 people, seven are students of color, four are women and three are international students. Some members have had extensive experience on student government — College freshman and Executive Vice President Montell Brown was president of his high school class of 662 for four years — while others are brand new to the game. On their campaign trails, the current freshman board employed a range of creative strategies to elicit votes. Candidates chalked their names onto sidewalks, placed bowls of candy in common areas and slapped posters all over trees, bulletin boards and walls. They hung around in public areas and talked to anyone who was willing to listen for a minute about their cause. During the three whirlwind days of elections, many candidates walked around freshman college houses and dining halls with iPads in hand, actively soliciting votes. Some members cited the brief campaign

Among freshmen traversing the Engineering Quadrangle and hustling to introductory math classes, roughly four out of 10 are women. This year, women made up more than 40 percent of the Engineering Class of 2019, marking an all-time high for Penn. While the national average of incoming women in undergrad is around 20 percent, women make up approximately

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Assistant Dean of Reasearch Kathleen Stebe operates the Stebe Lab, which has seen a peak number of women researchers this year.

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$56 million sure sounds like a lot of cash. But how much is it, really?

33 percent of the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s incoming class each year. The numbers only become more relevant as newer classes come in. As the deadline for regular decision approaches for the Class of 2020, Penn female engineers shared their experiences at Penn and discuss the past, present and future of the engineering climate for women. *** Wharton and Engineering senior Emily Chen began her transition into the Engineering School with a SEE SEAS WOMEN PAGE 7

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Canadian club re-establishes presence on campus The club had recently been de-recognized by SAC GAJAAN SITTAMBALAM Contributing Reporter

The country with the largest international population at Penn is re-establishing its mark on campus. The Canadian Club, which has been an official club at Penn for the past several years, was derecognized at the beginning of this year because the executive board members did not attend Student Activities Council

meetings last year. Upon learning that the club had lost its funding, current club co-heads Wharton sophomores Nayyir Ismail and Christopher Motz took the initiative to obtain re-recognition to promote an understanding of Canadian culture on campus. Among all countries outside of the United States, Canada has the largest international student presence on campus. Motz said that while Canada is very close to home, subtle differences in American and Canadian culture still exist.

“A lot of people see Canadians as America’s top hat, but everyone loves Canadians,” Ismail said. Like in the United States and other countries, in order to understand the Canadian lifestyle, “you have to experience it; you have to be surrounded by Canadians,” Ismail added. The Canadian Club has a social and a professional aspect through which its ideals are embodied. On the one hand, the club seeks to provide a family for Canadians at Penn, given that living in a different country is part of the transition to college.

However, the club also seeks to educate people who are interested in learning about Canada. In fact, this was one of the driving forces in applying for re-recognition from SAC. Ismail and Motz set up a meeting with the SAC Executive Board and explained the purpose behind rejuvenating the Canadian Club. The SAC Executive Board chose not to grant recognition. “When they applied [for rerecognition], they only had two members and we didn’t recommend them for that reason,” SAC Communications Director and

College junior Tahir Bell said. Keeping the goals of the Canadian Club as the No. 1 priority, Ismail and Motz decided to push past this setback. They appealed the decision of the SAC Executive Board. At the next SAC GBM, Ismail and Motz were successful in convincing the SAC General Body that the Canadian Club had legitimate objectives and were voted in unanimously. In addition to funding, a major perk of being recognized by SAC is that, “you can take part in the Activities Fair, which is arguably the best way for a club to market

itself,” Motz said. After a semester in which the Canadian Club obtained SAC recognition and established a comprehensive Executive Board, the co-heads are beginning to organize social and professional events for all students next semester. For example, an alumnus of the Canadian Club has recently become a high official in the Canadian liberal party. Ismail and Motz are connecting with him to organize an event at Penn in which Penn students can learn more about Canadian politics and government.

New course allows students to dance for academic credit Theater Arts 215 is launching next spring OWAIN WEST Contributing Reporter

A new course coming to Penn next spring will allow — and encourage — students to dance in class. The new course, Theater Arts 215, will focus on everything from dance theory to practice and will involve a substantial amount 1-Year of International in-class Programexperiential of Public Health learningMaster through movement and in Global Health sensory (MPH) experience. This is one Leadership & Administration of the first dance courses for 8-Week Summer Program academic that has been Globalcredit Health Systems

offered at Penn. Nicole Bindler, a professor at the University of the Arts who specializes in somatics, the study of movement that emphasizes self-perception, will be teaching the course. For Bindler, dance is both an art form and a science. She hopes to bridge those two perspectives by approaching dance through her field in somatics. “What I teach is science based material — embodied anatomy … in somatic practice we look at anatomical structures, but instead of just relating that material to a book, we try to embody that,” Bindler

said. “So if we’re studying a muscle group, instead of just learning about the muscle, we’re going to palpate, touch ourselves and each other and see how it feels. In this way we can notice what it looks like in your own body and in others, and relate that to how it moves through space.” There has been considerable demand for new dance courses at Penn, as well as for an expansion of dance group’s presences on campus. College sophomore Nicole Frazzini and College junior Ramita Ravi sent out a survey in October to the Penn community to gauge interest in

a large dance program at Penn, and they’re happy with the results. “We’ve gotten about 200 responses on the survey and they were all really positive,” Ravi said. “We talked to the head of the theatre arts department, we’ve talked to around 10 professors related to dance to try to build the program from the ground up.” The new dance course precisely aligns with what Frazzini and Ravi had hoped for when they sent out the survey, although Ravi said that they were surprised by the announcement of the course. Since its

announcement, they’ve been in contact with Bindler to discuss what the course will entail. “This class just kind of popped up, and we’re like whoa, this is weirdly in line with what we’re doing,” Frazzini said. “It’s going to be a microcosm of what an academic dance curriculum is. It should be a lot of fun, and it’s something that Penn didn’t really have before.” Frazzini said that the class would be approachable to anyone, and did not necessarily require any prior dance knowledge. “I think something that’s really cool about this class is

that anyone can take it. It’s not really assuming that you have any prior knowledge or skills,” she said. “That’s not to say that we won’t end up doing interesting things. Through projects, we can take it anywhere we want.” For everyone involved, the hope is that this is only the beginning. “My idea was that I wanted to offer a kind of tasting of a lot of different things that matter to me and that I value in the field. It’s my hope that as dance builds at Penn that we can dive in deep into the topics we study in class,” Bindler said.

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Penn a cappella group wraps up big year with EP Penn’s singing groups may be large in number, but one sound in particular has begun to separate itself from the noise. Last weekend, Off the Beat — Penn’s modern rock a cappella group — covered works by artists such as Ellie Goulding, Muse and Elle King in Harrison Auditorium. The performance featured songs from Audio Eden, the group’s most recent

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his or her class as best as possible. I tried to form that personal connection with each and every person.” “It was a lot of one-on-one interpersonal contact,” Brown agreed. “Shaking hands, talking to people, seeing what they wanted, seeing what they needed. It was also connecting with other people who would help me get my name out.” Extraversion and likability were two other standout traits of winning candidates. “I think I won because of my charisma, my outgoing personality and my ability to connect with the constituents,” Brown said. Less than a week after being elected, the Class of 2019 board organized their first major event, Econ Scream. The event went smoothly despite a short deadline and a last minute downpour that forced the board to move the venue

indoors. The freshman board also helped organize Skimmer Fest, a music festival featuring AlunaGeorge that took place Oct. 3rd in Houston Hall. Next Thursday, the Class Board of 2019 will hold Cram ’N Jam, a study break event to give freshmen an opportunity to hang out and relax with friends amid the stress of finals. There will be yoga, board games, music and puppies provided by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The past semester has been an invigorating and eye-opening experience for the 11 members of the class board. They said that while adjusting to the new demands of college student government and its high levels of autonomy were challenging, they were taking it all in stride. “It definitely is a lot of fun. The

amount of independence we get was surprising, which is great,” Nguyen said. “It’s been difficult at times just because [we] didn’t know each other before,” Lim said. “[But] I think we complement each other’s strengths really well and have a good working relationship. We all have each other’s best interests at heart, and really do care about each other as people at the end of the day.” Overall, the Class Board of 2019 functions not just as a branch of student government, but as a group of collaborative and dedicated individuals who have come together to help freshmen make the best of their time at Penn. “Each and every experience of class board so far has been absolutely tremendous,” Nguyen said. “The board has been great.”

Jonah Platt as former members, many of which serve as guiding lights for the group and offer constant feedback for improvement. The name for the Audio Eden EP emerged out of one of those alumni connections. While the show theme had been tossed around for a while, it was the effort of 2015 Engineering graduate Kobie Mensah-Brown that finally turned the concept into a tangible production. “It conjures up the idea of really beautiful, full sounds,” Fisher said. “It really captures and reflects the bliss that we

feel when we sing together as a group.” As the year comes to a close, the group already has its eyes set on the next, the self-proclaimed goal being a first place finish in the ICCA. With the debut of the new album, however, Off the Beat claims to be striving for something even greater than a trophy, an escape from the mundanities of everyday life. “Music becomes this thing that transcends the rest of your life,” Barksdale said. “It lifts you out of whatever drudgery and stupidity Penn throws at you.”

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that you like, and you’re creating something special.” “We’re all such good friends,” Fisher added. “Part of it is because we make such great music together, and part of the reason that we make such great music is that we are friends.” That pride and unity ensures that even after members graduate and move on, they retain a special bond to their college singing group. Currently in its 29th year of existence, Off the Beat boasts numerous nationally recognized singers such as Broadway actor and 2008 College graduate

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season as the reason for candidates’ superficial methods and goals. “I probably walked up to 100 people [in] three days,” College freshman and Vice President of Internal Affairs Jessica Lim said. “By the end of the process, I was exhausted. I felt that it wasn’t as much about what your ideas were as it was about how many people you met in a very short time.” Despite the quick turnaround time, many candidates said it was still beneficial to meet their classmates in person. “My main thing was getting to know each and every person individually, just a little bit,” Wharton freshman and President Toto Nguyen said. “It’s the responsibility of a president of the class to know

Off the Beat finished third in both the Mid-Atlantic semifinal and the Wildcard semifinal, translating into its overall ninth place finish. According to music director and Wharton senior Jasmine Barksdale, much of Off the Beat’s success can be attributed to two factors: group dynamic and legacy influence. “There’s definitely rehearsals that you don’t want to go to because something else is happening in your life, but at the end of the rehearsal, for whatever reason, you feel better,” Barksdale said. “You’re around people

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EP. The album’s release marks the culmination of what has been a big year for Off the Beat, which made a name for itself at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, placing ninth out of over 300 recognized groups. “I think that we bring an intensity and a rawness that a lot of the other groups don’t really capture,” College junior and Off the Beat co-president Emily Fisher said. “I really think that sets us apart.” While the group did not advance to the actual final round,

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OPINION Cheers and jeers for 2015 Editorial

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 113 131st Year of Publication

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cheers: #BlackLivesMatter — it’s time for real racial equality Adele — for giving us beautiful music for ﬁnals studying Fossil Free Penn Netflix and Chill Bernie Sanders — and Larry David’s impersation of him Pope Francis Franzia Penn’s Campaign for Community Penn football — for a historic win and an Ivy title Taking a leave of abscence if you want or need one Penn Law Library — for not doing bag checks The newly renovated Saxby’s Gov. Wolf for standing up for Syrian refugees Free condoms at SHS Active Minds, Penn Benjamins, RAP-Line, CAPS And all mental health resources and groups

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This year was a historic one, both at Penn and across the country. Following the unjust decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases late last year, the Black Lives Matter movement has brought racial inequality to the forefront of current debates in the United States. Attacks in Paris — first Charlie Hebdo in January, then the Bataclan massacre in November — shocked the world, while daily attacks in Beirut, Lebanon, and Nigeria and Syria and elsewhere, along with floods in Japan and other natural disasters, barely went noticed by the global community. At Penn, the results of the Association of American Universities’ campus sexual assault survey made waves as the report indicated that nearly one in three Penn undergraduate women reported having been sexually assaulted in their time at the University. Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services was also criticized for its poor service to students and poor treatment of employees, as revealed in a Daily Pennsylvanian series about FRES. And the administration came under fire because of a lack of diversity on campus that students feel University leaders aren’t doing enough about. But not everything was so bad. On a lighter note (or on several lighter notes), Adele released her new album — which we all know will be blasting on our headphones in Van Pelt Library as we study for upcoming finals. We finally beat Villanova in football (after 100 years of losing), and Penn took home the Ivy League title. The new Saxby’s opened, as well as Honeygrow, and they both look awesome. There’s a lot to reflect on this holiday season — some good, some bad, some funny and some sad. So here’s to all the cheers and jeers from this year.

jeers: Racism in America Donald Trump (latest reason: his call for banning Muslims) Van Pelt bag checks — because why? OCR Rape culture Being overly PC The area under 1920 Commons — for being closed still Silencing perspectives you disagree with The drinking age Amy Gutmann not hosting her holiday party at her house FRES, for putting proﬁt before people Bill Cosby — and Penn for not revoking his degree Watching a movie for next year’s Penn READING Project High rise elevators — for being so slow The underwhelming mental health task force report Stigma surrounding mental health and counseling

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he words “billion” and “million” may rhyme, but they’re very different values. Consider the following: If you started out with $1 billion the day Christ was born and spent $1,000 every day since, you’d still have $264 million left today. But if you began with only $1 million and spent the same amount, you’d be broke in under three years. Researchers have shown that humans have trouble comprehending big numbers. The problem is: Marijuana legalization proponents have used this inability to their advantage. This is how the pro-marijuana lobby — intentionally or not — misleads people with financial data. Boasting about “multi-million dollar” tax revenues from marijuana sales in states like Colorado, legalization proponents convince the public that marijuana is not the only green substance raining down over Denver. But those multi-million dollar revenues are not as

The Quixotic Quaker | Math for marijuana impressive when viewed in perspective. For example, High Times ran the highly publicized article (written by the AP), “Pot is Making Colorado So Much Money They Literally Have to Give Some Back to Residents.” The article chirped happily about a tax refund offered to Coloradans supported by the whopping $56 million in tax revenue brought in by recreational marijuana sales in their first year (January 2014 to December 2014). The story took off and was featured in national news outlets including The New York Times and The Huffington Post. $56 million sure sounds like a lot of cash. But how much is it, really? Is it enough to make a significant difference for, as the article describes, Colorado schools? And then enough left over to give some back to residents? Probably not. Colorado spent $13.5 billion (with a b) on education in 2013. This means that if every

penny of marijuana revenue went directly to education, it would increase the state’s education spending by less than one-half of 1 percent. With a population of 5.3 million people, the total tax revenue from marijuana legalization equals a little

on addiction services, increased use of the criminal justice systems, increased rates of DUI and even costs associated with collecting the tax. For example, the governor’s 2015-2016 budget requests $33.6 million just for enforcement and

$56 million sure sounds like a lot of cash. But how much is it, really?” more than 10 bucks a person — just about enough to buy two lattes at Starbucks. Even the phrase “drop in the bucket” seems generous. Of course, revenues are not the same as actual profit. Profits come after costs are accounted for, and unfortunately for policymakers, it’s tough to accurately measure the costs of marijuana legalization. There are the direct costs — increases in state spending

oversight of the new recreational marijuana marketplace (an amount equaling more than 40 percent of total tax revenue from marijuana in the fiscal year of 2014-2015). There are plenty of other indirect costs that are harder to measure. How do we measure the decreased productivity of stoned workers? Or the pain and suffering of someone with a substance use disorder? Because these costs are

subjective, either side of the marijuana debate can make assumptions that will support their agenda’s argument. That said, it’s tough to say whether legal marijuana is turning a profit at all. Most troubling is that the stories surrounding revenue data are often biased and factually inaccurate. When Oregon legalized marijuana this October, optimistic headlines again exalted the revenue numbers. Several claimed that revenues from the first week were $11 million, but these numbers have been criticized. Even the director of the Oregon Cannabis Business Council said, “I think it was exaggerated.” And remember that doobie dividend High Times described? It was later discovered that the marijuana tax revenue had nothing to do with the taxpayer refund. Still, High Times has not removed the article from its website. Not surprisingly, the truth was not as well promoted as the lie.

theodore l. caputi Whether you support marijuana legalization or not, I urge you to be skeptical of overzealous articles about marijuana revenues. A million falls far short of a billion — and even a billion doesn’t go as far as it used to. The actual numbers are important. Place these numbers into perspective before drawing your own conclusions about the value of marijuana legalization. Theodore L. Caputi is a College and Wharton junior from Washington Crossing, Pa., studying finance/ statistics and mathematics. His email address is tcaputi@wharton.upenn.edu.

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pre-orientation program run by Advancing Women in Engineering, a Penn-specific program that aims to provide resources, support and opportunities to women in SEAS. Her experience in the program was so positive that she came back in her sophomore year as a student leader. “I had really enjoyed the program. I thought that it was really helpful ... and I met some of my closest friends through the pre-orientation program so being able to be involved in that process for other students was a really rewarding experience,” Chen said. The engineering core courses are similar across engineering disciplines so there is a high chance that a student will have class with many of the same people. Because of this, Chen said, the program allowed her to quickly find a community of her own within Penn Engineering early on. Despite the unequal ratio of males to females in the classroom, Chen said that she hasn’t felt discouraged or intimidated by the field. Coming from a family of engineers, she developed a love of STEM at an early age and was able to learn about what exactly a career in engineering would entail. Because of the environment that she grew up in, she didn’t see her gender as something that prevented her from pursuing a field that she loved. Still, some students feel that women who don’t come from backgrounds where being a female in

engineering is common may experience more difficulty — for example, they may feel a disconnect with Penn students who haven’t ever been the “token female engineer.” Penn provides various resources and support groups, such as the Society of Women Engineers and Women in Computer Science, to help incoming freshmen acclimate to the engineering environment and allow female engineers to meet each other and connect. Penn also provides other support groups for minorities and students who are the first to attend college in their families. At Penn, Chen said that the mentality of seeing a woman in engineering as completely normal is evident as well. “A lot of my female engineering friends hold leadership roles within the School of Engineering, and whenever you go to something like the dean’s reception at the end of the year where they invite all the School of Engineering club leaders, a large percentage of the people in attendance are female,” said Chen, who herself is president of the Penn chapter of SWE. “That just speaks to the strong female leadership that we have in the School of Engineering at Penn.” Still, one thing she said could improve is the the ratio of male to female faculty in engineering. Only 24 of Penn’s 163 engineering faculty members are women. *** As an Engineering senior and teaching assistant, Allison Higgins experiences Penn Engineering from both the learning and teaching sides.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2015 Higgins, who always had a passion for math, was inspired to consider an engineering major by her high school counselor. Although she wasn’t necessarily interested in becoming a professional engineer, she did some research and was drawn to the engineering curriculum because of its approach to problem solving and the usefulness of having a technical background. She is currently a TA for an engineering economics class that she took as a sophomore. Higgins said that she never felt her students treated her differently because of her gender. However, she has noticed that most of her students are male, a trend she attributed to the fact that the class is cross-listed as a graduate and undergraduate class, and graduate classes tend to be more male-dominated. The discrepancy between the numbers of graduate-level female and male engineering students relates to the discrepancy in the faculty. Both Higgins and Chen have noted that they have had few, if any, engineering professors, which they agreed could be discouraging to some female students. *** But there is still hope for increasing women in faculty. Women who don’t start out as engineers can still be attracted to the field — Deputy Dean for Research Kathleen Stebe is proof. Stebe didn’t start out as an engineer — she first planned on majoring in French and graduated as an economics major. However, in an unexpected turn of events, she discovered her passion for engineering.

Stebe saw a connection in the fields: their emphasis on creativity. The ability to practically apply theoretical models in creative ways attracted her to the field like a magnet. Although Stebe said that women have made great strides in STEM fields since her time in school, she still believes there is progress to be made. But she said that Penn is actively making the effort to support women in the field and increase the rate at which women pursue graduate studies. She pointed to AWE, workshops for postdoctoral students, recruitment efforts for more female faculty and other outreach initiatives. Stebe also runs Stebe Lab, which saw a peak number of women researchers this year. “When a group starts to feel like they belong in a place, they recruit each other,” Stebe said. Stebe added that another way to increase women pursuing higher level graduate degrees in STEM is to provide more information on career options, how to go about developing research projects and showing students real problems that engineers face. She likened the math and science behind engineering to the grammar and vocabulary lists in the French language. Similar to the way a language isn’t just its grammar rules and vocabulary — it’s the literature, culture and application of the language — engineering is more than its prerequisites. The key is to get that information out to young people and young women.

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Department of Linguistics, is working on an ongoing project to study the Philadelphia accent of ASL after receiving a $10,000 Dean’s Grant from the School of Arts and Sciences. The methodology of the study consisted of interviewing native signers in ASL, all people who grew up in Philadelphia and predominantly still use this variance of ASL. Fisher aimed for the interviews to be conducted in a conversational manner in order to illicit naturalistic speech. “Something that is ver y relevant to deaf people is their educational experience

because education is integral to language acquisition, in the sense that ASL is passed on and learned by deaf peers and by family members,” Fisher said. Interviewees are asked about their first day in deaf school, because often people lived at the school or spent most of their day there. “We ask if people travel, and behind these questions we’re trying to get at some of the history of the deaf community in Philadelphia,” Fisher added. Their interviews are then transcribed and annotated for parts of speech and for “glossing the signs,” which means

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doing English equivalence to mark what the ASL signs are so that linguistic analysis can be done later. Because of the project, Penn undergraduates have had the opportunity to do research in sign language studies, which hasn’t ever been the case at the University before. “We’re trying to figure out what are these differences in signing that anecdotally people in the United States and Philadelphia in particular have said that marked this as particularly different from any other accent in ASL,” Fisher said. Regionally, people use different signs for the same word

as in spoken English someone might say sub versus hoagie. Fisher said that it is widely noted that in Philadelphia, many words like hospital, park, chocolate, ice cream and strawberry are signed differently. Fisher grew up signing in the Philadelphia community because both her parents and brother are deaf, so the study has personal significance to her. She was also able to find inspiration for the project in Bill Labov, a recently retired professor of linguistics at Penn who is renowned for documenting the Philadelphia sound and what makes it different from

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the accents of other parts of the U.S. Fisher was motivated in having a predecessor who studied the Philadelphia accent and wanted to do the same for the deaf community. Another motivation for the project was the fact that in the deaf community, there is a longstanding fear of the disappearance of ASL and thus, “people who use ASL and are part of deaf culture are afraid that what they know as their language and culture is going to disappear,” Fisher added. “Some of this motivation is a response to language extinction and the need for preservation.”

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Eco-Reps program expands mission beyond Penn Students partner up with local environmental agencies CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

Penn Eco-Reps is working to add more green to the Red and Blue. Easily identifiable in their green T-shirts, student Eco-Reps work within their college houses, Greek chapters and athletic teams to raise greater awareness about sustainability through a variety of campaigns and projects. This year, their eco-friendly mission is extending beyond Penn’s campus boundaries. Eco-Reps are participating in the Impact Project, in which students are partnered with local environmental agencies to achieve certain goals by the end of the semester. “It’s very similar to Management 100 … students provide pro bono services to organizations who had applied and were screened over the summer,” Athletics Eco-Reps Coordinator and College and Wharton junior Berenice Leung said. EcoReps is currently working on

projects such as performing soil testing in the local neighborhood and researching design ideas for a compost system at the Community Farm and Food Resource Center at Bertram’s Garden. First started at Tufts University in 1990, the Eco-Reps program was founded at Penn six years ago by Sustainability Outreach Manager Julian Goresko. As one of the first universities in the country to adopt the program, Penn has created a platform for students to work directly with the Penn Green Campus Partnership to promote environmental consciousness. Student Eco-Reps work within their respective communities to organize events and activities such as the Power Down Challenge and ReThink Your Footprint to promote initiatives such as energy conservation and waste minimization. Student Coordinator and College sophomore Rebecca Composto manages the program in all 11 college houses and explains that at other schools such as American University and Dartmouth College, the Eco-Reps program centers around a group of paid students who focus on one main campaign.

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At Penn, however, students focus on smaller projects throughout the year such as the Green Living Certification and Green Move-Out. Specifically, the college house Eco-Reps collect data about living habits, promote sustainable practices such as the use of drying racks and organize activities such as Trashketball, a recycling initiative. By coordinating with house deans and resident advisors graduate advisors, the Eco-Reps work within the dorms to promote environmentally conscious practices. However, enacting tangible change within the college houses can be challenging. “There is a detachment in college houses in which many people don’t know each other,” Greek EcoReps Coordinator and Engineering junior Joana Smith said. “[The program] is a lot more effective in a Greek chapter house because only about 20 people live in each house and it’s a lot faster to enact change and bounce ideas off of each other.” The third branch of Eco-Reps comprises varsity student athletes working within their teams. These Athletics Eco-Reps survey their teammates and gauge their needs

to create personalized suggestions on ways to be greener, Leung explained. Sustainability Coordinator Rebecca Sokol had helped found the Eco-Reps program at Wesleyan University before accepting her current position at Penn. “Penn is really at the forefront of the other universities in terms of putting sustainability on the list of priorities,” she said. Leung agrees that the University is committed to promoting green practices. “We’ve made a big step forward with Amy Gutmann signing the Climate Action Plan,” Leung said. “What I’ve learned from my business and sustainability courses is that a lot of change comes from the consistent values of management down to the employees or students. “To have that upper level support really helps push us forward.” However, Composto believes a lot more needs to be done. “There’s a lot of bureaucracy and a lot of approval to get which makes changing things very slow,” she said. “From what I heard last, the New College House is going to use disposable paper plates, but why?

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What happened that the message wasn’t [conveyed]?” “Sustainability just doesn’t feel like it’s second nature or ingrained to the Penn culture or the administration,” Composto said.

Nevertheless, Sokol believes the students have driven the program forward: “The Penn Eco-Reps program wouldn’t be so ahead of the game if the students weren’t so passionate and dedicated.”

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DP photographers profiled a few Penn students who agreed to participate in a project documenting a small part of interesting tidbits of life at Penn. Here are some snapshots of their days.

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Engineering sophomore Julia Lin works with laser cutting and 3D printing in Penn's Rapid Prototyping Lab. She is also the co-founder and co-president of the Chinese yo-yo club on campus.

On Fridays, Jane attends Shabbat at Hillel. She catches up with Hillel vice president Aliza Caplan before service.

This year, Julia co-founded Penn Spyn, Penn's Chinese yo-yo club.

Jane is diabetic, so she checks her insulin levels after consuming sugar at a Undergraduate Assembly holiday party.

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Jane spends an hour chatting with a friend at Williams between classes.

Sydney teaches Power Hour Spin every Wednesday at Pottruck, heading straight to Quaker Girls practice afterwards.

As Artistic Director of Quaker Girls, Sydney leads the group's practices each week. LIZZY MACHIELSE | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

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Benjamin travels home to Washington, D.C each weekend to practice speed skating.

Sydney warms up the Quaker Girls with stretches for a day of practice.

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BENJAMIN College sophomore Benjamin Oh is a Philosophy, Politics and Economics major with goals of qualifying for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Last year, he ranked third in the United States for short track speed skating under 19. Benjamin spent the summer training in Korea and plans to return next summer.

When she isn't busy leading Penn's Quaker Girls, College Senior Sydney Schneider teaches spinning classes at Pottruck. She also runs multiple days a week and recently completed her third marathon.

College Senior Jane Meyer serves as president of Penn's Undergraduate Assembly. She is also active in Hillel and a PENNacle pre-orientation program leader.

Julia recreates the game "Settlers of Catan" by creating a design on the computer and then using a Universal Laser X-660 laser system to cut the material into a final product.

Julia performs various tricks using her Chinese yo-yo, known as a Diablo.

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Benjamin's walls are covered with inspirational quotes to motivate him if he ever begins doubts himself, his decisions, or his abilities.

Benjamin sharpens his skates for 2 to 3 hours after each practice. ARABELLA UHRY | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

College Sophomore Billy Morrison has spent his third semester at Penn rushing Sigma Phi Epsilon, practicing and performing for West Philly Swingers, and being a member of the NROTC at Penn. He boxes three times a week at Fit gym, is the VP of finance and fundraising for Penn 4 Vets and is a contributing member of SPEC film.

Billy is often tasked with conducting 'Colors', wherein he marches from College Hall to the flag pole by Van Pelt and raises the American flag.

Billy worked rigorously for his number on West Philly Swingers and Disney A Capella's production "Magic Swingdom."

This semester, Billy Morrison became a brother at Sig Ep and now finds himself at the fraternity house often. JULIO SOSA | NEWS PHOTO EDITOR-ELECT

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For Ivy football championship, ties shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bind Ivy League title. Pretty neat, huh? That little tidbit always got some impressed raised eyebrows â&#x20AC;&#x201D; after all, an Ancient Eight crown sounds like a big deal to the casual fan, and rightfully so. But then, I had to explain that the title of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ivy League Championsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; came with a bit of a catch: First place was actually split three ways, between Penn, Harvard and Dartmouth. To an outsider, this outcome is laughable. The value of a championship is clearly diluted when nearly half of a conference can claim to be the top team. TotalFratMove.com posted on Instagram mocking the gusto with which the Quakers celebrated their three-way

TOM NOWLAN

hen I went home for Thanksgiving break a few weeks ago, I engaged in all of the holiday-season small talk with family that one might expect. Yes, I was enjoying life at school. Yes, I was taking interesting classes. Yes, I was getting along with my roommates. And yes, I was still writing for the school paper. Oh, and by the way, our football team just won the

tie. And I know that my family snickered when I revealed that the title was ostensibly much less impressive than I had originally let on. A lot has been made in the last week of the need for an Ivy basketball playoff. That debate has valid points on both sides. Some oppose it, citing tradition or lack of cultural interest, while proponents say it could provide a more satisfying conclusion to the season and could make for must-watch TV. I will not pick sides on that debate here, but I do believe that similar discussion should take place when it comes to football. Ivy basketball has already more or less resolved this co-champion

problem out of necessity. Because there is only one automatic NCAA Tournament berth to be had, Ivy hoops must play a tiebreaker game if multiple teams are tied atop the standings at seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end. One may recall Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thrilling buzzer-beating win over Yale at the Palestra in such a game last March. And while, in name, Harvard and Yale split the Ivy title last season, everybody knew who the conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real champion was. The Crimson got to live lavishly with a March Madness bid while the Elis were booted from postseason competition altogether. Is the current basketball â&#x20AC;&#x153;playoffâ&#x20AC;? system the prettiest thing around? No, of course not. But at

least it results in a clear number one team at the end of the year. None of this should come as a dig at Ray Prioreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underdog squad (or perennial powerhouse Harvard or uber-talented Dartmouth). All three teams played excellent seasons and have plenty to be proud of. They all â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Penn especially â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have absolutely nothing to apologize for when it comes to their 2015 campaigns. I just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine that any of the three squads would turn down a chance to find out which one of them truly, undisputedly, is the conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best. Settling for ties isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in their nature as football players, Ivy League students or competitors.

Thus, it is imperative that the Ivy League come up with some system â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a playoff, a tiebreaker, something â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to make sure that first place means just that: The best. Superior to all others. For Penn, celebrating on the field after that victory over Cornell felt good enough as it was. Imagine how nice it would be with no asterisk attached. And for students such as myself, it would save a whole lot of explaining at the Thanksgiving table. TOM NOWLAN is a College sophomore from Montpelier, Vt., and is a sports editor-elect of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

Cross country is a contender, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about time COLIN HENDERSON

or all of its accomplishments this year, and there were many â&#x20AC;&#x201D; earning a share of the Ivy title, finishing the season on a six-game winning streak, garnering 11 All-Ivy award winners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Penn football was not the most successful team on campus this year. Not even close. That title would go to Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country, which operated under the shadows cast by larger Red and Blue programs. The squad finished 24th in the nation at NCAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the top finish in the meet by an Ivy team

and the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first appearance at NCAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in 40 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; after narrowly missing out on an Ivy title just weeks prior. Think about that for a second. 24th in the nation, as in the entirety of Division I athletics. Beaten out only by powerhouses like Oregon and Syracuse and ahead of big-name programs like Michigan State and Texas. I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comparing apples to oranges, to a certain extent, but could you imagine Penn football beating a team like Michigan State? Coming off of a series of campaigns marred by a superficial sense of persistent mediocrity, 2015 may appear like a freak breakthrough for the team. But in reality, the signs of future success have been there for years. When coach Steve Dolan made

the move from Princeton to take control of the Red and Blue four years ago, he inherited a program in shambles. From day one, he approached the problem with patience, preaching the value of small, incremental improvements. In 2015, those improvements culminated into something greater. Make no mistake, this year wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a fluke. Sure, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count on having a dominant, twotime consecutive Ivy champion like Thomas Awad every year, but the Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be squarely placed on the shoulders of any one performer. And with a solid supporting crew, the team is primed for success moving forward. But what surprises me isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that the Quakers made noise on a national stage this year, but that they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done so sooner. Because

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COLIN HENDERSON is a Wharton junior from Nazareth, Pa., and is president-elect of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at henderson@thedp.com.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;m from Texas. Not only am I from the Lone Star State, but I may have a slight obsession with the place I call home. Some of my friends think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little unhealthy. Fellow Texans out there, I bet you understand. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the barrage of Texasrelated Buzzfeed articles I share on Facebook or the Texas t-shirts I wear around campus, everyone knows that Texas is my favorite place to be. And something that is deeply intertwined with my Texan nature is my love for big-time college football. When I decided to attend Penn, I thought I was sacrificing this, forgoing my desire to sing the University of Texas fight song and yell â&#x20AC;&#x153;OU sucksâ&#x20AC;? to those fans from the wrong side of the Red River (all Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m saying is that one loss this year didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come from nowhere). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no secret that the Ivy League isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite the Big 12. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the SEC. And it never will be. But we, as students, need to realize that thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay. We should go to the games anyway. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll admit it took me awhile to come to this conclusion. Despite my status a huge sports fan, I always had an excuse as to why I shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

mosey down to Franklin Field on Saturday afternoons to watch the Quakers play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have too much work. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know anyone else who is going. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too cold. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too far away. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the Ivy League, who cares anyway.â&#x20AC;? Throughout my entire first year at Penn, I only went to one game. It was the first home game, where attendance and throwing toast is almost a rite of passage for freshman. Villanova crushed Penn and, frankly, I never wanted to go back. The stadium felt empty, the fans seemed disinterested â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as if that was the cool way to be. This year, I casually followed the team, mainly because I wrote for The Daily Pennsylvanian. The more Penn started to win, the more excited I got about football again, yet I still never worked up the energy to go to a game until Parents Weekend. My dad â&#x20AC;&#x201D; also a Texan, born and raised â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just about insisted that we check out the Penn-Yale football game, even if it was only for a few minutes. I tried to tell him it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be what he was expecting, but I reluctantly agreed. Penn got down early. I thought to myself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here we go again.â&#x20AC;? But soon the Quakers started to score. My dad jumped out of this seat to cheer on Christian Pearson as he scored a 63-yard touchdown. I felt confused: Do I stand? Do I cheer? Do I get really excited and scream for the Red and Blue at the

top of my lungs? Or is that weird, since this is only Ivy League football? As the game went on, I got more and more into it. My mom and dad said we could leave, but I wanted to stay. I started to realize this game could be just as exciting as a Big 12 matchup if I let it be, if I stopped using â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ivy Leagueâ&#x20AC;? to suggest something lesser in sports. Penn is in the Ivy League, and that is what makes it great. But it does not mean that we should care any less about football than our fellow students do at Alabama or Texas. We should hold each other accountable by encouraging fellow students to go to games from the beginning. We should be proud of our school for what is it and show up to support the athletes that dedicate so much. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been to many bigger college football games, but there was something exhilarating about storming the field when Penn won the Ivy Championship. So if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been to a game recently, give it a second chance. Go to a football game. Or go watch any Penn sports team. It might surprise you just how much fun you will have.

of people that proudly wear the Red and Blue. I am a student-athlete at Penn. As a member of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swim team, I have never won a race in a dual meet, and, quite frankly, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see that changing before I graduate. I chose Penn because I wanted to be surrounded by teammates that were faster than me, even if it meant that I would not make many travel squads, score points in meets or compete on the 17-woman championship team. As a walk-on, I had the luxury of being on a team without the pressure to deliver stellar results, something I know is not the case for many of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incoming student-athletes. More than anything, I chose Penn because I knew my greatest asset was my work ethic. If by training

hard every day in practice I can encourage my teammates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; teammates who will win races â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to train harder, then I have done my job. To me, being a student-athlete means being accountable for something greater than yourself. No one understands that better than the unsung student-athletes that make up the majority of our sports teams here at Penn. Their names might not be in the paper or in the record books, but their contributions to this school are no less mighty.

ANNA DYER is a Wharton sophomore from Dallas, Texas, and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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the time and effort necessary to recruit and develop elite collegiate runners. But as the team demonstrated this year, it should. Despite the disadvantages brought about by the lack of any scholarships, Penn has all the resources at its disposal to make its cross country program a consistent national contender, much like Cornell has done with its wrestling program. So, to Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country, congratulations on a great year. And to Penn Athletics, now is the time to take notice and go all in.

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backbone of any successful program within our school. These players embody the grit needed to make a good team a great team. There are no athletic scholarships in the Ivy League. Thus, student-athletes have no financial consequence for quitting and no contractual obligation to use all four years of their athletic eligibility. And yet nearly every incoming athlete does just that â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 31 teams, there are 211 seniors. Attrition due to injury, academic demands or realigned priorities is inevitable. However, the high percentage of seniors involved in Penn Athletics is a testament to the kinds

LAINE HIGGINS is a College junior from Wayzata, M.N., and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at higgins@ thedp.com.

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Change finally on the way for Ivy basketball TOMMY ROTHMAN

hen it comes to men’s basketball, the Ivy League is unique, but it looks like that’s about to change. And it’s about time. There are 32 athletic conferences in NCAA Division I men’s basketball. All 32 reward their respective victors with automatic berths to the NCAA Tournament (or “March Madness,” as it is more commonly known). 31 of them determine this victor with a postseason tournament, in which the teams, seeded in accordance with their regular season performance, fight to the death for a coveted trip to the “Big Dance.” It’s amazing. In the many leagues that send only one team to the NCAA Tournament — the biggest conferences take up nearly all of the 36 at-large bids — the teams must

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posthumously diagnosed with C T.E. Afterwards, I was left stunned. My opinion had changed. Omalu writes in his column that the brain is not fully developed until the years between the ages of 18 and 25. That is why he feels that parents and coaches should not be allowed to make the decision for a kid to play football and thus would outlaw the sport until the player is old enough to make the choice for himself. But today we still have high school football, so boys grow up knocking heads from a young age. When they do turn 18, having already been exposed to the game, how can they be expected to give it up? The evidence that the risks likely outweigh the benefits is clearly on

survive and advance in a do-or-die scenario to even reach the chaotic, prestigious marathon of do-or-die Madness. One conference misses out on that fun. It’s our conference, of course. The Ivy League does not hold a conference tournament; the team with the best record at the end of the regular season advances to the Dance. But reports last week indicated that the implementation of an Ivy conference tournament is under serious consideration. Ivy League presidents are expected to vote on the issue this month, and it’s very possible, even likely, that they will vote in favor of holding postseason tournaments starting with the 201617 campaign. It’s a change that needs to be made. It benefits everybody — with one possible exception. In both 2014 and 2015, the MLB’s Pittsburgh Pirates finished with the best record among teams that did not win their division, qualifying them for the wild card. But, due to a rule change before the 2012 season, the Pirates

the table when a player enters college. And yet they continue to play. They can’t be blamed for that. These guys aren’t dumb, and they’re not shortsighted. They’re brave and they’re young. And they’ve been competing for years already. However, the debate over whether a player should continue to play should not end there. Due to its unique format and set of rules, the Ivy League has an opportunity to pioneer a movement to protect these young men. The conference preaches excellence both on the field and in the classroom. That is why there are no athletic scholarships. It is also a large factor as to why the conference only plays 10 regular season games and chooses to not partake in postseason play, something that could include as many as five additional contests. But if the league is most interested in promoting the academic

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Last season’s one-game playoff, which had Harvard’s Tommy Amaker cutting down the nets, was a thrilling Ivy contest. Want more of those?

had to face the second-best such team to earn the previously automatic fourth playoff spot. Both years, Pittsburgh lost that game to the underdog. The team with the worse record won, and the team which would have secured an

and postgraduate pursuits of its athletes, perhaps it should go beyond their current efforts to protect the students. In few other leagues does the phrase “student-athlete” apply as it does in the Ancient Eight. Players boast exemplary high school transcripts off the field to gain acceptance, pursue difficult course loads during their undergraduate years and nearly always complete their degrees. Almost no one is bolting for the NFL Draft. And yet many of these students’ futures could be compromised due to their time as athletes. The Ivy League could take a stand for mental health and reduce the season to just the seven league contests and further limit full-contact practices. Or it could be bolder. It could heed to the advice of the doctors and professors their universities employ. The Ivy League could eliminate

automatic playoff berth under the old rules went home with nothing to show for their regular season excellence. Therein lies the one drawback of an Ivy conference tournament. It harms, or has the potential to harm,

football altogether. Such a move would attract unprecedented national attention. The debate about player safety would increase exponentially and surely schools of similar status — the Patriot League and Division II and III programs amongst others — would begin to consider doing the same. The values football instills in young men are important. But they can be taught through other avenues. And inspiring molders of men like Ray Priore would still find ways to deliver these lessons to kids on other fields and courts. A dialogue about football’s future is brewing as we speak. Why shouldn’t the Ivy League take a part in leading that discussion? THOMAS MUNSON is a College sophomore from New York, N.Y., and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

one of the eight teams: The team that was the best over the largest sample must fight for a previously guaranteed ticket to March Madness. But that regular season champion would have the top seed and the easiest path to a conference tournament victory. If it truly is the best team, it should have no trouble staving off a few of its Ivy foes. And if the goal were to get the nation’s 68 best regular season teams on the big stage, the Ivy League and many other conferences wouldn’t have an automatic berth to begin with. And, by God, would a tournament be exciting. Remember last year’s thrilling one-game playoff at the Palestra after Harvard and Yale finished the regular season with identical records? Or the playoff in 2011, where a buzzer-beater sent Princeton to the NCAA Tournament and the Crimson home in shock? Usually, the champion is determined before the final Ivy game, and when two teams do find themselves alive on the season’s final day, they are rarely facing each other. One-game playoffs, games with

everything at stake for both sides, are extremely rare. But the excitement doesn’t need to be. A conference tournament benefits the whole league. While a tournament might “cost” a regular season champion a trip to the Dance at season’s end, the implementation of such a tournament would give all eight Ivy teams an improved chance of winning the bid heading into any given season. It benefits the fans of those teams, who have a reason to watch — and a reason for hope — from start to finish. It benefits the league financially. It generates, for everybody who watches or plays Ivy basketball, the memorable moments that college basketball is all about, moments the other 31 conferences have been generating for years. It’s an easy call to make. And finally, those Ivy bigwigs calling the shots appear set to make it. TOMMY ROTHMAN is a College sophomore from New York, N.Y., and is a sports editor-elect of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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that seems on the brink of a youthful resurgence. It’s unfair to say things ever got close to where the Sixers are now during the Jerome Allen era, but the Penn team that finished the season 9-19 last season was far from what Athletic Director Grace Calhoun would expect from her school’s marquee program. Now, behind two productive young classes, the Quakers don’t seem so far removed from contending for the Ivy League title. There’s the loss of a longtenured football coach that led to a revitalized team in just a year. Below the surface of football’s one-season transformation is a common theme

with the Eagles: culture. It comes up all the time with Kelly and Priore, this concept that culture can drive an organization to new heights. The jury is still out — and calling for the head of — Kelly, but through one year it’s hard to argue with Priore’s results. So while I quietly cry away the lost season for the Eagles — and please don’t remind me we could still win the division, no one deserves to see this team in the playoffs — and patiently wait out the “Process,” at least I can take some solace in Penn Athletics. HOLDEN McGINNIS is a Engineering junior from Gladwyne, Pa., and is an outgoing sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at mcginnis@ thedp.com.

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The Columnist Issue

An ode to the bench riders LAINE HIGGINS

The Ancient Eight should tackle this issue head on.

ick up a copy of the sports section of The Daily Pennsylvanian on any given weekday and you’re likely to find a slew of familiar names: the MVPs, the record breakers, the prolific touchdown scorers. In fact, pick any team and you’ll see the same four or five names over and over again. Part of this repetition happens due to the sheer competitive nature of sports. Not everyone can sink the game-winning three-pointer — and not everyone is trusted with such a clutch shot. This is a reflection of Ivy League athletic programs and collegiate athletics as a whole: On any given team, there are great players, good players and “the rest.” Each sport gives the remaining spots on their roster different monikers, be it bench-riders or reserves. There are over 960 student-athletes at the University of Pennsylvania. Almost none of their names will ever appear in the stories written by The Daily Pennsylvanian. But these student-athletes — “the rest” — are the most important part of Penn Athletics. This largely unheralded core of Penn’s population of student-athletes didn’t come to University City for the glory — no one does, no matter how highly touted a recruit they may have been in high school. If glory was the objective, these student-athletes would have ended up at schools with athletic scholarships, Power 5 conference media exposure or rowdy student sections. They come because they understand that being a student-athlete is about so much more than the number of Ivy rings adorning your fingers when you are handed your diploma. Not only that, they come because they understand that a team’s success is not measured only in metrics. Obviously in any sport you can’t win games only by cheering hard for your teammates. But you can certainly lose games without that spirit. Any championship team knows that titles aren’t clinched with talent alone; Success is the shadow of several greater intangible elements — chemistry, mutual dependability and group ambition. Those intangibles do not come from superstar players alone. Arguably it is the players that continue to train hard, day in and day out, without the hope of ever winning a race or ever seeing a minute of playing time that are the SEE BENCHWARMERS PAGE 14

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he New York Times’ opinion page was star-studded on Monday. Economist Paul Kugman had written an article, and Hillary Clinton provided a guest column on Wall Street. My eyes however, were drawn to the

headline “Don’t Let Kids Play Football” that draped the left side of the page. Dr. Bennet Omalu, who was the first to diagnose anyone with chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a disease that has become associated with repeated blows to the head while participating in contact sports — discussed the need to implement a legal framework that would make playing high-impact contact sports such as football, hockey and boxing illegal before the age of 18. The ramifications of such a law would be tremendous. And, for years, I have

struggled with my own opinions on the matter. Nonetheless, I had previously decided I wasn’t going to write a column on head injuries and football. But after seeing Dr. Omalu’s article, I changed my mind. As a high school student, I was upset when my parents wouldn’t allow me to play football. I longed to clash helmets with teammates and opponents on the gridiron under Friday night lights. I thought surely four years of contact wouldn’t be enough to do any permanent damage.

Then I saw the movie “Head Games,” a documentary featuring former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler Chris Nowinski that examined the long-term effects that high school and even peewee football can have on the brain. The film was especially poignant for me because it mentioned the tragic April 2010 suicide of Penn football junior lineman Owen Thomas. Thomas, who was never diagnosed with a concussion and had no previous history of depression, was SEE CONCUSSIONS PAGE 15

With Philadelphia reeling, it’s OK to take solace in Penn sports HOLDEN McGINNIS

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hiladelphia is known for a lot of things. Cheesestea ks, the Liberty Bell and, of course, notoriously rabid sports fans. We’re known more for throwing snowballs at Santa, having a jail in Veterans Stadium and being drunken assholes than any recent accomplishments of our teams. But right now, we could use a little brotherly love. Because, right now, we’re suffering. And it’s not something Philadelphia is really used too — we’re not Cleveland, after all.

As a young Philadelphia fan, I’ve always known at least one team to have it put together at any given time. All four teams have been to league championships in this millennium, though only the Phillies have won, and it’s hard to say we haven’t been competitive in other years. At this moment, we’re in one of the toughest stretches imaginable. The Eagles, entering the season with high hopes, have flopped (let’s put the postPatriots win hype on hold for a second). The Phillies had the worst record in the MLB last season. The Flyers have scored the fewest goals in the NHL so far this year. And, of course, the Sixers are still undergoing General Manager Sam Hinkie’s infamous “Process,” which steadily

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becomes harder and harder for fans to trust as the losses pile up. Is the end in sight? Maybe after we draft a few more injured centers. Want to talk about losses? I don’t, but let’s anyway. Philadelphia teams were 2-12 at home in November — and it could have been worse but the Sixers were on the road for most of the month. In this same November, Penn football and basketball were a combined 5-0 in Philadelphia. That’s why it’s strange for me to say it, but the most successful teams that I can claim fandom of in the past year are those from Penn. Normally when I write, I shed the Penn fandom and write as objectively as possible, but, at heart, I’m a student and a fan. And right now, Penn’s sports are

doing better than virtually any other Philly team. Now, I’m not saying Penn basketball would beat the Sixers in a game, and I also realize it’s unfair to compare professional and collegiate sports. Penn can’t just tank its way to the next Karl-Anthony Towns or Andrew Wiggins (although it’s not like the Sixers can even do that right). But to say there aren’t any parallels between Penn and the Philadelphia sports scene would be to ignore the obvious. It’s not just coaches referencing the maxims of their fellow Philadelphia residents, as both Penn football coach Ray Priore and Eagles coach Chip Kelly are known to do. There’s also a struggling basketball program SEE PHILLY SPORTS PAGE 15 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640