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Joseph Lewis said a department policy on beards was discriminatory NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter
Joseph Lewis had been a Penn Police officer for close to six years before his sergeant told him to shave or go home, according to his legal complaint. A debate over the alleged medical reasons for him to keep his beard led to his eventual dismissal from the force. A lawsuit filed last month claims the University racially discriminated against him by asking him to shave. Lewis began his career as a Penn cop on April 13, 2009. His attorney, Timothy Creech, said Lewis was required to attend a disciplinary hearing for allegedly claiming falsely that his supervisor instructed him to shave. During the hearing, the sergeant admitted he had told Lewis to shave, Creech said. Lewis is a black man who was diagnosed with pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), a skin reaction in which the skin becomes inflamed after shav-
Undocumented students hold meeting with administration REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter
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The American flag can become a symbol of that better America rather than the one that has disappointed so many of us.”
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ive undocumented students met with administrators for two hours on Wednesday night to discuss the University’s commitment to undocumented students. Penn President Amy Gutmann, to whom the students had initially
written asking for a meeting, was not present. “We were not upset,” said College senior Daisy Romero, who attended yesterday’s meeting. “The people who were there are people who can make the changes we are looking for.
They showed the support that we believe the president equally shares.” The meeting, which lasted from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., comes two weeks after undocumented students wrote to Gutmann asking for a meeting and a week after Gutmann announced
Penn’s status as a sanctuary campus. Though other universities had proclaimed their “sanctuary” status before, Gutmann’s proclamation on Nov. 30 had a ripple effect in SEE MEETING PAGE 3
Students discuss how to be an ally The discussion was led by student group TableTalk STEPHEN IMBURGIA Contributing Reporter
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The TableTalk event stimulated conversation about allyship in light of recent racist events that targeted black students at Penn in the past weeks.
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In the wake of a racist group message targeting black freshmen at Penn and other hate crimes against minorities, many students have been left fearful and rattled. Others, however, are wondering how they can help. TableTalk, a student group dedicated to promoting conversations among students, held a forum Wednesday night on how students can become better allies for marginalized groups. College senior Sophie Beren, the founder of TableTalk at Penn, explained her aspirations for the event. “The official mission statement of TableTalk is to bring different types of people together at Penn who wouldn’t interact under ordinary circumstances,” she said. “Our goal today is to bring different people from the Penn community
together who may not face issues of allyship, or are not experts on issues of allyship.” “We hope that people walk away knowing a little bit more about what it means to be an ally,” she added. The format of the event was greatly focused on individual experiences — a testament to TableTalk’s commitment to conversation. College freshman Camila Johanek praised the event’s design. “For me, TableTalk is about forging community,” Johanek said. “This event is especially important because allyship and understanding everyone’s perspectives and cultures are both crucial to forging that community.” Many upperclassmen similarly recognized the merits of the discussion. “I think it’s a really important event, especially in the context of the election and the way our country is going,” College sophomore Sophia Simon said. SEE TABLE TALK PAGE 2
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Mentoring a two-way street for Wharton students, alums
Some students sought connections, not guidance JINAH KIM Staff Reporter
Networking can get a bad rap. But two Wharton programs are trying to leverage its positive potential through building mentorship between undergrads and other students and alumni. Juniors and seniors in the Wharton School can apply to participate in GUIDE, a mentorship program that matches current MBA students with undergraduate mentees. GUIDE is a large program, matching 455 undergraduate students and 380 MBA students this year. Wharton also has a similar program available for sophomore students: the Sophomore Alumni Mentorship Program, which matches students with Wharton alumni. While the primary benefit from a mentoring relationship may seem to go to the mentee, Wharton Director of Student Life Lee Kramer said the mentors gain from the program
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“It’s very sensitive, and we often think we’re being allies when we’re not.” The event began with short speeches from representatives of historically marginalized constituencies on campus, before shifting
as well. “From the alumni standpoint, they get to stay connected to the school. I think as an alum you want to give back somehow,” Kramer said. “And being able to give back to a current student is really meaningful.” Ideally, Kramer said, the mentorship would be a “win-win” for both the mentor and the mentee. “Both parties learn something about themselves during the process,” Kramer said. “For the student, they gain really great insight from both the alums and the MBA students, and I think the more insight that they gain, the better equipped the students will be to make the best choices for themselves.” Although SAMP is meant to provide guidance, some students treat it as a way to make connections. Wharton Alumni Relations Council Co-Chair and Wharton senior Madeline Su said some alumni mentors initially expressed dissatisfaction with the mentormentee relationship.
“The first year we did it, we had a lot of alumni telling us that students were basically asking [them] for referrals and such things,” Su said. “You see oh, you get a Wharton alumni mentor! And that sounds really jazzy and cool, but people ended up reaching out to these mentors asking for jobs, ultimately,” she said. “And we wanted to take full value of what mentors had to offer. Which is life advice — talking about your courses, talking about your activities, all these other elements to the relationship that often people forego or don’t quite recognize.” The team overseeing the GUIDE program had similar concerns as well. GUIDE’s president, Wharton junior Emily He, explained how the organizers tried to ensure that students actually utilized their mentors effectively through training and outreach. “One of the [important] things is discussing your goals and what you hope to get out of the relationship beyond ‘can you connect me to this person?’” she said. “We emphasize
that it’s meant to be a lifelong relationship, not an instrumental thing.” SAMP has also instituted policies to clarify to both mentors and mentees that the relationship is meant to provide advice and guidance, not an opportunity to network. “We have a couple of info sessions that first talk to the sophomore about what the program entails and… what it means to be an effective mentee and have an effective mentor,” Su said. Students are required to attend these info sessions in order to apply to the program. Both Su and He said that they thought the new policies had been effective in increasing the number of students who were using the programs in order to build a genuine relationship, beyond just asking for jobs or introductions. In recent years, participants on both sides of the programs have expressed satisfaction, with many mentors returning in following years or even asking for additional students to mentor.
toward smaller group conversations. One such speaker was College junior Sean Collins, the newly elected president of the Lambda Alliance, Penn’s LGBTQ+ umbrella advocacy group. He explained that, despite some difficult times for his community, proving an effective ally for queer students is rather simple.
“We had a couple of difficult events with the preachers,” Collins said, referencing a preacher who has caused controversy on campus this semester by shouting homophobic comments at students. “But what really makes campus accepting or not accepting is everyday language.” “We should use peoples’ preferred pronouns,” he added. “Every
time you misgender someone, you delegitimize their identity.” Collins expressed his gratitude for the event. “I’m really happy TableTalk is putting this on, because support is really important,” he said. “If you don’t have anyone on campus who’s not in your community that you feel comfortable going to, you’re not
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In the past, Wharton graduates found that mentees were using them for referrals; this year’s alumni relatons team wanted to change that.
going to succeed.” Another speaker was College junior Esther Cohen. “People have a lot of things to be angry about, and people love to delegitimize the anger of minority groups,” she said. College senior Alec Josiah , a member of the Carriage Society — a senior society for LGBTQ students — and recent founder of the Greek Diversity and Inclusion Board, also said that he recognized the
unfortunate and damaging biases that many implicitly hold. “The sad reality is, people listen to, and are more persuaded by, people who look like them,” he said. College senior Pearl Lo, a member of the Vagina Monologues, emphasized the importance of having steadfast allies on Penn’s campus. “Allies should use their privilege to talk to others and help deconstruct oppression,” she said.
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New College House develops traditions
They hope to establish a tight-knit community. KATIE BONTJE Contributing Reporter
With its glassy exterior, pristine facilities and suite-style living, New College House differs highly from other dorms, such as the Quadrangle, which is the oldest and most iconic dormitory at Penn. Although New College House lacks over a century of history and tradition compared to the Quad, it is making an effort to establish the same tightknit sense of community that other freshman dormitories on campus are known for. There are mixed opinions about whether the new suitestyle enhances or inhibits the ability to form close communities within the dorm. The dorm’s Traditions Committee wants to bridge this gap for New College House students. “You have to be more active in looking for people because of the suite-style structure. You have to get out of your comfort zone,” College freshman Dana Hackett said. “The point of the Traditions Committee is to establish meaningful traditions to foster a sense of community at New College House,” College freshman and committee member Mercedes Morgante said. “We want to create a legacy that will outlast our stay at this new Penn residence, and there’s no better way to do that than create events that people will enjoy for decades to come.” Wharton freshman Sonia Huang, who is an international student, compared living in New College House to her experience at The Taft School, the New England boarding school
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Many people are still unsure whether the new suite-style housing in New College House promotes or inhibits the abilty for residents to form a close sense of community within the dorm.
she attended before coming to Penn. “I would compare NCH to Vogue, which is a relatively new dorm at Taft. I think NCH is trying a bit harder than Taft did to establish traditions by hosting floor events every week. They’re trying so hard to make things traditions, but in the end these are still new events for people,” she said. One event that the Traditions Committee organized was “Hot Seat,” a game in which a different person on each floor is in the spotlight. Other residents on the floor ask the person various questions to get to know him or her better. Other events organized by the Traditions Committee include
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floor mixers. Frequently, each room has different types of food ranging from s’mores to chips to cereal, which promotes mingling in between rooms. “Initiatives such as house logos, house mottos and the other events put on by the Traditions Committee are trying to establish a sense of community. But in the end, the community will develop it’s own traditions
naturally,” College freshman and House Council Member Grace Bridy said. “For example, one of the floors decided to decorate one of its alcoves,” she said. “The people downstairs beneath them thought of it as a competition, so they started to decorate their own alcoves, and that prompted me to decorate our own door as well.”
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Washington, D.C., where on Wednesday Republican lawmakers called for sanctuary campuses to lose all federal funding. Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), who planned to introduce the bill on Wednesday, cited Penn and Gutmann specifically when indicting universities that declare a sanctuary status for undocumented students. “The American people have spoken loudly in this past election that they want federal immigration law enforced,” Harris said. “Shame on those universities who take federal money and then promote lawlessness.” Administrators at the meeting included members of Gutmann’s staff, such as Vice President for Institutional Affairs Joann Mitchell, as well as Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein and Associate Vice President for Student Services Michelle Brown-Nevers. During Wednesday’s discussion, students talked over a list of policy recommendations they had previously sent to Gutmann and raised other concerns such as the possibility of undocumented students facing homelessness if border control is tightened or if their undocumented family members are deported. While students raised these concerns “passionately,” they
did not push for specific policies during this meeting, said College senior Silvia Huerta, a member of Undocumented at Penn. “We didn’t come in there and say, ‘We want this and we won’t take anything else,’ because we understand and respect their experiences as administrators,” she said. Huerta added that students and administrators at the table disagreed on strategies but shared the same end goal. College freshman Erik Vargas, another attendee, said it served primarily to build a relationship with administrators. “It was good for us to show our faces to them. And good for us to see their faces, so that it does not feel like we are just dealing with some bureaucratic, administrative figure,” he said. Over the winter holiday, undocumented students will prepare for another meeting with administrators in the spring semester by looking at policies being formulated at other universities. Another focus for next semester is to engage more allies and build solidarity with other movements on campus. “We hope we can be an example of how students can create change within this community,” Huerta said. “Hopefully this one small victory [of securing a meeting with administrators] can be an inspiration to not just our group but lots of other groups who are struggling.”
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OPINION In response to university responses EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD
THURSDAY DECEMBER 8, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 120 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 TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director ALEX GRAVES Design Editor ILANA WURMAN Design Editor KATE JEON Online Graphics Editor ANANYA CHANDRA Photo Editor CARSON KAHOE Photo Editor SUSANNA JARAMILLO Video Producer MATTHEW MIZBANI Video Producer CARTER COUDRIET Digital Director
This semester has been tumultuous. Regardless of whether you personally were affected by current events — the election, Black Lives Matter, sexual assault — those around you were. In response to many of these events, the administration sent numerous emails to the student body, either in lieu of tangible action or to inform students of the actions they are taking. In times like these, the administration must be clear about their stance on issues, and on the policy changes they will enact. Now, more than ever, is not a time to pay lip service or uphold reputations at the expense of students’ well-being. In response to the OZ email flyering earlier in the semester, Amy Gutmann sent an email announcing a new sexual assault task force in order to “address the negative influence” of off-campus, unaffiliated groups such as OZ. Penn’s framing of this issue as an off-campus problem was incorrect. Choosing to focus solely on off-campus organizations shows a refusal to acknowledge the greater problem of sexual assault that pervades this campus. An email sent to undergraduate parents requests that parents dissuade their students from joining off-campus organizations, which could threaten “their safety, and the health and wellness of their fellow students.” The equation of unaffiliated groups with sexual assault redirects the problem, allowing the administration to push the
blame to areas outside of their jurisdiction. However, we have seen that rape culture and sexist rhetoric exist within all types of student groups, as evidenced by the Penn Masala incident. Penn could do more to address the problem of sexual assault if they focused their attentions on on-campus organizations. But it’s unclear if Penn intends to make tangible change, or simply protect its reputation. The administration’s response seems reactive to the OZ flyering and the formation of We Are Watching. The wide publicization of the protest required a reply. Because of the email’s timing, the creation of the task force seems to be motivated by public relations concerns. On Nov. 3, Harvard’s men’s soccer season was cancelled as a result of the surfacing of sexually explicit ratings of female players. On Nov. 4, a Friday, Amy Gutmann sent the task force email at 5:22 p.m., a time when it was sure to get little attention. Election day was the next Tuesday, Nov. 8, giving the Penn community little time to reflect on the message and its true intent. Without many people knowing of the creation of the task force, it became harder for the administration to be held accountable. We question the effectiveness of the task force, as its goals seem to be only vague enforcements of Penn’s current policies. Reminding students of their responsibilities is not a solution. In order to more deeply combat this issue, Penn
first needs to pursue policies consistent with accepting that rape culture is a problem that extends beyond unaffiliated organizations. In response to the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement, the administration rightly acknowledged the wave of African American
fore students have to call them out on their inaction. Thus, in light of Adkins’ direct critique as well as other statements by African American student groups like UMOJA, the open letter — while a positive step in the right direction for the administration — can also come off as face-saving, rather than
...the Penn community can clearly sense when a statement comes from facesaving intention...” deaths across the country, but the timing of the open letter also highlights the reactionary nature of these words. DP columnist Titus Adkins called directly on Penn administrators to “write a letter speaking out against the genocide that is occurring across this nation.” Adkins critiqued the University’s tendency to only speak out against issues that threaten the administration’s reputation, such as divestment from fossil fuels and the OZ emails. While the seriousness of these topics definitely merit University action, administrators must be consistent in proactively speaking out against issues that negatively impact the student body. If administrators’ words are to be taken as genuine efforts to empathize with all students on this campus, they must take action be-
sincere. That being said, we commend the University for its series of updates in response to the racist GroupMe messages. Above all, the administration successfully made Penn community members feel included and updated throughout the investigation process. The University understood the gravity of the situation and clearly conveyed the actions that the administration was taking. Even when many questions about the perpetrator remained unanswered, the University took the initiative to still send an email with the necessary update that the investigation had yet to determine the source of the messages. This transparent form of communication represents a positive departure from the University’s tendency to delay
communication until all loose ends have been tied up. In complicated situations, such as the OZ emails, which understandably require time to resolve, the University has often waited for all question marks to be settled before sending out a single tidy statement that retrospectively addresses the issue. This approach implies that the University prioritizes maintaining a clean reputation, rather than addressing the urgency of students’ concerns. In contrast, throughout the GroupMe investigation, the Penn community received various emails — even before the University had any leads about the perpetrator. In fact, we particularly commend these early emails when the University still had no answers. In a time when Penn students, faculty and parents had countless questions about the hateful messages, this timely communication provided the necessary ease of mind that the issue was being addressed and taken seriously. We urge the administration to continue this progress by establishing a norm of straight-forward, timely communication. The GroupMe incident, however, raises another ongoing issue regarding the University’s need for communication. Though an academic institution has the appropriate right to avoid strong politicization or clear bias towards specific candidates, the days following the presidential election elicited a deep-rooted pain that goes far beyond the scope of politics for many members of
the Penn community. The University should have openly acknowledged the fear that many students felt in response to the nationwide wave of discriminatory actions following Trump’s election. By completely avoiding Trump’s name in any statement, the University has failed to condemn the many instances of discrimination — including those associated with racism, homophobia, sexism — that people have committed in the name of Trump’s ideas and slogans. We do commend the University’s decision to actively state its commitment to protecting undocumented students on this campus. This affirmation responded directly to many petitions for the administration to deem the University a “sanctuary campus” given calls by the Trump administration to tighten immigration laws. However, beyond the single issue of undocumented students, we hope that the University extends this concrete acknowledgement of concerns over students’ safety under the Trump administration. Overall, the Penn community can clearly sense when a statement comes from facesaving intention or genuine concern. The communiques sent by Penn’s administration this semester have ranged from one extreme to the other. We need less of the former and more of the latter, and we hope that the University will choose to be more consistent, transparent and sincere in the semester to come.
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The world’s most successful notion of free government arose from what was called “the principle of the sovereignty of the people.” This principle viewed government as a regrettable necessity. Individuals assented to follow rules not because collective political wisdom was the best means of directing life, but because selfish human beings cannot reasonably be expected to interact equitably without some “regulating force” maintaining uniform rules of interaction. On this theory, the purview of the local government extended only over the interactions between one citizen and another. Americans extended this notion to the relationship of the township to the state and the state to the federal government. Each individual, each township, each state was the rightful arbiter of its own affairs, granting power to the next level up in the governmental hierarchy only insofar as necessity compelled them to do so — that is, only when the interests of multiple townships or multiple states were at stake. While this ideal was never
perfectly followed, it is an extraordinarily useful way of thinking about government. When the central government is thought of as the ultimate arbiter of all societal questions, even a fair and free election yields at best the tyranny of the majority. Early Americans did not want this. They preferred a system in which nearly every man would personally approve of nearly every law that affected his life. To accomplish this, they sought to keep most laws as local laws. This led to an “inverted hierarchy” of power. The larger the region over which a political body ruled, the smaller the scope of the laws they were allowed to enact. The result was the single best large republic in all history. The inverted hierarchy that created this republic, however, did not fully survive the 20th century. There is little question today that the federal government has left behind the notion that it exists to act only on matters that individual states are incapable of dealing with. Some of this was the result of the need to pass
the 14th Amendment, which grants the federal government some powers to police the morality of state laws. But beyond the 14th Amendment, there has been a much broader shift in thinking — certainly in leftist areas like Penn — which funda-
campus sincerely expressed fear for themselves. For their families. For their private lives. This fear wasn’t (mostly) about the national economy, or inter-state trade or foreign policy. It was about centralized government falling into the hands of that very
Put bluntly, the problem with centralizing government power to manage ‘the deplorables’ is that ‘the deplorables’ may one day be managing you.” mentally favors the centralization of all government power. Washington frequently leans left of center, and in the past, liberals often assumed that consolidated power would be wielded wisely to fight the manifold ills spawned by that quarter of America in the basket of deplorables. Then Donald Trump was elected president. Many, many students on
same basket of deplorables it was supposed to vigorously regulate. Leftists, eager a few months ago to advocate federal agencies forcing racial and gender quotas on private companies, are now faced with such policies coming from the administration of a moderate member of the Alt-Right — a group whose political philosophy (insofar as it exists)
is a sort of radical leftism for whites and men, which “prioritises the interests of their own demographic,” according to Breitbart News. Many Penn students feel — quite legitimately — that Trump does not represent them (#NotMyPresident), but few seem to recall that the Founding Fathers had predicted that a centralized government would lead to this result — see Robert Yates’ first antiFederalist paper, for instance. Trump simply dramatized the fact that when all important powers are centralized, the administration of the country will reflect — at best — the interests of the “51 percent.” Leftists celebrate Roe v. Wade for spreading abortion across the continent, but the logic upon which it was promulgated could well ban abortion in like manner. Federal affirmative action may be praised for helping people of a particular race or gender, but Trump&Co will soon be deciding what races or genders need “affirming.” Put bluntly, the problem with centralizing government power to manage “the deplorables” is that “the deplora-
JEREMIAH KEENAN bles” may one day be managing you. The only robust way to avoid this dilemma is to begin work on reconstructing, in the modern American context, a system that seeks to maximize the degree to which individuals directly compose and approve of all the laws that affect them personally. This inverted hierarchy of power might protect against the dangers of a system that indiscriminately heaps power into the hands of the wise men of Washington — and our next president, Mr. Trump. JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College senior from China, studying mathematics and classical studies. His email address is jkeenan@sas.upenn.edu. “Keen on the Truth” usually appears every other Thursday.
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Why some students are choosing singles over campus suites
Students cite benefits and costs to having roommates CHARLOTTE BAUSCH Contributing Reporter
With room selection for on-campus housing coming up in January, students are beginning to contemplate housing options for next year. One consideration is whether or not to live in a single. Though it’s not the traditional image of life in a college dorm, hundreds of students at Penn request singles every year. Weighing their on-campus options for next year, many freshmen said they would prefer to live in suites or apartments with roommates to going without them entirely. While students said they would prefer having singles again next year, many on-campus apartments like those in the high rises require tenants to live in a double room for at least one semester out of
the year. Life in a single has its benefits. Students in singles never have to cope with the stress of fighting with a roommate or work around another person’s schedule. Students like College freshman Alison Gern appreciate not having to worry about a sleeping roommate when they get back to their rooms at odd hours. “When it’s late at night and I don’t want to be in the library anymore, I can go back to my room and study without having to worry about waking somebody else up,” Gern said. Living in a single also means never having to live with a roommate’s visiting friends or significant others, and never having to clear your own visitors with a roommate first. It cuts down on awkwardness and allows privacy whenever it’s needed. Without roommates, students in singles can enjoy time to themselves often denied to those with
roommates. “After a really stressful day … it’s nice to be able to come back to my room and completely relax without anyone else there,” College freshman Gina Kahng said. Some might simply want their own space, or haven’t chosen a roommate and are nervous about receiving a randomly assigned one, like Kahng. “I realized there wasn’t anyone I was requesting and I didn’t want to go with random,” Kahng said. Many students worry that they won’t get along with randomly assigned roommates, who they can’t screen beyond a cursory housing survey. Other students receive singles even though it wasn’t their first choice. No matter how a student ends up in one, living in a single can have a big impact on your college experience. Living without roommates can feel isolating for some students since there is no one automatically in your
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ing, especially around ingrown hairs, he claimed in the suit. This condition, according to the lawsuit, affects black men disproportionately. The suit claims if Lewis were to shave his beard cleanly, it would create areas of open skin that could become infected, especially due to his interaction with the public while on the job. Penn Police, like many other forces, has an appearance standard which does not allow an officer to maintain a beard while serving, Creech said. A spokesperson for the Division of Public Safety
would not comment on any aspects of the lawsuit, including any details about the beard policy, citing its policy against commenting on pending litigation. A waiver is available for medical conditions through which an officer may be allowed to keep a beard as long as it is under one quarter of an inch in length. However, when Lewis applied for the waiver in August 2015, the complaint says, he found the process a bit more complicated than he expected. Creech said after Lewis submitted his waiver certifying that he had PFB, the Division of Public Safety “decided that it wasn’t happy,” and “found a number of different pre-
texts to complain about his work.” DPS continued to find other reasons to reprimand Lewis and made the work environment very hostile, Creech said. Prior to this, Creech said Lewis’ record was exemplary. The University said that it would abide by the waiver, but Creech said that when Lewis applied for it, “they basically drove him out of the force.” He is unsure why the police force was insistent that Lewis shave his beard. “There are some cases where people need to wear respirator masks, and that would interfere, but there was no such issue here,” Creech said. DPS did not cite this conflict as
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a reason for his release, but indicated it was due to issues over family leave and a failure to update his personal information, Creech said. “When he tried to exercise the medical waiver because of his condition, they came up with reasons to complain,” he said. Dealing with this condition was not a new issue for Lewis, but something he had been dealing with for most of his life, although it had recently gotten worse. “He thought he could just get this waiver and that would be it,” Creech said. “It is not like he was on the force for a couple of weeks before this. He was a pretty longstanding officer and a decorated marine.”
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SCUE’s new chair external discusses plans for spring
Shawn Srolovitz wants SCUE to engage students WESLEY SHEKER Contributing Reporter
SCUE may not be the most well-known of student gover nment branches — but Engineering junior Shawn Srolovitz wants to change that. Srolovitz will take over as Chair External of the Student Committee for Undergraduate Education in the spring, after a year working as chair internal. SCUE is a branch of Penn’s student government devoted to improving undergraduate education at Penn. He sat down with the Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss his plans for SCUE in 2017. Daily Pennsylvanian: In 2015, SCUE published a “white paper,” outlining goals such as NSO modules, gap year information availability, holistic education and more. How do you plan to accomplish SCUE’s currently unfinished goals? Sh aw n Srolov it z: My main goal as chair external is to pivot SCUE to be a more
student-facing body. SCUE has been traditionally really great at interfacing with administrators, sharing our ideas and working together with the administration to get our goals pushed. I want to make sure that, in addition, we are really focusing our efforts for what the students need. I am interested in presenting our work to student groups that have a stake in our project, as well as sharing more widely with the undergraduate population what we are doing with the goal of making sure that we are really focusing on the needs of students. DP: Could you elaborate on some of the upcoming SCUE projects? SS: We have four SCUE projects going on total. We’re working on half-credit courses and [creating a] holistic education. We’re also working on access to academic resources, trying to bridge the gap for first generation low-income students coming into college. Research [suggests there is] a big gap. Everyone is here for a reason, and we want to make sure that
everyone is supported and has the resources they need to be successful while at Penn. One of the key things we did this past year, continuing into this year, is looking at course costs. We want to ensure that there are not a lot of extra fees on top of paying tuition associated with the classes. We’re working closely with the administration and Penn First, along with the Undergraduate Assembly, to analyze what professors are including on their syllabus and ensuring that we aren’t charging too much for extra classes. Our last project is called Steal This Penn, a fun little play on words. We’re trying to tackle the idea that Penn is a really decentralized university. The goal of [the project] is to be a website that combines and centralizes all the resources found across Penn, including a lot of fun different things that [many] don’t even know exist. For example, you can go get free nutrition counseling at Student Health. There are also free 3-D printers in a lot of the libraries that students don’t know they
Various crimes this week include burglary and assault Nov. 25, a window was broken at American Apparel CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI Staff Reporter
Here are the crimes committed in the Penn Patrol Zone from Nov. 23-29, as provided by the Division of Public Safety: Assault: Nov. 25: At 12:30 p.m., an affiliated man reported being punched in the face on the 4000 block of Locust Street. The suspect left the scene before police arrived.
Burglary: Nov. 25: At 7:57 a.m., an unaffiliated man shattered a window at the American Apparel on 36th and Walnut streets. He removed merchandise from the store and was later arrested. Nov. 24: At 7 a.m., two affiliated men reported missing property on the 3900 block of Spruce Street. Liquor Law: Nov. 26: At 3 a.m., on the 200 block of South 40th Street, an affiliated man was arrested after being seen vandalizing and having a strong odor of alcohol and slurred
speech. Other offense: Nov. 28: At 4:34 p.m., two juveniles were cited after getting into a verbal altercation with an unaffiliated woman at the Penn Bookstore at the intersection of 36th and Walnut streets, hitting her on the arm and spitting on her. Theft: Vehicle: 1 Retail: 1 (one arrest was made) Bike: 1 Building: 4 (one case led to an arrest) Other: 2 (both cases led to arrests)
have access to. We’re looking at trying to centralize those resources into one place so students can take advantage of their experience. DP: Why did you decide to run for SCUE chair external? SS: SCUE is the first organization that I joined, in my first semester freshman year, and it has been the most constant part of my life at Penn. I’m really passionate about our mission, and I believe that we […] have the opportunity and the ability to make tangible changes. Last year, I was chair internal, which allowed me to gain a good understanding of our projects and initiatives as well as start to connect with the administrators. I want to use this year to focus on pushing our ideas, seeing that we [achieve] tangible change [and] empowering everyone at SCUE, as well as the general student body, to see that they have the potential to create these changes and create a unified front for change at the University. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
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Red and Blue ready for first dual meet of season WRESTLING | Team
With more emphasis placed on the team’s success as a whole, wrestlers often spend more of their downtime cheering on their teammates. “For a dual meet when you have just one match it is kind of like a whole different mental state going into it,� senior All-American Casey Kent said. “You just have one match so you are literally going to give it your all. When you are not wrestling you are cheering on your teammates because it is a team thing.� As for the team, it is also different for a coach in terms of strategy. “There is a smaller margin for error,� Penn coach Alex Tirapelle said. “There is strategy in terms of which guys we wrestle, and at which weight classes, based on matchups.� Although the lineup against Rider is not finalized, it is expected to include a mix of veteran mainstays and talented underclassmen. As expected, seniors Kent, Frank Mattiace and Jeremy Schwartz will compete at 174 pounds, 197 pounds and 125 pounds respectively along with junior veterans May Bethea at 157 pounds and Joe Velliquette at 165 pounds. Tirapelle is unsure whether senior Caleb Richardson will be available at 133 pounds due to injury. If he cannot suit up, promising sophomore Tristan Devincenzo is the expected replacement.
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After stringing together strong performances in each of the early season tournaments, Penn wrestling looks to start off dual meet season on the right foot against a strong Rider team. Dual meets offer a different dynamic from Penn’s previous early season tournaments. In a dual meet, one wrestler from each side competes against one another in each of the ten weight classes. At each weight class, a wrestler has seven minutes to defeat their opponent. However, not all victories or defeats are created equal. Winning by a fall, forfeit, default or disqualification is six team points. Winning by a technical fall, getting ahead of your opponent by 15 points, is five team points. Winning by a major decision, getting ahead of your opponent by eight to 14 points, is four team points, and a decision, only getting ahead eight points or less, is three team points according to the NCAA scoring guidelines.
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Senior Casey Kent and Penn wrestling have a tough road ahead in their dual meet on the road against Rider this weekend
Devincenzo could potentially join established sophomore starters AJ Vindici at 141 pounds and Tyler Hall at 285 pounds. Additionally, sophomore Ryan Wosick is competing with senior Quinton Hiles for the staring spot at 184 pounds. The
184 pounds weight class, already considered a question mark heading into the season, is especially wide open because junior frontrunner Joe Heyob could not keep his weight under the required limit and senior Carson Stack’s continues to deal
with nagging injuries. Conversely, junior Joe Oliva has griped the starting spot for 149 pounds after a tight battle with incoming freshman Jon Errico. The 149 pounds was also an unknown heading into the season. However, Oliva went 3-0 at their most recent tournament, the Journeyman Tussle, defeating Errico in the process. “He has initially, at this point in the season, preliminarily established himself as the starter,� Tirapelle said of Oliva. “He is wrestling well at the right time and has earned the right to be the starter.� Still, Tirapelle has been adamant that the situation is always fluid and that starting spots are never safe. Look for Errico to keep pushing Oliva all season. However, the most intriguing matchup of the meet will be between Velliquette and Rider All-American Chad Walsh at 165 pounds. They have already faced each other twice this season, with Walsh getting the better of Velliquette in both matches. In their first matchup at the Southeast Open, Walsh defeated Velliquete by a decision. The next matchup was even worse for Velliquete as was pinned by Walsh on his home mat at the Keystone Classic. However, this fact has not deterred Velliquete’s resolve. “I’ve scouted him over the summer, and both times I wrestled
him I did not stick to the game plan,� Velliquete said. “I need to take him back down to the mat quickly instead of getting caught in scrambles. Stay under control, in my position, and dictate the action.� It remains to be seen whether Velliquete can learn from his mistakes and take down the All American in what would be a huge upset. Aside from Villiquete, Bethea and Mattiace face particularly strong wrestlers in B.J. Flagon, No. 18 in the country, and Ryan Wolf, No. 12 in the country. This is nothing new, as Rider is traditionally a very solid wrestling program. “This year they have a very good squad,� Tirapelle said. “They actually just got a few of their guys back. I think they are going to give us their best effort. They have several guys on their team that will be fighting to be All-Americans this year. If we are going to beat them we are going to need to perform well.� With this in mind, the Quakers need strong performances across the board due to the depth and talent at Rider’s disposal. However, wrestlers are rarely known for their lack of confidence. “We should win, that’s my expectation going into it. We are definitely capable of doing it,� Kent said. Hopefully for the Quakers, Kent’s assertion comes true this Saturday.
Quaker uses chess to improve skills on court M. SQUASH | Larsson
greatest assets comes from his time playing a board game: chess. For Larsson, chess was a part of his life long before squash came into the picture. From the tender age of three, the junior took on the task of becoming a skilled player in an attempt to beat his father. Watching his older brother and dad play from the sidelines only motivated him to become talented enough to compete with his fellow family members. “I made him play me every day and would play throughout the day to get better,� Larsson said. It didn’t take long before
grew up playing chess COREY HENRY Sports Reporter
First is the worst, second is the best, third is the one who’s best at chess. That may not be the way the nursery rhyme goes, but for one Penn men’s squash player, the saying rings true. Junior Anders Larsson has been involved with squash for quite a long time, but for such a physically taxing sport, one of his
Larsson found himself on the winning end against his old man by the time he was five. Things started to pick up as the family searched for new competition to take on their talented son. “After I beat [my dad] I went to my first chess tournament,� Larsson recalled. “I actually ended up beating the best player in the country for my age group.� From there, the Brooklyn native became a fixture at the upper echelon of his age group. From the age of five to 11, Larsson was consistently ranked in the top three in the U.S.A. for his age
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the most about his rookie’s performance was his defensive contributions — which helped limit the Leopards to just 52 points, including just four from their leading scorer, junior forward Matt Klinewski. “At the defensive end is where he makes us way better than we were last year,� the second-year coach noted. “He can guard their point guard. To have a kid that big, that athletic, and able to do that — it makes you great.� The game featured a matchup against an old friend — Lafayette head coach Fran O’Hanlon. After starring for Villanova in the late 1960s, his career intersected with the Penn bosses’ at many points, notably as an assistant alongside Donahue on the Quaker bench in the early 90s. “I grew up as a kid watching ‘Franny O’ at Villanova, marvelling at his skill as a basketball player,� Donahue said of his fellow longtime member of the Philadelphia basketball brotherhood. “I was honored when he brought me on [to be his
assistant at Monsignor Bonner High School] and again when he talked [then-Penn head coach] Fran Dunphy into hiring me.� “It’s what makes Philly basketball so great in so many ways.� Next up on Saturday, the Red and Blue will play host to George Mason. The Colonials (7-3) are coming off a 85-66 takedown of Penn State in State College Wednesday night, their first win over a Big 10 team since 2009. The 2006 Final Four Cinderellas are led by senior guard Marquise Moore, who is averaging team highs of 18.1 points and 10.3 rebounds per game, impressive given his 6’2� stature. However, if the Quakers can replicate Wednesday’s balanced offensive output going forward and continue their dominant Brodeur-led defense, there’s no reason that encore performances cannot become the norm. And as Howard finishes up his career come this spring, he can rest assured that another versatile player capable of taking over games will carry the torch.
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captain provided perhaps the most exciting play of the night, a thundering transition dunk to make the score 15-6. Though he would only score two more points in the game following that initial burst, the tone had been set. “Matt’s been really good all season long. His confidence is really high right now,� Donahue said. “He’s been through some up-and-downs for three years, and now he feels like he can be the best player on the court.� But the real star of the game was Brodeur. Just seven games into his college career, he is already the top scorer and rebounder on the team. His stellar play in the early second half helped the Quakers to a 16-0 run, one that turned the game officially into a blowout — the Quakers’ 29-point margin of victory being their largest of the season. But what impressed Donahue
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PENN BASKETBALL DOUBLEHEADER Penn men’s and women’s basketball hosted a doubleheader in the Palestra on Wednesday night. The women kicked off action with a dramatic late loss to La Salle. The men followed up with a blowout victory over Lafayette.
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girls ugly. Again, this is not great, but it’s not the worst thing in the world. What made me sick — and I can’t even imagine what people who aren’t straight, white males must feel — was the categorically heinous language and illegal remarks littering the group chat. Let’s get one thing straight: you can’t use the n-word. Full stop. It’s not like a person gains anything by referring to a black man with such a vile slur. Another thing? Rape jokes
aren’t okay! And in the case of one message captured from that GroupMe, it wasn’t even a joke: one wrestler honestly said they hoped someone “actually gets sexually assaulted.” I shouldn’t have to explain why that’s over the line. “Locker room talk” has been thrown around a lot over the past few months. It exists, and it will never go away, but there’s a difference between benign banter and the deplorable human indecency that we’ve seen at times in these teams’ group messages. There is a clear line that teams’ coaches and captains should clearly
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define. Athletes must already go through rigorous seminars at the beginning of every year on their social media usage and conduct in public, but perhaps it might benefit them to hold discussions on the standards they want to be held to in private. They’re still representatives of their schools, after all, from the moment they wake up to the moment they fall asleep. There’s no doubt about it that some edgy group messages exist within the realm of Penn Athletics, too — they just haven’t been leaked or discovered. They might not be as reprehensible as those found at Harvard and Columbia,
but it’s hard to advocate against any self-policing in this department. To the athletes reading this: you surely enjoy the banter and the camaraderie that your groups foster. But please recognize that there is a line. You may not be anywhere near it, and if you’re not, then great! But if you are, then you should probably right your wrongs before it’s too late. WILL SNOW is a College sophomore from Nashville, Tenn, and is senior sports editor-elect of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at snow@thedp.com.
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keep working hard, and I think this group just needs to find the extra push to be able to do that.” While this loss means Penn is still winless at home this season, it will be important for the Quakers to regroup before their next game on Saturday against Richmond. The Spiders will enter that game at 4-4, and leaving Virginia with a win will be no easy task for the Red and Blue. When asked what Penn
would have to do to differently to beat Richmond, Nwokedi thought the answer was pretty simple. “Just execute, play hard for the 40 minutes that we are playing,” Nwokedi said. “And just play together as a team, it all starts with defense to offense.” This was a game Penn should have won. Now, the Quakers will certainly travel to Richmond with a hungry, motivated team, but the pain of this loss against La Salle is one that could follow them much further.
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On athletes’ offensive group messages
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t’s hard to talk about such an incendiary issue, but I thought it was about time to break the silence. Teams across the Ivy League have been finding themselves in trouble for a month now in what has become a trend of racist, sexist, or even xenophobic (sound familiar?) GroupMe’s and Google Docs. First it was Harvard men’s soccer. Then Harvard men’s
cross country. Then Columbia wrestling. For some reason, this problem seems to be particular to men. Don’t get me wrong — I know that in every team, there is some degree of what we may now ironically call “locker room talk.” I’m not advocating for school administrations taking the role of PC-Police, quelling any scent of indecency at the first sight. But there’s a line. And too often this year, it’s been crossed. Before I go any further, I should admit that I, too, am a member of certain group messages that sometimes flirt with such a line. I take pride in
personally staying far away from it, but when my friends come close, I often can’t help but chuckle, even if I disapprove of their vulgarity. Never, though, do my friends cross the line that some of the Ivy League’s athletic teams have this semester. Let’s take a look at each case individually. We started off a little over a month ago with Harvard men’s
soccer. As a yearly tradition, the team would create a “scouting report” of the newest freshmen on the women’s team. Instead of admiring their talent, the men took to a Google Doc and rated their appearance instead. Honestly, that’s fine — it really isn’t admirable, but as long as they had kept it private to themselves and didn’t build upon mere ratings, it wouldn’t have
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been a story. Too bad they didn’t. In a stroke of sheer idiocy, ignorance, or indifference, the team’s “scouting report” Google Doc was open to the public from the day the first one (that we know of) was created in 2012 all the way until the day it was discovered last month. Even worse, they didn’t just rate the girls on a scale of 1-10: they went on to say what they would like to do with them, if you catch my drift. In one final move in defiance of all standards of decency, the team then proceeded to block the investigation from reaching its inevitable conclusion by refusing to cooperate.
All of these crossed the line. And for that, the team deserved to have the remainder of its season cancelled. The saddest part of all? If Harvard men’s soccer was bad, then Columbia wrestling was worse. The team’s senior class started a GroupMe when they were freshmen, and for all three and a half years of the athletes’ regrettable tenure at Columbia, utterly vile messages circulated through that GroupMe up to the day they were leaked to the press. It starts out with making fun of feminists and calling certain SEE SNOW PAGE 9
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It was poetic, almost, the transfer of dominance. After senior guard Matt Howard lit things up in the first half, scoring 12 of Penn’s first 15 points, freshman forward AJ Brodeur took over in the second period, tallying 16 of his 22 after intermission. When it was all said and done, the Red and Blue emerged with a 81-52 blowout victory, their first win over Lafayette in five seasons. Guard Jackson Donahue, relegated to sixth-man duty in recent games, chipped in further with his best performance of the season, scoring 15 points in just 19 minutes. The sophomore’s scoring was fueled by his signature shooting, as he went 4-of-7 from beyond the arc, making him the lone Quaker to knock down multiple three-pointers. “Jackson’s been up-and-down
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Freshman AJ Brodeur led the team with 22 points in the Quakers’ win. A personal 6-0 run in the second half contributed to his tally.
this season,” coach Steve Donahue acknowledged. “Tonight you saw him getting back that swagger and being confident.” Howard dominated the
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game’s opening minutes. After making a three pointer and several midrange jumpers, the SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 8
With leads late in both the fourth quarter and overtime, it was the Quakers’ game for the taking. Unfortunately for Penn women’s basketball, La Salle had other plans. After La Salle erased a double-digit deficit to force overtime, freshman Shalina Millera hit a tough three with just 0.5 seconds left in the game to give the Explorers the 58-56 win on Wednesday night in the Palestra. “We had control of the game,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “And the same things happened in overtime. We were up seven with two minutes to go, we don’t close and we really just left it on the table there.” As tough as this loss was, it was impressive that Penn (3-4) was in such strong position to
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win the game to begin with. The Explorers (5-4) raced out to an 18-11 lead at the end of the first quarter, and if it wasn’t for the strong play of junior Michelle Nwokedi, the score could have been even uglier. The 6-foot-3 forward scored Penn’s first eight points to keep the Quakers within striking distance. After the first quarter, the Red and Blue battled back quickly. Strong defense and three-point shooting helped the Quakers go on a 12-2 run, and at halftime, the score was 27-24 Penn. “We regained composure and had a really great stretch there,” McLaughlin recalled. It was more of the same in the third quarter, as Penn held La Salle to only five points for the entire period. Heading into the fourth, the game looked all but over with the Quakers holding a 40-29 lead. La Salle stayed with it though, and after slowly chipping away, the Explorers were finally able to tie the game on a floater with 40 seconds left. As crushing as that shot was, Nwokedi came right back to regain the lead for Penn on a nifty reverse layup. It looked like Penn was going to tough
out the victory, but La Salle quickly responded with another bucket of its own. Tied at 47-47, the game went into overtime. After erasing such a big lead, La Salle had all the momentum. One would have thought the Explorers were going to run away with it at this point, but Penn rebounded once again. A series of baskets including a Nwokedi and-1 gave Penn a seven point lead, but just like it did in the fourth quarter, La Salle fought back. After seeing the lead dwindle to just two points, Penn still had multiple opportunities to ice the game. But senior guard Kasey Chambers missed the first of a pair of free throws on one trip, and the Quakers came up empty on their final possession of the game with a lead of just one, setting up the Explorers’ game-winning three just before the buzzer. “We just can’t be complacent,” said Nwokedi, who finished the game with 24 points and nine rebounds. “We can’t come out flat to begin with, and we just can’t be complacent when we get a lead. We need to keep fighting, SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 9
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