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Former nursing student’s family sued Penn, Amazon after suicide ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

Amazon and Penn cannot strike a negligence suit filed against them for the death of an undergraduate Nursing student, a Pennsylvania state judge ruled last week. The decision denied an attempt by Amazon and Penn to dismiss the case in September, in which they argued that Pennsylvania state law did not allow the defendants to be found liable in instances of suicide. The next hearing date is set for an evidence discovery hearing on Dec. 23 at Philadelphia City Hall. The original complaint was filed against the University and Amazon on behalf of Nursing student Arya Singh, who died in Feb. 2013 by suicide in her dorm room. The lawsuit blames Amazon for allowing her to purchase the soluble cyanide salts online that she used to kill herself. It alleges that there have been 51 purchases of these types of salts online that have resulted in

BIOCHEM Ph.D student Michael Soo works with brewery

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A visit to Dock Street Brewery on the corner of 50th Street and Baltimore Avenue is a must for anyone who’s looking for a fix of fresh craft beer and ovenbaked pizza served with a side of alternative vibe.

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Among beer enthusiasts in the area, Dock Street has a reputation for being experimental and creative with their brews. And this December, Dock Street has plans to introduce beer that has been brewed with a special local twist — a true West Philadelphia concoction, if you will — with the help of Penn Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics doctorate candidate Michael Soo. The secret behind Dock

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While most breweries stick to using set, pure strains of yeast to brew classic ales and lagers, Dock Street brewing expert Sasha Certo-Ware and Soo teamed up to collect and cultivate wild yeast strains from West Philadelphia through a wild fermentation process. They first placed shallow trays of wort in three locations SEE BEER PAGE 11

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Wharton junior David Moore discussed goals for the year

Newly-elected Interfraternity Council President and Wharton junior David Moore aims to bolster the positive image of Penn’s 28 fraternities. The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with the Kappa Sigma president about this and other goals for the new year. The Daily Pennsylvanian: Why did you choose to run for IFC president? David Moore: Last year … I saw the potential the IFC had to serve the community, especially with the new [Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life] director [Eddie BanksCrosson]. Working alongside him I could see a lot of things getting done to improve stuff around here. Election time came, I was approached by [current officers], and they

Street’s upcoming West Philadelphia beer? Local yeast strains. For those not familiar with the art of beer brewing, yeast is an essential ingredient in the process of fermentation. When added to the base malt liquid called wort, yeast converts sugar in the liquid into alcohol and carbon dioxide, giving the beer its alcohol content and its carbonation.

Criticisms cite lack of specificity in campaign’s message SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Staff Reporter

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In the wake of last month’s student protests at Yale and University of Missouri, Penn students criticize the administration for not doing enough.

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Last month, students at University of Missouri, Yale and a number of other colleges and universities across the country protested against structural racism at their institutions. Penn President Amy Gutmann, along with several other highlevel administrators, sent out a University notification via email

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to faculty, students and staff on Nov. 13 in response to the events. “We ca n not state st rongly enough that at Penn, everyone belongs,” the email read. It went on to reference an initiative launched in April at Penn called the Campaign for Community. According to the email, “[The Campaign] is designed to bring people from across campus together to collectively address questions such as: How do we interact with one another? How do SEE CAMPAIGN PAGE 2

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Non-Wharton students involved in Wharton clubs Students in the College had positive experiences

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For some College students, entering Huntsman Hall for a study session just isn’t enough to satisfy their craving for business. “Most Penn students think about business at some point. [Penn is] a very pre-professional school, and clubs can provide that avenue,” College senior Alina Wong said. During her freshman year, Wong knew that College students could get into Wharton clubs but wasn’t sure how involved she would be as a freshman. She joined about 10 different listservs and eventually decided to try and get involved in Wharton Retail Club. “I would say it’s about [a] 60-40

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11 deaths, even though Amazon had some policies in place to prevent such sales. Pen n was na med as a defendant due to alleged “unsympathetic, hostile and at times vindictive” behavior that administrators showed towards Singh, according to court documents. In 2011, Singh reported being sexually assaulted in her dorm room as a freshman by another student. Her case was not pursued by the district attorney, but the University took steps to isolate Singh from her alleged assaulter. The complaint targets the University for negligence in pursuing her case due to the changeover in the sexual assault

[ratio of Wharton to College students],” Wong said. Since beginning as a member of the marketing committee, Wong has worked her way up in the club. She served as vice president of marketing before moving to a role as vice president of finance. “That role had the highest level of involvement, so it was an easy transition into the presidential role,” Wong said. Last year, Wong was elected as co-president of the group along with Wharton senior Roopa Shankar. Wong is the former president of Wharton Retail Club and is also involved in three other Wharton Clubs: Wharton Middle East North Africa, MUSE and Wharton Women. She explains how the environment in all three of her clubs are a mix of Wharton and other undergraduates. She also added that students

investigating procedures over the last year. Singh became depressed and began drinking heavily as a result of the trauma of her assault, which resulted in Singh being placed on academic probation in Jan. 2013 and facing other student conduct offenses. She was asked to leave University housing on Feb. 8 of that year, and she was found unconscious in her dorm room that day and was not able to be revived. Mental health has continued to be an ongoing conversation among Penn students and administrators, who, after Singh, came to see a string of six student suicides occur within 15 months.

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from other schools did not by any means constitute a majority in Wharton clubs. According to the Wharton website: “In addition to business fraternities and sponsored student organizations, Wharton offers over 45 independent undergraduate student clubs.” Although all Wharton students are made aware of the cohort system before they arrive, they probably aren’t made aware of all these clubs. It does not explicitly state on the website that undergraduates from other schools can join the clubs. Neha Gupta, a College junior majoring in economics who is also part of the Wharton club MUSE, also said that Wharton clubs are very welcoming. “MUSE isn’t exclusive at all, and if you get on the listserv you’re able to see a lot of different recruiting events and case competitions,” Gupta said.

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we value our differences? How can we best talk about those differences?” Lyndsey Beutin, a white do ctor a l ca nd id at e who researches race and representation as well as violence, memory and the media at the Annenberg School for Com munication, sa id the adm in ist ration’s response wasn’t good enough. “[The Campaign] is using … universalizing language to not actually address the very specific demands and the very specific institutional pain that Penn is causing students of color,” she said. The Campaign was formed following the events surrounding Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson last school year, in response to which students also mobilized on campuses around the country, including at Penn. Beutin

said that Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation had very specific demands at the time, calling for the hiring of more professors and CAPS counselors of color, for example. But instead of directly responding to the students’ dema nds, t he Un iversit y initiated the Campaign for Community. Beutin wrote a letter to Pen n’s adm in ist ration in response to last month’s University notification. In it, she referenced initiatives like The Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation at Georgetown and the Committee on Slavery and Injustice at Brown, which serve as more specific alternatives to the Campaign. She also said that the University notification itself was lacking. “Other institutions like Oberlin have written much more thorough letters,” she said. “[They] are much more

explicitly saying ‘We stand with the students at Mizzou; we hea r these concer ns.’ Penn’s letter didn’t even do that. It was almost surprising that it even mentioned race specifically.” T he Vice P rovost for Un iversit y Li fe, Va la r ie Swain-Cade McCoullum, is one of the Campaign’s three co-chairs. She said the formation of the Ca mpa ign “wasn’t just about racism.” She went on to cite sexual assault and mental health as other examples of the topics of the “difficult conversations” that the Campaign for Community provides a space for. Cade also said that there are other resources on campus that cover topics of race. “If you look through even the offerings of the schools and of the VPUL and other resources and other campus entities, there are lots of tough and quite specific and

direct conversations about race,” she said. L aw p r ofessor C la i r e Finkelstein, another of the Campaign’s co-chairs, said the Campaign’s name is purposefully designed to adapt to the types of difficult conversations that students at Penn need to have in the future. “The framework is a good one because it allows us to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the members of our community,” she said. But Beutin isn’t so sure that just providing a space for conversation is always the answer. “Especially in the acade my, t h e r e c o u r s e t o conversation is one that we’re really comfortable with, and it’s also the one that’s really easy to police,” she said. “It’s important to think through what does conversation disallow? What does conversation do to political resistance?”

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KEEN ON THE TRUTH | Race and gender rather than thought

t Penn, it seems that the need for racial and gender diversity is never very far from anyone’s mind. Olympian figureheads remind us that “our quest for eminence [at Penn] depends on great minds that represent a wide array of perspectives and backgrounds.” Eager freshmen echo the idea more simply: “I love how diverse we are — I mean, we’ve got whites and Asians and blacks …” This enthusiasm is well grounded. Empirical study and common sense both indicate that diversity of thought fosters innovation and success. Furthermore, since “visible diversity” (diversity in race, gender, age and like variables) correlates to diversity of thought in many areas, it is not surprising that visible diversity has been found to contribute to innovative accomplishment. What is slightly unintuitive, however, is the fact that Penn seems to emphasize visible diversity more than intellectual diversity. Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence, for example, is replete with programs and statistics on

recruiting women and minorities. But scarcely any concrete action is outlined to ensure that each department enjoys a diversity of intellectual viewpoints. This is curious in and of itself. This begs the question: Which will contribute more to a student’s learning experience in, say, the Political Science Department — learning from a radical feminist and a conservative Republican who both happen to be men or learning from two conservative Republicans, one of whom is a man and the other a woman? Bearing in mind that Penn’s Political Science Department is already about 30 percent female and considering only the benefits brought to the University by diversity of thought, it would seem strange to emphasize recruiting more women over recruiting staff with a broader spectrum of intellectual perspectives. But the question becomes even more puzzling when one considers the goals set by administrators in achieving visible diversity. Such goals typically focus on achieving a racial/ethnic makeup that reflects American population

surveys. At first glance, it would seem impossible to obtain more diversity of thought than can be achieved by a student body representative of the American population.

ted Asian applicants at rates about 10 percent below other ethnic groups. After California law forced UC Berkeley to disregard race in admissions in 1997, the gap between admissions rates for

What is slightly unintuitive, however, is the fact that Penn seems to emphasize visible diversity more than intellectual diversity.” However, this is not always the case for selective schools. This is because some historically persecuted minorities — Asians and Jews in particular — significantly outperform the general population in academic pursuits. Thus, it is possible to actually increase diversity at elite schools by admitting larger numbers of these minorities and smaller numbers of already well-represented ethnic groups. It seems that many admissions offices have been slow to realize this. For example, prior to 1996, University of California, Berkeley admit-

Asians and all other races snapped shut, and the number of Asians accepted to UC Berkeley climbed steadily from about 35 percent in 1995 to about 45 percent in 2012. Media outlets like The New York Times deplored the fact that color-blind admissions had a negative effect on “underrepresented” minority enrollment. But it was generally ignored that racially-coded admissions policies at UC Berkeley actually decreased diversity in some cases by favoring white applicants over Asian applicants. Studies of multiple

elite universities indicate this trend extended (and probably continues to extend) far beyond UC Berkeley — at least with regards to the test scores expected of Asian Americans in elite college admissions. Interestingly, when the media underscores the destructive consequences of race-blind admission on enrollment from “underrepresented” groups, they tend to commit the same error — assuming that these groups are underrepresented by the difference between their presence in a geographic area and their presence on a college campus. According to The New York Times, for example, because 49 percent of California’s college-aged residents were Hispanic in 2011 compared to only 11 percent of UC Berkeley freshmen at the time, UC Berkeley suffered from a Hispanic “enrollment gap” of 38 percentage points. The implicit assumption was that the enrollment gap would be eliminated and diversity would be achieved only when UC Berkeley’s campus was roughly half Hispanic and a whole lot less Asian.

JEREMIAH KEENAN Now, there may be reasons separate from the positive effects of intellectual diversity to adjust enrollment at UC Berkeley so that it reflects the population demographics of California. For example, it might be considered good for California to promote academic achievement in the Hispanic population. But past a certain point the costs in doing so would have to be justified by reasons other than the widely appreciated value of diversity on a college campus. JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College junior from China, studying mathematics and classical studies. His email address is jkeenan@sas. upenn.edu. “Keen on the Truth” usually appeared every other Wednesday.

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t’s that time of the semester again. That point when, for many students, we strongly question our validity and our futures. This feeling of possibly not being enough, whatever that means, especially when we compare ourselves to our counterparts on this campus is, of course, nothing new. For many of us, family or friends may have warned that it is easy to lose sight of our accomplishments and goals on a campus overflowing with scholars, inventors, researchers, etc. The idea of being among all these people who are bound for success is exciting and motivating, sure. However, many of the students that are here have already or are currently doing cancer research, inventing, creating apps, starting and/ or running companies or accomplishing some major feat that makes even the average Ivy student who was

JA FEEL | Grappling with the idea of being mediocre praised at their high school for their SAT scores feel mediocre. Oftentimes, there is the classic mentality that everyone else is doing something big — “and then there’s me.” It’s easy to feel like your feats are minuscule in the shadow of other students’ achievements. Lists like the annual “Penn Undergrads You Should Know About,” filled with company founders, established performers, filmmakers and students working at top companies in the nation, are reminders of this feeling. The irony of lists like these is that they define success in a very narrow way that might not even apply to us. One cannot compare the achievements of an engineer, a businessperson, a scientist and a politician for they are all advancing the world through a different medium. Furthermore, many students here are on

the path toward a career in which titles are less rigid. That doesn’t make their success in their respective field any less valid in comparison to other fields. Among these compet-

lens of “Penn success” and labeling it mediocre. By just being Penn students, none of us are mediocre. Our categorization and selective celebration of certain accomplishments is

The fact of the matter is that what previously made us extraordinary is the baseline for normal here.” ing facts arises the question of the standard by which we choose to measure our own validity. Of course, this functions on an individual basis. Some will say that they are aware of their accomplishments and are unconcerned with defining their success within the confines of others’ recognition. Others may be staring at their resume through the

twofold in that it normalizes achievements that would be considered amazing elsewhere and amplifies competition with ourselves to a point that can be unhealthy. The fact of the matter is that what previously made us extraordinary is the baseline for normal here. Being top of your graduating class with a boastful resume, an envied transcript and test

scores, a list of awards and multiple talents outside of academics is not something that we as a Penn community pat each other on the back for. That praise ended with our acceptance letter to this institution. Up until college, the thought of being normal or average probably never crossed a majority of our minds. However, in this shift of recognition we may turn to other ways to distinguish ourselves in our community, striving to fit into the formula of success at this level. It is a major feat in it of itself to not only have been accepted here, but also to survive as a student here every day, whether this is your first semester or your eighth. That is something worth celebrating. Do not devalue yourself based on another person’s success. At the same time, that is simply a starting point. As

GIAVANNI ALVES we compete with ourselves, it is also imperative that we ask ourselves what is enough for our specific goals. There must be a balance between recognizing what it is that already distinguishes us as individuals in society but then going forward knowing which ceilings we personally wish to break. GIAVANNI ALVES is a College sophomore from New York. Her email address is alvesg@sas.upenn.edu. “Ja Feel” appeared every other Wednesday.

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Conference at Penn discusses mental effect of war Prof. Finkelstein led discussion on ethics

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The national conversation on mental health permeated a conference at Penn Law School last weekend. As part of the Penn Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law’s conference on “Preventing and Treating the Invisible Wounds of War,” speakers focused on the challenges of understanding, curing and compensating combat-related psychological injuries in veterans. Despite significant disagreements between participants — several disagreed over whether post-traumatic stress disorder should even be called a “disorder” — almost everyone at the conference agreed that there was no single solution that would fix this multi-faceted problem. “When you start to close in on common ground, and the people talking to one another come from such different backgrounds and have such different experiences, then you know you’re really on to something,” Finkelstein said. Founded by Penn Law professor Claire Finkelstein, CERL grew out of her expertise in the relationships between law, politics and ethics. Finkelstein, who holds both a law degree and a doctorate in philosophy, often connected these fields

to each other during her graduate education. She wanted to bring a similar interdisciplinary approach to answering practical questions associated with warfare. “I thought, wouldn’t it be fascinating if we got people from all these different disciplines together to discuss this and try to bridge the gap between theoretical work in academia and practice,” Finkelstein said. Finkelstein established CERL in 2012 with support from Penn Law and seed money from Pamela Craven, who graduated from Penn and now sits on Penn Law’s Board of Overseers, and her husband William. William Craven, who worked for many years in the defense industry, also chaired CERL’s executive board but stepped down earlier this semester. “We are proud to have been able to provide initial funding to set CERL on a path which we hope will contribute to intelligent and principled reflection on national security and the rule of law,” Craven wrote in CERL’s 2012-14 biennial report. CERL’s success began with its first conference, which focused on targeted killing. Finkelstein noticed that over the course of the two-day program, participants from different fields, such as ethicists, arms control activists and lawyers, gradually came to understand the nuances of each other’s arguments.

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An interdisciplinary group of experts from around the country engages in discussion at the Penn Center for Ethics and Rule of Law conference on combat trauma, PTSD and “moral injury” last weekend.

“Little by little, we started to coalesce and started to be able to speak each other’s languages,” Finkelstein said. Since then, Finkelstein has worked to bring together both scholars and practitioners from numerous disciplines in order to analyze some of the most controversial military challenges facing United States policy, including enhanced interrogation, risk management and autonomous weapons systems. Last weekend’s conference on combat-related psychological injuries featured 46 experts, including psychiatrists,

lawyers, trauma therapists and commissioned U.S. military officers. In the past three years, Finkelstein has watched CERL grow significantly, with last weekend’s conference just one of the center’s many programs. In addition to its regular speakers and discussions, CERL has published two interdisciplinary volumes on the topics it has studied and hopes to compile a third on PTSD using material from last weekend’s conference. The center is also working on numerous partnerships with other organizations, which Finkelstein

hopes will increase the breadth of CERL’s research in ethics and the rule of law. Her team is currently working with Penn’s Middle East Center next fall on a conference that will include discussion on the Iran nuclear deal. They will also be working with the Wharton Leadership Center and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research to host a conference on ethical leadership. “We started out focused more narrowly on military subjects such as targeted killing and enhanced interrogation techniques. Now we’re reaching out a little more

broadly,” Finkelstein said. As CERL’s activities increase, Finkelstein hopes that the center’s work will reach more students across all of Penn’s schools. CERL currently offers a full-time, paid summer internship that gives students the opportunity to meet with experts on subjects that CERL is exploring. This past summer, Finkelstein reported, the internship pool was larger and more diverse than it had ever been, including students from public policy schools, philosophy majors and practitioners recently out of school as well as law students. More recently, Finkelstein has begun teaching a year-long course funded by the Provost Interdisciplinary Seminar Fund that combines elements of both a traditional law course and an internship. The course is open to both law students and undergraduates. Finkelstein hopes that her work with CERL will add a new element to public discussions on security policy. She believes that ethics and the rule of law are powerful considerations that all government officials need to address when making military decisions, regardless of their ideological or political beliefs. “It is foundational to American society that we value most deeply the fact that we are a nation of laws, not men,” she said. “The concept of the rule of law is a nonpartisan value.”

PennDesign initiative encourages community outreach

PennDesign answers call for social impact work TIFFANY YAU Staff Reporter

On Nov. 30, PennDesign concluded its first successful year of Social Impact Projects, a program organized by PennPraxis to support student proposals with

grants to create a social impact in the Philadelphia community. “It is up to the students to design the projects based on their proposals and the impacts they want to make. If we feel that they are well thought out, feasible and [use] the skills of the design school to work within the community while adding to the knowledge of students, it is within our scope,” Penn Praxis

Marketing Director Julie Donofrio said. Donofrio is responsible for offering the teams guidance on finalizing budget and maintaining relationships with the community partnerships that they make. She shared her opinions on the outcome of the first year of the Social Impact Projects and elaborated on the goal of the program

to create a lasting impact on the community. “The first year was very successful,” she said. “A requirement of the program is capacity building: passing on skills to the community that they will be able to implement for the long term.” While Social Impact Projects was created to benefit the Philadelphia community, it strives to encourage students to push past their boundaries by fostering more cross-disciplinary collaboration among the different studies at PennDesign — architecture, landscape, historic

preservation and fine arts. Synthesizing these different sectors creates a profound social impact. “We encourage students to work across different disciplines and that they reach out to faculty members as advisors, and that they take advantage of the great partnership possibilities that exist in Philadelphia neighborhoods,” PennPraxis Executive Director Randall Mason said. ”[The program] bridges a gap to connect what we learn in the classroom and apply it to the community.”

Donofrio also advocates for more individuals to take part in social impact programs through other schools at Penn. “This is only at the School of Design; there are social impact programs in Wharton, the Med School and other schools across the university,” she said. “It is part of the Penn Compact — Amy Gutmann’s call to the whole University to outreach locally, nationally and globally. That is what we are trying to support [by] not just helping our students, but [also by] acting as the University as a whole.”

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Foreign exchange students praise Penn, flaws and all Almost 200 exchange students were hosted at Penn JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor-elect

As Penn students prepare for final exams and a restful winter break, the several hundred international students who travel to Penn to study abroad are planning to return home. Over the course of the 2014-15 academic year, Penn hosted 192 international students spending a semester or year abroad, according to a Penn News Today article. After reaching out to several students at Penn, I found myself added to a Facebook group chat of more than 30 study abroad students. At first glance, it seemed just like any other large, slightly unwieldy group chat between college students. Previous messages included coordinating study sessions in Van Pelt or Starbucks or asking to borrow a hard drive from someone. They urged each other to go to events or shows they are performing in. Several students cheered for Penn during the championship football game. There was a long string of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Happy Thanksgivingâ&#x20AC;? messages from a few weeks ago. But interspersed with these messages were hints that these students are experiencing Penn a little differently. One student asked for

recommendations of things to do in Boston one weekend. Another asked for prices of buying tickets on Broadway. At one point, a student working on an art project asked the others what reminds them of home. When I asked them how long they were at Penn, I was met with a wave of sad faces from those only at Penn for the semester. Jaclyn Ying, a student from Melbourne, Australia, told me she chose to only stay for a semester because she would not be able to fill all of her requirements to graduate on time if she stayed for a year. In addition, Ying added that her home university would not cover the extra semesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tuition. Lucia Liu from Aachen, Germany told a similar story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I applied for two semesters because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to leave right after getting used to everything, and four months is a really short period of time,â&#x20AC;? she told me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But unfortunately, my school and Penn only let me stay one semester.â&#x20AC;? Overall, students said they were attracted to Penn because of its reputation and location. SooMin Cho from Seoul, South Korea said Penn had one of the best reputations of the schools that offered an exchange program with her home institution. Flora Bahri from Lyon, France added that Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s location in the middle of a city was another appeal.

Chinmay Jadhav, from London, spent the 2014-15 academic year at Penn. He said his attraction to Penn was based more on his fascination with American culture in general. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me personally, I suppose Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been fascinated by the United States from a very early age. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something to do with American cultural hegemony, but I know more about American media, social life and politics than I do about the UK,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After being inundated by American culture for so long, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist the opportunity to expand beyond the idea Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d acquired from the media.â&#x20AC;? Almost all of the students interviewed said that one of their favorite memories of Penn was New Student Orientation. Elton Lee from Melbourne, Australia said NSO was his best experience by far, describing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;thrill of meeting new peopleâ&#x20AC;? and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;awesome weather.â&#x20AC;? Lee added that he even took a trip to Washington, D.C. with some other exchange students. Other students have fond memories of interacting with the students on campus. Alexander Pechtl from Germany said that his best experience at Penn has been the times he spent with his friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the stuff I did with them was really cool. All the people are open and welcoming; they make Penn a lovely place,â&#x20AC;? he said. Jadhav agreed, saying he ThethatNew

was surprised by how welcom- made her schedule a challenge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I ing the student body was. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The learnt to appreciate the amount most unexpected thing was how of free time and freedom I have engaged the student body was in back home. Penn has completely campus life. Penn has a lively, messed up my daily rhythm after thriving campus. Everyone seems only four months,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I super excited about whatever donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how full-time students theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re involved with,â&#x20AC;? he said. can do this for four years.â&#x20AC;? Jadhav added that some of Pechtl agreed, adding that his favorite memories revolved â&#x20AC;&#x153;people here are much more comaround his involvement in extra- petitive than Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m used to, both in curriculars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was involved with positive and negative perspectwo theater productions. One with tives.â&#x20AC;? PenNaatak and another with all Some students said they of TAC-e. The opening nights for struggled to form meaningful relaboth shows were a lot of fun,â&#x20AC;? he tionships with other Penn students. said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very fond of the theater â&#x20AC;&#x153;I expected to make friends community at Penn.â&#x20AC;? with more locals, but it happened Some practical issues made that most of the people I hang out life for exchange students more with are foreign exchange studifficult though. Students ex- dents,â&#x20AC;? Liu said. pressed difficulties with getting Ibanez agreed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really extheir grades transferred back to pected that Americans would be their transcripts at their home in- much more talkative, more acstitutions and dealing with lots of cessible. Back home exchange paperwork. students mix with the rest. Here Marc Ibanez Diaz from Bar- it feels like metaphorically I have celona also said that he was not to put my hand down somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s added to some listservs, which throat to extract some meaningful meant that he did not always re- conversation.â&#x20AC;? ceive University notifications. Bahri said she feels the fact â&#x20AC;&#x153;When [Wharton freshman that she is an exchange student Tommy Tercilla] died last week, separates her from other Penn stuthe rest of my classmates got an dents because of the way she tries email and I did not,â&#x20AC;? he said. to experience the campus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want Almost all the students de- every day to be special and not scribed their classes as rigorous to get caught up in a routine. But and the academic environment as of course, everyone around has a competitive. whole life already settled so we Liu Times said her workload at timesSales have very different perspectives,â&#x20AC;? York Syndication Corporation

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she said. Despite feeling separated from the student body, though, students said Penn has pushed them to have more drive and ambition in their lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m generalizing a lot here, but it feels as if a lot of my friends at home donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a direction or career path in life. Most here do,â&#x20AC;? Lee said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the norm for people to expand their horizons to someplace new.â&#x20AC;? Since returning to London, Jadhav said that Penn has pushed him to make changes in his life at his home university. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed my perspective on my university experience. My time at Penn has made me more determined to make the most of my time at university because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve realized that I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the opportunities I have right now forever,â&#x20AC;? he said. While many of the students at Penn now are getting ready to leave their semesters abroad behind, Jadhav is able to look back at his with some perspective. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a wonderful, academically and personally enriching experience, and I will treasure my memories of my year abroad,â&#x20AC;? he said. Leaving, he said, was simply sad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was summertime. The Penn campus was beautiful, and graduation ceremonies had begun. It was really lovely,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to leave.â&#x20AC;?

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decide to rush every year, which may be a [resulting] factor. I am taking it upon myself to show the benefits of having so many smaller frats on campus that can be a home after freshman year. DP: Along those lines, what are your goals for the upcoming year as president? DM: One of my goals is to be very involved with the press. Becoming much more active in showing the positive aspects of Greek life. Of course, all the philanthropy hours we do but also the fact that the Greek male average GPA is higher than the average male GPA and for females as well. Additionally, I want to improve the organization, the IFC, itself. Eddie [Banks-Crosson] … brought a lot of ideas on how to make the IFC more organized, efficient and just more effective at doing

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encouraged me to run for president and here I am now.” DP: What are the biggest issues you see Greek life facing here at Penn? DM: Part of it is the lack of communication with the media. Because … really the only stories that ever got into the news were about things that reflected the bad things about fraternities. Nine times out of 10, fraternities are not going to be a Phi Psi at the University of Virginia or SAE at the University of Oklahoma. I really want the public to see this can be a beneficial system if you take it seriously and you realize the actual positives behind [it]. Another issue is the dwindling number of students who to

its job. The start of that was we drafted a constitution, implemented a much more structured budget system and of course, we are changing the rush process in order to better accommodate the Panhellenic Council. DP: Pushing back IFC recruitment has created some upset. What is your response to all of this? DM: When you institute change, there are always going to be people who are [upset]. Personal opinions aside, it is better … because we didn’t want to get the sorority members in trouble [for interacting with fraternity members] while they are rushing. Fraternity members didn’t really see the danger in that, but it was just the right thing to do. DP: Will the delay affect the rush experience for male

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App that finds local live shows wins startup contest Students in this journalism class had a variety of ideas CAROLINE HARRIS Staff Reporter

On Tuesday evening, students in Sam Apple’s “Entrepreneurial Journalism” class gathered in the Kelly Writers House to share their visions on the future of journalism. They had spent the semester developing and fine-tuning those visions, creating their own digital journalism startups complete with business plans and ideas on how to engage different audiences. At the event, students presented their ideas to a panel of five distinguished journalists, venture capitalists and internet pioneers. With $7,500 in seed funding on the line, the stakes were high. “I always have some mixed feelings about this event. I am extremely proud of all my students and feel they have all done a really good job this semester. I really enjoyed watching their ideas develop,”

Apple said. “The mixed feeling part is that there can only be one winner, but I think you’ll see this evening that there are many ideas that are worthy of a prize.” Despite the high stakes, the atmosphere in the Writers House was one of friendly competition as the students came together to pitch their ideas. The presentations tackled topics as varied as student finance, news consumption, local politics, music sharing, podcasting and more. Students were particularly interested in digital journalism models created by millennials for millennials. One mobile application sought to be a “Wall Street Journal for millennials.” Another mobile app called Soundcheck, created by College sophomore Nico Carrino, was described as being a Yelp for live music. “The problem for the average, everyday concert-goer is that there is no platform for finding live shows,” Carrino said. His mobile app Soundcheck

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New Penn MERT chief shares her experiences Peifer addressed future MERT improvements JACOB WINICK Staff Reporter

College junior Hannah Peifer, was recently named chief of the Medical Emergency Response Team. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with her to learn about her new position, her interests and her hopes for the future. The Daily Pennsylvanian: Why did you decide to join MERT? Hannah Peifer: I became an EMT my junior year of high school. One of my high school

teachers actually recommended it to me. I fell in love with it and loved being an EMT. I came to visit Penn for the first time during my senior year, after I had already been accepted, and my tour guide happened to be a member of MERT. So that’s how I found out about MERT even before I came to Penn. In the fall, I joined right away and loved the organization. DP: What’s your favorite memory? HP: One of the really cool things we did this past year was sending a bunch of our members to cover the pope’s visit in Center City. Just being there

and being part with them to of the response accomplish was rea lly goa ls. A lso, a m a z i ng. It the chief is in was a oncecharge of reprei n-a-l i fet i me senting MERT, experience. whether that be DP: W hat to our advisors are your reor to the Penn sp on sibi l it ies community. as M ERT DP: Are chief? there a ny HP: The changes you’re chief oversees hoping to see? HANNAH PEIFER our board. We HP: We have have 15 differgrown a lot ent positions, so it’s quite large. recently. We have a lot of new First of all, just working with members. I would like to see the board and collaborating them integrated a little bit more.

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buses students and teachers to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where they receive a tour and participate in workshops. At the end of the museum visit, “Unpacking the Past” gifts a bag of school supplies to the teachers and gives each student a cinch pack filled with a color-changing pencil, a postcard and a voucher for a free, year-long, dual-adult family membership to the museum. According to participating teacher Charlene Jablow, the program provides an invaluable opportunity for students to engage with the materials they are learning about in the classroom. “This brings the learning into real life for them. It makes it a lot more meaningful and impactful,” she said. “In my experience, this is the best program and trip that I’ve ever taken students on.”

Also, we have a lot of unique opportunities this year. Every year we go to the National Collegiate EMS Foundation Conference, and this year it is actually in Philadelphia, so we’ll be more involved in that. DP: Anything else you’d like people to know about MERT? HP: One of the changes we’ve been trying to work on for forever — MERT has been around for almost 10 years — is our image. There was just a guest column in the DP almost calling us the “drunk police.” Maybe they didn’t call us the drunk police, but it alluded to the fact that we only respond to

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around West Philadelphia — Soo’s house on 48th Street, the brewery and Clark Park — and left them out overnight to let the yeast and bacteria floating in the air permeate the wort. Afterwards, Soo brought back the samples to Penn, isolated a particular yeast strain in the lab and grew it into a pure culture. “The idea was to capture spirit of West Philadelphia, the attitude and the mentality in the beer, and this is a fun way to do it,” Certo-Ware said. “It’s a tribute to the area around us.” Soo and Certo-Ware expect the beer brewed with the West Philadelphia yeast to have a pleasantly sour and tart taste. “I brewed a large test batch of beer to get an idea of what the yeast would do. The resulting beer was intensely fruity, with a strong ripe peach and stonefruit ester character, a hint of white pepper phenols, full bodied with soft mouthfeel and a hint of residual sweetness,” Soo said. “It’s a really distinct fermentation profile that’s unlike any other pure

drug and alcohol calls, which is about half of our call volume, but the other half is everything from animal attacks to birds to burns to asthma attacks. We really respond to a whole range of things, and I think just having people understand that would be beneficial. We don’t want to be perceived as the drunk police. We want students to feel comfortable calling us. One of the best things about MERT is that we are completely students, with a unique interest in being woken up at 5 in the morning for a call. This Q&A has been edited for clarity and length.

strain of yeast I’ve encountered.” Soo said while he’s only been collaborating with the Dock Street crew for about a year now, his love for the brewery goes way back. Soo became a regular customer after moving into the neighborhood, and became acquainted with the Dock Street crew when he won a homebrewing contest at the brewery about four years ago. Besides the West Philadelphia beer, Soo also recently worked with Dock Street to make a spicy rye-based saison aged in an old bourbon barrel with sour cherries and orange peel. While not available to customers just yet, Soo says it is already one of his favorite beers. “Dock Street beers are products that the people behind the brewery love and care about. They do these weird projects like this wild yeast program because they genuinely care about making interesting beers that they are proud to share,” Soo said. “It’s not just a business to them and that’s why I love going and working with them on all kinds of projects.”

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Vet School fixes fractures This gives animals a chance instead of euthanasia SUN JAE LEE Staff Reporter

For a shelter animal, a broken limb can mean the loss of a life. “Saving Lives by Saving Limbs” is a pilot program at the School of Veterinary Medicine in which surgeons and students repair the fractured limbs of homeless shelter animals. This program is not only a philanthropic endeavor that provides treatment for animals that otherwise may have to face amputation or euthanasia, but is also a learning opportunity for residents, interns and students. David Holt, the founder of the program and a surgeon at the Vet School, explained that injured shelter animals are often put to sleep because shelters lack the resources needed to repair fractures, and people often do not adopt animals with fractured limbs. Saving Lives by Saving Limbs aims to provide free treatment for these fractures so that these homeless dogs and cats can receive necessary care and be adopted. “We were lucky enough to receive a grant from both the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association and the KISLAK Family Foundation that will subsidize the costs of fractures in these animals,” Holt said. “We’ve also

been very lucky in that DePuy Synthes, which is a human and veterinary orthopedic implant company, has agreed to provide the vast majority of the implants at no cost to the program.” This program is also a learning experience for residents, interns and students in treating fractures in dogs and cats. Because fractures are often treated only in emergency procedures and surgery is very expensive, residents and students rarely receive such opportunities. However, through this program, they too have been able to participate in fracture surgery. “[This program] is an opportunity for me to grow professionally in a skill,” said Heidi McDevitt, a third-year surgery resident at the Vet School. “[It] not only enables me to get experience, but all of us love animals, and to be able to actually fix and restore normal limbs to a patient is very rewarding.” To find shelter animals eligible for treatment, letters about the program are sent out to shelters in Philadelphia. “We help shelters understand how they can take advantage of these programs to get care for the animal,” said Brittany Watson, director of Shelter Medicine and Community Engagement. “We’re able to ... connect things that our amazing physicians are doing at the University to the real life

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DNC to take Philly The Democratic National Committee announced that Philadelphia will host the 2016 Democratic National Convention on July 25, 2016. Philadelphia beat out the two other finalists, Columbus, Ohio and Brooklyn, N.Y., to host the weeklong convention that will formally nominate the Democratic nominee for president.

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Mental health advances Penn’s administration released the Report of the Task Force on Psychological Health and Welfare, which made a number of recommendations aimed to create cultural change among students, of which some were enacted. Following the report’s release, students criticized the administration’s response, saying it lacked firm deadlines and did not specify how or why Penn’s culture was different from that of other schools.

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Fossil fuel feud Student group Fossil Free Penn sponsored the University’s first ever undergraduate referendum last spring. One-third of Penn undergraduates casted votes — more than the number that voted on campus during the midterm election — and 87.8 percent supported divesting from fossil fuels. Last week the University Council, a board made up of student representatives and administrators, considered the proposal and decided it merited further consideration. Two more committees must approve the proposal before it reaches the executive committee of the Board of Trustees, which has the ultimate power to divest.

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Greek life off-campus Penn’s chapter of Alpha Chi Omega moved off campus and re-branded itself as “OAX” after more than 85 percent of the sorority’s members voted not to sign a formal agreement with the University, whose sanctions included abstaining from social events for two years and electing a new board. Similarly, Pi Kappa Phi moved off campus and re-branded as “Phi” after disaffiliating with OFSL and its national chapter over the summer. The fraternity broke with Penn after a disciplinary battle that began when it was suspended after a hazing allegation last fall.

2015 in review Protests became a hallmark feature of Penn’s campus this year. In mid-April, students gathered on Locust Walk to protest the closing of the Africa Center. Also in April, the group Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation organized a mock slave auction outside the Phi Delta Theta fraternity in response to a holiday card the fraternity had published including a black blow up sex doll. In November, students marched through campus to stand in solidarity with protests occurring at Yale University and the University of Missouri fighting for increased racial sensitivity on college campuses. Students on Penn’s campus joined the protests with a sit-in on Market street and delivered demands for the administration outside Amy Gutmann’s house.

Activists mobilize APRIL 13

The Association of American Universities released the results of the Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Assault. The survey, the largest on college campus sexual violence to date, was administered in April. According to the survey, nearly a third of Penn women have experienced nonconsensual touching or penetration. In an email to Penn students, President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price called the findings “deeply troubling.”

Sexual climate survey SEPTEMBER 21

In an occurence reminiscent of somewhere between a carnival, rock concert and postapocalyptic movie, Pope Francis descended upon Philadelphia for two days in late September to cap off the weeklong World Meeting of Families. The leader of 1.2 billion Catholics spoke at various sites and talked about religious toleration and the importance of family bonds. He attracted crowds in the hundreds of thousands, virtually shutting down the city's main thoroughfares for the weekend.

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In October, the Penn campus was put on high alert when the Division of Public Safety warned of a violent threat made to an unspecified university near Philadelphia. The anonymous threat, which was originally posted on the social media website 4chan.org, warned that a “fellow robot would take up arms against a university near Philadelphia.” The post was made less than a week after a shooter killed 10 people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. Penn did not officially cancel classes, but some professors chose to do so due to low attendance. No violence in connection to the threat was ever reported.

Threat shakes campus OCTOBER 5

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1: Basketball

2: Track and Field

3: Field Hockey

4: Football

5: Squash

6: Cross Country

At this time last year, there was one central narrative within Penn Athletics: the fate of Jerome Allen. The Quaker coach — a former Penn standout and two-time Ivy Player of the Year — was on the hot seat. As the Red and Blue sputtered to a last-place ﬁnish, Allen was shown the door during the season’s ﬁnal weekend.

At the 2015 NCAA Championships at Oregon’s esteemed Hayward Field, Sam Mattis became the eighth NCAA champion in the history of Penn track and field in discus. On his fifth and final attempt, he unleashed a throw of 205 feet to sail ahead of the competition and secure first place, becoming the first Ivy League athlete in 66 years to capture the discus title.

It would be an understatement to say that ﬁeld hockey’s sophomore sensation Alexa Hoover had an amazing 2015 season. Her 27 goals and 63 points on the year shattered previous records and she is now just two goals and four points away from being the program’s all-time leading goal- and point-scorer.

Coming into 2015, the prospects for Penn football seemed dim. The Red and Blue had skidded to a 2-8 record in 2014, had lost key ﬁgures on both sides of the ball and were under the leadership of a new head coach.

Pretty damn perfect. In the 2014-15 season, the women’s squash team ﬁnished its Ivy slate without a single blemish on its record: 7-0. Thanks to its mid-season 5-4 upset over reigning Ancient Eight champions Harvard, the Quakers were able to clinch the program’s ﬁrst Ivy title since 2008.

Catch him if you can. Senior Tom Awad had a dominant 2015 in both the track and cross country seasons. In the spring, Awad was named the Mid-Atlantic Track Athlete of the Year after dominating the Ivy League and qualifying for the NCAA championships in the outdoor 5K.

Steve Donahue, a former assistant at Penn under Fran Dunphy, was selected as Allen’s successor. Largely viewed as the safe choice in a diverse ﬁeld of candidates, Donahue immediately set to work installing a new offensive system and team culture. And so far, things have been gone well for the ﬁrst-year coach; although they’ve dropped their last three contests, the Quakers lept out to a 4-1 start to the season and picked up a key Big 5 victory over La Salle.

With the championship-winning effort, the three-time Heps champion broke his own school record and improved upon his ﬁfth-place ﬁnish at NCAA’s in 2014. Besides his dominant performance on the track in 2015, Mattis also excelled in the classroom. During the 2014-15 academic year, he was named Outdoor Male Field Scholar Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA.

Heading into her junior season, Hoover will not have the same support that she had this season: Of the team’s 47 assists, 19 were off the sticks of outgoing seniors, leaving plenty of space to ﬁll on offense. Nonetheless, with her incredible work ethic, deceptive game speed, and expert ball skills, Hoover is capable of more in 2016, which could just be enough to ﬁnally pry the Ancient Eight championship from Princeton.

After beating Villanova for the ﬁrst time since 1911, the Quakers went on to win their last six Ivy League games to split the Ancient Eight crown.

Although the elation of earning an Ivy ring was sweet, it would not last. Penn’s momentum spurted to a stop at CSA Team National Championships during the Quakers’ quest for the Howe Cup. Penn entered the tournament with a No. 2 seed, sweeping Columbia, 9-0, in the first round before falling to No. 3 Trinity, 5-4, in the semifinals. The Quakers went on to face Princeton in the consolation match, narrowly losing to the Tigers, 5-4, to finish the 2014-15 campaign at fourth in the nation.

Leading the effort for the Red and Blue were Ray Priore — the ﬁrst rookie coach to win an Ivy title since 1986 and winner of the Ivy League Coach of the Year award — and senior Tyler Drake. The linebacker was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, having led the league in sacks, tackles for loss and forced fumbles.

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This fall, Awad continued to excel, winning Heps for the second year in a row. His performance at Heps carried the Quakers to a second-place team finish and a team berth at NCAA championships — the program’s first in over 40 years. For his efforts at NCAA’s, Awad earned All-American honors. The senior, one of the most accomplished runners in program history, will look to finish his Penn career with a bang in the spring of 2016.

November 21: Senior Tom Awad earns All-American honors while leading cross country to a 24th-place finish

June 12: Then-junior Sam Mattis wins NCAA championship in discus March 26-28: Chris Swanson earns honorable mention All-American honors at the NCAA Championships after winning Ancient Eight titles in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650-yard freestyles

May 2: Baseball loses one-game playoff for Gehrig Division title to Columbia for second straight year

March 7: Just prior to basketball’s final weekend of the season, coach Jerome Allen’s departure from the program is announced, ending the former Penn star’s near-six-year tenure at the helm of his alma mater February 8: Women’s squash concludes its run at the CSA’s Howe Cup, falling narrowly to Princeton, 5-4, in the consolation match and securing fourth place

February 25: Gymnastics wins its first Ivy Classic title since 2012, edging Brown by 0.300

October 10: Sophomore Alexa Hoover breaks Penn’s single-season goals record in field hockey

April 27: Men’s golf goes from worst to first and wins Ivy title

March 16: Penn Athletics announces the hiring of former Red and Blue assistant Steve Donahue to replace the departed Allen

May 2: Making the Ivy League Championship Series for the fourth straight year, softball falls in three games to Dartmouth

November 24: With a win over Cornell, football clinches its 17th Ivy title in Ray Priore’s first year at the helm

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teams more active. Whether it be by attending what we call Quaker Days, for which every team can fill out a game or competition where they want the entire athletic department to come, or through a community service event, or [through our] academic component.” The athletic community is a tightly knit one, but the time-intensive nature of Division I athletics can cause athletes to feel isolated, with little time to find social niches away from their teammates and fellow athletes. Fostering the bond between student-athletes and their not-so-athletic fellow students is a main priority for the SAAC. “One of our big goals is to reach

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While the Owls’ record may seem subpar, it is also misleading. Three of the team’s four losses came to then-No. 1 North Carolina, then-No. 22 Butler

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out to the Penn community on a larger scale, and get their involvement,” Hiller said. But it is the student-athletes, not the administrators, who must turn these plans and goals into actions and accomplishments. “It really is a student-athlete organization. I just help tie that communication together,” Hiller said. “We dive into the issues that are brought up. We have a high focus on connecting the rest of campus with the athletic community,” said football senior and SAAC student president Cameron Countryman. “I think it’s really important for the rest of the community at Penn to realize what we do as athletes,” Countryman said of his efforts to get more Penn students cheering the hard-working athletes on from the stands.

“It’s really not a job for everyone. We have full schedules and on top of that there are practices and games, we’re traveling ... I respect every single athlete on campus, because I know how tough it is. And as a board member I feel like it’s my job to bring together that athletic community with the student body.” What are some ways to make progress on this front? Countryman offers an example of a potential initiative: “Getting fraternities and sororities more involved with supporting our teams, and then supporting each other between their philanthropy events and our fundraisers. That’s one thing we’re looking to do.” Hiller admires the energy put in by Countryman and the other 58 student-athlete representatives. “It’s time-demanding. It’s

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and then-No. 16 Utah, as well as a loss on the road to Wisconsin. Temple is led by senior Quenton DeCosey, a 6-foot-5 guard averaging 13.7 points and nearly six rebounds per game.

The Owls also feature senior forward Jaylen Bond and senior guard Devin Coleman, both of whom are scoring over 10 points per contest thus far in 2015-16. Although Penn will be tasked with containing Temple’s three scorers, in order for the Red and Blue to snap their losing skid on Wednesday, they will need to rediscover its efficient offense from earlier in the year, one that managed to score at a prolific rate. “I think we’ve gotten away from playing our offense the way it can be played,” coach Steve Donahue said. “Teams have made adjustments to us and they’re not chasing us around as much. We need to do

a better job of moving the ball, moving our bodies, sharing the ball and making better decisions. “Somehow we have to do a better job about playing fast and executing, which we haven’t done in the last two games.” Following t he Qua kers’ matchup with the Owls, they will have 10 days off before taking on Division III Ursinus, Donahue’s alma mater, at the Palestra. Within the subsequent week, Penn will take on two local foes: Drexel in a battle of 33rd street and Villanova in a Big 5 affair. “After [the Temple game], it’s a good chance to take a step back and see where you are,”

Donahue said. “I think that’s a great time for us in the Ivies because we get a little more time where we’re not on the road, we play some local squads, look for progress, work harder in practice. Then we can see growth in the team each game so by the time we play Princeton we know who we are. “I think it’s more of a positive thing,” Howard added. “It lets a bunch of the guys to fully learn what we need to do to get wins on a regular basis. Once the calendar flips to January, the Quakers will then take on Binghamton in their penultimate non-conference game of the year. And while most Penn students will not be back on campus when the squad

opens Ivy League play on Jan. 9, the two winningest programs in Ancient Eight history always have competitive battles. “The Princeton game is hard to describe,” Howard said. “It’s the beginning of the Ivy League season, it’s always such an important game, it’s a mustwin and we need to get off to a good start. We’re grateful to play that game every year.” Though the Red and Blue have a month-long stretch of games before returning to classes in January, it all begins with their matchup with Temple on Wednesday. And if the Quakers can snap their losing skid, they may very well be set up for more encores as 2015 comes to a close.

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On Franklin Field, senior Cam Countryman is one of the top wide receivers for the Red and Blue. Behind the scenes, for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Countryman serves as president.

Self-nominations from the University community are being sought for individuals to serve on an Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment University policy provides that an Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment be established when a proposal to divest from the Penn endowment has been received by the Steering Committee of University Council, and found to be sufficiently substantive for further review. This Committee will consider whether a proposal submitted by Fossil Free Penn in October, 2015, asking the University to divest from fossil fuel holdings, meets the high standards of the Trustee guidelines for divestment. (please see http://www.upenn. edu/secretary/DivestmentGuidelinesandProceedures.pdf). Penn’s Trustees have sole responsibility for making investment decisions for the University. Committee members must be able and willing to conduct a careful analysis of all sides of the issue, remain impartial, and reach a decision only after completion of deliberations on the proposal. Committee members must be prepared to attend and participate in meetings for up to 12 months, beginning March 2016. The Committee will be expected to submit its report, in writing, to the Trustees. Faculty, students, staff, and alumni may submit self-nominations for membership consideration. Please see http://www.upenn.edu/secretary/divestment.html for more information on the Committee and to access the nomination form. Only self-nominations submitted via the online nomination form will be accepted. If you wish to be nominated as a representative of your constituency, please contact the Faculty Senate, Undergraduate Assembly or Graduate and Professional Student Assembly leadership directly.

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Penn basketball looks to rebound from a series of hard losses, and senior Darien Nelson-Henry will be key to the Quakers’ resurgence.

The deadline for submission of nominations is January 22, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. The Chair of the Trustees will make the final determination on Committee membership, which will be comprised of 16 voting members. The Chair will also name the Committee’s chair. The Committee membership will be announced on February 26, 2016. The Office of the University Secretary will provide administrative support to the Committee. If you have any questions, please email adhoccom@exchange.upenn.edu.

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in uncharted territory. With back-to-back wins over top-five teams from Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squash along with another perfect start to the season on the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, associate head coach Gilly Lane finds himself as a leader of one of the most successful teams in program history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really sunk in yet,â&#x20AC;? Lane said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if there has been a weekend like this ever in college squash, and we feel very fortunate to lead both squads.â&#x20AC;? Facing a month-long hiatus before resuming play, both teams will try to hold onto the

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magic that propelled them to this torrid start. On the heels of a banner weekend at Ringe Courts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where the men felled

Nos. 3 and 4 St. Lawrence and Rochester last weekend â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Quakers find themselves in a position theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never truly seen

peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s priorities.â&#x20AC;? After this game, the majority of the Penn student body will be at home curling up into Snuggies and watching holiday movies, but the team will be approaching a

flurry of important games. Only a couple days after facing Drexel, the squad will host Wagner on the 21st. The game against the Seahawks (1-5) should, by all accounts, be a

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similarly begun their Ivy title defense with a perfect record. The second-ranked womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad has avoided falling prey to the upsets that have plagued college squash this year. However, on Jan. 9 they will try to create their own chaos by beating Harvard, the defending national champions, for the second consecutive year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the matchup in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squash everyone is looking forward to,â&#x20AC;? Lane added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is probably the most competitive and most talented womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squash match top-to-bottom in history.â&#x20AC;? Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5-4 thriller over the Crimson in Philadelphia ended with the team rushing the court to celebrate with t hen-sophomor e M ichel le Wong, who capped off the match for the Red and Blue. In what amounts to a de facto Ivy

League championship game, the Quakers will try to replicate the madness and keep the Ivy trophy in the 215 for another year. For both the men and women, the Collegiate Squash Association rankings have been in shambles since the first preseason poll, as a slew of upsets have turned college squash upside down. Parity has reigned supreme as the dominance enjoyed perennial favorites in previous years has eroded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You never used to see this,â&#x20AC;? Lane said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great time to be a college squash player because it puts every team on notice.â&#x20AC;? The Ivy League has been put on alert. Penn squash has established itself as a national power on both sides, and if the recent upsets are harbingers of things to come, the trophy case at Ringe just might have to make way for some more hardware.

cakewalk. But after that warmup game against Wagner, the Quakers will embark on the trip of a lifetime. The team will flee the frozen fields of Philly after Christmas and take haven in the heat of Honolulu, Hawaii, for the week. They will encounter two opponents. On New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve, Penn will face BYU-Hawaii. A few days later, the team will go head to head with Hawaii. While the two games in the Pacific are important for the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s momentum heading into second semester, coach McLaughlin sees many other aspects of the trip worth noting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tremendous learning experience for them and a great

environment,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too often that anyone gets the chance to travel across the country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In some way we can develop as a program. The players will look back on their careers at Penn and value what the athletic department has done for them to help them have a great experience.â&#x20AC;? After Red and Blue return to campus, they will face undoubtedly their biggest test yet. Just a few days before the second semester begins, Penn will tip off Ivy League play at home against archrival Princeton. If the team wants to win the Ivy League this season, it will have to start strong by beating its biggest and only contender in the Tigers

(7-1). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really solid, as they always are,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said of Princeton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In order for us to have the chance to beat them, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to be able to score with them.â&#x20AC;? For the next month, though, the Quakers will seek to build up momentum for this monumental clash. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over the next month, hopefully weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll improve,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have our work cut out for us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be a great home game, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at the Palestra, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that the coaches have already started working on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a ways away, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot growth this team should have by then.â&#x20AC;?

playing career, many of which he has carried with him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I experienced the highs and the lows of college basketball,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But through it all, I just loved my experience there, which probably had a lot to do with me getting into coaching. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be surprised by the number of coaches who come from lower levels. ... I think you start looking at the game differently when you know physically, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t compete.â&#x20AC;? As a result of these fond memories, Donahue would keep his alma mater fully in mind throughout his coaching career. And when he finally got a chance to lead a program with Cornell after years of working up through the ranks of the Penn coaching staff, he took used opportunity to face off against his old squad. Now, heading into the end of the fall semester and the beginning of winter break, Donahue finds himself having to navigate a delicate part of the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; schedule. Final exams are a week away,

and the first-year coach is well aware that his players will be, to a certain extent, preoccupied with studying and academics. He views the situation as a perfect opportunity to justify inviting his alma mater to the Cathedral of College Basketball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You kinda wanna play a home game,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And hopefully itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opponent where you feel like you have a good chance of winning. So that was the non-Division I reasoning coming out of finals.â&#x20AC;? On paper, the matchup is laughable â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a legitimate D-I program that has shown some signs of potential in the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early stages against a D-III that has struggled mightily, already 0-3 in its conference. However, for Donahue, the matchupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotional implications make it anything but laughable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of my ex-teammates will be here. My old coach,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I could give someone an opportunity in Division III [to play at the Palestra], it would be Ursinus.â&#x20AC;?

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themselves before: the team to beat in the Ancient Eight. Dartmouth, a team that pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the season with their win over Harvard, await the Red and Blue along with the Crimson after the break and will be aiming to spoil Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quest for perfection. The updated rankings havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been released yet, but the Red and Blue will likely be ranked higher than both of their opening Ivy opponents for the first time ever. However, Lane is hesitant to jump into the spotlight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we still have the mentality of the underdog,â&#x20AC;? the 2007 Penn grad said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been top dog in the Ivy League before.â&#x20AC;? If the men want to sustain their early season success, they would be wise to look to their female counterparts, who have

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"[They] gave me an opportunity to play at a school that took athletics seriously, even though it was at a smaller level,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. In fact, his time with Ursinus earned him his first chance to take shots on the hardwood whose sidelines he now walks leading the Red and Blue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was a player with Ursinus, we practiced here on a bus trip down to Virginia,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I remember thinking how cool it was just to practice in the Palestra.â&#x20AC;? Of course, Donahue isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only member of the Penn coaching staff to have played past high school. And although he claims that his game has aged well, he is the first to admit that his playing career never had a chance to advance as far as that of assistant coach Ira Bowman, who made it as far as the NBA after a stellar playing career as a guard for the Red and Blue. Nonetheless, Donahue is also quick to point out the valuable lessons he learned during his

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To the victor goes the spoils. Fresh off leading Penn football to an Ivy League title, senior linebacker Tyler Drake was awarded the Bushnell Cup as the Ancient Eight’s Defensive Player of the Year Monday. In a ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Drake beat out fellow finalist and Dartmouth senior linebacker Will McNamara for the honor. “He’s a tireless worker. He’s a tremendous athlete,” Penn head coach Ray Priore said of his graduating star. “It’s been really great to see him develop.” Drake finished atop the conference leaderboards in myriad

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With both teams still undefeated, Penn squash looks to maintain momentum going into break

A look back at the biggest moments in Penn Athletics throughout 2015

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2015

SAAC gives voice to Penn student-athletes 58 representatives serve Penn’s 31 teams TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor-elect

Benjamin Franklin’s noble cause lives on in a group of Quakers who work to ensure that there is no perspiration without

representation. Composed of 59-student athletes representing each of the school’s 31 varsity teams, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is dedicated to ensuring that student-athletes have a voice within the athletic department. Each coach is asked to nominate one or two of their players to serve as the team’s SAAC

representative. Once selected, the athletes serve as liaisons between their teammates and administrators. “We meet twice a month, which is our main time for the student athletes to bring [forward] issues, concerns, likes, dislikes,” said Rachel Hiller, director of compliance for Penn Athletics and an overseer of the SAAC program.

“There’s also time for me to give our student athletes NCAA legislative updates or athletic department updates, things like that.” Between meetings, the representatives and administrators are in constant contact through email. “The main goal is to serve as a vehicle promoting communication between the administration and our student athletes,” Hiller said.

“What’s great about SAAC is that because every sport is represented, it’s an open forum, everyone has a voice, everyone has an opportunity to lead and to have an active role in it. “We also do a lot of community service. This year we’ve been doing a great job so far on focusing how we can serve the greater Philadelphia area.”

One initiative of SAAC is to develop supportive relationships between athletes across all sports. “We’re trying to [encourage] bonding amongst all our teams, and a great program we have right now is called the Quaker Cup,” Hiller said. “It’s basically an incentive program to get all of our SEE SAAC PAGE 18

RUNNING THE BREAK M. HOOPS | Quakers prepare

for six games over break RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

Time for an encore. In its first Big 5 game of the season against La Salle, Penn basketball snapped out of a funk to capture its biggest win in several years. Now, as they start a six-game, month-long winter break slate, the Quakers hope they can repeat those Thanksgiving heroics when they face Temple on Wednesday. In their last outing, the Red and Blue (4-4) never led, falling behind by double digits early before suffering a 63-44 loss on the road at the hands of George Mason. While senior center Darien Nelson-Henry scored in double figures for the eighth time in as many games this year, Penn, as a team, managed to hit only six shots in the first half while finishing the game 5-for-20 from three. Now, following a tough stretch in which they played three games in six days, the Quakers hope to bounce back against the Owls (3-4) before taking advantage of a 10-day layoff as their players prepare for finals. “I think, especially after this Temple game, a break is going to be valuable for us,” junior Matt Howard said. “We need to keep learning how to play within this system.” SEE M. HOOPS PREVIEW PAGE

M. HOOPS | Penn faces

Saturday, Dec. 19

Ursinus (1-4, 0-3 Centennial)

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Penn basketball has a busy schedule slated for this winter break, with five games in total. But if you’re reading the team’s upcoming schedule, you may need to do a double-take at one matchup in particular.

The Palestra

That’s because on the Saturday after finals, the Red and Blue are set to take on ... Ursinus? Yes, on Dec. 19, the Division I Quakers (4-4) will host the D-III Bears (1-4) at the historic Palestra,

a matchup that may not seem all that logical at first glance. But this iteration of the Penn program has more history with its upcoming foe than one might think at first glance. That’s because, between 1980 and 1984, Penn head coach Steve Donahue attended and played basketball for Ursinus, advancing as far as the D-III Final Four with the Bears. SEE URSINUS PAGE 18 PHOTO BY ALEX FISHER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Quakers fall in first Big 5 game against Saint Joseph’s W. HOOPS | Last-minute

lay-up snaps win streak WILL SNOW Sports Reporter Saturday, Dec. 19

Drexel (3-4) 12 p.m.

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Penn women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin will have to wait a little bit longer to record his 500th career win. McLaughlin became the fastest coach in NCAA history to reach 400 wins before coming to Penn. SEND STORY IDEAS TO DPSPORTS@THEDP.COM

Huge milestones do not come easily. Following a devastating loss to Saint Joseph’s last night, Penn women’s basketball is looking forward to a strong winter surge in preparation for a monumental game in January. After a very tight game, the

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Quakers (5-2) had their five game win streak snapped when the Hawks hit a go-ahead basket in the final minute and won the game 50-46. “We came up a little short,” head coach Mike McLaughlin said. “It was really a heartbreaking loss.” It was heartbreaking, as McLaughlin described it, for several reasons. One reason that certainly must have been hanging in the coach’s mind was that it would have been his 500th career win. The other milestone that slipped out reach last night was what would have been the best start to a season in the program’s history. While the Quakers will have to

wait until next season for another chance at smashing that record, McLaughlin will be pleased he has another go at the 500-win mark in just ten days against a local rival. The Red and Blue’s next matchup is against next-door neighbor Drexel. This game will take place in the Palestra the day after finals end. Spirits will be high in anticipation of a milestone victory against the struggling Dragons (3-4), but McLaughlin is wary of a banana peel and does not want his team to slip. “We’re going into finals,” McLaughlin said. “We’ll practice and stay sharp, but the players SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 18 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640