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Career Services devotes resources to veterans after petition Career Services created a website with links to job databases for veterans YUEQI YANG Senior Writer

Career Services launched a new webpage devoted to veteran students two weeks ago, a day after The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on veteran students’ petition for more resources.

“They launched a website in such a rapid manner,” said Wharton senior Timothy Kolb, the president of the Penn Student Veteran Association. “I commend them for that.”

“But at the same time, I see it’s a small step and a lot more work [needs] to be done,” Kolb added.

The webpage includes over 30 links to sites such as job databases and network pages for veterans. Information about career fairs specifically for veterans will also be posted on the website.

The petition, which had 414 signatures as of Tuesday, called on the University to establish a resource center for veteran students at Penn. The DP article noted that while Career Services had resource pages for other minority communities, there were no resources devoted to veterans.

“When I saw in the article we didn’t have a customized site for veterans, it seemed like a good idea, because we have a lot of resources already on the website and it is easy to just pull them all together,” Career Services Director Pat Rose said.

Career Services will not set up a specialized staff for veteran students, but the students will be served by the advisors for their respective schools.

“The staff can focus on the needs of their school or their group,” Rose said.

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“When I first was here I would get comments on my teaching like ‘Do you want to go on a date?’ or ‘You should grow your hair long’ or ‘I don’t like your outfits.’ It’s not relevant to the way I teach, but those are types of personal comments [I got],” recalled professor Susan Davidson of her early days on Penn’s faculty.

Davidson, a Weiss professor in the Computer and Information Science department of the Engineering School, laments that being a minority — a female faculty member among mostly males — has added obstacles to her academic career. “If you’re aggressive as a women you’re seen as nasty, [and] it is hard to be in control of a class and not be perceived as being aggressive,” Davidson said. She is one of the few women on the Engineering School’s faculty, which is

Does the Penn Bubble keep students a little too safe?

JESSICA MCDOWELL Staff Writer

Last year, Penn Police made only 29 arrests for the illegal consumption of alcohol within the Penn Patrol Zone. The year before, they made two. But in a 34th Street Magazine survey last spring, more than 40 percent of respondents said they consume more than 10 drinks in an average weekend.

Much less than 40 percent of Penn’s undergraduate population is of legal drinking age.

So how does everyone manage to fly under the radar? *** Penn seems to want to shield its students from legal repercussions for illegal drinking and drug use.

Penn State had 805 alcoholrelated arrests on campus in 2013 — around 2 percent of its undergraduate population.

Michigan State University and West Virginia University, also large public schools similar to Penn State, reported alcoholrelated arrests for a similar percentage of their undergraduate populations.

The 29 arrests at Penn in 2013 represent just 0.3 percent of total undergraduates, though the arrests may not all have been Penn students.

“We aren’t looking to see how many students we can arrest,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

“Our police are so cuddly with the students — municipal police would never have that kind of patience. They’re just really good people who would do anything to make sure students don’t get arrested or cited,” she said, noting that students are often grateful for the Division of Public Safety.

“DPS tends to de-emphasize the need for things like citations. They recognize that we’re all students, so they tend to be more lenient, which we appreciate,” Aaron, a College junior and active member of a fraternity, said. Aaron spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized by his fraternity.

While he acknowledged the fact that DPS does occasionally shut down fraternity parties, Aaron also said that frats would rather deal with them than potentially less-forgiving officers. “A DPS officer standing on the porch asking you to shut down your party is OK,” he said. “A [Pennsylvania Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement] officer standing on your porch saying, ‘We’re going to have to take you down to the station’ is not.”

OFSL or the Office of Student Conduct often step in to act as an intermediary between fraternities and the general

University administration in the case of a violation of either Penn’s student conduct or the organization’s national chapter constraints, according to Aaron. “Generally, they recognize that there are things that shouldn’t be bad enough to affect a student’s future,” he said.

Since 1999, Penn has had a medical amnesty policy in place that states: “No student seeking medical treatment for an alcohol or other drug-related overdose will be subject to University discipline for the sole violation of using or possessing alcohol or drugs. This policy shall extend to another student seeking help for the intoxicated student.”

Perhaps the most widelyknown example of the medical amnesty policy is Penn’s student-run Medical Emergency Response Team.

College senior and Chief of MERT Grace Kunas wholeheartedly supports the policy.

“I think it’s absolutely essential to have on a college campus. If it weren’t in place, people might not call if there was a true emergency,” she said.

“The fact that it’s here means that getting in trouble is never a concern and that the main focus is the safety and health of the student.”

But Penn’s policies go beyond just medical amnesty in the event of an emergency. For those students living in University housing, punishments for underage possession of alcohol or drugs is often kept within the University.

While RAs and GAs are given training prior to the academic year on how to handle underage drinking, each College House’s policies are flexible and lenient.

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Jake’s Sandwich Board opens today CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor-Elect

Sandwiches, shakes and fries are now available on 40th Street.

Today is the grand opening of Jake’s Sandwich Board on 40th and Sansom streets. The eatery, featured on BuzzFeed’s list of 11 Wonderful Sandwiches in Philadelphia, will be giving away free nine ounce Sriracha bottles to the first 500 college students to enter with valid ID. University City is now home to Jake’s “3 for All”

Deal, when sandwiches cost $3 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on the third day of each month.

Jake’s slow-roasted sandwiches are neighbors to Hai Street Kitchen, Zesto Pizza & Grill and Dunkin’ Donuts.

Hours will be 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. This is the restaurant’s second location, with the original on 12th and Sansom streets.

“We’re excited to come out there and are looking forward to meeting a lot of new people once we open the doors,” Gary Dorfman, co-owner of Jake’s told The Daily Pennsylvanian earlier

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A report from Penn researchers found that the School District of Philadelphia is in fact doing more with less, but that districts across the state still would need $3.55 billion more to achieve academic proficiency.

The Consortium for Policy Research in Education released a policy brief last week summarizing the findings of Graduate School of Education professors Matthew Steinberg and Rand Quinn in a working paper titled “An Urban Myth?

New Evidence on Equity, Adequacy, and the Efficiency

of Educational Resources in Pennsylvania,” which was published in February.

By looking at “adequacy gaps” — the differences between per-student spending in each district and the estimated amount of spending needed to help the students of that district meet academic standards in 2009-10 — across the state, the researchers found that Philadelphia schools performed better than peer districts with similar poverty levels and academic performance.

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Man sues Penn for alleged vet hospital negligence after his dog dies Bruce Barshay sued Penn for $6,500 on Nov. 17 JOE LI Staff Writer

Bruce E. Barshay is upset that he can only sue Penn for $6,500, after his dog died from what he claims was improper treatment by doctors from the School of Veterinary Medicine.

“Any financial and reputational damage I can do, I will do to them,” Barshay said in an interview. “If this were to be about a human, I would ask for $10 million. But because this is about a dog, that is all I can ask for.”

According to the complaint Barshay filed on Nov. 17, he is seeking damages for ethical and medical negligence on the part of Penn’s Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospi-

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tal for contributing to the premature death of his dog. The $6,500 Barshay is asking for from Penn would compensate him for the veterinary bills related to the treatment of his dog, Harley.

Barshay, who is representing himself, said he chose not to hire a lawyer because the cost of hiring one would far outweigh the damages he could get. A University spokesman declined to comment on the case, citing Penn’s policy not to comment on ongoing litigation.

In August 2013, Barshay brought his dog Harley to a local veterinarian because Harley had trouble defecating, according to the complaint. The local veterinarian wasn’t sure why Harley was having problems and referred Barshay to Penn Vet, Barshay said over the phone.

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could have been tumors, according to the complaint. But the hospital’s doctor said the results of tests on Harley pointed to a different condition: perianal fistula disease, an infection of the dog’s anal region.

Barshay followed the doctor’s recommendation to give Harley prescribed medications — one of which was Prednisone, an anti-inflammatory also used to treat dogs with cancer — before having Harley receive a biopsy, and his health improved in four days, according to the complaint.

COURTESY OF BRUCE BARSHAY Barshay was advised to bring Harley back for a check-up after two weeks, Bruce Barshay’s dog, who he but he did not do so. Instead, after claimed died from improper a few weeks, Barshay had his dog treatment by School of treated at the hospital’s dermatology Veterinary Medicine doctors, is department, at the recommendation pictured here. of Harley’s first Penn Vet doctor.

In his complaint, Barshay claimed medical negligence, since there was that deciding to transfer Harley’s no follow-up to Harley’s first examicare from the oncology department nation. to the dermatology department was The veterinarian from the dermatology department advised Barshay to switch medications, putting Harley on a new drug for his skin disease while taking him off the old one. Barshay felt reassured because he was told the new drug had minimal side effects. Yet Harley’s health condition deteriorated after the new drug was taken, according to the complaint.

One morning, Barshay found Harley’s leg extremely swollen. Barshay’s local veterinarian said it might be cancer, and Barshay brought the dog for emergency treatment at Ryan Hospital. He was told that Harley had minimal chance of surviving even after amputation, which was the most realistic treatment at the time. Barshay was also told that Harley was not a good candidate for amputation either because of other And has the largest conditions. selection of new and used After realizing the dim outlook, Barshay chose to euthanize Harley. bicycles in Philly The autopsy result was later shared with him, and it showed that Harley had cancer, not perianal fistulas. He wrote a letter to the Vet School stating his confusion, but the hospital, he Students get 10% OFF said in an interview, “blamed everynon-sale bicycles and thing on him.” As a result, Barshay accessories with valid decided to bring this case to court.

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After Ferguson decision, students join protests over break

BY EUNICE LIM Staff Writer

Leading up to and during this Thanksgiving break, many Penn students joined the national protest against a grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Darren Wilson, a white man, for shooting Michael Brown, a black teenager.

The case in Ferguson, Mo., garnered national attention as a symbol of racial tension between police officers and black civilians. Over the break, many students protested against police violence and to reform a legal system which they say discriminates against minorities.

Kendall Finlay, a College sophomore , was one of these stu-

dents. Finlay said he participated in the march on Nov. 25, where a group of Penn students marched from campus to Temple University in North Philadelphia, joining hundreds of other protesters from different parts of the city.

“It was really empowering just to see how many people came together from different walks of life to support the cause,” he said.

College sophomore Araba Ankuma also participated in the Nov. 25 march. “I was in awe of the unity and cohesiveness within Philadelphia. It was not just Penn students, and it was not just black people who were protesting,” Ankuma said. “People of all colors, all ages, all genders marched, and as we marched, more and more people joined us.”

Over the holiday break, Finlay continued his protest by boycotting Black Friday, as part of a national movement started by Columbia University and Barnard College students. Over 271,000 people were invited to boycott Black Friday on Facebook and over 28,000 people said they would participate.

“People have asked me, ‘Why would you boycott private companies when it’s the police that are involved?’” Finlay said. “My response to them is that I feel like it’s one system that has been designed to, whether intentionally or unintentionally, oppress others. It’s all interconnected.”

While protests earlier in the week with hundreds, even thousands, of people in the city sim-

mered down because of the holiday, they are likely to pick back up this week.

Kassandra Britt, a College sophomore who was part of the Nov. 25 march, said that though she did not participate in protests over Thanksgiving break, she will join tomorrow’s walkout organized by Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation.

Ankuma will also participate in the walkout tomorrow. “It’s important to participate even if only a little bit, to keep the movement going so this is not just something that blows over with time. We have to show that we won’t be appeased,” she said.

The walkout will begin at 1 p.m. from DuBois College House.

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In Philadelphia schools, 56 percent of students scored proficient or higher on 2010 state standardized math tests compared to an average of 54 percent of students at the other 23 lowest-performing peer Pa. school districts. The research estimates Philadelphia schools’ adequacy gap to be $5,478 — more than twice the amount of peer districts.

This means, in the report’s terminology, that if Philadelphia schools were to receive $5,478 more per student, students would be able to per-

form to standard.

Steinberg and Quinn called the higher test scores an “unexpected” finding in the research report.

“Philadelphia is, in essence, doing more with less, when compared to its peer high-poverty and low-achieving districts,” they wrote in the research paper.

The school districts with the poorest students had generally larger adequacy gaps than districts with smaller numbers of poorer students, the researchers found. Steinberg and Quinn advocated in their paper that $3.55 billion given to 412 school districts in Pennsylvania would close adequacy gaps in the state, bring spending to adequate levels and allow students to meet state academic standards.

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Offended? Good MONDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2014 VOL. CXXX, NO. 120 130th Year of Publication

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THE FAITHLESS QUAKER | In a world where moral outrage is fashionable, the best defense is a good offense

rigger warning: personal opinion, nuance, sarcasm.

Some exceptionally fortunate turkey enjoyed a presidential pardon last week — a spared sacrifice to justify eating the rest of his kind and cleanse us American omnivores of our collective guilt.

How, you ask, did such a silly and self-righteous ritual ever catch on? But we digress.

About a week before our fowl friend’s life was spared, another biped, this one featherless, did catch the axe. His crime? Having a sense of humor — specifically, writing an opinion piece in the conservative Michigan Review satirizing social justice warriors and privilege fever on college campuses.

Rather than take his jibe in stride, his editors at the University of Michigan’s official campus paper, The Michigan Daily — a different paper — suspended his column for having created a “hostile environment.” It would be funny if it

weren’t so tragic.

Even those of us who find oppression abhorrent and care deeply about social issues should be able to differentiate between hate speech and satire.

The columnist was criticizing a political perspective (or lack thereof). God forbid he should do so with wit in his arsenal.

shockproof, except for when it comes to ideas. The public forum is more tolerant of four-letter words than ever before, but say something intellectually flammable and shit hits the fan.

Obviously, there are times when taking offense is justified. Someone who speaks with clear intent to demean or in-

That’s the beauty of free speech: Every now and then, people might actually prompt us to rethink, revise or even reinforce our ideas.”

Getting offended is so commonplace these days that we practically fail to notice it.

Some poor turkey dares to say something unpopular, this one doomed not to be pardoned.

We get mad. We vent to our blogs. The sun rises. AirPennNet crashes.

We are thick of heart but thin of skin. Our generation is

timidate forfeits the right to be listened to. Slurs, for instance, are acts of hostility, rather than attempts at dialogue, and it’s appropriate to condemn or ignore them.

But taking offense is also used as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Stephen Fry called it “no more than a whine,” no better than any other thought-termi-

nating cliche. Much like the accusation of privilege, personal offense is sometimes justified.

Other times, its only function is to try to invalidate someone’s point of view.

“That’s offensive” is neither productive nor dignified. You might complain that you’re offended, but what I hear is that I should stop expressing my beliefs because you lack the emotional fortitude to handle seeing things through other people’s eyes. If you can’t help reacting to disagreement with personal insult, aren’t you placing your own hypersensitivity above the rights of others to express themselves? Being able to argue dispassionately is a sign of intelligence and maturity; getting offended too easily is a sign of selfishness.

If something is disagreeable or plain wrong, explain why. If something is truly offensive, explain why. That raw emotion underlies many of our debates about meaningful issues doesn’t make it a legitimate means of changing

minds. Intuitive reflexes are not reasons.

If anything, we should welcome the feeling of offense as a blessing in disguise. Think of Carl Jung’s advice that “everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” We might hold ourselves to certain beliefs de jure, but when the opinions of others rile us up, we get a glimpse into how we really feel about things below the surface.

I’m not saying that we should go out of our way to feel offended. Rather, we should celebrate those moments when our emotion and reasoning come into conflict. Just as a skinned knee can be a blessing for growing children, so can the occasional skinned ego keep us keen to the landscape of perspectives in which we find ourselves.

That’s the beauty of free speech: Every now and then, people might actually prompt us to rethink, revise or even reinforce our ideas. Only by

JONATHAN IWRY engaging them and allowing our biases to emerge can we really get a handle on what we believe.

The next time someone offends you, be happy for the chance to unearth your own attitudes — to ask yourself why you feel the way you do and how that informs what you ought to believe moving forward.

Talk about something to be thankful for.

JONATHAN IWRY is a 2014 College graduate from Potomac, Md. His email address is jon.iwry@gmail. com. “The Faithless Quaker” appears every Monday.

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aw is a big deal in the United States.

All three branches of government correspond to some function of the law. According to the American Bar Association, in 2011 there were 1.2 million licensed attorneys in the United States. A United Nations survey on criminal justice resources listed the U.S. as having 30,937 professional judges the same year.

With all these people who deal specifically with the law — not even counting the 670,000-plus police officers also listed in the survey — why is it, as a population, we feel the need to act as a jury on a regular basis?

The presumption of innocence is such a fundamental human right that a majority of democracies, constitutional monarchies, republics and even the U.N. have written it into their legal codes and constitutions.

Yet in cases such as Darren

A VET-TED MIND | The justice system is flawed, but we’re only compounding the problem Wilson and Bill Cosby, among others, before a trial has started — and many times even after that — people have already concluded a verdict of innocence or guilt.

Even journalists’ code of ethics prevent this, in that a person must be referred to as a “suspect” and criminal activity as “alleged” before a verdict has been reached by the justice system.

Further, Islamic law, which some argue originated the presumption of innocence, not only maintains the burden of proof on the prosecution — AlNawawi hadith 33 — but even condemns suspicion. Saliheen hadith 1573: “Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The messenger of Allah (Praise be unto Him) said, ‘Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of false tales.’”

It is the job of the judicial system to determine innocence or guilt. This is achieved through a collection of foren-

sic science and testimonies to determine the truth of what happened in a given situation based on factual evidence.

Many times, that factual evi-

this painfully obvious double standard within the justice system that causes frustration and the feeling of mistrust.

We must not permit our-

Riots and vigilantism only serve to release anger, not to pave the road to change.” dence is withheld from the public for various reasons, and in many cases, it can be the determining factor of a verdict.

So why are we unable to allow the criminal justice system to do its job without throwing our suspicions around?

One argument for this behavior is lack of confidence in the justice system. It is difficult not to agree with that sentiment when you have people like Ray Rice, Paris Hilton and Ted Kennedy getting off with light sentences compared to what your average citizen would receive for the same crime. It is

selves or the court system to allow “scapegoat-ism,” in either the public or university judicial systems. Cases — such as that of Eden Jacobowitz in 1993 — not only harm the individual and others’ belief in the fairness of the system, but also embarrass the institution that pursues such cases.

Also, more care must be taken in ensuring that those who are being tried are being tried fairly by a jury of peers.

We cannot continue to allow cases like those of Ronald Cotton, convicted of rape in 1987, released in 1995; Rolando

Cruz, convicted of rape and murder in 1985, pardoned in 1995; James Bain, convicted for kidnapping, burglary and rape in 1974, exonerated in 2010 and George Kelly, executed in 1950 for murder, exonerated in 2003, to still happen to this day.

The judicial system must maintain the same standards for all citizens, whether they be professional athletes, celebrities, politicians, federal employees or the guy working the counter behind McDonald’s. This would allow the average citizen to believe in a system that they currently feel is against them.

The current law enforcement and judicial systems are flawed and in need of reform.

However that doesn’t excuse us from bypassing the system. We must work within the confines of the law to affect change. Riots and vigilantism only serve to release anger, not to pave the road to change. Even when confronted with the loss of

SHAWN KELLEY their 12-year-old son, Tamir Rice, to a police shooting last Saturday, the parents asked that “the public … demonstrate peacefully.”

Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat.”

SHAWN KELLEY is a LPS sophomore studying Japanese and history. His email address is skelley@sas. upenn.edu. “A Vet-ted Mind” usually appears every other Monday.

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Sophomore joins finance ‘Hall of Fame’ Ashok Rao is ranked fourth on the Bloomberg Aptitude Test

BY DAVID CAHN Contributing Writer

This Thanksgiving, Engineering sophomore Ashok Rao had much to be grateful for.

Over the course of the past month, Rao and various teammates he’s worked with have cleaned up with a first place finish in the Wharton Alliance Diversity Case Competition, an Honorable Mention in the Wharton Public Policy Case Competition and most recently a fourthplace ranking in the Americas on the Bloomberg Aptitude Test, earning himself a spot on it’s Hall of Fame.

The Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) — a two-hour, 100-question financial literacy test — is offered for free on campus through

the Wharton Undergraduate Finance Club and online through ProctorU for $39. Rao is the only Penn student to make the Hall of Fame this round, but he joins 19 other Penn Hall of Famers who received top scores since the test began a year and a half ago in a total of nine testing rounds.

Rao insisted that his win was “not a big deal” and gave credit to his teammates for their efforts in the case competitions.

“The knowledge level of all the questions on there is something everyone at Penn would know after they’ve taken a few weeks of Accounting 101 and a few weeks of Finance 101,” Rao said.

The purpose of the BAT is to connect students to potential employers, managers of the test have said. So far, 200,000 students have taken the test and 800 employers — from places like investment banks, hedge funds and sports management companies — are accessing informa-

tion about students’ scores on the exam.

According to Blair Wilkie, a marketing manager at Bloomberg, the company’s goal in developing the exam was to create a “GMAT for finance jobs.”

“This opens up employment opportunities 10-fold,” she said.

Rao, who said he has not yet received any outreach from recruiters using the BAT, is not as sure.

“It might be helpful for people that don’t have access to the resources that you get at Wharton,” he said, “but I think if you are here and you are already motivated enough to take a test like this, you’re better off using the network you have here.”

Bloomberg is investing serious resources in making its BAT successful, Wilkie said. Whether the test really takes off is still to be seen.

“They might succeed with flying colors,” Rao said.

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report. If they’re underage, I flush it down the toilet or pour it down the sink,” said Clara, a high-rise RA not authorized to speak about resident advisor protocol. “It’s technically up to me if I want to call the police with drugs and alcohol, but we’re generally told that

it’s preferable to handle things inhouse,” she said.

“The RAs and GAs in the Quad tend to vary a lot,” Rebecca, who lives in Riepe, said. “I know some people who were pouring shots in their hall lounge, and their RA passed them and gave them a thumbs up,” she said. “Then there are others who are pretty strict — as strict as they can be,” she added.

Matt, a former Quad GA, emphasized that the RAs and GAs are trained to maintain good relationships with their residents. He even noted that it was encouraged for RAs and GAs to, as a policy, refuse to write up their own residents. “It was never explicitly said, but we were always told that it was important to remain on our residents’ good sides,” he said. He

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called other residential staff members to handle incidents with his own hall.

Even the strictest of RAs, though, have limitations. As a general policy when conducting room checks, RAs are not allowed to open any closets, drawers or cabinets within the room, even if they suspect there might be alcohol or drugs there, Clara said.

Roughly 150 students were referred to OSC for liquor law violations, rather than face arrest, and between 10 and 15 students were referred for drug law violations in 2012 and 2013. Penn’s percentages of arrests and referrals within the university disciplinary system aren’t an outlier among peers, though — other Ivies reported similar statistics.

But despite the statistics, OSC’s website states that “it is not meant to replace or substitute for the criminal justice system or other legal avenues.”

Noelle Melartin, the associate director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives, also said that students who partake in illegal drugs and alcohol consumption inherently face the risk of legal repercussions.

“Students know what is legal and not legal,” she said, “and they know that if they choose to engage in high-risk, illegal behavior, they

can be held legally accountable.”

Rush also stressed that the University does not actively seek to keep students out of the legal system. Penn has no way to keep students’ records clean of any legal infractions. “If you get in trouble, you go through the court system just like everyone else,” Rush said.

“Our first priority is safety,” she added. “The message here is to have fun but to be responsible.” *** Aaron’s feeling of insulation from legal repercussions was echoed by the students interviewed for this article. But does safety also engender a culture of excess?

Keith, a Wharton sophomore who requested anonymity because he does not want to openly admit to drinking and smoking for fear of repercussions, stated that he did not partake in drinking or drug use during high school at all, but after a little more than a year at Penn, he has been hospitalized for intoxication twice and says he smokes pot or drinks alcohol “probably three times a month or so.”

Rebecca, a College freshman who also asked for anonymity, echoed Keith’s sentiment. “I didn’t really drink or experiment with drugs that much in high

school, but it’s definitely a bigger part of my life now,” she said. “It’s something I knew would be more accessible here, and I definitely wanted to take part in that.”

“Not to be cynical, but I feel like a lot of it is for the school’s image,” Rebecca said. “They want to seem like they’re doing something about this problem, but everyone knows it happens,” she said.

She also thinks that new policies do not have the students’ best interests at heart, and that they could be potentially dangerous for students. “I think it could create a mentality where students load up on alcohol whenever it is available to them because they don’t know when they’re going to have access to it,” she said, noting that the only times she has ever been physically sick from alcohol consumption were when she was drinking large quantities very rapidly before a party.

Keith has been picked up by MERT twice. “Both times were about the same,” he said. “I don’t know that I would call it a positive experience — because how positive can being hospitalized be? — but I knew I was safe,” he said.

“I don’t know that the fact that MERT exists encouraged me to go overboard those two nights, but I definitely think the fact that the system exists encourages students to drink in general,” he said. ***

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In recent months, though, the University has been changing its policies. Last April, the University coordinated with LCE and alcohol monitors to assist the Penn Police with law enforcement during the typically-chaotic Spring Fling weekend. The University again brought in backup for New Student Orientation in August, and again for Halloween/Homecoming weekend.

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the University administration, but that the administration and Division of Public Safety have cooperated with the LCE officers.

“LCE comes under the Liquor Control Board, which oversees the entire state of Pennsylvania. They don’t need our permission to come on campus,” she said. A few years ago, the LCB did a study and found an increase in the number of young people drinking on campuses, and decided to take preventative measures. “They reached out to us and asked if we would like to cooperate with them,” she said. She also added that she didn’t think the increased presence of the LCE had led to a noticeable increase in arrests or citations. “They’ve been very measured,” she said. “They could be

giving a lot more citations than they are.”

Currently, there are about 20 alcohol monitors working on campus, most of whom do not work at the University full-time, Melartin said.

While not technically law enforcement officers — they don’t wear uniforms — Melartin added that they work closely with Greek organizations and student leaders to ensure that parties are “safe and successful.”

This shift is reflected in Penn’s most recent Clery Report. For the 2013 calendar year, 11 arrests were made on campus for liquor law violations, more than double the number from years before.

While the new monitors are correlated with more arrests and noticeably fewer student hospitalizations, many among the student body still wonder if the shift in policy is a good thing.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014 “Based on the stats of MERT and LCE, it definitely does seem like the presence of the new policies has been a good thing, but at the same time, it’s also made students and especially fraternities a lot more cautious,” Aaron said. “Instead, a lot of parties are moving downtown, which presents a whole new set of challenges. MERT can’t go downtown, and trying to navigate your way back to campus while drunk could be dangerous in and of itself,” he said.

But he brought up a potentially even more dangerous implication as well. “I think for a lot of students — and even more so for frats — the new policies are creating an atmosphere of distrust and skepticism of DPS,” he said. “They’re supposed to be looking out for our best interests, and they’re bringing in all these new organizations that are either shutting

down parties or forcing people to go to extreme lengths to host them,” he said.

Rush disagreed. “I really don’t see much of a change in our relationship with the students,” she said.

MERT, typically an integral part of the University’s policies on alcohol and drugs, was left out of the decision to bring in new law enforcement agencies. While Kunas acknowledged that MERT had seen fewer patients during Fling with the implementation of Penn’s new policies, she said the decline could be attributed to other factors as well.

“I don’t know that it’s necessarily an indication of students staying safer as much as it is an indication that there were other factors that played a role,” she said. “Last Fling, it rained during the concert. The year before that, it was cold and no one was really excited about the performer.”

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“So there would be no way to have just one person. It wouldn’t be best.”

Kolb, representing the University of Pennsylvania Student Veteran Association, met with the Undergraduate Assembly during its open forum last Sunday.

“I received enthusiastic

response from those students. Many of them wanted to know how they can help,” Kolb said. “Moving forward, there’s opportunity to work with them with the goal of pursuing a referendum from the UA’s side.”

Kolb will also meet with staff from the Vice Provost for University Life next week to speak about the petition.

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around 13.5 percent female overall.

According to Davidson, there is a discrepancy in student ratings for male and female faculty members in the same STEM positions.

“This is an issue for receiving tenure,” Davidson said. “And feeling under-evaluated can get to you as a teacher.”

Davidson’s parents were both professors at Cornell University and, with an interest in math and science as a kid, Davidson began her Cornell undergraduate career as a math major until she discovered her first computer science class. With the encouragement of faculty mentors, she attended graduate school at Princeton University and has since been on the faculty at Penn.

Her path to professorship was not direct, nor was it easy. To receive tenure as an assistant professor in the Engineering school, professors must build up a strong resume of current and previous student evaluations, established research publications and supporting opinions of other senior professors.

Yet while raising two kids, David-

son found building her resume to be a challenge.

Since she has come to Penn, the tenure policy has changed. “Now both men and women faculty members can get family leave,” she said. Assistant professors can request a one-year extension before tenure evaluation if they have children while they are an assistant professor.

Katherine Kuchenbecker, a professor in the Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics department, credits female mentors in helping her on her path to professorship.

“There is a spotlight on women in this field,” Kuchenbecker said.

“Many women feel that they need to do more to prove that they deserve what they’ve received.”

Penn, she said, does do a good job of supporting a diverse environment in its engineering school.

In her job search, she came across programs that were overtly discriminatory, yet as the second female professor in her department at Penn, she felt welcome.

Yet there is still a long way to go to bring more women into STEM teaching in higher education.

“There is not a lot of commu-

nication about what an engineer really is,” Elizabeth Bierman, the president of the Society of Women Engineers, said. Many women enter the work force with the goal of helping others, and they don’t associate that with jobs in STEM fields.

Both Bierman and Davidson believe that this gender gap arises from misconceptions about what engineer’s jobs are actually like, which are often perceived as hard or confusing. Davidson also contends that this issue arises because STEM classes like computer science aren’t taught in many high schools, what she calls a “pipeline problem.”

In terms of the future for females in this field, Davidson is optimistic about a slow but steady increase in women. Penn’s undergraduate gender distribution — around 34 percent female in the Class of 2017 — is slightly better than the national average of around 20 percent.

“There has been a lot of support from upper levels, and hiring practices are more inclusive,” Davidson said. “People are pulling together to try and address this. I think it’s still a problem, and it’s not going to change quickly.”

To both recruit and retain

women in this field, Davidson has chaired the Advancing Women in Engineering program, which has established several initiatives, including Penn Girls in Engineering summer camp for middle-schoolage children in the Philadelphia area.

Bierman’s Society of Women in Engineering has also made efforts for the past 60 years to support more than 30,000 female engineering members from around the world.

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2014 NCAA tournament bid. The 133 pounder won his only match of the day against 19th ranked Rob Deutsch of Rider in a grueling 3-2 victory.

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plers out for their first college dual meet experience. 133 pounder Marc Mastropietro, 157 pounder May Bethea, 174 pounder Joe Heyob and heavyweight Patrik Garren all got their hands raised in their first taste of collegiate dual meet competition. Garren would drop his match against Rider as the freshmen finished 4-1 as a group on the day.

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ers came when 13th ranked senior C.J. Cobb returned to the lineup with success en route to two victories. The 149 pounder was forced to sit out of the Keystone Classic as well as the East Stroudsburg Open due to a nagging knee injury.

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victory over Rider’s Clint Morrison. The 184 pounder was pushed to overtime where he won but was unable to secure bonus points.

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Cooper led the way for Wagner even with the Quakers outrebounding the Seahawks, 2923. Cooper and Burton each had 15, combining to lead the late comeback.

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I realize that it’s a small sample size, but the Quakers’ struggles shooting the three are Senior Sports Editor Steven indicative of a larger problem: Tydings: After traveling to Wag- their inability to get easy buckner on Saturday, there is one thing ets. Moving forward, they would that sticks out like a sore thumb: be wise to play more inside-out turnovers. In the first three games basketball, running their offense of the year, the Quakers averaged through Darien Nelson-Henry just over 14 turnovers a game, and taking some pressure off of cutting two turnovers off their Hicks and Woods. pace from last season.

On the other side of the ball, But against Temple and Wag- stronger defense behind the arc ner this past week, Penn gave will come from tighter defensive away the ball a whopping 41 rotations, and that will only come times with junior captain Tony with time and experience.

Hicks committing 12 of those Sports Editor Holden Mcturnovers. This simply won’t cut Ginnis: We’ve been saying it all it. Coach Jerome Allen right- season long, but Penn is still in fully pointed out after the Wag- search of that second consistent ner game that the Red and Blue’s scoring option behind Hicks.

14 first-half turnovers against the Whether it’s Nelson-Henry, Matt Seahawks — which prevented Howard or one of the freshman, Penn from extending its lead someone needs to step up into early on — likely made the dif- that role and take the pressure off ference in the close defeat.

Hicks. Sure, you can come close Some of this is natural. You in games where he drops 30, but have two freshman point guards this is an offense that too often 34 Antonio Woods and Darnell falls back on his pull-up jumper.

— ST Foreman — playing significant Howard has started to play minutes and are overly reliant more aggressively — particularly on Hicks to create offense. As in the past two games — and was Woods and Foreman get more a player we highlighted before games under their belt, they’ll the season as someone who could Film be polled nd out howthatyou getting surely better you with to the fiball, rise into role.are As the season your Sunday afternoon which will in turn create less continues, it will be interesting to KHAYKIN movie fixes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY pressure on Hicks. see how he develops and whether hough weneeds all know the he watch in theaters.

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The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watchallowed to choose more than one option.

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Freshman forward MIchelle Kwokedi had the best performance of her young career on Tuesday against New Hampshire, notching a double-double during Penn’s 35-point rout of the Wildcats.

Penn is now 3-1 on the season, including 2-0 at the Palestra

How Penn Students Watch Movies Borrow from Library

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47.7%

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es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithmetic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netflix than at the Rave, and an additional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calculations). The low cost of watching seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not being interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not having to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.

Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere between $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netflix or iTunes, respectively.

Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

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bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to examine the themes of this *$12.50/ticket at the Rave *$3.99 to rent a movie on iTunes60-year history for civil and *$7.99/month on Netflix equal rights within contemporary environments that argue for a post-racial society.

Featured Speakers and Invited Guests include Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania and the following scholars and experts at other universities: Keynote Speaker: Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative & Professor of Clinical Law New York University School of Law

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Sarah Willie-LeBreton, Swarthmore College Eugene Garcia, Arizona State University Donald Hernandez, Hunter College Kevin J.A. Thomas, Penn State University Robert Entman, George Washington University Marc Lamont Hill, Morehouse College Kimberley Johnson, Barnard College, Columbia University Phoebe Haddon, Rutgers University, Camden Christopher Lebron, Yale University

This symposium is sponsored by the Penn Graduate School of Education, the Carter Chair in Child Development and Education, and the Center for Africana Studies, and co-sponsored with the Annenberg School for Communication, Penn Institute for Urban Research, Penn Law School, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Social Policy and Practice, the Wharton Sports Business InitiativeWharton School, and the following centers and programs: the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, Center for Minority-Serving Institutions, Center for the Study of Race & Equity in Education, Penn Child Center and the National Center on Fathers and Families, and Philadelphia Writing Project.

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Penn can’t hold on to halftime lead, fall to Wagner

M. HOOPS | Early turovers, offensive slump doom Quakers

tilt with their first win of the year as the Seahawks took the victory, 64-61. Penn committed 22 turnovers, including a key giveaway in the final minute of the game.

The Red and Blue (0-5) led from the opening tip, taking a 14-2 lead in the first five minutes. And until the very end, it seemed like Penn would keep Wagner (2-3) at arm’s length, pulling out a road win.

Yet with 3:31 to go, Penn lost control of the game.

Leading 58-54, senior for-

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — For 37 minutes, Penn basketball clung to a lead, holding off Wagner whenever the game got close.

But in the final few minutes, the Quakers came undone, unable to come away from the road

ward Greg Louis drew the fifth foul on Wagner forward Nolan Long. But Louis would miss four free throws in the next two minutes, unable to make good on the opportunities despite Penn’s relative efficiency at the line earlier in the game.

And a freshman, JoJo Cooper, capitalized for the Seahawks on the other end. With three minutes left, Cooper converted a layup while drawing a foul, cutting Penn’s lead to one for the first time all game.

Cooper soon handed Wagner

its first lead of the game, 59-58, making a banked-in floater from eight feet out with under two minutes to go.

“Their guards were getting in the paint. They were driving the ball,” coach Jerome Allen said. “To their credit, Cooper got in the paint. [Senior guard Marcus] Burton got in the paint.

And when they did miss it down the stretch, they got every 50-50 ball. They got every offensive rebound.”

Penn’s attempts to answer were fumbled away as sopho-

more guard Matt Howard missed a shot and freshman guard Antonio Woods lost a ball out of bounds.

“It is not necessarily his fault,” Allen said of Woods’ turnover. “He was put in that position on the road … [as a] freshman. He’ll get better, he’ll learn from it, but I do believe we let one get away.”

Wagner added a jumper with 13 seconds to go and a late three-pointer from Penn freshman Sam Jones would not be nearly enough.

Over the course of the game, the Quakers spread the wealth offensively, shooting 57.6 percent from the field on 19-for-33 shooting. Junior center Darien Nelson-Henry led the way with 11 points and eight rebounds, both team highs. Penn’s forwards were able to find success in the post against an undersized Wagner frontcourt in foul trouble.

“We talked about it before the game that we should be able SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 8

Wagner loss reminiscent of last season IAN WENIK

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The past two seasons, Penn basketball has come up short against Wagner when it mattered most, failing to execute with the game on the line and then coming up short in overtime.

But this year’s 64-61 loss to the Seahawks hurts so much more.

The Quakers came out like gangbusters in this one, shooting 11-for-18 in the first half. Five players had scored at least five points, putting to bed the notion that this team was going to flow offensively solely through Tony Hicks and Darien Nelson-Henry.

However, it’s hard to describe the Quakers’ offensive performance in the stretch run of the second half as anything but an unmitigated disaster.

After turning the ball over 14 times before halftime, the Quakers added eight more giveaways, including one by Antonio Woods when the Red and Blue had the ball in their hands down two points with 40.3 seconds to go.

But the Quakers know they can’t pin this loss on one play, after squandering so many opportunities beforehand.

“When games are decided by one or two possessions at the end, I really don’t go crazy over

HOLDEN MCGINNIS/SPORTS EDITOR-ELECT

It’s been a rough start to the season for coach Jerome Allen and the winless Quakers. In this weekend’s loss to Wagner, the Quakers had plenty go right, but turnovers and an inability to close out the game ultimately doomed the team.

THE BUZZ: ROUNDTABLE

What does Penn need to improve?

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BY THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor

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Freshman guard Antonio Woods is one of multiple freshmen seeing intensive playing time for the Quakers. The growth of the Class of 2018 will be integral to Penn’s success. Woods and co. will be balancing inexperience and potential all season.

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Quakers split season’s first duals WRESTLING | Penn’s trip ends with win vs.

Clarion, loss to Rider

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Penn basketball has gotten off to an inauspicious start to the 2014-15 season, losing all five of its games. The Quakers are one of 14 winless teams left in the NCAA, having suffered some close defeats to Delaware State, Lafayette and Wagner. The Red and Blue also rank 278th out of 351 Division I teams in Ken Pomeroy’s College Basketball Rankings, but they are also not far behind fellow Ivy squads Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth.

With that in mind, our editors look at what Penn needs to improve upon in the rest of nonconference play.

how the last play was played out,” coach Jerome Allen said. “I try to look at the summation of our errors. It’s unfortunate. I’m disappointed because I thought we had an opportunity to win the game, and we didn’t close it.”

Following a Greg Louis bucket off a missed foul shot with 11:10 remaining, the Quakers made only two field goals the rest of the way, and one of those was a Sam Jones trey with the outcome essentially decided.

At the free throw line, Penn struggled. The Red and Blue missed seven foul shots coming down the stretch, not counting a Louis miss off left iron that was waved off for a lane violation with 3:31 left.

Given a second chance, Louis missed again in the exact same spot. It was that kind of day for the Red and Blue.

Wagner pressed Penn all afternoon, but the Quakers wilted in the face of that full court pressure, a failure that Allen placed squarely on himself.

“At the end of the day, I’ve just got to do a better job of simulating that in a practice setting,” he said.

Penn is entering a soft portion of its nonconference schedule — its next three opponents are a combined 4-14 — but today’s game was one it simply had to have, for the sake of giving its young players some confidence that they could close out a game on the road.

While the Quakers showed a lot of promise Sunday in Lawrenceville, N.J., their flaws also got exposed as they split their dual meets with Clarion and Rider.

After a 25-13 victory against Clarion, in which the Red and Blue strung together four straight victories in the lightweight classes, Penn fell to Rider, 21-12.

Rider (2-0), who is currently ranked 25th in the nation, built on a strong performance at the Keystone Classic, which Penn (1-1) hosted last Sunday at the Palestra. The Broncos finished second and proved they deserved

VS. CLARION

AT NO. 25 RIDER to be voted into the top 25 while the Quakers’ poor performance caused them to surrender their No. 24 ranking.

On Sunday in Rider’s gym, the Quakers showed they had the stuff to hang with a ranked team, but not quite at that level.

In the match against Rider no bonus points were scored by either team in what consisted of many tight matches.

Sophomore Caleb Richardson proved he is on track to build on his resume that includes a SEE WRESTLING PAGE 8

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