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China Center will be research and career hub
Leading ROTC by example
Penn Wharton China Center will open in Beijing at a more permanent location in January 2015 BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer Penn students and faculty hoping to expand their global horizons will soon have more means of doing so in China. The Penn W har ton China Center is currently open for business with limited facilities and capabilities. The Center will facilitate research related to China and serve as a means to distribute knowledge. The University is currently in the process of paying deposits for a five-year lease for a location in accordance with Chinese capital regulations.
The full location is tentatively set to open in January 2015 in the Bejing Central Business District and will be the University’s first physical presence in China, said Faculty Director of the Center John Zhang . “Competition is global today. You have to be more worldsav v y a nd globa l ly awa re,” Zhang said. “In the Compact 20/20, we want to have more globa l engagement a nd the Penn Wharton China Center is just one of those efforts.” SEE CENTER PAGE 7
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UNIVERSITY TO HIRE ALCOHOL SAFETY EDUCATOR Number of people who used Penn’s Medical Amnesty Policy
Colonel Andrew Wilcox teaches the “Leadership and Ethics” course to students in the NROTC program at Penn. BY LAUREN FEINER Staff Writer Life lessons are at the top of the syllabus in Colonel Andrew Wilcox’s curriculum. Wilcox, the commanding officer of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps for Penn, Drexel, Temple and Villanova, teaches the required “Leadership and Ethics” course in NROTC. “The University teaches how to
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“I take the things I’ve learned in 28 years [as a marine] that they’re going to taste and give it in spoonfuls at a time,” Wilcox said. “It’s something I certainly can’t teach myself,” Matthew Weber, a Wharton junior and member of the Marine division of the NROTC, said. “You’re not going to find it in any textbook.” Temple senior Const a ntine SEE ROTC PAGE 7
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critically think,” Wilcox said. “We try to bring that education and make it relevant in the world of the military.” As a marine, he recognizes “the platform I have to master is the art of leadership.” Each week, Wilcox holds what he calls an “L3” — life and leadership lesson. During these sessions, he shares anecdotes from his own career in the Marine Corps and discusses how he was able to come to the right or wrong decision.
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of Penn students report that Penn is
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of undergraduates reported feeling overwhelmed "often" or "very often"
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of undergraduates report that they use alcohol or
freshmen
other recreational drugs to combat stress
say they drink before going out
Sources: Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives; Enrolled Student Survey, 2011; Student Health Service study, 2011 Graphic by Analyn Delos Santos
The hiring comes as a result of yearlong commission on alcohol and student safety BY FOLA ONIFADE & WILLIAM MARBLE Staff Writer & Enterprise Editor The University will hire an additional staff member to combat alcohol abuse and provide safety education, Penn P resident A my Gutmann said Tuesday. T he a n nou ncement comes as a response to recommendations made by a yearlong commission studying alcohol use and student safety on campus. One of the report’s three main recommenda-
tions is to create the position. The staff member would “focus on educating students about interpersonal violence, sexual assault and hazing prevention in collaboration with other campus resource offices,” the report says. T he eig ht - p a ge r ep or t not e s widespread alcohol consumption at Penn: 87 percent of freshmen and 62 percent of all undergraduates drink before going out, the report says. Almost 40 percent of undergraduates said they use alcohol or other drugs to combat stress. Between Aug. 15, 2011 and May 14, 2013, 518 students had interactions with the Division of Public Safety for alcohol-related incidents, ac-
cording to the report. The report also recommends periodic assessments of resources to prevent alcohol and drug misuse and continual development of programming to address these issues. “We will take all of the recommendations in the report and move forward with them as soon as possible, taking all the additional steps to further strengthen our efforts to make sure we continue to have best practices in preventing and responding to the misuses of alcohol and other drugs,” Gutmann said in an interview Tuesday. The commission commends the SEE ALCOHOL PAGE 5
Encouraging women to attend PennApps proves tricky Only about 15 percent of hackathon participants are women BY BRENDA WANG Deputy News Editor There were so few women at PennApps last semester that one of the women’s restrooms was converted into a men’s restroom. This semester, little has changed. While 1,200 hackers flocked to the Engineering quad for PennApps, only a minority of them were women. Clara Wu, an Engineering junior who is on the board of Women in Computer Science and is the Engineering lead at PennApps Lab, believes that the culture at hackathons can make women feel unwelcome. “There’s some inherent assumption that women aren’t great computer scientists,” she said. While participating in Pen-
nApps last weekend, other hackers asked her if she was just “hanging out and watching.” She found the assumption that she was not participating “really offensive,” since none of her male teammates were asked the same question. Wu has also observed a trend of assuming women are the “front end,” or aesthetic designers of an app. She says that women who would rather code are often asked to design since “you’re a female so [you] must have great aesthetic vision.” Although PennApps does not collect demographic information about its participants, nationally, only 12.9 percent of undergraduate degrees in computer science and 10.6 percent of those in computer engineering were awarded to women from 2011 to 2012, according to the Computing Research Association, and the SEE PENNAPPS PAGE 6
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