THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA
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TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014
Up close and personal with the new UA pres. Joyce Kim talks being a female president, new initiatives and election ‘shenanigans’
Carissa Lundquist checked herself into a mental hospital last semester after she claims she was assaulted. This is the story of her attempt to return to normal life at Penn.
BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer After a particularly eventful election season, College junior Joyce Kim was elected as the new Undergraduate Assembly President. The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with Kim about her plans during her tenure. The Daily Pennsylvanian: You’re the first female presiHailing from Allen, dent in a very, very long time. Texas, Kim is a How do you feel about that? junior in the College Joyce Kim: It’s really excitmajoring in Political ing. I feel very thankful to have Science. had this opportunity. I do think it’s a little bit strange — this position was actually created in 2010. Before that it was a chair that was internally elected, but then in 2010 it was changed so the entire student body voted. So the fact that I’m the first female to even run is kind of crazy, but I feel very thankful and honored.
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DP: Can you speak to some of your major initiatives for the upcoming year? JK: Something my committee has been working hard on is a mental wellness resource guide. I think that CAPS is very important and it definitely has a place on campus, but I know that for me, there are some spaces that I go to for my own mental health — say the Greenfield Intercultural Center, the Office of the Chaplain, the multicultural centers in the ARCH. In these spaces I see a lot of ‘regulars,’ but I think it would be awesome if more students could tap into that. The purpose of this guide is us working with 12 different resource centers, along with University Communications and CAPS ... I think the most important part is that it comes with testimonials for each center ... I think that creates a human element. I think that can help destigmatize reaching out to different places when it comes to issues of mental wellness. That’s something I hope to continue working on and hopefully get it out before the end of the semester by working with the student run Mental Health InitiaSEE KIM PAGE 6
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or the first month of her final semester at Penn, Carissa Lundquist wasn’t sure she was a student. After an October 2013 encounter with a friend that she believes constituted sexual and physical assault, Carissa, a College senior, did what she thought she was supposed to do: She reported it to the University. But when Penn’s Office of Student Conduct dropped her complaint due to lack of evidence and the restrictions separating Carissa and her alleged attacker were lifted, she broke down and checked herself into a hospital. When she came back to Penn in January for her last semester, she says it took until midFebruary for the University to tell her that she was fully re-enrolled. If the administration hadn’t let her return, she would have considered filing a complaint against the University with the federal Department of Education. Carissa’s case sheds light on some of the shortcomings with how the University handles students who say they have been victims of sexual assault and who experience mental
LIMBO health issues, and reveals the bureaucracy that students must navigate after an unexpected break in academic work. The University was unable to comment on Carissa’s specific case due to confidentiality laws. However, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy offered general explanations on Penn’s policies. “The staff who handle these issues are highly trained and deeply committed to helping students in times of need,” MacCarthy said in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. But Carissa felt she was caught up in a process that placed unreasonable burdens on her to prove that she was fit to return to the University. “I feel like Penn wants me to say I’m OK, I’ve moved past it,” she said. “But I’m not going to tell them that things are fine. I’d rather keep throwing it in their face: I’m uncomfortable. Being here is really hard because of the way the whole system seems to have failed me, even though I did the whole process correctly.”
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Penn lacrosse allegedly damages bar Manager claims players stole alcohol, exposed genitals, smoked marijuana BY YUEQI YANG Staff Writer Members of Penn’s women’s lacrosse team allegedly engaged in “absolutely deplorable behavior” on Saturday night at Fado Irish Pub in Center City. The bar’s general manager, Casey Neff, sent an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian , women’s lacrosse coach Karin Brower Corbett and Penn’s Athletic Department , among others, claiming that a group of 50 people under the lacrosse team’s reservation did considerable damage to his business. The incident is currently under investigation by Penn’s Athletic Department. The event was a pre-planned party hosted by the Penn women’s lacrosse team scheduled from 9-11 p.m., Neff said, although he added that the group stayed much later. In the email, the bar owner complained that the team members intentionally broke facilities such as a light fixture which caused a “broken glass hazard.” The students also allegedly stole a bottle of liquor from the bar and attempted to steal a sixpack of beer. Neff claimed that the lacrosse players also smoked marijuana in the bathroom and exposed a young woman’s genitals to the “adulation of the rest of the party.” They also allegedly tipped less than 4 percent on the $1,300 tab. “We want people to have fun. We are happy that people come out,” Neff said. “But that was well SEE BAR DAMAGE PAGE 8
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College senior Carissa Lundquist was unsure of her status as a student until over a month into the semester.
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Alum’s whimsical bakery gets Chinatown storefront Audrey Chang’s Audabon Bakeshop formerly supplied macarons to the Rodin cafe BY TINA CHOU Contributing Writer Passion fruit cheesecake, matcha red bean and lavender sesame caramel. Audabon Bakeshop co-owner and baker Audrey Chang is bringing eccentric flavors alive as French macarons. In addition to her selection of macarons, Chang offers puddings such as black sesame, salty caramel and buttermilk panna cotta. The salty caramel pudding is her signature, and it helped to propel her from a portable stand in Suburban Station to her current storefront, which opened last Wednesday. After a member of Yelp’s Elite Squad — a group of particularly active reviewers — raved about the pudding on Yelp’s website, demand for Audabon treats escalated and Chang could not keep up. People waited in lines before her stand was open for the day and everything
would sell out within three hours. “At some point I reached my maximum capacity. I could only fit so much in the fridge,” Chang said. She moved into wholesale, supplying Sweet Ending, Chapter House, and the cafes in Rodin College House and Williams Hall before finally finding a place of her own. Audabon Bakeshop now occupies a small space in Chinatown, and it already has a personality. “Dance a bit and sing a bit to yourself. We turn the music up just a little bit too loud,” Chang tells employees. “[It] may be harder to hear customers, but it makes the place feel more like a party.” Chang majored in economics at Penn and graduated in 2010. When she graduated, she landed a job in private equity. “I was stressed out all the time, and my way of coping with that stress was to bake,” Chang said. She baked for friends and family who insisted that she could sell the desserts. In May 2012, she quit her corporate job and focused full time on baking. Chang recalled her parents being
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Audabon Bakeshop, co-owned by 2010 alumnus Audrey Chang, offers exotic macaron flavors and opened its first storefront in March.
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