THURSDAY, MAY 25TH, 2017
The Independent Student Newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania
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Six campus eateries expected to close in June These closings contribute to at least 11 closures in the past year DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor
Six campus eateries are slated to close by the end of June, a University official confirmed on May 18th. The food court connected to CVS at 3401 Walnut Street, which includes Quiznos, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Mediterranean Cafe and Nom Nom Ramen, “will close at the end of June 2017,” Executive Director of Real Estate Ed Datz said in an email. He also said the Saladworks at 3728 Spruce Street is closing, but did not specify when it would finally shutter its doors. An employee who picked up the phone at Saladworks on Thursday afternoon said he was not aware of any impending closure. He did not leave his name and said a manager “was out making deliveries” and would call back later. Facilities and Real Estate Services did not have further comment on what would replace Saladworks. At least one food court spot has already closed. A manager at Nom Nom Ramen’s Center City location said the food court location shut down “in the last month or so.” No mention of the former West Philadelphia location exists on the restaurant’s website. In addition to the eateries, the Saturn Club Hair Salon at 3426 Sansom Street, located next to White Dog Cafe, will close on June 3, according to a post on the shop’s Facebook page: Datz did not comment on the Saturn Club’s closing because it’s not in a building Penn leases. SEE CLOSURE PAGE 3
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Gutmann’s salary climbs to 3.5 mil. Her total compensation has risen 341 percent since 2005 DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor
Penn President Amy Gutmann’s total salary climbed to a record $3,537,020 in 2015, according to the most recent records Penn filed to the Internal Revenue Service. Gutmann’s compensation package, a 6.09 percent increase from what she brought home in 2014, remains one of the largest in
the country. A report from the Chronicle of Higher Education, which used data from 2014 and before, recently listed Gutmann’s salary as the fourth-highest nationwide and the top among all Ivy League presidents. Top administrators’ salary information became available this week with the public release of the University’s 2015 Form 990, an annual requirement for nonprofit institutions like Penn. Because of the lag in federal reporting requirements, the 2015 form — covering Jul. 1, 2015 to Jun. 30, 2016 — is the most recent period from which data is
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Mason Mings may not be able to return to school HALEY SUH Senior Reporter
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In the three days following the start of a Gofundme campaign for $40,000, the page raised over $46,000 from 170 donors.
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Mask & Wig sophomore falls 25 feet from window
ALIZA OHNOUNA Senior Reporter
Two Penn students were elected as officials in Philadelphia’s local elections held on May 16. 2016 College graduate and Penn Law School student Louis Capozzi and College sophomore Louis Lin both ran unopposed for the position of Judge of Election. Capozzi ran in Ward 27, District 11, and Lin in Ward 27, Division 20. The Judge of Election serves a term of four years and is responsible for ensuring that proper voting procedures are upheld. On election days, they are present at polling places ensuring that voters receive ballots, explaining the voting process to voters and checking in voters as they enter the voting location. The position is nonpartisan, but members of either party usually fill the seat. Capozzi is a Republican and Lin is a Democrat.
available. Gutmann’s seven-figure salary follows a trend noted in higher education of late, where university presidents are compensated in a manner similar to CEOs or Wall Street executives. Over 50 percent of Gutmann’s compensation in 2015 came in the form of bonuses, performance-based incentive pay and deferred compensation. “Across a hugely complex institution, Dr. Gutmann had substantially met each
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Rising Engineering and Wharton sophomore Mason Mings sustained a traumatic brain injury after falling 25-30 feet from the second story of Ware College House on May 11. He is currently with his family at his hometown of Houston, where he is receiving inpatient rehabilitation at The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research Memorial Hermann.
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Mings’s mother, Kara Mings, told The Daily Pennsylvanian that although it is unclear when her son would be returning to school, he is currently being assessed by the doctors and is “on his way to recovery.” A GoFundMe page was created this past Thursday — exactly a week after Mings’s accident — with the intention of raising $40,000 to cover the costs of “his staying in ICU as well as the Air Ambulance, which is not covered by insurance,” according to the page. In the three SEE FALL PAGE 5
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