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It’s getting hot in here

Campus dorms to start transition from AC to heat JEFFREY CAREYVA Deputy News Editor

As nightly temperatures begin to drop below 50 degrees, Penn buildings move to say goodbye to the summer and begin the fall

transition from air conditioning to heating.

Residential Services, College House and Academic Services and Facilities and Real Estate Services work in conjunction to prepare campus buildings to turn on the heat. But the process is not instantaneous, instead taking one to two weeks.

This fall, FRES began the transition process on Oct. 8, and all heating systems should be confirmed to be operational by Oct. 21. Last year, the process began on Oct. 17 and lasted until Oct. 24.

“The temperature is not something black or white, it depends on the amount of volatility we see in the weather. But a rule of thumb

might be at about 55 degrees for a series of days and a trend of declining temperatures,” said Ken Ogawa, Executive Director of Operations and Maintenance at FRES. First, multiple teams from FRES work to shut off the chilled water that feeds into the heating and SEE HEAT PAGE 7

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FOOD PLAY

Kelly Writers House hosts Edible Books event

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On Tuesday night, the Kelly Writers House encouraged students to judge books by their edible covers.

This year’s Edible Books event once again promoted food play and brought together numerous creative interpretations of literary favorites. Open to students, staff, faculty and the local community, the event was held for the sixth consecutive year for food and literature enthusiasts alike.

“Sometimes the food play is on the name of the book, sometimes it’s on the name of the author and sometimes it’s not a

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pun at all,” Kelly Writers House Program Coordinator Alli Katz said. “Sometimes it can mean a food sculptural representation: A couple of years ago someone did ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and had caterpillars on cupcakes.”

Some of this year’s entries were on the punnier side, according to Katz, such as “Tequila Mockingbird,” “Ketchup in the Pie” and “Anna Carrotnina.”

“The food puns can be both things that you’d want to eat, but also sometimes things you don’t.

Last year there was a single raisin in a bun,” Katz said, referencing “A Raisin in the Sun.” After a long round of casting votes for awards ranging from “Most Literal” to “Most SEE EDIBLE BOOKS PAGE 10

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The perks of being a Penn employee: adults who take classes at Penn Classes are an opportunity to meet a younger generation ISABEL KIM Deputy News Editor

… I wish to see courts upholding the law strictly as it is written rather than their own visions of justice and morality …”

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Taking a class full of freshmen when you’re a senior might be a weird experience, but it’s much stranger when you’re an adult and you’re in a class full of undergraduates.

Penn employees often take classes, both LPS and not, at Penn, because they are allowed to take up to two classes for free, a perk that many take advantage of.

“Especially young professionals at Penn,” NAME said, who works in the School of Engineering as a NAME. “I know lots of people who got masters degrees in their spare time. My old office manager finished her undergraduate degree while working full time.”

She is currently taking Art, Design, and Digital Culture to learn more graphics and web skills in order to help her in her career and augment her skill set.

And different people have different reasons for coming back to school, whether it be to earn a degree or simply to learn more skills for their career.

For example, Marcia Klafter, who is currently taking anthropology 141 used to be a consultant for

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In some larger classes, it may be hard to notice that some students aren’t undergraduates.

the state of PA and always wanted to major in anthropology but never got the chance. Now that she’s retired, she works as a docent in the

museum and is taking classes in the subject at Penn.

But still, getting a degree, or taking college classes on a college

campus is very different from the “college experience,” and being SEE ADULTS PAGE 10

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Students find a home away from home in culture clubs Clubs connect members to personal heritage LILY ZANDI Staff Reporter

For Penn students with international backgrounds, cultural organizations make home seem a little closer.

While clubs such as Penn Persian Society, Penn Arab Student Society, Penn Taiwanese Society, Wharton Middle East North Africa Club and UPenn Italian Club may be unknown to students who do not share any of these backgrounds, students involved can find peers with the same heritage and remain connected to their culture.

The clubs, however, have different ways of accomplishing their goals.

During general body meetings, club members often

perform ice breakers to facilitate conversation and social connection. Outside of GBMs, activities vary based off of the purpose of the club. MENA, for example, is more oriented around establishing professional connections by hosting speaker series and networking events, while PTS and Penn Persians focus on creating a nurturing environment where students can look to other students for support and mentorship.

Members of the Italian Club, on the other hand, venture off of Penn’s campus and into the heart of Philadelphia to seek connection to their culture.

For example, the club visited the Italian Market in South Philadelphia to learn about the century-long history of Italian Market shop owners and indulge in its native cuisine.

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Last month, Penn Taiwanese Society celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in an event open to all students.

Members also had the opportunity to practice speaking Italian.

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For Penn Persians, GBMs are the bulk of their activities as a club. While the club also participates in conferences with other cultural organizations, the main purpose is for Iranian students to meet and get to know each other.

“The club acts as a support group for Persian students looking to find others who share a similar cultural identity,” Penn Persians President Vahid Hoshmand said.

In addition to the events that they plan as individual clubs, all of Penn’s cultural organizations come together for an event called the Night Market, in which they unite over performances and cuisine. Each year, nearly 300 people attend.

Another common activity during GBMs is to discuss the current events in their home

country and their implications on the Penn and global perception of their native country.

“We also try to discuss some aspects of Taiwanese culture, as well as broader issues that Asian Americans face, both in the college context, as well as in the greater context around the world,” PTS Co-President Will Wang said.

Pen n Pe r sia n s fo cu s e s on how they can promote awareness on the complex relationship between Iran and America.

“We separate Persian culture from politics surrounding the Iranian government and thereby show people what it is like to be Iranian American,” Hoshmand said.

The cultural clubs also provide an academic and professional support network. In

the UPenn Italian Club, members exchange infor mation about Italian courses. MENA fost er s con ne ct ions w it h alumni that are CEOs or consultants for firms in the Middle East.

All of the cultural clubs emphasize that they are not limited to students of that particular background. In order to truly promote understanding and exude pride for their heritage, clubs unanimously agree that it is important to include students of all backgrounds and cultures in their club events.

Ray Pomponio, president of UPenn Italian Club, confirmed that his club is not limited to Italian students, saying “we do our best to introduce aspects of this culture to Penn students in a way that is enjoyable and gratifying.”

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Penn prof. stresses influence of genes on criminal behavior Adrian Raine doubts notion of free will WILLIAM SNOW Contributing Reporter

Does man have free will? Perhaps not, according to professor Adrian Raine.

So what, then, decides the course of a human’s life? Raine offered his answer to the question at an event called “The Anatomy of Violence: Dissecting the Biological Roots of Crime,” put on by the Penn Lightbulb Cafe on Oct. 20.

As the world of science develops and discovers at an ever-increasing pace, many scientists have begun researching the brain, which has been deemed the final frontier of human anatomy. Recent discoveries show that the characteristics of an individual’s brain can be linked to one’s

predisposition to committing violent crime and other vices.

The prefrontal cortex, Raine explained, harbors the majority of a person’s personality, decision-making and social behavior. Through both genetic and environmental factors, this area of the brain, as well as others, can be drastically altered in violent criminals and psychopaths.

One example he gave was that when mothers smoke during pregnancy, their babies are more than three times as likely as babies of non-smoking mothers to commit violent crime. Mothers who practice poor nutrition during a pregnancy yield children with two and a half times the likelihood to commit violent crime.

The important question Raine raised after making this point regarded the burden of responsibility. If an alcoholic mother

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has a child with a defective brain who eventually commits a crime, who should pay the price?

“I don’t think we have agency,” Raine said. “I don’t think we have free will. We are gene machines. We think we make decisions, but our brains are programmed to make these

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decisions. So if the brain is molded and sculpted and shaped by genes, early childhood and the lot, should man be responsible for his behavior? That’s a deep, deep question.”

The presence of such pressing moral and ethical issues resonated with the audience. College freshman Courteney Ly, who had to read Raine’s book for her writing seminar, took a new perspective from the talk.

“We tend to look at criminals and judge them as particularly bad people for making bad decisions,” Ly said. “But what we don’t realize is that often they can’t help what they’re doing.”

Such a new point of view was welcomed by Raine’s audience in the World Cafe. Many people said they felt enlightened by several of the points raised in the talk.

“What I thought was really interesting was the fact professor

Raine showed that who we consider to be criminals and heroes actually have a lot of similarities,” Ly continued. “They both have abnormally low heart rates, and they both have this sense of fearlessness. That’s really interesting because, depending on the social environment, the same person could go down either path.”

While biology and genetics play a huge role in determining a person’s predisposition to certain scenarios, one’s environment could be pivotal in finalizing the outcome.

Professor Raine left his listeners by challenging them to apply the knowledge from his talk to do what they could to foster healthy social environments.

“The social environment is critical,” Raine said. “Let’s not forget that. That’s something we can change.”

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OPINION Un-cruel and unusual TALKING BACKWARD | An originalist case against the death penalty

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Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in two cases challenging the constitutionality of specific impositions of the death penalty.

Both Montgomery v. Louisiana and Hurst v. Florida concern procedural technicalities rather than the broad issue of whether the Eighth Amendment forbids capital punishment. Nevertheless, many in the legal community who hold strong opinions on that issue are watching the cases closely.

There are two main reasons for this: Firstly, there is the fact that in his dissenting opinion in Glossip v. Gross, decided at the end of last term, Justice Stephen Breyer — who often speaks for the court’s four-member liberal wing — wondered aloud about the overall constitutionality of capital punishment. Since a minority vote of four out of nine justices can bring a case before the court, many read the opinion as an invitation to bring such a case. Secondly, there is the

fact that the past few weeks have seen a spike in activity within America’s death chambers. Since the beginning of September, there have been five executions carried out in the U.S., and two last-minute postponements.

As an irresolute libertarian generally suspicious of government’s competency and good faith, I tend to philosophically oppose the

ten rather than their own visions of justice and morality; I am broadly suspicious of theories of “living constitutionalism” which assert that judges should continually re-interpret the meaning of constitutional text in order to align its mandates with their own visions of “contemporary morality.” I contend that to do so would concentrate far too much power over policy in the hands of unelected

To any reasonable person, whether born in 1990 or 1790, the death penalty of 2006 looks rare.” death penalty, thinking it unwise to give the state power to take away an individual’s life, especially since the punishment cannot be undone if erroneous.

However, as one resolutely committed to democracy and the rule of law, I wish to see courts upholding the law strictly as it is writ-

judges.

In the contemporary legal atmosphere, such convictions align me loosely with the “originalist” school of theory, which contends that text and history are the only legitimate lenses through which to view constitutional questions, and that deference should be given to the

“original public meaning” of the Constitution. Since nobody in 1791 understood the Eighth Amendment to prohibit executions, and since the Fifth Amendment explicitly condones state takings of life, provided due process, originalists contend that the Constitution permits the death penalty.

I can’t help but think, however, that the popular originalist theory of what “cruel and unusual punishment” means places undue emphasis on the original meaning of “cruel” as opposed to “unusual.” And while capital punishment almost certainly does not meet the 1791 definition of cruelty, I think there is good reason to suspect that it may meet the 1791 definition of unusuality.

Thomas Sheridan’s “Complete Dictionary of the English Language,” published in 1790, defines “unusual” as “not common, infrequent, rare.” What is significant about this definition is not its precision, but rather its demand for context; some-

thing can only be rare or uncommon in a particular space and time. Trees are rare in the Sahara desert, but not in New Hampshire. Capital punishment was indubitably common in 1789, but is it today?

In short, no. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 8,760 people were convicted of murder or nonnegligent manslaughter in 2006, the last year for which there are comprehensive figures on state convictions. Of these, only 173 were sentenced to die. In other words, the likelihood of being sentenced to death for killing someone in 2006 was 2 percent. Death sentences become even more erratic in appearance when one takes into account welldemonstrated racial imbalances in their application and the fact that all of the death sentences imposed since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated, have resulted from cases originating in just 20 percent of U.S. counties. To any reasonable person, whether born in 1990 or 1790, the death penalty of

Alec Ward 2006 looks rare. To an originalist of integrity, this has to be significant.

I wish to conclude by apologizing for the gross over-generalizations I have employed throughout this piece. In my defense, I offer only the claim that real constitutional theorists perhaps have editors less ruthlessly concise than mine.

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard.

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The celebration of affinities is not something that needs to be scheduled in order to be recognized or appreciated. We do not have to wait until a specific time of year or for history to be made to recognize excellence that takes place on a daily basis. This “moment” is solely dedicated to black women.

The intersection of this double minority, being black and being a woman, is a weight like no other. But think of it like resistance training — running with this weight, we become that much stronger pushing forward.

Our resilience is unparalleled and that is one of many reasons that our greatness cannot be suppressed or ignored.

As a young black woman, I am infinitely proud and cannot contain my smile as I think of the phenomenal women that have come before me, those who contribute to the world today and those of us that are developing our own contributions.

We are leading ladies in

just about everything, whether it be literature, performing arts, sports, science, business, education or medicine. The list goes on. You name it,

who did what first, but simply to highlight an aspect of the depth of black women’s excellence.

Although I’ve drawn atten-

study that cannot be mastered by a black woman. Viola Davis becoming the first black woman to receive an Emmy for Best Leading Actress in a

[Black women] are leading ladies in just about everything, whether it be literature, performing arts, sports, science, business education or medicine.” there are black women bringing talent to that field.

Historically speaking, I believe it’s important to note that many of the black women that boast such large accomplishments not only contributed to their own community but made moves for society in general. Did you know that the first self-made female millionaire was a black woman (Madame C.J. Walker)? Or that it was black women that invented the first home security system (Marie V. Brittan Brown) and instruments for laser eye surgery (Patricia Bath)? This is not to focus on

tion to women in the professional world, the excellence doesn’t just come from the title. It stems from the empowerment and inspiration that these women evoke in excelling. Essence Magazine’s recent profile of the 29 black women in the Obama administration — including the United States’ first black female attorney general Loretta Lynch — is a reminder that there is no ceiling over success. Jedidah Isler becoming the first black woman to attain a doctorate in astrophysics from Yale is a reminder that there is no area of

drama is a reminder that our talent is not solely celebrated by our own people.

Thinking about the beautiful force that black women exude, especially among those I personally know, my smile widens. Family members and friends mirror the aforementioned societal inspirations. At the same time, consider the very women that attend this university.

Among my friends who are black women, there are future doctors, businesswomen, engineers, psychologists and leaders in the media industry. While working toward

professional goals, we are also accomplishing the exceptional feats of working on start-ups, creating and running businesses, volunteering and utilizing other platforms for our talents.

One particular platform that is being utilized this upcoming weekend is theater.

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ABROAD Making friends overseas isn’t so easy JESSICA MCDOWELL Staff Reporter

In a school of 10,000 undergraduates, many students find that they have solidified the majority of their friends by the end of their freshman or sophomore years. But for students studying abroad, the experience often comes with the extra challenge of being forced to find new friends more than halfway through their college experience.

College junior Rebecca Brown, who is studying at Kings College London this semester, made the trip “without really knowing” anyone on her program. While she said that she had taken classes with a few people or recognized some names or faces from other campus activities, she would not have considered herself friends with anyone on her program.

“During orientation week I was just trying to meet as many people as possible, but traveling in huge groups of people was leaving me feeling pretty empty,” Brown said.

New place, new friends: Students build relationships abroad

“Our paths had crossed so many times it was like the opposite of love at first sight. It was like love at 300th sight,” Gilbert-Lurie joked.

In terms of actually making friends while abroad, though, Brown found the experience a bit different from what she had seen at Penn. “The biggest difference from freshman year, though, is that the whole experience feels very temporary. I feel like when I finally get completely settled in, it’ll be time to leave for the semester,” she said.

For Brown, that makes her friendship with Gilbert-Lurie even more authentic. “What has been so great about our friendship is that there’s nothing temporary about it — we get to see each other for the rest of college, and that rocks,” she said.

Gilbert-Lurie echoed Brown’s sentiments. “The stress of being abroad, like not knowing which way to look when you cross the street or being lost literally all the time, really mimics that vibe of freshman year where you’re sort of just thrown into it and left to flail until you figure it out,” she said.

Gilbert-Lurie and Brown are not alone. College juniors Anna

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College juniors Anna Garson and Sofia Demopolos on a weekend trip to Venice.

“Very much a flashback to freshman NSO.” The emptiness vanished when one night Brown was separated from the rest of the group and found herself with College junior Mikaela Gilbert-Lurie and two other students on the program.

At the time, Gilbert-Lurie was another one of those vaguely familiar faces to Brown. Now the two banter through our conversation as if they’ve known each other for years. They even have a list of random ways they had crossed paths at Penn before going to London. Among them are both participating in Penn Quest as freshmen, sitting next to each other at a fraternity’s date night and attending Rosh Hashana services together. Brown even admitted that she followed Gilbert-Lurie’s blog over the summer before they met.

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Garson, an associate copy editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian, and Sofia Demopolos met for the first time this semester in Paris. By the end of the semester, they will have traveled to four different cities around Europe together.

When asked how their friendship differs from friendships they’ve experienced at Penn, Demopolos said “Well, I would probably not have planned four weekend trips with someone I met a month ago if we were at home. But that’s definitely part of going abroad.”

Demopolos and Garson also described an uncomfortable incident when they encountered a man following them on a train in Venice, and how experiencing that together became a strengthening force in their friendship.

“I don’t even know what the equivalent of that would be with

someone at Penn simply because we wouldn’t be in a totally different environment and we would know how to call the police,” Demopolos said. “And it’s definitely a way this friendship has differed from others because that was super awful and I don’t think I’ve had an experience like that with a friend before.”

Though Garson and Demopolos and Brown and Gilbert-Lurie have experienced close friendships in the context of being abroad, they have all only experienced those friendships away from Penn. While none of them expressed real concerns about staying in touch once the semester is over, they did admit that it would be different.

College seniors Emily Vidal, Vince Cooper and Rolanda Evelyn have figured out how to make their abroad friendship last after they returned from Seville, Spain last fall.

Like the other groups of friends, none of them had crossed paths before meeting in Spain. “I remember meeting both Vince and Rolanda in the lobby of the hotel we stayed in for the first week. We were all just chatting and getting to know each other and we just clicked right away!” Vidal said.

Evelyn said that traveling together while abroad brought out different aspects of their friendship — something she was reminded of when the group traveled to the University of Michigan over fall break to reunite with some other students who participated in their study abroad program.

“I realized as study abroad friends we had frequented airports and dealt with logistics and cabs so much. Like so many of our experiences together were exploring new cities and going to new places,” Evelyn said. “And it’s just different — you learn different things about these people than, say, what you would learn about them from being in a class together or living on their hall,” she added.

Vidal agreed, saying that being in such a different environment changed the way she bonded with people. “You’re dealing with culture shock, a language barrier, being excited about studying abroad but at the same time feeling homesick and being really frustrated sometimes with the environment you’re in,” she said.

In terms of keeping their friendship alive after their abroad semester ended, Evelyn said she thinks they have done a good job. “There was a large group of us from Penn so obviously we couldn’t all always see each other, but I would say Emily, Vince and I have stayed pretty close,” she said.

“We actually have a standing date tomorrow.”

For Vidal, the friendships she made while abroad were so strong that they put some of her friendships that existed at Penn into a different perspective. “I wouldn’t

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College seniors Rolanda Evelyn, Vince Cooper and Emily Vidal met studying abroad in Seville, Spain.

say that my study abroad friends became my only social priority when I came back, and I wouldn’t say that my pre-abroad relationships became necessarily weaker.

More that I kind of looked at my

relationships from a different perspective after coming back and decided to keep some people in my life more than others,” she said.

“It really made me think about the kinds of people I wanted as

friends when I came back because I went through so much with the people I was abroad with and they were all just so supportive the entire time,” she added. “We were really like a family.”

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cooling systems of every building on campus, which then turns off the air conditioning. This process alone is more complex than quickly turning off a few valves, and precautions must be taken.

“It’s a careful process,” FRES Energy Planner Andrew Zarynow said. “When steam is introduced into buildings too quickly, what happens is that the hot water in pipes can form into a ‘slug’ that moves through the pipe so fast that it can reach ballistic speeds.” Transitioning slowly prevents any such thing from happening.

Once chilled water is taken care of, the temperatures of the systems in each building need about a week to normalize. Heating systems, which are steam-powered, can then be activated and additional hot water circulates throughout each building — residents can begin to feel the heat soon after.

The entire transition process is monitored by FRES and small adjustments are made to the computer-regulated heating systems after hot water has begun to move through buildings.

The exact timing of the transition to heat is determined by FRES, RS and CHAS to best assure “everyone’s optimal comfort.” Residential Services Manager Erin Doby said in an email that “individual comfort levels are subjective, and indoor temperatures vary by building, and even depend on where your room is located.”

Residential Services sent the first emails notifying students of the upcoming transition to heat on Oct. 1.

Determining when to transition to heat or air conditioning is sometimes a challenge because of regular fluctuations in temperature during spring and fall months — what FRES calls “shoulder seasons.”

And as seasons change, so do energy and steam usage across campus.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2015 “We transfer from high electricity and low steam usage in the summer to higher steam usage in the winter, and electricity [usage] tends to stabilize for a period in the winter,” Ken said. “Electricity never drops to zero, because you still need to power basic things in the buildings like elevators and lighting.”

Electricity usage is mostly driven by occupancy, Ogawa said. Penn sees some of the highest energy-usage during exam season, as lights are kept on longer to study. Steam usage, however, is determined by weather and temperature.

However, it remains above zero throughout warm months because warm water is still needed for things like cooking and bathing.

“The systems in Penn buildings are significantly more complicated than what you would see in a house — there’s much more equipment, much more of a regimented procedure to transition, and it just takes time,” Zarynow said.

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Peace Corps attracts members of Penn community Penn graduates choose unorthodox career paths JENNA WANG Contributing Reporter

Upon arriving home one afternoon to find a large yellow snake on her wall, Wharton MBA Lila Holzman grabbed her machete and chopped its head clean off.

It was life as usual for Holzman, who was volunteering abroad in rural Panama with the Peace Corps. Run by the United States government, the Peace Corps is a volunteering organization that sends young people to developing countries overseas to expand cultural boundaries.

Holzman had always been interested in the intersection between environmental sciences and international development.

She studied environmental engineering as an undergraduate at Rice University and worked for three years afterwards at a solar energy start-up. She decided to join the Peace Corps after hearing about the

experiences some of her coworkers had in the program.

Peace Corps sent her to rural Panama, where she lived in a completely different world from what she had been used to — no electricity, no running water and limited internet access. Holzman spoke Spanish every day with the villagers and engaged in various community-building tasks, from composting with locals to attending birthday parties. She learned from the ground up how to adjust to a new culture and community.

While Holzman had always been active in community service, not all Peace Corps members came from a background of volunteering. Keith Mangam, 2008 Penn graduate, was on a very different path before he found Peace Corps.

A chemical engineer, Mangam was working as a management consultant in New York when his life took an unexpected turn. “[I] visited a friend who was doing a language fellowship in Cairo my first year after

Penn,” Mangam said. “Seeing him being completely fluent in Arabic and so well integrated into a foreign culture really made me understand how little I knew about the world, and how much I wanted to experience living abroad, helping people who are less fortunate.”

Mangam applied to the Peace Corps shortly thereafter and was sent to Burkina Faso, a country he hadn’t known even existed before his trip. Living in sweltering 110-degree weather for 26 months, he learned everything from speaking the local Jula language of his village to sharing “bush taxis” with ch ickens a nd sheep squeezed in around him for company.

“When you’re dropped off in that village and the car pulls away and you’re sitting in the hut all by yourself, you’re basically like an infant relearning how to walk, how to eat, how to talk to people. It’s completely different,” Mangam said. “It ended up changing my entire opinion of what I wanted to do with my life.”

After returning from his trip, Mangam changed his career path and attended graduate school to study developmental economics. After graduation, he worked with the World Bank in Burkina Faso, and now works for a public policy and business research firm in D.C. At Penn, where most students go on to work corporate jobs or attend professional schools after graduation, joining the Peace Corps can feel like going out on a limb. However, this hasn’t deterred some current students interested in a career in community service from pursuing their goals.

Wharton junior Raina Searles is strongly considering doing Peace Corps or a similar service opportunity after graduation.

“A lot of my friends in Wharton are going for banking or consulting internships, getting ready for OCR, and I’m kind of on this different path to service organizations,” Searles said.

“But what I have found is that taking a step back allows me to find a lot of people who do share similar interests. It’s not

necessarily that everyone is going a different way — it’s that you have to find people who are going the same way as you.”

But while Peace Corps may be the path less taken, it comes with its own unique set of challenges. Holzman recalled sometimes struggling with a “sense of loneliness,” being the only American for miles around. She also encountered some cultural shocks while in rural Panama. Her host father was years older than her, but his wife, a mother of four, was younger than Holzman. Additionally, birth control was not widely available or used in the rural areas of Panama, so some women in the village had as many as 12 children. Holzman remembers the locals being shocked to hear that she only had one sister.

Holzman and Mangam agree

that the best thing is to enter Peace Corps without preformed expectations.

“Have more goals [instead], like what you want to learn from the experience and what you hope to bring in terms of support to the communities,” Mangam said.

“If you go in thinking you can solve the world’s most complicated problems quickly and easily, you will become jaded,” Holzman said. “There’s never a silver bullet to a complicated problem.”

Having approached her time in Panama with an open mind, Holzman came back armed with valuable experiences that fueled her interests in international development.

“I loved [my experience with Peace Corps] and I learned a lot,” she said. “The challenges were worth it.”

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Architectural,” the prizes were presented with recipe books, oven mitts, cookie cutters and other kitchen appliances.

“Bridge to Terrabithia,” which won “Most Architectural,” featured a bridge made of Terra vegetable chips and pretzel sticks.

“Communist Man in Pesto,” which won “Most Creative,” featured a bowl of penne pasta with pesto sauce and a printed picture of Karl Marx.

While some were long-time Edible Books attendees, some participated in the event for the

first time. “I saw the event on Facebook, and since my roommate did it last year, I decided to come,” College senior Valeria Dubovoy said. Dubovoy, along with Wharton senior Penny Deans and College senior Gabrielle Abramowitz, submitted three group entries: “1980 s’mores,” “Chicken Tender is the Night” — which won “Most Literal” — and “Tequila Mockingbird.”

College senior Nina Friend, who won a prize at last year’s Edible Books for her “Steven Cobbs Cornography,” submitted “Lime and Punish-mints” and “Henry the Fifth.” “I had 20 minutes after my class today and

decided to enter because I was coming tonight anyway, and these ideas are what came to mind,” Friend said.

Edible Books is just one of many of Kelly Writers House’s events, the majority of which are open to the public. “We had open mic night, a once-a-month event, done almost since the beginning of Writers House, which is now nearly 20 years old,” Director Jessica Lowenthal said. “This year, the student leaders decided they wanted to introduce themed nights.” The venue also recently added a studio to record visiting authors and even student-run podcasts.

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NAME, who “got talked back into” going to school, found that it was “very weird,” saying that he was often “older than the instructor by a good five or six years.” And while he had initially heard that many Penn undergrads were “pretentious and yuppie types,” he found that while he doesn’t necessarily interact extensively with most of the student body, apart from the oddness of tak-

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McCurdy: Americone Dream.

Mason: Never even heard of that.

McCurdy: [It’s] obscure, Ben and Jerry's.

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McCurdy: That’s pretty good.

Yeah, that’s probably right, everything else is closed.

McCurdy: I’d probably go same for you. You gotta be close to the crepes.

Mason: Yeah, that’s mine.

McCurdy: Redemption.

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make plays on the ball decrease. That being said, his ability to take away part of the field has helped enable the Red and Blue defense to force 10 turnovers thus far — on pace for significantly more than last season’s total of 14.

Throw in a sack and 20 total tackles to his name, and the rookie has put together quite an impressive resume.

In fact, those 20 tackles are seventh on the team, second among defensive backs, more than all but one defensive lineman and better than any other freshman defender at any position.

Williams has talent and has

Discussing Penn Athletics... with more personal pronouns In a roundtable last week, we discussed who was the MVP of Penn Athletics thus far. Unsurprisingly, no freshmen came up in the conversation. However, when the end of year awards roll around for just about every athletic league, MVP and Rookie of the Year are mentioned in close to the same breath.

With that said, it’s the perfect time for us to address the question, “Who is Penn Athletics’ Rookie of the Year thus far for the fall season?”

Sports Editor Colin Henderson: I’m gonna have to go with Penn volleyball’s Courtney Quinn.

I know that Quinn may be flying under a lot of people’s radars playing for one of the Red and Blue’s more lowprofile programs, but that was certainly not the case throughout her high school career.

In her final two years, her team finished an astounding 86-3, and she was recognized personally as Lonestar Prep Volleyball Texas Player of the Year as a senior.

Of course, it will take a while for her collegiate resume to stack up to her prior accomplishments, but she has certainly gotten off to a strong start. With her smart play, she has won over coach Kerry Carr and has accordingly played in each of the Quakers’ 70 sets this season. As a freshman, Quinn ranks fifth in kills and fourth in digs.

Quietly, she has built her reputation as one of the most promising Ivy League players in her class, all within a seniorladen Red and Blue system.

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well as the passing game.”

Yet, no team is perfect , and the Quakers are looking to exploit holes they’ve found in Army’s defense to give them any advantage.

“Last year they double-covered me a good amount,” Mason said.

“It looks like there are not men in the box against the run, so if we can establish the ground game it opens up the rest of the offense for us.”

With two consecutive wins under their belt and an impressive season overall, the Red and Blue should not be counted out.

“We’d like to get off to a fast start, which is something we’ve been doing,” Wagner said. “We really have to win the battle in the trenches which is going to be a tough battle because defensively they’re very strong, and their offense isn’t bad either.”

Penn currently sits second in the Collegiate Sprint Football League and still has much potential keep its strong position down the final stretch of the season. Although the season will not end for another two weeks, Friday night will be do or die for the Quakers.

“There’s a lot of things that have to happen for us to win,” Wagner said. “We have to play a perfect game, and there’s no reason why it can’t happen Friday night.”

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quietly been proving so one game at a time.

Sports Editor Holden McGinnis: I’ve got to go with Sasha Stephens on this one.

While Penn women’s soccer has had a rather inconsistent season, starting 4-1-1 before going on a five-game scoreless streak, Stephens has been one of the Quakers’ top offensive weapons.

The freshman introduced herself to collegiate women’s soccer with a bang in the team’s opener against Seton Hall with a pair of goals, earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors. More recently, Stephens earned that very same

honor for the second time this season after scoring another two goals in a win over American. It remains to be seen if the La Mesa, Calif., native can find the back of the net consistently, but the results have been encouraging so far.

Overall, Stephens has been the team’s leading scorer to this point in the season with 4 goals and ranks 10th in the Ivy League in points. The Quakers are still a team where goals come from a variety of places — 11 different players have scored in 2015 — but Stephens is beginning to look like a dynamic young scorer who can lead the team in the future.

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Penn football’s defense has had its fair share of ups and down this season, but freshman Mason Williams has stood out in the secondary.

However, her time playing a supporting role should be limited, especially given Penn’s total lack of a junior class.

That’s right — next year, the Quakers will have no seniors.

But they’ll be in good hands nonetheless.

Associate Sports Editor Thomas Munson: Mason Williams may not be the flashiest

freshman athlete on campus this fall, but he has surely been the best. But, the Pasadena, Calif., native may get overlooked because honestly lockdown defensive backs can be easy to forget.

When he does his job and blankets receivers, the ball doesn’t come his way as often and so his opportunities to

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losing any sleep over the dark times of the 2010 campaign. “I do remember it vividly,� Fink said of the 2010 Drexel game. “But the girls on the team don’t, nor do they care. We don’t bring it up. I don’t talk about it with the girls at all.�

As important as it is to move on, a gentle reminder can help put the program’s development in perspective, especially given that this year’s squad looks stronger than it ever has. Under Fink, the Quakers have seen improvement in every season excluding last year.

So while a single game cannot define the performance of an entire program, the Red and Blue’s upcoming tilt with the Dragons could shed a little light on how far Penn field hockey has come with Fink at the helm. “It’s two totally different teams,�

Fink said. “It’s a completely different program, so we’re not too worried about it. But the staff and I were just discussing how different it is now.�

The success of this year’s team has drawn few comparisons to that

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Coach Colleen Fink remembers the last time Penn and Drexel faced off, five years ago when the Quakers were in a very different position as a program. The Red and Blue lost to Drexel, 7-0, amidst a 3-14 season, before any members of this current team were at Penn.

of five years ago. Ambitions are high amongst the players as they sit in second in the Ivy League and are on track to finish with their best record during Fink’s tenure as head

coach.

A slight damper was put on the Quakers’ current campaign when their nine-game win streak ended at the hands of Columbia

last Friday in a double-overtime thriller, but the Red and Blue rebounded quickly with an overtime winner of their own against Bucknell on Sunday. Drexel presents yet another opportunity for Penn to maintain its winning ways. “I think our goal for this season

is to win from here out,� junior defender Claire Kneizys said. “The Columbia game was a tough loss, but I think that’s only made us come back on fire.�

The surge in intensity that comes with any crosstown rivalry match will serve the Red and Blue well

as they look for a second wind to get the season back on track. The Quakers have beaten every City 6 team they have played so far, and the Dragons are the final obstacle in the way of Penn’s claim to Philadelphia field hockey dominance. “We’re looking to make this Penn’s city,� Kneizys said.

As always, Penn will be looking to sophomore phenomenon Alexa Hoover to start off the scoring. The Collegeville, Pa., native has already tallied 23 goals for the Red and Blue this season, equalling Drexel’s entire team total.

For the Quakers, faith runs deep in Hoover, but having just come off a weekend doubleheader and with an Ancient Eight matchup against Yale coming this Saturday, Penn must keep an eye on the big picture as it goes about its training and gameplay this week. Fink takes pride in the team’s fitness, but the Quakers might look to utilize their depth coming off the bench in their game against Drexel.

Either way, Fink’s team has all the means to win this game and the next. So as long as there are no haunting memories of 2010 holding it back, Penn will look to regain its momentum as this season winds down and, in the process, perhaps remind Drexel that the Penn field hockey dynasty is here to stay.

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The coach isn’t just being polite. Cornell, the only team mathematically out of the running at 0-7, put a scare into Penn at the Palestra, won the first two sets against both 5-2 teams (Yale and Harvard) and took the opening set against Dartmouth, which sits atop the Ancient Eight at 6-1.

And Dartmouth’s lone defeat?

It didn’t come against Harvard or four-time defending-champion Yale, but at the hands of Carr’s Quakers, who swept the Big Green in their own gym in Hanover.

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Brown, featured a 30-28 opening set. The trend is league-wide: Of the 28 Ivy matches played thus far, 17 have gone at least four sets and seven have gone the distance.

Dartmouth leads the league with 16.9 points per set, but three other teams are within a halfpoint of that total, and winless Cornell is fewer than two points behind.

“In a league that has a bunch of highs and lows, the most consistent team is going to be the one coming out on top,” Carr said.

If the Quakers want to be that team for the first time since 2010, they can start by tightening up their attacking play. Penn ranks dead-last in the league with a .156 hitting percentage.

“Our style of offense is pretty risky and aggressive,” Carr said after the loss to Brown last Saturday.

With one game remaining against each team, Penn will have a chance to avenge each of its four losses and build on its three wins. Having scoped out the competition firsthand, the

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FIELD HOCKEY | Penn hopes for different result than last meeting ANDREW ZHENG Contributing Reporter

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Junior defender Claire Kneizys will play a key role as Penn takes on Drexel tonight.

A short memory can be a useful At Drexel tool in the sporting (6-8) world. And as Penn field hockey readies 7 p.m.

Philadelphia, Pa. itself for a crosstown match with Drexel this Wednesday, a little forgetfulness will go a long way.

A look at the last time the Quakers (10-2) and the Dragons (6-8) faced each other in competitive play brings us back to 2010 during Colleen Fink’s first season as head coach, a period in which Penn was in dire need of direction.

Flashback to five years ago — the Red and Blue are carrying an eight-game losing streak on their shoulders as they begin the short bus trip to Drexel. On the other hand, the Dragons are coming into the city rivalry fresh off their seventh straight win. A 70-minute onslaught ensues, and Penn is sent packing with a 7-0 loss.

The Quakers would go on to finish that season with a 3-14 record that included two 10-0 thrashings at the hands of Yale and Princeton.

The earliest memories of today’s Penn seniors, however, only go as far back as the 2012 season, meaning that anything further back has survived solely through Fink and her coaching staff, who don’t seem to be TONIGHT

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TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor

The story of the 2015 Ivy League volleyball campaign has been one of balance and

unpredictability.

After one turn through the Ivy League, Penn Volleyball sits at 3-4. Four losses halfway through a season would normally knock a team out of title contention, to say the least. The Ivy champion has not finished with more than two losses over an entire

season since 2004.

But this year is different.

The Quakers may be 3-4, but so are half of the teams in the league (Princeton, Brown, Columbia in addition to Penn), and no team has managed to completely pull away from the pack.

So at the midway point of

the season, the Quakers are down, but — somehow — not out.

“It’s the first time in a long time that I’ve seen this much parity, from top to bottom,” said Penn coach Kerry Carr, now in the midst of her 18th season at the helm for the Red and Blue.

And, as Carr pointed out, the crowded standings don’t represent any sort of a fluke.The teams themselves have, from point to point, proven to be quite equal. Any match is anybody’s match to win.

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Penn tightens its chin straps to take on Black Knights SPRINT FB | Red and

Blue face tall task ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Senior Sports Reporter FRIDAY

Army (5-0) 7 p.m.

West Point, N.Y.

In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president for the first time, Michael Phelps won eight gold medals in Beijing, Heath Ledger died, Eliot Spitzer resigned over a prostitution scandal and “No Country for Old Men” won Best Picture at the Oscars.

And Penn sprint football beat Army.

This Friday, the Quakers

(4-1) return to the road, venturing up to West Point to take on Army’s (5-0) squad and try to put an end to the nine-year spell. But, the Mules currently sits atop the league with a perfect 5-0 record.

“This is the championship game for us, we have to execute and do our job on offense,” senior wide receiver Henry Mason said.

“If we win the game we win the league, or at least assure a tie,” coach Bill Wagner said.

“We gotta win Friday night.”

However, if history is at all telling, it will be a tough feat to beat Army.

The Quakers boast one of the best offenses in the league, but the squad they will be going up against has proven to be nearly unbreakable this season — the Black Knights have not given up a single

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touchdown this season — a fact not lost on the Red and Blue’s offense.

“We know it’s going to be a struggle,” Mason said. “Army hasn’t let up a point all year so they are obviously the best defense in the league and the team to beat.

“But, you can’t put them up on a pedestal like that, you just have to go out there and trust that we have the ability to beat them.”

The fewest points the Black Knights have put on the board was just last weekend against Franklin Pierce, a 24-point showing in the shutout win.

“I think we can beat ‘em,” Wagner said. “I really do, and our kids think they can win.

We think we have some scoring weapons in the run game as SEE SPRINT FB PAGE 13

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In his three years of playing for the Red and Blue, senior wide receiver Henry Mason has yet to experience the elation of a win over Army, arguably the toughest opponent the Quakers will face all year.

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