October 22, 2014

Qais Iwidat is a senior, but he has only gone home once since coming to Penn.

“We don’t have Star-bucks. But we have ‘Stars and Bucks,’” Qais said of his home in the West Bank, Pal-estine, as he sipped a grande iced coff ee from the Star-bucks at the Penn Bookstore.

He misses his home-made Arabic coff ee, usu-ally thicker and darker than what he can get from a Star-

bucks. The “Stars and Bucks Café,” located in the city of Ramallah, off ers Italian cap-puccinos, Arabic coff ee and hookah, in a country where Starbucks does not exist.

Qais — like a few other international students — was the only one accepted from his country. As of 2014, Penn is home to internation-al students from 69 coun-tries. While countries such as China, India and South Korea have large representa-tions on campus, there are 25 students who are their coun-

tries’ sole representative, ac-cording to the most recent data from fall 2013. They are from Albania, Lithuania, Iraq, Mozambique and Nica-ragua, among others.

Without a defi ned path-way, their experiences before and after coming to Penn diff er — sometimes dra-matically — from those of other international students. Because studying in the U.S. is uncommon in their countries, they have to fi g-ure things out by themselves while educating their parents

about their decision. Once they arrive, they don’t have any immediate support from other students with the same origin. Yet, the feeling of be-ing the selected few gives them high self-expectations that often include giving back to their homes.

For Qais, receiving an ac-ceptance letter from Penn did not guarantee successful enrollment. “You don’t re-ally know if you are allowed to travel from Palestine,” he

Front1

INSIDE

BACK TO FUNDAMENTALS

BACK PAGE

SPORTS

ONLINE

OPINION

BEYOND THE SURFACE

UNIFYING STUDENT ATHLETES

CEO UNCOVERS STRATEGY

Discussing the ways in which intersec-tionality affects students’ mental health

Staff writer Laine Higgins looks at M. Grace Calhoun’s new initiative

Victoria’s Secret CEO showed off the company’s new marketing plans

PAGE 4

BACK PAGE

THEDP.COM

NEWS

ENGINEERS LACKSTUDY SPACEClosure of Towne library has left engineering students in a bind

PAGE 6

Next theme year lacks focus on race, critics sayLOOKING GLASS

Langston Hughes was the only black child in a “white” school before he became an iconic mu-sician during the Harlem Renais-sance. In his autobiography, titled “The Big Sea,” he wrote about what it was like as a black man

growing up in the United States before the civil rights era.

Now, this 74-year-old book, which was selected for the Penn Reading Project next year, is at the heart of criticism from Penn students. Since students were informed of the book selection, some have hoped that the theme year would focus on the themes of

identity and race that were raised in ”The Big Sea.”

They were instead disap-pointed to fi nd out that the theme would be the Year of Discovery. Their disappointment has also raised concerns about the lack of student involvement in choosing the theme year and Penn Reading Project book selections.

“[In] choosing the theme of discovery, I almost feel as if it’s so broad it gives people a way out of approaching these topics altogether,” said College senior Oyinka Muraina , a member of the Penn African Students As-sociation. “Being a person of color is so important in this book, and identity is so important as a

theme in this novel.”Given recent events surround-

ing Ferguson, Miss., and the backlash against some protestors, it’s important to have mandated conversations on race, UMOJA co-chair and College senior Den-zel Cummings said. The theme of discovery has “very little to minimal relation to the amount of

racial issues that are related in the book,” he said.

These students, upon hearing the news, initially planned to ap-proach the University to change the theme. Cummings, who has worked with administrators in his role with UMOJA, reached out to

HUIZHONG WUStaff Writer

Ebola fears overshadow fl u preparation

As Penn continues to pre-pare for potential Ebola cases, health professionals are keep-ing an eye out for the fl u.

The World Health Orga-nization reports that 4,555 deaths have been attributed to Ebola this year worldwide,

whereas the CDC estimates a range between 3,000 to 49,000 fl u-related deaths per year in the United States alone. The number of fl u-related deaths varies due to the severity of the strain and estimates are dif-fi cult to produce since the fl u is not often listed as the cause of death.

Despite media attention given to Ebola, the risk of the virus spreading throughout Philadelphia and Pennsylva-nia is low. Ebola is not read-ily transmitted through the air,

however the fl u is, said Ashlee Halbritter, a health educator at Campus Health Initiatives . Halbritter’s team organizes the fl u clinics on campus, which will happen this Thursday and next Wednesday in Houston Hall . Although she expects more than 3,000 attendees this year, Halbritter’s team was challenged by the focus given to Ebola.

“Unfortunately, [Ebola has] just overshadowed the start of the fl u season and the impor-tance of the fl u vaccine,” Hal-

britter said.On Monday, the CDC re-

leased new protective guide-lines for health care workers treating patients stricken with the Ebola virus. The guide-lines will aff ect the Hospital of the University of Pennsyl-vania, which agreed to receive American medical workers who have contracted Ebola while working in Africa, ac-cording to a statement released last Friday. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will care for pediatric patients

within the region. The new CDC guidelines

emphasize covering all ex-posed skin, wearing a respira-tor and having a trained per-son watch and instruct as the medical worker is “donning and doffi ng” personal protec-tive equipment, said Darren Linkin, an assistant profes-sor at the Perelman School of Medicine and an infectious disease expert.

The CDC guidelines will

The fl u has similar symptoms to early

stages of EbolaTINA CHOU Staff Writer

MALALA YOUSAFZAI: BIG STAGE, BIGGER PLANS“The best way to fight against terrorism is to invest in education,” Malala Yousafzai said in her one-on-one conversation with Ronan Farrow. The youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize visited Philadelphia as a speaker at the Forbes 30 Under 30 conference. She added that having talked with presidents and prime ministers around the world, she felt that asking the leaders to send books not guns was not enough. She revealed her bigger plans: “I will stop asking the prime minister. I am going to be the prime minister.”

PHOTO FEATURE

KONHEE CHANG/ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

The only

ones

Most international students come to Penn and find an existing community. But students who came from their countries alone must make their own.

YUEQI YANGSenior Writer

SEE INTERNATIONAL PAGE 8

SEE EBOLA PAGE 3

SEE THEME YEAR PAGE 7

GUTMANN GETS NEW CHAIRPenn President Amy Gutmann elected newest chair of the AAU

PAGE 3

(Clockwise, from top left) Qais Iwidat from Palestine, Remy Manzi from Rwanda, Aye Nyein Thu from Burma, Arman Tokanov from Kazakhstan

PHOTO COURTESY OF AYE NYEIN THUYOLANDA CHEN/NEWS PHOTO EDITOR

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014

CONTACT US: 215-422-4646SEND STORY IDEAS TO [email protected] ONLINE AT THEDP.COM

Penn rejects Common App alternative

Several selective universities are accepting alternative applica-tion options after last year’s tech-nical problems in the Common Application, but Penn has not changed its admissions policy.

The new version of the Com-mon App caused many universi-ties to push back their applica-tion deadlines last year because of website glitches. Since then, several universities — includ-

ing Cornell University and the University of Chicago — began accepting the Universal College Application, a competitor to the Common App.

Penn also pushed its early de-cision deadline last year from Nov. 1 to Nov. 11. But Penn still only accepts the Common App, citing low usage of the UCA in the past.

“There are various ways an in-stitution can decide how students apply,” said Admissions Dean Eric Furda, who is also the chair-man of the Common App’s board of directors. He added that some colleges prefer having multiple avenues to off er more accessibil-ity to applicants.

But having multiple application options can cause complications in managing the applications, Fur-da said. Penn used to be a member school of UCA when the service launched in 2007, but decided to discontinue its membership four years ago. UCA was not a big channel for Penn in receiving ap-plications. Before opting out of the platform, Penn received a few hundred applications each year through the system, Furda said.

“Penn’s not being on UCA will not aff ect its applicant pool at all,” he added.

The alternate application sys-tem has more fl exibility, allow-ing applicants edit their essays for each college — whereas the

Common App allows only one version of the essay. UCA cur-rently serves 45 colleges, includ-ing Harvard, Princeton and Duke universities, compared to the over 500 that the Common App serves.

“Our membership has grown thanks to our reputation for reli-ability in service and software,” said Joshua Reiter, the President of ApplicationsOnline — the company that launched UCA.

Furda expected the Common App to be more stable this appli-cation cycle, though nothing can be without any fl aws. “There can be system challenges whether you are talking about major post offi ces or websites,” Furda said.

Cornell and Chicago have adopted the Univer-sal College Application

BOOKYUNG JOStaff Writer

2 NEWS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014 | THEDP.COMTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

2PageTwo

Mon: ClosedTues - Wed: 11am - 9pmThurs - Sat: 11am - 10pmSunday Brunch: 11am - 3pmSunday Dinner: 3pm - 9pm

Hours:Are you having a fiesta?

Let us cater your event!

Onsite or offsiteLocation seating for up to 50!

Contact Info:Northern Liberties426 W Girard Ave.Philadelphia, PA 19123(215) 351-9144www.lascazuelas.netBYOB Restaurant

Find yourself two roommates, because this three-bedroom house for rent is a must-see.LOCATION: 32nd & Dickinson (aka, convenient to Penn, CHOP, HUP, Penn Vet, and the University of the Sciences)

QUALITY: Newly renovated freshly painted with a brand new bathroom, plus solid wood kitchen cabinets and a gas stove

AFFORDABILITY: $1,100/month (that’s less than $370 per bedroom)

PERKS: Plenty! Including... ...a stacked washer/dryer upstairs, a backyard, on-street parking, a basement with storage, and a landlord who’s actually a nice guy

AVAILABILITY: Now! (but if your current lease isn’t quite over, ask about delayed move-in)

CONTACT: Steve (aforementioned nice guy) 609.501.5311 or [email protected]

We Deliver to campus!

poundcakeheaven.net Discount w/Penn Card

Get 2 cakes for the price of 1

5029 Baltimore Ave 267-233-7188

Bring a friend, don’t miss this deal!

Pound Cakes Layered CakesCupcakes Pies

Tarts Designer Cakes

What’s all the

about?

Check us out at our new store!OPENING OCTOBER 21

3736 SPRUCE STREETOPEN 7 DAYS 6:30AM - 8PM

hubbubcoffee.com

What’s all the

about?



hubbubcoffee.com

What’s all the

about?



hubbubcoffee.com

What’s all the

about?



hubbubcoffee.com

What’s all the

about?



hubbubcoffee.com

What’s all the

about?



hubbubcoffee.com

What’s all the

about?



hubbubcoffee.com

M-F: 7AM-7PMWEEKENDS: 8AM-7PM

3736 SPRUCE STREET

Penn President Amy Gutmann was elected chair of the Associa-tion of American Universities on Tuesday, placing her at a vantage point to vocalize and advocate for current issues in higher education.

The AAU, a nonprofi t organiza-tion comprised of 62 leading Unit-ed States and Canadian research universities, elected Gutmann as chair at its semiannual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Gutmann’s one-year term as chair, which begins today, follows a year as vice-chair of the AAU.

As chair, Gutmann will repre-sent the AAU in meetings with policymakers to lobby for impor-tant issues in education, such as research and funding. Gutmann is already a leading advocate for is-sues such as fi nancial aid and edu-cational engagement.

“It is an honor to assume leader-ship of the AAU at a time when our nation, and, indeed, the world are in ever greater need of the cre-ative knowledge and innovative discoveries produced by Ameri-ca’s research universities,” Gut-mann said in a statement. “I look forward to working with our part-ner institutions as we construc-tively address the most important issues confronting higher educa-tion today.”

Penn is one of 14 universities that founded the AAU in 1990.

As a member of the AAU, Gut-mann has advocated against gun violence and worked to diminish the nation’s “innovation defi cit” by closing the gap between needed and actual investments in higher education and research.

Over the past year, Gutmann and Cornell President David Skor-ton represented the Ivy League on the AAU executive board.

Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon will serve as vice-chair for the 2014-2015 term, fi lling Gutmann’s for-mer position.

Gutmann succeeded President

of the University of Texas at Aus-tin Bill Powers as chair.

“We are very pleased that Amy Gutmann will serve as our chair for the coming year,” AAU Presi-dent Hunter Rawlings said in a statement. “She is extraordinarily articulate in explaining the value of research universities to commu-nities and the nation. Moreover, she has demonstrated the kind of leadership for Penn and for the city of Philadelphia that serves as an example for all of our universi-ties as they seek to fulfi ll their mis-sions of undergraduate and gradu-ate education, groundbreaking research, economic development and community service.”

Seventh grade hands shot up with each of the museum instructor’s prompts at the “mummifi cation workshop” off ered at the Penn Alexander school. “Yeah! I love dead guys!” shouted one student. There was a chorus of agree-ment.

The workshop is part of a free program called “Unpack-ing the Past” off ered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The museum is partnering with the School

District of Philadelphia, as well as with schools in the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) and Mastery Charter Schools to further integrate Penn into the city surround-ing it.

The program will help stu-dents “fi nd out more about the world and about themselves,” said Jannie Blackwell, coun-cilwoman for the 3rd District of Philadelphia . She delivered remarks at the unveiling cere-mony for the program Tuesday morning alongside Penn Presi-dent Amy Gutmann and Super-intendent of the Philadelphia school district William Hite Jr.

Hite cited the program as an opportunity to “take advantage of a rich cultural environment,” also stressing the importance of its cost-free status.

Unpacking the Past involves a classroom outreach session, which brings “mummy mo-biles” to participating schools and delivers an anthropology and archeology lesson. Stu-dents later take a free trip to the museum for an interactive workshop, and the program culminates in a fi nal project showcase, said Ellen Owens, director of learning programs at the Penn Museum. Students can show their relatives and

friends what they learned and built, and their families are ad-ditionally rewarded with a free year-long museum member-ship.

Hopefully, students will be taught “basic deduction skills” through activities like these, Owens said, and learn “to tell things with their own eyes.”

The program will also be supplemented with profession-al development sessions for teachers that allow the teach-ers to go behind the scenes at the museum. “It’s not often that a seventh grade teacher has access to an expert Egyp-tologist,” she said.

Penn Museum brings mummies to Philadelphia schools

DIA SOTIROPOULOUContributing Writer

Gutmann elected chair of university group

KRISTEN GRABARZDeputy News Editor

3NEWSWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014THEDP.COM | THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

News3

C O L L E G E H O U S E C O M P U T I N GW W W. R E S C O M P. U P E N N . E D U

Q U E S T I O N S , C O M M E N T S , I D E A S :J O H N M E R Z j m e r z @ u p e n n . e d u

OCTOBER

Featuring food

from Chipotle!

Humanoid Robotics for Soccer, Rescue and ResearchKINGS COURT ENGLISH COLLEGE HOUSE, CLASS OF 1938 LOUNGE6:00PM

Stephen McGill EAS’11 EE/EAS’10Ph.D. Candidate in the Electrical and Systems Engineering department; Master’s degree in Robotics, 2011; Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010

It’s not science �ction anymore, it’s science fact.

Stephen McGill is a Ph.D. student studying humanoid robots and their interactions with humans. He has worked with Penn’s RoboCup teams since 2010, as well as Penn’s Team THOR entry in the DARPA Robotics Competition.

This Tech Talk is free and open to everyone in the Penn community.

WED

NESDAY

22

save while in school!Students get 10% OFF

non-sale bicycles and

accessories with valid

student I.D.

KeswicK cYcle is The onlY BiKe shoP on caMPUs!

And has the largest

selection of new and used

bicycles in Philly

UniversiTY ciTY4040 locUsT sTreeT

(215) 387-7433

KeswicK cYcle now sTocKinG:

LONE WOLF CYCLING

AND SWRVE APPAREL

& ACCESSORIES

EVERYTHING YOU

NEED TO RIDE ALL

SEASON LONG

#JAWNBETIGHT

Fallis

here!

WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 22, 2014

The DP wants to ensure that all content is accurate and to be transparent about any inaccuracies. If you have a comment or question about the fairness or accuracy of any content in the print or online editions, please email [email protected].

Have your own opinion? Send your guest column to Opinion Editor Jennifer Yu at [email protected].

VOL. CXXX, NO. 99

130th Yearof Publication

YOUR VOICE

OPINION4

TAYLOR CULLIVER, Executive Editor

AMANDA SUAREZ, Managing Editor

JENNIFER YU,Opinion Editor

LOIS LEE, Director of Online Projects

HARRY COOPERMAN, City News Editor

JODY FREINKEL, Campus News Editor

WILLIAM MARBLE, Enterprise Editor

GENESIS NUNEZ, Copy Editor

MATT MANTICA, Copy Editor

YOLANDA CHEN, News Photo Editor

MICHELE OZER, Sports Photo Editor

CONNIE KANG, Photo Manager

STEVEN TYDINGS, Senior Sports Editor

COLIN HENDERSON, Sports Editor

HOLDEN MCGINNIS, Sports Editor

IAN WENIK, Sports Editor

HAILEY EDELSTEIN, Creative Director

ANALYN DELOS SANTOS, News Design Editor

VIVIAN LEE, News Design Editor

JENNY LU, Sports Design Editor

JENNIFER KIM, Video Producer

STEPHANIE PARK, Video Producer

GIANNI MASCIOLI, Business Manager

SELMA BELGHITI, Accounting Manager

KATHERINE CHANG, Advertising Manager

CHANTAL GARCIA FISCHER, Promotions Manager

ERIC PARRISH, Analytics Manager

CAITLIN LOYDCirculation Manager

Catch our Word on the Walk on marijuana legalization online at THEDP.COM

VIDEO

MEGAN MANSMANN, Associate Copy Editor

EVAN CERNEA, Associate Copy Editor

SHAWN KELLEY, Associate Copy Editor

NICK BUCHTA, Associate Copy Editor

LUCIEN WANG, Associate Copy Editor

PETER WAGGONNER, Associate Graphics Editor

SAM SHERMAN, Associate Photo Editor

JILL CASTELLANO, Deputy News Editor

CAT SAID, Social Media Producer

SANNA WANI, Social Media Producer

THIS ISSUE

Check out an econ TA’s response to “Econ TA Has Goofed” atTHEDP.COM/OPINION

ONLINE

People assume a lot about me because of the color of my skin. First off, I’m a racist.

Then, I am rich, unaware, stuck-up and out to keep the black man down.

Now, it doesn’t matter if I say I’m not racist. And it doesn’t matter if I actively research so-cial conditions. And while I earn social credit for attending Penn on more than 95 percent finan-cial aid, mentioning my father’s Ph.D. strips that credit away.

I’m a white guy.I’m a bad guy.And I’m all about keeping

everybody down.But sometimes, I wonder

how it was that I became a rac-ist. I wasn’t born one, you see. And I wasn’t raised one, either. In fact, nobody thought I was racist because of the color of my skin until I got to the Ivy League.

I grew up as a “foreigner” in China. I was occasionally a devil or a dog, but most of the time I was just a foreigner — or

to translate literally, a person from a country outside. It didn’t feel bad to be from a country outside, and I merrily learned to speak Mandarin with a bit of a Cantonese accent. But what was more important was that rac-ism just wasn’t a “thing” for me. There were different colors in the international community, but be-ing white didn’t “label” me. We were all just people from coun-tries outside, and while I learned that Chinese sometimes despise blacks, I thought it was a ridicu-lous idea.

After all, why? It was just plain stupid.

When I came to Penn, I brought this mentality with me. But gradually I learned that here, I’m a white guy. And a white guy can be one of four things: gay, bi-sexual, transgender or racist.

My introduction to this idea started in training sessions for tutoring at West Philadelphia High School. I was told that I was white and that over 95 percent of the students I was going to work

with would be black. I was told that meant something and was introduced to the phrase “rich white bitch.” That was Racism 101 for me — the first time I’d seriously met the concept outside of history.

At Penn, there is a seething sense of race. If a white person writes on a topic dealing with the so-called “underprivileged”

class, and a reader disagrees, it is internet custom to label the writer as a white privileged idiot — in-stead of just a regular ignoramus.

Correspondingly, blacks are stereotyped as one of four things: criminal athletes, panhandlers, dumb affirmative-action students or wealthy Whartonites from Ni-geria.

By the time I completed my freshman year at Penn, I caught myself thinking in terms of white and black.

And I found myself a worse man for doing so.

While many recognize these problems, it seems the only re-sponse is a black call for special treatment on account of race. Af-firmative action is, perhaps, the most famous example of this in the collegiate atmosphere. Spe-cial programs, fraternities and organizations to house racial interests are also ubiquitous. Ta-Nehisi Coates recently came to Penn to argue for straight-up ra-cial reparations.

I do not pretend to have the

same knowledge of racism as Ta-Nehisi Coates, and I can un-derstand the well-meaning at-tempt to address historical struc-tural racism with compensational structural racism. Did a governor once stand at the door of Ala-bama to block black students? Well, then, the current governor should be there to make sure their grandchildren are the first to enter!

But when this laudable idea is racially coded, it does much to reinforce racial tensions and little to solve real-world problems. Wealthy first and second gen-eration African immigrants flood the Ivy League to fulfill diver-sity quotas, but they never faced systematic discrimination to begin with. Meanwhile, Asians and whites — especially males, theoretically competing against gender-based affirmative action — are left with a sour sense of unfair treatment and smug feel-ings of superiority. Many assume themselves to be spectacular per-formers if they could get into the

Ivies despite their racial or gen-der “handicaps.”

And so the spiral of racial tension continues on down. Ac-cording to campus culture — whether I want to be or not — I’m a white guy.

I’m a bad guy.I’m a racist.But, personally, I’d really

rather not be.

As I sat in class, I stared at a chart presenting comparative depression rates across coun-tries. My eyes instantly went to

my parents’ country, Nigeria, whose depression prevalence was 5.2 percent. In an attempt to explain this number, a stu-dent theorized that “maybe people are just really happy over there.” I shook my head and explained that while men-tal health is stigmatized world-wide, it is something that no one dares to openly discuss in my culture. Mental health does not exist for us.

I had trouble wrapping my mind around how my experi-ence on campus might be dif-ferent depending on my iden-tity. I often think about what it means to have my body pres-ent on campus. As a woman, I don’t always feel safe walking home late at night, as I have been a target of street harass-ment. As a person of color, I always wonder how others perceive my existence within the campus space. I have been questioned for my presence, mistaken for not being a Penn

student, as well as the object of blame for “unfairly being here only because of affirma-tive action.” And in the context of my academic privilege, I wonder how my experience in a black body might be drasti-cally different if I didn’t carry a PennCard at all.

With increasing attention towards campus mental health, students have come together to grieve and mobilize. The men-tal health conversation is not an easy one. And while it’s diffi-cult to understand every single person’s narrative, the current conversation has been fairly surface-level for some: Penn’s cutthroat culture, Pennface, etc.

No one doubts the validity of these concerns. However, this aspect of the conversa-tion is simpler to relate to for many students, hence why it has monopolized the conver-sation. What is not as easy to discuss? Race, gender, sexual-ity, religion, ableism, culture,

socioeconomic status, micro-aggressions, intersectionality, amongst countless other vari-ables. These nuanced para-digms are essential for many to have a holistic conversation on their mental health. This inspired me to ask a simple yet daunting question: What does mental health mean to you?

There are countless orga-nizations on campus dedicated to promoting mental wellness. But many of these organiza-tions don’t deeply explore the ways in which intersectional-ity may affect students’ mental health. In attempting to appeal to as many people as possible, organizations such as the Men-tal Health Initiative, Active Minds and Cogwell can con-sequently only devote so much time to this specific focus with-in mental health culture.

This is not to say that what they do is not important — in fact, it is crucial to starting the conversation and promoting

openness and dialogue. And while these organizations are constantly making attempts to further incorporate these nu-ances, this leaves it up to us as a student body to further the con-versation and take it to a level where we can regularly talk about microaggressions, what it means to feel othered and also what it means to celebrate the very things that make our narratives unique on campus.

Motivated by this void in our mental health discussion, I founded the Penn Initiative for Minority Mental Health in the fall of 2013, an organization that strives to integrate Penn’s minority and underrepresented populations into the conversa-tion of campus mental health. Our intent is to create a sustain-able safe space to discuss the ways in which intersectional-ity may affect students’ mental health.

In collaboration with vari-ous cultural resources and or-

ganizations, PIMMH was launched as a support forum for students of all backgrounds to explore cultural considerations and implications to the mental health approach. The goal is simple. I hope that every stu-dent who stumbles upon our organization feels empowered by our message: My mental health matters.

Beyond the surface

SAM SHERMAN is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email address is [email protected].

CARTOON

STEPHANIE JIDEAMA is a College senior studying health and societies. Her email address is [email protected]. “The Vision” is a column for black voices that appears every Wednesday.

Becoming a racist

THE VISION

It doesn’t matter if I say I’m not racist, [or if ] I actively research social conditions. And while I earn social credit for attending Penn on more than 95 percent financial aid, mentioning my father’s Ph.D. strips

that credit away.”

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College sophomore from China studying math. His email address is [email protected]. “Keen on the Truth” appears every Wednesday.

S tor ies mat te r. M a n y s t o r i e s mat te r. S tor ies have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories c a n b r e a k t h e dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken

dignity.

— C h i m a m a n d a Adichie

JEREMIAH KEENAN

KEEN ON THE TRUTH | Penn culture pits white skin against black when it comes to race relations

THE VISION | Reading between the lines of mental illness

After fi ve years of improving environmental sustainability on campus, Penn announced on Tues-day afternoon the University’s next steps to make the campus as environmentally friendly as pos-sible.

As part of Penn’s Climate Ac-tion Plan 2.0, the University will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that span from remodeling the top 20 percent of campus buildings that have the highest energy use to increasing the number of zero-waste events on campus each year.

While the University does not have an exact dollar amount for how much it plans to spend on sustainability eff orts over the next few years, several aspects of the University’s plan include $190 million earmarked for mak-ing campus buildings more eco-friendly, as well as other annual facilities funding for sustainabil-ity eff orts.

The new plan’s goals build on those in the University’s fi rst Climate Action Plan, which was published in 2009. Under the new plan, Penn aims to reduce en-ergy use by 10 percent, increase campus-wide recycling from 24 percent to 30 percent and reduce carbon emissions by 7 percent by 2019 . By 2042, the University aims to become carbon neutral — producing net-zero carbon emis-sions.

One of main tenants of the plan, though, is to increase stu-dent and faculty knowledge about environmental stewardship on campus.

“There is an intangible benefi t that you can’t measure, which I think we all believe is the big-gest benefi t of all — education,” said University Architect David Hollenberg, who oversees Penn’s

sustainability eff orts. “That’s what the mission of this place is: edu-cation [and] research. You’re all going to graduate and you’re go-ing to be leaders in whatever you choose to do and you’re going to come from a place where this [en-vironmental sustainability] is part of the culture, and you’re just go-ing to spread that.”

The new action plan will in-crease student involvement in sustainability eff orts through an expansion of several programs, in-cluding the Eco-Reps program — students and faculty who promote recycling and energy conservation — and the Green Living Certifi -cation Program . The University also plans to create both a speaker series or symposium dedicated to sustainability and a faculty work-ing group on sustainability to help faculty interested in teaching and researching sustainability.

“There are a lot of opportunities for the students — and the staff for that matter — to get involved in sustainability eff orts under this new plan,” Dan Garofalo, Penn’s sustainability director, said.

This is important because the success of the new plan is incredi-bly reliant on student involvement.

“It is very contingent on stu-dent behavior,” Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services Anne Papageorge said.

The new climate plan comes seven years after Penn Presi-dent Amy Gutmann signed the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which required Penn to drastically reduce carbon emissions, promote environmental educational oppor-tunities, reduce energy use and to create climate action plans to achieve these goals.

While Penn is one of 600 uni-versities to sign this pledge nation-wide, the only other Ivy League school to sign the pledge was Cor-nell University.

“There was a lot of debate among universities” about wheth-er to sign, Papageorge recalled. “I can speak to how Dr. Gutmann viewed it — or at least how she talked about it back in 2007 — and that this is an aspirational goal and we will do our best to get to get to this goal.”

Since signing the pledge, Penn has achieved or came close to many of the goals set out by its original climate plan.

Penn’s carbon emissions have decreased by 18 percent since 2007. Penn’s campus has also seen a roughly 10 percent reduction in the amount of waste transported to landfi lls, and all new buildings on campus have received LEED Gold Certifi cation.

In terms of education, Penn now off ers 170 courses related to sustainability and has created a minor in Sustainability & Envi-ronmental Management, a masters in Environmental Design and the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research.

However, there are still a few goals the University did not reach within their intended time frame.

The rate of recycling has de-creased by 7 percent since 2011. Currently at 26 percent, the rate of recycling on campus is 14 percent lower than the target rate of 40 percent outlined in the 2009 Ac-tion Plan.

FRES Director of Maintenance & Operations Ken Ogawa said this was because “we are a victim of our own success.” Since Penn has reduced its overall waste, students and staff have been using fewer products — and therefore fewer recyclable materials — which Ogawa said could have contrib-uted to the lower recycling rate.

Penn’s absolute energy usage has also risen by 5.1 percent since 2007. However, after adjusting for the University’s expansion — Penn expanded by over 1 million square feet in this time frame — as well as weather discrepancies, Penn’s adjusted energy usage is down by 6.6 percent.

In second climate action plan, student involvement

is seen as keyJESSICA WASHINGTON

Staff Writer


News5

presents

A Book Talk

aFREE & Open to the Public

For more information, contact the

Center for Africana Studies at 215-898-4965 or

[email protected]

by

REVEREND CHARLES L. HOWARD, PHDUniversity Chaplain

University of Pennsylvania

BlackTheology As Mass

Movement

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

5:30 p.m.a

Penn Bookstore3601 Walnut Street

Black Theology As MassMovement is a call to current andfuture theologians to stretch theboundaries of Black LiberationTheology from what has becomeprimarily an academic subfieldinto a full fledged liberationmovement beyond the walls ofthe academy.

Reverend Charles L. Howard, PhDis the University Chaplain at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. He isthe author of The Awe and theAwful.

This event is being held in conjunction with the PennBookstore. Light refreshmentswill be provided.

After the partial closure of the library in the Towne Build-ing earlier this year, Engineering students have struggled to find study space in the Engineering Quad.

At the end of last semester, the books from the library were removed and a portion of the library was closed to make way for active learning classrooms, leaving students with less study space.

During an event to solicit student concerns, the Engineer-ing Dean’s Advisory Board heard many questions about the amount of study space.

“In response to students’ questions about where to study,

EDAB created a pamphlet of where to study that provides a list of study spaces in and near Engineering,” said Engineering senior Natalie Eisner, the presi-dent of the board.

“There really aren’t that many places around the Engineering Quad to study,” Engineering sophomore Grace Memmo said. “But a lot of Engineering stu-dents that I know will just study in other areas, like Starbucks or the high rises.”

In response, Ira Winston, the chief infrastructure officer for SEAS, said there is ample space for Engineering students to work.

“I would love students to use the Education Commons [in Franklin Field], but people don’t like walking across the street. The Singh Center for Nanotech-nology is also open to students from 8 a.m to 7 p.m. during the week,” Winston said. “If any-thing, the amount of study space has increased.”

There are also tables still in the Engineering library, without books, for students to use.

While the new Singh Cen-ter has been touted for its top-notch facilities, some are not as pleased.

“There are no provisions for any faculty members’ offices, no lounges for students or employ-ees and little work space,” said an employee, who wished to re-main anonymous.

This employee also contended that there is not enough room for students in Levine or Skirkanich halls.

The Towne Library will be transformed into several active learning classrooms that will open in the spring, Winston said. The classrooms will hold classes during the day and will be open to students from noon until mid-night to allow for more study space.

The library’s closure came as a surprise to many students

and faculty members when En-gineering Dean Eduardo Glandt announced it last March. At the same time, the Math-Physics-Astronomy Library in David Rit-tenhouse Laboratories was also set to close.

Graduate students and fac-ulty protested the closure of the Math-Physics-Astronomy Li-brary, arguing that they should have been consulted and that re-search would be harmed without quick access to books.

The closing of the Towne Li-brary got grouped into the nega-tive reaction of the Math-Phys-ics-Astronomy Library closure, but there was not as much protest over the loss of books, Winston said.

“I haven’t heard a single stu-dent complain about the loss of books [in the Engineering li-brary],” he said.

A petition to save the librar-ies was signed by nearly 1,000 students, leading to a compro-

mise that allowed some books to remain in the Math-Physics-As-tronomy Library. The decision to remove books from Towne was unaffected.

Students and staff have com-plained over their lack of input in the closures, but Winston ar-gued that “nothing has really

changed.” “It wasn’t perhaps handled as

well as it could have been,” Win-ston said. “The announcement didn’t go into the specifics of where there would be additional study space. This was more of a communications problem than an actual problem.”

Engineers lament lack of study space

DP FILE PHOTO

Towne Library partially closed at the end of last semester

EMILY OFFITStaff Writer


6News

The Lipper Awards are based on a review of 36 companies’ 2012 and 48 companies’

2013 risk-adjusted performance.

BEST OVERALL LARGE FUND COMPANY2

1Restrictions apply. Must be enrolled in a TIAA-CREF retirement plan to be eligible. 2The Lipper Award is given to the group with the lowest average decile ranking of three years’ Consistent Return for eligible funds over the three-year period ended 11/30/12 and 11/30/13, respectively. TIAA-CREF was ranked against 36 fund companies in 2012 and 48 fund companies in 2013 with at least fi ve equity, fi ve bond, or three mixed-asset portfolios. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC, and Teachers Personal Investors Services Inc. C17743A ©2014 Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), 730 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10017.

Consider investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. Go to tiaa-cref.org for product and fund prospectusesthat contain this and other information. Read carefully before investing.TIAA-CREF funds are subject to market and other risk factors. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

DON’T GET STUCK BETWEEN A ROTH AND A HARD PLACE.

The ins and outs of retirement planning can be puzzling. So at TIAA-CREF, we use personalized advice1 to help clients reach their long-term goals. We do it in person, online and on the phone. All at no extra charge. See what our professional advice and award-winning performance can do for your fi nancial health. The sooner you act, the better.

Learn more in one click at TIAA.org or call 855 200-7244.

5021A0002 C17743A ROTH 10x15 NWS Various_1.inddCyan Magenta Yellow Black

73092

better protect medical workers who come in contact with Ebola, but all hospitals are expected to be capable of identifying a patient who may be infected. An infected traveler can walk into any hos-pital, not just hospitals that have special care centers, Linkin said.

Flu symptoms and early symp-toms of Ebola are similar, but people who receive the fl u vaccine are less likely to get the fl u, and so are less likely to be unnecessarily screened for Ebola.

A vaccine for Ebola is not available yet, but the model used in Penn’s fl u clinics could be ap-plied if a vaccine were available. Student Health Service would be prepared to distribute vaccines ef-fi ciently, Halbritter said.

Administrators at the School of

Dental Medicine have been work-ing closely with HUP and the Of-fi ce of Environmental Health and Radiation Safety at Penn to prepare for potential contact with Ebola-infected patients, said Panagiota Stathopoulou, assistant dean for clinical aff airs at Penn Dental. Af-ter Penn President Amy Gutmann released a statement last Friday about Ebola precautions, Statho-poulou emailed a memo to Penn Dental announcing that patients will be asked a series of questions that will identify potential infec-tion with Ebola. The questions ask if the patient has traveled to coun-tries aff ected by Ebola and if the patient currently has a fever.

“There are things that are re-ally scary and things that are very deadly. They are not the same thing,” Linkin said. Ebola may be scary, but the fl u has a deadlier history.

EBOLA>> PAGE 1

Rob Nelson, executive direc-tor for education and academic planning in the Provost’s offi ce , who sits on the committee to se-lect the theme year. While they were able to meet and discuss the student concerns, the theme was not going to be changed.

Nelson, in response to the criticism about the lack of fo-cus on race with next year’s theme, told The Daily Penn-sylvanian that, “one thing that is important to understand, the name of the year of discovery is really an invitation to everyone on campus to think about what programming they want to do. There is very little beyond the book that the central committee plans.”

Though he recognizes that

“the book is to a large extent about Hughes’ own discovery of race,” Nelson said that the theme is meant to be broad to “give Penn’s 12 schools a framework for following up on our reading project book.”

Though the theme year can-not be changed for next year, Cummings will still be speak-ing on Wednesday night at the University Council’s open forum, where he will suggest that people who have a “vested interest in racial issues and is-sues of identity” meet to advo-cate for involvement with the advisory board. He also plans to work with the Vice Provost for Education’s offi ce, as well as students and staff interested in holding conversations about race and identity, to ensure there is programming on this topic next year.

His and Muraina’s disap-pointment has also raised con-cerns about the lack of student involvement in theme year and Penn Reading Project book se-lections.

While anyone can submit an idea for a book or a theme year, the Council of Undergraduate Deans picks the book and the theme to recommend to the Provost’s offi ce. There is only one student member of this council, the chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, although the presi-dent of the Undergraduate As-sembly is also invited.

“Based on the fact that this situation came about, there could be more student involve-ment in the theme year pro-cess,” said Undergraduate As-sembly President and College senior Joyce Kim.

THEME YEAR>> PAGE 1

Find us on:

@dailypenn


News7

8

34TH

STR

EET

Mag

azin

e D

ecem

ber

1,

20

11

DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?Film polled you to fi nd out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon movie fi xes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN

Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the

bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.

But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes

entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t

you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?

While 75% of us watch mov-ies online, nearly 50% pay for it. I hear Horrible Bosses — a new release on iTunes — is hys-

terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.

The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-

es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing 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 be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

*A simple random sample of 100 Penn undergrads were surveyed to collect data about their fi lm viewing habits.

FILM34ST

1.5%

How Penn Students Watch Movies

Borrow from Library

Don't Watch Movies

Theaters

Free Streaming

Paid Online Services47.7%

24.6%

16.9%

9.2%

0

10

20

30

40

50Other

A Friend

Cinema StudiesMajorProfessor or TA

Street

Whose recommendations do you take?

*Students surveyed were allowed to choose more than one option.

Other

It's a way to hang out with friends

It's a good study break

It makes you feel relaxed and happy

Required for Class

Why do you go to the movies?6.3%

40.6%

25%

25%

3.1%

26.2%

40%

25% 25%

47.7%

BY THE NUMBERS

$153,701>> Total amount of money spent in movie theaters* by Penn students each semester

$196,136>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used iTunes*

$295,344>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used Netflix*

*$12.50/ticket at the Rave*$3.99 to rent a movie on iTunes*$7.99/month on Netflix

hig

hbro

w

ego

foo

d &

dri

nk

fi lm

fe

atur

e m

usic

ar

ts

low

brow

PattayaRestaurant.com • 215.387.85334006 Chestnut Street • University City

Happy Hour: Mon-Fri 5-7

Early Bird: Sun-Thur $10.95

Lunch Special: Mon-Fri $8.95

Dine-In, Catering & Delivery

Any delivery charge is not a tip paid to your driver. Our drivers carry less than $20. You must ask for this limited time offer. Minimum purchase required for delivery. Prices, participation, delivery area and charges may vary. Returned checks, along with the state’s maximum allowable returned check fee, may be electronically presented to your bank. ©2013 Dominos IP Holder LLC. Domino’s®, Domino’s Pizza® and the modular logo are trademarks of Domino’s IP Holder LLC. ©2013 The Coca-Cola Company, all rights reserved. “Coca-Cola” is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company. “Coca-Cola” “Coke”, the contour bottle design and the dynamic ribbon design are trademarks of the Coca-Cola company. All rights reserved. ©2013 The Coca Cola company, all rights reserved. “Coca-Cola” is a registered trademark of the Coca-Cola company.

ORDER. TRACK. REVIEW. OH YES WE DID.®

AMAZIN’ GREENS

SALADS!

Sweet BBQ Bacon

Classic Hot Buffalo

Crispy Bacon & Tomato

Spicy Jalapeno Pineapple

215-557-0940401 N. 21st St. • Philadelphia, PA

215-662-14004438 Chestnut St. • Philadelphia, PA

OPEN: SUN - THURS 10AM - 1AM FRI & SAT 10AM - 3AM

said. “Sometimes the borders are really controlled by the Is-raeli forces, so they have the say.”

He kept the news of his ac-ceptance within his family and a few close friends, while still working hard for the college entrance exam in Palestine — just in case he had to stay and enroll in the university a few blocks away from his home. But months later, after obtain-ing a visa to study in the United States, he embarked on the long trip to Penn, the only student from Palestine entering his freshman class.

* * *

Arman Tokanov, a Wharton junior, did door-to-door inter-net sales in his gap year before college.

“Hey, you have Internet?” Arman would knock on the doors, family by family, trying to start a conversation. “I basi-cally said, ‘Your Internet sucks, you know. I have the one that’s cheaper and faster!’”

Most of the time people asked him to go away, but sometimes he would make a sale.

During his unconventional gap year, Arman — who spoke Russian and Kazakh in his dai-ly life — spent time catching up on his English to get better scores on the SAT and the In-ternational English Language Testing System.

He went to a public high school in Astana, where Eng-lish was used only in science classes. When his senior year arrived, he was not prepared for applying to U.S. colleges. Al-though he got acceptance from one of the top universities in Kazakhstan, he decided to take a gap year and apply to Ameri-can colleges, despite concerns from his parents, who thought it was a risky decision.

Penn’s admission results came out in the early morning, before the sun rose in Kazakh-stan. When he opened the web-site and saw the word “Congrat-

ulations,” he knew that the gap year was worth it. Arman came to Penn as the only student from Kazakhstan in his class.

Aye Nyein Thu, a Wharton senior from Burma, also man-aged to convince her parents to let her study in the U.S. Her parents thought she would be lonely and wanted her to go to college in Singapore, where her brothers were studying. So Aye made a deal with them: She would only come here if she got into an Ivy League university.

“Why are you going to this no-name school?” her mother asked after Aye showed her the Wharton acceptance letter. In Burma — like in Palestine and Kazakhstan — the only U.S. colleges that are household names are Harvard and Yale. But getting into a U.S. college at all was worth celebration.

Aye showed her mother the college rankings, and four months, later she found herself on a campus where she knew no one.

* * *

International students have a natural need to find familiar-ity once they arrive in the U.S., said Rudie Altamirano, the di-rector of International Student and Scholar Services. But for students like Qais, Arman and Aye, that task can be particu-larly challenging.

“If there’s no other person from your country, it’s harder in a sense that there’s no imme-diate connection,” Altamirano said. “They would look for that, but there was none. So they will go to the next level — which is the closest to my culture?”

In her freshman year, Aye would frequently visit Rangoon Restaurant, the only Burmese eatery in Philadelphia. The res-taurant, located in Chinatown, served as a quick fix for her homesickness.

Arman noticed differences in culture right when he ar-rived at the gate of the Quad with his suitcases. In Kazakh-

stan, people tend to be reserved with strangers, which entails no smiling and no small talk. But he quickly learned that same rule does not apply in the U.S.

“There was a big guy, the guard, there. I was helpless and didn’t know what to do. I looked at him briefly,” Arman said, “and he looked back and smiled!”

“It was so weird — why is this big guy smiling at me?” he said.

However, a year later, when Arman went back home, he often found himself smiling to strangers and getting weird looks in return.

But certain things don’t change. Arman tries to keep up with praying five times a day. A Muslim, he knows by heart the direction of Mecca from all the buildings in which he takes classes, and he has discovered secluded spots in Huntsman Hall, Van Pelt Library and the Engineering Quad where he can pray between classes. Some-times at these secret places, he meets his Muslim friends to pray together.

On a Wednesday afternoon this September, Arman brought a black foldable mat in his back-pack and headed to the Lippin-cott Library on the second floor of Van Pelt. He walked toward the spiral stairs, took out his mat and laid it on the ground in the dim area beneath the stairs.

Before praying, he looked out the window to Walnut Street to

check that he was facing in the right direction.

During Arman’s five-minute prayer, a girl strolled down the staircase, but she didn’t notice him praying.

Qais, on the other hand, knew what to expect coming to the U.S. because he had watched Hollywood movies and listened to American music, like many other Palestinian teenagers.

“It’s funny that you live in what you saw in the movie. It actually makes you excited,” he said.

Qais has noticed one differ-ence between West Philadelphia and the West Bank, though: how safe the neighborhood is.

“It’s really safe back home. It’s actually safer than West Philly,” he said, mentioning that, unlike at home, he does not feel secure walking alone here after midnight. People of-ten ask him about the safety of his home country and are sur-prised to hear his answer.

“But I understand. I have skewed views on other coun-tries, too. Coming here is a great chance for me to listen to other people,” he said. “To see through others’ lenses.”

In the summer after his soph-omore year, Qais went back home for the first time. There is no international airport in Palestine, so he had to fly from New York to London, then to Jordan and he finally traveled to Palestine by land.

When he hung out with his old friends, he started to realize how studying in the U.S. had changed him. Qais saw himself becoming more assertive and individualistic about what he wanted to do in the future rath-er than “collectively planning” with his family, compared to those who stayed in Palestine.

“I mean, my family is al-ways my top priority,” he said, placing his right hand over his heart. “But if I have a vision, I want to do it. Because I believe eventually it will be better for everybody, for my family.”

* * *

Sitting on a bench on High Rise Field and dressed in a busi-ness suit with a black messenger bag, Remy Manzi, Penn’s first-ever student from Rwanda, was preparing to head to a Wharton career fair in Huntsman Hall. The College junior wanted to see the representatives from UNICEF.

Studying in the U.S. is open-ing up doors for him to realize his dream — international de-velopment in the short term and being a diplomat for Rwanda in the long term. Growing up in a country that had been ravaged by genocide, Remy developed a knack for solving conflicts. His school accepted children from both main ethnic groups involved in the genocide.

“I have to interact with kids whose parents participated in the genocide and learn their mo-tives behind it, and also become friends of these kids,” he said.

Remy’s experience in a post-confl ict country sparked his in-terest in a career in development and diplomacy. At Penn, Remy is involved with so many cultural groups that he couldn’t say which he identifi ed most closely with.

When he went back to Rwan-da after his freshman year for an internship in the Rwandan government, his friends looked at him and called him a “rich guy.” He had gained 40 pounds and grown two inches taller.

“In my culture, when you are bigger, it really means you are rich. Your social status has changed,” he said.

During his internship, Remy got to know President Paul

Kagame personally.“The president ... he’s expect-

ing so much from me. Because there’s not a lot of Rwandese who have [the] opportunities that have been really opened to me,” he said. “So sometimes I say I don’t deserve it — that it’s overwhelming.”

Remy is not the only one with high expectations. Without re-ceiving any financial aid, Aye has always felt guilty for spend-ing so much family money and wants to pay it back.

The feeling haunted her so

much that she called her father one day to apologize.

“I am so sorry I’ve spent this much,” she told him. “I prom-ise I will pay you all back. I just need to find a job.”

Her father, a successful busi-nessman from a rural village in Burma, has always been an in-spirational figure to her. “Our family lives very fortunately for my generation. My parents had to go through a lot,” Aye said.

She has had several jobs on campus, including working as a research assistant and as a management TA. Every so of-ten, she visits the Wharton Be-havioral Laboratory for some pocket money. “In small ways, I tried to not spend,” she said.

Aye is currently going through the on-campus recruit-ing process for a consulting job and sees herself going back to Burma after years of working experience.

Like Aye, Arman also wants to stay in the U.S. for a few years after graduation. Wearing a T-shirt reading “<see what you can build/>”, Arman looks more like he should be walking out of the Engineering Quad than Huntsman. Although he has not decided his concentra-tion at Wharton, he intends to do a computer science minor.

“I am not into Wall Street, but I am into Silicon Valley — that’s like another bubble,” he said, half jokingly. Arman is keenly aware that working in “banking, consulting or those good jobs people get at Penn” will be a “social lift.” He ex-pects himself to get one, too.

“That kind of salary simply doesn’t exist in Kazakhstan,” especially at the entry level, he said. “It’s a social lift, pretty much, for middle class [stu-dents] in America, too.”

The students who left home and came to Penn alone from their home country might not have known what to expect when they opened the accep-tance letter from a university in a faraway country. Aye is never going back to a high school with 16 students in the graduat-ing class. Arman will not be a door-to-door internet salesman. Qais will probably get more

coffee from Starbucks than Stars and Bucks. And Remy, with the addition of 40 pounds and 2 inches, will likely to be regarded as a “rich man” by his old friends from now on.

INTERNATIONAL >> PAGE 1

”

I mean, my family is always my top priority. But if I have a vision, I want to do it.

- Qais Iwidat,College senior, on

becoming more individualistic in America

”

It’s really safe back home. It’s actually safer than West Philly.

- Qais Iwidat, College senior,

comparing the West Bank to West Philadelphia

”

The president...he’s expecting so much from me. Because there’s not a lot of Rwandese who have opportunities that have been really opened to me.

- Remy Manzi,College junior, from

Rwanda

ONLINETHEDP.COM

View all of the countries with only one Penn student in an interactive map


8News - Will’s Feature

La Fontana Della Citta215.875.9990

Authentic Italian Cuisineat Reasonable Prices

Excellent for Family and Group Meetings

Seats 180 People

5 Lunches, 7 Dinners, 7 days a week

Experience a Touch of ItalyAt the Best BYOB In Philly!

Contact Management, they are happy to meet your needs!

15% off with Fixed Price Sunday-Thursday

1701 Spruce St. - Philadelphia, PA 19103 - www.lafontanadellacitta.com

Sports9

Three words:Your. Own.

Bathroom.

universityenterprisesUE

Apartments & Townhouses

4019 Locust St. | 215-222-5500 | [email protected]“Your mother will be happy.”

Live with us.Locations you want. Prices you need. Experience you trust.

Call or email to get on our list today! Garg Behavioral Healthis Accepting New Patients!

All Students Welcome!

We provide evidence-based, up-to-date treatment for the most common psychiatric conditions:

DepressionAnxietyAddictionsEating DisordersTraumaADHDRelational Issues

“You had a choice of where to go to college. You now have a choice of where to go for the

best mental health care.”

Minimal wait time. No referral out. One-stop shopping.Evening and Weekend Hours! SEPTA stops below our office!

We understand your time crunch!

Nick Garg, MD | 1500 Market Street | (215) 665-5618 [email protected] | www.GargBehavioralHealth.com

Philadelphia’s 1st authentic allwood-fired brick oven pizza!

La Famiglia Russo Graziefollow us on Twitter and Instagram @MamaPalmasPizza and find us on Facebook

Dine In or Take OutTuesday - Friday: 4pm - 10pm

Saturday: 11am - 11pmSunday: 1pm - 10pm

Located on the corner of 23rd & Spruce

• 215-735-7357 •

Why go to Italy when Italy is right here in Philly?

BYO (wine only) NEW Gluten free pizza!

Whole Wheat pizza! Soy Cheese andNO corkage fee

CREATIVE • BALANCED • SIMPLE1608 SOUTH STREET • PHILADELPHIA, PA

215-790-0330 • ENTREEBYOB.COM

CREATIVE • BALANCED • SIMPLE1608 SOUTH STREET • PHILADELPHIA, PA

215-790-0330 • ENTREEBYOB.COM

For Fast Delivery Call 215-386-1941

Exp. 2/23/12Exp. 4/11/12


Exp. 2/23/12Exp. 4/11/12


Exp. 2/23/12Exp. 4/11/12

WelcomeCLASS OF

2016

Take $5 off any order

of $30 or more!Expires 10/31/2014* Closed Mondays*

Serving Philadelphia for over

25 years!

City’s Most Popular Indian Buffet


Exp. 2/23/12Exp. 4/11/12


Exp. 2/23/12Exp. 4/11/12


Exp. 2/23/12Exp. 4/11/12

WelcomeCLASS OF

2016For Fast Delivery Call 215-386-19414004 Chestnut Street or Order Online @ newdelhiweb.com

linebacking corps had their way with Columbia, keeping running back Cameron Molina inside the tackles and generating consistent pressure on quarterback Trevor McDonagh.

Defensive coordinator Ray Priore unleashed a number of blitzes that set his rushers up nicely to beat Columbia’s protec-tion.

Without standout pass rusher Sam Chwarzynski this season, the Quakers have relied on more of a collective effort to get to op-posing quarterbacks.

Saturday was a prime example of that, as the defense’s two total sacks were made by players who had not yet brought down an op-posing quarterback this year — senior Joe Naji, and juniors Dylan Muscat and Luke Nossem.

Penn’s sack total didn’t prop-erly reflect the pressure its pass rush got on McDonagh, however. The Columbia junior was hurried often and nearly taken down sev-

eral more times.The unit also was able to take

advantage of Columbia’s numer-ous pre-snap mistakes and give Penn’s offense a number of short fields to work with.

It wasn’t anything exceptional, but it was more than enough to keep the Lions scoreless for near-ly the entire game.

Saturday’s solid defensive ef-fort will also serve to establish a blueprint the unit must follow for Penn to neutralize the better of-fenses in the Ivy League.

Unfortunately for the Red and Blue’s title hopes, the challenges for the Quakers’ defense don’t mount gradually: the Red and Blue face the Ancient Eight’s top offense, Yale, this weekend.

The Bulldogs boast a balanced and dynamic attack lead by the Ivy League’s top passer, Morgan Roberts, and rusher, Tyler Varga.

But if the Quakers’ defense is able bring its toughness and intensity that were on display against Columbia into New Ha-ven, the Elis won’t have it easy on Saturday.

FOOTBALL>> PAGE 12

But she did not stop there. Calhoun also stressed to athletes a sense of accountability; if they want to be a part of a vibrant ath-letic community in University City, then they need to help make it.

“If we’re going to grow atten-dance at all sports, then [athletes] are personally responsible for helping grow attendance,” she said.

“If it’s inviting their class-mates, their residence hallmates, their faculty, they need to be en-gaging in those conversations, getting information out about their sporting events and being personally accountable to trying to help bring people in. We all know that people have a better chance of wanting to go if they feel like they’re invited or they feel like they know people that they’re watching play.”

Tied to this element of ac-countability is athletes’ behavior off the field. According to Cal-houn, “for student athletes, just always making sure that they understand that there are privi-leges, but also responsibilities that come with the role.”

“One of those responsibilities is being high [in] character and good citizens. Because if they’re not, it’s an embarrassment to not only themselves and their family but also the team and the division if something goes wrong.”

Recently, quite a few things have gone wrong. The last cal-endar year has been one of bad press for the Penn athletics com-munity in the Greater Philadel-phia area. To name a few, the women’s lacrosse team got into trouble last spring for allegedly damaging a bar and behaving vulgarly in Center City. This fall,

junior wide receiver Cam Coun-tryman was charged with simple assault after an altercation with a fellow student-athlete.

“Unfortunately we’ve had our fair share of neighborhood dis-turbances,” said Calhoun. “I’ve had enough of that.”

Through these policies it is clear that Calhoun is on a mission to establish a tangible presence in the lives of student athletes on

campus. Although the semester is just shy of the halfway mark, her plan is already flourishing.

As a student athlete myself, I can attest to the success of Cal-houn’s four short months in of-fice. Her policies have already had a greater impact (no pun in-tended) on my life than anything done by former athletic director Steve Bilsky during the 2013-2014 school year.

Perhaps it is still too early to pass definitive judgments on our new fearless leader. But so far, I’m a fan.

HIGGINS>> PAGE 12

OSAMA AHMED/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHEROne of Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun’s primary objectives during her tenure is to improve the unity of the student-athlete community. In doing so, Calhoun hopes to improve attendance at athletics games and an overall involvement in sports campus-wide.

The Daily PennsylvanianSports BlogTHE

BUZZtheDP.com/theBuzz

LAINE HIGGINS is a College sopho-more from Wayzata, Minn., and is a staff writer of The Daily Pennsyl-vanian. She is also a member of Penn’s varsity women’s swimming team She can be reached at [email protected].

9SPORTSWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014THEDP.COM | THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

the following year, the Quakers finished one win short of an Ivy title.

“Over the past four years, we’ve put in so much hard work during season and outside of sea-son, working faster and getting stronger,” Croddick said. “The whole process has been really rewarding even though freshman year we only won four games. The year after that we wanted to be .500 and we got to that goal.

“Every year we have really worked hard to move up a little bit.”

Caniglia and Croddick hope to leave a legacy of hard work and dedication.

“We want to keep the momen-tum going and keep everyone’s energy and spirits up,” Caniglia said.

“We want to leave a strong work ethic and legacy for the girls,” Croddick added.

With time running out on their careers, both Caniglia and Croddick have been on the field plenty. Both have seen action in all of Penn’s games this season. Croddick, a midfielder, has tal-lied five assists, while Caniglia, a back, has contributed to a Penn defense that surrenders only 12.3 shots per game.

“The whole season has been a little bit bittersweet because every game is the last time I’m playing that opponent,” Crod-dick said. “It’s definitely been great to be one of the oldest re-turning players on the team.”

This season, though, has not

been all the Quakers have hoped for. Penn stands 5-7 as of now, and 1-3 in the Ivy League after a tough overtime loss to Columbia last weekend.

But there have been high-

lights. Penn travelled to Lafay-ette on Sept. 24 and defeated the Leopards for the first time in eight years.

Croddick remains positive that the improvement the team

has made will continue on in the classes below them.

“We want them to keep im-proving and keep working hard to bring Penn field hockey to its full potential.”

10Sports

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

Skill Level:

Create and solve yourSudoku puzzles for FREE.Play Sudoku and win prizes at:

prizesudoku.comThe Sudoku Source of “Daily Pennsylvanian”.

Solution to Previous Puzzle:

��

��

��

��

��

��

��

��

��

��

� � � � � � ��

��

� � � � � � � � ��

SUDOKUPUZZLE

NEWYORKTIMESCROSSWORDPUZZLEACROSS

1 Hatcher who was a Bond girl

5 Medicate again11 Letters at Indy14 Complaint15 Words from the

agreeable16 Like early

morning hours17 Drink made with

Jameson, maybe19 “The Lord of the

Rings” creature20 Fix21 Eric, in Finland22 Geoffrey of

fashion24 Dumb as a box

of rocks26 Genie’s reply29 Original

“Veronica Mars” airer

31 Spartan serfs32 “Behold,” to

Brutus35 Tough time38 Mountain ___40 Landlocked land41 Cheated, slangily42 “S O S!,” e.g.43 “Yummy!”44 Supply with

goods45 Rubber-stamped

46 Circus clown car, often

48 Witty sort50 Literary hybrid53 Raid57 Biathlete’s

weapon58 Clueless60 Absorbed, as a

loss61 Author LeShan62 Job done by

the insects seen above the circled words in 17-, 26- and 50-Across

66 Shape of Mork’s spacecraft on “Mork & Mindy”

67 Plaza Hotel girl68 “Freedom ___

free”69 Bridal bio word70 Backspace over71 Bare it all

DOWN 1 Car in the Beach

Boys’ “Fun, Fun, Fun”

2 Like “Dark Shadows” episodes

3 Hold the scepter 4 Hypotheticals 5 Bed of ___

6 Atlanta university 7 Friday’s creator 8 Neanderthal 9 About 5:00, on a

compass10 Look over,

informally11 Cajole12 Home of Fort

Donelson National Battlefield

13 One of Hollywood’s Farrelly brothers

18 Dickens’s scheming clerk

23 “___ Beso”25 Seeks damages27 Word before

cake or music

28 Place for a lark

30 Totally useless

32 Horror film street

33 Where Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin went to school

34 Reach adulthood

36 Loggers’ contest

37 Internet access option

39 Snookered

42 Okefenokee possum

44 Like hot tea

47 Subj. for a future bilingual

49 Mennen shaving product

50 Congratulate oneself for achievement

51 “Dallas” matriarch

52 Like a well-prepared turkey

54 Poker ploy55 Set things

straight, in a way

56 Gender-bending role for Barbra Streisand

59 Old dagger63 “___ ELO”

(1976 album)64 [That cracks me

up]65 Line on a

restaurant bill

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

PUZZLE BY ZHOUQIN BURNIKEL AND DON GAGLIARDO

G A T E S P A T W R I S TO A R S E R L E H O R N ET R A P C O A X Y U K O NT O N Y T O N I T O N EI N S E N T B I O W A H

L O N D O N O N T A R I OE R U P T S A O K L I D SL A C E S P I K V I T A EE Y E D G I L R E T I N AM O N S O O N S E A S O NI N T R Y E R I P G M A

O N A N D O N A N D O NB R A V E U R I S C E N TE A G E R T A C O I S E EE M E R Y S W A N S K Y S

Annual subscriptions are available for the best of Sunday crosswords from the last 50 years: 1-888-7-ACROSS.AT&T users: Text NYTX to 386 to download puzzles, or visit nytimes.com/mobilexword for more information.Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 2,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).Share tips: nytimes.com/wordplay. Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/learning/xwords.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28

29 30 31

32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

40 41 42

43 44 45

46 47 48 49

50 51 52 53 54 55 56

57 58 59 60

61 62 63 64 65

66 67 68

69 70 71

The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018

For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550

For Release Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0917

Penn Students! Check out this Deal!!

Buy One Large Pizza,Get the Second Large Pizza 50% off!

Celebrate being back to school with a pizza party!Please mention deal when ordering

Download Our App!

Get Specials, News,Check out the Menuand So Much More!

Order online at www.thepoweltonpizza.com

2206 Washington ave, Philadelphia (215) 546-7301

WE DELIVER

Studyingtoo hard?

Take a break with us.

StudyingStudying

springfi eld

distributor

beer

springfi eldbeer.netspringfi eldbeer.net

(215) 546-7301Corner of 27th and South St.DIRECTIONS: East on Chestnut, right on 23rd, right on Lombard

WE DELIVER!

Halloween is for beer

wishes you a happy Halloween

Looking at the team stats over the past four years, it is clear that Penn field hockey has really im-proved from 2011, when it strug-gled to a 4-13 record on Franklin Field’s turf.

And seniors Helene Caniglia and MaryRose Croddick have been there every step of the way as the program has reinvented itself and gained a new home at Ellen Vagelos Field.

“Being a senior on the team, it’s great to see how far the team has come and how the team has progressed over my four years

Seniors laying the groundwork for Quakers’ futureFIELD HOCKEY

Croddick and Caniglia look back on Penn career

BY CRISTINA URQUIDIStaff Writer

ISABELLA GONG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSenior Helene Caniglia has seen Penn field hockey go from the bottom of the Ancient Eight to a contender, and is looking to close out her final season strong. However, the Quakers stand at 5-7 this season, leaving room for improvement.

While Penn was eager to get Hong on its team, it took a long time for her to decide whether she wanted to be on any team after her high school career.

“I visited here really late — I came here in mid-February,” Hong said, “Most girls came in the early fall, but I was kind of late to decide whether or not I wanted to run in college, because I kind of got better at running during my senior year. But when I visited Penn, I really liked the team dynamic, and how coach

XC>> PAGE 12

said of the man with whom he shares the backfield.

One reason for that, which Wagner and McCurdy both com-mented on, is that he always brings his “A” game to practice.

The first time McCurdy met Beamish was in a captain’s meet-ing with the freshman last year. “I remember thinking it must say a lot about a guy that he’s a captain as a junior,” McCurdy said.

But, it was no hard choice to make Beamish a captain in his junior season, as McCurdy soon learned.

“Every team needs leadership,” Wagner said. “And there’s differ-ent kinds of leadership Beam has

the leadership not only to talk, to say the right things at the right time, but he also can do it on the field.”

Although, as McCurdy affec-tionately points out, there may be one thing that Beamish can’t quite do on the field.

“My favorite thing about Beamish is that anytime he gets into the open field … Mike Beamish is the only guy in the league who makes a direct route for the one guy who could tackle him and just bowls him over for five yards,” McCurdy said.

“One time I think he tried to do a juke, and he kinda hopped and then he tried to hurdle this guy and he got upended.”

But for a player who is a quar-

terback and punter by trade it’s hard to fault him for that. In fact it’s one of the things McCurdy praises him for.

“He’s not the biggest dance and make ‘em miss guy,” McCurdy said. “But it says a lot about his personality that even when he’s in the open field he goes out and just tries to punish the other guy. It’s kind of how he leads.”

Despite all of his success and his role on the team, nobody is ready to get sentimental about the last hurrah just yet.

“We’re worried about playing Army right now. Next year’s down the road,” Wagner said.

With two games left in the sea-son, Wagner will enjoy Beamish while he’s got him.

SPRINT FB>> PAGE 12

here,” Caniglia said. “Coach [Colleen] Fink wanted to build a new and successful program, and I was able to be here while she was doing that, so it’s just really great to see it all come together this year.”

The program was in dreadful shape before Caniglia and Crod-dick stepped onto campus. In 2010, Penn scored only 20 goals all season and went 1-6 in the Ivy League. The pair was entering on the ground floor.

“When my class of seniors committed to Penn, they had only won three games beforehand, so we were kind of coming in to a program that was really trying to turn around,” Croddick said.

Since that rough 2011, the Red and Blue have only im-proved. The 2012 season ended with a winning 9-8 record and

Dolan [is so] positive.“And it was a good mix, I

wanted to have somewhere that was academically good, and a place where I could be a part of the team.”

Hong has gotten off to a very solid start as a collegiate athlete, winning her very first race (the 4-kilometer Big 5 Invitational) and garnering Ivy Rookie of the Week honors before placing fifth among Penn runners (117th over-all) in an extremely competitive 5K Notre Dame Invitational. At the Princeton Invitational, Hong’s first career 6K, she was the sixth Penn runner to cross the finish line and the 52nd runner overall, helping the Red and Blue to an Ivy-best third-place finish in their rival’s home meet.

Hong, who also finished sixth in the State Championships and

ninth in the Regional Champion-ships last year, is certainly missed back at Mira Costa, but has a large following at home, accord-ing to her high school coach Re-nee Smith.

“It’s great to see [her doing so well] because everybody from here is still following her,” Smith said. “So I get a ton of people asking ‘How’s Abby doing?’ or ‘I heard about Abby last week!’ and we’re all pretty excited about her. Not everyone does so well in college. It’s hard to make it, es-pecially in a D1 program. So ev-eryone back here is really excited that she’s doing so well.”

Hong — who had never raced before high school — went from being the seventh or eighth run-ner on the team as a freshman to being the best on the squad and one of the best in the nation as a

senior. As for competing with the top runners at the collegiate level, she realizes that she has a tall task in front of her.

“I think [my performance has] been pretty good so far, but it’s definitely an adjustment from high school to college,” Hong said. “You have so many people here who are more at the same level. But it’s been really nice to have all these people to train with.

“It’s really about the mental switch. You’re always going to run against better and faster peo-ple in these races, so you have to have confidence in yourself that you can be up there, that you can make it.”

Only time will tell if Hong ulti-mately makes it, but she’s off to a solid start on campus, and she has people from coast-to-coast root-ing for her.

10 SPORTS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014 | THEDP.COMTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

Sports11

31 S. 42nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104(Between Market and Chestnut)

215-386-2929

ONE OF THE AREA’S MOST COMPLETE LOCK SERVICES

Locks repaired • Locks installed Auto locks • Bike Locks • Safes

24 hour service — business & residential

PHILADELPHIA’S MOST COMPLETE LOCK SERVICE

31 SOUTH 42ND STREET • PHILA215.386.2929

www.WestPhillyLock.com

Residential • Commercial • Auto • Locks Installed & Repaired

24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE

Serving West Philadelphia, Center City & Northern Liberties

www.apartmentsatpenn.com 215.222.0222

Still need housing for next school year?

Call us today. We’d love to help you find a great place.

At Penn, At Home.

make your appointment today(215) 222-9252 • 3743 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104

www.josephanthonyhairsalon.com

JOSEPH ANTHONYH A I R S A L O N

Haircut andShave Packages

$35

Look smart.I joined the DP to

see what reporting is really like.

The people I work with are now my closest friends.

I learned to assert myself when talking to

powerful people at the DP.

Harry Cooperman, City News Editor

Whatever you're looking for,

theDP.com/join

We've got you covered.

@dailypenn facebook.com/dailypenn thedp.com @dailypenn facebook.com/dailypenn thedp.com @dailypenn facebook.com/dailypenn thedp.com @dailypenn facebook.com/dailypenn thedp.com

Recruitment Sessions: September 3rd & 4thEditorial 6PMBusiness 7PMHuntsman Hall

From news to sports to gossip, the DP family covers it. Stay up to date 24/7 at theDP.com.

TODAY’S CLASSIFIEDS

INSTRUCTIONWIN‑WIN STRESS Manage- ment’s Automatic Subliminal Conciliatory Gestures. Free Tape, Process Description. 215-338-6447, 1-800-564- 4096. http://mysite.verizon.- net/biztg3kt (for Hannah, who wasn’t prepared)

MISCELLANEOUSINTERESTED IN TRYING a mental-clarity energy drink? Healthy, without the negative side effects of the Red Bulls? http://GuiltFreeEnergy Drink.com

like it has things together. Se-nior linebacker Dan Davis is healthy. All of these factors means Penn is a strong com-petitor to Yale. Favorites? No, but Dartmouth proved these Elis are beatable, even at Yale. Game on.

Sports Editor Ian Wenik: I’m gonna have to be party pooper on this one. Penn’s sec-ondary looked good against Columbia, yes, but I don’t see any reason to be confident in it until it shows up well against a competent quarterback. Yale senior quarterback Morgan Roberts is completing 69.4 per-cent of his passes this year, a ridiculously efficient clip.

If Penn wants me to believe it has a shot at the Ivy title, it’ll need to have that pass rush show up again in force on Sat-urday, to make the secondary issue irrelevant. After all, you can’t complete a pass if you’re pile-driven into the Yale Bowl turf. But that pass rush didn’t show up against Dartmouth, and I don’t see it showing up against the Bulldogs, either.

Sports Editor Holden Mc-Ginnis: I’m with Ian on this one. Sure, Dartmouth proved the Elis are beatable, but Penn and Dartmouth are far from the same team. And remember how close that one was. If Big Green quarterback Dalyn Wil-liams had made one fewer he-roic play in leading Dartmouth back in the fourth quarter, then we’d be talking about a Yale team undefeated in the league and holding a win over Army.

I don’t think a dominant win over lowly Columbia changes much of anything about Penn’s chances against one of the stronger teams in the league. Sure, it was by far the most complete game the Quakers have played all season, but the Lions aren’t a fearsome op-ponent. I think, if anything, Columbia helped cover up the flaws that doomed the Red and Blue in early games. We’ll see if Yale can expose them the same way that Dartmouth did, but either way Penn’s chances didn’t improve too much after a win that everyone saw coming.

THE BUZZ: ROUNDTABLE

Did Saturday’s win change Penn football’s season?BY SPORTS EDITORS

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

Penn football finally got its first win of the year on Satur-day, taking down lowly Co-lumbia. This weekend, a much greater test awaits in a strong Yale squad. Our editors debate: Does the Columbia game change the outlook for Penn football, or are the Quakers bound to fall to the Elis?

Senior Sports Editor Ste-ven Tydings: Winning always changes things. Look, the Quak-ers aren’t going to look like world beaters overnight, but the team knows the formula to win now. They need to establish the running game, which should be easier with senior running back Kyle Wilcox back at practice this week and possibly ready to go to the Yale Bowl. Alek Torgersen will need to be just as strong with his decision-making, and the O-line needs to hold up its end of the bargain.

But the defense was the most important change on Saturday. Yes, I know, Columbia. But that defense had floundered for four games and now the D-line looks

ILANA WURMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHEROn Saturday, Penn sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen put together his best game of the season, throwing for over 200 yards and rushing for 70 more. However, against Yale, Torgersen and the Quakers will have to outdo themselves to beat a strong opponent.

11SPORTSWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014THEDP.COM | THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

THOMAS MUNSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThroughout the season, senior linebacker Dan Davis has been a cornerstone of Penn’s defensive efforts. Against Columbia, Davis and co. went back to their fundamentals and found a way to put up their most complete performance of the season. The defensive front seven were at their best, putting consistent pressure on Trevor McDonagh.

Penn sprint football coach Bill Wagner chuckles when he thinks about his favorite memory of his senior captain and running back Mike Beamish. “Wow,” he replies, “He’s had a lot of big games.”

It’s hard to fi nd someone who won’t smile when they talk about Beamish. Well, except maybe a Mansfi eld defensive lineman. Re-gardless, whether it’s his coach, his quarterback or his teammates, there is nothing but praise for the Quakers’ running back as he pre-pares to lace up his cleats in his home fi nale for the Red and Blue this Friday night at Franklin Field.

Beamish is currently the pro-gram’s third all-time leading rusher, but it took an alignment of the stars for “Beam” — as Wag-ner aff ectionally calls him — to line up in Penn’s backfi eld.

While Beamish was recruited by multiple Division I programs for his punting ability, Wagner was able to get his hands on a tape of the now-senior from Penn’s varsity team. Except in the tape Beamish wasn’t just punting, he was playing quarterback. That’s when Wagner stepped in and con-

vinced Beamish to join his squad.When Beamish hurt his shoul-

der in his county’s all-star game and his quarterback aspirations were put on hold, Wagner had to improvise.

“What can he play, what can he do?” Wagner remembers

thinking, “He’s got great legs and lower body so I said: ‘Mike, why don’t you start running with the backs …’ and before you know it he ended up being a running back and that’s how that happened.”

But as always, whether it was a position change or another trip

to his hometown to take on Mans-fi eld, where his father played col-lege ball, Beamish gave it his all.

“He’s one of the most consis-tent guys on the team,” sopho-more quarterback Mike McCurdy

After a diffi cult start to the season, Penn football coach Al Bagnoli stressed the need for his team to get back to the funda-

mentals.It took a drive, but that’s just

what the Quakers’ defense did in its 31-7 win over Columbia on Saturday.

After letting up a touchdown on its fi rst series, Penn’s defense not only shut out the Lions, but also held their rushing attack to a measly 20 yards.

It was a display of resolve and consistency that Penn fans had

gotten used to over the years, but missed so far this season after the Red and Blue had failed to hold an opponent under 31 points en-tering Saturday’s contest.

Plain and simple, the Quakers returned to playing Penn defense.

“We knew it was going to be a tough game,” Columbia coach Pete Mangurian said after the game. “That’s Penn’s identity.”

It was the Red and Blue’s front

seven that truly got back to its identity.

“We played assignment foot-ball and stuck our gaps,” safety Evan Jackson, who had six tack-les, said . “The guys up front did a great job swarming to the foot-ball. It was a good performance for the run defense.”

The Quakers’ front four and

One of just two freshmen running with the “A-team” for Penn women’s cross country, Abby Hong is no stranger to fi nding herself in select groups on the track.

Hong’s reputation precedes her, which is something the Californian’s opponents have rarely managed to do when racing her to the fi nish line. The fi rst-year Quakers run-ner — fresh out of Mira Costa

High School — is coming off of a senior campaign which saw her qualify for and place 30th in the Foot Locker Cross Country National Champion-ships in San Diego, a meet in which only 10 student-athletes apiece from four regions com-pete. Hong impressed students and coaches alike during her fantastic senior year, including Penn coach Steve Dolan.

“I actually went out to San Diego and watched her com-pete in the National Champion-ships, so that was really a lot of fun,” Dolan said. “We knew she’d be a great match for Penn, so we’re excited she’s here.”

If you fi ght the urge to look at your phone while strolling down Locust Walk, you just might notice a little something diff erent among the sea of hur-ried people.

No, it’s not that the leaves are fi nally starting to turn. And it’s not that there are more pumpkin spice lattes in hand either.

If you look closely enough, underneath the unzipped hood-ies and jackets of Penn’s student athletes, you will fi nd bold new navy T-shirts are the latest in newly minted athletic director M. Grace Calhoun’s attempt to unify the Penn athlete commu-nity.

When it comes to bring-ing together upwards of 1,000 student-athletes, T-shirts may seem like a strange starting point. However, it is hard to walk more than a block across the heart of Penn’s campus without seeing a student proud-ly wearing one of these “IM-PACT” T-shirts .

Calhoun explains that the T-shirts were an attempt to make this sense of unity visible. “First and foremost, it’s been about building that [athletic] com-

munity internally,” she told The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“[It’s that] they’re not a men’s lacrosse team, a women’s basketball team, a rowing team, that they’re part of the division of recreation and intercollegiate athletics. That they need to act as one community and support one another,” Calhoun said.

The fi rst step, Calhoun ex-plained during Penn’s fi rst ever all-athlete kick-off picnic on Sept. 22, is to get to know mem-bers of the athletic community outside of just the sport in which you compete. Calhoun didn’t waste any time getting started with this measure: during the picnic, athletes were instructed not to sit with other members of their team so that they could get to know other athletes.

While the picnic was a gal-vanizing start, this athletic com-munity will not form overnight from a few more Facebook friends. Calhoun wants athletes to make the time to attend fel-low athletes’ competitions — and to do it for free. This year, for the fi rst time, student ath-letes will not have to pay admis-sion to men’s basketball games at the Palestra. This was done in hopes of reviving the passion-ate Quakers fan base that once thrived in the “Cathedral of Basketball.”

12Sports

LOOKING BACK

Two of Penn field hockey’s seniors look back on their careers

>> SEE PAGE 10

ROUNDTABLE

Our editors discuss whether Saturday’s win over Columbia

changes Penn football’s outlook>> SEE PAGE 11

Calhoun unifying Penn

Athletics

Freshman Hong separating herself

from the pack

XC | The Calif., native has put together a strong campaign

BY TOMMY ROTHMANStaff Writer

MICHELE OZER/SPORTS PHOTO EDITORIn her first collegiate race, freshman Abby Hong finished first, proving herself to be an integral part of the track & field program moving forward

SEE HIGGINS PAGE 9

SEE XC PAGE 10

Back to the

fundamentals

FOOTBALL | Consistent defense the key to Penn’s weekend

BY SEAMUS POWERSStaff Writer

Beamish continues running head onSPRINT FB | Senior

gave up Division I punting to play for coach

BY THOMAS MUNSONStaff Writer

MARCUS KATZ/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERWhile he had hopes to be a quarterback or Division I punter, senior captain Mike Beamish adapted well to the role of running back and leader for Penn sprint football. Beamish is now Penn’s third all-time leading rusher and has been a captain for two seasons.

SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

SEE SPRINT FB PAGE 10

fundamentalsLAINE

HIGGINS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014

CONTACT US: 215-422-4640SEND STORY IDEAS TO [email protected] ONLINE AT THEDP.COM

October 22, 2014

Documents

Transcript of October 22, 2014