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F IN HARNWELL E I H T MULTIPLE CLOTHING THEFTS IN HARNWELL COLLEGE HOUSE REMAIN UNSOLVED SKYLER PALATNICK Staff Reporter

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ollege junior Kara Dang woke up in early September to discover that nearly a $1000 worth of clothing had been stolen from her dorm room in Harnwell College House.

Dang isn’t alone — multiple students have reported incidents of theft, and some of them think that the College House has not done enough to prevent similar crimes from happening again.

Dang, who lives in a triple on the nineteenth floor of Harnwell College House, said she left her door unlocked on Sept. 8, the night that the theft occurred. She said that one of her roommates, College junior Zhanar Irgebay, was awake during the crime, but thought that the intruder(s) were their third roommate returning home.

“It was around 3 a.m., and someone had come into our room and taken stuff from the living room as well as one of my roommate’s rooms,” Dang said.

After realizing they had been robbed, Dang and her roommates decided to investigate if their situation was unique.

“We took it on our own part to kind of just ask around, to see if anyone had the same problems, see if it was a reoccurring thing,” Dang said. “We found out that it has happened on multiple floors of Harnwell.”

Another recent victim of clothing theft in Harnwell was College junior Christina Shin, who discovered that various pieces of her clothing were stolen from the laundry room on two occasions.

Shin said she had initially attributed

the missing clothing to forgetfulness, but when it happened a second time she was sure that someone had taken her belongings. She added that when she returned to the laundry room to retrieve her clothing the second time, the machine had already stopped, even though she had made sure to return before the end of the cycle.

Shin asked her residential advisor, College senior Emily Marucci, whether similar incidents had taken place and said that Marucci told her at the time that theft has been a recurring issue at Harnwell.

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Admins offer few specifics on task force, mental health In an interview, President Gutmann and Provost Pritchett defended Penn’s stance on unregistered parties DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor

By Provost Wendell Pritchett’s account, the administration’s series of policies regarding alcohol use and student social events have been implemented this semester with hardly a concern.

“I feel very good about the work of the task force and how things have been going since the recommendations have been implemented,” he said, flanked by his boss, Penn President Amy Gutmann.

In a 30-minute interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Pritchett described his view on student backlash to the outcome of the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community. The recommendations advocated for a crackdown on unrecognized student groups and increased enforcement of rules regulating alcohol use.

This interview with Pritchett and Gutmann opened a window into how Penn’s top administrators understand campus controversies The result, laid out below, includes little in the way of specifics.

On student backlash to stricter alcohol and social event policies: When the task force was announced last November by Gutmann and former Provost Vincent Price, its wide purview included student safety and alcohol abuse, along with the problem of unrecognized student groups. Most importantly to student protesters — who campaigned against “rape culture” for months after the off-campus group OZ sent an offensive email to freshman women last September —, the Task Force pledged “to foster a campus climate and culture that is free of sexual harassment and sexual violence.”

When the task force released a list of recommendations this April, the phrase “sexual violence” did not appear once, leaving protesters confused about what they viewed as a departure from the task force’s original mission.

Gutmann and Pritchett clarified that the task force’s mission was more general than what students might have understood.

“The goal that we have — the overarching goal, and it’s a very important one — is to keep our students safe: safe from sexual assault, safe from accidents, safe from falling behind in their studies,” Gutmann said. “And that [task force] was put together not only in response to that incident but for the overarching goal of coming up with a thoughtful perspective on what we’ve accomplished and what more we can do.”

When pressed specifically for ways the task force recommendations work to combat sexual assault, Gutmann said, “There are many things we have done preceding and following the task force. [The] goal is to keep students safe from sexual assault, safe from accidents and safe to pursue their studies in a productive way. We’d be happy to share with you a list of those things.”

On the University’s response to recent student deaths: Gutmann and Pritchett cautiously voiced their support of a system where faculty members are notified of an undergraduate student’s death around the same time that undergraduates are informed.

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The Common App sued for violating antitrust laws They are accused of running a ‘collusive cartel’ HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor

Nonprofit educational organizations are not typically associated with antitrust lawsuits, but The Common Application — a nonprofit member-based organization “committed to the pursuit of access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process” — has been embroiled in a costly legal battle for the past three years.

CollegeNet, a software development company that creates web-based college applications, made a legal complaint against the Common App last year for using techniques to “monopolize the market.”

According to The Chronicle of

Higher Education, the Common App has historically allowed member colleges to pay significantly less per applicant if they agree to offer online applications only through the Common App. This discourages colleges from offering multiple online applications. CollegeNet alleged in the initial lawsuit that this policy has cost its company more than 200 college customers in the last 1015 years.

In May 2015, the U.S. District Court in Portland ruled in favor of the Common App, dismissing CollegeNet’s complaint. However, the company filed an appeal shortly after, and oral arguments were finally held in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Oct. 5 in Seattle.

During the time that this pricing system was in place at the Common App, Penn Dean of Ad-

missions Eric Furda served as the chair of the Board of Directors for the organization. Furda is no longer on the Board of Directors, but according to internet archives of the Common App website, he was continually listed as being on the board from August 2015 until as late as June 9, 2017.

He was also cited as the chair of the board of directors in an article on the Common App website dated Sept. 25, 2014, which is more than six months after the initial lawsuit was filed.

Furda has not commented on the record on the ongoing lawsuit.

Since the beginning of the legal proceedings, the Common App has begun the process of phasing out these pricing plans that encourage exclusivity, but CollegeNet is still suing them for using tactics that monopolize the

market.

Attorney Eric Miller, a partner of Perkins Coie, has represented CollegeNet in the courtroom. In his arguments, he alleged that the Common App’s activity was “facilitating a collusive and monopsonistic cartel among colleges as purchasers of application processing services.”

He also claimed that colleges were offering “an applicant experience that is inferior to what they would offer if they were freely competing with one another.”

Thane Scott, an attorney from the firm Morgan Lewis specializing in antitrust cases, defended the Common App, stating that the college application market did not exhibit the characteristics of a monopoly.

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The Common Application is in the middle of a legal battle over allegations of antitrust violations. Oral arguments were held on Oct. 5.

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A look at Penn’s sexual assault investigation policies

Penn’s policies reach beyond campus OLIVIA SYLVESTER Senior Reporter

Under the Obama administration, the “Dear Colleague” letter of April 2011 set guidelines for how universities were required to handle sexual misconduct on campus. What Penn students might not know is that many of these requirements apply even when students face sexual misconduct off- campus.

Deborah Harley, Penn’s sexual violence investigative officer, said she investigates all complaints made against enrolled Penn students and faculty involving sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking. She said that regardless of where the incident takes place, all complaints are handled using the same procedure.

“If it happened on-campus, offcampus, abroad, none of that is relevant to me,” Harley said. “The complainant does not need to be a Penn student. It can be a visitor.

It can be someone from a different university. It can be a staff or faculty member.”

Harley’s office uses the word

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House Dean Courtney Dombroski.

Dombroski declined to comment and directed the DP to the Penn Police Department in an email.

Director of Communications and External Relations for Penn Business Services Barbara LeaKruger said in an email that the DP should reach out to the Division of Public Safety.

Dang and her roommates reported the incident to Penn Police and said a detective has been assigned to the case.

“We have a few reports of missing or lost property and one report of theft in Harnwell since the beginning of the semester. None of

“complainant” to describe people who reported the incident of sexual harassment or violence and “respondent” to identify the person the complaint was against.

Title IX, which protects against sex-based discrimination in schools, requires all schools to “process all complaints of sexual violence, regardless of where the conduct occurred to determine whether the conduct occurred in the context of an education program or activity or had continuing effects on campus or in an off-campus education program or activity,” according to the Department of Education’s website.

If an incident of violence occurs during a school-sponsored education program or activity that is held off campus, such as “activities that take place at houses of fraternities or sororities recognized by the school; school-sponsored field trips, including athletic team travel; and events for school clubs that occur off campus,” then the school is required to treat the situation as it would an on-campus assault.

If the incident of violence did not happen during a schoolsponsored activity or program, the school is not required to treat

it like it happened on campus, but is required to investigate the effects of the incident on the student while they continue to stay on campus.

For example, if one Penn student is sexually assaulted by another Penn student in New York City, Penn should investigate if the presence of the perpetrator on campus poses a threat to other students, or to the victim of the assault. The DOE’s website explains that “the mere presence […] of the alleged perpetrator of off-campus sexual violence can have continuing effects that create a hostile environment.”

Harley also said that Student Intervention Services, in accordance with DOE guidelines, can help students avoid hostile environments after misconduct occurs, regardless of whether the student files a formal complaint with the University.

Harley explained that SIS can help relocate students in cases where the complainant and respondent live in close proximity, rearrange classes if the complainant and respondent are taking the same classes, as well as issue “nocontact directives.” For example, Harley said, SIS could tell the

the reports appear to be related,” Director of Operations and External Affairs for DPS Kathleen Shields Anderson, said in an email.

After Dang’s dorm was burglarized, the Harnwell Sun, the house’s newsletter that was released on Sept. 12 included a warning to residents reminding them to lock their doors.

Dang said she and her roommates were disappointed in this initial response.

“We explicitly asked that they notify everyone and it was just sort of a subtle ‘remember to lock your doors.’ No one is gonna lock their door just because you told them to — they’re going to lock their door if they know things have been stolen,” she said.

Several days after their first no-

tification on the Harnwell Sun, the house dean sent out another email on Sept. 15 informing residents that items had been stolen.

“Please be sure to shut and lock your doors. Recently, some apartment doors weren’t locked and items were stolen. These incidents have been reported to UPPD[Penn Police] and they are investigating, but please do lock your doors,” Dombroski said in the email.

Other Harnwell residents also feel that the College House’s methods of encouraging caution about theft have been inadequate.

College seniors Destiny Bingham and Sana Bukari said they received the warning emails, but had no idea that they were sent out in response to a recent series of thefts in the building.

complainant to only visit the gym between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. so that the respondent could feel safe to go between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Drexel University has the same policy, stating in their Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment and Misconduct Policy that “all students and employees of the University are responsible for their actions and behavior, whether the conduct in question occurs on campus, in the surrounding community or in another location.”

The University adds that, “this policy applies to all relevant conduct wherever it occurs, including on campus, off campus and online.”

Executive Director of the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia and former Director of Penn’s Women’s Center Carol Tracy said a university has a “duty to make accommodations” for students regardless of if the event happened on-campus or at a university sponsored event.

She added that schools have a “considerable amount of discretion” in their implementation of Title IX policies, but “cannot go below the floor of what is considered a protection against sexual harassment.”

“It was very general, I was just like, yeah we are gonna keep our doors locked; they didn’t tell us the background story,” Bingham said about the email.

Bukari agreed, explaining that a little more elaboration on what was going on could have adequately raised student awareness about the situation.

Neither Bingham nor Bukari had been victims of theft, and both said they regularly lock their doors, but Bingham noted that on rare occasions, her door does not fully close unless it is pulled shut.

“Knowing that there is theft going on and they haven’t really been telling us isn’t really a good thing because we’d like to know that we need to protect our stuff more carefully,” Bukari said.

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Sexual Violence Investigative Officer Deborah Harley said that policies can help victims avoid hostile environments after misconduct occurs.

“They can be stricter, but they can’t be less strict,” Tracy said.

Many students don’t seem to be aware of Penn’s policies when it comes to sexual assault that occurs beyond university premises, said Chair of Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention and College senior Caroline Ohlson.

In an email statement, Ohlson wrote that she thinks many students aren’t aware of this policy and don’t realize that this applies even outside of Philadelphia. She also wrote that she thinks a lot of students aren’t aware of the re-

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Shortly after their interview with the DP, administrators formally unveiled a policy that standardizes how faculty are notified. When the death of Wharton senior Henry Rogers was announced to the undergraduate student body on Oct. 9, undergraduate faculty were all informed within the same day.

But even with this policy set to be introduced, Gutmann and Pritchett were vague as to how the University would change course in response to pleas from faculty for a more standardized notification system.

After mistakenly saying faculty were already being noti-

sources that are available to them or where to find these resources.

She added students can help play a role in increasing the awareness of and de-stigmatizing the use of Penn’s sexual assault resources by referring friends who have experienced sexual assault to these resources.

“I wish that more students were aware of these resources and that if they seek out a confidential resource, they can get support and learn more about their options before making any decisions about reporting,” Ohlson wrote.

fied of student deaths, Pritchett clarified that the deans of the four undergraduate schools have relative autonomy to determine when and how groups of faculty from their schools are informed of the event.

“It was originally left to the discretion of the dean … so now, we’re trying to have a discussion about how we modify that a little bit,” said Stephen MacCarthy, a University spokesperson who sat in on the meeting.

When asked directly if he would require the deans to notify their communities immediately, Pritchett said, “The way I’d like to answer your question is: ‘I think it will be, but … ‘” before being cut off. He did not complete his original statement.

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Cultural frats meet to discuss sexual assault About 30 Penn and Drexel students attended MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

Men of color from Penn and Drexel University gathered in the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall on Oct. 11 to discuss sexual assault and how to work against it.

The event, titled “We Need to Talk: Black Men Discuss Sexual Violence,” was organized by Penn Intercultural Greek Council fraternities Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi, with support from Penn Violence Prevention and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

Omega Psi Phi includes members from Penn, Drexel, St. Joseph’s University and La Salle University.

Omega Psi Phi President and Drexel senior Michael Burton said about 30 Penn and Drexel students attended the event.

Alpha Phi Alpha President and Engineering senior Wesley Pennycooke explained that “el-

ders” from the black community — such as OFSL Director Eddie Banks-Crosson, PVP Associate Director Malik Washington and Director of Makuu, Penn’s black cultural center, Brian Peterson — provided questions for the attendees to discuss.

“People were sharing a lot; people were vulnerable, and most importantly, people were listening,” Washington said of the event.

Penn administrators emphasized the importance of these conversations among people of color.

“As a person of color, I’m not always confident that we come to the table or we actually think that this stuff applies,” Banks-Crosson said. “I think it’s important to say it absolutely applies. Where are the spaces that we feel comfortable to talk about these things?”

Washington added that oftentimes, discussions about sexual assault focus on white fraternities.

“We know that it is happening outside of that culture,” he said, “So we wanted a conversation that was unique to this commu-

nity.”

Pennycooke said he and the fellow chapter presidents decided to host this discussion after a session about violence prevention during a mandatory senior leadership retreat. They reached out to OFSL and PVP to include additional perspectives in the conversation.

Wharton senior and Kappa Alpha Psi member Carl Leacock said one of the main takeaways of the event were the active bystander strategies that encourage intervention in risky scenarios.

Burton said some of the discussion was “elementary,” such as the conversation they had on the distinction between right and wrong. But other topics were not so straightforward. Examples include the conversation they had on party scenarios and how “to dance or socialize with women … in a way that is not only effective, but at the same time, makes them feel comfortable and not blindsided.”

He explained that this is an important discussion because, at his fraternity, a large number of so-

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“The competitive health of this market is actually quite good,” Scott said. “Price competition is robust. Quality competition is also robust.”

Scott also suggested that CollegeNet is being outperformed by the Common App because they are selling an inferior product.

“Consumers pick winners,” Scott said. “When consumers pick you, it seems like the market is working fine. When consumers pick your rival, it’s easy to say there must be something wrong with the market.”

Although the Common App is a nonprofit organization, they consistently turn a profit. In the fiscal year ending in 2015, it collected $16,826,502 in total revenue.

CollegeNet recently developed the Coalition Application, a competitor to the Common App that Penn will accept this coming admissions cycle.

Annie Reznik, the executive director of the Coalition Application, said that since the Coalition App is a product developed by CollegeNet, her organization is not involved with the lawsuit.

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Penn Intercultural Greek Council fraternities Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi led a discussion on sexual assault.

cial situations involved physical interaction, such as dancing, and drinking alcohol — a combination that could carry the potential for sexual assault.

Pennycooke said the group also discussed accountability and that attendees should relay insights from the event to their friends who were not present, to help conquer the taboo around the subject of sexual assault.

Though there are not yet concrete plans for future conversation forums, the event’s organizers said Wednesday’s discussion was the first of many.

“We can’t fit everything into two hours, and we knew that,” Pennycooke said. “Whether it would be a continuation, another topic or bringing more people into the conversation, that is definitely to come.

Students launch game development club

The club accepts students without an application AMY LIU Contributing Reporter

Penn’s first game development group is offering all students the chance to make their ideal video game a reality.

UPenn Game Research and Development Environment is a group focused on teaching students new skills, which makes it friendly for all game enthusiasts, including those without past experience, founding member and Engineering sophomore Morgan Herrmann said.

“Unlike a lot of programming clubs, we’re not really about hosting tech talks or outreaches as much as working on actual projects,” Herrmann said. “It’s one of the first digital media and design groups focused on teaching skills rather than networking skills students already have.”

In fall 2016, Engineering sophomore Luigi Mangione started UPGRADE because he could not find any game development groups at the Student Activities Council’s Fall Activities Fair. Mangione publicized UPGRADE on his class Facebook group, and a small core

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The UPenn Game Research and Development Environment work includes Animancer, a 3-D role-play game set in Africa.

of freshmen soon grew to become a club with 60 members, including upperclassmen.

UPGRADE has two current projects and plans to develop two more.

Their work includes Animancer, a 3-D role-play game set in Africa, and Project ECHO, a game where users jump from platform to platform as they would in Super Mario Brothers. The members hope to release one of their games by the end of the school year.

Each game requires collaboration between programmers, visual artists, musicians and writers. College freshman James Peterson works on the plot and cultural context for Animancer.

“From my experience, video

game clubs have always been more focused on the coding and concept art, not writing,” Peterson said. “I feel like I matter more here.”

UPGRADE will host the third annual Penn Play game development hackathon from Oct. 14 to 15. Although upperclassmen in the Digital Media and Design major usually host Penn Play, the responsibility was handed off to UPGRADE this year.

UPGRADE steps away from competitive club culture by admitting anyone who is willing to join, without an application.

“We discussed if we would seem more legitimate with an application, but that’s not the environment we’re going for. Our goal is to have fun

and learn,” Mangione said. “As long as you’re willing to put in the time, you can be a game developer.”

Wharton sophomore Jorge Martinez joined UPGRADE this fall after transferring to Penn, and he believes the club’s “inclusive attitude” fosters a more genuine passion for game development.

“Everybody joined because they want to make cool games, not because they want to pad their resume,” Jorge said. “If it was to have those interview-style applications with enormous Google forms, it wouldn’t be the same. It’d be a job.”

Each project is headed by a small team with mixed levels of experience so that experts can guide beginners. Besides working on projects, members also meet for game pitches and workshops.

The closest option to this experience offered as a course at Penn is Game Design Practicum, a course with several prerequisites that many computer science majors don’t fulfill until junior year.

“As we share and collaborate, our knowledge base grows. New members find that they actually have some great ideas,” said Engineering sophomore Josh Nadel, the project lead of Animancer. “All it takes is passion.”

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OPINION High time for common sense

MONDAY OCTOBER 16, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 78 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor MADELEINE LAMON News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor YOSI WEITZMAN Sports Editor BREVIN FLEISCHER Sports Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor AMANDA GEISER Copy Editor HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor ANDREW FISCHER Director of Web Development DYLAN REIM Social Media Editor ANANYA CHANDRA Photo Manager JOY LEE News Photo Editor ZACH SHELDON Sports Photo Editor LUCAS WEINER Video Producer JOYCE VARMA Podcast Editor BRANDON JOHNSON Business Manager MADDY OVERMOYER Advertising Manager SONIA KUMAR Business Analytics Manager SAMARA WYANT Circulation Manager HANNAH SHAKNOVICH Marketing Manager MEGHA AGARWAL Development Project Lead

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PENN DEMOCRATS It is high time for commonsense gun control legislation.

It’s been high time since Sandy Hook and Pulse Night Club, since Aurora and Tucson, since Columbine High School and Virginia Tech. It’s been high time long before our nation’s collective consciousness developed that quiet, whispering paranoia that wonders, “What if the next shooting is this movie theater, this classroom or this concert?

What if it’s today?”

Gun control legislation is popular among the voting public — more popular than almost any proposed legislation in the public sphere. Social scientists overwhelmingly rule that many forms of legislation, ranging from background checks to outright bans of certain firearms, work to reduce gun violence. Nations similar to the United States (the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the list goes on) have enacted gun control and have seen dramatic drops in gun violence.

Yet, thanks to decades of political cowardice, the dangerous orthodoxy of Second Amendment absolutists and the successful organizing efforts of the National Rifle Association, meaningful gun control legislation remains unenacted. The choice to not pass gun control represents a massive, pathetic failure on the part of our elected officials.

As of Oct. 2, 2017, the date of the devastating mass killing in Las Vegas, there have been 271 mass shootings in this year alone — more than one per day.

We have allowed civilian spaces to become active war zones, a phenomenon unimaginable only a few decades ago. Worse still than these rattling episodes of domestic terrorism is the daily onslaught of interpersonal violence that permeates our culture.

According to the Brady Campaign, every day in the United States, 46 children are shot in murders, assaults, suicides, accidental shootings, and police shootings. Seven of these children will die. Including those over the age of 18, those numbers rise to 315 people shot every day and 93 deaths. These numbers are astronomically higher in the United States than they are in comparable nations. Our nation is exceptionally violent, enabled by things like gun-show loopholes, limited background checks and other unfounded spaces of deregulation that only serve to make these acts of violence distinctly more possible.

But that does not mean that our nation must remain this way.

Gun control is possible, necessary and constitutional. The concept of an unfettered individual right to a firearm is a fantasy, and the concept that this “right”

goes back to the founding of our nation is ludicrous. Instead, this concept is less than 10 years old. The Supreme Court did not interpret the Second Amendment as necessarily protecting individual gun ownership until a 5-4 decision in “District of Columbia v. Heller” in 2008. The majority decision, penned by the famously right-wing Justice Antonin Scalia, overturned decades of thinking on the interpretation of “well-regulated militia.”

As pointed out by Justice John Paul Stevens’ dissenting opinion, the Second Amendment is written as a collective right. Readings that stretch this collective right to an unlimited individual right are not originalist, but extremely expansionist. Scalia’s majority opinion couched a pro-gun ideology in a supposedly originalist reading of the Constitution, and this ruling must be overturned. On top of that, we must move away from the misconception that an individual’s unlimited right to own a firearm has always and will always exist within the United States. This misconception is a falsehood, and benefits the agenda of radically right-wing Second Amendment absolutists.

Democrats have work to do on our gun control stance as well. We must stop prefacing our desire for gun legislation with fiction about our passion for sportsmanship and self-defense — did anyone really believe John Kerry felt comfortable holding a rifle, or that Barack Obama was an avid hunter? More than this, we must turn away from weak, symbolic legislation that is more harmful than effective. Such laws include the proposed “No Fly, No Buy” bill, which aimed to keep those on the “No-Fly” list from purchasing a firearm.

These forms of gun laws do little to protect us from violence, and do much to encourage the monitoring and incarceration of people of color.

Ultimately, on a more existential level, we must address the cultural phenomenons that encourage gun violence and promote this zealous attachment to weapons. Why does our nation, more than any other Western nation, associate violence with strength? Why are weapons tied to manhood? Why have weapons of war slowly but surely seeped into police forces, and then into civilian life? And why are so many Americans’ identities and values so closely tied to their possession of guns?

It’s high time we re-evaluate not only the lack of constitutional and legal grounding for modern gun policy, but also the cultural and moral background that positions some activists to push so adamantly for total deregulation of gun policy.

TOE THE LINE

ARI GOLDFINE is a College junior and the vice president of Penn Democrats.

TOE THE LINE examines issues from two different sides. Both Penn Democrats and College Republicans argue why their collective positions on major political issues is best for the country.

MICHAEL MOROZ is a College and Wharton sophomore and a codirector of the College Republicans Editorial Board.

COLLEGE REPUBLICANS

Let’s talk about guns COLLEGE REPUBLICANS During Stephen Paddock’s meticulously planned and morally incomprehensible act of mass murder, law enforcement officers shielded concertgoers with their own bodies. Concertgoers, who could’ve kept running, returned to save others. Locally, people went to donate blood the next day and all of America was hoping against hope that there would be few victims.

The reason I stress this harmoniousness is because it has a strict time limit. Almost instantly after these tragedies, pundits and politicians begin proposing certain policies, and their proposals often take the form of emotional declarations, not fact-based arguments.

Even in these times, and especially in these times, the ability we have to be both profoundly mournful and fundamentally rational is our most valuable asset.

Let’s start that fact-based discussion by remembering why Americans are allowed to own guns in the first place. The Second Amendment has a very specific basis — citizens must have the ability to defend their rights in the absence of a government able and willing to do so. The lessons of history, especially the relatively recent Soviet and National Socialist iterations of despotism, surely prove just how quickly and with what force a government can turn against its people.

Daily, guns are used to defend against crime in this country.

In fact, the vast majority of gun crimes — 79 percent — are committed by unlawful gun owners.

There are about 50 million more guns in America now than in 1993; in the same period, violent crime declined to record lows.

Measuring the amount of defensive gun use is notoriously difficult, but whatever the figure is between 100,000 and 2 million a year — the high and low ends of the estimates — lawful gun owners defend themselves more often than criminals kill others.

Much of the left’s renewed passion about the issue of guns ignores these truths and is derived from specific misapprehensions.

As an example, Hillary Clinton lambasted the National Rifle Association for supporting silencers: “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer.” Silencers, as PolitiFact noted when they rated this statement “false,” do not silence gunfire; they merely reduce its volume to that of a “jumbo jet on the tarmac 100 yards away,” To address a few more substantive misunderstandings, the term “assault weapon,” used to frighten readers into supporting gun control, is a fabricated term.

Assault rifles, automatic weapons like those used by the military, indeed exist. “Assault weapons,”

on the other hand, describes semi-automatic rifles. These assault weapons, which Democrats would like to ban, account for under 2 percent of gun crimes.

When they succeeded in banning them in 1994, the National Institute of Justice said that “the evidence is not strong enough for us to conclude that the effect was different from zero.”

Some other myths forwarded by gun control advocates relate to gun shows and background checks. The “gun-show loophole,” which gun control advocates want to close, does not exist. The only people at a gun show or anywhere else who can sell guns without conducting background checks are those who are making a personal transfer and are not firearms dealers.

The issue of background checks should not be polarizing.

Indeed, background checks are useful and necessary. Democrats frame their support of background checks in terms of stopping the mass shooting in Las Vegas, but Stephen Paddock passed his background check — he had no mental health or criminal record precluding him from purchasing a gun.

Some on the left realize how unconvincing their more moderate fellow travelers are, and propose a total gun ban instead.

Leaving aside the fact that this is unconstitutional and impossible on a practical level in a country with more guns than people, it’s also not supported by the data.

A FiveThirtyEight analysis surprised the pro-gun-control statisticians that conducted it, as it showed that total gun bans in Britain and Australia, as well as gun control proposals here, have had no measurable impact.

The conclusion is inescapable: No gun control proposals you’ll see in the Penn Democrats column or in Congress would stop a psychopath with a clean record from acquiring a gun. As I mentioned before, our ability to be rational in times of tragedy is critical. We need to use this test, the test of real impact on a specific problem, to evaluate policies.

That doesn’t mean we do nothing. Some gun control proposals, like the banning of bump stocks that help mimic automatic rates of fire, are likely difficult to enforce, but are theoretically reasonable and have broad support. Reducing the level of gun-free zones and extending concealed carry laws would further deter criminals.

That being said, we need to accept that there will always be evil people trying to harm others with guns, trucks, bombs and even planes. Surrendering lawabiding citizens to the mercy of these individuals by confiscating their only effective means of selfdefense hasn’t worked in the past, and it won’t work now.

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Remember to love Penn FRESH TAKE | In defense of our institution Descending from the bridge on Locust Walk one cloudy morning, I saw the familiar sea of students hurriedly milling between classes.

On my peers’ faces were expressions of stress. The rush of Monday morning classes was juxtaposed sharply with the chill, feel-good vibes flowing out of my earphones.

That’s when I started thinking about the forgotten happiness of being at Penn. It’s too easy to fixate on our frustrations about this institution; week after week, we opinion columnists criticize or lament an aspect of Penn’s culture or administration.

But we were all once high school seniors, excitedly scrolling through Penn’s website and dreaming of walking through Locust, sitting on College Green and taking classes at the Penn Museum. Now that we’re here, we should pull ourselves out of our bubbles and re-embrace the magic of what drew us to Penn in the first place.

So, what exactly is it that makes us lucky to call this place home?

I pitched this question to the most critical students of our University

— my fellow columnists — and here is why we are thankful that we chose the University of Pennsylvania.

A giant, inescapable part of our lives is Philadelphia. Penn’s location makes getting off campus incredibly accessible and meaningful. A 30-minute walk east allows you to be subsumed in a historical city brimming with parks, festivals and food. Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Penn’s Landing, Fourth Street, Boathouse Row, City Hall — the list of reasons to love Philadelphia is endless.

Penn is nestled in the cozy neighborhood of University City, thereby allowing for an urban campus with a college-town feel. Although the Penn Bubble exists, the University’s location makes it easy for us to regularly transcend our roles of college students and become “real citizens” who engage with city life outside of the University.

Take Princeton’s Orange Bubble, for example. The relative seclusion of the campus demotivates students from leaving. And what

about that college in Ithaca, N.Y.?

Here, we are residents of the fifth largest city in the United States; it is so easy to forget to take advantage of that.

What else do Penn’s harshest critics love about being here? A common response was the quality of intellectual conversations that occur every day. At the begin-

debates about gun control. Topics of dialogue with one person could range from the theory of evolution to 1930s cinema.

The diversity of the student body is also stunning. I am still astonished everyday that I have friends from six continents, dozens of countries and countless cities. Prior to coming to Penn, most of us were

Now that we’re here, we should pull ourselves out of our bubbles and re-embrace the magic of what drew us to Penn in the first place.” ning of freshman year, I was taken aback by, but immediately loved, how conversations about world politics could emerge over dinner at 1920 Commons. Procrastination at 3 a.m. could manifest in

not accustomed to being surrounded by intellectual curiosity and incredible geographic diversity. But we have all come to realize that one of the best parts of being here is being able to connect deeply with

our friends, who are all so different from, yet similar to, ourselves.

And what about Penn’s preprofessional culture? Often criticized for being too intense, this atmosphere is precisely what draws some students — including some of our columnists — to Penn. Benjamin Franklin’s educational aim was to found an institution that trained students to be leaders in business, government and public service. At its core, Penn is more geared towards preparing us for the professional world than comparable universities. We are allowed to simultaneously hate the pernicious effects of this atmosphere and love the opportunities it brings us.

The list of reasons to love Penn is boundless and flexible. Different facets speak to different students, but it should not be difficult to find at least one reason to appreciate our University.

It is important to critique Penn and try to hold it accountable. But it is equally important to remember to love it before we lose it. Sometimes, students need a reminder of how lucky they are to be able to

LUCY HU spend a tiny fraction of life calling Penn home. For the Class of 2018, there are just over six months left.

For everyone else, hopefully next time you’re on Locust at 9:56 a.m. running to your 10 a.m. at FisherBennett Hall, you’ll slow down, plug in some good tunes and realize you can’t afford to wait until senior spring to fall in love with Penn.

LUCY HU is a College sophomore from Auckland, New Zealand, studying political science. Her email address is lucyhu@sas.upenn.edu.

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ROAD JESS TRAVELLED | On taking the time to step back and reflect

It’s the middle of October, and I’d like you all to take a deep, deep breath with me. On the count of three …

One, two, three.

I’m trying to live my life in the present. But that’s definitely easier said than done — oftentimes, I’m anxious that I’m not doing enough with my time, or that it’s passing by too quickly.

Upperclassmen tell me that college goes by in a blink of an eye.

Professors and adults tell me to cherish my time here, because the real world is coming like a freight train.

It’s true; I can’t deny it. Every semester here so far has seemed to go by in a whirlwind, and suddenly I’m sitting at home a few months later wondering what I’ve done with my time and where it went. Even the beginning of my sophomore year has felt like a floating experience, watching the days morph into each other in a blur of midterms, meals and meetings.

Sometimes, I do forget why I am here. I forget what I’m do-

ing this all for: why I’m running to my third meeting of Monday night, why I’m agonizing over 30-minute statistics Canvas quizzes, why I’m going to random info sessions in my hours after class. It’s easy to live life at college in a stupor, to just blindly do what you think you should do.

We all fall victim to it every day and without conscious reflection, we risk falling into the trap of doing things for the sake of doing them — not for their true, intrinsic value.

Time here is precious. Spending that time on activities without a clear purpose or passion is wasteful and aimless. Figuring out the true value of our time and the things we do is essential in discovering what is truly important to us.

During this time of year, the trap is easier to fall into than ever — on-campus recruiting is still in full swing, midterms are getting more frequent, the weather gloomier, colder, heavier. As we’ve settled back into our lives at Penn, we often stop reflecting

critically on what we want out of our lives here, from the meaning of our current education to the jobs we want after graduation. The average Penn student’s Google Calendar is filled to the brim with responsibilities and activities, but in the end, what’s the point?

Former Yale University Eng-

Nie’s “When I Grow Up” art installation surrounding McNeil criticizes the pressuring culture around OCR and exemplifies the inherent meaninglessness of the “prestigious” job titles we think we should want — trying to get them when we don’t even know if we want them. Both of these examples hit on a theme that is

Figuring out the true value of our time and the things we do is essential in discovering what is truly important to us.” lish professor and literary critic William Deresiewicz called students of Ivy League schools and elite institutions “excellent sheep:” people who perform perfectly without thinking about why they’re doing it. Helen

pervasive at Penn — students blindly subscribing to the notion that they must follow the steps of convention.

Living deliberately is a difficult thing to do; however, selfreflection is necessary to figur-

ing out what we truly want, and improving our mental wellbeing too. Instead of the popular viewpoint that college should mainly be about career-building and return on investment, I believe that our education should be about learning how to think critically in a variety of classes, engage in self-reflection and become a more self-aware citizen of the world, not just at Penn. Only when we take the solitary time to reflect can we truly know ourselves and what we want out of not only our careers, but also our lives.

It’s hard to take a step back and reflect, especially in an environment like Penn’s. Our campus often feels like a hub of stress, a huge campus of overachieving students who think they know themselves and what they want when, in reality, they’re as confused and anxious as anyone else.

However, only you can make the decision to distance yourself from it every once in a while — read that book instead of rushing to a general board meeting, spend an evening alone, get to know

JESSICA LI yourself and appreciate your time at Penn and the future beyond that.

The passage of time may be inevitable and the culture here may be unchangeable, but living consciously, reflectively and decidedly in the present is something that is attainable for all of us, no matter where we are in our Penn careers.

JESSICA LI is a College sophomore from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu.

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Why do so many students want to transfer to Wharton?

GROUP THINK GROUP THINK is The Daily Pennsylvanian’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick. Read your favorite columnist, or read them all.

This week’s question: It is common knowledge at Penn that many students in the College of Arts and Sciences or in the School of Engineering and Applied Science apply to transfer into the Wharton School at the end of their freshman or sophomore years. Why do you think Wharton specifically receives the bulk of transfer requests and dual degree requests compared to the other schools? Is this a good or bad trend?

Carlos Arias Vivas | Convos With Carlos At the end of your freshman year, your interests may have changed.

This allows for some deep selfreflection, and some people want to head into a new direction. I think having a business background allows you to fall back on something practical after graduation because the field is very extensive. Wharton has a reputation for being the best business school in America, so this fuels peoples’ passion to transfer.

Sometimes it is for the name, but if students truly want to do business, they can transfer from their current school.

Some students apply to the Engineering School or the College first. Then, they try to “backdoor” their way into Wharton because they didn’t believe they could get in during the Regular Decision round. This is a very big hassle to

go through, and requires you to take prerequisites in math and economics to be able to initiate the transfer application. I think this is a bad trend because you are focusing more of your time on trying to get into Wharton than on your true passions. Applying for a dual degree is different because students like to combine their interests. I think with the concentrations that Wharton offers, it is very compatible to match with your first degree rather than some of the majors offered in Engineering.

Alex Silberzweig | Brutally Honest Simply put, Wharton’s brand name attracts so many College and Engineering students. Many people, including myself, have been asked if they go to Wharton when they mention that they go to Penn. To many in the outside world, Penn is synonymous with Wharton. Wharton, meanwhile, is often regarded as being at the same caliber as the “HYPSM schools” — Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meanwhile, Penn is just a little below those schools.

It’s worth mentioning that Wharton is the No. 1 business school in the United States.

Wharton’s focus on finance — a lucrative career path that many College and Engineering students may want to ultimately pursue — makes the appeal of the school that much greater. In addition, many people think that the Wharton alumni network is a more tight-knit and

well-established one than those composed of College or Engineering alumni. Many a successful businessperson has graduated from Wharton, so why not try to find an in and have a chance of being one of them? At least, that’s what people trying to transfer into Wharton may think. It’s a pre-professional view intrinsic to Penn: Think about the distant future, where college was just another four years of your life, while your career is lifelong.

There are definitely advantages to the trend of students applying to transfer into Wharton. On the one hand, the prerequisites for Wharton transfer include high grades. Such a prerequisite encourages students to work hard and perform well during their freshman year. It encourages students to take economics courses that they would otherwise not consider. On the other hand, such a narrow-minded, finance-oriented mindset may prevent students from pursing more varied areas of study in the sciences or humanities. As I said before, it’s the perennially preprofessional mindset that drives so many of us.

The trend also leaves a sort of bad taste in the mouths of non-Wharton students. “Are they better than us? Is Penn anything without Wharton?” we sometimes think in moments of insecurity. It makes us think that a lot of our peers just applied to the College or Engineering to find an “easier” way into Wharton: a selective group of businesspeople who roam Locust Walk in suits and wax poetic about on-campus recruiting.

There is a major benefit, at the end

of the day, despite the reputation that Wharton sometimes has within Penn: It shows that pre-professionalism in a college context is not a bad thing if we are ambitious enough to think beyond the four years we spend here.

Regardless of whether this is a good or bad trend, it is an inevitable one.

Jessica Li | Road Jess Travelled The fact that Wharton receives more transfer requests and dual degree requests than other schools truly speaks to its dominating influence on Penn’s campus — people who are interested in business gravitate towards it, and people who are not feel the pressure to do so. This pre-professional, “I need to find a well-paying job after graduation” mindset is not just exclusive to Penn, however — at every peer institution, jobs in finance and consulting still reign over other careers. The presence of Wharton only magnifies this culture and gives us an entity on which to pin our complaints of pre-professionalism, and then, ultimately, succumb to it.

Though I’ve spoken about the large number of transfers to Wharton, I will reiterate that I find it a rather alarming trend. Not because I think going into business is something like “selling out,” but rather, I see students who are unsure about pursuing what they’re truly interested in learning and, instead, transfer to Wharton to somehow secure their future. In my opinion, going into the broad field of business does not require a rigorous undergraduate business education — students can

study anything, especially in a liberal arts education, and be able to succeed in any marketplace. The fact that many students deem Wharton necessary to find a job, or give them an extra edge at the expense of their physical and mental health (for dual degree students), is not true to me, and is something we must continue to re-evaluate now, and in the future.

Jacquelyn Sussman | The Objectivist There’s no disputing that a reason why Wharton receives many transfer requests is because people try to use other undergraduate schools as a backdoor way to increase their chances of getting into Wharton as a Penn student. It’s pretty “snakey,” and it stinks that it happens. But that Wharton receives the bulk of transfer and dual degree requests speaks to a reason far deeper than people trying to cheat the system: It’s because the majority of Penn students have pre-professional inclinations and wish to take advantage of Wharton’s resources to a fuller extent.

As I said in my last Group Think response, Penn is unique because it has such incredible resources in many different areas. If I wanted to pursue a philosophy major in the College and then complement that with a degree in actuarial mathematics from Wharton because I’m passionate about the intersection between philosophy, mathematics and risk, I could. And the fact of the matter is that most students who choose to pursue a liberal arts degree at Penn — and not some other exclusively liberal arts insti-

tution like Williams College — do so because of their pre-professional interests. So it’s not really surprising that people who later discover they are more or equally passionate about a particular business interest try to transfer or do a dual degree with Wharton.

Not to mention that of Penn’s undergraduate schools, Wharton is the most adaptable to any interest. Students would probably find it much more difficult to adapt to the rigors of an engineering or nursing curriculum (I’m not implying that Wharton or College curricula are easier) simply because those curricula are much more narrow in the interests to which they pertain.

This is more of a positive than a negative. Penn was founded as a practically minded school: a place where students not only learn about different fields, but also how to apply them so they can contribute to the world’s marketplace of products and ideas. For the select few who wish to dedicate their lives to academia, perhaps any undergraduate business education isn’t for them.

But as technology advances and the world changes — from both a business and academic perspective — not at least being literate in how businesses and economies function will become even more of a liability.

Say what you will about the Wharton snakes; I’m really glad I go to school with and get to learn from them. And full disclosure: If I weren’t on track to become a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, I would apply for a dual degree with Wharton in some area too.

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‘Angry Asian Man’ blogger discusses activism Activist rejects idea of Asians as ‘model minority’ AMY LIU Contributing Reporter

Amid rising activism among students and faculty for Penn to dedicate more resources to the AsianAmerican studies program, the creator of the Asian-American news and culture blog Angry Asian Man Phil Yu addressed issues of minority representation and activism on campus.

Yu, whose blog has over 67,000 likes on Facebook, spoke at the 12th biannual Chai House hosted by

Penn Sangam, a discussion group focused on Pan-Asian cultural identity. He discussed why he created the blog and why he became more involved in Asian-American activism.

Yu said he was not always passionate about representation in media or other issues affecting Asian Americans. He said the moment it “clicked” was when he learned about Vincent Chin, a Chinese American who was beaten to death in 1982 by two white autoworkers in Michigan.

“All of the sudden, I thought about the times I was threatened with violence, called racial slurs or

made to feel like I didn’t belong in the country I was born in,” Yu said.

For Yu, this moment also pointed to an erasure of Asian-American perspectives from history. He said many Asian Americans only learn about Vincent Chin’s story after finishing school, if at all.

“I hear about crimes committed against other minorities pretty often, but this was the first time I heard about Vincent Chin,” Kevin TaeJin said. TaeJin is a Philadelphia resident who came to campus for the event. “I was upset that this wasn’t treated as a big deal, and that I was only learning about this now.

It showed how little people value

Asian Americans and Asian-American men.”

The discussion of Asian-American representation follows months of uncertainty over the future of Penn’s Asian American Studies Program. The ASAM Undergraduate Advisory Board, which cosponsored the meeting with Yu, is fighting to preserve ASAM from what they have called a lack of commitment from administrators.

“Asian American Studies at Penn is in a dire situation,” said Yuan Zou, a member of the ASAM Undergraduate Advisory Board. “Seeing Yu’s success is inspiring and really shows us how much we can do.”

After witnessing Asian-American activism on campus grow since her freshman year, Sangam President and Engineering junior JingJing Zeng said she hopes Sangam will transition from a discussion-based to an action-based group.

“As minorities, a lot of the privilege we have is accredited to the Civil Rights Movement and what black and brown people have been doing throughout history,” Zeng said. “Now is the time to give back, especially in this political era. Asian Americans are starting to realize that they’re not immune to racism and prejudice.”

Zeng said that although a quiet,

obedient stereotype has historically helped Asian Americans assimilate, the community is now at a point where “we need to shed away that image and be okay with the repercussions.”

Yu named his blog “Angry Asian Man” specifically to subvert the model minority myth that typically describes Asian people as passive, and therefore a “model” for other minorities.

“We’re supposed to sit down, shut up, not rock the boat. Be the passive ones, let sh*t happen to us,” Yu said. “I wanted something that provoked that image. Because when you get angry, you get sh*t done.”

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Creative writing program tackles race and form Kelly Writers House to host series of six reading groups MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art is working closely with the Penn Creative Writing Program to explore the relationship between language and race.

Speech/Acts, the current exhibition at the ICA, features the work of artists inspired by black experimental poetry. The Penn Creative Writing Program collaborated with the ICA to host a panel at the Kelly Writers House called “Race and Form: A Dialogue” and to hold a series of six reading groups that discuss poetry related to the exhibit.

On Oct. 10, students filled the Writers House to attend a panel discussion on race and form hosted by the curator of Speech/ Acts Meg Onli, author Dorothy Wang and author John Keene.

Julia Bloch, English professor and director of the Creative Writing Program, said she was inspired to organize the panel

event after speaking to Dorothy Wang about her book, “Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry.”

Bloch said Wang’s book provided “crucial arguments about [the literary] discipline’s failures to reckon with race,” and she “wanted to give the Penn community an opportunity to speak about the topics raised in the book and have a conversation with other artists and thinkers.”

College junior Meerabelle Jesuthasan attended the panel event and said she enjoyed the “pretty intense discussion” that touched on visual art, literature and modern-day politics.

“I also really enjoyed listening about curating and art. I feel like we don’t get that as much at the Writers House,” Jesuthasan added.

Bloch said when she heard about the Speech/Acts exhibition and its focus on poetry, she and Onli decided to create a community reading group to read some of the poetry that had inspired the exhibit.

The reading group has met two times and will continue to convene four more times into December.

Davy Knittle, a third-year English doctoral candidate, helped curate the syllabus for the Speech/Acts reading group and explained how the literature can supplement viewers’ understanding of the art exhibit.

“The artists in the show are thinking a lot about experimental poetry. The goal of the reading group is to help folks read some of the experimental poetry that matters to those artists,” he said.

Bloch said this isn’t the first time Penn’s Creative Writing Program has collaborated with the ICA. Creative writing classes often incorporate coursework on visual art and invite students to visit the museum. However, Bloch said this collaboration is

unique in its diverse combination of academic areas.

“I am always excited to foster cross-disciplinary conversations between artists and poets,” Bloch said, explaining that the panel event addressed political race studies, ethnic studies, Asian American studies, African American studies, Afrikaans studies and literary studies.

She said that she hopes to make poetry more accessible to a broader group of people, and she feels that the reading group was successful in that it introduced some participants to a new form of literature.

David Eng,graduate chair of the English Department, moderated the panel and said that the discussion on race and language is especially relevant in the current political climate.

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The Penn Creative Writing Program joined with the Institute of Contemporary Art to hold the “Race and Form: A Dialogue” panel.

bastic and over-the-top rhetoric, draws immediate attention to the problem of race and form,” Eng said. “Trump’s particular form of political spectacle is a dis-

traction from the deep structure of institutional racism.”

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The new gourmet chocolate bar will cost $12 LUCY CURTIS Contributing Reporter

One of Penn’s top administrators has spent the the past year creating a gourmet, $12 chocolate bar.

Ezekiel Emanuel, a globally recognized bioethicist and the vice provost for global initiatives, developed the Zeke Bar in collaboration with Askinosie Chocolates, a chocolate company based in Springfield, Mo. and owned by Shawn Askinosie.

The limited-edition bar will be released on Oct. 17. Emanuel describes the chocolate as rich and dark, with notes of tart dried cherry and burnt caramel with a long aftertaste. The chocolate is made out of Madagascar cocoa beans, organic

cane sugar, cocoa butter.

“It’s a very bold flavor,” Emanuel said. “As we like to say, it’s not for people who like heavy sugar, milk chocolate.

This a real dark chocolate.”

Emanuel said his inspiration for creating the Zeke Bar came from his lifelong love of chocolate, which he inherited from his father, as well as his longstanding desire to try something new.

“Three years ago I decided that every year I would like to do something totally out-of-thebox,” Emanuel said. In 2015, he spent two weekends serving breakfast as a guest chef at Washington, D.C. restaurant Masseria, and in 2016 he wrote a book.

His 2017 out-of-the-box experience took him back to his love of cooking.

Emanuel and Askinosie met

in 2013 when Emanuel was master of ceremonies at the Good Food Awards and presented Askinosie with an award.

Unbeknownst to Askinosie, Emanuel was already a fan of his chocolate.

A few years into their friendship, Emanuel became interested in making a chocolate bar of his own.

“I have probably a person a week who says they want to make a chocolate bar, and I don’t think very much of it,” Askinosie said. “Zeke told me he wanted to make a chocolate bar probably every week.”

Emanuel involved himself in every aspect of the chocolatemaking process, including the package design. After he chose to work with Criollo beans from Madagascar, he and Askinosie visited cacao plantations there to retrieve the beans.

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Ezekiel Emanuel’s new chocolate bar, the Zeke Bar, was developed with Akinosie Chocolates and is made from Madagascar cocoa beans.

Askinosie said Emanuel was the first collaborator to be a part of the creation process from start to finish. He is also the first collaborator to not be, as Askinosie puts it, “a professional food person.”

“What’s it like working with a tornado?” Askinosie said of their partnership. “Zeke is a complete bundle of energy from here to Madagascar and back, and I know because I’ve traveled with him.”

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Penn field hockey splits games in wild weekend

Quakers crushed by dominant Dartmouth M. SOCCER | Penn offense fails to convert opportunities VINCENT LUGRINE Contributing Reporter

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Penn men’s soccer could not defend its home field, as Dartmouth rolled to a dominant victory on Saturday night.

The Quakers had multiple opportunities in front of the Big Green’s goal but failed to score in their 4-0 loss at Rhodes Field.

Although the loss was disappointing, coach Rudy Fuller and the Quakers (2-8-1, 0-2-1 Ivy) will look to take as many positives away from the game as possible. “I think there are a lot of positives to take away, but there’s still a lot of lessons that this game can teach,� Fuller said.

The match was physical throughout, as the Big Green (8-2-1, 2-0-1) worked to hold its early lead, while the Quakers looked to claw their way into the

match.

Dartmouth has been the one of the best teams in the Ivy League to this point in the season, sitting atop the conference standings with seven points accumulated thus far. “Dartmouth is a big team, and they are very deliberate in how they play. They get forward quickly, You have to be able to control the first and second balls in midfield, and I think our guys did an outstanding job of that tonight,� Fuller said.

The matchup with a talented team posed a difficult task for the Quakers. However large the task was, though, the hosts sought to come out and take the game to their visitors. “The focus for us, coming in, was to really try to assert ourselves in midfield, try to force them to turn and face their own goal and try to put pressure on their goal. I think we checked all those boxes tonight,� Fuller said.

The game was ultimately decided by the teams’ execution.

The Quakers dominated the midfield throughout the game and carried the ball well into the Dartmouth zone, but failed to put the ball in the net. Whereas

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Dartmouth converted on all four of its shots. “I felt like we carried the game between the eighteens, but games are won and lost in the eighteens; they had four shots, they scored four goals,� Fuller said. “Looking at the overall performance, when you outshoot a team like Dartmouth nine-tofour, that’s a good performance, and it’s unfortunate that we walk away with nothing,� Fuller said of his team’s strong effort.

Another positive Fuller drew from the match was his team’s strong youth movement.

The youthful Quakers have grown together throughout the season and have formed a close bond with one another, as evident by their willingness to support freshman Jake Kohlbrenner after his injury late in the first half. Fortunately, Kohlbrenner would return to start the second half for the trailing Quakers. “The culture of the locker room and the chemistry of our team is as good as it has been in a long time,� Fuller said.

The Quakers will look to get back in the win column on Tuesday night against Villanova at Rhodes Field.

Red and Blue falter against Columbia, beat Temple MOSES NSEREKO Sports Reporter

This weekends’ two matches were two sides of the same coin for Penn field hockey. That is, during the course of one weekend, the Quakers experienced two completely different results.

The Red and Blue split their matches this weekend, suffering a 2-0 loss in an Ivy conference match to Columbia, and recovering for a 4-2 win over in their final City Six match in the schedule against local rival Temple.

The double-header started on Friday evening as Penn field hockey (6-6, 2-2 Ivy) traveled out to New York to face off against Columbia (7-5, 3-1) in a critical Ancient Eight contest to determine which of the two teams would stay behind undefeated rivals Harvard and Princeton.

The two teams traded blows early in the matchup, holding each other scoreless throughout most of the first half. Initially, it seemed that the Quakers would end the first period and regroup for the next 35 minutes, but the Lions had other plans.

In the 28th minute of the opening period, Columbia freshman attack Meghan Fahey connected off a cross from junior teammate to Danielle Buttinger to record the first goal of the contest. It wouldn’t take long for the Lions to follow up with a second goal, as sophomore midfielder Jennifer Trieschman scored off a rebound just five minutes later.

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eight seconds remaining, when Priore called the Quakers’ third timeout of the half when it appeared Wainwright was uncovered prior to the snap. Hill’s Hail Mary attempt on the ensuing play fell incomplete, sending the game into overtime.

Penn got the ball first in overtime, and junior kicker Jack Soslow hit a 41-yard field goal. Facing a third-and-nine from the Penn 24, Wainwright got open and caught the 24-yard pass to end the game and give Columbia its first win over Penn in 21 years.

Senior wide receiver Justin Watson expressed frustration with the loss. “There were too many mental mistakes, things we teach first week that we can’t do if we want to win games,� Watson said.

Priore and Bagnoli were both asked about what it was like to play against each other for the third time. Bagnoli downplayed the Penn narrative and friendly rivalry with Priore.

Quakers to go from feeling confident about their performance to trailing by two goals.

Penn did pick up its play in the second half, but it was not enough.

Sophomore keeper Ava Rosati registered two key saves to keep Columbia from scoring in the second half. Sophomore Alexa Schneck was a force in the attacking third for Penn as the Quakers had six shots on goal in the second half. But, The Lion’s defensive efforts were just as strong, as all six of those shots were saved, and the Quakers went down 2-0 in the end.

As tough as it is to recover from a loss, coach Colleen Fink’s squad didn’t have much time at all to dwell. And it seemed to have served them well, as Penn took down Philly rival Temple (4-10, 0-5 AAC) just two days later.

It didn’t seem as if Penn would be able to pull out the win against the Owls either, as after 50 minutes of play, the Quakers found themselves down 2-1 thanks to finishes from Temple sophomore attacks Maddie Merton and Cristen Barnett.

As the second period progressed and the end of the game neared, Penn found themselves unable to

draw level. 20 minutes left turned into 15 minutes left, and as the game approached the 60th minute of play, Penn was still down 2-1.

That would all change in the next ten minutes.

Ten minutes.

That’s how long it took for the Quakers to rip open a game they once trailed.

Scheck opened the stretch with a clean finish off an assist from senior Alexa Hoover. Freshman Erin Kelly secured the go-ahead point with her first collegiate goal a mere two minutes later. Hoover added insult to injury as she closed the stretch with an empty-net goal with just under two-minutes to play to build an insurmountable two goal lead for Penn.

The Quakers’ results this weekend showed just how quickly things can change in sports. Five minutes was all that separated them from their Ivy counterparts, and ten minutes was all that separated them from their city counterparts.

Penn’s schedule does not get easier, as Penn will hope to turn time on its side next weekend against Ivy rival Yale and No. 9 ranked Syracuse.

“It has nothing to do with having used to work there. I understand the storyline, but it’s really about beating an accomplished program,�

Bagnoli said. “You don’t become a two-time defending champion by being not good.�

After rushing touchdowns from senior quarterback Will FischerColbrie and sophomore running back Karekin Brooks in the first 16 minutes of play, Penn’s offense fell silent. 126 of its 308 yards of total offense came in the first quarter, and Penn did not score over a 43-minute stretch from the beginning of the second quarter through the end of the fourth.

Fischer-Colbrie finished with 186 yards on 14-of-25 passing with a touchdown and two interceptions, and Penn running game was largely held in check. Brooks and senior running back Tre Solomon combined for 88 yards on 24 attempts.

Most of Columbia’s key plays came from two players in the wide receiver Wainwright and wildcat quarterback Josh Bean. Wainwright had six catches for 133 yards and a touchdown after halftime, finishing with 10 catches for

193 yards and a touchdown on the day.

Priore acknowledged after the game that he thought the Quakers’ plan to cover Wainwright was not optimal, but credited unfortunate field position as a reason for the defense’s late game struggles. “It felt like our backs were up against it the whole time and put a lot of strain and stress on people,�

Priore said.

The game featured flashbacks to the Dartmouth loss from two weeks ago, where Dartmouth wildcat Jared Gerbino ran 11 times for 71 yards including the game-winning touchdown as time expired, with the two goal-line touchdowns from Bean.

Priore did not consider Bean or rushing quarterbacks a serious issue for the defense. “They might have had seven tries from the 3-yard line and got in on the last time in each of them, so we were valiant there,� Priore said. “It happened well before the 3-yard line. We have to stop them before we get there.�

Penn hosts Yale next Saturday at Franklin Field.

the Dartmouth game have been snuffed out.

Priore has shied away from calling Penn’s situation a quarterback controversy. He insisted instead that it was merely a quarterback competition.

THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS is a College sophomore from Pittsburgh, P.A., and is an Associate Sports Editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Quakers break even in New York doubleheader VOLLEYBALL | Penn beats the sweep, but I thought both Columbia and Cornell are playColumbia, falls to Cornell COLE JACOBSON Senior Sports Reporter

Smack-dab in the middle of its conference season, Penn volleyball can’t escape the middle of its conference standings.

Taking on Columbia and Cornell in a road doubleheader with the opportunity to break a fourth-place tie with the Big Red, the Quakers found themselves with a serious case of deja vu. For the third straight weekend, the Red and Blue took one of two Ivy matches, beating the Lions in a five-set thriller on Friday before falling to Cornell the next night in four sets to fall to fifth place in the Ivy League at the end of the first half of conference play.

“I would definitely be all for

ing very well right now, so I think any time you can beat someone on the road, it’s a great win,” first-year coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley said. “I thought we didn’t play well in the Cornell match, they had a great game plan and they stuck to it, but they were both great matches, and it’ll be nice to get them both at home here in the second round.”

Friday night certainly served as the highlight of the weekend for the Red and Blue (8-8, 3-4 Ivy), as the Quakers redeemed themselves after being swept by Columbia in 2016.

Though the Lions (6-10, 1-6) entered the weekend winless in Ivy play, Friday’s match proved to be anything but a pushover.

After going down 15-8 in the opening set, the Red and Blue responded with a furious rally

to take the first frame, 26-24, and the emotional rollercoaster would only continue from there.

Penn and Columbia alternated winning each of the first four sets, setting up the winnertake-all showdown in the fifth.

And by the slimmest margin possible in volleyball’s “winby-two” structure, the Red and Blue prevailed, with a Raven Sulaimon kill finishing off the 15-13 set to clinch what was arguably Penn’s wildest win of the year.

“I think the match itself was super high [energy] the entire time; we were playing well and you know we were going back and forth, and we served aggressively toward the end of the match,” Schumacher-Cawley said. “I thought the team competed hard the entire match and they found a way to win, so it was fun to watch.”

As back-and-forth as the

scoreboard went, though, one constant of the night was the consistent domination of senior setter Sydney Morton. Finishing with career highs of 18 digs and 55 assists — the last of which went to Sulaimon for the match-clinching kill — the captain put the team on her back to will the Red and Blue back to .500 in Ivy play.

Unfortunately for Penn, though, the emotional high wouldn’t last for the Quakers, as the team was unable to complete the road weekend sweep at Cornell (8-8, 4-3).

Penn did hold its momentum from Friday’s instant classic well enough to take the first set by two points on Saturday, but it was all Big Red from that point on. Led by a 20-kill, 20-dig performance from sophomore outside hitter Samanta Arenas, Cornell took each of the last three sets by a combined 13

points to surge one match ahead of Penn in the Ivy standings.

Though it’d certainly be possible to feel fatigued from playing in the second night of a road back-to-back, Schumacher-Cawley felt that this wasn’t a major factor, citing execution as opposed to exhaustion as her team’s fatal flaw.

“Any time you play on the road it’s tough, you have to play your best, and I think that we came out competing and then really just made too many errors,” she said. “That’s college volleyball; you’re gonna have to compete on back-to-back days, and I think our team’s in great shape and can hold their own conditioning-wise. Skill-wise, we just made a few too many errors that put us behind in the game to start with.”

The good news for the Quakers is that the second half of Ivy play won’t present the same

daunting travel challenges, as the team’s next five Ivy matches all take place in the Palestra.

Boosting morale even further, both New York schools upset then-first place Princeton (125, 5-2) over the weekend, keeping Penn only three matches behind current leader Yale in the conference ranks.

As recently as 2015, the Ivy League saw a pair of four-loss champions, so the Red and Blue know that anything can happen as the team enters its crucial homestand.

“I’m excited that we’re gonna be home....This conference is anyone’s to win, and I think this weekend showed that top teams are losing, maybe the middleof-the-pack teams can move up,” Schumacher-Cawley said.

“So we’re excited to get back in the gym, work hard, get better and enjoy these next few matches being in the Palestra.”

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Penn women’s soccer senior Erica Higa only had one shot on Saturday, but that one shot was enough to earn her this week’s DP Sports’ Player of the Week.

After Penn and Dartmouth both entered overtime scoreless, Higa broke free in the 98th minute to finish a cross from fellow-senior Kristen Miller to give the Quakers a 1-0 golden goal victory.

“I think it came off of like her thigh, knee, something like that, but she just came across with perfect timing as the keeper came out for

it and just flicked it past her head,” coach Nicole Van Dyke said.

Higa’s goal not only allowed the Red and Blue (4-6-3, 2-1-1) to defeat the Big Green (6-8, 0-4), but it also ended Penn’s two-game Ivy League scoreless streak. What made the goal even more impressive was that it came in Higa’s first game back after missing two matches with a concussion.

Even with the injury, Higa is still leading the Quakers in goals with three on the season, despite the fact that she’s only fifth on the team in total shots.

“She just brings a different look, because she’s very creative.

Her movement off the ball is very good,” Van Dyke said. “And she combines well with different players on the team.”

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Penn football fell to Columbia, 34-31 in overtime.

The Lions (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) crawled back from a 21-7 deficit by scoring 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter before walking off in overtime on a 24-yard touchdown to wide receiver Josh Wainwright. Penn (2-3, 0-2 Ivy) has now lost its last three games and its Ivy League title hopes took a substantial hit with the loss in New York.

With the win, Columbia snapped its 20-game losing streak

to the Quakers extending back to 1996, when Columbia coach Al Bagnoli was just starting his fourth year coaching Penn. Bagnoli beat his former team of 23 years in his third year coaching the Lions.

The Quakers seemed to be in control of the game when they recovered an onside kick in the third quarter, up 21-7.

However, four second-half turnovers left the door open for Columbia.

After allowing 21 unanswered points, the Penn fell behind for the first time in the game, 28-21. The Red and Blue of-

fense then broke out of its funk when it got the ball with 4:11 remaining in the game at its own 20-yard line.

They ripped off an eight play, 80-yard touchdown drive from the visitors featuring three catches for 62 yards by senior wide receiver Justin Watson, who capped it off with a 17-yard haul from Fischer-Colbrie.

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Call it what it is — a quarterback controversy for Penn football THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS

Penn football had one massive question mark entering their season: quarterback.

Halfway through, it remains the team’s largest weakness and unresolved problem.

After the Dartmouth game, I was optimistic about Will Fischer-Colbrie. I argued that the team around him didn’t play well enough to win. For Fischer-Colbrie to have success as a starter, his play-makers needed to do better than they did against Dartmouth.

Now they have, but the result was the same. This time, the loss is on him.

In the first half, despite the seven-point lead, Penn struggled to sustain drives. Fischer-Colbrie missed open receivers on multiple occasions – overthrowing running back Tre Solomon and wide receiver Tyler Herrick to name just two. Many of those plays could have resulted in touchdowns on a good throw.

The skill players around the first-year starter made plays – Justin Watson was his usual self, sophomore Tyler Herrick was stellar as a replacement for the injured Christian Pearson, and the tag-team duo of sophomore Karekin Brooks and Solomon made some key plays on the ground. Their quarterback let them down.

The second half started perfectly for the Quakers. The defense did their job and then some, notching five sacks and even scoring a touchdown of their own. Yes, they

got burnt at the very end of the game, but they had been on the field for almost the entire second half. The offense needed to help their defense, but they struggled to keep the ball, let alone embark on a long drive.

Will Fischer-Colbrie ended the game with three turnovers — all of which came in the second half.

As coach Ray Priore noted after the game, it is incredibly hard to win when you can’t hold onto the ball. Fischer-Colbrie’s interceptions both came inside Penn’s 40yard line, essentially gifting Columbia 14 points to take the lead late in the fourth quarter.

The first interception came on an attempted screen pass. Good quarterbacks don’t get intercepted on three-yard dump offs.

Even Priore pointed out a few of his quarterback’s errors, noting that Fischer-Colbrie tried to do too much where a wiser, more experienced quarterback would have taken the sack.

The second interception came when Fischer-Colbrie missed Solomon by about five yards.

Priore mentioned in the quarterback’s defense that he was hit as he threw, but that was a throw that Penn needed the senior to make.

Fischer-Colbrie’s moment of redemption came on a game-tying 80-yard drive. The senior made several good throws, including a beautiful 17-yard touchdown pass to Justin Watson. That drive was what Penn was waiting for the entire second half. While the Quakers would have liked more than one isolated incident of magic from their quarterback, FischerColbrie, to his credit, did deliver in the moment of highest need.

The biggest issue with FischerColbrie’s continued struggles

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has been the performance of his back-up. Sophomore Nick Robinson has scored five touchdowns in very limited time under center. Robinson hasn’t been perfect either, but there is a strong argument to be made that he represents the Quakers’ best chance to win, both now and in the future.

Tellingly, Priore has had multiple opportunities to make the change to Robinson permanently but has opted to return to Fischer-Colbrie every time. After the senior’s performance against Central Connecticut State, casual observers might have assumed that Robinson would be given the call against Columbia. By my estimation, Fischer-Colbrie has had about three last chances. Robinson hasn’t even gotten a second one.

Generally, there is a reason coaches do what they do. Priore certainly has a better knowledge of his team than I do. FischerColbrie hasn’t been all bad, but quarterbacks have been, and regularly are, benched for better performances. Priore did mention in the post-game press conference that he could have put in Robinson after Fischer-Colbrie’s second interception, but it would have been unwise to throw in a new player with just four minutes left.

At the end of the day, football is a team sport. One play here or there would have resulted in the opposite result. That’s just the nature of the game. You would be reading a much different column if Fischer-Colbrie had connected on one of those open plays in the first half. The same applies if the defense made one more spectacular play to win the game.

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Penn women’s soccer prevails on golden goal Higa’s overtime winner sinks Dartmouth REINA KERN Sports Editor

W. SOCCER (OT) PENN DARTMOUTH

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Penn women’s soccer recorded one of their most exciting wins of the season against Dartmouth this past Saturday night and Erica Higa is the reason for it.

In the first overtime period, Kristen MIller took the ball down the right side of the field and gave a left-footed pass to Higa, who’s beautifully timed shot landed in the back of the net giving Penn (4-6-3, 2-1-1 Ivy) a 1-0 victory over Dartmouth (6-9, 0-5 Ivy).

Not only did the Big Green dominate in shots on goal with 15 shots to Penn’s 8, but they also had 5 corners to the Red and Blue’s 3.

The beginning of the match was played mostly in the midfield, as there were several attempts by both teams with shots on goal, but each were stopped by the goalkeepers. Kitty Qu made some key saves in the 19th and 31st minute as Dartmouth forwards seized through Penn’s back line.

In the second half, the Quakers controlled the ball for the first 15 minutes of play. In the 66th minute, Katharine Larson played a ball into the midfield to Jadyn Wilensky who attempted to take

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Penn women’s soccer has much to cheer about after a nailbiting victory over Darmouth thanks to senior Erica Higa’s goal.

a shot, but the ball missed the net and landed outside the far post.

The Big Green fired shots in the last minutes of regulation, but the Red and Blue’s defense stood strong to maintain the shutout.

Overtime was the deciding factor.

Penn controlled the ball in the first overtime period and continued to dominate through the remainder of overtime play.

In the 98th minute, the ball was sent to Higa and she produced just what Penn needed:

the game-winning goal. Penn’s bench stormed the field and the Quakers had earned one of their greatest victories of the season to date.

This was Penn’s first overtime win of the season and Higa’s second game-winning goal of the year after her first one at Delaware in early September. The Quakers are now tied with Yale in the Ivy standings at 7 points.

The Red and Blue take on the Bulldogs at home this Saturday at 4 p.m.

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