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The lack of student representation on the University’s newly created mental health task force drew sharp reactions from faculty and students alike after its announcement Wednesday afternoon.

“We seem to be starting off on the wrong foot,” School of Social Policy & Practice professor Toorjo Ghose said at Wednesday’s University Council meeting in Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge. “I really would encourage

you to have students, especially students who have been taking this flag and march-ing with it for the last few months, on that task force.”

He finished speaking to snaps from around the room.

Penn President Amy Gutmann and Pro-vost Vincent Price announced the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare on Wednesday in response to stu-

dent suicides and a campus movement to address mental health. Co-chaired by former Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Rebecca Bushnell and Director of Educa-tion for the Department of Psychiatry An-thony Rostain, the task force has no student representatives. It expects to conclude its research at the end of 2014 and release a report in early 2015.

Penn Undergraduate Health Coalition

chair and College sophomore Julie Bittar is one of several students who has already started to work on improving mental health on campus.

“It completely defeats the purpose of con-necting with your students,” Bittar, also an Undergraduate Assembly member, said. “We need students involved.”

Members of the University Coun-cil voted in support of a proposal that Penn divest from tobacco com-panies on Wednesday night.

Fifty-one members of the Coun-cil, which focuses on educational objectives and matters that affect the university community, voted yes for divesting. Six — including the Provost Vincent Price, Vice President for the Department of Public Safety Maureen Rush and several Undergraduate Assembly members — voted no.

Council members, which include faculty, staff and students leaders, based their votes on a consensus from their respective constituen-cies. Two members, including Pres-ident Amy Gutmann, who voiced her doubts about the proposal at last month’s Council meeting, chose to abstain.

Gutmann will advise the Exec-utive Committee of the Board of Trustees on results of the vote. Trustees will then deliberate on how to proceed.

The vote followed January’s Council meeting, where a group of faculty presented an argument for Penn’s moral obligation to the divestment from tobacco compa-nies. The Faculty Senate Executive Committee voted unanimously on Tuesday in support of the proposal. At their meeting on Sunday, the Undergraduate Assembly also de-

Students left off new mental health task forceStudents and faculty critiqued the lack of student representation on the task force; administrators said it will solicit student opinion throughout its research process

BY SARAH SMITHSenior Writer

Yolanda Chen/News Photo Editor

Penn President Amy Gutmann, Provost Vincent Price and other top University officials discussed the recently created mental health task force at Wednesday afternoon’s University Council meeting. The task force will study mental health resources and culture on Penn’s campus.

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‘Gangsta’-themed party sparks controversyU. Council votes for tobacco

divestmentA mixer between Beta Theta Pi

and Chi Omega over the weekend has sparked controversy on campus.

The party was an alleged “gangsta”-themed, closed mixer for members at an off-campus house. College junior and Beta president Daniel Zuvia would not confirm the specifics of the theme but said it was a “joint decision” be-tween both of the organizations.

Across the country, controversial ethnic themed parties have spurred al-legations of insensitivity on campuses. Responses have varied from chapters being closed to Greek organizations and individuals have issuing apologies.

At Penn, six members of minority student organizations - UMOJA, the Latin@ Coalition and the Lambda Alliance - voiced their concerns about ethnically themed parties in a guest column in The Daily Pennsylvanian earlier this week.

A petition was started by Ernest Owens, a College senior and former Daily Pennsylvanian board member, asking the University to “Investigate and look into the ... ‘Gangsta’ themed Mixer.” The petition currently has nearly 100 signatures.

“I’m really proud of Penn as a school, and it makes us look really bad with our relationship to the community,” Col-lege sophomore Klaudia Amenabar, who signed the petition, said.

Both groups issued statements re-

garding the event.“Our chapter leadership is aware

of this matter, and we are handling it privately and internally with our mem-bers,” Chi O president and Wharton junior Maria Guadagnino said in an email statement.

“This past weekend, an off-campus event took place in which members of our fraternity behaved in a manner that is not indicative of the values of

BY LAURA ANTHONYDeputy News Editor

BY FOLA ONIFADEStaff Writer

‘Fostering’ knowledge about child welfare

With nearly 400,000 children cur-rently in foster care in the United States, graduates of a new specializa-tion at the School of Social Policy & Practice will help meet the increased demand for child welfare workers.

The Child Well-Being and Welfare specialization at SP2, which will en-roll its first class this fall, will train students in a yearlong program to work with children in foster care. Applications for the program will be open until March 18.

“There is a tremendous need to train child welfare workers because the turnover rate is so huge in this field,” Johanna Greeson, a child wel-fare researcher and co-director of the specialization, said. “This is a

training opportunity for students, and [an opportunity] for Philadelphia and the whole country in terms of adding to the workforce.”

Greeson and co-director Antonio Garcia have been developing the specialization since October. The first students accepted into the pro-gram will take a course in the fall that addresses child protection on a clinical level and offers an overview of broader policies in child welfare. Greeson and Garcia will co-teach the class.

“We’re giving the students a chance to see how direct practice in-teracts with policy and procedures in a child welfare setting,” Garcia said.

Greeson and Garcia hope to wel-come 25 students to the program. The co-directors applied for a federal grant that, if approved, will pay each student a stipend of $4,000 for their participation.

Students in the specialization will

SP2’s specialization in Child Well-Being and Welfare will

enroll 25 students this fallBY VICTORIA MOFFITT

Staff Writer

‘EAT REMARKABLY’

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Yesterday, the Penn Vegan Society hosted their “Eat Remarkably” event, where Philadelphia vegan restaurants gave out bite-sized samples of their best dishes in Houston Hall. SEE DIVESTMENT PAGE 5

SEE PARTY PAGE 8

SEE CHILD PAGE 7

‘‘ I really would encourage you

to have students, especially

students who have been taking

this flag and marching with it

for the last few months, on that

task force.

‘‘Rather than funnel through a single student voice — a tremendous responsibility — I’m assuming the task force will want to hear from a variety of voices.

— Toorjo Ghose,School of Social Policy &

Practice professor’’ ’’— Joann Mitchell,Vice chair of mental health task committee

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At a panel discussion held by Amnesty International at Penn and the Penn Education Society last night, education specialists and human rights activists shared their ideas and

experiences working to promote equal education among all. The Daily Pennsylvanian took a look at the obstacles and solutions that the panelists outlined.

Panelists tackle creating universal education

What is the problem with education?

So what can we do about it?

There are currently misconceptions about how much education can do for society.

Children in underdeveloped areas have little access to

quality education.

Behavioral management in charter schools has

its own problems.

“People mostly see education from a human capital perspective, thinking that education should fulfill the need of the society. This is a consequentialist view.“- Faizan Wajid, Amnesty International Representative

“When the kids move to charter schools, they are not allowed to express themselves properly. They are not allowed to move around or use materials freely. There is very strict behavior control with rewards and punishment. Some people view them as [a] violation of human rights. I am more concerned with the fact that even though the students get to learn, they don’t get to develop skills such as [communicating] and [cooperating] with people.”- Ben-Porath

“In the village where I was born, a school was made up of a teacher, a chalkboard and a copied book. My brother had to walk five kilometers to school every day. He lost all of his books just before the middle school entrance exam when an earthquake happened. Yet he didn’t give up and wrote on trees and walls. Now he is studying in a university in France. Without education, he would have never achieved this.” - Amnesty International Science Leadership Academy student from Algeria Katia Hadjeb

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“Education should stand as a right on its own.” - Wajid

“Education is definitely part of the picture, but not all of it.” - Ben-Porath

“There are two important things in teaching. First, children should be taught to take responsibility for their own decisions. Second, there should be more opportunities for open-end-ed discussions and interactive learning. The students need to learn to value their own opinion and listen to others’.” - Ben-Porath

“Students from higher education institutions can help raise awareness among people and get them involved. They should be invited to use their knowledge and resources to support their local communities.” - Wajid

“Penn is largely engaged in local school communities. Other partnerships should be structured like this, aiming to achieve [a] win-win to keep the partnership substantial and sustain-able. We also need to investigate and respond to the actual needs of the partner. We need to work on equal footing.” - Ben-Porath

“Education is usually thought to be the go-to solution for any kind of social problem. Education is always the one to blame. But we cannot expect the schools to solve all the problems. Many schools and teachers are doing great, but that’s not enough. There are other problems such as poverty.” - Graduate School of Education professor Sigal Ben-Porath

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The Syrian refugee crisis has left over two million home-less, stranded and scared. Last night, the issue came to Penn.

The Penn Law Iraqi Refu-gee Assistance Project host-ed a panel discussion titled “Syrian Refugees: Barriers to Finding Space,” at the Penn Law School as a part of Penn Law’s Public Interest Week. The three guest speakers in-cluded Trudy Rubin, a for-eign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Omar Al-Ghazzi, a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication and Salam Al Kuntar, an assistant pro-fessor in the Department of Anthropology.

First, discussion moderator Thomas O’Boyle and Lecturer

in Law Fernando Chang-Muy asked the panelists what the top issues facing Syrian refu-gees are.

Rubin said that it is the Syr-ian government’s strategy to push people out of the coun-try, adding that the increase in refugees is only going to continue.

[The government is] “de-liberately creating a refugee problem,” she said.

Al Kuntar said that many are hesitant to leave Syria in the first place because they fear being trapped in refugee camps. Other panelists added that the neighboring coun-tries often have trouble deal-ing with these new immigrant populations.

“When people do flee, the local countries cannot prop-erly absorb them,” Chang-Muy said.

Panelists agreed that the most important issue was the United Nations’ inability to properly provide aid, since the U.N. only funnels relief through sovereign nations.

“The U.N. needs to deal im-mediately with the situation,” Al Kantar said. “[Currently] aid is impossible to get to.”

The panelists had divergent positions on what other imme-diate action needs to be taken. Rubin believed that the only way to stop the refugee flow is to stop the war, and in order to stop the war the U.N. needs to give rebel groups weapons. Al-Ghazzi, however, believed that this would only sustain the conflict.

Despite varied opinions on a possible solution, all three panelists agreed that the con-flict in Syria is of the utmost importance.

“The US needs to seriously prioritize this issue,” Al Kan-tar said.

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“In this day and age of globalization, international

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As someone who’s grown up in an area of Philly that would be consid-ered the “hood,”

I’m frankly angry that the re-cent themed Beta Theta Pi/Chi Omega party was thrown. I, along with some of my friends, have been “born and raised” in areas of Philly where drug-dealing and gang violence were a normal part of our surround-ings. Some of us even have rel-atives who have died or been harmed by gang violence.

My cousin has been shot at three different times in his life. The last time he was shot, the bullet ended up lodging in

his body. Because of the way the bullet embedded itself, the doctors decided to leave the bullet inside of him because they were afraid of potentially killing him in an operation to remove it. He’s been talking recently about how the bullet is shifting in his body and hurt-ing him, and the doctors aren’t sure about what to do now.

I’ve heard everyone talk-ing about bullying and men-tal health lately surrounding this issue. I myself was bullied throughout my entire child-hood, so I feel a lot of sensitivity toward issues of bullying. What people have failed to realize is that letting people know when

they’ve done something offen-sive, demanding an apology and asking people to do better at being culturally and socio-economically sensitive is not bullying.

And as someone who is cur-rently struggling with men-tal illness, I can tell you that I haven’t been hearing any

mention of the kinds of mental effects this “gangsta” theme — and my peers’ dismissal of how seriously offensive this is — has had on my mental health. Or the mental health of

people like me who have grown up in the hood. Or the mental health of people like me who have had relatives harmed or

killed by gang violence. Or the mental health of people like me who already feel like fish out of water when coming to an institution like Penn and then feel like they can’t voice their opinions or that their feel-ings can’t be respected when it comes to feeling mocked about their class or race or culture.

My life while living in Ger-mantown is not something to be mocked. My cousin getting shot at various times in his life (though thankfully surviv-ing) and still dealing with the mental and physical repercus-sions due to gang violence is not something to be trivial-ized. My identity as a person of color — and my experiences as a former member of a low-income neighborhood — is not

something that can be easily taken off like a baseball cap and sweatpants and tacky chains worn at a frat party.

This is not funny. It’s not cute. It’s disrespectful for those of us who have lived in the hood and who have had relatives and friends killed or harmed by the “thug life” that some people in positions of privilege have writ-ten on their knuckles at a party. There needs to be an apology from both organizations, and it needs to happen now.

ROB’N LAURELLI is a College sophomore from Philadelphia studying environmental science. She is a member of Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention. Her email address is [email protected].

WILLIAM ZHANG AND JASON CHOI are a Wharton freshman and a College freshman, respectively, from Hong Kong. They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].

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THIS ISSUE

Fitting in, branching out

GUEST COLUMN BY ROB’N LAURELLI

Not a joke

FROSH OFF THE BOAT | For internationals, socializing can be as foreign — and exhausting — as American football

I found myself reluctant to expose myself to unfa-miliar aspects of my new cultural surrounding.

columnists collide

WILLIAM ZHANG & JASON CHOI

My attempts to fit in are further hindered by our com-moditization of socializing.

‘‘My identity as a person of color — and my experiences as a former member of a low-income neighborhood — is not some-thing that can be easily taken off like a baseball cap and sweatpants and tacky

chains worn at a frat party.”

’’I h a v e n e v e r watched Ameri-can football.

Perhaps that is why I f ind

it difficult to assert my opinion in heated dinner debates about birds and wild horses. But sports are the least of my concerns when it comes to adjusting to a new culture. The tran-sition from a Chinese, all-male Anglican Epis-copal school to a large American institute is unusual to say the least — having arcane affini-ties definitely does not help either.

As a fledgling writ-er, I am not wide-read enough to talk exten-sively about literature (confession: I have not read any Dickens, and I hate Austen); as an aspiring tech entre-preneur, I am hardly informed enough about programming to hold the interest of my more tech-savvy friends; as an amateur musician, I upset most of my peers’

delicate constitutions with heavy metal music.

In a way, my feel-ings of inadequacy are of my own volition. In high school, it was my ulterior agenda to stand out from everyone else by insidiously dabbling in all fields. Play in a two-man band, tyran-nize your debate team, run a philosophy soci-ety, join the archery and fencing teams, sing in the choir, and before you know it, you are a jack-of-all-trades (and consequently, a master of absolutely nothing). You become a resume. You have successfully stood out among your peers and been accept-ed into college — now it is time for the whole thing to repeat again.

My attempts to fit in are further hindered by our commoditization of socializing. It took me one whole semester to figure out network-ing events are not the most reliable of places to make lasting friend-

ships. Doing your best to feign interest when you are actually just waiting for your turn to speak is an exhausting undertaking.

For a self-diagnosed introvert who now shares his room with another person and his hall with fifty others, constant interactions — from filling awkward silences in panel discus-sions to making small talk about my every ac-quaintance’s latest mid-term — can be taxing.

That is why I can be seen commanding the attention of a din-ing table on some days and playing mute on others. But that is in no way an indication of any negative feelings, only a need for catching my breath. I still want to reach out to you, shamelessly advertise my column to you and be friends with you.

Maybe some day I will even watch Ameri-can football with you. —JASON

Unlike Ja-son, I hap-pen to be a big fan of football. It

turns out, however, that I just happen to enjoy the wrong version of the sport.

Having grown up in a semi-western environ-ment and attended an international school, I was under the impres-sion that I was pretty “westernized” and would have no problem adjust-ing. As a result, I found myself caught off guard. In reflection, even seem-ingly inconsequential and superficial differ-ences, such as the fact that the word “football” is somewhat of a misnomer in the United States (it should really be called something along the lines of “hand-egg”), that Americans don’t study “maths” (a red squiggly line just appeared under the word as I write) or that the only affordable and edible Chinese food on campus comes from

food trucks (try Yue Kee), have a much greater psy-chological impact.

Through this underes-timation, I can attest to the frustration brought on by this period of ad-aptation. Like Jason, I would sometimes find it difficult striking up con-versations or connect-ing in social situations, and meeting another in-ternational would often mean an instant connec-tion, with an unspoken understanding of each other’s plight. I can only imagine, then, how dif-ficult it must be for those students who didn’t grow up with significant expo-sure to American culture or don’t speak English as a first language.

If underestimating the impact of cultural shock was my first mistake, my second was definitely the way I handled it. I sup-pose it is only human na-ture to seek a source of comfort and familiarity when thrust into a posi-tion of vulnerability, and as a result, I found myself

mainly in a closed social circle of Hong-Kongers. Culture is undoubtedly an important driving factor behind the forma-tion of social cliques, but I found myself reluctant to expose myself to unfa-miliar aspects of my new cultural surrounding. This is a phenomenon I have noticed among many of my other inter-national counterparts, where the chatter of Chinese or Korean is all too often overheard in groups and clusters.

Since reflecting on this problem, I have been making a conscious at-tempt to venture outside of my comfort zone, to explore Philadelphia when time permits and make conversation and hang with individuals I might otherwise not dare to. And hey, now that I think about it, if I’ve flown over 12,000 kilometers (yes, kilometers) to the other side of the world to study, it would be a wast-ed opportunity not to. —WILLIAM

La st week-e n d , t h e Engineer-ing Quad played host

to a striking sight: over 1,000 students from countries all over the world, gathered to-gether for 48 straight h o u r s , s t r u g g l i n g through a project that was time-consuming and difficult but had no guaranteed monetary payoff.

The amount of or-ganization and plan-ning required to pull of f PennApps every year is astounding. Not only is PennApps entirely student-run,

but the organizers also reimburse the travel costs of every participating team, some of which come from countries as far away as Singapore or Germany. Funding the entire event comes out to around $200,000, an incredible amount to raise considering that the University financ-es exactly zero percent of that.

We want to com-mend the organizers of PennApps for their hard work and deter-mination in making the event happen, se-mester after semester, and somehow manag-

ing to make it better each time.

It’s not just the or-ganizers who make the event the success that it is, but also the students who set aside their entire weekend to participate in the event . A f ter al l , as Varun Sampath said, most apps built dur-i ng Pen n A pps a r e ult imately destined for “the trash.” This year’s competition not only brought in college students, but also in-volved about 40 high schoolers and many more Ph.D. and gradu-ate students.

At Penn, it’s easy to

find ourselves caught up in the endless list of things we know we “should” do — from homework for that class you only took because it fulfilled a sector requirement, to 50 summer intern-ship applications, to the research position you took on top of your work-study job — and push aside the things we actually love do-ing. Perhaps we could all learn a little from the coders who gath-ered this weekend and walked away sleep-deprived, behind on classwork and prob-ably as broke as they

In praise of PennApps

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EDITORIAL

One social network your mother won’t join

If you have ever felt reluc-tant to accept your parents’ friend requests on Facebook, Blend might be another place for you.

Blend — founded by Whar-ton senior Evan Rosenbaum, Matt Geiger and Akash Ni-gam — is a social networking app exclusively for college students. It allows users to share photos on common col-lege themes, earning pres-ents from the participating brands.

“ Sh a r e ,” “ Sn ap” a nd “Score” are the three words that characterize its main feature. Users share photos that match daily themes and get “snaps” from the others, which are similar to likes on Facebook. The snaps accu-mulate in the user’s wallet in the app and can later be used to redeem presents from the advertisers.

Blend currently partners with roughly a hundred dif-ferent brands, like Uber — a transportation company — and Verizon Wireless.

“Social networking servic-es were getting stale with not much color or personality,” Geiger said, mentioning the app is intended to be more visually exciting than exist-ing social networks.

Blend uses “pa ra l la x scrolling” — a feature im-plemented in every image where multiple layers scroll

at different speeds — in an effort to be dynamic. The founders called this feature a “high-level perspective,” since users can see layers related to each picture, in-cluding people’s profiles.

In addition to sharing pic-tures and collecting snaps, Blend is going to add interac-tive features including com-menting and tagging friends in the photo. It will also re-lease a new camera feature with a “radical level of trans-parency.” The specifics are yet to be released.

The app also uses student photos to showcase adver-tised products and thus “make advertising cool,” Rosenbaum said. “We will never accept [an advertis-er’s] manufactured photo.”

The founders also decided to make Blend a mobile-only application as it would be much easier to interact through cell phones. “You’re not going to walk down Lo-cust Walk with your laptop,” Rosenbaum said.

Blend is currently at the “growth stage of the com-pany,” Geiger said, as it will open an office in San Fran-cisco and increase the num-ber of staff from six to 16 in the next six months.

They did not disclose the exact number of users, but said the number of users recently “exploded” in the Philadelphia area after spon-soring PennApps hackathon last weekend.

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bated whether Penn should divest from its investments in tobacco companies.

Faculty members in favor of divestment have argued that tobacco companies’ market-ing and business strategies are a moral evil.

While the prevalence of smoking has decreased in the United States, there is an increase in targeted market-ing towards the developing world, philosophy professor Michael Weisberg argued in January’s meeting. “Tobacco companies] are attacking the politicians from these nations ... who pass laws prohibiting advertising against smoking,” Charles O’Brien, a professor of psychiatry at the Perel-man School of Medicine, said at Wednesday’s University Council meeting.

Wednesday’s open forum council meeting further em-phasized the complexity of the divestiture issue. Susan

Sorenson, a professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice, brought last month’s broader argument for divest-ment home to Philadelphia.

Of the 10 largest cities in the United States, Philadel-phia reports the lowest de-crease in the smoking rate, Sorenson said. She suggested that the poverty levels and high percentage of blacks in the city were attractive fac-tors to tobacco companies.

Sorenson reiterated the call for the University to recon-sider its relationship with the tobacco industry. “We have a vested interest in Phila-delphia and a public stated commitment to improve con-ditions in Philadelphia,” she said. “Our vested interests should include divestment.”

Others cautioned about the actual costs of constraining the University investment portfolio. The issue lies be-tween the fiduciary respon-sibility of the Trustees to its donors in maximizing long-term returns and upholding Penn’s moral and social ob-ligations as a global citizen. “People who have given to the University have done it on the understanding that our investment will not be used to dissociate the University

from all those companies that we rightly think are doing good or bad,” Gutmann said at January’s University Council meeting.

UA speaker and College junior Joshua Chilcote voted against the proposal because he thought it could harm the University’s investment port-folio.

“One of the concerns that they never answered was the idea that once you start divesting and critiquing the portfolio it becomes harder to hire the best people to run the portfolio,” he said. “We have bigger priorities such as expanding financial aid, hiring faculty and expanding courses.”

Some also argued in Janu-ary that divestment from the tobacco industry might not have the same meaningful ef-fect as Harvard and Stanford Universities’ divestment in the 1990s.

SP2 professor Toorjo Ghose suggested that Penn look to make its mark in an inter-national movement against tobacco companies. “This is the moment when we can re-ally take a leadership position in the second round of so-cial movement around this,” Ghose said.

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“They’ll get the same stuff back if they talk to students,” Bittar said. “It makes every-thing we worked for useless.”

UMOJA political chair and Wharton junior Nikki Hardison worried that the reality of stu-dent life and campus culture would get lost in the task force without any student repre-sentation. The 5B, Penn’s five main cultural coalitions, had a meeting Wednesday night with Vice Provost for Univer-sity Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Hardison said, and brought up the issue.

“It was a great conversa-tion,” Hardison said. “She said it was something she’d bring to

Gutmann and her staff. We’ll see where it goes.”

Swain-Cade McCoullum declined to comment for this article, as the task force has not yet met.

Bittar, for her part, prom-ised to lobby administrators to get a student presence on the task force.

Administrators said the task force would solicit student in-put throughout its research.

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“Rather than funnel through a single student voice — a tre-mendous responsibility — I’m assuming the task force will want to hear from a variety of student voices,” Vice President for Institutional Affairs Joann Mitchell, the task force vice chair, said.

The task force will lay ev-erything, including possibly increasing resources, on the table, Mitchell added. It will likely examine resources in-cluding Counseling and Psy-chological Services, Student Health Service and the Chap-lain’s Office. As the task force hasn’t yet met, it has not set a timeline for its next steps.

Ghose, the SP2 professor, also critiqued the task force be-

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“It makes me question what this task force is supposed to be doing,” he said in an interview Wednesday night. “We have some great experts, which is wonderful, but we’re not cover-ing all the resources we have at Penn, which means we’re shortchanging the issue.”

Despite the criticism, many agree that the formation of the task force is a positive step by the administration.

“I think it’s definitely some-thing that we as student lead-ers and as the student body have been looking for in terms of seeing how the administra-tion was going to respond,” Hardison said.

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Chaplain’s office moves to Houston

Spiritual support, inter-faith worship and religious

activities are about to occupy a larger, more central space at Penn.

The Office of the Chaplain and the Religious Activities Commons - a space used by religious communities for worshiping and studying - will be moving to Houston Hall, Room 240, this summer. It will

take over the former space of the Cultural Center, which has moved to the Arts, Research and Cultural House.

The RAC is currently lo-cated in the Graduate Student Center on 36th and Locust Walk, while the Office of the Chaplain is further west on Locust. The move will bring

interfaith groups together into one space and bring the chap-laincy “right into the heart of student activity,” University Chaplain Chaz Howard said in an interview with the Daily Pennsylvanian.

The move has come about after Programs in Religion, Interfaith, and Spirituality Matters - Penn’s interfaith organization representing approximately 50 religious groups - brought the issue for-ward to the University Council and Penn administrators.

The change will provide “a great opportunity to take a step closer to students in our effort to journey with them on the most beautiful and most diff icult moments in life,” Howard said in a press re-lease. The more central po-sitioning of the offices will enable them “to increase outreach and connect with students for counseling and support,” he explained.

College and Wharton junior Neel Koyawala, co-president

of the Hindu Students Coun-cil, is excited about the new space as he expects it will bring more interfaith collabo-ration. Penn’s facilitation of the move “says a lot for the University,” he added.

“It’s our goal to connect,” said Nursing senior Elizabeth Harbuck, Latter-Day Saints Student Association presi-dent. She outlined how the new space will have a “cen-tralizing” effect on Penn’s re-ligious groups.

College freshman Sam Murray, director of the Baha’i meditation group, outlined how having a more accessible space will make Penn’s reli-gious groups “way more cohe-sive.” He hopes RAC and the Chaplain’s Office will become more visible to non-religious students in this more central space.

Administrators have not yet decided what organization will move into the former Chap-lain’s Office.

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select a field placement - an in-ternship beyond Penn’s campus where they will work for three days each week. Some students will work at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, while others will be stationed at agencies that provide foster care services. Some may be working in school settings as well.

“I ’ve always wanted to work with children,” said Erin O’Donnell, a student who ap-plied to the specialization. “My motto is ‘speak for people who can’t speak for themselves.’ I feel that with children, there’s a big push for that.”

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Greeson and Garcia plan to focus more on the challenges faced by children in foster care - specifically, children separated from their parents by the De-partment of Human Services - and social workers’ ability to determine when mental health services are necessary.

“We’re trying to facilitate re-unification - to get the kids back home eventually,” Garcia said. “The goal [of the specialization] is to provide students with the assessment skills and the tools to determine when a return home is warranted or when to think about alternative viable options for the long-term.”

Next year, Garcia and Gree-son plan to invite faculty from across Penn’s campus to give their students different perspec-tives on child welfare services.

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one has a different perspective and addresses a different part of the puzzle.”

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O’Donnell said that this pro-gram will help children who aren’t always given the help that they need.

“Through this specialization we’re going to be given the skills to help children the way they need to be helped,” O’Donnell said.

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Beta Theta Pi,” Zuvia said in an email statement.

“We are deeply sorry for our actions as they were insensitive and inappropriate. This was an unfortunate lapse in judgment, and we take full responsibility,” he said. “We are working with the University and our national organization to address the situ-ation and make amends to the Penn community.”

It is difficult to ascertain the frequency of such parties on campus. Amenabar said she has heard of similar par-ties happening, but no specific instances. College senior Luis Vargas wrote a column about a “Cinco de Febrero” party that was also scheduled for this past weekend.

Zuvia declined to comment on whether culturally themed parties are generally common on campus.

Going forward, both Owens and Amenabar hope for cultural sensitivity or diversity training and policy changes. “Dialogue is important, but dialogue is not the only measure that should be taken at this point to address this issue,” Owens said.

While Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Scott Reikofski did not respond when asked if policy changes were in the works, Reikofski said in an email that OFSL works with Greek chapters regarding “responsible event planning and behavior” and that all members are made aware of Penn’s party registration system.

“In the event that Greek mem-bers or chapters are alleged to have held unregistered parties or committed other violations, the allegations are addressed by student judicial boards,” Reikof-ski said.

Reikofski said that chapters can also decide to take internal action and will work with their national organization to manage the situation.

Zuvia added that OFSL does have policies in place to regulate things like party themes, and the fraternity is working with the of-fice to resolve this issue.

Similar controversies have arisen on other college cam-puses.

Two weeks ago, a fraternity at Duke University was suspended for throwing a party based on racial stereotypes of Asians. In January, a fraternity at Arizona State University was suspended after hosting a party for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, at which attendees wore basketball jer-seys and drank from watermelon

cups.In some cases, colleges and

universities have modified their policies in response to such controversies. Last week, Dart-mouth College changed their policies about how Greek organi-zations handle complaints after a fraternity and sorority held a “Blood and Crips”-themed party last July, according to an article in The Dartmouth.

“There are a lot of people try-ing to make this about the Penn students, but it’s a much bigger issue than that,” Amenabar said.

Staff writer Melissa Lawford contributed reporting.

Other campuses see similar debate

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After a Bloods and Crips-themed party caused outrage at Dartmouth College, the college changed its policy regarding the adjudication violations of community principals involving cultural insensitivity this month, the Darthmouth reported.

Chi Omega closed its chapter at Penn State this month after a photo of members of Chi Omega dressed in ponchos

and sombreros and holding signs, one of which read, “Will mow lawn for weed + beer" surfaced, the Collegian reported.

Last April, women's interest blog Jezebel published photos of the Indiana University chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority at a 'homeless-themed' party. The women held cardboard signs, one of which read "Why lie it's for booze."

In September, Zeta Tau Alpha and Delta Delta Delta apologized for holding a Mexican-theme sorority party at

the University of Texas, where students sported ponchos, sombreros, fake mustaches and shirts which said "illegal"

or "border patrol," the Daily Texan reported. Alpha Tau Omega apologized for planning a similar event.

Students in the Kappa Alpha chapter at Randolph-Macon College held a "USA versus Mexico" party last November where students dressed like "illegal immigrants" and "border control agents." The college released a statement saying that students involved would be disciplined.

After Phi Sigma Kappa at California Polytechnic State University held a 'Colonial Bros and Nava-Hos' party last

November, University President Jeffrey Armstrong denounced the party and announced a university-spon-sored forum to address issues related to the party in an

email, the Tribune reported.

In November, two while female students at Lee University in Tennessee apologized for wearing blackface and offensive shirts at a rap-themed desert party held by Theta Delta Kappa, the Lee Clarion reported.

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Sports Editor Ian Wenik: You know what? I’m going to do the crazy thing and say that Penn takes a share of the whole thing, albeit not in a manner you’d expect. My prediction for the Quakers this season is that they win out, save for the final game at Jadwin Gym against the Tigers.

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Everyone thinks I’m a luna-tic, but here’s the reality of it all: The Quakers are stacked and have all the momentum heading forward. Freshman center Sydney Stipanovich is a force inside blocking shots, Baron is heating up at the right time, and this team has the confidence of the world on their side thanks to the final act of an incredible program turnaround headed by maestro coach Mike McLaughlin.

IW: But at the same time, Princeton has a pretty solid maestro of its own right in coach Courtney Banghart. Ev-ery offseason, it seems as if her name is bandied about for some major program or an-other — and with good reason. She’s taken a program that had never made the NCAA tourna-ment before her arrival and has guided it to four March appear-ances in the last four years.

Also, though I’m not com-pletely discounting the pos-sibility of a Penn victory on the road, keep in mind what hap-pened when the Tigers came to the Palestra this year. Princ-eton won that game, 84-53, and looked dominant defensively. It’s almost inconceivable to imagine Stipanovich being held scoreless from the field, but that’s what the Tigers managed to accomplish that evening.

JL: Well, I hate to cop out and use an old adage, but “that was then, this is now.” Since that game, Stipanovich and Baron have both received Ivy League honors. The Quak-ers have really solidified and figured out a way to organi-cally change their game plans around their opponents. Take their second-half adjustments against Columbia and Yale, for example.

I think the one thing that is working against Princeton is the Quakers’ hunger. They have a certain swagger on court, a determination that only teams that haven’t made it to the big dance can manage. Princeton is a winning program and ex-pects to win, which is why I think McLaughlin and his staff will demolish the Tigers’ game plan and drop the hammer all over Jadwin Gym.

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With the Ivy championship meet fast approaching, the men of the Penn diving team are looking to take a swing at some of the big names that sit atop the Ancient Eight. The Quakers will undoubtedly be helped by the return of Magli-ulo, who has been training in

order to get healthy for the final meet of the season.

“The pressure of the Ivy cha mpionships is huge,” Hartje said. “It’s one thing to compete at the state level in high school, but this level of competition is just a whole different animal. Even though it’s still just a pool and a div-ing board, there is something about the meet that just changes everything.”

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Though he only has an all time 2-6 record in matches, sophomore Eric Friedman has proven himself to be an invaluable part of the Penn wrestling roster, coming in to practice at odd hours due to conflicts with his academic schedule and sparring with the wrestlers ahead of him on the depth chart.

Yet despite sitting behind wrestlers like Caleb Richardson and Ken Bade, Friedman puts in hours of extra work, even when he can’t make practice due to academic conflicts.

“[Friedman’s] one of those kids where, if Caleb needs to work out at seven in the morn-ing, Eric will come, or 10 at night, Eric will come,” coach Rob Eiter said. “He’s a good team player that way.”

That attitude has allowed Friedman and Eiter to build up a special kind of trust — Fried-man isn’t the type to goof off when authoritative eyes aren’t looking.

“I don’t have to question whether he’s getting those work-outs in,” Eiter said. “Because I know he is.”

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it either divides the team or brings the team closer, and we went through both stages. At the end of the day, as I told the team, we [didn’t] have a choice — we [had] to come together.”

The Qua kers’ capt a i ns have been instrumental in getting a young team where it needs to be after a spate of early trouble.

On a squad that witnessed considerable turnover, Lenzi and Casey Kent — who was named captain after Cobb decided not to compete — have been the two strongest constants.

Lenzi and Kent are the only wrestlers on this year’s squad that grappled in all 13 duals last season. This

season, Kent has already matched his dual win total from last season of 10, and Lenzi has done the same with respect to victories over EIWA opponents (7).

While Kent ser ves as a model of consistency, Lenzi, the elder captain, uses his strong voice to make an im-pact.

“Casey’s been our most consistent performer, and that’s one of the things you look for in a captain,” Eiter said. “He’s a little bit more on the quiet side.”

According to Eiter, “Lenzi is more outspoken, very vo-cal, and very in tune with the team.”

The balance Penn’s lead-ers have been able to main-tain has been critical, but it is more than the captains that have carried the team to where it is now.

Junior Lorenzo Thomas, who wrestles at 184-pounds and leads the Red and Blue with 20 wins, has taken on a more active leadership role.

“Lorenzo without a doubt

leads by example,” Lenzi said. “And given his track record, he has the most cred-ibility doing so. For a while he was leading by example, but now he’s starting to vocalize and motivate with words.”

For this young Red and Blue squad, wrestlers like Thomas, Lenzi and Kent serve a crucial role of setting a strong example for Penn’s potential-filled youth.

Eiter ultimately recogniz-es the number of obstacles this team has been forced to deal with and believes the challenges will make the fu-ture more fruitful.

“At the end of the day, this is going to be great for the morale of the team because we’ve made it through a lot together,” Eiter said. “We’re gonna be successful come the end of the year, and it’s gonna make that success that much greater because there’s so many obstacles we’ve faced this year.

“And that comes down to not only our captains, but also our team as a whole.”

WRESTLING from page 12

Thomas has made major contribution

It ’s not of ten that high school teammates compete for the same team in college.

But Wendy Zhao and Luona Wang, two members of the Penn women’s fencing team, are doing just that.

Before coming to Penn, the duo crafted a friendship at Vestavia High School in Birmingham, Ala., that has lasted for many years. Both Zhao, a senior, and Wang, a junior, moved from China to

Birmingham at a young age. Amazingly, the pair ended up living just four houses away from one another.

It was always clear that Wang was born to be a fencer.

“My parents were nation-al coaches in China,” Wang said. “My mom finished sev-enth in the Olympics in ’88, which was in Seoul, and my dad was a two-time Olympic referee.

“As a kid I felt a little bit like, ‘You know, I’ll at least give it a try,’ I was able to give it a try, so I picked it up.”

It was through Wang that Zhao first gained interest in the sport.

“I moved from China to Vestavia when I was 10, so Luona was one of the f irst fr iends I had,” Zhao said.

“I didn’t speak English, but she did. We became friends, and that’s how it really got started.”

“I met Wendy, and we be-came really good friends ... I told her, ‘Hey, come try it out with me,’” Wang added.

In 1998 , Wang’s parents st a r t ed t he Bi r m i ng ha m Fencing Club, now located in Vestavia, which they have owned and operated. They served as coaches for both Wang and Zhao as they grew up.

After training and compet-ing together throughout mid-dle school and high school, the two teammates both de-cided to attend Penn.

“[Penn coach Andy] Ma, he’s pretty wel l-k nown in the fencing community ... we

knew first of all that he was a really good coach for both Lu-ona and me,” Zhao said. “We knew that we would get a lot of support here on the team.”

Because she came to Penn a year before Wang, Zhao is still unsure exactly how she also decided to attend the university and join her child-hood friend and teammate.

“I think it just happened by chance, but I’m glad I came because she’s been really helpful to me, especially dur-ing my first year while I was adjusting,” Wang said. “It’s really nice to have someone on the team who I’ve grown up with who I can always talk

to about things.“It’s really easy to coach

each other on the strip be-cause we’ve been fencing for so long, so we know what each other likes to do.”

In addition to their suc-cesses at Penn, Zhao re -c e i v e d t he P h i l a d e l p h i a Inquirer Women’s Academic All-Area Performer of the Year last season, while Wang was national runner-up in women’s foi l in 2011-2012 and has earned All-America honors her first two seasons with the Quakers.

The two also enjoy return-ing to their old stomping grounds and giving back to

up and coming fencers in Ala-bama.

“We go back during break ... we help coach the kids at home who are still in high school and middle school,” Zhao said. “We always keep in touch with them.

“We’re here, but then we go back and kind of give back what we learn here. It’s a re-ally good process.”

Even though the oppor-tunity in front of Zhao and Wang is a rare one, the duo has certainly made the most of their time at Penn to con-tinue their friendship and fol-low their passion for fencing along the way.

From four doors down, a friendship was forgedW. FENCING | Zhao

and Wang became friends through their

immigration and fencingBY DANIEL RICH

Staff Writer

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014 PAGE 11SPORTSTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

Eric Friedman is just like you.He trudges across campus to get to

the Engineering Quad.He complains about orgo.He goes on 10-mile runs every other

day and lifts weights at 7:30 a.m., hours before normal practice time.

OK, maybe he isn’t just like you.But then again, not even Penn wres-

tling’s own roster can boast too many stories quite like Friedman’s, even if the sophomore pre-med student hasn’t been able to log much mat time this year for the Quakers.

The struggle isn’t new for Friedman, who has been constantly searching for the perfect balance between the two equally strong pulls of varsity wrestling and intense academics since he first stepped onto campus.

“You have to be ready to step up to the plate in wrestling and you have to be ready to step up to the plate in aca-demics,” Friedman said. “If you falter in one, it’s hard to not let that affect both areas.”

And at first, Friedman stumbled un-der the adjustment. In the Hutchinson Gymnasium wrestling room, the former four-time Maryland high school state champion went from a bona-fide star to just another freshman trying to make a name for himself as he moved up a weightclass from 126 to 133 pounds.

Under self-imposed pressure to make weight and simultaneously manage his course load, Friedman’s grades slipped — until he decided he wasn’t going to take it anymore.

“When I came in, I was very intimi-dated by Penn academics,” Friedman said. “Having some friends freshman year, at the end, when I really was strug-gling, and seeing that they could do it — I started to realize that maybe I could do it.

“And then I put in the time — I start-ed studying in quieter locations. And as soon as I believed I could do well in school, I started doing well in school.”

Friedman gives credit not only to his tight-knit group of teammates and his coaches for his turnaround, but also to a far more common source of support for Penn students: his freshman hall.

“You can look at some of what they’re doing academically, and it motivates you,” Friedman said of his hallmates.

“[Friedman]’s really hard working when it comes to school, he’s a very driven guy,” said Engineering sopho-more Kevin Procopio, a freshman hall-mate of Friedman’s. “And it’s great that he’s very passionate about the things he does — very passionate about wres-tling, very passionate about school.”

With his mind refocused and his aca-demics in order, Friedman now finds himself occupying a depth role for the Quakers this season after picking up two match victories in his freshman campaign.

12Sports

Keep friends close, but your enemies closer

Swim meets are known for being close affairs. Individual events are often contested by tenths of a second, and the meets themselves often come down to just a few points.

However, on a team that is over 30 members strong, only two Quakers have been getting a crack at the 38

points that are available in the meets’ two diving events.

Senior Will Hartje and freshman Jack Stein are two of three indi-viduals in the Penn men’s diving program, and fortunately for the Quakers, these two have risen to the challenge admirably.

While other programs generally compete with three divers, Penn has made do with just two Florida natives ever since its third diver, sophomore Peter Magliulo, got injured over win-ter break.

Hartje and Stein have been im-pressive all year and have given the Quakers an early edge in several

meets.“Even though we are small in com-

parison to other programs, we still have great opportunities to really have an effect on the outcome of any meet,” Hartje said. “We are kind of like the kickers on the football team, just as influential to the score, but few in number.”

Against the best that the Iv y League can throw at them, both Stein and Hartje still put in quality perfor-mances.

In the meet against Harvard, Stein took first in the one-meter dive, while Hartje took fourth in the three-meter event. Outside of Ivy competition,

these two have also been dominant. On Senior Day against La Salle, Hartje took the top spot for Penn in both events and was first overall in the three-meter dive.

In addition to the bond formed by being part of a small, specialized group of athletes, Hartje and Stein share another common denominator: They competed against each other in high school.

“I guess it just goes to show you have to keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” Hartje said of his past competions with Stein. “But in all seriousness, having Jack here to push me has been really important

to me getting the most out of every practice and every dive.”

In addition to pushing his diving partner, Stein has proven to be a catalyst for the diving team’s remark-able turnaround. Last year, Penn failed to win an individual diving event all season. This year, the Quak-ers have barely gone a meet where they didn’t win at least one individual event, all thanks to Stein’s efforts.

“It’s a great feeling being a position where we expect to do well.” Hartje said. “A year ago we were just focused on not giving up too many points,

SEE M. SWIMMING PAGE 9

Andrew Dierkes/Senior Staff Photographer

Coach Jerome Allen and his staff have shown interesting in Union Catholic high school guard Isaiah Still. The Quakers have four commits in their Class of 2018 and Still would be part of the Class of 2019.

Quakers bond around unexpected leaders

If you look at this season’s Penn wrestling poster, and then take a glance at the squad’s current lineup, it would be difficult not to

recognize the disparity.Senior captain Andrew Lenzi

is the only wrestler on the poster — which also features senior Ca-naan Bethea, junior C.J. Cobb and junior Steve Robertson — who has wrestled in more than three duals this season.

Bethea and Cobb, both at the top of the team ranks in wins last season, have not wrestled a match this year.

It has been a season filled with

adjustments, surprises and obsta-cles for Penn. With everything that has been thrown at them these past three months, the Quakers could have easily fallen apart.

But they have repeatedly re-fused to let their circumstances get the best of them.

“We’ve had some trying times this year,” coach Rob Eiter said. “And the team is stil l plugging away and moving forward.”

The biggest hurdle for the Quak-

ers has been the absence of Cobb, who was named a captain prior to the season. Cobb faced early injury concerns and decided not to com-pete over winter break.

“That scenario was hard for the team to take,” Eiter said. “We haven’t had situations like we’ve been through this year in years past.

“When things like that happen,

Luke Chen/Senior Staff Photographer

With captain C.J. Cobb ruled out for the season due to injury, Penn wrestling needed someone to step up in his absence. Enter sophomore Casey Kent. A quiet and reserved leader, Kent has helped the young Quakers roster band together while also excelling on the mat. Kent’s 10-2 record in dual meets is the best on the team.

SEE WRESTLING PAGE 11

Penn’s Friedman

faces tough schedule

WRESTLING | Sophomore struggled at first to balance pre-med life and wrestling

BY IAN WENIKSports Editor

SEE FRIEDMAN PAGE 10

Penn offers spot to HS junior guard Isaiah Still

It is never too early to start looking ahead.

Penn basketball already has four commitments for the Class of 2018, but coach Jerome Allen and his staff are also working on the Class of 2019, offering a place to guard Isaiah Still of Union Catho-lic (N.J.).

Still, a high school junior, is a 6-foot-4 guard that often functions as a slasher, getting to the basket well. According to The Recruit Scoop, his three-point shooting has improved, but Still is more of a wing than a shooting guard.

On Sunday in front of Penn coaches, Still scored 27 points in

a Union Catholic victory — in-cluding 18 points in the second half — as his squad beat Marist high school, 75-57.

However, the Quakers are not the only team recruiting Still — as Lehigh coach Brett Reed also attended Sunday’s game. Still has received offers from Lehigh, Iona, Harvard and Siena as well as Penn, and has gotten strong interest from Quinnipiac and Monmouth.

The Red and Blue have also shown interest in other high school juniors, namely St. An-drews (Del.) guard Myles Ste-phens. Stephens, who is also 6-foot-4 and plays the wing, visited Penn on June 26 and has received interest from other Ivy League

M. SWIMMING | Despite the small stature of Penn’s

diving program, Hartje and Stein stand taller than most

BY SAM ALTLANDStaff Writer

WRESTLING | Despite the losses of C.J. Cobb

and Canaan Bethea, new wrestlers have stepped up

BY SEAMUS POWERSStaff Writer

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