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The Jan. 7 attacks by Muslim extrem-ists on the satirical Parisian magazine “Charlie Hebdo” triggered discourse around the world about free speech, comedy and their consequences. Two masked gunmen, later identified as be-longing to al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, responded to the magazine’s release of an issue depicting the prophet Muham-mad on the cover by breaking into the offices and shooting numerous staff members. In light of this event, mem-bers of Penn comedy groups shared their perspective and methods on striking a balance between comedy and contention.

“There are certain ways you can talk about certain groups,” said Rosa Es-candon, College senior and head writer for Bloomers — an all-female comedy group on campus. “I like to think that all jokes are okay as long as it’s making the joke about society rather than about the victim of society.”

Bloomers members said that they make great efforts to avoid making fun of one particular group excessively in order to preserve the entertainment value of their show.

Bloomers Director and College senior Olivia Route said that the group cannot rely on targeting specific groups in its jokes because “the more niche we get, the more of an audience we risk losing.”

In terms of religion, though, the group admits that it is often difficult to preserve the comedic value of their material without offending someone. Escandon — a 34th Street Lowbrow

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Swapping spring semester for the spotlight

Wearing suits every day and flocking to Huntsman Hall for OCR information sessions are not the only ways Wharton stu-dents chase their dreams. Nick Silverio, a Wharton sopho-more, is pursuing his dance career while taking a short break from Penn.

Starting November 2014, Silverio toured 15 different cities — mainly in the Mid-west and the West Coast — as part of the national tour of “Elf.”

“Elf” is a Broadway musi-cal based on the Will Ferrell movie with the same title, about an elf who finds out that he is actually a human and goes to New York to find his father . Silverio’s role was called “M6,” which included many different parts such as an elf, a security guard, a worker and a businessman.

“A lot of people think I was

an elf for two hours, but I was an elf for about ten minutes,” he said.

Although Silverio said he loves Penn and the Wharton

School, in the second semes-ter of his freshman year, he said he really felt like danc-ing — just dancing. In June 2014, Silverio was chosen for

the eleventh season of the real-ity show “So You Think You Can Dance.” The next thing he knew, he auditioned for Clear Talent Group , a talent agency

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Flush-faced teenagers scramble for warmth in oversized coats cov-ered with white snow. Freshmen leave their dorms at midnight to play, build snowmen and experience their first winter at Penn, with some participating in window-shattering snowball fights. Meanwhile, upper-classmen find themselves “cuffing,” or ditching this campus’ hookup cul-ture for winter relationships in order to avoid being alone in the cold.

It’s snowstorm season once again and that means some Penn students are rejoicing while others are realiz-ing they need better coats. Students are thinking about their new classes, rushing fraternities and sororities,

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Wharton sophomore Nick Silverio toured the country as a cast member in Broadway musical “Elf” last semester.COURTESY OF NICK SILVERIO

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Penn’s new amendments to its sexual violence policy released on Tuesday put more emphasis on

outlining the rights and procedures for students. The new procedures will take effect starting Feb. 1.

The key amendment to the Disci-plinary Charter is the creation of the Office of the Sexual Violence Inves-tigative Officer, who will manage all complaints against a University student alleged to have violated the Sexual Violence Policy. Penn

announced yesterday that Christopher Mallios will serve as the University’s first Sexual Violence Investigative Of-ficer.

“Overall, the new policy focuses on balancing the rights of the complain-ant [the accuser] with the rights of the respondent to ensure that both parties are protected,” Mallios said. “Instead of just a campus hearing, the new

system is really a thoughtful, delibera-tive process that uses interviews and evidence to come to a fair resolution.”

The new policy also emphasizes an increased coordination between Penn and the legal system, as University students have the option to file a report with the District Attorney or with the

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Education plays part in mayoral race

On Saturday, College junior Laura Sorice began her term as the new Chair External of the Student Committee for Under-graduate Education. The Daily Pennsylvanian talked with her about SCUE’s plans for the up-coming year. This Q&A has been lightly edited for clarity.

The Daily Pennsylvanian: SCUE published the 2015 White Paper last week just before your election as the new chair. How are you planning to follow up on goals this docu-ment addresses?

Laura Sorice: I like to think about it in terms of not only what SCUE can do individu-ally to create these changes, but

also in terms of the way that we can communicate this docu-ment to the University, so that the University becomes a large group of individuals who are all going to be working towards these changes. Specifically in SCUE right now, we are in the process of figuring out how best to do just that — to get the word out about the White Paper and make sure that as many people as possible are really aware of the research and the work we’ve done and to start a co nversation about how we can best imple-ment these goals together.

DP: What projects are you most excited about?

LS: I am pretty interested in exploring object-based learn-ing, which is an initiative that the Provost’s office is heav-ily involved in. Basically, the idea is making sure that actual coursework done by Penn stu-dents is able to be connected to certain resources that Penn has.

For example, an Italian litera-ture class utilizing the rare book collection in the library in order to supplement their experience with Italian literature over time — that is one course that I have taken in object based learning and it was a fantastic experi-ence.

DP: What challenges do you foresee SCUE facing this year?

LS: One challenge that we are always concerned about is, “How do you make students care?” That is such a difficult problem and I think it’s some-thing that almost every student group at Penn faces. All of us have things that are important to us and things that we want to push forward and initiatives that we want to advocate for. Answering the question of how to most effectively bring people together under those initiatives will always be a challenge.

DP: Why did you decide to run for SCUE chair?

LS: As a Penn student I have always been really excited about the way that we run this University. I consider being able to attend Penn the great-est privilege of my life so far and being able to be actively involved in the way that we are educated and being able to think critically about the intellectual community we have at Penn is something that I love doing and something that I have spent a great deal of time working on as a SCUE member.

DP: Looking back one year later on your term, what do you want to be able to say you ac-complished?

LS: One of the things I would really like to have accomplished a year from now after my term would be feeling like we have properly fostered the next gen-eration of team members that is as equally excited, passionate and interested in this work as I am now.

SCUE chair seeks student engagementLaura Sorice begins her term as SCUE Chair External

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US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. The pol-icy’s option to engage forensic or other legal experts will func-tion as another opportunity for “making sure to avoid miscon-ceptions and always follow[ing] the evidence where it leads,” Mallios said.

While sexual misconduct cases used to be heard before disciplinary panels of under-graduate students, the new policy specifies that the panel members will be selected from a pool of faculty members, who have agreed to serve for at least one year and be trained as adjudicators in compliance with Title IX and other state or

federal guidelines.“We decided on a faculty

panel based on the Department of Education’s recommendation and also because we concluded that it was something best man-aged not by other students,” said Joann Mitchell, Penn’s Vice President for Institutional Af-fairs.

The process to develop the amended procedures was one of collaboration both throughout campus and across the nation. In addition to getting insight from students, faculty and campus organizations involved with sexual violence, Penn hosted a “technical assistance workshop” — run by the De-partment of Education’s Office of Civil Rights — with colleges and universities throughout the

region.“We’ve had the benefit of

reading policies and procedures of peer institutions and seeing the upsides and downsides of what other campuses are doing,” Mitchell said.

The office of Penn President Amy Gutmann deferred com-ment to Mitchell.

Beyond ensuring a fair man-agement of sexual misconduct allegations, Mallios wants to encourage people to report by educating all members of campus about the new process.

“We want people to have confidence in the fairness and safety of the system so that they feel comfortable coming to this office to file a report, to respond to a report or to serve as a wit-ness,” Mallios said.

The release of the new policy follows the University’s other sexual violence prevention ef-forts, such as New Student Orientation sexual violence training and the hiring of Jes-sica Mertz to fill the newly created position of managing sexual violence prevention and education.

Regarding Mallios, head of the new Office of Sexual Vio-lence, people who worked with him have praised his experi-ence. “In my work with Chris I’ve been very impressed by his nuanced understanding of the complex dynamics of sexual violence and campus culture,” said Litty Paxton, the Penn Women’s Center director. “He’s a great presenter and also a great listener.”

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Debate over school district fund-ing and charter school expansion has dominated Philadelphia’s public discourse for years, so it is no sur-prise that the city’s public school system is becoming a decisive issue in the upcoming mayoral election.

With the Democratic primary on May 19, the two front-runners, State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams and former Philadelphia District Attor-ney Lynne Abraham, are working hard to claim the issue as their own.

“Our city’s economy, education and quality of life are all falling behind,” wrote Abraham in a letter on her website entitled “Why I’m Running.” “A transformational leader listens to teachers and par-ents about how our schools can help students grow into productive work-ers in the new economy.”

While Philadelphia’s economy has improved over the last few years, its school system hasn’t exactly fol-lowed. The Philadelphia School District ranks 441 out of 459 school districts in Pennsylvania, according to a ranking by SchoolDigger.com. In addition, the city’s public schools currently face an $81 million budget deficit. Furthermore, a recent Pew study released on Jan. 16 calculated that the Philadelphia school system spent $12,570 per pupil in 2013-14, which is less than many other major metropolitan cities, such as Boston, Cleveland, New York, Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit.

“First you have to fund it before you can have a good shot at fixing it,” President of the Philadelphia Education Fund Darren Spielman said. “But at the same time, the funds alone aren’t going to fix it. It’s

just like showing up to a track meet without your spikes on.”

However, the budgetary issues are both a local and statewide prob-lem. “I’m hoping we have a mayor that takes a very serious look at what they think local share of the school budget will be the percent of education budget provided by the city versus the state,” Spielman added.

In 2013-14, 46 percent of Phila-delphia school district’s operational revenue came from the state. An increase in funding would at least in part need to come from the state, which currently sports a budget deficit of over $2 billion of its own.

With these challenges, some have argued that charter school expan-sion could help in terms of cost and performance.

While Williams’ campaign platform on his website expresses similar sentiments about improv-ing traditional Philadelphia public schools, he has been an active ad-vocate for an expansion of charter schools in the city.

“Anthony is a nationally recog-nized advocate for public charter schools,” reads his campaign web-site. “He is the architect and sponsor of Pennsylvania’s landmark public charter school legislation, and a leading voice for charter school ac-countability in Philadelphia.”

While some charter schools have shown promising results, it is un-clear if they are the future of public education and the solution to Phila-delphia’s public education woes.

“I would be excited to see a can-didate for mayor that neither blindly presumes that charterizing the city will solve the education problem, nor blindly parodying a union-based critique of charter schools,” Spielman said.

“There is no silver bullet solu-tion.”

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gearing up for Valentine’s Day, applying to summer internships and desperately hoping for a snow day.

What’s not on students’ minds, however, is how to keep Penn running despite snow-storms. Behind the scenes, severe weather affects how Penn functions in every way.

Snowstorm ManagementIt’s Monday night. Weather

forecasters a re predict ing almost a foot of snow in Phila-delphia. To prepare, Facilities and Real Estate Services has mobilized a team of 50 house-keepers and 50 Urban Parks staffers to work around the clock to salt streets, plow snow and repair facilities damaged by the severe weather. Twenty me-chanics have been called in to address building issues related to cold weather, such as heating and plumbing.

Before the sun even rises, FRES is getting its 25 snow

blowers, five gators with plows and spreaders, five trucks with plows and salt spreaders, one tractor with a broom, several smaller machines with brooms and many, many shovels ready for work. Last year, FRES cleared approximately 8.2 mil-lion pounds of snow across 1.3 million square feet of walkways.

Due to the unanticipated light snow, the streets are cleared by 4:00 a.m. — well before Penn students and faculty wake up. By the time it’s over, this cleanup alone has cost the Uni-versity at least $100,000.

“There is a financial cost as-sociated with [snow removal]. It’s overtime for our staff, so you can take the number of employ-ees times the number of hours, times their hourly rate,” Ex-ecutive Director of Operations and Maintenance at FRES Ken Ogawa said. “But there are a lot of other costs — salt and fuel costs associated with running the equipment. If the University has to shut down for that day, there is lost revenue.”

Preparing for the stormSnowstor m prepa ra t ion

begins long before students return from winter break. Start-ing in the fall, administrators watch the news, pay close at-tention to weather forecasts and order customized reports from weather services to help them anticipate weather conditions. When snowstorms hit, they are ready.

“Housekeepers clean up to ten feet from building perim-eters. Urban Parks, which is the grounds staff, take care of all the walkways and then Business Services, the transportation office, actually takes care of the roadways and the parking lots. Public roads are actually done by the city of Philadelphia,” Ogawa said. “We hand off re-sponsibility of various areas to our neighbors — whether it’s the University of Pennsylvania Health System, CHOP, retail merchants, the city or Drexel.”

However, the University’s first priority is to help students, he said.

“First, we focus on the resi-dential and the dining facilities because people are living here, this is your home, and people need to be able to eat. That’s kind of critical before I get an office open,” Ogawa said. “After that, our focus is to make sure we have one ADA accessible en-trance to every building. Then we go back and do the rest.”

Health & CrimeWhile FRES is ground zero

for snowstorm responses, severe weather affects nearly every aspect of University life — from health levels on campus, to crime rates, to University finances, to the daily lives of Penn faculty, staff and students.

The Hospital of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania sees more patients during the winter, primarily due to the high inci-dence of the f lu, Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at Penn Medicine Susan Phillips said. Slipping on ice and other weather-related incidents drive increased patient visits during the winter months.

On a national level, empiri-cal studies show that mortality rates are often higher during the winter months of December, January and February because patients are less likely to seek treatment for conditions in order to avoid the cold.

On the bright side, crime rates typically fall during periods of severe weather both at Penn and nationally — criminals do not want to be stuck out in the cold either. During the 2013-14 aca-demic year, crime rates reached a low at Penn in December and January. On a national level, the National Bureau of Justice confirms that both violent and property crime rates tend to bottom out in the winter.

University FinancesSnowstor ms ca n have

staggering financial implica-tions as well. Severe weather was the largest unexpected cost to the University during the 2013-14 academic year, ac-cording to the Annual Financial Report. “Expenses for the year were influenced by exception-ally high energy costs as a result of the severe winter weather,” Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Stephen Golding wrote in the report.

“We are doing a lot to invest in the infrastructure. We went out into the debt market and issued Century Bonds,” Gold-ing said in an interview. “We know that by modernizing our buildings, our heating systems and our energy systems we can actually get energy savings, par-ticularly during winter months.” Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been invested in these sustainability programs in order to reduce energy costs, Golding said.

“Another thing we’ve done from a financial perspective is something called hedging, which basically allows us to pre-purchase energy in the future at set prices so that we can kind of allay some of the risk of price volatility in the future. That hedging last January saved us $4 million dollars,” Golding said.

University LifeWinter storms affect Uni-

versity life in small ways as well. Some faculty members have to pick their children up when Philadelphia closes its public schools. Others stay in

hotels near campus in order to avoid being late or absent from their lectures due to traffic and weather constraints.

Allied Barton security and Penn Police, for their part, stay outdoors and keep students safe, despite weather conditions. Penn’s Dining staff rush to pro-vide for the unanticipated influx of students who go to dining halls to avoid the cold, Cater-ing Manager at Falk Dining Hall Marti Bates said. Mean-while, much of Penn’s staff has to clear snow from their own homes while working full time and worrying about the possibil-ity that their roofs might cave in, complained a staffer in one of Penn’s dining halls.

While the University’s ad-ministrators work through the night from behind the scenes, Penn students get to rejoice and relax during snowstorms. Some take to Facebook and Twitter to procrastinate on work and pray for class cancelations or watch movies on Netflix. Others do more adventurous things, like ski off of the Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall — as some students did last year — or build a web application to keep track of Penn snow day predictions as some did Monday night.

“Being in college, I’m going to like the snow because I don’t have to shovel like I did at home,” College freshman Jazmine Smith said.

Staff Reporter Jeffrey Car-eyva contributed reporting.

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Students trekked to class through the snow on Monday, which was much less severe than expected.ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

editor — admits that she has even had small generational disputes with her mother after telling her that Bloomers had performed a skit called “Imperialists Anony-mous.”

“My mother heard the words ‘there was someone playing Hitler,’” Escandon said, laughing, “and she was like ‘Oh my God, Rosa, that is not okay.’”

But the expiration date of a joke can even be much shorter than a generation. Political correct-ness and what people find funny evolve faster than that. “The joke that killed five years ago is a joke about assault,” Escandon said, explaining that certain jokes no longer have a place in the group’s shows.

Jokes that target certain groups might not get a laugh from those unfamiliar with the culture of the groups. Bloomers has a recurring

skit, for example, centered around the “Jewish humor” of a mother and daughter. “If you don’t un-derstand the interactions between Jewish mothers and daughters, it’s not very funny,” Escandon said.

“If we had a show that was entirely based around a religion, regardless of what the religion was, it would not be very enter-taining,” Route said.

Both Bloomers and the Mask and Wig Club members said their comedy lies within certain

boundaries.“We try to make fun of what we

know rather than what we don’t know,” College senior and Mask and Wig Cast Director Joe Miciak said.

“I think the great thing about comedy is that it’s a way to alert or reawaken someone to an idea that is really terrible or really wonderful,” Route said. “If we’re making a joke that’s offensive or inflammatory, we want it to be purposeful.”

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With the advent of internet-based dis-s e m i n a t i o n

of media, movements such as feminism have rapidly gained worldwide prominence and sup-port. However, feminism has suffered from an identity crisis as some of its proponents offer a variety of explanations for it and attack those who do not define feminism in the same way that they do.

The current message of the movement should be ana-lyzed in the context of what it is called. Though the word “feminism” suggests a number of ideas and beliefs, the Ox-ford English Dictionary defines feminism as: “the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men.”

Based on this definition, feminism advocates solely for women. It suggests that simply being born male is a blanket privilege because men are ad-

vantaged compared to women in all respects. This causes women, who are then seen as disadvan-taged, to fight for themselves.

As British actress Emma

Watson, Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, mentioned in her speech at the launch of the HeForShe campaign, what is currently widely known as femi-nism resembles little more than “man-hating,” which she insists “has to stop.”

While it is generally ac-cepted that current society is pa-triarchal, few among those who identify themselves as feminist acknowledge that, for example, the right for a male to show weakness and sensitivity has not

yet been established — which has greater consequence than simply preventing him from be-ing able to cry. However, most feminists argue that they in fact

seek the equality of the sexes. If that is true, they should rec-ognize the multiple instances in which men are not afforded the same privileges as women, or realize that they might not actu-ally be feminists at all.

Ms. Watson clarifies femi-nism as such. The HeForShe campaign implores men to join women rather than view them-selves as the target of feminism and refers to the issue of wom-en’s rights only as gender in-equality. However it stops short

of promoting a name change altogether.

The vast majority of femi-nists, it would seem, would benefit from calling themselves “equalists” or “egalitarianists” instead. It is also much more broadly appealing to a layperson to fight for the equality of the sexes as opposed to the raising of the status of just women, and equalists cannot be identified as male or female simply by the dictionary definition of the word.

If a majority of feminists are actually equalists, then who are the “real” feminists? All the issues labeled as examples of gender inequality can be sum-marized as those that current so-ciety characterizes as feminine, and then views them in a nega-tive light. Additionally, society also marginalizes women who do not heed certain “accepted” standards of femininity. Femi-nism, therefore, should promote the legitimization of not just “femininity,” but also the free-

dom of a woman to choose how “feminine” she wants to be.

Some feminists are well aware of, and have addressed the idea of, transitioning to equal-ism given its all-encompassing meaning. Common counterar-guments include that women need a space of their own to discuss issues including — but not limited to — the handling of sexual assault cases and the wage gap, and that the number and scope of such issues, in which women are disadvan-taged as compared to men, are much larger than the reverse.

However, a number of these issues are specific cases of gender inequality as applied to women. I perceive the strength of feminism to lie in the un-derlying assumption that men have no desire to contribute to the ending of gender inequality. Gender inequality can only be ended by universal participation of the genders. Equalism serves that goal by being nondiscrimi-natory in the sense that it brings

men into the conversation as well. By preventing “man-hat-ing” we can provide motivation for men to observe the imbal-ance in how the opposing sexes and spectrum of genders is per-ceived.

I n 1961, William Golding, perhaps best known as the author of the novel “Lord of the Flies” published a

short essay entitled “Thinking as a Hobby.” It’s a wonderful piece of writing which I’d recommend to anyone who hasn’t read it. I first encountered it in middle school — assigned, incidentally, by the same teacher whose frus-trated interrogatory: “Must you always talk back, Ward?” in-spired the name of this column — and it has had perhaps the greatest influence on my think-ing of anything I’ve ever read.

In the essay, Golding pos-its that there are three types, or “grades,” of thinking, which he sees embodied in three statuettes which stood in his prep-school headmaster’s office: a crouch-ing leopard ready to pounce, a miniature Venus de Milo and a miniature of Rodin’s famous statue The Thinker. The leopard, following its natural impulse to hunt, represents “grade-three” thinking: unreflective and auto-matic, based on natural instincts

which are “full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance and hy-pocrisy.” The Venus de Milo, aware that her robe is falling off but lacking any arms with which to put it back on or stop its fall,

represents “grade-two” thinking: the detection of flaws and contra-dictions without the imagination or ability to propose solutions or improvements. “Grade-two thinking destroys without having the power to create,” says Gold-ing. Finally, The Thinker, staring solemnly into the distance, repre-sents “grade-one” thinking: deep and meaningful contemplation which strives not simply to dis-credit that which is wanting, but to discover that which is good. Grade-one thought is “a higher

grade of thought which says, ‘What is truth?’ and sets out to find it.”

Golding argues that we ought to strive to practice grade-one thought, and I agree with him.

However, he makes it clear that grade-one thinking is not a result which one achieves by simply meeting a set of criteria, but a process that one engages in and struggles with constantly. Simply offering constructive criticism doesn’t make one a grade-one thinker, but the failure to propose solutions or better alternatives to the problems one notices and points out eliminates the pos-sibility of achieving grade-one thought.

To be a grade-one thinker is

an aspiration of mine as a writer, as a student and simply as a mem-ber of society. Therefore I’m generally uncomfortable with criticizing situations in which I can’t propose a better alternative,

even if it isn’t a perfect one. For me, it is something of a personal moral maxim that it’s far better to criticize while simultaneously offering an imperfect solution or even just an imperfect better alternative, than to criticize and leave as is. It’s a maxim which, when I watch the news — real or fake — or read articles that pop up on my newsfeed, I often wish that more people shared.

Grade-one thinking doesn’t commit the thinker permanently to the answers he finds or the po-

sitions he formulates. The grade-one thinker can, and arguably must, change his mind frequently as he continues the labor of seek-ing out the truth. What’s in his mind at any given moment is not an immutable doctrine or a dog-ma, set in stone, but a snapshot, a freeze-frame of a deliberative process which does not have a fixed or even a visible end. In fact, the “end” of grade-one thinking can’t be fixed or visible because grade-one thinking is in-herently and inevitably quixotic. If a thinker were, at any moment, to fully accept the results of his own search for the truth, exclud-ing the possibility that he may be wrong and thereby ceasing to search further, he would no lon-ger be engaged in the search for truth and therefore no longer a grade-one thinker.

The consequence of this is that the grade-one thinker is never able to dismiss another’s positions out-of-hand, never able to assume that a claim is wrong or a position untenable without giving it serious consideration.

Especially as university stu-dents, and even just as people who hopefully aspire to be pro-ductive members of society, we all stand to benefit from obedi-ence to the logical mandates of the attempt to be grade-one thinkers.

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In the last two weeks of the year, most students were at home enjoying the holidays with their families. But College junior Tina Kartika stood in her Harrison apartment, waiting for hot water to finally reach her room so she could shower.

Like just a few other under-graduates, Kartika chose to stay on campus instead of making the journey home to California.

Originally, her plan was to use the break to study for the Medi-cal College Admission Test at home, but she decided instead to stay at Penn to explore other parts of Philadelphia beyond campus. “My mom works all the time anyway, so even if I were to go back home, I wouldn’t have gotten to spend time with her,” she said.

While Kartika typically cel-ebrates Christmas and New Year’s, she said that she didn’t really observe them on campus. “I went out into the city and kind of explored places like Chi-natown and Center City. It was really interesting to see the city in a different season and atmo-sphere,” she said.

On campus, Kartika was one of the few people left in Harrison College House — a building usu-ally populated with more than 1,000 students. Without people constantly using water, hot water

took several minutes to reach her room, she said. “I even called maintenance about it before I realized it was just because ev-eryone was gone,” she added.

Kartika was lucky that she was allowed to stay in her own apartment over break, but she said that the experience of living there was very different. “I didn’t really see people besides maybe sometimes in the eleva-tor or swiping in. I didn’t receive any emails from Harrison about House events or anything like that either,” she said. “The guards were still there, but that was about it,” she added.

The atmosphere on campus was different too. “I feel like when school isn’t actually in ses-sion, it’s a lot quieter and more peaceful. People aren’t rushing anywhere. A lot of times they’re just out walking,” she said.

College and Wharton sopho-more Philip Li had a similar experience to Kartika. Because his parents live in China, Li had never planned on going home. When plans to go on trips with his friends fell through, Li stayed in his Harrison apart-ment.

While Li got to know some other students who were also on campus, for the most part, he said that campus was empty. “During the semester, you have to book a room in Huntsman if you want to go there. Over break, you could just walk in,” he said.

Li and Kartika both have the fortune of living in a college house that remained open over

break, but other students weren’t so lucky. While Rodin, Harrison and Harnwell College Houses re-mained open to students for the duration of break, Kings Court English, Hill, Stouffer, Du Bois and Gregory College Houses and all houses in the Quadrangle closed on Dec. 20 and did not reopen until Jan. 10.

In previous years, the Univer-sity did not have any resources available to students living in those houses who wanted to stay over break. Yet for the second year, some students were al-lowed to move into unoccupied rooms for the duration of break — at no cost to them.

“We worked with the Asso-ciation of International Students to find students who didn’t have anywhere else to go. We even opened it up to some domestic students who wanted to be on campus for whatever reason,” said Building Administrator for Residential Services Paul For-chielli.

This year, the program placed a total of 19 students into empty apartments in Sansom Place. These rooms were already empty, as they had housed inter-national students who were only on campus for the fall semester, Director of Residential Services John Eckman said.

“It was a really great opportu-nity for students who didn’t have anywhere else to go because it allowed them a place to stay without racking up thousands of dollars in hotel bills,” Eckman said.

Students who made use of the program did not have to pay for it. Since the apartments had just been vacated, students lived in the rooms before Residential Services brought a cleaning staff in to prepare it for the new se-mester.

“This was a very bare-bones, take it as-is type of situation for these students. We had them move out a day or two early, and brought the cleaning staff in then,” Eckman said. “Because the University wasn’t accruing any extra cost by allowing stu-dents to stay there, we didn’t feel the need to charge them.”

While the program allowed students a place to stay, other basic campus amenities re-mained closed. All the dining halls were closed until Jan. 13, and the mail and package rooms were closed to all college houses except for the high rises — even if a resident of one of those houses remained on campus.

“We would hold the package for them until after break, but they would not have access to it,” Forchielli said.

Even more limiting was the students the program was avail-able to. “We only offer this program to students who were with us in the fall and will be with us in the spring,” Eckman said. “If you were studying abroad and need a place to stay in the transition, or if you live off campus – that is not the purpose of this program.”

While Kartika and Li knew nothing of th is program,

Wharton and Engineering junior Angela Qu, who did not return home to Shanghai over break, saw the program’s impact. While Qu did not participate in the program herself, as a year-long resident of Sansom Place, she lived amongst students the pro-gram housed.

While Qu said she knew there were some freshmen living in Sansom Place for the break, she was not aware that it was part of a program organized by Resi-dential Services. “My freshman year, I was kicked out of my dorm, so I stayed at one of my friend’s houses,” she said.

Like Kartika and Li, though, Qu had a relatively similar ex-perience on campus. “Literally nothing was open, and it was pretty [much] radio silence from the University itself,” she said. “I like to study in cafés, and usu-ally it’s a struggle to find a spot, but there were always plenty of

available seats over break,” she added.

All three students commented on the lack of programming or resources for students on campus. Other than having a place to stay and use of basic facilities like laundry rooms, students were left much to their own devices.

While housing students over break is relatively uncommon for universities, the lack of commu-nication or resources for students still on campus is not. The vast majority of schools across the country close down dining halls and residential halls, and only a few allow students to stay in University housing during winter break.

“We didn’t really look at other schools,” Forchielli said. “This was really just about looking at our students and designing a pro-gram to fit our needs.”

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‘Elf’] had 10, 11 auditions, but I had a different audition experi-ence,” Silverio said.

He went to the audition at 10 a.m., and by 5 p.m. the same day, his talent agency booked him for the national tour.

“It was really competitive. There were about 150 guys for two spots,” Silverio said.

However, this is not his first time performing in a profes-sional show. Silverio started dancing at the age of three and began performing in profes-sional shows at nine including in productions of Beauty and the Beast and A Christmas Carol.

Kelly Furukawa, a Whar-ton junior and the marketing director of Arts House Dance Company first met Silverio during Penn Preview days, and she said she thought, “Why is he even in a regular school?”

“Business seemed like a good option because you can do whatever you want to do with the degree,” Silverio said. He thought of attending New York University’s Stern School of Business because it has an option to minor in dance, but he said the Arts House Dance Company was one of the rea-sons he eventually chose to come to Penn.

“He intimidated everybody during auditions. He was so good,” Furukawa said.

Both Furukawa and Allie Zamarin, a College junior and chair of Arts House Dance Company, said Silverio can adapt to any type of dance across different genres.

“Nick is very strong at per-forming. He is a very theatrical dancer,” Furukawa said. “He

has also learned how to use his body in various movements and make smarter choices as a dancer.”

Zamarin added that Silverio is also incredibly effective at teaching other dancers — when he teaches the group his chore-ography, it takes as little as one day for them to learn it.

“He is very efficient and can convey exactly what he wants,” she said.

On top of his active involve-ment with the dance company, he did a really good job balanc-ing his interests in Wharton and dance, said Paola Gamarra, Wharton sophomore and fellow Wharton Ambassador with Sil-verio.

“He was always in love with Management 100 and eventually became a TA,” she said. Silverio is expected to start his TA posi-tion once he is back at Penn.

Gamarra added that Silverio also showed a lot of interest in fashion and had worked at Urban Outfitters on campus.

“It is pretty common to see students in Wharton combining two very different and separate passions,” Gamarra said.

Silverio said that he is still not sure how to combine his two interests and is in preparation for both, possibly combining them with an individualized concentration. Before returning for his sophomore year in fall 2015, Silverio will stay in New York City, auditioning for other shows and attending dance con-ventions on weekends.

“Now I go to an audition, and almost every time I know some-body,” he said.

The venues he performed at include the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas, which has more than 2,000 seats, and the Curran

Theatre in San Francisco, Calif., which is doomed to close with “Elf” as its last show.

“‘Elf’ is the largest scale per-formance I ever had,” he said. Silverio added that the entire cast and crew were incredible and that it was a “jaw-dropping experience.”

Silverio said his experience of touring the nation helped him grow a lot.

“I thought I was a grown up when I came to college, but I was not,” he said.

However, Silverio has not lost his love for Penn. During his time away from campus, he still choreographed for Arts House Dance Company and is even considering performing in its spring show.

“Dance is my life,” he said.

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Athletics as a whole.Take this past weekend for ex-

ample.

Several teams came through with impressive personal achievements. Gymnastics took down Yale in a tight contest, posting its highest team score in over a year. Both swimming squads cruised past Delaware on their Senior Day.

Other squads showcased their stellar individual talent. After de-ciding not to compete last year to focus on academics, senior grappler C.J. Cobb has impressed all season for the wrestling team. Mean-while, junior thrower Sam Mattis continued his streak of individual excellence for track and field.

And still other squads were simply flat-out dominant. Men’s tennis made quick work of the competition in the inaugural City 6 tournament, while both men’s and women’s fencing had very im-pressive showing at home over the weekend.

Now honestly, when is the last time you heard somebody discuss-ing the state of the fencing program on Locust Walk?

Given, it’s a little bit easier to rec-ognize the successes of the school’s smaller athletic programs over a weekend during which its bigger programs also took care of business. In this case, men’s hoops upset St. Joseph’s in front of a packed Pales-tra, while women’s hoops blew out

NJIT by 30.But the accomplishments of

Penn’s under-recognized teams extend beyond only this past week-end. In fact, the vast majority of Penn’s most-accomplished individ-ual performers — including runner Tom Awad, swimmers Rochelle Dong and Chris Swanson and grap-pler Lorenzo Thomas, to name a few — come from these programs.

Additionally, some of the school’s most successful squads in recent years — such as women’s squash, which is currently No. 2 in the nation, and women’s lacrosse — are criminally under-recognized.

As I have already noted, this is not a unique problem to Penn Athletics, and there may not be much that the athletic administration can do to fix it.

But I will say this much. There are quite a few teams wearing the Red and Blue competing on a daily basis, and their successes clearly matter to them. It shows in the results.

Maybe it’s about time that the rest of the Penn community starts taking their accomplishments to heart as well.COLIN HENDERSON is a Wharton sophomore from Nazareth, Pa., and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

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DARTMOUTHFriday, Jan. 30 at the Palestra

Head Coach: Paul Cormier (11 seasons at Dartmouth)

Record: 8-8, 1-1 IvyPoints per game: 62.4

Rebounding margin: +2.1Turnovers per game: 12.7Pomeroy Ranking: 151st

HARVARDSaturday, Jan. 31 at the Palestra

Head Coach: Tommy Amaker (8 seasons at Harvard)Record: 11-5, 1-1 Ivy

Points per game: 64.0Rebounding margin: +2.6Turnovers per game: 13.5Pomeroy Ranking: 86th

Leading Scorer:[Alex Mitola14.3 ppg

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darn impressive, I’d have to pick senior co-captain Renee Busch. Busch didn’t start a single game during her sophomore or junior season, but she still brought the most intensity in practice of almost any player. Her work

ethic has led to her taking over a spot in the starting lineup while adding some clutch heroics in Penn’s Big 5 win over Temple earlier this month.

3. With three Ivy League matches on the horizon, what would wins this weekend mean for the momentum of both Penn squash teams?

HM: The implications of these matches are very differ-ent for the two programs. The women’s team lost a bit of mo-mentum with a loss to Trinity, and wins over top-five Yale and Princeton would help it re-assert itself as one of the very top teams in the nation. For the men’s team, upset wins over Ivy

foes would certainly help it pick up the pace.

LH: Yale, Princeton and Brown will keep Penn women’s squash on its toes, no doubt, and wins over both teams would allow Penn to enter Collegiate Squash Association champion-ships in dominant fashion next month. On the men’s side, all

three opponents provide for-midable challenges. In order to pull off wins, the Quakers must look to standout freshmen Derek Hsue and Marwan Mahmoud.

ST: Momentum is key in everything you do and this weekend is especially crucial as both Penn squash teams head down the stretch in their

respective seasons. The wom-en’s team is trying to hang on to its spot near the top of the CSA rankings, while the men’s squads needs some wins in the next five days to crack the top-eight of those very same rankings. It’s an exciting time for both programs, to say the least.

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seventh-ranked Chris Villalonga in overtime last weekend in Ithaca.

Along with consistently solid performances by seniors Jeff Canfora (141 pounds) and Brad Wukie (174 pounds), the Red and Blue sure look like they deserve a place back in the national rankings.

Now that Cobb has snuck into the top 10, the Quakers have two wrestlers who can boast such a ranking (No. 5 Thomas is the other).

Penn wrestling is finally starting to grapple like they did at the beginning of the year when the Quakers opened the season with a national ranking. This is no doubt a result of Tirapelle finally possessing a healthy and deep roster.

As the Quakers prepare for their upcoming Ivy slate they can’t afford to take their foot off the gas. If they play their cards right, there is no reason they shouldn’t be able to win their final five duals of the season.

Ultimately, the Red and Blue will go as far as their stars can take them. A top-three finish at the EIWAs and two All-American wrestlers is surely not out of the question this season for this, finally, cohesive group.

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FLYING HIGH

Penn gymnastics picked up a big win over Yale, check out the

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DRAFT DAY

Two Penn men’s lacrosse players were selected in the

MLL draft

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Football and men’s bas-ketball. Men’s basketball and football. Men’s bas-ketball. Football.

When it comes to college ath-letics, these are the two sports that always seem to dominate the conversation. These are the two

sports that are inevitably brought up. Every single time. Over and over again.

The other sports hardly seem to stand a chance when it comes to competing for large-scale rec-ognition, even nationally popular sports like baseball and hockey.

Of course, there are regional favorites. Southern states, such as Texas, have shown their fondness for college baseball, while sev-eral schools in the Northeast have devoted quite a few resources to their collegiate hockey programs.

But when it comes time for a school’s athletic program to be judged on a national stage, two questions take precedent: How good is its football team, and how good is its men’s basket-ball team?

Penn is no exception.

Although the school features over 30 different varsity teams, football and men’s basketball still seem to be the only sports univer-sally recognized across campus.

And this is despite two relatively lean years for the two flagship sports.

Sports like soccer and wom-en’s basketball certainly get their

fair share of recognition, but the rest of Penn’s athletes are left to perform in front of extremely niche audiences.

Don’t get me wrong; it is by no means a bad thing that flagship

sports get recognized. I enjoy watching football and basketball as much as the next person, and I certainly understand their con-sumer appeal.

But where’s the love for the little guys, the lesser-recognized programs? After all, they’re often the ones getting results for Penn

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THE BUZZ: 3 on 3

Examining Penn Athletics

1. What should expectations be going into the opening weekend of Ivy League play for Penn men’s bas-ketball?

Sports Editor Holden McGinnis: It’s hard to figure out what to expect from the Quakers. One night they’re keeping things close late in the game with Villanova, and the next they’re losing to Monmouth. The win against St. Joseph’s was encouraging, but Harvard and Dartmouth are both in-timidating foes for the Quakers.

Sports Editor Laine Higgins: If history is the best indicator of what’s to come for Penn basketball this weekend, I expect Penn to split the weekend with a victory over

Dartmouth and a loss to Harvard. The Quakers are 8-2 in their past 10 games against the Big Green, but only 2-8 over the same stretch against the Crimson. Those records speak for themselves.

Senior Staff Writer Steven Tyd-ings: I second Holden’s idea that you never know what to expect from this Penn men’s hoops squad, but expec-tations need to be high right now. Add a win over rival St. Joseph’s to matchups with beatable Dartmouth and Harvard squads, and Penn has a chance to sweep at home. If Penn is going to take down the Crimson this season, now’s the time.

2. With Penn women’s basketball finished with its nonconference slate, which player has surprised you the most with her performance?

HM: Senior co-captain Kathleen Roche has stepped up as the team’s

primary outside scorer and raised her scoring average by 3.0 points per game in her final campaign. Roche — a leader on and off the court for the Quakers — has embraced the scoring void on the wing, and her shooting will be key to the team’s Ivy success.

LH: I’ve been most surprised with senior forward Kara Bonenberger thus far this season. The starter has recorded the second-most minutes on the court this season and has been good for 8.3 points per game, third-highest for the Quakers. She has progressed leaps and bounds from when she first stepped on the court for Penn four years ago and is a definitive physical presence in the paint.

ST: While Roche has been pretty

BY SPORTS EDITORSFrom The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015

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Wrestling weighs in at No. 24

It’s not every week that a Penn Athletics squad can boast wins in three of its last four competitions. But after consecutive victories against Lock Haven and Army, a valiant loss to No. 6 Cornell and a convincing win at Binghamton, Penn wrestling is on a hot streak — and people are starting to pay at-tention.

Led by the resurgence of senior 149-pounder C.J. Cobb, Penn is now tied for the No. 24 ranking by InterMat Wrestling.

A big boost for the Quakers came from the consistent performances by their star talent. The trio of seniors — Cobb, Lorenzo Thomas and Canaan Bethea — along with sophomore Caleb Richardson are a com-bined 14-2 in their last four dual meets. Those two losses were Thomas’ overtime defeat to top-ranked Gabe Dean of Cornell and Bethea’s one point thriller to No. 14 Jace Bennett of Cornell.

While all four wrestlers have performed well all year, this has been the first time that they have come together as a group. Cobb and Thomas each battled their share of nagging injuries in the fall and Bethea was forced to sit out for eligibility reasons. But now coach Alex Tirapelle’s Quakers have unleashed the full court press and look ready to take out anything in their sights.

With over a week off until their next bout — a dual against Ivy rival Brown at the Palestra — the Red and Blue will have to focus to maintain their momentum. But that should be no problem for a squad with plenty of vocal leaders that are hungry for more victories, especially considering that many of them have had to miss significant time the last couple of seasons.

Cobb, who many picked to be a corner-stone of the Quakers’ 2013-14 campaign before he sat out to focus on academ-ics, hit full stride at the perfect time. The 149-pounder put a hurting on his opponents en route to bonus point victories in three of his last four matches. However, the high-light of his season, and perhaps the team’s season so far, was his victory over Cornell’s

WRESTLING | Seniors lead Penn’s 2015 comebackBYTHOMAS MUNSONAssociate Sports Editor

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LAURA FRANCIS/DP FILE PHOTO Senior C.J. Cobb joins fellow senior Lorenzo Thomas as one of the nation’s top-10 wrestlers.

RILEY STEELE/SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR Freshman point guard Antonio Woods will get his first taste of an Ivy League doubleheader this weekend, as Penn basketball faces Dartmouth and Harvard. The Quakers are looking to find their first Ivy win.

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