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Ommett Levine vigi-lantly watches an array of live camera feeds in front of him — toggling, panning and zooming between 41st and 36th, Locust Walk and Walnut streets. At 37th and Locust, Levine catches sight of an

AlliedBarton officer collaps-ing to the ground in a seizure. Levine immediately alerts the Medical Emergency Response Team, which sends responders to her side and gives her the help she needs.

Levine is a PennComm Dispatcher. The PennComm Operations Center, a depart-ment under the Division of Public Safety, functions as a 24/7 virtual patrol center where operators monitor the Penn patrol zone via CCTV cameras.

The zone runs from 30th Street to 43rd Street and from Market Street to Baltimore Avenue. It includes full camera coverage as well as stationary cameras in areas at a high risk for theft, such as bike racks.

Levine monitors the streets from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., five days a week. He noted that the evening can get interesting as students go out. If AlliedBar-ton officers notify PennComm that a student seems to be in-toxicated, Levine can locate

and follow that student and send MERT or assistance if that student appears in need of help.

Each operator in the control room is assigned to monitor certain camera regions. Levine monitors numerous cameras and emergency alarms set up within the patrol zone, on and off campus. His days are spent surveying for burglary and fire alarms and sending out help

SEPTA considers student discounts

Wharton looks to prove they can teach creativity

Saxbys to debut renovations within next two months

Despite Penn’s proximity to the heart of Philadelphia, a large majority of Penn students choose to eat, party and stay on campus.

But the SEPTA Student Fare Discount Pro-gram, an initiative started by the SEPTA Youth Advisory Council, promises more students the chance to break out of the “Penn bubble.”

The discount program is still in the works, but if successfully adopted, it would offer an unlimited annual student pass at a 50 to 75 per-cent discount. The price would be included in the cost of attendance at Penn and would be eli-gible for financial aid coverage if it is beyond one’s Expected Family Contribution. Though a price for Penn students has yet to be agreed on, the annual fee for the program at Pittsburgh schools is around $180, said Engineering and Wharton senior Jeff Kessler, the executive chair

One of Wharton’s most sought-after classes is not in Finance, but in a topic thought of by many as unteachable: creativity.

Market ing professor Rom Schrift introduced Marketing 292, a class simply called “Creativity,” to Wharton when he arrived at the

school in 2011. Schrift was intro-duced to the subject when he took an MBA class in Israel that was taught by Jacob Goldberg, one of the professors that developed the methods of creativity study.

Schrift emphasized that the class cur r iculum cha l lenges common conceptions about what it means to be inventive and in-novative. In the first half of the semester of Marketing 292, Schrift teaches students the “templates” that underlie and explain creative

ideas.“The approach [to creativity]

challenges the intuitions that most people have about creativity,” he said. “No constraints, just thinking outside of the box. The empiri-cal research argues that, in order to come up with empirical ideas, we need to think inside of the box. So it’s a very structured approach to creativity. It’s an approach that harnesses constraints, saying constraints do not hamper creativ-ity, but are extremely helpful to

coming up with creative ideas.”After learning the methodology,

the second half of the semester focuses on learning how to work with the templates to generate ideas in real-life contexts. Schrift invites representatives from com-panies such as Hilton, Dr. Scholls and U.S. Playing Card Company to present their companies’ chal-lenges to the students, who are then responsible for applying the

Saxbys Coffee is about to get a much-needed facelift.

The popular coffee shop on 40th and Locust streets will be closed until late October or early November as it undergoes serious renovations. Changes to the cafe include a newly designed coffee bar, furniture, lighting, artwork and an updated “comfortably upscale” aesthetic, Saxbys founder and CEO Nick Bayer said.

“We are literally changing every-thing. The only thing students will recognize is the placement of the

bathrooms,” Bayer said.The decision to renovate the coffee

shop was largely based on feed-back received from Penn students throughout the years. In response to a variety of surveys and focus groups, Saxbys will add soft furniture, big communal tables for collaboration, more seating areas, accessible outlets and even separate rooms for study groups or interview sessions.

Although there will be no major menu overhauls associated with the renovation, Saxbys will still continue to add and change menu items as they constantly try to improve their prod-ucts, Bayer said.

In addition, Saxbys is refining its overall aesthetic to reflect the tastes

A new proposal offers an annual pass at a 50 to 75 percent discountEUNICE LIMStaff Reporter

The coffeehouse is ‘literally changing everything’NADIA KIMContributing Reporter

The marketing course is also offered to MBA studentsBRYN FERGUSONDeputy News Editor

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2013 Wharton graduate Andre Borczuk is making dream vaca-tions a reality with his new app, Worldview.

Worldview is a photo-sharing app where people can take photos of their current locations and share them with app users all over the world. People can share the photos they capture on the app’s “enhanced, ultra HD camera” on social media sites like Facebook. The feature that differentiates Woldview from other photo-shar-ing apps like Instagram is that when people post photos, they are entered in contests to win plane tickets to any destination of their choice.

Additionally, users can share other people’s photos that they find on the app. Each time a user shares a photo, their name is added into a pool. With each additional share, their name is entered into the pool again. Each month, the person who posted the most shared photo, as well as an-other user drawn from the pool, wins a plane ticket.

“The idea is that you share images of what you see to spread awareness, and then you get re-warded for actually creating and sharing content,” Borczuk said.

Worldview is not a social media app. Rather than solely providing another way to com-municate with others, Worldview aims for global transparency.

“That is the true vision — where everyone gathers around and all see the same thing, and things like ‘Ahmed with the clock’ will not happen,” Borczuk said. “The things that you try to hide in the corners and shadows — that can’t happen anymore be-cause we are looking for it.”

Borczuk attributes much of his success to his experience at Penn.

“I can say very honestly and clearly that my Wharton educa-tion — and I didn’t realize it at the time — was an extremely valu-able thing. The education itself helped me understand statistics and conceptualize consumer be-havior on the softer side. It was

very well-balanced.”Worldview has big plans for its

future. He envisions that the app users who win trips will spread Worldview’s reach to the places that they travel.

“They are setting up little colo-nies of people taking pictures in that area. So we will be able to see Tianjin when the explosion happens. We will be able to re-spond to the Baltimore riots with our own eyes. We won’t need the news anymore because news is just people writing opinions on what happened, but we will be able to see what’s happening right now,” Borczuk said.

Those with iOS devices can download Worldview on the App Store today. Unfortunately, Android users will have to wait for the app to be released in the coming months.

Senator Pryor shares thoughts on the current state of U.S. politics

Even with Yom Kippur ser-vices and a papal visit, Penn had room for one more visit from a high-profile guest.

On Tuesday night, the Government and Politics As-sociation brought former Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) to speak at Penn. More than 100 stu-dents listened to Pryor, who lost his seat in the U.S. Senate in the past election cycle, dis-cuss the partisanship sweeping across the country.

“Senator Pryor is a rare breed; he is a Southern Dem-ocrat. But, there was great attendance, strong questions and we are very happy with the way it turned out,” said Whar-ton senior Brian Goldman, the GPA vice president of external affairs.

Pryor fielded questions about how he thinks the U.S. political system can be fixed.

“The system is broken, and we have to fix it,” Pryor said while discussing campaign finance reforms. “The prob-lem is not with the campaigns. The problem is that there is so much money out there float-ing through organizations that voters have no clue about.”

Pryor’s comment was eerily similar to one he made in his farewell speech after losing his Senate seat to then-Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). “As great an institution as the Senate is, the Senate is broken, and the American people know it,” Pryor said in the speech last December. “But the rules aren’t the problem around here,” he continued. “We’re the problem. All 100 of us.”

Pryor was part of the 113th U.S. Congress, which enacted 13 more laws than the 112th U.S. Congress, which was

dubbed “the least productive Congress in modern history,” according to the Pew Research Center.

“So what can the Democrats learn from 2014?” a student asked, referencing the Demo-cratic Party’s large losses in the Senate, which gave the Re-publican Party control of both the House and Senate. After taking control of the House and Senate on the back of Pres-ident Obama’s historic victory in 2008, the Democrats lost more than 70 House seats and 9 Senate seats by 2014.

“Obama was definitely a factor [in 2014],” Pryor said. “The President is immensely unpopular in some parts of the country, especially Arkansas.”

“We just need to get back to being Democrats, a party of the masses. This is a perfect opportunity to make America great again,” he added.

GPA decided to bring Pryor to campus because of his background as a Southern Democrat who worked on sev-eral bipartisan bills during his

tenure in Congress. “We are Penn’s largest political group, but we are also one of the few nonpartisan groups,” GPA president and College junior Sarah Simon said. “Our goal this year and mission as a club is to increase GPA’s size and diversity, especially political diversity.”

“The nation is polarized, and we need to fix that,” Pryor said in one of his concluding comments. “Unfortunately, there are politicians that are afraid that working on bi-partisan legislation will cost them what would have been a guaranteed reelection. That mentality has to change if we ever want to get anything done.”

It might be starting to change at Penn. Wharton freshman Patrick Lobo, who heads one of the newest po-litical groups, Penn for Trump, said he was interested in hear-ing what Pryor had to say.

“I do plan on attending the event, if I can get all my work done,” Lobo said.

Pryor declares ‘the Sen-ate is broken’ and calls for bipartisan legislationMICHAEL GROSS Contributing Reporter

Former Senator Mark Pryor spoke at Penn on Tuesday night.CONNOR AUGUSTINE | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

A shot of Volcan Baru, a volcano and the tallest mountain in Panama, taken by a WorldView user.

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of Penn’s evolving student body.“The students that we see there

are domestic, if not international, travelers. They have sophis-ticated tastes — we’ve really seen that evolution,” Bayer said. Saxbys’ renovations will bring the same level of refinement to its decor, while still maintain-ing its warm, neighborhood-cafe

atmosphere, he added.Bayer also announced that

Saxbys is partnering with Penn’s Fine Arts Department for the wall features. It plans on showcasing student artwork on rotation.

“One of the things we pride ourselves on is designing every [Saxbys to be] unique,” Bayer said. The new Saxbys will even feature a hand-painted Penn crest on the restaurant’s

millwork.Saxbys will celebrate its

re-opening with community out-reach events.

“It’s really important to us to be an asset to the community,” Bayer said.

Based on the changes being made, Saxbys’ dedication to serving the community seems to hold true. Penn students will have to wait only one month before seeing it for themselves.

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Wharton graduate launches photo-sharing app for vacationsFounder Andre Borczuk attributes his success to his Wharton educationERIC LEI Contributing Reporter

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Counting calories? Penn Dining offering more nutrition info. on website

Worried about your calo-rie count at 1920 Commons? Nutritional information is be-coming easier to access as Bon Appétit works with Penn Dining to update their new website. Online menus for dining halls and retail cafes have been up-dated since the first day of fall classes.

“Menus are streamlined, have easier access to information, in-creased readability, require less scrolling and now you can filter the menu you see based on your dietary preferences,” Bon Appétit dietitian Dan Connolly said.

The biggest and still ongo-ing update includes detailed nutritional information for a wide range of foods served at dining halls like Commons, Kings Court English House and Hill College House.

“Nutritional information will be available for our regularly occurring, static items because we can get information from the foods that we always serve,”

Connolly said. Facts will in-clude serving size, calories, fats, cholesterol, sodium, total carbo-hydrates, dietary fiber, sugars and protein.

Menus also identify food as vegetarian, vegan, made without gluten, locally sourced and sea-food.

Though a significant amount of foods still need their nutri-tional information calculated and uploaded, information will gradually be available for the salad bar, pizza station, cereal and drinks, condiments and any regularly occurring item.

“Our daily specials — which set Penn Dining and Bon Appétit apart from everyone else — don’t necessarily have a regular recipe so we can’t have detailed nu-tritional information for them regularly,” Connolly said. Ingre-dient information is still available for those dishes.

The update in nutritional in-formation follows from student demand.

“If you invest money into a meal plan, you should have the right to the nutrition facts of what you have to eat,” College fresh-man Shannah Reagan said.

But students say the additional information won’t necessarily

make up for other considerations that go into choosing a meal plan.

“It doesn’t change the fact that I feel the nutritional value of the food isn’t that great,” College sophomore Connie Miller said. “I didn’t want a meal plan anymore

because I never felt like I got the quality of food that I wanted.”

Connolly acknowledged that “nutrition information isn’t really the whole picture when it comes to wellness because we know from studies and other

professionals that having the facts listed doesn’t necessarily lead to increases in wellness. It’s great information to have, but it doesn’t always get you to where you want to go.”

Bon Appétit relies on other

methods like nutrient-rich ingre-dients and behavioral economics “to make the healthy choice the easy choice,” Connolly said. For example, the salad station is prominently placed in the front of Commons.

The new website is also designed to make it easier for stu-dents to access healthy foods and information.

At the top of the page, students can see the hours of operation for each dining facility and what meal each is serving currently. The new menu website is mobile friendly, and diners can also sign up for a daily menu email featur-ing whichever dining halls and cafes are requested. The website features a “farm-to-fork map” that highlights where ingredients come from. Students may also ask Connolly specific dietary questions directly through the website and look at frequently answered questions.

“We need to always be ex-plaining what we do and how students can eat well because it’s the new freshman class that eats the most in the dining halls each year,” Director of Communica-tions and External Relations for Business Services Barbara Lea-Kruger said.

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of YAC.Kessler hopes to facilitate talks

between SEPTA and Penn admin-istration before the end of SEPTA’s fiscal year in June so that the dis-count program’s implementation can take place by the next aca-demic year.

To show SEPTA and Penn administration that students are interested in seeing this

proposal become a reality, the YAC launched an online petition four days ago, with 519 signatures to date.

Due to its diverse student popu-lation and central location, Penn is one of the YAC’s target schools for initial implementation, though Kessler envisions this discount program eventually being imple-mented in the entire Philadelphia region.

Kessler points to the success of a similar discount program for

students in Pittsburgh as a model. Before, students attending schools in Pittsburgh, like Carnegie Mellon University, would just stay on campus and only occasionally go to the downtown area, similar to students at Penn.

“Today, you can’t go through a single tour at a school in Pitts-burgh without an administrator or student talking about the wonders of being able to just show student ID and go to the downtown area,” Kessler said. “We want to repeat

that here.”Kessler argues that the discount

program would be a win-win situ-ation for both SEPTA and Penn students. Even at the discounted price, SEPTA would generate a huge revenue, and students would get easy access to the city.

“Even though the cost of a SEPTA token is not expensive at all, the cost makes people con-sider whether they really want to leave campus,” Kessler said. “But by removing the cost barrier, it

makes spontaneous trips possible. Students can go out and about and enjoy all that Philadelphia has to offer. If you want to go to Trader Joe’s to buy just one item, you can do that. If you want to go to Rit-tenhouse Square for lunch, you can do that.”

Kessler has teamed up with Wharton and Engineering sopho-more Kanishka Rao, who is a member of both the Undergraduate Assembly Dining, Sustainability and Facilities committee and the

Sophomore Class Board, to bring this to the attention of Penn stu-dents and administrators.

“Penn sells itself on Philly when prospective students visit Penn, but when students actually get here, we’re not giving them ade-quate access to the treasures inside the city,” said Rao, a Philadelphia native. “I hope to leverage my unique access to the student body and administration to show each side that the other is also interested in making this happen.”

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Due to student demand, Penn Dining will soon be publishing all of its nutritional information online. The website will be updated with correct location hours, menus and health information as well.

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While it mani-fests itself in different ways across a vari-

ety of parties, sexual violence against young women occurs on a regular basis both on and off our campus.

To properly discuss this community issue beyond my own view, I sent a questionnaire to 26 Penn students ranging in race, ethnicity, age, school, gen-der and sex. I received responses from 15 people, 10 of whom were men and the remaining five, women.

Only four out of 10 random men interviewed on this topic agreed that sexual violence is an issue at Penn parties. Meanwhile every woman reported multiple instances in which they experi-enced unwanted touching and re-peated forceful attempts at danc-ing from men at parties, despite their resistance and declines.

I have lost track of the num-ber of experiences that have left me seething at parties, both multicultural and predominantly white. I have been groped from virtually every possible angle,

dragged to the wall, pulled away from a female friend that I was dancing with and flung onto a guy, been at the receiving end of a “f**k that bitch” one too many times after ignoring men’s thirsty presence and repeatedly grabbed and attempted to be danced with by men that I resisted.

As one woman stated in her response, “Guys at parties think us women are their prop-erty. Their bitches. Their reward for paying $5 at the door.” The notion that men are entitled to women and can take advantage of us is part of a larger perpetu-

ated societal culture that inces-santly delivers mass messages in media that project women as sex objects for men to play with and manhandle to their heart’s content.

Parties become the perfect setting for sexual violence with-

out consequences as tone of music, women’s outfits, dancing and alcohol are used as justifica-tion. And so the culture and vio-lence continues to be perpetu-ated, even welcomed.

However, this year a rather public attempt was made to ad-dress the issue. About a month ago, a group of black male stu-dents on this campus took to Facebook, notifying the Penn community and the rest of their friends that they were pledging to “combat various forms of violence on campus,” specifi-cally “sexual and verbal assault”

as the post that was copied and pasted across my news feed read.

Unfortunately, these suppos-edly genuine intentions are un-dermined by lack of strategy and implementation, as well as the fact that many of these men have been the aggressors at parties.

Furthermore, one of the men who took the pledge responded in the survey that I conducted, deflecting the issue to the white community in the same breath saying “It hasn’t particularly been a major issue that I’ve per-sonally seen.” So please, tell me what it is that you are pledging to combat if you don’t acknowl-edge the issue?

While I clicked “like” on the post whenever I saw it and applaud the attempt, I cannot wholeheartedly believe in it. Moreover, this post has barely skimmed the surface of the is-

sue, becoming more of a ques-tion than an answer. In fact, this pledge highlights the disconnect between men and women around the discussion as well the issue of addressing sexual violence at parties here at Penn.

The first step here is to actu-

ally acknowledge that it is one. Awareness is key. Once you start noticing the sexual violence that takes place at parties, you will not be able to stop. Yes it is a vibe killer, but think about all of the girls that have been victims of sexual violence and how they are reminded of it every time they step into parties or pass their violators on Locust.

That being said, women, while we do speak on the topic, we don’t do so enough. We have to speak up and make the men on this campus hear our stories. Coping quietly only makes us angrier and allows the violence to continue. As for the men: LIS-TEN! It is not your job to act on behalf of us, but to pay attention to the issues we bring up. As one guy said, “This is when men need to listen ... let women lead. Men support from the back, not dictate from the front.”

Initiative comes in the forms of having this open discus-sion, strategizing how to spread awareness and making these spaces intolerant of sexual vio-lence. There are the immediate case-by-case approaches of stop-

ping aggressors in the moment at parties, but there also need to be standards set by those run-ning the parties. Furthermore, in drawing up all these solutions there must be follow through.

The fact of the matter is, sexual violence is very much an issue at the parties here at Penn. This baby elephant in the room is not going anywhere; in fact it is growing. Now let’s do some-thing about it.

I suppose I should begin with a disclaimer that I don’t know for cer-tain exactly why Penn

dropped from 8th to 9th in this year’s U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Colleg-es” rankings. What I do know is that I won’t be losing any sleep over it, save perhaps the time it will take me to write this column. As a matter of fact, I’m actually somewhat pleased about the rankings slide.

Don’t get me wrong — I like external validation (al-most) as much as the next Quaker. U.S. News’ approval, however, is something I can do without, given what’s nec-essary to gain it.

To justify this, it’s impor-tant to understand the rank-ings methodology in some detail. The system used to rate and rank colleges is pretty complex, even by U.S. News’ own account. What it boils down to as far as Penn is concerned, however, is this: Competition at the top

is fierce. Penn is realistically competing for the top spots with only a handful of pres-tigious institutions. These schools all tend to score com-parably well on the broad categories like reputation, re-tention and faculty resources,

which make up a majority of the available points.

By their very nature, all of these schools graduate a high number of successful students, all of them are able to spend lavishly on educa-tion, all of them maintain a low dropout rate. These metrics account, collectively, for 82.5 percent of an insti-tution’s “grade.” What puts one school above another at the top end, then, is what re-mains: the small stuff. Of the

remaining 17.5 percentage points, 12.5 are awarded for selectivity — the proportion of students the school accepts versus turns down — and the percentage of alumni who give above a certain thresh-old.

The result of this system is a perverse set of incentives for top colleges who want to boost their rankings; namely, to put a great deal of effort into boosting selectivity and alumni giving participation rates and wringing the last few hundredths of a point out of the broad categories in which they perform well by default, which might make the difference between, say, 8th and 9th place. Thus, other excellent schools are beaten

out.Beyond simply being triv-

ial, these incentives start to really matter when they begin to affect how schools make decisions about resource allo-cation. If the shot-callers start thinking less about where

the money they have to al-locate will do the most good for students and faculty and more about where it will get them points on the U.S. News rubric, opportunity costs start to build up. “We could put this money toward fund-ing undergraduate research” thinks an administrator at University No. 7. “But we’re already beating University No. 6 in spending-per-stu-dent, and our alumni giving numbers could be improved,

so we’d better spend it on a fundraising push instead.”

Of course, this is an over-simplification. No university would admit to making deci-sions this way, but there are documented cases of schools engaging in just this kind of thinking. Washington Univer-sity in St. Louis, for example, was heavily criticized a num-ber of years ago for rejecting students its admissions office considered likely to receive admission at more prestigious schools. Such students, they reasoned, were likely to turn down their offers of admis-sion, therefore hurting their ranking metrics. Besides be-ing fundamentally dishonest, this is a classic case of “quan-tity-before-quality” thinking by administrators — a will-ingness to sacrifice the quali-ty of the academic experience for the sake of boosting stats.

So I’m glad to see that Penn has fallen a spot, not be-cause I know for certain that they’ve rejected metrics-first thinking outright, but be-

cause it’s at least an indica-tion that if they are trying to sacrifice academic qual-ity to the gods of U.S. News, they’re not doing it very well. Maybe the brass deserves more credit than that, maybe less. From my point of view, however, things are at least headed in the right direction.

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If you want to talk about issues within a specific minority group, there are plenty of organizations to join on campus. But if you want to talk about all minorities and how to be allies, Rodin United offers a unique forum for these conversa-tions.

Each college house has different methods of bringing programming to their community, and while often this programming is in-volved with either various aspects of diversity, minority-specific groups proliferate at Penn. Rodin United is an attempt at bringing to-gether many different identities for a sustained period of time.

Rodin United aims to bring the conversation about inclusivity to Rodin College House in a long term way, and to people who might

not be part of a marginalized group, or people who are inter-ested in learning more about the way various identities intersect.

A large part of the program focuses on “how to be an ally, a program that focuses on what is ally-ship. What is diversity, and what does it mean to be an ally to people from non-dominant groups,” Resident Advisor and College senior Hannah Watene said.

“It’s not only that your identities are intersectional, it’s that your op-pressions are also intersectional,” Graduate Advisor and Graduate School of Education student Rich-ard Liuzzi said.

Rodin United was created this year by melding two different pro-grams: a diversity program and a program for international stu-dents. The way that the creators of the group saw it was that the two groups, when put together, could be greater than the sum of their parts.

“We kind of get this notion that international communities self-segregate,” Watene said, adding that continuing to have a program that was just about international issues did not help that and that they needed to “stop this idea of ‘secluded communities need se-cluded programming.”

RU is still defining what they want to be, and the leaders say that they’re “just facilitators,” accord-ing to Watene, and that the goal of the group is “getting residents to talk about what they want to learn.”

As of now, the group is mainly following traditional modes of programming in Rodin, and they are thinking about partnering with other minority, LGBTQ and inter-national groups on campus.

“Diversity does apply, it’s a discussion that everyone needs to be having,” Watene said. “Being aware of your privilege is just as important as being aware of your lack of privilege.”

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when needed. He has helped to save the life of an AlliedBarton Security officer, stopped bike thefts and responded to count-less emergency calls.

Besides the high-stakes sup-port Levine has provided to the community, he also witnesses a lot of the everyday faux pas that students get into around campus.

“The funniest thing is watch-ing people texting and walking and walking right into each

other,” Levine said.Levine came to Penn in 2004

with decades of experience under his belt in the Philadelphia Police force, where he worked for 23 years as an officer and dispatcher. He said he is able to empathize with the community because of a personal connec-tion — his brother’s medical condition allows him to identify with people in need of help.

“Because of my experience, I’m looking for something that someone else wouldn’t see,” Levine said. “The job can change you.”

PennComm also dispatches the calls for Walking Escort services, where any student can call at any hour of night and have an AlliedBarton officer walk them anywhere within the patrol zone. DPS provides on average about 1,400 walking es-corts per month.

To stay safe on campus, Levine recommends that stu-dents call escorts when they don’t feel safe and pay atten-tion to their surroundings and belongings — especially high ticket items like phones and lap-tops.

PENNCOMM>> PAGE 1

Silfen Forum caps opening of the Penn Wharton China Center

Institute of Contemporary Art unveils three new exhibitions

President Amy Gutmann’s first trip to the Penn Wharton China Center included exhibiting academically diverse showcases, conversing with intellectual lead-ers and presenting new awards.

The weeklong series of events, staged six months after the Cen-ter’s opening in March, was capped by the Silfen Forum, a discussion that was moderated by Penn President Amy Gutmann featuring General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State, Li Zhaoxing, former Foreign Min-ister of China, Zhang Xin, CEO and co-founder of SOHO China, and Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management.

The forum, which was attended by around 600 guests, focused on US-China relations, especially in the areas of business, technology and higher education.

“You could hear a pin drop. Everyone was listening to every word of the discussions,” Gut-mann said, adding that a highlight of the forum was a lively debate between Powell and Li over U.S. and Chinese foreign policies.

“General Powell and Minister Li — who have been diplomatic friends for decades — had some wonderful high level sparring of the exactly right kind,” Gutmann said.

Penn’s efforts in developing the PWCC reflect the importance that the University places on engaging with China. Two thou-sand undergraduates have ties to China, Gutmann said, while thousands of alumni are scattered throughout Asia.

“I think for students, studying China and understanding China is key to a lot of different oppor-tunities in the world,” Executive Director for Penn Global Amy Gadsden said. “China is playing a role in virtually every sector from business and economics to politics and geostrategic relation-ships, but also arts and culture.”

The week at the PWCC was filled with various events and programs put on by Penn’s dif-ferent schools, including the opening of the Penn Design Exhi-bition called “An Investigation on Architecture Practice in China” and a robotics symposium put on by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Ten of Penn’s

12 deans visited the Center, as well as Dean of Admissions Eric Furda and Director of Athletics and Recreation Grace Calhoun.

During her visit, Gutmann also announced the first recipients of the Penn China Research and Engagement Fund awards, which provide research grants to Penn faculty to encourage engage-ment in China, and will award up to $10 million over the next five years.

Vice Provost for Global Initia-tives Ezekiel Emanuel explained that although some Penn profes-sors have focused their research on China since well before the PWCC opened, the center “pro-vides a more solid institutional structure and support that not only helps existing relationships but also catalyzes additional in-teractions with the Chinese.”

In the months and years ahead, the PWCC hopes to expand, pushing global engagement even further.

“More — that’s what’s ahead,” Emanuel said. “More programs, more conferences, more classes with students. Lots more engage-ment and activity — that would be the ideal.”

What do a local Philadelphia artist, a New York based poet and a British photographer have in common? Up through Dec. 27, The Institute of Contem-porary Art, located 36th and Sansom streets, will be featur-ing the three artists in its fall exhibition.

Becky Suss, Christopher Knowles and Josephine Pryde each bring a different tone and dynamic to the institute’s ex-hibit.

Communications Associate at the ICA Becky Huff Hunter said that the fall exhibits don’t necessarily follow a certain theme. “The shows that we have up don’t necessarily relate to each other, often they can be chosen to rub up against each other rather than complement each other,” she said.

The exhibitions, according to Hunter, can take anywhere from one to five years to put together.

“We have a curatorial team that meets every week and the curators bring up their ideas to each other and collaboratively work together,” she said. “Our curators travel and do studio visits and reading and research, so there’s a lot of aspects that go into figuring out which art-ists to bring.”

The artists themselves are varied, spanning a wide range of experience and styles. Becky Suss is a Philadelphia native, born, raised and currently living in the city. The exhibit at ICA is Suss’s first solo museum exhibition. Distinctive by her use of oil and ceramics, Suss’s work documents her grandpar-ent’s suburban home through a perspective that paints a narrative of America through various political and cultural environments, such as Cold War America. Thus, Suss is able to evoke questions of family dynamics, politics and religion in her work.

In complete contrast, Christopher Knowles is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet whose exhibition centers around alarm clocks. His pieces ebb and flow with different color intensities and volumes, featuring sharp edges and optical illusions. There is an element of politics in Knowles’

more recent work, with the names ‘Trump,’ ‘Obama’ and ‘Romney’ popping up sporadi-cally throughout his pieces.

From the other side of the pond, Josephine Pryde’s ex-hibition at ICA is the British artist’s first in America. Her photographs are notable for their varied lighting and com-position, but her gallery varies in content as well, featuring documentary-style footage, polaroid-type snapshots and art photography.

Hunter said that having the ICA so close to campus pro-vides a unique opportunity for Penn students.

“One thing is that we have contemporary art that you don’t really find in Philadelphia . . . it’s on the doorstep of Penn’s campus,” Hunter said. “We’re free, so there’s not much risk involved. We also offer free-guided tours to Penn students, so that can be a way to deepen your personal experience.”

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2014 College graduate Gabri-ela Coya, a former copy editor at the Daily Pennsylvanian, took the class as a junior at Penn. Coya said that it was learning about the little-known structured aspect of creativity that attracted her to enroll, and what she ended up finding most interesting.

“One of the biggest takeaways is that you can unlock creativ-ity through various means and it doesn’t have to be this fuzzy, un-clear process,” Coya said. “With brainstorming, we commonly think that it is a great way to come up with ideas. And while it usually gets you to where you want, there are more efficient approaches to reach the same ideas without having to have no guidance.”

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MBA graduate Jeremy Lemer said he was attracted to the un-conventional elements of the class.

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CREATIVITY>> PAGE 1Commuters save over $11,000 living at home

The 2015-2016 undergraduate cost of attendance is no precise calculation.

Expenses differ for students living on- or off-campus as op-posed to those living at home with their parents. According to the Student Financial Services website, the estimated cost of attendance for students living on-campus is $66,800, compared with $55,100 for students living at home with family.

But there are more to these costs than can be expressed in a budget.

The total cost of attendance is made up of tuition and fees, meals, housing, books and per-sonal expenses. There are many

factors that can affect the outcome of a student’s total cost when living at home with their par-ents, which is why the University stresses that these comparisons cannot really be represented by fixed numbers.

With many other variables to take into consideration, the ap-proximate amount of money that students save by living at home totals around $11,700, according to the SFS website.

“If you’re talking about a com-muter school versus a residential school, Penn’s a residential school. One hundred percent of our fresh-men live on campus,” Executive Director of Business Services Doug Berger said, adding that commuting is not something that Penn administrators see often be-cause many of the students come from a wide geographic range.

There are even variables affect-ing costs for students who live in off-campus housing. Off-campus

apartment expenses can include cable, internet, some utilities, a security deposit and usually a 12-month lease. Because these costs vary, there is no real way to put a definite number to the actual cost of off-campus rent.

In terms of dining and meal plans, the job of the school is to provide an adequate number of meals per week for the students. While freshmen are required to enroll in a meal plan, up-perclassmen are not — leading them, especially those who move off-campus or have kitchens, to choose to cook instead.

Some students opt to go home on the weekends as a money-saver. Penn recognizes that there is a difference in cost between stu-dents living at home versus those living on campus because they have meals provided at home, but the situation is dependent on each individual and their own ex-penses.

“Most of the cost of atten-dance items are set by the Board of Trustees. Those happen annu-ally — generally in the spring, they’ll make an announcement of what the tuition and fees will be,” Director of Financial Aid Joel Carstens said. “Cost is individual to students — you can’t generalize that everyone is going to save an exact dollar.”

Carstens emphasized how hard the trustees work to keep the cost of attending Penn affordable for all students.

When it comes down to the cost of attendance for undergrad-uate students, Vice President of Budget and Management Analy-sis Bonnie Gibson stressed that an accessible Penn education is the most important issue for the school to consider.

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“When I was young, I never had to balance anything be-cause my mom was like ‘church on Sunday,’” sophomore defen-sive lineman Chibuzor Ugwu said. “Then, when I got here, where no one was making me do anything, and we have prac-tice on Sundays, it was rough at first.

“It’s harder to balance, but when you are firm in your faith, it makes it okay.”

Vecchio echoed these senti-ments, noting that, in college, it takes a conscious effort to maintain strong faith with such a demanding schedule.

“As a kid, practices end early, so there is always time at night,” he said. “But when you get to college, it’s pretty tough,

especially practicing on Sun-days.

“I mean we are here almost all day Sunday, so its pretty hard to find a church that is doing something later in the day, so [the prayer circle] definitely helps after every practice.”

The post-practice prayer circle isn’t the only way the players balance faith and foot-ball. In fact, in some cases, practicing faith is a way to pre-pare for football.

“Before the game, we have chapel, and it really helps us focus and get geared for the game,” Ugwu said.

Although they have a good crowd for the prayer circle after every practice, both play-ers said the turnout was even bigger before Saturday’s game against Lehigh, perhaps as part of mental preparation. The re-ligious activities continue after the game as well, and some-times include members from rival teams, especially those from Catholic schools like Vil-lanova, the Quakers’ opponent on Thursday.

“After games, our chaplain will get a huge circle going,” Vecchio said. “We come to-gether in the middle of the field and get an open prayer with

both teams. We are enemies on the field but when that clock stops, we all play for God, so we are brothers and sisters in the light.”

Off the field, Vecchio and Ugwu both attend Fellowship of Christian Athletes meetings on Tuesday nights, and they said that, along with the prayer circle, has established a spe-cial bond between players who deeply value their faith.

And just as the City of Broth-erly Love has been planning for the Pope’s arrival, the two play-ers have been thinking about his visit as well. Both said that they would love to see Pope Francis, but they aren’t sure yet if their practice schedule will permit them to, as the Red and Blue gear up for their first Ivy game next Saturday against Dart-mouth.

If one things is certain, it’s that, in the long run, faith is always more important than football for Vecchio, Ugwu and many other members of the Quakers squad.

“Things don’t always go your way in football,” Ugwu said. “It’s nice to have faith that you can fall back on because it lets you know that everything is going to be ok.”

FAITH>> PAGE 10

have to play every point as a freshman. So I wanted to help them any way I could. I gave them all the advice I could, and that really got me through the recovery.”

Now, DeSilva is back, and the people around her can see that a year off the court was most certainly not a year wasted.

“When Jasmine was out, that’s when she really stepped forward and became the leader she is today,” coach Kerry Carr said. “I’m not sure that would have happened without the injury.”

“She came in this year a lot hungrier than anybody else on

the team,” Genske said. “After you sit out for a year, I think you just come in ready to play, and ready to play hard. Es-pecially since we’re seniors, she really feels that there’s no reason not to leave it all on the court and just go for it. She does a really good job of reminding us of that any time we’re not feeling like ourselves, if we’re coming out quieter or less con-fident than we should be. She never lacks confidence.”

“You see the court so much better when you’re off the court,” DeSilva said. “I learned so much sitting back and watch-ing. I’m a way more consistent player now, I hit smarter shots, I feel like I know what to do if we’re out of system — all these little skills I didn’t have before,

I have now.”“She’s such a smart player

out there,” Carr echoed. “She doesn’t make the same mis-takes she made in [previous] years. And physically, she’s just as good a player that left the court. In fact, I think she’s stronger, because she really got the chance to hit the weight room and lift more than she had been.

“To take something that could have been terrible and ended her career and make it into something that pushes her career even higher, it’s amaz-ing.”

“I was most worried about coming back and not being the same player,” DeSilva said.

“But I’m actually glad I’m not that same player.”

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GUESS THEIRFAVORITE

What is the other person’s favorite pre-game meal?

What about the other’s favorite dining spot here at

Penn?”

If the other one had a million dollars, what’s the

first thing he’d buy?

What’s the other one’s guilty pleasure music?

What’s something the other one thinks he’s good at, but actually

isn’t good at?

Finally, if the other was a character from a kid’s TV

show who would it be?

AlecNeumann

MattPoplawski

“Matt’s pre-game meal’s gotta be a chicken plate,

string beans or green beans, and mashed

potatoes.”

“Alec is big on the Denver omelet is it? Oh no, it’s the Western Omelet. We’ll go with that.”

“Oh, it’s gotta be Commons. Or Bridge.

Either really.”

“Alec’s really into Chinese food, I gotta go with Spring Chinese food, yeah.”

“Probably every Seattle Seahawks jersey

available, every player.” (MP: “Fair.”)

“I’d probably say a bigger tank for his fish, the one he has right now isn’t big enough.”

“Oh just about everything, it’s not even guilty for

him. Probably Whitney Houston.”

“Backstreet Boys for sure.”

“Singing. For sure. Have you heard him sing?”

“FIFA. He thinks he can beat me but he really can’t.”

“Someone with a big smile. Spongebob I guess would be the

best comparison.”

“That dude with the big hair, what’s his name… Johnny Bravo!”

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number of rookies, the team insists it has had no problems gelling together.

“From the first day it really felt like a family,” freshman Jerel Blades said. “The older guys are really welcoming, and when we step out onto the field, we’re all a part of the same unit.”

Blades also admitted that there are “new relationships being formed” and that it’s taking time to develop them to their fullest potential.

“It’s been a challenge — certainly not a negative, but definitely a challenge. It’s bound to happen any time you have new guys playing with each

other.”With so many young players

playing important roles on the team, maybe it should not come as a surprise that the Red and Blue are starting the season so slowly.

Against Penn State, these freshmen, in addition to the rest of the Quakers’ squad, will look to stop the scoring prowess of star Nittany Lion striker Connor Maloney, who netted 10 goals last season. Although he has yet to put up the same numbers in 2015, Maloney will try to prey on a recently porous Penn de-fense. The Red and Blue will also have to look out for Penn State freshman Mac Curran, who has burst onto the scene with a team-leading two goals

this season.One bright spot heading

into Wednesday’s match is the status of senior goalkeeper Max Polkinhorne, who sustained a head injury in the team’s Sept. 10 loss to Florida International. When asked for an update on the injury, Fuller confirmed that Polkinhorne is “good to go” for Penn State.

If last year’s encounter is any indication, Polkinhorne will be kept busy in the net for the Quakers following their gruel-ing 6-2 loss at the hands of the Nittany Lions in 2014. If Penn expects anything different in this year’s clash, the team will need to see a much different effort on Wednesday than ob-served on Sunday.

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After a head injury suffered in a loss to Florida International on Sept. 10, senior goalkeeper Max Polkinhorne is “good to go” against No. 21 Penn State on Wednesday according to coach Rudy Fuller.

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Penn’s midweek foe dealing with injury barrage

Maybe, somehow, this will be the year.

If Penn football is going to buck one of the longest active losing streaks in the sport, it might actually be the squad’s lack of game experience in 2015 that helps it out.

Heading into Thursday night’s game against their Big 5 rival, the Quakers have played only once, a 42-21 drubbing at the hands of Lehigh last Saturday. On the contrary, No. 5 Villanova — who hasn’t lost to the Red and Blue since 1911, winning each of the 14 meetings since the squads’ series resumed in 1980 — will be playing for the fourth time in 21 days.

Despite its dearth of meaning-ful playing time in comparison to its cross-town foe, Penn (0-1) emerged from its season opener relatively injury free. Mean-while, the Wildcats (2-1), whose only loss came in their first game against Connecticut, are bruised

and battered and will be without a collection of offensive talent when the teams face off for their

midweek contest.A year removed from win-

ning the Walter Payton Award,

an honor given annually to the top player at the Football Cham-pionship Subdivision level,

Villanova fifth-year senior quar-terback John Robertson injured his right knee in Saturday’s game against Delaware and was immediately ruled out for team’s game against Penn. On Tuesday, Wildcats’ coach Andy Talley announced that an MRI revealed the reigning CAA Offensive Player of the Year suffered a torn posterior cruciate ligament and will be out indefinitely.

Into Robertson’s place steps redshirt freshman Zach Bed-narczyk, who entered last weekend’s game against the Blue Hens in the fourth quarter and threw a touchdown pass and ran for another to give his side a come-from-behind 28-21 win. The Wallington, N.J., native fin-ished four-for-six with 57 yards through the air, while adding 21 yards on the ground on his game-winning score.

"[Bednarczyk] has the same stuff John has,” Talley said on Tuesday. “He can throw, he can run. He’s as fast as John is, he’s a really good runner. What he doesn’t have is a total grasp of the offense for the last four years. John was a master of our offense.”

Last year, Robertson was a

force against the Red and Blue, registering 230 yards through the air and four touchdowns in the Wildcats’ 41-7 romp. In ad-dition to playing without their veteran behind center, Villa-nova will also be without its two starting tackles — junior Brad Seaton, who suffered a knee injury against Delaware, and freshman Ethan Greenridge, who will miss the game with a high ankle sprain.

For tunately, despite the epidemic of injuries on the of-fensive front, the Wildcats should be getting one of their starters back for their contest with Penn.

Heading into the season, Talley knew he would be with-out starting guard Jake Prus for at least the team’s first three games. After starting all of the Wildcats’ 14 games in 2014, the junior biochemistry major do-nated bone marrow on Sept. 10 to help a 65-year-old man suffer-ing from a blood disorder.

Regardless, over a century since the Quakers last took down Villanova, their chances might have gotten a little bit better as their opponent deals with a M.A.S.H. unit on offense.

FOOTBALL | ‘Nova QB has torn knee ligament RILEY STEELESenior Sports Editor

Villanova’s then-redshirt junior John Robertson torched the Quakers in the teams’ matchup in 2014, throwing for four touchdowns. The veteran suffered a torn PCL on Saturday and will miss Thursday’s game with Penn.

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At the end of every football practice, after the whistle is blown and the team disperses from the huddle, there exists at

the center of the field a quiet spirituality.

Some coaches strategize with players off to the side. Most players have already jogged off to the locker room. A few chat or toss footballs back and forth in the end zone. But for a group of about 20 players, the practice is not yet over. For some, the most important part of the session is

just starting.Gathered in a circle holding

hands, the group stands with their heads bowed in prayer, listening to the words of team chaplain Mark Pass.

Although sometimes Pass’ prayers and devotional read-ings relate to football, for most players the daily prayer circle transcends the game and

reminds them that what they do on the field is not the most im-portant thing in life.

“Football has a ton of ups and downs,” said sophomore defensive end and prayer-circle participant Louis Vecchio. “It definitely becomes a lot more bearable knowing that there is a higher power, knowing that God is with you no matter what goes

on.”As the prayer wraps up, the

players huddle together in a tight cluster, their hands raised in the air. Soon, the cheer “Live for Him” echoes throughout Frank-lin Field.

The prayer circle is only a small component of the practice,

When will the goal-barren start to the regular season end for Penn men’s soccer?

After dropping another game to Temple, 3-0, at home on Sunday, the Red and Blue look ahead to Wednesday’s matchup at Rhodes Field against Penn State, another opponent ranked in the top 25.

The No. 21 Nittany Lions come to University City seek-ing their fourth win of the season and hoping to bounce back after a 1-1 draw versus Ohio State on Sunday. A win against Penn State (3-1-2)

would be the first victory for Penn (0-4-1) against their cross-state foes since 2008, a stretch that contains a four-game losing streak spanning across the past five seasons.

After a series of un-convincing displays both offensively and defensively, it is clear that something needs to change for the Quakers and fast.

“We need to continue to get better on both sides of the ball,” coach Rudy Fuller said. “The team needs to be more solid and sound defensively, but we also need to be aggres-sive and take more risks in the final third.”

A big factor in Penn’s recent struggles may be the large extent of squad turn-over from last season to this season — nine of the 22 play-ers are freshmen, with many seeing significant playing time in the past few matches.

Despite the large

With a kill in the open-ing set of Penn volleyball’s opening game, Jasmine DeSilva’s 2014 season was off to a quick start. But the end would come just as quickly.

A few points later, DeSilva felt in her knee a sensation that many athletes refer to with dread as “The Pop.”

“I pretty much knew what I had done to it right then,” DeSilva, now one of Penn volleyball’s five senior cap-tains, said.

“The Pop” is perhaps the most telling symptom of an ACL tear, which ended up being only part of DeSilva’s diagnosis: A torn ACL, MCL and meniscus.

“That was a ter r ible moment. ... It was really hard to watch that happen and watch her have to go through

the whole recovery process,” DeSilva’s classmate and co-captain Alexis Genske said.

“It was pretty upsetting,” DeSilva admitted.

But the Maryland native didn’t spend much time feel-ing sorry for herself. After her surgery, DeSilva trav-elled with the team, never missing a game or practice. Even if she couldn’t step on the court, she couldn’t peel herself away from the action, there was too much work to be done.

“When such a bad injury like that happens, you have to focus on something else. I really picked up my com-munication with my team, trying to figure out another role I could fill,” DeSilva said.

“If I couldn’t help them on the court, then how could I help them off the court? We had freshman outside hitters stuck in that role [replacing me]. And I remember as a freshman, feeling so over-whelmed, and I didn’t even

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DeSilva rallies for senior campaignVOLLEYBALL | Veteran resilient after injuryTOMMY ROTHMANAssociate Sports Editor

Quakers ready for Penn State battle

SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 8After sustaining an ACL tear in the first game of the 2014 season, 2015 has been healthy and productive for rightside hitter Jasmine DeSilva.

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M. SOCCER | Looking to snap winless streakJACOB SNYDERContributing Reporter

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FAITH | Prayer shapes players practices, gamesANNA DYERAssociate Sports Editor

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FAITH &FOOTBALL

WOUNDED ‘CATSGUESS THEIR FAVSWith Penn football’s game with ‘Nova on tap for Thursday, the

Wildcats are dealing with injuries

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We spoke to two Penn soccer captains about each person’s

favorite things

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