While deciding on a future career can be diffi cult for any college stu-dent, those students who are undocu-mented have to consider an extra step — whether or not they can even apply for a certain job.

2014 Wharton graduate and former executive director of Penn for Immi-grant Rights, Jose Gonzalez was one student that faced this reality. Undoc-umented students like Gonzalez were generally brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents as children and there-fore are not able to get proper legal documentation.

“My biggest concern was just fi nd-ing a job that I would really like to ap-ply to and having it require American citizenship,” he said.

While Gonzalez said that he did not talk about his legal status during his on-campus recruiting interviews, he said he only applied to jobs where he knew it “wouldn’t be a big deal” to recruiters.

Additionally, Gonzalez has an Em-ployment Authorization Document, which allows him to work legally in the U.S. He was able to go through OCR and received an off er from a fi -nancial fi rm.

The Employment Authorization Document came from President Obama’s 2012 executive order known as Deferred Action for Childhood Ar-rivals . Under this order, certain im-migrants — they must be under 31 years of age and have entered the U.S. before the age of 16 — can apply for temporary resident status, which also protects them from deportation.

Before this executive order, un-documented immigrants living in the country — those both with and

After graduating from Stanford Law School, Peter Thiel took a job at a top law fi rm in New York. From the outside, it seemed like a highly coveted job, one that many qualifi ed lawyers were trying to snag. After taking the position, however, Thiel developed a diff erent perspec-tive.

“There was this really bizarre dynamic where from the outside, everybody was trying to get in, and from the inside everybody was trying to get out,” he said. “I left the law fi rm after seven months and two days. One of the people down the hall told me, ‘It’s really reassuring to see that it’s possible to escape from Alcatraz.’” For Thiel, es-caping was just fi nding the courage to walk

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Designing a frat jacket, from zipper to hood

If you have not left your coat behind after a night out, you al-most defi nitely know someone who has. But College juniors Caroline Calle and Melissa Greenblatt think they have a solution for those prone to frat-driven forgetfulness.

Calle and Greenblatt, mem-bers of Penn’s chapter of Delta Delta Delta sorority, recently launched FRACKIT, a company that sells waterproof hooded jackets. The name comes from ‘fracket,’ or ‘frat jacket,’ which is defi ned by Urban Dictionary as “a jacket you wear to frats because you don’t mind if at the end of the night, it is covered in beer [and] frat sludge.” Green-blatt and Calle say their version is intended for usual daily use as well as for nights out. Taglined “Dress responsibly,” the jackets

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PA House passes cigarette tax to address the School District of Philadelphia’s budget defi cit

The Pennsylvania House passed a bill that includes a local $2-a-pack cigarette tax that is set to help close the budget gap for the School District of Philadel-phia on Monday. The 114 to 84 vote comes two weeks after the fi rst day of school for Philadel-phia public school students.

The school district estimates the tax could bring in up to $49 million in revenue, helping to partially close up the $81 million

dollar gap. The PA Senate still has to pass the bill and Governor Tom Corbett would have to sign it into law.

The Senate could debate the legislation as early as Wednes-day and Newsworks reported that Corbett has promised to sign the legislation.

The bill has been contentious to some members of the PA House because of additional pro-visions tacked on to the bill. Last Tuesday, the House “cleaned up” the bill — known as HB 1177 — removing language that in-cluded revision of provisions for city revitalization and improve-

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During their Sept. 21 meeting, the current Undergraduate Assembly members welcomed eight new fresh-men — and one sophomore.

College sophomore Taha Tariq replaced College sophomore Alid Castano after Castano stepped down to focus on other commitments. “[I] wanted to give the opportunity to someone else who would have more time to make an impact,” Castano said. Tariq will replace Castano after receiving the second highest number of votes during the spring elections. He attended a training session with the other new members.

Because all the spring 2014 UA candidates, aside from Castano, cur-rently serve as UA members, if a can-didate resigns or is asked to leave, special elections will have to be held to find a replacement.

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The UA also discussed inter-national student integration and voted on a contingency funding request from Penn Chinese The-ater at Sunday’s meeting.

International Student Integration

UA President and College senior Joyce Kim and Assem-bly of International Students President and College and En-gineering senior Angel Garcia de la Garza presented a discus-sion paper about international students.

Currently, the UA and AIS are researching what resources are available to international students at Penn compared to those at peer institutions, and aim to implement programs or initiatives to help international students.

The UA and AIS met with Di-rector of International Student and Scholar Services Rudie Al-tamirano . ISSS provides servic-es and advice to international students about topics ranging from employment to immigra-tion to “culture shock.”

One fi nding of the research was that peer institutions — such as the other Ivies — have longer international student orientation that is separate from the general new student orientation. These orientations would include events such as getting a cell phone and setting up a bank account without a Social Security number.

Another finding from the re-search was that the graduation rates for international students are generally lower than the rates for domestic students. In 2008, the graduation rate for international students was 73.9 percent compared with 86.7 percent overall.

When talking about how AIS does help international students adjust to life at Penn, Garcia de la Garza commented that it is “not [the] responsibility of other students to pass the infor-mation ... I think it should be the institution [that passes on

information],” which was met with agreement from the body.

Garcia de la Garza discussed the lack of an international cen-ter for all international students and the lack of training that RAs and GAs receive to help international students adjust to life at Penn. Creating an inter-national center and improving college houses and dorm re-sources are two of the six rec-ommendations that UA and AIS proposed.

The other recommendations include hiring an advisor as a “single point of reference for international students” for so-cial, educational and other is-sues, increasing funding for international students, research-ing the lower graduation rate for internationals and creating a structured three or four day in-ternational student orientation.

UA representative and Col-lege and Wharton sophomore in the Huntsman program An-drew Gegios suggested looking to the Huntsman program as a model because of its advising and higher international gradu-ation rate.

Contingency Request

Penn Chinese theater present-ed its case to receive funding for a speaker event on Thurs-day. The event would feature Director Jiang Wen , a Mandarin speaker.

The organization asked for funding to get interpretation devices, which would make the event run smoother and faster than it would with translators. The group did not include the funding for the devices in the original funding application, and would have required $2000 .

Because UA contingency funding is a last resort funding option — something a group can request after appealing to the Student Activities Council and SPECtrum, among other possible sources — the budget committee recommended giv-ing zero dollars to the organiza-tion, and the general body voted in agreement.

Next time you’re bored on a Friday night, don’t swipe right or left — swipe down.

Four Penn students launched an app earlier this month to mo-bilize plan-making. Wharton junior Michael Powell, Engi-neering junior Matt Wojcieszek and Engineering and Wharton juniors Adam Elkassas and Arjun Jain developed Down to Chill , a social networking app that allows users to connect with Facebook friends who are available — or “down to chill” — at a certain time.

Down to Chill launched on Sept. 10 through the Apple App Store. In less than two weeks, Powell said over 500 users had downloaded the app.

Powell said the inspiration for the project came from Tin-der, an app that helps people connect with singles in their area.

“I was walking around Penn and I thought, ‘Why isn’t there an app to see when everyone is free — a Tinder for friends,’” Powell said.

The idea began to take shape in the middle of their sopho-more year, aided by a grant from the Wharton Innovation Fund . Unlike other apps that cater to long-term group con-versations, Powell said that they wanted their app to focus on spontaneous events, with group conversations that expire at the event’s conclusion.

“It took all four of us and all of our diff erent skill sets to get

the idea fl ushed out in a reason-able time frame,” Powell said. After a month and a half, they had developed the fi rst ver-sion of Down to Chill for their phones.

The four founding members are currently taking a year off from Penn to devote more time to developing and marketing the app.

“Our major success so far has

been getting the app into peo-ple’s hands,” Wojcieszek said, adding that contrary to their expectations, users have even organized study groups through Down to Chill.

“The chat interface is very convenient since I can switch between friends and see who I’m talking to right on the same screen,” College junior Alanna Cruz said. “I’ve used it a couple

times to hang out with friends to grab food or even watch a movie.”

In the future, the team hopes to widen the scope of Down to Chill users by licensing the app out to music festivals. They have also brainstormed future spin-off s such as “Down for Golf” or “Down for Basketball.”

The Down to Chill team hopes to soon see their apps on

phones all over campus, adding that their current priority is getting “the app into people’s hands at Penn and then into other local campuses,” Powell said.

Team of Penn students launches ‘Tinder for friends’ app Down to Chill

The four founders are taking a year off from

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Four Penn students launched a mobile app that facilitates plan-making called “Down to Chill,” which one of the founders described as “a Tinder for friends.” The mobile app was launched on Sept 10.

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following the crowd in his early career decisions was a catalyst for the billionaire’s eccentric resume, which now includes co-founding PayPal and being the fi rst outside investor in Face-book. Thiel also established the unconventional Thiel Fellow-ship, which encourages students to drop out of college to pursue their own ventures. Somehow, a man who was once funneled from a top-ranked law school to a conventional career in law is now a known advocate for stu-dents to break from the masses and fi nd a unique niche.

This topic is largely discussed in Thiel’s new book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future,” which he promoted on his visit to cam-pus on Monday when he spoke before a packed crowd at the latest installment of the Whar-ton Leadership Program’s Au-thors@Wharton series.

Thiel believes that those who don’t try to pave their own paths “are just being lazy” and “not thinking hard enough about what is going on.” Those who do truly work hard to fi nd new an-swers to questions, he said, have the opportunity to create histori-

cal innovations that can never be recreated.

“I think that every moment in business, every moment in the history of technology only happens once,” he said. “The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page won’t build a search engine and the next Mark Zuck-erberg won’t build a social net-work.”

Thiel said that to join the ranks of Gates, Page and Zuck-erberg takes exploring the junc-tion between “mysteries,” which are impossible to fi gure out, and “conventional truths,” or things that are well understood by ev-eryone. Thiel labels this junc-tion “secrets, [or] things that are hard but possible to fi gure out.”

“In the 18th century, if you looked at a map, you could say, ‘Well, I don’t really know what is at this part of the map,’ and you could become an explorer to fi nd out,” Thiel said. “But that’s not the case anymore today as we have mapped out the entire surface of the planet; there are no secrets left to geography.” But most subjects, he added, are not like geography.

When he cofounded PayPal in 1999, Thiel was working to answer his own “secrets,” try-ing to determine the potential of digital currency and change the

nature of money. He even hoped to replace the U.S. dollar. Pay-Pal was creating its own unique domain and could not be easily described as part of a specifi c in-dustry, a trait that Thiel believes is indicative of future success for startups.

He is irked by the startups that attempt to join established in-dustries and use buzzwords that

he claims to be allergic to: big data, cloud computing, health care IT, mobile Internet and ed-ucation software, among others. For those whose companies can easily fi t into an existing catego-ry, Thiel compares their chances of success to those of someone who, in the 21st century, wants to be an explorer and search for new areas on the globe.

without college degrees — were limited to manual labor jobs and occasional jobs in food service, Sundrop Carter, the organizing director of the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition said.

“DACA really revolution-ized that, because it suddenly opened the door to all these professions,” she said.

This meant students like Gonzalez could start pursu-ing jobs at organizations like Teach for America, which welcomed 45 applicants living in the country without legal permission in 2014. Gonzalez, and fellow 2014 Wharton grad-uate Tania Chairez, an activist on immigration rights, were part of this group.

Even with a temporary resi-dent status, students still face an uphill battle to achieve their professional dreams.

“There’s a huge amount of uncertainty,” Carter said. “It’s not a guarantee of continued ability to have a work permit.” Every two years, permit hold-ers must reapply. A new presi-dential administration could choose not to continue the pro-gram, she added.

People with temporary resi-dent status still cannot apply

for federal government jobs or any jobs at private sector companies that work with the U.S. government, Gonzalez explained.

Most other jobs are open to them. “[Students] do not have to reveal their status in the interview process, and they should receive full consider-ation from employers,” Career Services Director Patricia Rose said in an email statement in response to questions.

Even with DACA, students who want to go on to get high-er degrees encounter obstacles. PIR director and College senior Cristian Montoya knew of only one medical school that openly accepts students with tempo-rary resident status — Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine. If a student gradu-ated, it is uncertain whether he or she would be allowed to practice medicine in U.S.

Gonzalez added that at one point he was considering law school, but did not apply because even though he had temporary resident status, he would not be able to practice law anywhere except Califor-nia.

“You can attend the schools, the question is whether [you] can practice and put those de-grees to use,” he said.

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Four weeks into col-lege, I feel obli-gated to measure myself against the

person I was in high school. My friends back home are struggling with college apps, and as I read over their es-says, I remember how diffi-cult it was to package myself with neat catchphrases and college-accepted terminology. In a school of 10,000, though, I’m constantly meeting new people, and I look for easy ways to define myself. For me, “feminist” is an easy term to tagline my self identity.

I’ve identified myself as a feminist since middle school, but it’s difficult to apply that passion into real social set-tings. I note trends, but I don’t see the significance in them. I spend too much time trying to determine if a friend’s joke or a passing comment is anti-feminist that I end up letting it pass. I want to practice what I preach — or more accurately, what I share on Facebook — but I over-rationalize my way into inaction.

Furthermore, it’s diffi-cult to put the more idealistic points of feminism into place at college. I consider myself a feminist, but I compare my-self to other women. Few of my conversations are about women’s issues, and I have no plans to take a gender studies class. Eighty percent of the

music on my workout playl-ist is overtly misogynistic. I don’t freak out when “Blurred Lines” comes on at a party. I go to the gym not so I can re-lease endorphins, but so I can fit into my skinny jeans.

There’s a concept of “analysis by paralysis”: the state of overthinking things so much that you never actually act on them. But that doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t feel justified in adopting the label of feminist — I believe that women should receive equal pay for equal work, that gen-der discrimination is wrong and that our society still needs the feminist movement. To me, that means that I am a feminist.

I don’t mean to undermine the importance of advocat-ing for women’s issues. Real change comes when people do more than think about ideas, and there are women — and

men — across Penn’s campus applying feminism to make a difference in our society. But a movement as important as feminism should be acces-sible at every level. People who believe in gender equal-

ity but aren’t sure about how to translate that belief into ac-tion shouldn’t feel guilty for calling themselves feminists as well.

A few weeks ago, I stum-bled upon excerpts from Rox-ane Gay’s essay collection “Bad Feminist,” her attempt at “raising my voice to show all the ways we have room to want more, to do better.” She admits, “I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a femi-nist,” for not adhering to every rule of the pro-women move-ment. However, she suggests that it’s okay to not subscribe to all the beliefs of the “cap-ital-F” feminists — complete devotion isn’t necessarily the

only path that does the femi-nist movement justice. Gay’s essays gave me the validation I didn’t realize I needed. I’ve found that, while I still have to find the best method of ap-plying my feminist ideals, I can still safely call myself a feminist.

Feminism shouldn’t fall into categories. Some of us may be more active in the feminist movement than oth-ers, but everyone who sup-ports gender equality should feel comfortable calling them-selves feminist. If you’re pas-sionate about egalitarianism, you’re one of us, too.

As Gay says, “I’d rather be a bad feminist than no femi-nist at all.”

How much do you think your race and gender affect your grades?

Consider the study co-conduct-ed by Wharton professor Katherine Milkman, which showed that pro-fessors responded to emails signed with a name designed to indicate a white male student at a higher rate than emails signed with names that suggested females and minorities.

Consider also the story that recently went viral, about a man named Jose who changed his name to Joe on his resume and suddenly started hearing back from potential employers.

In both cases, names meant the difference between getting a foot in the door and shouting into the void. Brad Anderson’s email got a response. Mei Chen’s did not. Joe got an interview. Jose did not.

How can a name be such a powerful determinant of opportu-nity?

Names generally offer evalu-ators two pieces of information: gender and race. When an evalu-ator — be it a professor or an employer — reads a name, she is immediately primed to assess the work associated with it according to her implicit biases, the term used to describe the associations we all have in our subconscious brains that shape our perceptions of oth-ers.

Surely it’s no surprise to any of us that the race and gender we present affect how others perceive us — we all know racism and sex-ism exist. But what makes implicit biases insidious is the fact that their location in the subconscious means we’re completely unaware of them.

What’s more, there’s no clear correlation between our explicit biases — the ones we would ad-mit to holding if we didn’t fear be-ing labeled racist or sexist — and our implicit ones. Implicit biases are unaffected by how impartial a person consciously believes he is. Even the most educated and open-minded among us are influenced by prejudices that lie beneath the surface.

Because of this, everything you’ve ever put your name on has been tinged with your race and gender, be it a paper, an exam, a lab report or a resume. No matter how well you know your profes-sors, and how earnestly they con-demn prejudice in any form, a bulk of scientific literature suggests that who you are influences how they see the work you produce.

So what does this mean for your grades? According to Dan-iel Singer, a professor in Penn’s

Philosophy department, writing your name at the top of a paper ac-tivates your grader’s implicit biases such that a white male student who writes his name on his paper gains a distinct advantage over a black female student who does the same.

“A person’s grade should not be a function of their race and gender,” said Singer, who asks his students to submit their work with-

out writing their names anywhere on the material. When asked if this grading process makes things more difficult, he said, “With the current technology, it’s almost no burden at all.”

Most classes use Canvas, which allows students to submit work that can be traced back to their name after grading. For pro-fessors who prefer to grade on paper, student ID numbers can be used in lieu of names.

So why isn’t blind grading the universal procedure? In smaller, higher-level classes without TAs, in which students discuss paper topics with their professors prior to grading, the case can be made that such a system would be im-possible.

But for classes in which imple-menting blind grading would be feasible, not doing so seems inex-cusable. Failing to do all that we reasonably can to minimize the degree to which grades are a func-tion of a student’s race and gender seems to me like passively condon-ing the advantages afforded to men over women and certain races over others. And looking at inequality in the world today, it’s clear that in ag-gregate, their impact is enormous.

I think we can all agree that race and gender should not deter-mine a person’s place in the world, and that grades impact future suc-cess. Blind grading is an opportu-nity to increase fairness. If we’re serious about equality, the least we can do is take it.

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Food is one of the basic necessities of life — a statement so obvi-ous you’re probably

wondering why we would waste our time opening our column with it. The sad truth is that one in five American children struggles with the problem of hunger. The United States is the wealthiest country on Earth, yet millions of American kids wake up each day not knowing wheth-er they will have enough to eat. This is unacceptable.

September is National Hun-ger Action Month, and it’s time to take action. It’s time to take a stand against the plague of hun-ger in this country. While many Penn students do a great deal to help disadvantaged children, we must all realize that charity and service work are complements to — not substitutes for — gov-

ernment services. What we do in our communities is incredibly important, but what happens in Congress and in our state capi-tals matters, too. When we go to the polls in November, we should consider how our repre-sentatives believe we should treat the underprivileged mem-bers of our communities.

A primary and indispensable role of government is to help those who cannot help them-selves — a category that surely includes hungry children. It is one of the government’s sacred duties to do what it can to ensure that no child goes hungry.

Sadly, however, Republicans in Congress have made it clear that they do not agree. At a time when many Americans are just getting back on their feet fol-lowing the worst economic cri-sis since the Great Depression,

Congressional Republicans have been trying to make life more difficult for the most vul-nerable among us.

In 2013, the Republicans in Congress voted to reduce funding for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Pro-gram, commonly known as food stamps, by an astounding $40 billion over the next decade.

Defending his support for these cuts, Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) quoted a passage from the Bible: “If anyone is not will-ing to work, let him not eat.” This begs the question, who are the beneficiaries of this pro-gram? The congressman him-self might be surprised to learn that 47 percent of those who receive SNAP benefits are chil-dren, and an additional 26 per-cent are adults living with chil-dren. Even more astonishing,

perhaps, is that 82 percent of all SNAP households with at least one working-age, non-disabled adult include someone who worked in the year immediately before or after receiving SNAP. The idea that this program ben-efits lazy, mooching adults who refuse to get a job is just wrong.

Fortunately, Republicans were not able to cut SNAP fund-ing by $40 billion. Still, Repub-licans were somewhat success-ful in their quest to cut aid to the needy. Earlier this year, Presi-dent Obama signed into law a compromise agreement that cut SNAP by almost $9 billion.

As a result of those cuts, 175,000 Pennsylvania families will lose $65 in benefits each month. Many of these families undoubtedly live close to Penn, and perhaps some of the af-fected children are those whom

Penn students tutor in local schools. For families that have already been struggling to make ends meet, these cuts will be devastating.

SNAP is a vital program that ought to be strengthened, not dismantled. It is well-document-ed that children perform worse in school and have poorer health when they experience food in-security. We cannot expect our students to excel academically while they are suffering from extreme hunger. Children who receive SNAP benefits have been shown to be healthier and less likely to experience devel-opmental delays than those chil-dren who don’t but are eligible. And in 2012 alone, SNAP lifted 2.2 million children out of pov-erty. SNAP works.

SNAP aids children and par-ents who are struggling to put

food on the table for their fami-lies. These are the people with the least, and they have the most to lose from what happens in the halls of Congress.

Trying to balance the bud-get on the backs of the neediest members of society is reprehen-sible, and it is time to reject this reckless agenda.

Food is one of the basic ne-cessities of life — a statement so obvious that many of our elected officials seem to have forgotten it. There is one easy way to re-mind them: Vote.

DANI BLUM

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DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Tuesday.

Names meant the difference between getting a foot in the door and shouting into the void. Brad Anderson’s email got a response. Mei Chen’s

did not. Joe got an interview. Jose did not.”

I consider myself a feminist, but I compare myself to other women. … Eighty percent of the music on my workout playlist is overtly misogynistic. I don’t freak out when ‘Blurred Lines’ comes on at a party. I go to the gym not so I can release endorphins, but so I can

fit into my skinny jeans.”

are priced at less than $50.The duo thought of the idea

freshman year after Greenblatt left her jacket at a party and Calle came back with someone else’s by accident. During their sopho-more year, FRACKIT started to come to fruition. Calle, who has sewed her own designs for Penn Fashion Collectiveshows, creat-ed three prototypes before choos-ing the one they liked the best.

Calle and Greenblatt designed a FRACKIT logo for the sleeve and planned for name tags inside of the jackets so that partygoers will have an easier time finding jackets.

“But at the same time, the jackets are the same, so if you find your size, trade if you want,” Greenblatt said.

After agreeing on a prototype, the duo approached family and friends for financial assistance to make their dream a reality. Tak-ing the prototype with them, they had potential investors try on the jacket and received positive feed-back.

Next, Calle and Greenblatt shopped around for a manufac-turer. They knew they wanted their jackets to be American-made and they partnered with a small company in Minnesota. Now, Greenblatt and Calle are

focusing on teaming up with a new manufacturer, this time in New York, where they can moni-tor the progress in person.

They also ordered their own zippers and had them sent to the production company, found their own fabric supplier and spent time checking out various types of quilting for the jacket before settling on a diamond pattern.

“There are so many middle-men, and they all have their own timelines. People tell you things will be ready, and then they’re not,” Calle said.

On Saturday, Calle and Green-blatt hosted their launch party at Tap House. Around 100 people attended, and they sold roughly 77 jackets.

FRACKIT offers one unisex jacket in black and features a hood. Calle and Greenblatt spent a lot of time sampling sizing because they wanted “one jacket with different sizes, but [that] works for both guys and girls,” Greenblatt said.

While Calle is a communica-tions major and Greenblatt is pre-med, they have started to see entrepreneurship as a potential career path. Calle already has

a consumer psych minor, but FRACKIT has made her want to take some entrepreneurship elec-tives this year.

Greenblatt and Calle hope to expand their business over the coming years. “We want to be-come a frat brand,” Greenblatt said, citing Rowdy Gentlemen and Chubbies as examples of companies they look to for in-spiration for their own business model. “We want to have every-thing you need to go out, and it’s probably hardest to have started with the jacket.”

Their future ideas include a phone case with a cardholder, lighter and bottle opener, and they are also considering ex-panding the color choices for their jacket.

The jackets are available for preorder online and will be avail-able by this winter. They will also be sold at the Penn-Princ-eton football game hosted by Princeton this year.

To further expand their busi-ness, Calle and Greenblatt are hoping to sell their jackets at the University of Virginia. They are getting in contact with presi-dents of fraternities and sorori-ties because “Greek culture is a big part of UVA, and it makes it much easier to spread the word through sorority or fraternity listservs,” Greenblatt said.

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ment zones as well as authorizing an increase in hotel taxes in some counties. A stipulation about char-ter school appeals remains part of the bill.

Other opponents did not support the bill because they do not think it is appropriate to fund schools with a cigarette tax.

Director of the Adolescent Communication Institute of the Annenberg Public Policy Center Dan Romer said that a tax may have a disproportionate effect on some Philly residents. “Two dol-lars to a poor person is going to be a bigger increment than to a wealthy person,” he said. In 2012, 27.9 percent of adults were living below the poverty level compared to 17 percent of adults living at or above it, according the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

He mentioned the idea of taxing cigarettes has been around for a long time because of public health concerns about cigarette consump-tion. The evidence exists that a tax is a deterrent to smokers, he explained, giving New York City as an example of a low-smoking rate paired with a high tax rate on cigarettes.

“[Philadelphians who live be-low the poverty line] need schools and we are taxing them. We are asking them to shoulder the burden

by paying this tax,” Romer said. “That’s the inequality problem with it, but at the same time we are encouraging them to smoke less.”

This House vote has been sev-eral months in the making.

In late July, the House chose to go on summer recess without vot-ing on the bill. School started be-fore the house reconvened on Sept. 15.

Superintendent William Hite called the cancelled July vote “devastating to the students, staff and families of The School District of Philadelphia” in a press release from Aug. 1. Because the budget was not decided before the first day of school, Hite was forced to then consider two options: delay start-ing classes or lay off about 1,300 employees due to the lack of essen-tial funds.

Both options were avoided as of Aug. 15 when Governor Tom Cor-bett advanced $265 million to the district in an effort to open school doors on time and avoid the layoffs — but it was money the district was already counting on receiving later, not the new revenue the dis-trict needs.

To avoid these options, the dis-trict also enacted $32 million in money-saving cuts that included leaving school police vacancies unfilled and cleaning facilities less frequently. They also negotiated with vendors to reduce costs.

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Chapter houses aren’t the only places to find sleeping frat boys near Penn’s campus — one of the Institute of Contemporary Art’s new fall exhibits features their sculpted counterparts.

The grand opening of the ICA’s fall exhibits on Friday, Sept. 19 at-tracted over 700 guests from the Philadelphia community, New York and Penn.

“There was so much positive energy. The museum was re-ally packed. People were talking, laughing, dancing,” ICA Director of Marketing and Communica-tions Jill Katz said. “A lot of peo-ple were walking by seeing happy people having a lot of fun.”

The ICA has been closed since mid-August, when it shut down to renovate and prepare for its four fall exhibits: “Dear Nemesis,” “Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This Is What Liberation Feels Like,” “Easternsports” and “Burn the Diaries.”

“Typically, we take artwork from all over the world. Our ex-hibits support both emerging artists and more famous ones,” ICA Communications Associate Becky Huff Hunter said.

Through the first floor entrance of the museum is the “Dear Nem-esis” exhibit. From sculptures of sleeping frat boys, to a painting of

a redneck from upstate New York entitled “Captain Awesome,” to depictions of well-known literary characters as presidents, Nicole Eisenman’s work reflects personal experiences and political motifs.

“People were just really drawn to the sculptures and ‘cloud’ of smaller paintings and prints,” Hunter said, referring to the cloud-shaped formation of paint-ings on the wall.

On the other side of the floor is “Readykeulous by Ridykeulous,” a collection of letters, paintings, drawings, videos and objects from a diverse group of artists, many of whom attended the opening. The works are emotionally charged and discuss issues of feminism and sexual identity, often in hu-morous ways.

The other two exhibits are on the second floor where the mu-seum’s terrace provides guests a venue to eat, drink and social-

ize. “Easternsports” by Alex De Corte and Jayson Musson is a four-channel film — a cin-ematographic piece in which four films are shown simultaneously on separate panels — depicting themes of race, gender and class. It is projected in a colorful room with flooring designed like Amish quilts and a slew of oranges ap-propriate for the citrus perfume that permeates throughout the room.

Next door, “Burn the Diaries” features photographs and a center-piece diary, both by Moyra Davey. Unlike most photograph exhibits, Davey’s works are not in frames. Instead, Davey folded the photos, mailed them through regular post-age and pasted them on the ICA’s wall with bright adhesives.

These exhibits are open to the public for free admission until Dec. 28, when the ICA will close to prepare for its winter exhibits.

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The Institute of Contemporary Art launched its four fall exhibits at a grand opening last Friday, and attracted over 700 guests from the Philadelphia community and beyond. The exhibits showcased a wide variety of art media such as paintings, sculptures, videos and more.

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tally in the Big Red’s 1-0 defeat of the Quakers on Saturday. Hoover has also recorded two assists, good for second on the team.

Nobody is more pleased with the freshman’s early performance than Hoover’s coach Colleen Fink, who says she is cautiously optimistic that Hoover’s play will mean big things for the program.

“She works well within the confines of the team,” she said. “We’re all excited for what her four years will bring.”

However, Fink is quick to note that Hoover’s success is not en-tirely unexpected.

“Alexa Hoover is and was one of the top recruits in the Class of 2014,” Fink said. “No one can pre-dict how well someone will adapt to the college game, but surprise would not be a word I would use to describe her performance.”

Hoover credits senior attack Emily Corcoran as her largest pos-itive influence on the team. Corco-ran’s five goals place her one be-hind Hoover for the team lead.

“She’s been amazing, and she definitely helps me with skills on the field — she’s a great person to look up to,” Hoover said. “Being a forward, I hope to be as success-ful as she’s been over the last four years.”

Despite all the accolades and

impressive statistics, Hoover’s freshman campaign has not been without its hiccups. A yellow card late in a Sept. 14 game against Liberty led to the deciding goal in a 3-2 loss.

Hoover said of the miscue, “It’s frustrating, but it’s never inten-tional. But the thing about sports is overcoming things that are hard.”

Fink was quick to come to her young star’s defense, noting that Hoover is gifted at overcoming adversity. “I don’t think it gets to her, which is really a huge strength of hers. But she’s still learning how to manage the game.”

Saturday’s loss to Cornell kicked off Ivy League play for the 2-3 Quakers, who will take on La-fayette on the road Wednesday.

Looking to the future, Fink is ecstatic that her team’s leading scorer is only a freshman: “She’s making us very optimistic. She re-ally loves to play.”

As for Hoover, she has some well-defined goals for the years to come. “I really hope to keep mak-ing an impact. I hope to keep up at the rate I’m at now.

“And clearly, everyone wants an Ivy League title.”

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team.“It was incredible to get the

opportunity to go to the Word Championship out in Oregon this summer, and it was great to get to meet people from all over,” Shearn said. “It was also good to get a feel for what it’s like to race some of the best competition in my event for my age group.”

Shearn is just the latest in what has been a series of suc-cessful Quakers who have taken part in these games, and coach Steve Dolan hopes that he will not be the last.

“It’s been really neat to see some of our freshman, includ-ing Brendan, excel at that USA level, and it’s motivational for the whole team,” Dolan said. “That level of success is just contagious, and it inspires more of our athletes to want to go compete at that level.”

As a freshman, Shearn got plenty of opportunities to compete at the top level last year and had several solid performances during his first semester at Penn.

Last fall, he was the Quakers’ second man to cross the finish line at Pre-Nationals in Indiana and finished 24th overall at last year’s regional championship.

In the spring track season, Shearn signed his name into Penn’s record books by running the fourth-fastest 10,000-meter time in school history. He was also an NCAA qualifier at that same distance.

“He’s got a special talent,”

Dolan said. “One of the things that you need to run the long distance races is the resilience to take the training, to be able to mentally and physically hold up with that level of competition, and he has that.”

“I think one of my strong suits is that I’m pretty strong aerobi-cally, and I like mentally lock-ing into a race for that long,” Shearn added. “I’ve always just enjoyed the longer races be-cause I think it shows you how mentally tough you are and not

just your physical ability.”However, coming off an in-

tense offseason of work, Shearn is primed to make an even great-er impact this year.

“I was getting in about 80 to 90 miles a week over the sum-mer,” Shearn said. “My season went a lot longer than other peo-ple’s, and I had to balance trying to get in maximum miles to get ready for this season while still maintaining some speed for the races.”

The results have already

started to pay dividends on the race course. Shearn placed second at Penn’s first competi-tion this year, helping the men’s team sweep the podium at the Big 5 Invitational race.

However, this is likely only the beginning of what we can expect from the sophomore.

“I really want to see us do well at Regionals and Heptago-nals this year,” he said. “My goals are all aligned with the team’s goals. If we do well, then that’s all I can ask for.”

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DP: When did you go on your official visit and what did you do with the coaches then?

JS: I took an unofficial visit late July, and I haven’t taken my offi-cial visit yet. I believe I’m taking it next month with Jule.

DP: What’s your relationship like with the coaching staff? Did any coaches in particular help contribute to your commitment?

JS: Most of my recruiting came through coach [Mike] Lintulahti. We had a very good past. I went to the Penn camp when I was a sophomore — be-fore he was an assistant at Penn — and he was my coach, and we developed a good relationship. He coached me for a little bit at that camp, and then he was hired as an assistant coach. He’s a great guy and a great coach. I like all the coaching staff. I like coach Jerome Allen, coach [Ira] Bowman and coach [Nat] Gra-ham.

DP: Penn basketball has strug-gled over the past couple years, and coach Allen has been under a lot of scrutiny. How did that affect you during the recruiting process?

JS: I wasn’t worried about what happened in the past. People were saying like “Penn is going down-hill and everything,” but I was

more looking towards the future. I decided on going to Penn because I believe our future is bright and I want to be on a team that starts now, moving our way up. I’m op-timistic about our future.

DP: What did the coaching staff tell you about how you’ll fit into the team?

JS: Coach basically said that nothing is given to anyone. He said they needed a true point guard for Penn and a leader, and that’s what I’m going to do for the team.

DP: How would you describe yourself as a player? Strengths and weaknesses?

JS: I’m a true point guard I believe, so my strengths are my passing ability, my defense and my leadership. Just being a floor general and controlling the game. I’m a playmaker. Some-thing I’m working on is my pull-up shot and my three-point shot. Shooting over screens, after screens.

DP: Are there any players you try to model your game after?

JS: I have a very recent close friend of mine, Zack Rosen. He’s a former Penn player, and now he’s in Israel. He took me under his wing and showed me a few things. I had a couple of workouts with him. I’m learning from him. He’s my role model right now and always will be.

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MICHELE OZER/DP SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR The young runners for the women have gotten plenty of attention, but headlined by sophomore Brendan Shearn, the men’s program also has plenty of young firepower. Both squads hope to translate this young talent to team succes this year.

THE BUZZ: Q & A

1999: Penn-’Nova resumes at long last

DP FILE PHOTOPenn football faced Villanova for just the second time since 1911 back in 1999 and the results didn’t turn out quite like the Quakers would have hoped. The Red and Blue lost, 34-6, and haven’t beaten the Wildcats since. Penn will play Villanova for the 19th time this Saturday as the Quakers hope to end a 13-game losing skid to Nova.

It seems pretty common-place nowadays.

Early on every season, Penn football takes on Villanova and — at least every time within recent memory — it loses.

However, it wasn’t all that long ago that the two teams playing was far from a familiar occurrence.

A little less than 15 years ago on Sept. 25, 1999, the Quakers and Wildcats decided to rejuvenate a Big 5 rivalry that had lain dormant for the previous 19 years.

Anticipation was high for the matchup, as special $5

ticket prices and a late 5 p.m. Saturday start time facilitated a crowd tallying well over 20,000.

“Even when you get 10,000 people in this stadium, it looks like there’s no one here,” then-Penn linebacker Jim Hisgen said. “So it’s just nice to see a lot of people cheering for you.”

The Red and Blue may have waited a long time for the matchup, but once the game started, it couldn’t end fast enough for the Quakers.

Penn — which was previ-ously 5-1 against Villanova — was run straight off of Franklin Field by the opposing Wild-cats, losing handily, 34-6.

The Quakers hung in there for a quarter, staying within three points of their opponent, but after that, it wasn’t close.

Ranked No. 14 in Division I-AA football, this was a dif-ferent Villanova team than the Quakers were accustomed to facing historically.

The Wildcats had a lot of athleticism out on the edges of the field, and they made it very evident throughout the game.

“There was a significant speed differential at the skill positions, both in their second-ary versus our receivers and their receivers versus our sec-ondary,” Penn coach Al Bag-noli — now in his final season — said. “I think we would’ve done OK if they’d tried to run the ball 30, 40, 50 times.”

Villanova parlayed these ad-vantages into an absolute clinic in the passing game.

Wildcats quarterback Chris Boden broke his own school-

record with 424 yards in the air off of 33-for-43 passing.

“We have a ton of weapons,” Boden said. “We’re just wait-ing to use them all.”

Meanwhile, Penn’s offense was overwhelmed by the ath-leticism present on the other side of the ball. Then-quarter-back Gavin Hoffman was lim-ited to a meager 108 passing yards off of only 7.7 yards per catch.

The Quakers did manage to retain possession of the ball for 28 minutes, but they simply did not have the firepower to compete with the Wildcats.

Since then, Penn has played Villanova nearly every season and has failed to win any of these matchups. In fact, Penn hasn’t beaten Villanova since 1911.

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HUNTER MARTIN /COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICSFive games into the season, freshman attack Alexa Hoover has made a big difference for the Red and Blue, leading the squad with six goals. Hoover has teamed up with senior captain Emily Corcoran and junior Elizabeth Hitti to form a strong attack up front, making Penn formidable with the Ancient Eight.

It’s always nice to have one of the top off ensive players in the Ivy League on your team.

It’s even better when that player is a freshman.

Alexa Hoover, an attack out of Collegeville, Pa., is enjoy-ing one of the best breakout seasons in recent memory for Penn fi eld hockey. She leads the Quakers with six goals through fi ve games and has been named Ivy League Rook-ie of the Week two of the fi rst three weeks of the season.

“I’ve always believed that I could [perform at this level], but I wanted to actually see it and feel it,” said Hoover, who credits her speed and stick skills for her breakout success. “I’ve been dreaming of play-ing at Penn since I was seven years old. I told my parents, ‘Mom, Dad , I want to play here,’ and they were just like, ‘Yeah, OK .’”

Hoover’s six goals scored are the second-most in the Ivy League, trailing only Cornell’s Marisa Siergiej , who coin-cidentally provided the lone

Penn basketball has a strong re-cruiting class for next season high-lighted by a couple solid guards and small forward Jule Brown. Brown’s AAU teammate — point guard Jake Silpe — looks to be one of Penn’s next top ball-handlers and the Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with him last week about the recruiting process and, among other things, Zack Rosen.

Daily Pennsylvanian: To start things off , you committed to Penn on the heels of Jule Brown’s com-mitment. What’s your relationship with Jule like, and how did he factor into your decision?

Jake Silpe : Me and Jule Brown, we’ve been playing together for a

while. I remember we played the summer when I was going to be a sophomore on the Jersey Shore War-riors 16 and under team, and that’s when I fi rst met him. From there we just had great chemistry together, and we became great friends on and off the court.

DP: What were you looking for in a school, and what separated Penn from the other places you were look-ing at?

JS: What I was looking for is a school with a great basketball tradi-tion that has high level academics. I’m looking to be a business major and you can’t get any better than the Wharton School . I was also look-ing for a school that’s competing to win a championship. I’m all about competing. Jule is on the team, so I know a good teammate, and we have two other good commitments in our class. And just good coaching and the tradition at Penn is like no other.

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Penn sprint football running back MIKE BEAMISH showed no mercy when he went up against his hometown college on Friday night. The senior running back devastated Mansfield with 125 rushing yards and scored two game-deciding touchdowns in the fourth quarter. The Quakers escaped the Mountaineers, 14-13.

Steamin’ Mike Beamish1.When Penn was down one goal to American on Thursday, who did Penn turn to? Senior captain Duke Lacroix, who set up an Alec Neumann goal to tie the match. And three days later, who did the Quakers turn to score their first goal against Temple? Lacroix, of course, as Penn would go on to win, 3-0.

Duke starts it off (as always)2.After sitting out the first four games of the year due to injury, midfielder Kaitlyn Moore — a senior captain — provided Penn women’s soccer’s only goal of its weekend road trip, a game-winner against Delaware. Moore figures to be a key component of the Red and Blue offense as they move into Ivy play.

Moore Moore Moore3. After La Salle had fought off some set points in the second set on Saturday, Penn volleyball turned to one of its seniors — middle blocker Kendall Turner — to provide a big kill that helped the Quakers take a two-set lead. Penn would win the match in four sets and Turner was named to the All-Tourna-ment team for her efforts.

Turner-ing it around4.Penn football junior tight end RYAN KELLY was poppin’ fresh out the kitchen after his team fell behind Jacksonville midway through the third quarter on Saturday. Kelly made a juggling catch in the back of the end zone for his first career catch and gave the Red and Blue a 24-19 lead.

R. Kelly with the Ignition5.Despite the struggles Penn field hockey has experienced as of late, senior goalkeeper Allison Weisenfels has been outstanding in net throughout the season, having already registered 27 saves. Five of those saves came in her strong performance over the weekend against Cornell.

Saved by Weisenfels6.Both Penn men’s and women’s golf were in action this weekend, and both took home second-place finishes. At the Navy Fall Invitational, the women’s squad had two of the top three finishers with sophomore Isabella Rahm finishing first — three strokes over par — and senior Amanda Chin finishing third. The men’s squad finished tied for second at Cornell.

54-holes of fun7. 8.Early in the season, Penn football’s secondary has shown the potential to make the big play. Senior defensive back Dan Wilk recorded a tip-toe interception late in the third quarter to set the Quakers up at the Jacksonville 34. Three plays later, an Adam Strouss touchdown run would give Penn a 31-19 lead.

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9.After facing ranked team after ranked team, the Red and Blue needed a game where they scored goal after goal. So three goals in five minutes was certainly an effective cure for Penn’s losing skid as Duke Lacroix, Forest Clancy and SAM ENGS provided scores for the Red and Blue against Big 5 rival Temple.

Three Goal Barrage10.

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Over the past few years, Penn women’s soccer hasn’t made it easy on its defense with its inconsistent scoring output. This past Friday was no exception, but the backline was up to the challenge, maintaining a clean sheet en route to a scoreless tie against VCU. In fact, the Quakers did not concede a goal all weekend.

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Strouss touchdown run would give Penn a 31-19 lead.

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Freshman Alexa Hoover lights it up for Quakers

Shearn opens eyes for cross country

Q&A with Penn basketball recruit

While plenty of attention has been paid to the talented underclass-men of Penn women’s cross coun-try, the men’s program boasts some young fi repower of its own.

In particular, sophomore Brendan Shearn is poised to help the men’s program take its next step after an impressive body of work this off sea-son.

Shearn competed this summer at the 2014 USA Junior Track and Field Championships in the 10,000-meter race, and after winning the silver medal, he earned himself a spot on the US World Junior Championship

The talented sophomore looks to take next step

this seasonBY SAM ALTLAND

Staff Writer

Class of 2015 guard Jake Silpe ready to team up

with Red and BlueBY HOLDEN MCGINNIS

Sports Editor

FIELD HOCKEY | In just five matches, Hoover has six goals

BY TOM NOWLANContributing Writer

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TURN BACK THE CLOCKTURN BACK THE CLOCK

We look back to 1999, when Penn football renewed its dormant rivalry with Villanova

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