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How loyal are you to your political party? In Pennsylvania, it seems like many people aren’t too sure.

According to a March 29 Philadelphia Inquirer article, around 128,000 voters have become regis-tered Republicans since the beginning of the new year across the state. Most are Democrats switch-ing to the Republican Party, but large numbers are also former independents and new voters.

“The big draw for the party switching,” local politics expert and St. Joseph’s University pro-fessor Randall Miller said, “is Donald Trump.” Miller believes that those switching to the right side want the Republican party to hear their voice.

At Penn it is currently spring season, advance regist rat ion season, Fling season and, for a few senior international students, H-1B visa filing season.

Although one of the require-ments to apply for an H-1B visa, which permits foreigners to work in the United States in specialty occupations for up to six years, is to have a college degree, some international Penn students have exploited a loophole and can apply before even graduating.

H-1B allow international stu-dents to stay in the U.S. after the 12-month work allowance of their Optional Practical Training (OPT) permit expires. As The Daily Penn-sylvanian reported on March 21, failure to obtain an H-1B has forced international Penn graduates to leave the country against their will.

Obtaining an H-1B visa has become increasingly hard in the past several years. The U.S. gov-ernment, which grants the visas based on a random lottery system, caps the amount of yearly visas they allocate at 65,000, with an extra 20,000 visas reserved for ap-plicants with masters degrees.

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As students gear up to see 3LAU and Chance the Rapper at Spring Fling this year, it is likely that not many know about the complex process Penn’s

student-run Social Planning and Events Committee goes through every year to secure the artists.

Generally the process starts after the SPEC Fall Concert in October, when the SPEC Con-certs committee reaches out to major agencies to get a list of possible artists that fall within a certain price range.

“We want artists that are big

enough that they have good name recognition but small enough that they are within our budget constraints. Beyoncé, Calvin Harris ... those artists would just never happen,” Col-lege senior and SPEC Concerts Director Spencer Jaffe said.

“Artists that were suggested to us are like Fetty Wap, Walk the Moon, Oliver Heldens,

Ruby Rose … prominent art-ists with one or two top hits,” he said.

Once SPEC responds to the respective agencies of the artists that interest them , the agencies and SPEC must coordinate to see if the artist is available on the weekend of Fling.

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Penn professors are working towards building Kazakhstan’s first world-class national re-search university.

Professor Matthew Hartley and Senior Fellow Allen Ruby, both of Penn’s Graduate School of Education, have been work-ing since 2010 towards building a graduate program in education, when Nazarbayev University was first established in Kazakhstan. As a part of this partnership,

Penn recently developed a pro-gram that brings NU doctoral students to the United States to study at GSE for a semester.

During their time here, NU students participated in classes, gave talks and participated in workshops to improve their dis-sertation research projects. In the process, they learned more about the structure of the United States’ education system.

“Even though our university at home is world class we don’t have as many international stu-dents,” said Renata Apergenova, a member of last semester’s first cohort, in a Penn News Today ar-ticle . “It was very useful to hear

opinions from a lot of people with different experiences that we can take back with us. The idea is that we are going to translate our experience to other universities and fulfill any edu-cational reforms that are coming to Kazakhstan.”

In the past, Kazakhstan mod-eled its education system after the Soviet model , in which the Ministry of Education controlled the vast majority of university curriculum, Hartley explained.

Because this level of bu-reaucracy and control stifled intellectual development and innovation, the Kazakhstan government decided to experi-ment by granting its universities a higher level of autonomy. Naz-arbayev was founded to serve as a model for this new approach to education.

As a part of this effort, Hart-ley and Ruby became involved to help the University figure out how to design a more Western-style independent institution with governance systems like a Board of Trustees.

“The biggest change is this movement towards this less-centralized approach in which individual institutions can make the decisions for themselves,” Hartley said. “In the context of the U.S. and a lot of Western nations, that may seem really straightforward, but this is kind of a mind blower in Kazakhstan because they’ve had this system of centralized control, in part because there’s been this desire to ensure high quality in educa-tion.”

Although Kaza k hstan’s government functions as an au-tocracy with severe limitations on freedom of speech and press, Nazarbayev University is well-looked after by its namesake, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who sees it as a source for his country’s economic advance-ment as well as an opportunity to form stronger ties with the West. Part of his commitment to the University is ensuring more aca-demic freedom.

“One of the things that’s been very exciting, being a part of

this project, is that a number of the people we’ve been working with are younger, western-edu-cated people who are promoting

reforms,” Hartley said. “They would really like to see their country evolve into much more of an open society.”

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“The biggest misconception is artist availability. I know Penn stu-dents throw out a lot of great ideas, but it comes down who’s available on tour and who has other shows,” Engineering junior and SPEC Director Kelsey Simet said. “For example, Wiz Khalifa is promot-ing a movie all weekend … so it is impossible to have him entertain the idea of performing at Fling.”

Once SPEC has confirmed that the artists are available to perform, SPEC Concerts sends them a bid, which the artists must accept in order to sign the actual contract.

The University also has to ap-prove all the artists SPEC brings in.

“Every artist we’re looking into, we send to our advisor in the Office of Student Affairs and he sends it off to various groups at

Penn like the LGBT Center and the Women’s Center to make sure these artists are okay,” Jaffe said. “Artists like Odd Future would probably not be approved just by the nature of starting riots at con-certs and their very aggressive lyrics,” he added.

Ultimately, the biggest limiting factor in picking artists is cost.

At the beginning of each cal-endar year, the Undergraduate Assembly allocates the budget for SPEC for the next academic year. Within the lump-sum grant, the UA gives guidelines on how much to spend on production, security, talent and other subdivisions.

The SPEC Concerts talent budget for this upcoming Spring Fling is set at $180,000, but for the 2016-17 school year it will increase to $185,000. But this increase will not necessarily go directly into talent.

“Even if talent appears to go up

by $5,000, we might see that this increase needs to go elsewhere in order to not lose money,” Simet said.

And this increase in talent budget seems almost negligible in comparison to the 100 percent increase in security costs for next year. The 2016-17 budget has $40,000 designated for security and $250,000 for production. Part of production involves building the stage overnight from Tuesday until Friday, because athletic practices take place at Franklin Field during the day.

“Last year the security costs were significantly higher than what we had budgeted for and we are re-quired to hire more security due to intoxicated students,” Jaffe said.

The 100 percent increase in se-curity allocation is a reflection of these rising security costs, which must be met to fulfill University requirements in order for Fling

programming to take place.Renting out Franklin Field is

also becoming more and more costly every year, and extraneous costs are added on top of the rental cost.

“The athletic field has had reno-vations; there’s a new track laid down and in order to protect it [when building the stage] we have to lay down plywood to cover it up,” Simet said.

As the trend of increasing secu-rity, production and facility rental costs continues while the talent budget remains largely stagnant, SPEC Concerts is looking for cre-ative solutions to deliver the same high quality Fling to students.

“Historically, Fling used to be in the High Rise Field and then it moved to Wynn Commons,” Simet said. “It only moved to Franklin Field in 2011, so it looks like the next stage may be to move Fling to another location.”

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petitioners received one of the sought-after visas in 2015, as the United States government received an overwhelming 233,000 H-1B petitions in just a week. The period for employers to file H-1B visa applications on behalf of their employees extends from April 1 to April 7 every year.

The Department of Homeland Security states that one of the minimum requirements for an H-1B visa is a bachelor’s degree related to the industry in which the applicant expects to work , but some students have found a loophole in this requirement.

The slim chances of obtain-ing an H-1B visa and the fear of being forced out of the country if they fail to obtain a work-ing visa after graduation have prompted some international Penn students to approach the system in an unorthodox way, by applying before officially ob-taining their bachelor’s degree.

For example, an international student graduating Penn in May 2016 with an offer to work in the United States after gradu-ation would typically apply for an H-1B visa during filing season in April 2017. Certain students, however, have suc-ceeded at applying before their graduation date by proving to the government that they are on track to receiving a degree even though they have not officially graduated. This doubles an ap-plicant’s chances of obtaining an H-1B visa as they may apply twice, once in the April before and again in April of the follow-ing year after their graduation.

One internat ional 2015 Wharton graduate — who

preferred to not be named to avoid potential trouble with her employer — applied for an H-1B visa as a senior at Penn through her job at an international fi-nancial firm in New York City. Luckily, she was one of the one-third of applicants worldwide who obtained an H-1B in 2015. She can now work in the United States until 2021.

Her employer, who hired an immigration law firm to handle the H-1B visa paperwork, asked her to request a letter from Wharton’s undergraduate office certifying that she was on track to complete her bachelor’s degree. She did so and received the letter with ease.

“The [firm’s] lawyers told me, ‘We’re going to apply [for an H-1B visa] on your behalf. Get us a letter from the under-graduate advising office that states the courses you are still taking and has your current transcript,’” she said. “My story is pretty simple. I applied and I got it.”

Another international Col-lege senior is currently in the process of applying for an H-1B before graduation through his employer, also a global finan-cial firm. The immigration law firm hired by his employer also asked the senior to request a letter from the College’s un-dergraduate advising office confirming that he was on track to graduate in May 2016, despite still missing credits towards his major.

The legal firm asked him to seek out proof from previous summer internship employers to confirm that he had worked for them. His employer used these documents in his H-1B application to prove that the se-nior’s past internship experience

combined with the credits he had already completed at Penn were the equivalent of a four year bachelor’s degree.

The immigration law firm also worked with a professional education consultant to confirm the senior’s qualifications.

“A professional also evalu-ated all my academic and work experience and certified that I had obtained what would have been the equivalent of a bach-elor’s degree,” he said. “They did that and applied on April 1.”

The College senior’s em-ployer filed the application on his behalf and he is expected to hear back from the government this summer.

“They mentioned that this was a very aggressive approach and that they’ve seen some suc-cess with it in the past, but that there is no certainty that the government is going to accept [the application],” the senior said.

However, not all employers take this route or even recog-nize the legality of obtaining an H-1B visa in this fashion.

When one current interna-tional Wharton senior heard that his friend succeeded at obtaining a visa while at Penn, he reached out in March to his future employer — a global management consulting firm

— to inquire about the possibil-ity of doing the same.

His employer’s legal counsel told him, in what he described as a “patronizing” manner, that what he was asking for was im-possible.

“They basically said, ‘That’s cute and all, but the law is black and white. You need a degree in your hand in order to apply. They were completely uninter-ested in seeing any letter [from Penn],’” he said.

The Wharton senior was not even able to obtain the letter from his school’s undergradu-ate advising office that the 2015 Wharton graduate interviewed earlier received without compli-cations.

“I asked for letters saying that I was about to graduate and not about to fail any of my classes, which is what [the 2015 Whar-ton graduate] had used,” he said. “They were unwilling to give me that. They gave me one saying that I’m about to gradu-ate, but not a confirmation that I’m not about to fail any of my classes.”

The Wharton senior will go on to work for his employer in New York City after graduation and will most likely apply for an H-1B visa in April 2017.

While the legal ambiguity of applying for an H-1B without

having officially received a bachelor’s degree is contested between different employers, Penn has been careful to stay out of its students’ process to apply for an H-1B visa.

Penn’s International Students and Scholar Services, which typically helps internationals with their student visas, said that the H-1B visa process is an issue between students and their employers.

“We’re not in a position to suggest a particular approach,” ISSS advisor Kathryn Fogle said.

“That would be inappropri-ate,” she added. “Naturally students are going to come to us ... but we are very careful to de-scribe the limits and the type of advising that we are legally able to do and the type of advising that the employer has to do. The

H-1B application is completely the purview of the employer.”

Fogle pointed out, however, that ISSS has anecdotally heard of students applying for an H-1B visa before graduating, but that the office does not get involved.

Penn’s Career Services, in an emailed statement, also noted that it does not get involved in H-1B visa matters and referred comments to ISSS.

When it comes to applying for an H-1B visa before graduation, employers have differing opin-ions, Penn is uninvolved and some international Penn stu-dents are left to scramble with a legal ambiguity that has worked for some, but not for others.

The Wharton senior whose employer refused to apply for a visa on his behalf summed up the confusing process: “It is very frustrating.”

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The past few years have not been kind to Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) , a 1986 Fels Institute of Government graduate. The 11-term congressman, whose area of representation includes his alma mater’s University City campus, is accomplished, with a track record of targeting federal dollars toward neuro-science research and education. He also faces a looming cor-ruption trial, empty campaign coffers and a brutal primary election.

The Daily Pennsylvanian took a look at Fattah’s recent legal troubles, extending back to 2007, and previewed what lies ahead for the embattled congressman.

2007:May 15: Fattah loses the

Democratic Primary for mayor

of Philadelphia. Michael Nutter won the Democratic nomina-tion with 37 percent of the vote against the congressman’s fourth place finish of 15 per-cent.

2014:Aug. 5: The congressman’s

son, Chaka Fattah Jr. is indicted for tax return fraud in an un-related incident to his father’s future charges. Fattah Jr. is charged with providing false information to banks when he took out personal loans and loans for his consulting firm.

Aug. 29: Gregory Naylor, Fattah’s former chief strategist for his 2007 mayoral bid, pleads guilty to concealing the misuse of hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grant funds and campaign contributions. Naylor admitted to having con-spired with Fattah to pay off a series of debts with campaign and federal money.

Naylor’s plea represented federal investigators’ most prominent breach of the

congressman’s financial deal-ings, which authorities had been scrutinizing since his 2007 mayoral campaign.

Nov. 14: Despite his former aide’s indictment, Fattah goes on to win an 11th term as repre-sentative of Pennsylvania’s 2nd District in the House of Repre-sentatives .

Fat tah easi ly wins the seat with 91 percent of the vote against his opponent’s,

Armond James, 12.3 percent. The 181,141 votes he received, however, was a significant de-cline from the 302,746 he won in the 2012 election, when he won more votes than any other member of the House.

2015:July 29: Fattah receives a 29-

count indictment from federal authorities. The representa-tive was accused of diverting campaign funds, federal grants and charitable donations to fi-nance his unsuccessful 2007 mayoral campaign. Four of his associates are charged as well, including Bonnie Bowser, the chief of staff in his district office.

The indictment also re-ports that Fattah’s wife, Renee Chenault-Fat t a h accepted $18,000 in payments for the sale of her 1989 Porsche Car-rera event though she ended up keeping the car. Authorities allege the transaction was part of a disguised bribe.

Fattah refused to say if he

had a role in obtaining and re-paying an illegal $1 million 2007 campaign loan.

Nov. 5: Fattah Jr. is found guilty of 22 of 23 counts against him. Prosecutors accused the congressman’s son of obtaining business loans to buy make car payments, buy jewelry and pay off his gambling debts.

2016:Jan. 29: Fattah’s lawyers at-

tempt to remove themselves from the congressman’s corrup-tion case, but a federal judge’s decision denies their request to do so. The lawyers’ request came after Fattah missed several deadlines to pay his de-fense team’s legal fees in full. U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III’s recognized the con-gressman’s missed payment, but held that the lawyers were aware of the time and financial commitments when they signed on to the representative’s case.

Feb. 2: Fattah Jr. is sentenced to five years in prison follow-ing his conviction in Nov. and

is ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution. The representative’s son is appealing the conviction.

March 16: Following Fattah’s attempt to have his corrup-tion case dismissed by relying on congressional privilege, a federal judge rejected the bid. Judge Harvey Bartle III’s de-cision opens the way for the congressman’s trial to proceed on May 2.

Looking Forward:April 26: Pennsylvania will

hold its Democratic primary, where Fattah’s congressional seat will be up for grabs. De-spite federal corruption charges and a dwindling campaign fund, Fattah will be running for a 12th term. Challengers in-clude state Rep. Dwight Evans, Ward leader Dan Muroff and Lower Merion Township Com-missioner Brian Gordon.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf endorsed Evans on Feb. 23.

May 2: Fattah’s tr ial on racketeer ing conspiracy is scheduled to proceed.

Rep. Chaka Fattah has a murky history in politicsLUIS FERRE SADURNIStaff Reporter

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The disruption by protesters of the talk being given by sit-ting CIA Director John Bren-nan on Friday afternoon is a dark mark on this University’s reputation. Three separate dis-ruptions by shouting activists derailed an otherwise illumi-nating discussion from one of the Obama administration’s highest officials.

We condemn the actions of the protesters, who not only shut down the talk in the guise of promoting their own free speech, but also succeeded only in silencing the voice of an honorable civil servant and ruining the experience of many in the Penn community.

The protesters identified themselves as members of the Students for a Democratic Society, a resurrection of the group founded in the 1960s amid the growth of the New Left in college campuses. The incarnation of the group pres-ent at Friday’s talk exists in a different cultural milieu, one of heightened sensitivity to the speech and actions of others.

We are in the midst of a national debate on the role of speech on college campuses, and while neither side in the debate is entirely wrong, Penn’s campus — usually less prone than others to such dis-turbances — was visited by an unwelcome product of that debate. Following their mod-els of earlier generations, these protesters reintroduced civil disobedience at a deliberately provocative scale, looking to inspire someone else in that crowd to anger or to humili-ate Mr. Brennan and the as-sembled members of the Penn community.

Let us not confuse their ac-tions with those of just crusad-ers, battling a tyrannical gov-ernment. The protesters did not come to the event anticipating the beginning of any produc-tive dialogue to induce policy change — for instance, in the height of the event’s absurdity, they got into a shouting match with a former Congresswoman and a law school dean.

What, indeed, would have

been their preferred policies? The first shouting pair of pro-testers had the audience be-lieving they were anti-drone

warfare. Had they remained in their seats the entire time, they would have been privy to the director’s thoughtful com-ments on the administration’s drone policies, comments that highlighted the restrained and careful decisions he and the presidents he has served undertook. But the second pair pivoted off-foot, raising

a Palestinian flag and literally screaming bloody murder. Yet a third pair threw all notion of policy away and droned out

conspiracy statements on the CIA being a terrorist organiza-tion.

This was no well thought out, well targeted protest de-signed to advance their politi-cal agenda in the presence of a governmental elite — this was protest as shotgun, a blaring of false equivalences, summed up on one protester’s words as

“KKK, CIA”. To any viewer, the goal of the disruption could only have been the insult of a man whose careful steer-ing of the United States’ coun-terterrorism operations for the past decade has undoubtedly saved scores of lives at home and abroad.

How could Penn let this happen? At the start of this academic year, the Provost’s office revealed a campaign designed to handle exactly these situations. The Univer-sity encouraged the presence of so-called Open Expres-sion Monitors, observers sent to potentially fraught events or programs to ensure that the rights of the “meeting or demonstration participants to express their opinions in non-disruptive ways” are upheld.

The only ones who sought to remove the protesters were the director’s own security de-tail and Dean Ruger himself, who should be commended for doing so. With no other recourse, students at the event were obliged to simply stand

up and begin applauding, hop-ing to drown out the unending shouts. Certain steps simply need to be taken before any high profile speaker comes to campus, should the University be so lucky to host someone of Mr. Brennan’s stature again, and one of these is basic prepa-ration for disruptive protests.

American democracy does not take place via shouting match and we need not re-produce the circus politics of this year’s presidential elec-tion in our auditoriums and walkways. Unfortunately, the disruption in one way or an-other of political figures’ cam-pus visits has become almost a Penn tradition at this point, with examples ranging from Republican strategist Frank Luntz to Narendra Modi, the then chief minister of Guja-rat, who was disinvited from speaking at a Wharton under-graduate club. The University must seek to do a better job of managing these high profile events. Otherwise, who would ever want to come here?

I don’t think I need to spend much time condemning the protesters who prompted the cancellation of CIA Director John Brennan’s speech last Friday afternoon. Their own words and actions discredit them more comprehensively than I ever could. “I don’t think there’s any reason to al-low [Brennan’s] speech,” one of the protest’s organizers told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “We do not believe that Brennan has the right to speak,” proclaimed the fliers that “Students for a Democratic Society” — the group that organized the dis-ruption — distributed outside the venue.

I trust that most Penn stu-dents are able to spot the trans-parently hubristic ignorance these statements display. Not only do a small group of activ-ists claim the right to decide what speech is and is not “al-lowed” at Penn, they do so in the name of a “democratic so-ciety.”

I’ll say it again just for good measure — it is nobody’s prerogative to decide what or whose views and opinions Penn students may or may not

choose to hear and evaluate for themselves, least of all a ragtag handful of overzealous mal-contents who fancy themselves crusaders for some twisted, narrow vision of moral purity.

But however deplorable their actions may have been, the protesters do not bear the full responsibility for the loss of a precious academic opportuni-ty. That ignoramuses may try to silence speech on campus is a foreseeable circumstance, and the University has a duty to foil efforts to do so.

It is consistent with Penn’s commitments that the protest-ers were tolerated to say their bit, despite the disruptive na-ture of their chosen form of expression. It would have been wrong to remove the demon-strators without recognizing them. However, Penn profes-sor Margolies and Penn Law School Dean Ruger not only recognized the protesters, but also committed to questioning Brennan about the issues they raised. Nevertheless, the chant-ing continued.

At this point, it should have been evident that the protest-ers sought to prevent Brennan

from speaking, and thereby to prevent the attendees from hearing him out. Their own fliers and statements admit as much. They intended not simply to prompt Brennan to address their concerns, but to “shut down” the event entire-ly, denying the attendees the chance to listen and participate.

Rather than allow them that

chance, the University had a duty to remove them from the premises or otherwise put a stop to their disruption. If that required arresting them for tres-passing, so be it. There were students in the audience who wished to engage productively with Director Brennan, likely even to challenge him on some

of the very CIA policies or pro-grams which the protesters op-posed. They sought to engage with him in precisely the way which is most conducive to the intellectual growth which uni-versities are supposed to pro-mote and protect. The protest-ers tried to deny the attendees that learning experience, and by failing to act, the University

allowed them to succeed.Consider an analogous situ-

ation. Say that SDS brought a speaker to campus to criticize the CIA. If I smuggled an amplifier into the venue and played a siren to prevent the au-dience from hearing the speak-er, would SDS defend my “pro-test” as legitimate? I sincerely

doubt it. It would, in fact, be the University’s duty to do whatev-er was necessary to ensure that the event could proceed despite me. The “heckler’s veto” is just as pernicious as any other form of censorship, and the Univer-sity must protect controversial expression from it along with the rest.

Penn is not institutionally un-aware of these commitments. The Open Expression Monitor-ing program is supposed to up-hold the University’s policies on open expression under just these difficult circumstances. If Open Expression Monitors were present, however, they were utterly ineffective.

But there is even more Penn can do to prevent future in-stances of such embarrassing inaction, and this case shows that further effort is warranted. Event organizers should be in-formed about under what cir-cumstances they may ask law enforcement and security to re-move protesters from a venue. It should be explained that pre-siding over such removals does not make one a fascist, but may in fact be necessary to protect open expression and pluralistic

values.In any case, it is not suffi-

cient that the University affirms its commitment to the free ex-change of ideas; it must take active steps to protect that free-dom from threats. If the vocal few — those who would “shut down” speakers to whom they object — are routinely suffered to do so, our campus would be an intellectually bleak place indeed.

Regarding the SDS protest

Full of sound and fury, signifying nothingFAIR ENOUGH | Penn failed to balance tolerance of protest with ability to speak

We condemn the actions of the protesters, who not only shut down the talk in the guise of promoting their own free speech, but also succeeded only in silencing the voice of an honorable civil servant ...”

... the University had a duty to remove them from the premises or otherwise put a stop to their disruption.”

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough,” formerly “Talking Backward,” usually appears every Wednesday.

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On Friday, April 1, Phila-delphia organizers, brought together by Penn SDS, shut down CIA Director John Bren-nan’s speech at the Penn Mu-seum. To explain why we did this, we must give our analysis of the CIA and its violation of human rights.

One of our banners read “CIA = TERRORIST ORGA-NIZATION.” Our analysis is that the CIA’s primary purpose is to expand and secure U.S. in-fluence and control around the globe. Under the Obama ad-ministration, CIA drone strikes have targeted Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Af-ghanistan and Somalia. In the first six years, drones claimed over 2,400 lives, including campaigns that hit unintended targets 90 percent of the time. These attacks include killing 150 innocent Somalians, kill-ing children and bombing wed-dings, aligning with the United States’ long history of bomb-ing civilian facilities. The CIA also makes use of methods of torture including sleep depri-vation, stress positions, water-boarding, shutting detainees inside coffins and forced anal

feeding of detainees on hun-ger strike. The release of the torture report revealed that the CIA had been underreporting use of torture and outright ly-ing about its practices and their effectiveness.

A primary purpose of the CIA is to prop up governments that align with U.S. interests, and to subvert those that don’t. The CIA has backed several no-torious military dictatorships, overthrown at least seven sov-ereign governments, supported drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups in at least 35 countries and covertly sup-ported regime change of coun-tries at odds with U.S. interests countless times. The CIA has poured millions of dollars into funding the destruction of Yu-goslavia, and famously backed the cocaine-trafficking Nicara-guan Contras. In fact, Osama bin Laden and the mujahideen, precursors of al-Qaeda, were funded and trained by the CIA to subvert the Afghan govern-ment. The CIA continues to funnel money to al-Qaeda.

The CIA also has its hands in Syria. Many would agree that ISIS/ISIL arose out of con-

ditions of instability in the re-gion, no doubt exacerbated by U.S. intervention. Beyond that, it is well documented that the CIA has covertly armed proxy forces that consistently join the ranks of ISIL. A 2012 declas-

sified U.S. intelligence docu-ment indicates that the CIA knowingly facilitated the rise of ISIL. Although the relation-ship between the United States, its allies and ISIL is vacillating, all contribute to destabilization in Syria, leading to the dis-placement of 11 million of the 22 million citizens of Syria.

Brennan was quick to pro-vide rationales for these hei-nous acts, primarily through the framing of “national secu-rity concerns.” This is Bren-nan’s deceit: By framing the conversation around “national

security,” he is able to rational-ize his war crimes. It’s worth noting that Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990, with the United States killing 2.9 million Iraqis between 1991 and the present.

1.3 million people have been left dead in total in the War on Terror started under the Bush administration. U.S. imperial-ism, with its covert wing in the CIA, should take primary blame for this staggering death and destruction. This violence instills terror in countries that are victims of the United States, creating more terrorism rather than putting an end to it.

We’ve been asked why we chanted “Black Lives Matter.” The terror the CIA carries out abroad and the police terror black people face at home are

both parts of the same system. So, when we chant “Drones Kill Kids” and “Black Lives Matter” in the same breath, we’re linking up two struggles with a common goal. Does “Black Lives Matter” not in-clude the black and brown lives taken by NATO warfare in Libya? We believe it does.

Brennan, as head of the CIA, is responsible for its war crimes. It is well documented that he supports the use of tor-ture. On these grounds, we shut down Brennan’s talk. Students expressed concerns about free speech and discussion. This talk was not a discourse; it was about perpetuating the narra-tive that the United States is a benevolent force, and that its war crimes are simply in the interest of “national security.” After we disrupted him for the first time, he was asked about drones, and responded by downplaying their destruction. If their “target” is any brown person, I suppose he’s correct to note their accuracy. (The Obama administration defines “militants” as “all military-age males in a strike zone”)

John Brennan has incredible

access to free speech. When his speech is cut short, after talking for nearly an hour, he is not be-ing silenced in any real sense.

Brennan has opportunities to support his narrative that we do not have to support ours. He was not there to debate is-sues of American intelligence policies; with the blood he has on his hands, it is his job to rationalize and defend his war crimes. We disrupted him, but is CIA undermining of sover-eign states not disruption? Was the drone strike that hit a wed-ding in Yemen, killing inno-cent people, not a disruption?

As an organization that stands with victims of CIA warmongering and promotes peace and democracy, we felt an obligation to challenge Brennan’s narrative. For these reasons, we believe that crimi-nals like John Brennan do not deserve a warm welcome. They must be made uncom-fortable, and their war crimes must be exposed.

SDS Supports Peace; The CIA Perpetuates WarGUEST COLUMN

LU CA S L IPAT T I i s an Engineering junior and a member of Students for a Democratic Society.

Brennan has opportunities to support his narrative that we do not have to support ours.”

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With the attacks in Paris and Brussels still in recent memory, terrorism is on Penn students’ radars as a potential hazard for study abroad programs, espe-cially in Western Europe. But a few students say they don’t see the violence as a threat to their plans.

College sophomore Bryn Frie-denberg plans to study in London next semester, and she also par-ticipated in a program in Venice over the summer.

“I knew that I wanted to [study abroad] before I came to college,” she said. “It’s hard to find that kind of opportunity outside of it.”

The program in London, at Goldsmiths, University of London, ties in especially well with Friedenberg’s Visual Stud-ies major at Penn, and she hasn’t been dissuaded from moving for-ward with her plans in light of the recent attacks.

“It’s just one of those things — that just as easily I could be in danger for another reason,” she said.

College junior Carrie Li is currently abroad in London, studying at the Architectural As-sociation School of Architecture. She said she was accepted to the program late last semester, so she “already kind of knew that these things were happening in Europe.”

She also felt that there was talk about London possibly being es-pecially vulnerable for an attack.

“Last year people were saying that London is next,” she said, but added, “I thought since it was something I’d wanted to do for such a long time I couldn’t let that keep me from doing what I want to do.”

College sophomore and Daily Pennsylvanian opinion columnist Ben Facey, who plans to study at Kings College in London next semester for the English pro-gram there, said terrorism wasn’t a factor when he applied in De-cember, a month after the Paris attacks.

“I thought about it but not in terms of study abroad at all,” he said. “It didn’t affect that deci-sion.”

It may be easy to think that since London is somewhat re-moved from Paris and Brussels, at least compared to the rest of Western Europe, students’ lack of concern would be expected. But College junior Peter Herbst, who was studying in Paris at the time of the attacks, said he still thinks he would have moved forward with his plans, had an attack al-ready happened. He said carrying on with the things he likes to do is his “favorite form of personal protest” in the face of terrorism like the kind committed in Paris.

“[Paris] was somewhere I’ve always wanted to study abroad,” said Herbst, who is minoring in French. “I think I ultimately still would have gone because that’s the best way I know how to stand up to that sort of violence.”

Herbst still acknowledged that a previous attack would have complicated things, especially with the kind of support he would receive from his parents, and in

his own decision making.“I think it would be hard for it

to not be on your mind,” he said.Herbst also said the registration

for the specific program that he participated in seems to be drop-ping.

“Just recently our program director reached out to us to ask us to personally campaign for the program,” he said, adding that they’ve been receiving “historically low numbers of ap-plications.”

After attacks happen like the ones in Paris and Brussels, Penn Abroad makes every effort to confirm the safety of students in the area. Administrators at Penn and on the ground attempt to contact students via phone and email. After the Paris attacks, Penn Director of International Risk Management Jaime Mo-lyneux sent an email to all Penn students in France on the night of the attacks to confirm that they were ok, even though she knew some of them were unlikely to be in the Paris area. Continuous email alerts were also sent out from International SOS, a part-ner program that is described on the Penn Abroad website as “the leading medical assistance, inter-national healthcare and security assistance company.”

Following the Paris attacks, Penn Abroad Associate Director Rochelle Keesler, who oversees all study abroad programs in France, also sent an email to all Penn students reminding them of all on-campus resources available to students while abroad, includ-ing Counseling and Psychological Services and Student Intervention Services.

Students study abroad despite terrorism threatDespite attacks in Europe, students remain unfazedSYDNEY SCHAEDELDeputy News Editor

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DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?Film polled you to fi nd out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon movie fi xes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN

Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the

bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.

But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes

entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t

you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?

While 75% of us watch mov-ies online, nearly 50% pay for it. I hear Horrible Bosses — a new release on iTunes — is hys-

terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.

The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-

es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.

Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

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$196,136>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used iTunes*

$295,344>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used Netflix*

*$12.50/ticket at the Rave*$3.99 to rent a movie on iTunes*$7.99/month on Netflix

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“Whether they want to say some-thing for or against Trump is the question.”

Democratic Committee leader for the 27th Ward Carol Jenkins believes that it will only be after the election that we can understand why this massive switch is taking place. Penn is located in the 27th Ward.

“I think it’s probably an indica-tion that people are enthused right now,” she said. “I mean the Repub-licans are in trouble any way you look at it.”

Jenkins’ Republican counterpart in the 27th Ward, Matthew Wolfe, said, “People really have the oppor-tunity to make a difference on the Republican side.”

The GOP began this election with 17 candidates, and though down to three, Wolfe believes that there is still a lot of interest. As for the Democratic side, he said, “We have the most dishonest person in politics, Hillary Clinton.”

This large change in party affili-ation comes in preparation for the Pennsylvania primary on April 26.

In past years, due to their late place in the election cycle, the Pennsylvania primaries were not a source of enthusiasm. Now it might mean something, especially in the way of potentially blocking Trump from gaining a majority of delegates before the Republican Na-tional Convention.

Recent polling suggests that Trump could face a strong challenge from Ohio Gov. and Pennsylvania native John Kasich.

“It’s something that people who are trying to build a stronger Re-publican Party in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia are gleeful about,” Wolfe said.

Jenkins said, in contrast, “the problem with [those] that are en-thused about a demagogue like Trump is that they have a hard time carrying through with their voting.” She is unsure that it will have any impact on the outcome.

This phenomenon could actually help the Democratic Party.

“There are some people who said that they were switching over to vote for Trump, even though they hated Trump, because they thought that he’d be the weakest candidate

against Hillary Clinton,” Miller said.

Jenkins doesn’t believe she’ll see a change in her ward. “I pretty much have a high Democratic population, and they are pretty stable voters, so they are not a group of people who would change willy-nilly.”

In the 2008 Pennsylvania primary, Obama gained the nomi-nation “down in the grassroots,” even though Jenkins said Hillary Clinton had the support of the “po-litical operatives.” Though Bernie Sanders appeals widely to students, who maintain a great population in this ward, Jenkins said “Bernie is not going to get those voters, Hill-ary is going to get those voters.”

Either way, presidential elections tend to increase voter participa-tion. Jenkins believes that because the switches are both ways, with a greater shift to the Republican Party, that it will all cancel out. Miller said there is no one true cause, but there is no doubt it’s all about Trump.

So, while there is no way to find out the actual origins of the switch-ing phenomenon, it’s going to be a defining primary for each party.

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Anti-Islamophobia group forms at Penn

In the context of a wave of re-newed anti-Islam sentiment in the country — exemplified by one presidential candidate’s call to ban Muslims from entering — a group is forming on Penn’s campus to stand up against discrimination.

On Monday a group of Penn stu-dents held a “solidarity luncheon” as the inaugural meeting for the new group Students Against Islam-ophobia and Discrimination. The group outlined its goals and called for minority groups to partner in the fight against prejudice.

They read a statement regard-ing Islamophobia, coauthored by 5B and the Penn Association for Gender Equity, and introduced their plan to combat Islamophobia on campus and in Philadelphia. SAID aims to facilitate dialogue, create programs and speak out against Islamophobia, according to the letter.

Wharton senior and SAID leader Majid Mubeen emphasized the organization’s focus on every-one affected by Islamophobia.

“Islamophobia affects not just Muslims, but anyone who can be construed as Muslim,” he said. Arab Christians and South Asian Sikhs, among other groups, are also affected, he added.

According to the statement, SAID members started the or-ganization in response to recent incidents of discrimination in Phil-adelphia as well as Islamophobic rhetoric in the political sphere.

The group cited two recent incidents in Philadelphia that influenced its formation. In De-cember 2015, a bloody pig’s head was found in front of the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in North

Philadelphia following a string of antagonistic phone messages. In January, a Muslim man and full-time student at Temple University was hospitalized after being ver-bally harassed and then beaten for speaking Arabic in Center City.

In spite of these incidents, SAID members said they take pride in their community’s connection to Arabic. Said, pronounced sa-eed, is a transliteration of the Arabic word for happy.

“We want to define ourselves and choose the way that we’re por-trayed,” Mubeen said of the choice to use the Arabic pronunciation of the acronym.

Faculty members also spoke about their experiences with prejudice. Fariha Khan, associate director of Asian American Stud-ies, stressed the need for different groups to unite because of their shared humanity. She also spoke about the parallels between Islam-ophobia and the anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic rhetoric that charac-terized earlier periods of American history.

“Islamophobia is not new — it’s

just xenophobia in new clothes,” she said.

Associate Vice Provost for Equity and Access Rev. William Gipson emphasized the power of community. He described his trip with a group of interfaith uni-versity students and chaplains to concentration camps in Poland, comparing the effort to isolate Jews in Nazi Germany to efforts to iso-late other minorities in America today.

“Good people of good will must always stand up,” he said.

The group intends to work with a diverse group of student leaders as well as University administra-tors. Representatives from other religious and cultural groups at-tended the luncheon to support SAID’s mission.

College and Engineering junior and PRISM co-chair Gautam Nag-araj praised the group’s mission to bring together minority groups.

“We have religious groups, we have minority groups [and] inter-faith groups, but we rarely get to say that we’re all in this together and supporting each other,” he said.

An anti-Islamophobia group has formed on campus, in response to rising discriminatory sentiment around the country.

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Stark, submatriculating into a master s program in philosophy wasn’t a way to build her resume — she wanted to engage at a higher level with philosophical content she was interested in.

“The diploma isn’t the prize,” Stark said. “It’s really what I needed, I think, to go into the world and think about what I want.”

For Penn students who aren’t satisfied with just one degree, submatriculation can offer the opportunity to earn two degrees in the span of only four or five years. Students in the School of Arts and Sciences who apply to submatriculation programs are required to schedule an advising appointment with Gary Purpura, the associate director of aca-demic advising. When students come in to discuss the possibility of submatriculation, Purpura says that he tells them to focus on the specifics of the program and how it ties into their individual goals.

“They need to have a very clear rationale as to why they are applying to the specific program they are targeting,” Purpura said. In particular, for professional degrees like the J.D. program offered by Penn Law School, or master’s degrees offered by the Graduate School of Education or the School of Social Policy & Practice, students “need to also have a very clear idea of how that program will benefit them profes-sionally.”

For most students who subma-triculate into SAS, their graduate degree — an M.S. or an M.A. — is often insufficient to make them competitive in fields like academia or research. Those

students often go on to earn a Ph.D., with the master’s degree serving less of a practical purpose than an intellectual one: students enjoy the opportunity subma-triculation gives them for more challenging, graduate-level work.

SAS sets requirements for sub-matriculation into the M.A. or M.S. degrees, but departments can choose whether or not to offer the option; SAS is currently in the process of verifying which departments plan on making sub-matriculation available.

“I think it’s roughly about half,” Purpura said. “The reasons vary as to why some do and some don’t — some of those reasons are historical, that these depart-ments have done it for years and years so they continue to do it.” Other concerns, he said, include class sizes and the increased demand for graduate courses that a submatriculation option would generate.

While many other universities offer submatriculation options, Penn stands out for its breadth of options and the high number of courses that may double count for the undergraduate and gradu-ate M.A. or M.S. degrees. The option offered by the Wharton

School for submatriculation into the MBA program is also unique among top-tier business schools, potentially giving Wharton an edge over other institutions. The School of Nursing’s opportuni-ties for submatriculation can also make it more appealing to pro-spective students.

“I always do these little infor-mal focus groups with freshmen to say, ‘Why Penn? What made you come to Penn?’” said Mari-anne Smith, associate director of enrollment management at the Nursing School. “And the two that always rise to the top are submatriculation into a graduate program and a semester abroad.”

Submatriculation is especially common in the Nursing School; over 40 percent of current juniors have applied to submatriculate into a master’s degree, while the number stands at over 60 percent for seniors.

“All the graduate schools at Penn, their graduate courses are a little more expensive than their undergraduate courses, so it’s a significant savings,” Smith said. “You’ll be graduating with a B.S.N. [and] already having three graduate courses — that’s a mini-mum of $15,000 savings.”

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native is not the only first-year to have found a significant posi-tion in the team.

Tess LaPatra has been rowing in the second Varsity 8 at the six seat, and the boat has seen results as well, going 7-1 last weekend in Saratoga.

Additionally, on the Varsity 4 sit two more freshmen in Victo-ria Korine and Abigail Scheetz.

The two first-years, hailing from opposite sides of the coun-try, make up half of their boat.

On the men’s heavyweight side, a class of eight fresh-men also represents one of the program’s smallest incom-ing classes in recent memory. But the makeup of hometowns speaks to familiarity, as all of the rowers come from the sur-rounding Mid-Atlantic region.

Three Pennsylvania natives and three Connecticut natives

add to already large contin-gents from those two states, making the Keystone State and the Constitution State the best-represented on the team.

The addition of 14 freshmen to the men’s lightweight team is more typical of a Penn side, but only time will tell if the newly added Quakers can help the team improve on last year, in which it recorded its sec-ond-highest finish at the IRA National Championships.

FRESHMEN>> PAGE 12

powerhouse recruiting power of the Ivies, and raises the ques-tion of an international brand name.

Speaking from her own ex-periences, Essex questions whether top rowers from Great Britain and beyond are truly aware of Penn’s offerings on the Schuylkill. On that point, Es-sex’s has family in the states, which she credits for her ex-posure to a larger gamut of collegiate options.

“I think it’s the biggest thing Penn could do is making their presence known more in the UK and Europe because a lot of rowers go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton, but only because those are the names they know,” Essex said. “It’s not so much a preference of one rowing pro-gram over Penn’s, just that it’s the name they know. So I think if Penn works to get its name out there more, that would be the biggest thing they could do.”

On the men’s side, sophomore Dutchman Roel Van Broekhui-zen echoes the sentiments of it being a warm welcome, pro-vided one has ample ambition.

“I think it’s a pretty welcom-ing atmosphere. It doesn’t really matter where you’re from; it’s more like if you care about rowing and you’re dedicated then you’ll be welcomed and you’ll fit right in,” Broekhui-zen said. “If you like to row and work hard, then that’s all that counts.”

As the only international man on the roster, he recognizes the inherent advantage in pulling globally for forming the best boats around.

“The top crews have a disproportionate number of in-ternational athletes compared to the regular student body. So recruiting is an essential aspect

to the strength of a program, so pulling from across the globe just increases your recruiting pool,” Broekhuizen said. “If you look at the top crews right now their fastest boats all have a couple of international guys. In Europe, guys will start rowing relatively early so coaches will go out of their way to recruit from outside the U.S there.”

With that said, Broekhuizen concedes a squad certainly does not need to have international athletes to achieve success, but there’s no question it can help a team out.

While maximizing recruiting power seems to be imperative to top teams, Essex questions the extent to which Penn can compete with some of the more established programs when it

comes to claiming global rising stars.

“As far as I’m aware, Penn doesn’t have much international recruiting. The new head coach, Wesley Ng, wants to kind of broaden out a bit,” Essex said. “I think Wes knows that and is trying but you can reach out to as many people as you like, but if they don’t recognize or appreciate what you’re offer-ing it’s not necessarily going to get much of reaction when you don’t the same brand name as a Harvard.”

So while Penn rowing may keep their immediate focus on their blade work and rhythm, the best long term strategy may be to work on the global pipe-lines for the Quaker rowers of tomorrow.

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Originally from the Netherlands, sophomore Roel Van Borekhuizen of heavyweight rowing is one of Penn’s three international athletes.

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A retrospective on 2015

2015 saw plenty of action in and out of the water for Penn rowing for all three teams — women’s, lightweight and heavyweight. One of the three head coaches oversaw his first spring season at the helm; the other two worked their last.

The women’s team finished sixth at the Ivy League Cham-pionships in the spring of 2015. After the season, the program cut ties with coach Mike Lane following 12 years with Penn and hired Wesley Ng in his place. In October, Ng’s squad earned three gold medals and four silver medals at home in

the Head of the Schuylkill meet.The men’s heavyweights

had a solid start to the spring of 2015, winning two of their first three meets. The team then hit a bit of a slide, however. The Red and Blue put up a decent showing in the Eastern Sprints Championships (ninth) and Na-tional Championships (11th), with the freshman boats finish-ing third in both meets, but that was not enough to save the job of coach Greg Myhr, who was replaced by Geoff Bond.

The heavyweights had a strong fall, finishing second in the Head of the Schuylkill Re-gatta, but were undone at the Princeton Chase when an oar struck a log in the water, nearly causing the team’s boat to crash.

The men’s lightweights had a good spring in 2015 under new head coach Colin Farrell,

highlighted by a win over Navy and a sixth-place finish at the National Championships. In the fall, the team placed fifth in three of its four events.

“It being my first year as head coach, there was a lot of groundwork being laid, and trying to get the team under-standing what we need to do, and what the standards are, and setting a framework for what our team is gonna be all about,” Farrell said. “So from that standpoint I think last year was pretty successful. From a results standpoint, I think we wanted more. Certainly them finishing the year sixth was a good start for us.

“The team is looking to com-pete at the highest level, so from that standpoint, last year was kind of a start ... a place that we want to improve from.”

Fall and spring paved way for 2016 successes

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The oarsmen were largely re-ceptive to the rapid changes Bond brought about, though their adapta-tion, technical or otherwise, was not all smooth sailing.

“In terms of the nuances of the technical instruction, it was new to them, and I think a little bit confus-ing. There were very few — they’re gone now — guys who were re-sistant. I think perhaps they were puzzled by some of what was being coached, but they were by and large receptive.”

Though some team members chose to leave the program after not meshing well with Bond’s approach, those who remained had the recep-tive mindset necessary to function under a new system. Bond empha-sizes trust and respect, both among the team and in the boat.

“If you’re going to be a team you’re going to need to trust one another,” he said. “It’s not about ‘like.’ We’re socially hardwired to deal in ‘like’ and that has nothing to do with [rowing]. It comes down to trust and respect, and when you’re down to the final 30 strokes of the race, I need to trust that man in front of me so I only have to worry about myself. That trust is built over time, by working, failing, and succeeding together.”

Bond has also brought an interna-tional focus to recruiting.

“Though Juniors Rowing in the U.S. is very popular, there are not enough top of the line recruits coming out of the U.S. Juniors program to satisfy the needs of the top rowing pro-grams.”

In a truly Wharton-like statement, Bond likened the recruiting pool to global eco-nomics.

“It is a market, and you have to make sure you’re recruiting globally. Our percentage of in-ternational guys is lower than our competitors’. A young man from Serbia comes from a place where rowing is really valued and a lot of people work very hard at it, and he’ll be of great value to a crew.”

The most interesting man in the world

It’s not every day that a coach was both a professional ballet dancer and a U.S. Rowing National Team

prospect. But Brandon Shald isn’t your everyday assistant coach.

When Shald was 19, he per-formed as the lead in Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco ballet, earning glowing reviews in publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle, who lauded him as a “very musical and sensitive partner.”

Just three years later as a fresh-man at Cal under Bond’s tutelage, he traded in his tights for trou, and was racking up prestigious wins at races like the Royal Henry Regatta and the Head of the Charles Regatta, eventually winning a national title in the Freshman 8.

Growing up on a farm in rural Nebraska, Shald’s first athletic en-deavors were on horseback. It was through his younger sister that he gained his first exposure to ballet; after she came home after her own ballet lessons. Shald, always the du-tiful younger brother, inquired after

what she had learned, at times repli-cating the moves she demonstrated to him.

After encouragement from his grandfather, Shald eventually pur-sued — and excelled — at dance, both relocating to Spain to pursue his passion and spending four years training and performing with the San Francisco Ballet School.

“It was one of those things that was pretty awesome, the

combination of music and move-ment,” he explained. “It grabbed me from that first day pretty much until I decided to stop.”

After his retirement from dance, Shald decided to stay in California to attend college at UC-Berkeley. Cal is a school with a storied his-tory of rowing, and for an athlete like Shald, who stands at 6-foot-6, it was only a matter of time before he would cross paths with rowing.

“It was something about being in the Bay Area, you’re surrounded by water,” he said. “People are rowing past your house in singles. When I stopped doing ballet, I was looking for something physical to do — my dad didn’t want me to get fat and out of shape — rowing was something always available to me. I checked out a local boat-house and got connected through coaches [to Cal].

“I just hopped in a boat and the rest was history.”

For Shald, his background in dance served him well as an oars-man. The demanding nature of both sports, as well as the kinesthetic awareness and bodyweight strength Shald developed through ballet, gave him an advantage in the boat.

“Flexibility and rhythm is the most obvious thing that helps. But body control, manipulating it and putting it in positions that coaches are looking for — sometimes you’ll go and tell guys to put their shoul-ders down and they can’t, though it’s

pretty simple. That made the transition easy.”

Working with Bond for a second time in his career — this time as his assistant coach rather than his athlete — has made Shald’s transi-tion to Penn almost as easy as his transition from dance to rowing.

The best time of his life“My best time rowing in

college was freshman year because of [Bond] and the guys I rowed with. Those friendships that were formed and the total experi-ence of life — freshman year was the greatest year and I get to relive it every day, and that’s pretty special.”

Shald’s experience with Bond, as both an athlete and now as his assis-tant coach, makes for a staff that is cohesive in their approach.

“The biggest thing we’re bring-ing — all of us — is attention to

detail, every detail. From taking the oars down in the morning, to setting the boats gently in the water, to the first stroke off the dock. Everything has to have a purpose. With purpose and attention to detail fast boats will happen.”

Rowing, for Shald, isn’t just his current job or a source of memo-ries from his own career. The sport permeates his whole life, even in the personal realm. Caroline Lind, Shald’s wife, is a two-time Olympic

gold medalist for the United States in the Women’s 8, world record holder and multiple time Senior Na-tional Team member. Shald cites her as one of his biggest inspirations in and out of the sport.

“She’s seven months out of back surgery and still trying to make this Olympics. The thing that I find that I’m fortunate with is that she under-stands and knows rowing, and how hard I work, and of course her own work ethic.”

After Shald’s time as a collegiate rower, he spent time at the Olympic Training Center in Princeton, at-tempting to make the Olympic boat. Though he fell short of his goal, he still brings the experience and les-sons accumulated over a career spent in the highest levels of the sport.

“We’re finding ways to get good work in,” he said. “Penn hasn’t won big races in a while — but coming here with the idea of building something, and bringing the things I’ve leaned from the national team coaches, from coaches like Bond and Gladstone, that’s what we’re here to do, to build something.

“We have to come off every race having learned something, come off the water after practice having learned something, ask if we’ve bet-tered our teammates and bettered ourselves.”

The Boys in the EmpachersIn the shadow of the Palestra,

Hutchinson Gymnasium houses the rowing programs during the bleak winter months when the Schuylkill freezes over and the dropping tem-peratures prevent the oarsmen from training on the river. In the base-ment, the team labors away on ergs, waiting for spring and the chance to go to work on the open water.

It is in this facility that the rowers have put in the most hours and spent the most time with the new staff, ad-justing to both new ways of training

and new styles of coaching — even new equipment. This year, the team gained new racing shells, Empachers, whose signature fluorescent yellow skin and masterful German engineering have made them popular among crews worldwide.

Adjusting to the new staff in tandem with the demands of winter training was dif-ficult for the heavyweight

oarsmen but not impossible, ac-cording to senior captain Connor Davenport.

“At the beginning of the year it was a difficult transition,” Daven-port said. “But we had a team full of guys who were willing to work hard and do it.

“Coach Bond takes a very techni-cal approach, whereas Myhr didn’t. From day one there was a way [Bond] wanted us to row, everything from your posture in the boat, to the length of the slide, to what the drive looks like — that’s been the main thing for guys, being in line with what he wants while still going hard on the pieces and on the erg.”

In addition to the physical and mental challenges the oarsmen faced over the winter, they gained an understanding of what simply makes a boat go fast.

Senior Diego Fiori, though in his final year on the team, found himself learning new caveats from Bond.

“There’s a lot of places to find speed, and we have to get it from every place we can find,” Fiori said. “That means pushing our fitness numbers, getting technique down to a flawless degree, and then all the other things that go into performing your best.”

Even with experience from the world stage, senior coxswain Jake Mendelson — who coxed for the senior national team in Aubergette, France, this past summer — has

found himself learning valuable les-sons from Bond.

“I’ve learned a lot about the stroke and learned so much about physics, how boats move, how human bodies move, and how to exert the most out of a body,” he noted.

Physics wasn’t the only thing in which Mendelson got a crash course. Learning a new mindset for the team and setting the tone for a team culture more compatible with higher expectations was another thing Bond brought that Mendelson, as a coxswain, had to instill in his team.

“Even with team dynamic, our old culture wasn’t explicitly writ-ten,” Mendelson said. “With the new coach, we stated who we wanted to be and he’s taught us to be that in ev-erything we do.

“We have to be cohesive in ev-erything we do. It’s almost abrasive — if there’s something we don’t like, we call it out — if you’re not holding others to the highest standard, then what are you holding yourself to?”

Creating consistently winning crews is a lengthy and multi-year process, one that requires the right combination of strong recruits, near technical perfection, trust in one’s teammates and hours of work on and off the water. The present oars-men serve as the foundation for the future, and Bond looks to get all the speed he can from his current crew.

“This year, we’re on track, the quality of rowing is dramatically im-proved. We have enormous strides to make physiologically, getting tougher and getting fitter, we’re still not quite there, but that development will come.

“In terms of boat speed, I’m not a prognosticator — I know we’re get-ting better and we’re going to be as fast as we’re capable of being.”

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Its not about ‘like.’ We’re socially hardwired to

deal in ‘like’ and that has nothing to do with [rowing].” - Geoff Bond

We have to come off every race having learned

something, come off the water after practice having learned something…”

- Brandon Shald

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Class of 2019 small but mighty Quakers stay in domestic waters

After Penn’s sixth-place finish at least year’s Ivy Cham-pionships — the team’s best in the tournament’s four-year history — the women’s rowing program underwent a signifi-cant amount of restructuring, seeing former head coach Mike Lane head out in favor of cur-rent head coach Wesley Ng.

With that change in leader-ship came a need to replace a sizable portion of the Red and Blue rowers, as eight Quakers graduated in the Spring.

Upon first glance, eight losses out of a team over 40 strong may not come across as too significant. But consider-ing the fact that four of those seniors rowed in the Varsity 8 at Ivies last year, there was a serious need for the Quakers to replenish their talent pool.

Then in came a class of 12 freshmen, the program’s small-est recruiting class in well over 10 years. While the current

newcomers do not represent the recruiting work of Ng, he has not been afraid to apply their talents where necessary.

Freshman Christina Nor-drum has held the Varsity 8 stroke seat in each of the Red and Blue’s meets this spring; the most recent case was at the Doc Hosea Invitational in Sara-toga, N.Y., last weekend, where the Varsity 8 won both of its races en route to clinching the Orange Challenge Cup.

Typically, the stroke seat is reserved for one of the most technically sound rowers in the boat. Last year that honor was reserved for then-senior Veron-ica Jones, but with Jones out of the picture, Nordrum appears to have comfortably stepped into the prestigious role.

According to an article in the Redwood Bark, the paper of Nordrum’s high school, Penn was also the only school that Nordrum contacted during the recruiting process — a promis-ing sign for the rejuvenated Red and Blue program.

Just as promising is the fact that the Corte Mardera, Calif.,

Penn’s 34 freshmen on three teams make waves

ANDREW ZHENGAssociate Sports Editor

They say sports serve as the world’s language — a way to cross international boundar-ies with ease. Some sporting events truly do unite people, such as the World Cup, while others aren’t quite there yet. For Penn rowing, these bridges are yet to be completed.

Between the men’s and women’s squads, there are only three international athletes of the some 50 total on the rosters. This contrasts uniquely with some of the other Quakers’ teams, which are heavily com-prised of student-athletes from across the globe.

With the numbers so skewed, it could perhaps be an unnerv-ing environment for those joining the American-domi-nated scene at the boathouse.

For freshman Isabella Essex of the women’s team, however, the transition from across the pond from London to Philadel-phia has been overwhelmingly enjoyable.

“People are incredibly sup-portive when you come and I think there’s an appreciation when you come from very far away,” Essex said. “I’ve never really felt ‘wow I want to go home’ because I feel very supported by the people on the team, and they are really great about making sure I have somewhere to go dinner for Thanksgiving and ask what I’m doing about Easter.”

Hailing from the United Kingdom, she is the only Eu-ropean rowing for the Red and Blue, while the crews of the Harvard Crimson and Dart-mouth Big Green pull heavily from the prolific stars from the far side of the Atlantic. This contrasts starkly with the

Taylor Auman is one of just eight freshmen, an unusually small class, to join the Penn men’s heavyweight rowing roster in 2016.

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Tupac Shakur once noted, “Things changed, and that’s the way it is.”

Things may never be the same for Penn heavyweight rowing, as the program has undergone a near-complete overhaul of the coaching staff. At the conclusion of the 2015 season, previous men’s coach Greg Myhr’s contract was not renewed after six years in University City.

However, in its first season with the program, the new staff is looking to bring Penn rowing — a storied program dating back to 1854 — back into the national spotlight.

New head coach Geoff Bond and assistant coach Brandon Shald brought their talents to Penn from the University of California, Berkeley, a perennial rowing powerhouse. Bond’s tenure at Cal stretched nine years, during which he coached five boats to national titles at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships and three freshman boats to IRA titles. Shald not only served as an assis-tant coach for Ivy rival Princeton, but also has a national title under his belt from his time at Cal — where he was coached by none other than Bond.

The heavyweight men have enjoyed the tenure of several leg-endary coaches such as Ted Nash — who participated in 10 total Olympic games as both an athlete and coach — and Joe Burk, once known as the “world’s greatest oarsman,” who coached the Quakers

to both multiple IRA championships and nearly to an Olympic ap-pearance in 1968.

However, the last IRA win for the Red and Blue heavyweights came in 1991. Despite not being a heavily decorated program in the past two decades, Bond hopes to usher in an era of higher standards and higher finishes on the national stage for the heavyweights.

Turning fine boys into good menStanding in the boat bay of 11 Boathouse Row, Bond gestures to

the banners hanging above the rows of racing shells, ruffled slightly by the breeze coming off of the Schuylkill. The red and blue banners catalogue the years of IRA wins and Eastern Sprints champion-ships, serving as a reminder of former victories for the heavyweights — and perhaps as an indicator of what could come.

“This place — look at these banners on the ceiling. There have been generations of men here who have made boats go as fast as any in the country, or the world. That’s what Penn’s done, and that’s what Penn should do. This place with its rich tradition and great alumni base should be competitive with anyone.”

However, hanging more banners from the rafters of Penn’s boat-house will take buying into a very different system than in years past. Bond is bringing in a technical focus that previously fell to the wayside for the heavyweights.

Under legendary coach Steve Gladstone — first as an oarsman himself at Brown and then as part of Gladstone’s staff at Cal — Bond developed a strong conceptual and technical knowledge of the sport. Implementing the stroke technique learned under Gladstone and reforming the way the Quakers’ crew rows is foremost for Bond.

“The technical tradition goes back a lot of generations,” he said. “In terms of the stroke pattern, that’s consistent and cohesive with what I’ve learned back in the day. I’m a big fan of being able to use your body weight and being a skilled all-around athlete. The foun-dation was laid at Brown and I’ve taken it with me wherever I’ve coached.”

Though Bond’s vision and strategies may be steadfast, it’s no easy task to completely reform the way 41 athletes go about moving a boat. Not only was the challenge a physical one, but one of conform-ing competing mindsets to a unified goal.

“The human ego is what it is. It gets comfortable and gets used to doing something a particular way,” he said. “My job as a coach is bringing the guys where they need to be — to have a strong presence and to be unyielding in terms of my vision and what I’m trying to accomplish. Any resistance is only because they’re used to doing something a certain way.”

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