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Chris Mallios was supposed to spearhead Penn’s initiatives CAROLINE SIMON AND ANNA HESS Campus News Editor-elect and Staff Reporter

Penn’s Sexual Violence Investigative Officer Christopher Mallios will be leaving his post at the University less

than one year after his appointment. On Nov. 3, Mallios was elected as one of 12 judges to sit on Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas, becoming only the second openly gay judge to serve. The University announced Mallios’ hiring in January to function as the first Sexual Violence Investigative Officer within the new sexual assault and violence reporting system. The role of the

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officer is to oversee investigations of alleged violence and harassment. In a previous interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Mallios stated that the intention of the office was to provide “a thoughtful, deliberative process that uses interviews and evidence to come to a fair resolution.” Since Mallios’ appointment to the Court of Common Pleas, the University

has not released an official statement announcing that he will step down from his office. However, Director of Student Sexual Violence Prevention Jessica Mertz confirmed that Mallios is leaving the University and will be replaced. Vice President for University Communications Steve MacCarthy said Mallios will be assuming his new position fulltime in January.

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hanksgiving may be just around the corner, but for the Wharton Undergraduate Giving Society, goodwill happens all year-round. Penn Thanks is a Facebook page where students can post anonymous compliments about their friends. The page was started by the Wharton Undergraduate Giving Society’s Membership Committee last fall to help spread positivity around campus. The page has since accumulated around 200 submissions. “We wanted to recognize the givers in the Penn community,” Wharton sophomore and Vice President of Membership Jake Fischer said. “We wanted to create

a platform where they would receive this recognition for their acts of kindness.” Compliments are submitted through a Google Form and then posted on Facebook. The members who manage the page then tag the recipient in the message so they are sure to see it. “It made my month!” College junior Jared Fenton said about receiving his Penn Thanks post. “I mean, it was incredible. It was so nice what the person wrote. I was smiling, and I took a picture of it just to keep on my phone so I could look at it.” College junior Anna Vitti also loved the compliment she received. “I had been having a really rough week,

so it was super unexpected,” Vitti said. “It was just the nicest thing to get, and I was so happy and felt so cared for. I’m really thankful to whoever said that, because I think it takes a lot of confidence and bravery to go out there and say something nice about another person.” Alternatively, Penn Thanks can also be a tool utilized for delivering inside jokes. Wharton junior Bonnie Mai recalls sending an email one day to her dance group, Hype Dance Crew, in which she asked members to come be friendly and greet dancers at a workshop, as it was “something I can’t do because I don’t have a soul,” she said.

The next day, a post on Penn Thanks complimented her on her “beautiful heart.” “I just kind of rolled my eyes,” Mai said. “I’m pretty sure [it was] one of my close friends trying to play a joke on me, so I didn’t take the Penn Thanks thing seriously at all.” Mai said that while she thought Penn Thanks had good intentions, she felt compliments would be much more effective if someone came up to her and said them to her in person, instead of from “behind a computer screen.” SEE THANKS PAGE 6

Administration releases updates on mental health initiatives

Another Rhodes Scholar named from Penn

The Penn Wellness App is currently in its introductory stage

Debi Ogunrinde is one of 11 Canadians to receive the award

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Last Wednesday, the next installment in Penn’s mental health saga arrived in undergraduate inboxes, detailing several new initiatives and the expansion of current projects. The updates, which were shared by Undergraduate Assembly President Jane Meyer, described a collaboration between the office of the Vice Provost for University Life, the UA and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly to address issues of mental wellness among students. Seven Penn students have died by suicide since February 2013. In response, the campus has seen an explosion of discussion and debate about how to best help students suffering from mental illness and prevent further issues from arising. Students and administrators alike have provided varying solutions to the issue, ranging from last spring’s recommendations from the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare to the demands on the administration issued this semester from a group of students calling themselves the Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative. Months later, the administration has rolled out a number of new programs, including a wellness app, faculty and staff Wellness Partners, an expansion of CAPS visits during New Student

A second Penn student will go to the United Kingdom on a Rhodes Scholarship next year. On Tuesday, Col lege a nd Wharton senior Debi Ogunrinde received the Canadian Rhodes Scholarship for 2016. This came just a day after College senior Jenna Hebert was notified that she was one of 32 American students to receive the award this year.

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The R hodes Scholarship is the oldest international scholarship program in the world and is awarded to 89 students from over 20 countries. Ogunrinde, who is Canadian, was one of 11 Canadian students chosen to receive this award. The scholarship is granted to students to attend post-graduate school at Oxford University. Ogunrinde will spend her time working towards master’s degrees in social anthropology and public policy, according to a Penn News article. SEE RHODES PAGE 2

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Photographers add personal touch to Penn’s Instagram The ‘visual storytellers’ are all students themselves ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor-elect

College junior Caroline Kim was at Kelly Writers House last week when she noticed another student, her head down, rolling cookie dough into balls and placing them on a sheet. Wanting to capture the moment, she snapped a photo. The next day, the moment resurfaced on more than 34,000 people’s Instagram feeds when it was posted on Penn’s Instagram account. Kim is one of five “visual storytelling interns” who work as photographers for Penn’s Office of University Communications. As part of her job, she travels around campus with her camera in tow, snapping photos of campus buildings and moments of student life that are filtered, topped off with a witty caption and memorialized online for students, prospective students and alumni alike to see. Penn’s Manager of New Media Communications Matt Griffin, who manages all of Penn’s social media accounts, hired an intern in 2013 to help him take photos to post on the

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Instagram account, which he called the “sexiest” of all the social media accounts he manages. Griffin realized that Instagram, which he said is structured to showcase student life, benefitted from the student point of view, and has since hired four more interns — all of them students. Each intern is required to send in around three photos per

day to Griffin, who then selects which ones to post. Unlike most students, who have to take time out of their days to go to their work study jobs, students said that their roles as photographers fit easily into their day-to-day routine of walking around campus and attending clubs. “It’s actually easier than it seems,” Engineering senior and Under the Button staff member

Ishmam Ahmed said. “I’m in Engineering, and I live in Rodin, so I walk across campus all day — I try to walk really slowly and see what is happening.” He added that he tries to even out his photos between scenic campus buildings and action photos of students. Still, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to constantly submit photos of College

Hall, Ahmed said. Additionally, the job even helped students get outside their normal lives. Engineering sophomore Christopher Kao said that the opportunity to take cool photos is often the tipping point that helps him decide to attend speaker events or student performances. The interns said their favorite photos were the ones with people in them rather than shots of campus, even though campus shots typically get far more likes, because they get people to reflect on their memories at Penn. In Kim’s first Instagram photo posted on the account, she took a photo of a button that said “I met my best friend at Penn.” Alumni and students commented and tagged their friends on the post, she said. Even though all the photos are posted anonymously from the Penn account, the interns said they are able to insert their own voices into the photos they take. Kim said she often writes her own pun-infused captions for the posts. Ahmed added that the five interns come from all four schools and are involved in different activities, meaning that they end up submitting a wide range of subjects that reflect their own lives and social circles, paralleling the diversity

of student experiences at Penn. Still, Kim said, she prefers to remain anonymous, highlighting other students rather than drawing attention to the fact that she’s behind the camera lens. A few of her friends spotted her ring in a photo, but she doesn’t often tell students about her job. “It resonates more with people when it’s not about me,” she said. Though the students receive paychecks, their passion for photography and school spirit impact their work just as much, they said. “I really love Penn, and I guess I just want to convey that in my photos,” Kim said. Ahmed agreed. “I try to look for things that will get people to have a little more Penn pride when they see them,” he said.

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Orientation, easier scheduling of CAPS appointments, and a Pennhosted conference on mental health, to be held in the spring. One of the administration’s major developments involved the release of the Penn wellness app, which was previously in beta testing. The app is called Stressbusters Wellness and operates through a platform not specific to Penn. It includes events and resources offered by centers across campus. Counseling and Psychological Services Director Bill Alexander said that the app, which has so far been downloaded by around 200 students, is still in an introductory phase. “Lots of the internal stuff in the app ... has yet to be fully developed,” Alexander said. “It’s on there now, but I’m not sure I can say that’s where it’s going to end up when we’re finished with it.” Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum added that Alexander, who spearheaded the development of the app, found it best to integrate Pennspecific information into a general platform. “He thought that a combination of national information and updates with Penn-specific information would be optimal for us,” Cade said. Both Alexander and Cade emphasized that students are welcome to provide feedback on the app as it continues to develop. The committee that helped roll out the app, Alexander said, includes students and is hoping to recruit more. Meyer’s email also detailed the new Penn Wellness Partners program, which designates faculty and staff as “wellness partners” — individuals trained to provide information to Penn students looking for mental health resources. The program was developed by VPUL, but GAPSA and the UA provided input as well. “There was this missing piece connecting the faculty and staff who went through this training to the students who may need that help,” Meyer said. The approximately 50 Wellness Partners, Cade said, will begin next semester. VPUL, the UA and GAPSA also announced an expansion of a pilot

program, rolled out during New Student Orientation 2015, in which freshmen from Kings Court College House had the opportunity to visit CAPS. According to a survey conducted among those individuals, a majority of the program’s participants said the visit familiarized them with CAPS and increased their likelihood of seeking CAPS help during times of strife. Although both Meyer and Alexander said the program had a disappointingly low attendance rate, the administration is hopeful for its future. “It was a good concept and it worked,” Alexander said. Alexander added that CAPS will soon allow greater flexibility in online scheduling of phone triage assessments, so that students can designate a specific time that they would like to be contacted by a CAPS clinician rather than having to wait all day to be called. Cade added that CAPS has recently received around half a million dollars in funding, which will be used toward increasing personnel and operating costs. VPUL also released information about a new conference, to be held at Penn in February, called “Unmasking the Ivy League: A Conference on Mental Health.” Though most of VPUL’s initiatives focus on helping students who are already experiencing mental illness, administrators and students said they maintain a focus on prevention. Meyer cited the forthcoming PennFaces program, a website that will share the stories of faculty, staff and students who overcame their own difficulties, as an example of a preventative measure. “Through the sharing of struggles and sharing of vulnerabilities we can become stronger as a community,” Meyer said. Cade added that Penn’s faculty and deans continue to have conversations designed to address underlying academic factors that contribute to mental illness. VPUL has also come to realize, she said, that extracurricular activities can contribute to student stress as well. “I think what is really thoughtful and important on our campus is that people are talking,” Cade said. “We’re in a better place now because it’s an open conversation.”

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Students speak on applying to Penn from afar Some apply to Penn without visiting first SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Staff Reporter

Some students agonize over choosing a college, taking country-wide road trips to try to step foot on as many campuses as possible in search of the perfect fit. But for some Penn students, visiting wasn’t doable — they just took the plunge. “I decided really last minute that I even wanted to apply,” College sophomore Mackenzie Gray said. Gray lives in Los Angeles and had actually traveled to the East Coast to visit colleges, though Penn was not yet on her radar. As deadlines were nearing, she wound up considering Penn because she realized that it fulfilled a lot of the aspects she hoped to find in a school. “The main thing that made me confident that I would like it was

the idea of balance,” Gray said. “I knew it was in a city but I also knew it had a campus. I’d been to Columbia and I didn’t like that there wasn’t much of a campus — it was really condensed.” Gray said she was surprised by how urban the campus turned out to be and is in some ways glad she didn’t visit because it may have dissuaded her from applying. “If I had come and seen the campus and seen how urban it was, and it wasn’t really what I was imagining, I might not have ended up here,” she said. College sophomore Richard Reyes, who is also from L.A., didn’t visit Penn for other reasons. “I thought I was going to end up at a UC or a school in California,” he said. “I didn’t really have the time or the resources to go out and tour other schools.” Reyes participated in the Questbridge National College Match program, which means he listed eight preferences of where he wanted to go to school,

without being sure which schools would accept him and meet his financial need. “After USC and Stanford, I just put down all the Ivies, with Penn being the last on my list,” Reyes said. And yet, a call came on Dec. 2, 2014 — Reyes can recite the date from memory — in which he was congratulated on being accepted to Penn. And when a student gets accepted to Penn through Questbridge, it’s binding. “I kind of just got stuck here,” he said. “It was kind of depressing because I was going so far away from home, to a place I’d never gone to.” But Reyes is quick to say he’s by no means unhappy now, even though at the time it caused some anxiety. “The first week of school everyone was saying names and locations that I just had no idea what they were,” he said. California may be far away, but Greece is farther. College

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sophomore Vicky Samara is from Greece, too great a distance for her to make the trip to visit campus. Instead, she got her introduction to Penn online. “Google street view helps a lot — pretending I’m there, seeing the bridge, the ‘Welcome to Penn’ sign,” Samara said. “During Quaker days it was good because the University uploaded all this stuff online, like the videos of receptions, so it felt as if I was here.” But it didn’t prepare her for actually making the trip, she said. Samara had to fly to the United States for the first time in her life all on her own. She was also worried about the safety of West Philadelphia. “It’s so hard to know how dangerous a place is before actually walking the streets,” she said. “It’s very safe, I wish I knew that — it was just another worry.” But now that she’s at Penn, Samara’s glad she took the risk. “[It was the] best decision ever!” she said.

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ystemic racism at college campuses across the country was thrown into the spotlight two weeks ago, with protests at the University of Missouri and Yale University demanding action to address the institutional marginalization of people of color. At Mizzou, students protested persistent racism as well as the university’s deafness in responding to those issues. At Yale, protests came to a head after two incidents around Halloween. The first was when Associate Master Erika Christakis emailed her college house about oﬀensive Halloween costumes, defending students’ rights to dress insensitively. In the second, black female students were (allegedly) refused entrance to a frat party because it was for “white girls only.” In light of these incidents, hundreds of Penn students gathered last Thursday to march in solidarity with Mizzou and Yale and to protest for change at Penn. They ended their protest in front of Penn

President Amy Gutmann’s house, where they read oﬀ a list of demands for changes. This list included increasing the number of both faculty and Counseling and Psychological Services counselors of color and the University issuing a statement aﬃrming Penn’s solidarity with students of color on campus, as well as at Mizzou and Yale. We’re glad that so many students showed up last week to protest for needed change. We support the goals of the student protesters — at Penn and at universities across the country — and hope they will continue to speak out and take action until college campuses are welcoming places for students of color. Many of the students’ demands are realistic and necessary changes that the University should implement. Only 7.3 percent of faculty across Penn’s schools were underrepresented minorities in 2013, according to the progress report on the faculty diversity action plan. Including Asians and Pacific

Islanders, that percentage only rises to 21.9 percent. As a result, the few professors of color at Penn need to serve not only as teachers but also as leaders, mentors, counselors and role models for minority students. It’s important that the University hire minority professors

riculum. While that may not be feasible beyond strengthening the College of Arts and Science’s “Cultural Diversity in the U.S.” Foundational Approach, which was intended to educate students about cultures diﬀerent than their own, the demand gets at an important

It’s imperative that students and administrators work to change campus culture.” and counselors at CAPS so that students of color will feel more welcome on campus. But increasing campus resources can only go so far — it’s imperative that students and administrators work to change campus culture as well, so that members of the University community are aware of the struggles that their peers face. To that point, students demanded the creation of a mandatory racial awareness cur-

issue Penn needs to confront: the general lack of discussions and interest that non-minority students have about race. It’s important that white students at Penn don’t ignore issues of race but actively seek to learn about the struggles that their classmates of color face on a daily basis. Students of color consistently experience racism on campus, in the form of microaggressions as well as outright discrimination. The

only way for this discrimination to end is for all members of the community — not just those who are disadvantaged by these issues — to educate themselves and actively work toward a solution. We believe that these solutions should be proactive measures — encouraging (and, perhaps, requiring) students to learn about other cultures, rather than punishing them for being insensitive, as has been suggested in the past (for example, in the creation of a Greek Community Judicial Board). But that doesn’t mean students should choose to be insensitive just because they have that option. It’s important for the University to make it abundantly clear that racism has no place at Penn. That’s why we’re happy to see that Penn’s administration has taken the protesters seriously. The day after the rally in front of Gutmann’s house, the leaders of the University sent an email to all students aﬃrming the University’s non-tolerance of

racism on campus. However, the email made no mention of Penn’s solidarity with students of color at Mizzou or Yale, and many students felt that the large focus on freedom of speech — while an important right that should be aﬃrmed — detracted from overall message that racism needs to be eradicated from campus culture. Racism on college campuses is much larger than a single issue, like oﬀensive Halloween costumes or insensitive Christmas card photos. And it’s appalling when people threaten those who speak out about the struggles that they face, as happened in Mizzou when protesters received death threats because they advocated for change. Here at Penn, we must strive to remember that we are not immune to the issues faced by students at Mizzou and Yale. And we must stand with students — on campus and across the country — when they advocate for changes to address those issues.

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everal weeks ago, Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix original series was released and, in typical Aziz fashion, the comedian brilliantly blurred the lines between outrageous humor and social commentary. It heavily reminded me of Ansari’s book “Modern Romance” that was released this year and tried to fully explain the world of relationships and social pressures surrounding romance that inhabit our society. In one of the most memorable scenes, Ansari asks millennials what the most daunting part of relationships is. The answer, quite simply, was the amount of options available to them. How can anyone know they’ve found “the one” when there are still so many “ones” out there? But this doesn’t stop at just relationships. Yes, we live in an age in which you can research the girl you asked out on a date in seconds, find the best restaurant in minutes and learn all about the graduate schools you plan on applying

SMALL TALK | We have endless options in everything we do, but whatever you choose, own it to within an hour. But this instant access to information doesn’t have to be stressful or intimidating. We’ve been blessed with an endless amount of choices, but as soon as we make a choice, we need to be accountable for that choice and, quite simply, own it. That’s not to say we shouldn’t regret choices we’ve made or change our mind on choices we’ve made. The problem is that we as a society are so focused on trying to pick what we think is the best that we oftentimes can’t feel a satisfaction with what we currently are doing or have chosen. This is analogous to the economic idea of opportunity cost. Everything we do has millions of alternatives and each one has an associated value, but once we have a greater understanding of the value of those opportunities, it might make us ask questions about whether what we are doing right now is really the best allocation of our time. Barry Schwartz, a profes-

sor of psychology at Swarthmore University, discussed this issue in his 2004 book, “The Paradox of Choice,” and claimed that for every single option there are two groups: maximizers and satisficers. A maximizer will only settle for

college applying to colleges, grouping the sample into the two groups of maximizers looking for the best-paying and most reputable job and satisficers looking for jobs that fit base requirements. While the maximizers had

We are so focused on trying to pick what we think is the best, that we oftentimes can’t feel a satisfaction with what we currently are doing or have chosen.” the best coﬀee, a five-star restaurant or the best university, while the satisficer is willing to sacrifice that eﬀort and instead will settle for something that simply satisfies his or her need, such as picking the cheapest gasoline for his or her car. Schwartz then decided to do a study with the help of two business school professors that looked at seniors in

on average a 20 percent high paying starting salary than the satisficers, a while later the maximizers reported less satisfaction about these jobs while the satisficers were generally more positive about their jobs. What Schwartz claimed is that the maximizers essentially created a “fantasy job” that ultimately failed their expectations as it wasn’t the ideal they had intended it

to be. Where I diﬀer with Schwartz is when he claims that we should either limit our options or lower our expectations. Obviously, limiting our options is tantamount to limiting our freedoms, which in turn limits our ways expression and stifles not just creativity but happiness and comfort among citizens. Schwartz seems right in saying that the expansion of options stresses us and makes us less satisfied with our choices, but lowering expectations as a society is detrimental to the society itself since barriers are mainly pushed when the bar is set higher than ever before; just look at the stories of practically every revolutionary invention ever made. Therefore, what would best suit our environment is if we viewed our choices as vehicles that aren’t tied to the expectations we put on them. For instance, you may think that your job is boring and that even a high salary doesn’t make up for the

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK mental (or perhaps physical) stress it causes you. But with a change of perspective, we can turn choices that we’ve made, which may seem inferior to the millions of others we could have made, and turn them into something not just beneficial to us, but also something we can primarily be satisfied with. ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK is a College sophomore from New York, studying economics. His email address is alevan@ sas.upenn.edu. “Small Talk” usually appears online every other Saturday.

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Music fellowship helps students tune musical ambitions

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Next semester, the Undergraduate Music Fellowship will give students living in college houses the opportunity to receive free music lessons.

Program was inspired by Rodin Opera Scenes NADIRA BERMAN Staff Reporter

One of the best aspects of music is its power to bring people together. Next semester, the Undergraduate Music Fellowship will allow students to build community in their college houses through music. The fellowship hopes to provide free music lessons to Penn students living in college houses if they complete a final performance-based project. The fellowship provides an opportunity for students to create their own musical programs, which would typically involve other college house residents. Whether they want to start a brass band in the Quadrangle or a jazz night in Du Bois, their college house will support them and provide free lessons as a perk. The concept was inspired in part by the Rodin Opera Scenes, which was created in 2014 by a group of students with a shared passion for opera, Director of Four-Year Houses and Residential Programs Ryan Keytack said. The students put together an

evening of opera scenes that they performed for members of Rodin and other Penn students. The students who organized the opera performances aimed to bring the arts to their college house. Keytack said it is important to expose college house residents to culture, adding that the Opera Scenes might have been some students’ first exposure to opera. “The idea is that they’re doing something innovative with regard to music inside a house community and engaging the community in that way,” Keytack said. The fellowship allows students to get creative with their musical undertakings. For example, Keytack said one student expressed interest in exploring the indie music scene in Philadelphia. Fellows are given an opportunity to pursue their interests. “There are students out there wanting to do more, but [they] haven’t necessarily had an avenue by which to do that. So for us, that’s what this is all about. It’s a platform. It’s a chance for musical expression that connects to community and residential living and benefits anyone who engages,” Keytack said.

The fellowship is an evolution of the Blutt College House Music P rog ra m, through which students can take private music lessons for credit, then give performances inside the college houses. The difference between the Blutt Program and the new fellowship is that, next semester, students will be allowed to take the lead, rather than performing under the supervision and control of an instructor. For spring 2016, Keytack expects only one or two fellows, as the program is still in its pilot phase. But if all goes well, the fellowship will likely expand by next fall. The expansion could mean more fellows or even wider ranging opportunities for students passionate about other artistic disciplines, he said.

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You may have seen Rebel bars while grabbing coffee to go at Gourmet Grocer or Williams Cafe. One Management 100 team is hoping that you’ll notice them a lot more in coming months. Rebel Ventures is a local business that stemmed from a group of eighth graders at Pepper Middle School, who came up with the idea to create and sell a healthy snack to their community. The students developed a superfood granola bar that they hoped would be a catalyst for healthy eating in their high school. After the classroom-based project’s success, it grew into a company called Rebel Ventures, which is currently run in part by high school students. Most recently, Rebel Ventures has partnered with a Penn Management 100 team called SuccSEEDing Rebels. In the past, the organization has partnered with Penn through organizations such as The Wharton Social Impact Initiative, Eco-Reps and Penn Appétit. Though groups in the past got the bars sold at Penn retailers, this year’s management team hopes to increase sales and awareness on campus. One of the management team’s new initiatives was to design a new Penn-themed package, which they hoped would drive sales on campus, which have flattened, Wharton freshman Cristobal Salamone said. Additionally, the team is working with Rebel Ventures to increase the number of bars produced by thousands so that the company can continue to expand. The Management 100 team has also played a role in promoting Rebel Ventures and teaching the high school students important business skills.

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“For a lot of what we have done, we ask the students to provide their input, which helps adjust our thinking. This also helped us produced our deliverables, which included creating a blog post and getting written work published,” Wharton freshman Analiese Fernandes said. “We also want to make sure to get students involved so that when we leave, they can do things similarly to what we have done and can do it themselves.” High school students who work at Rebel Ventures learn many life skills, including creating business plans. “I learned good communication skills, which allowed me to work better as a team with the people I work with every day,” said high school sophomore Trecia Gibson, who is involved

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As soon as College junior Kat McKay became an upperclassmen, sorority life seemed less novel. Even though being a member of Sigma Kappa allowed her to meet some of her closest friends, she grew out of the greek social events and sorority bonding activities that compelled her to join as a freshman. McKay remembers being a member of SK added significant value to her first two years. By the time she became a junior, however, greek life no longer seemed to be worth the energy or the price. She noticed that disaffiliating was common among her friends and the other upperclassmen members of her sorority. By the time students reach their junior or senior years, their communities are often established. For this

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Penn looks for fourth straight win before layoff

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The Quakers have many things to be thankful for, but rest isn’t one of them. Less than 48 hours after making the seven-hour trip back from New Hampshire, Penn women’s basketball will host Colorado State on Tuesday, looking to make it four wins in a row on the heels of a season-opening loss to Duke. The Red and Blue (3-1) took care of business in the Granite State on Sunday with a 67-60 win over the Wildcats. But the Rams (3-0) are heading into the Palestra with some momentum of their own. Colorado State is holding

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turning around programs and being apart of successful teams — was the next. The Lehigh loss set the Quakers back, and, while the Villanova win was immaculate, the Dartmouth defeat appeared to be a fall back to reality. With the team sitting at 1-3 overall, no one looked at the rest of the Red and Blue’s schedule and said, “this team will win the Ivy League title.” Yet suddenly, almost overnight, the Quakers reached a point where their victories didn’t even feel like upsets. First, the Red and Blue silenced Bagnoli and Columbia. Then they thrashed Yale and went on the road to beat Brown on Halloween.

opponents to a meager 45 points per game through its first three contests. For Penn, getting the win will likely mean crossing the 60-point threshold — the Quakers have won 35 straight regular-season games and are 61-9 under coach Mike McLaughlin in games in which they have eclipsed that total, but are 28-79 when they fail to do so. Anna Ross, who scored nearly half of that magic number on her own against New Hampshire, will look to post another strong showing matched up with the Rams. The sophomore guard had a career-high 25 points on Sunday after scoring just 13 combined through the first three games. “She does have the ability to score the ball, and [Sunday] we did ask her to step out and try to score the ball more,” McLaughlin said. “That’s what I’d like to see, I’d like to see her carry over what she’s done, look to be aggressive. “She also played unbelievable defense,” he added. The win didn’t come easily

By finding a way to grind in October, the Quakers found themselves fighting for a championship — and not simply their survival — in the culminating weeks of the season. Looking across the postgame press conference table towards Priore, Tyler Drake, Alek Torgersen and Donald Panciello after Penn’s thrilling overtime win against Princeton, there was no doubting the intentions of this team. “All our guys work way too hard for our season to end right there,” Panciello said about his field goal block at the end of regulation. “So I just had to do it for everybody else.” As a result of the trust they had built with each other, the Quakers headed into the annual matchup with Harvard looking like a team that couldn’t lose.

for the Quakers. Although Penn led by 11 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, it only had a 59-58 lead with 90 seconds remaining before managing to hold off a furious late push from the Wildcats. McLaughlin would have rather taken a less stressful route to his 497th career win, but he believes the experience will help the team going forward. “What we learned from that game is composure. It’s a 40minute game, there’s gonna be ebbs and flows,” he said. “Keep your composure, trust what you’re doing and play it all the way till the end. I think we really learned that, and we were rewarded for being able to execute late. Hopefully next time we’re [in a spot like that], we can reach back and remember how we won that game.” While the schedule hasn’t afforded the Quakers much of a respite recently, there is plenty of rest, relaxation and turkey on the horizon. After battling Colorado State, Penn will have 10 days off before its next contest, and the

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After finishing a rebound shy of her third straight double-double Sunday, Michelle Nwokedi looks to lead Penn to a win over the Rams tonight.

championship. Within their own tiny chamber, Priore and his team played hardnosed football with purpose. Every contest over the season’s last six weeks was a must-win game and each game was won. Priore continually stressed that he wanted to play “meaningful games in November,” something that had been foreign in West Philadelphia during the final years of the Bagnoli regime. “You never know when you’re going be back on that stage,” Drake said after the Princeton win while reflecting on the Ivy title from his freshman year. Similarly, Dan Connaughton said he told his peers before the season that they had a chance to do something special. It took a while for outsiders to share that thought with the senior defensive lineman. A special

season wasn’t on my radar prior to the Yale victory. But after three quarters against Harvard, I finally saw what Connaughton saw before the season even began. If Penn had just gone sideways this season, few would have blamed Priore given the circumstances following last year’s debacle. But that wasn’t the plan. This team blocked punts, snagged interceptions, threw bombs down the field and ran the ball down opponent’s throats. So, hats off to Ray Priore for finding a way to build a program and find a way to win. Surely, no one will doubt them again next year. THOMAS MUNSON is a College sophomore from New York City, and is a associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015

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For most, becoming a coach marks the end of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing career. For the coaches of Penn squash, however, it only adds another dimension to their game. The three coaches representing the Quakers have the unique challenge of trying to juggle the responsibilities of coaching teams with lofty expectations alongside keeping their personal skills on the court good enough to beat their fellow coaches. Squash is unique from most sports, as it can be enjoyed far past an athleteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prime playing years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in 2003, Forbes ranked the sport as the healthiest to play. While the three coaches have eschewed chasing after more championships on the professional circuit, they find

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that are really mindful of Penn and really passionate about our athletic department.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The peer group of coaches at Penn is really such an important part of why I chose to coach here,â&#x20AC;? said volleyball coach Kerry Carr, who made that choice quite some time ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she took the job in 1998 and in 2010 became the winningest coach in program history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As head coaches, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very,

time to play in different tournaments to keep their personal repertoires up to snuff. Associate assistant coach Gilly Laneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first stint as an assistant with the Red and Blue during the 2010-2011 season saw him balancing his responsibilities as an athlete on the Professional Squash Association Tour as well as a coach. Lane spent an average of four hours a day training for his personal career on top of another four hours helping out every day at practice. While there was a large time commitment needed, Lane felt that the opportunity was rewarding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Funny enough, some of my best results came from that year,â&#x20AC;? Lane noted. Assistant coach R icha rd Dodd didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pursue a pro career after graduating from Yale in 2013, but he has found time to compete in various tournaments in between his graduate school work. Trying to dominate the T

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very close,â&#x20AC;? added Ray Priore, whose 29th year as a Penn football coach and first year as the man in charge ended on the highest of notes with Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ivy titleclinching win over Cornell. A student or alum who attends a game in University City will see the coaches working with their players and assistants. They might get emails asking them to buy tickets or donate money for renovations. A Penn senior might bump into a high school student three times his size and discover

that they are a prized football recruit making an official visit coordinated by a coach looking to build the next great Red and Blue team. What one will not see on campus is the head coaches working with each other. After all, what can a basketball coach learn from a soccer coach, when one sport requires the athlete to master controlling the ball with their hands and the other sport prohibits it? Plenty, according to the coaches â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including first-year

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a new challenge,â&#x20AC;? Dunau said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think as a team itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we can be proud of having achieved since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a skill that takes a lot of practice and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really enjoyable once you finally learn how to do it.â&#x20AC;? Oliva admits that not everyone has greeted the new challenge with open arms, but change may be coming soon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point, I know some of them are probably getting sick of me always trying to get them to learn all the time,â&#x20AC;? Oliva said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it were up to me, the entire Penn campus would eventually transfer over to only unicycling instead of bikes.â&#x20AC;? Some football players have been spotted around sporting the new hover board Segways around campus, but the club stands behind its unicycles nonetheless. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the hover boards really arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something that takes that much skill. And it

actually kind of looks weird in my opinion, not to say that unicycling down Spruce Street doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look weird,â&#x20AC;? Dunau said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And they are a lot more expensive than unicycles.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We like to go old school,â&#x20AC;? Oliva added. Explaining the appeal of unicycling, the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founders pointed out what makes the endeavor so rewarding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the big things that attracts me to the unicycling club and learning this new skill is the joy of putting yourself out there in a new situation,â&#x20AC;? Oliva said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many times after college are you going to have the opportunity to unicycle for free? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a no brainer,â&#x20AC;? Dunau added. So, the next time you see someone cruising down Locust Walk on a one-wheeler, it may just be time to hop on the bandwagon.

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come by. And when a coach moves on from the school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or the school moves on from a coach â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their colleagues are left with a hole in their community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at Penn a long time, you develop relationships with a lot of other people,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are coaches, administrators, professors, staff â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you get to know a lot of different people in a lot of different ways. And youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always sad when people go that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known a long time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But at the same time you bring in some new people that are terrific and bring new ideas and become friends with them as well.â&#x20AC;? The new coaches have much to learn. But they have plenty to say as well, a factor that is not lost on their more-experienced colleagues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I consider new coaches, me being able to pick their brains, as valuable as they could consider getting information from us,â&#x20AC;? Carr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a collaboration from everyone, young and old, new coaches and ones who have been here for a long time.â&#x20AC;? After all, at the end of the day, the coaches are all playing the same game, even if their respective groups of athletes arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be a coach at Penn is an honor,â&#x20AC;? Schnur said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What it means is a lot more than helping your team be better at their sport. Helping the student-athletes move on and achieve and do great things in their lives is something that we all do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d all like to think that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re measured by a lot more than how successful our teams are. I think a better measure is how successful the athletes are that we coach, five, 10, 15, 20 years down the road in their careers,â&#x20AC;? Schnur continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to think that we had a little hand in helping our athletes form the kind of lives that they do and to be as successful as they are. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more important than how we do as teams.â&#x20AC;?

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be, very accepting of me, very supportive, and I hope Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing the same for them.â&#x20AC;? On top of interacting with each other in a professional setting and behind closed doors, the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coaches also excel at sharing life lessons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ray Priore is one of my biggest mentors. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one that helped me and guides me as much as anyone,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He and [17-year Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer coach] Rudy Fuller were tremendous to me when I got to Penn. [Former football coach] Al Bagnoli was good to me, he used to help me as well.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no doubt that as new staff members come on board, we all look out for each other and try to help them make that transition,â&#x20AC;? Priore said. Despite having been at Penn for nearly three decades, Priore is new to the world of being a head coach. In the words of Drake â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the hip-hop star, not the star Penn linebacker â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Priore is both â&#x20AC;&#x153;the rookie and the vet.â&#x20AC;? So when Bagnoli stepped down at the end of 2014, Priore found that his peers, including the man who saw him as a mentor, had much to teach him in turn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As I was taking over here as head coach, I got a chance to talk to a number of different coaches about being a first-time head coach. Mike McLaughlin shared some great wisdom with me,â&#x20AC;? Priore said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was a defensive coordinator for a lot of years,â&#x20AC;? he continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously, now I have an offensive coordinator and a defensive coordinator [working for me] on the field, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the temptation to jump in to their thoughts and conversations. But McLaughlin told me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Every time you think you want to step into a conversation on the field, take two steps back.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? In the coaching industry, there is consistently a significant amount of turnover. In many instances, job security can be hard to

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basketball coach Steve Donahue, a former assistant with the Red and Blue in the 1990s who returned to the Palestra after head coaching stints at Cornell and Boston College. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We basically do the same job. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a different vehicle that we do it with in terms of our sport,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We pick each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brains, we look at ways we can enhance our programs, our recruiting models,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We share a lot of ideas. Even though we are coaching different sports, we have similar challenges in everything we do.â&#x20AC;? While the coaches talk to their players during practices and timeouts, they communicate with one another behind closed doors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get together once a month and share different ideas about how to coach our team, about leadership,â&#x20AC;? Carr, who generally organizes the meetings, explained. The gathering, by design, takes place without any administrators present, so that, as Carr says, the coaches can â&#x20AC;&#x153;let out a lot more ideas.â&#x20AC;? But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take that as a sign the coaches are going around the administratorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; backs in any way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our Athletics Department really encourages things like that. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a free and open exchange of ideas,â&#x20AC;? said swimming coach Mike Schnur, who is entering his 29th year with the program and 16th year as head coach of both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teams. Some coaches have been at Penn since before any of their current student-athletess here were born. In turn, the fresh faces look to the more familiar ones for guidance and camaraderie, and they always find it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is such a great place of good people, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I was excited to get back,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place where you get to recruit great kids and you can win nationally. And with that, it attracts really good coaches, great people. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very open to

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strategies that often contradict some of the basic foundations upon which the coaches learned the game. The common approach for American and European players involves utilizing the back corners of the court in order to open up the front half for drop shots. However, a newer strategy has emerged from Egypt â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a country represented by four different Penn players â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by contradicting the former strategy and focusing more on hitting the front corners of the court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes you think a lot more about the dynamics of the game,â&#x20AC;? Dodd added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You never really stop learning when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a coach. It gives you a new perspective.â&#x20AC;? With both teams in the midst of one of their best stretches of success in program history, it has become evident that the winning pedigree from Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coaches is starting to rub off on its players.

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hoops at the Palestra, we do something similar here on the squash courts,â&#x20AC;? head coach Jack Wyant said. Despite the age gap between the younger assistants, Wyant still goes up against the two former Skillman Award winners from time to time. And where he may fall short in agility next to Lane and Dodd, he makes up for with trash talk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The trash talk] is mostly coming from me,â&#x20AC;? Wyant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I need to do anything and everything in my power to get them off their game.â&#x20AC;? The coaches shied away from crowning themselves as the best of the group, but Dodd made sure to trumpet the dominance of his doubles team with Wyant. At practice, lea r n ing goes both ways between the coaches and players. The international contingent on the team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; six different countries are represented across both squads â&#x20AC;&#x201D; brings a bevy of new

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a lot, and I cut up my shins a lot from the pedals being spiked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was temporary pain, but the glory lasts forever. Since then, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been dedicated to honing my unicycling skills.â&#x20AC;? Dunau clarified that they were using an improper training cycle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a mountain unicycle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which has metal spiked pedals for additional traction, but now have a nice fleet of great beginner unicycles. Despite the club only existing in infancy, many members of Penn wrestling are opting for this unique means of transport, especially with its health benefits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It actually becomes a fun cross-training thing to do on an off day. Unicycling does requires some balance, coordination and core strength, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fun way to give yourself

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For most of Penn’s student body, Thanksgiving break provides an opportunity for rest, relaxation and reconciliation. For the Quakers’ basketball program, however, the week is all about revenge. Arriving back on the East Coast

after a 104-67 setback at Washington, the Red and Blue (3-1) will look to snap an eight-year losing streak to local rival La Salle on Wednesday night, before heading to Easton, Pa., to try and break a three-game skid against Lafayette on Sunday. “Even in a defeat like that, there were a lot of positives,” first-year coach Steve Donahue said about Saturday’s loss, which represented Penn’s largest margin of defeat since a 59-point setback to eventual national champion Duke in 2009. “Unfortunately, we buried ourselves so early that there was no chance of pulling out a victory.” The Quakers’ first opportunity for redemption will come against La Salle (3-0), which topped Penn, 84-67, a year ago. The contest is the Big 5 opener for both teams. “I think any time you go on the court and you don’t play as well as you hoped, you’re chomping at the bit to get back out there,” Donahue said. “The guys are excited to get

back on the floor.” Blue’s 6-foot-10 senior center While the Explorers lost three Darien-Nelson Henry, who holds of five starters from last year’s career-best averages of 12.8 points team, they do return junior shoot- per game and 7.5 rebounds per ing guard Jordan Price, a 2014-15 game this year. second team All-Atlantic 10 selecLa Salle has no starters listed tion who led La Salle with 18 points taller than 6-foot-6, so Penn’s the last time these two foes met. captain could be primed for yet Price has taken his game to a another big performance for the new level in 2015-16. He currently Quakers. ranked third in NCAA Division “We haven’t done a lot of gameI with 27.5 points per game, and planning for them yet, but I know Penn’s youthful backcourt will they lost [Steve] Zack and Jerrell have its hands full with the 6-foot-5 [Wright],” Nelson-Henry said. veteran. “Being able to take advantage of “He’s really dominant, so we how young they are will be good have to do it so many different for us.” phases,” Donahue said. “In the half After hosting the Explorers, court, ball screen defense, transi- Penn will travel 70 miles north to tion defense ... We have to be ready take on the Leopards (1-3), who to mix it up, because if we give him have struggled after a surprising one look over and over again, he’s run to a Patriot League championgoing to score.” 34 ship 3434 and NCAA Tournament berth T TST Although La Salle — ranked S inS2015. 141st in the Pomeroy Rankings Although Lafayette, like La — has the edge in perimeter ex- Salle, lost three starters — players perience, the Explorers may have that combined for 50 points and 15 trouble dealing with the Red and rebounds in last year’s 83-77 win

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at Penn — the Red and Blue know they can’t take their in-state foes lightly. “They’re very skilled with a great offense, and we’re going have to do a great job guarding them,” Donahue said. “They’re a lot different than La Salle, but both are really good challenges.” Although Saturday’s matchup won’t feature the same Big 5 intimacy as Wednesday’s showdown, the familiarity between coaches will still provide some extra emotion for the latter game. The Leopards are led by former Villanova guard Fran O’Hanlon, who was an assistant at Penn from 1989-95. O’Hanlon coached with Donahue under Fran Dunphy for five seasons, teaming up to win three Ivy League titles before leaving for Lafayette. “He’s been a mentor for me since high school. I’ve known him forever and worked with him for numerous years, so it’s great that we understand what they do,”

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Donahue said. “But games usually come down to the players and their execution.” Adding to Penn’s insider knowledge is the fact that its two upcoming foes happened to play each other on Monday, as Lafayette was defeated at La Salle, 83-75, to give the Quakers the opportunity for some last-minute scouting. “We’re not allowed to go in person, but we’ll see the tape,” Donahue said. “[It’s] always a good help to see your next two opponents play in one game.” Ultimately, although Penn remains weeks away from opening conference play, the intensity is still building in Donahue’s first year at the helm. “Big 5 games are huge. You always step it up a whole another notch, because it’s kind of inherent in Philadelphia basketball culture,” Nelson-Henry said. “Beyond that, we want to win every game that we play, so it’s going to be fun to get two big wins.”

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There’s no such thing as luck for Penn women’s swimming. Like every other sports team on campus, the squad has their own pick of pre-meet rituals and traditions, from team chants to chain-mail poems that are anything but grounded in superstition. The most crucial game-day regimen, known as “secret psych,” is the exchange of anonymous messages between teammates to “psych” up team spirit and the mentality going into the meet. “It’s been around since before I’ve been around,” senior Morgan Scott said. “My freshman year, the senior captains introduced it to us as a long-running thing, and it still pretty much is.” Everyone on the team is assigned her own secret psych by drawing a name out of a red Solo cup. A longrunning partnership that lasts the

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AFALL

THOMAS MUNSON

When Penn football marched onto the field in Bethlehem, Pa., on Sept. 19, it did not resemble Ray Priore’s team that was crowned Ivy League champions on Saturday. Against Lehigh, the Quakers’ game plan, personnel and style of play were eerily reminiscent of those that plagued Al Bagnoli’s 2014 squad. Defensive breakdowns, a lack of risk-taking on offense and the weight of playing from behind were reminders of the 2-8 season that the Red and Blue had just endured. With a new coaching staff and new energy surrounding the team, it was disappointing to see this flashback to mediocrity. But, after 23 years under one leader, perhaps the early part of the season did not exemplify a lack of change but rather the growing pains of rebranding and reinvigorating a struggling program. The season began with questions about Bagnoli, the Columbia matchup, Priore’s ability to make the transition from coordinator to head coach and the team’s overall direction. However, by midseason, Priore successfully made those storylines irrelevant and shifted the focus to his team, its performance and its potential. Before the Dartmouth game in early October, amidst the elation following the Villanova victory, Priore explained to me how he prepared to tackle the autumn campaign. “I know everyone looks at it, and it’s a long history,” he said of the comparisons between his 2015 team and previous Penn squads. “We look at it in that small little chamber which is called the season, which is 10 weeks. And we just try to build, build and build.” Now, looking back on this year as a whole, it’s clear that the Quakers’ ascension to greatness was built slowly, piece by piece. While at times the process took one step back before taking two leaps forward, no one quit. Naming the charismatic Priore as Bagnoli’s successor in April 2014 was the first step forward. Priore then hiring coordinators John Reagan and Bob Benson — outsiders who had experience

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The fall season finally came to a close on Saturday as Penn football clinched its 17th Ivy League title while the cross country program capped an incredible season at NCAA Championships. After going without an Ancient Eight title in the fall of 2014, the Quakers made amends this time around, as four squads finished first or second in the conference in their respective sports. After such an overwhelmingly successful fall for over half of the Red and Blue's teams, there exists only one question: What can the winter sports do for an encore?

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2. FIELD HOCKEY

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CROSS COUNTRY

Entering the season predicted to ﬁnish sixth in the Ivy League standings, the Quakers made amends for last year's 2-8 affair. Under ﬁrst-year coach Ray Priore, Penn knocked off then-No. 4 Villanova, then-No. 12 Harvard and Princeton on Homecoming, before completing a stunning championship run with a 34-21 win over one-win Cornell.

The 2015 ﬁeld hockey season started with broken records and ended with broken hearts. Sophomore attack Alexa Hoover shattered the single-season record for goals and points scored, with 27 and 63, respectively. The Quakers got off to a smoking 9-1 start, and ﬁnished the season in second in the Ivy League after a crushing 2-1 overtime loss to Princeton.

2015 was a defining year for Bill Wagner’s sprint football team. The Quakers finished 5-2, a mark that was good enough for second in the Collegiate Sprint Football League and their best finish since 2010. Junior quarterback Mike McCurdy was named co-CSFL Most Valuable Player and led his team within a field goal of defeating eventual undefeated champion Army.

It's safe to say that Penn cross country broke out this fall. The men’s side — led by Ivy champion and two-time All-American Thomas Awad — finished second at Heps and qualified for NCAA’s for the first time in 40 years. The women’s team also showed vast improvement and featured an NCAA qualifier in junior Ashley Montgomery.

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is gaining traction fast GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

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Ray Priore and Steve Donahue have both been tasked with taking the reigns of two of Penn’s marquee teams — football and men’s basketball, respectively — in 2015.

Heads of teams share experiences off court TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor-elect

They work together, but only when the rest of us aren’t paying attention. At the University of Pennsylvania, 27 men and women hold

the honor of serving as a head coaches for one or more of Penn Athletics’ 31 varsity teams. Their jobs require them to successfully solicit support, athletic excellence and financial backing from communities formed by students, players and alumni. But often undocumented is the bond formed and fostered by the coaches themselves. “There is a tremendous amount

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of interaction between the head coaches,” said women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin, who enters his seventh season at Penn after becoming the fastest coach to reach 400 wins in NCAA history during his stint at Holy Family. “I think Penn is really fortunate right now to have a have a great group of coaches SEE COACHES PAGE 8

A couple of Penn athletes are looking to reinvent the wheel when it comes to transportation around campus. Sophomore wrestlers Freddie Dunau and Joe Oliva have established a unicyling club that’s quickly gaining traction. The club is in its first year, and, according to Dunau, the club’s president, it has between eight and 12 committed members. Per Student Activities Council rules, the club can only receive funding a full year after its inception, but it is making surefire progress nonetheless. The club is offering beginner lessons, along with advanced distance rides for the more experienced. Dunau became a fan of the unicycle at an early age and has refined his skills ever since. “One day when I was at my grandparents’ house, I remember seeing his old unicycle in the garage, and basically my first question was ‘When can I learn to ride it?’” Dunau said. “So it took me about two weeks of solid practice before I could come anywhere close to riding it, but from there I just continued with it as a hobby.” Despite holding the title

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Penn wrestling’s Freddie Dunau started unicycling at the age of eight and has not stopped honing the skill ever since.

of vice president of the club, Oliva had never actually ridden a unicycle before college. “I began my unicycling journey the first day we moved in during N[ew Student Orientation],” Oliva said. “We were teammates on wrestling

so we were all hanging out, and I was like, ‘I want to learn how to unicycle, can I try it out?’ So right then and there, in Penn Park, just a bunch of freshmen, I began practicing. I wasn’t too good at first; I fell SEE UNICYCLES PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640