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n invasive turtle species has taken over the BioPond and a group of professors sees no other option than to euthanize them. Biology professor Arthur Dunham estimated 75 red-eared sliders — a mid-size turtle native to the southern regions of the United States and an invasive species in Pennsylvania — are currently living in the pond, and it appears they have all but eclipsed the species of turtle native to the pond, the painted turtle. Dunham is a herpetologist who has written papers on turtle conservation and a member of the James G. Kaskey Garden Committee. The red-eared sliders can survive in many environments, including polluted waters, which makes them susceptible to carrying disease and spreading it. Minor risks to a population’s health and the health of other

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populations are increased when there is overpopulation, said Biology professor and Department Chair Brenda Casper, another member of the James G. Kaskey Garden Committee. The turtles are responsible for creating a stinky odor around the pond by allowing its nutrient load to skyrocket. They stir up sediments at the bottom of the pond, and they feed off of the plants in the pond that are meant to keep the nutrients at an ecologically sustainable level. Recent algal blooms have also contributed to the odor. Over the summer, one visitor to the park mistook the odor for a gas leak and called the fire department. Though plans have not yet been finalized, members of the Committee and the garden/ greenhouse who have worked with consulting veterinarians

Red-eared slider turtles have invaded the BioPond, threatening its ecosystem. Now, a group of professors says the best option is to euthanize them. ALIZA OHNOUNA Senior Reporter

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Michelle Obama rallies students to vote in N. Phila.

After delay, freshman class board election results released

Karim El Sewedy won the race after two competitors were disqualified

The First Lady spoke at La Salle University at noon

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Karim El Sewedy, an Engineering and Wharton freshman, won the Class Board presidential election, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced on Wednesday at 3 p.m. This year’s new student election results were delayed from their planned Sept. 22 release after accusations were raised of violations of the Fair Practice Code, the regulatory document that governs student elections. At a public hearing on Sept. 24, the NEC found two candidates running for Class Board President guilty of violating the FPC by posting or having someone else post on their behalf campaign material in the official Class of 2020 Facebook page. The two candidates, Engineering freshman Jack Talley and College freshman Connor Wright, were disqualified and the NEC announced that a reelection for the Class Board presidency would take place. Results for the other races were announced after the hearing, including in the Undergraduate Assembly New Student Representative race, where there was a tie between College freshman Michelle Kim and College freshman Max

First Lady Michelle Obama made a passionate case for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in North Philadelphia on Wednesday. Obama delivered a speech at La Salle University at noon, drawing such a large turnout that TV screens had to be set up outside the auditorium in which she was speaking to accommodate the large number of attendees.

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Michelle Obama came to Philadelphia on Wednesday Sept. 28 in the Clinton campaign’s latest effort gain support from Philadelphia voters.

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Yet when black and brown lives are being lost nationwide, the University of Pennsylvania remains silent.”

Many Penn students made it out to the event, either to volunteer for the Clinton campaign or to just hear the speech. The audience was primarily composed of young adults and college students, an environment ripe for her message about getting the youth to vote. She told the audience that voters under the age of 30 allowed her husband to score victories in four key battleground states in the 2012 election, including Pennsylvania. “Each of you could swing an entire precinct and win this election SEE MICHELLE PAGE 3

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Quechua class brings indigenous culture to Penn Grad students petitioned to launch the program BRIAN ZHONG Contributing Reporter

While most people know what Hebrew is, few would recognize Quechua. But just as many people — about six to eight million — speak each language. Quechua is an indigenous language spoken in central Andean countries such as Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. The Penn Language Center began offering elementary and intermediate Quechua classes two years ago, when several graduate students successfully petitioned to start a Quechua language program. Today, it is still the only indigenous American language offered at Penn. “By putting Quechua on a university level, we recognize

that Andean culture and people are not just myths, but have knowledge and value,” Quechua professor Americo MendozaMori said. Elementary Quechua students typically comprise undergraduates and graduate students who are of Hispanic heritage or have an academic interest in the language. This diverse group of students engages in conversations that could never occur in other language classes. “A native Spanish speaker would ask a question in Spanish,” 2016 College graduate Abby Graham said. “Someone would then answer in English, and the professor would respond in Quechua. I love that kind of trilingual mix.” Quechua differentiates itself from other languages in that words gain additional meaning through suffixes instead of

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Classes in Quechua, an indigenous language spoken in Andean countries such as Bolivia, Ecudador and Peru, are offered at Penn.

through sentences. “The words do get very long, which makes them tricky to speak sometimes but also an interesting challenge to overcome,” College and Wharton senior Gleeson Ryan said.

The Quechua classes not only teach students how to speak the language but also instill broader cultural understanding that transcends the language itself. “There’s a responsibility that comes with learning Quechua,

of understanding the importance of what the language means to different people,” Graham said. “And that’s something that all of us studying the language have internalized.” Quechua students form a tightknit community that immerses itself in Quechuan language and culture outside of the classroom. “After class, a few of us sang the Barbie Girl song in Quechua, which was really funny so we decided to make a video and post it on Facebook,” College senior Juan Cabrera said. This community extends beyond Penn’s campus, however. Last April, Penn’s Quechua program organized a “Thinking Andean Studies” colloquium that attracted people outside of Penn, all united in their passion for Andean culture. “I met practitioners who teach the language…and activists in

New York who run Quechua radio and TV programs,” said Graduate School of Education doctoral candidate Frances Kvietok, one of the graduate students who initially petitioned for a Quechua language program. “Even though the conference was based in an academic space, the audience and the participants went beyond that space.” Despite the comments he receives from colleagues that Quechua is a dying language, Mendoza-Mori still sees its relevance. “Climate change is now all over the news,” Mendoza-Mori said. “But we as a Western society have for a while failed to understand the Earth. At the same time, the indigenous people have always had a deep relationship with the Earth. We should recognize that that’s knowledge they knew.”

Tap water in Phila. has unhealthy amount of cancer-causing chemical Larger-than-usual amounts of chromium-6 in water CHARLOTTE LARACY Deputy News Editor

Chromium-6, a cancer-causing carcinogen, has been found at higher-than-recommended levels in the tap water supplying two-thirds of all Americans, according to a report from the Environmental Working Group. In Philadelphia, the nonprofit research organization found an average of 0.39 parts per billion, much higher than the group recommends. EWG analyzed the Environmental Protection Agency’s data on more than 60,000 samples collected at water utilities in all 50 states between 2013 and 2015. They found chromium-6 at levels deemed unsafe by public health officials. EWG used two different

standards when deciding whether existing chromium-6 levels in community water systems are potentially dangerous. The first standard is the public health goal of 0.02 parts per billion set by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. The group also looked at the actual legal limit adopted by California regulators, 10 ppb, even though the EWG’s scientists consider this too easygoing of a standard. Adam Finkel, Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, said that since Philadelphia is in the middle of these two standards, it should be a concern for the city. “The fact that Philadelphia is at 0.39, I certainly wouldn’t say that there is no reason for concern,” Finkel said. “I mean anything above 0.02 ppb is something that we cannot dismiss but I would

call it a small risk compared to other environmental risks that people in the city are facing.” Chromium-6 is produced naturally in the environment as well as by industrial projects. Chromium-6 is known to cause skin burns, pneumonia, complications during childbirth and stomach cancer, even in small doses. It is the same chemical Erin Brockovich, later made famous when Julia Roberts portrayed her in a 2000 film, uncovered in a large amount of industrial hexavalent chromium contamination in the drinking water of a town in California that had a cancer epidemic. “The EPA was working with chromium-6 as ventilation hazard for many years but they haven’t focused on chromium-6 as a drinking hazard until more recently,” Finkel said. “Everything the EPA is doing now is taking forever.”

Even though the EPA defines chromium-6 as a known carcinogen, there is no federal standard on the maximum amount of chromium-6. In 1991, the EPA set a regulation for total chromium, but that includes chromium-3, which is a naturally occurring chemical and essential human nutrient. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, high levels of airborne chromium-6 can cause cancer. However, there is uncertainty about what exactly is the safe amount of chromium-6 in drinking water and what the possible long-term consequences may be when people ingest it through water. “Unfortunately, the EPA in recent is more reluctant to put out a risk assessment until they have satisfied industries and made sure that there is not any alternative theory to explain why animals got cancer,” Finkel said. “They

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The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization, discovered that high levels of a carcinogen was found in water supplies.

are stuck in this lengthy back and forth and it could go on forever.” In March 2010, the agency said that it had initiated a reassessment of the health risks associated with chromium exposure and did not believe it was appropriate to revise the national primary drinking water regulation while that effort was in process. “EPA is stuck in this timid

place where they feel like they cannot go forward until every last effort to exonerate this material has been tried,” Finkel said. “To me, that’s the opposite of what the EPA should be doing. The EPA should have strict protections and then be willing to relax those protections when more information is found. Right now, they are leaving us with underprotection.”

Beloved former dean Beeman dies at 74 Richard Beeman was known as a character JULIANNE SMOLYN Contributing Reporter

Former American History professor and previous Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Richard Beeman died at the age of 74 on Monday, Sept. 6. As a professor of early-American history, Beeman had a unique teaching style. Beth Wenger, current History Department chair, said “He was known for dressing in the costumes of historical characters in his classes in order to breathe life into the history of early America.” Bruce Kuklick, history professor and a colleague of Beeman’s for almost 40 years, also remembered the costumes. “He would do all these little performances,” Kucklick said, “For the one he would do on Davey Crocket, he would dress in buckskin and suck on a corn cob pipe and have his trusty great big brown dog sit down beside him.” Beeman brought this enthusiasm and his unique ideas to the administrative roles he held — Chair of the History Department, Associate Dean in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences for social sciences and humanities, and later the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Samuel Preston, the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences when Beeman was the Dean of the College, said he respected Beeman’s tenacity in advancing undergraduate education. “He was very warm and engaging but also very forceful,” Preston said. “Undergraduates could not have had a better advocate from the higher administration.” Beeman was one of the forces behind the creation of the Center for Teaching and Learning and an

advocate for increasing emphasis and research efforts in the subjects of economics, political science, history, biology, psychology and English. Beeman and Preston recruited over 200 faculty members throughout their terms and supported the launch of new undergraduate programs including Biochemistry, Criminology and Life Sciences and Management. Outside of the Penn community, Beeman was heavily involved in the National Constitution Center. Beeman served on the Board of Trustees and was the chair of Programs, Exhibits and Education there. “It was an institution profoundly shaped by Rick’s suggestions, engagement and participation in events,” said Rogers Smith, Associate Dean for the Social Sciences. On top of his collegiate roles and involvement, Beeman was the recipient of a number of awards and honors such as a Fulbright Professorship and a Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Distinguished Professorship. Beeman wrote seven books and appeared on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” for “Plain, Honest Men,” a book about the drawing up of the Constitution. When Stewart was announcing that Beeman would be on the show, he made a joke about Beeman’s last name and started buzzing like a bee. Smith said, “I think deep down all of us dream of Jon Stewart making fun of our names someday.” Many also remember Beeman for the strength with which he persevered through his Lou Gherig’s disease diagnosis. Even after he fell ill, he continued to be involved in the Penn and NCC communities as much as he could. “His persona illustrated the optimism and the can-do spirit of our founding fathers,” Preston said.

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Aerial robotics team celebrates win, looks ahead The team beat the likes of MIT and Georgia Tech MARK ROOK Contributing Reporter

This year, Penn’s Aerial Robotics Club swept the competition at the International Aer ia l Robotics Competition in Atlanta by winning the best technical paper, beating out the likes of teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Georgia Institute of Technology and international universities. Penn’s quad-copter also led the field by being the only robot in the competition to attempt fully autonomous flight. The club kicked off its third year in style. Wharton and Engineering senior and president of the Aerial Robotics Club Lukas Vacek said that their mission is to “engage mainly undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania with the design and building of aerial robots, UAVs, and other autonomous types of robots.” Cur rently, the club pa rt icipat es i n fou r a n nua l c o m p e t it i o n s , c o n s t r u c ting f lying robots capable of

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for Hillary,” Obama said. The First Lady praised Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, citing her stance on key issues throughout the election so far, such as race relations and gender equality, and defending her demeanor and qualifications for the presidency. “So trust me Pennsylvania: experience matters, preparation matters, temperament matters,” Obama said. She lauded Clinton’s commitment to America, saying that although “Hillary has seen the brutal hours and overwhelming stresses [of being president], she

completing different tasks, from tra nspor ting va r ious objects between locations to guiding robots on the ground to a target. There are approximately 25 members in the club, who are split into teams of designing, programming, and building quad-copters and other machines for each competition. Despite being comprised of mostly undergraduate engineering students, the Aerial Robotics Club does have students in the College of Arts and Sciences , along with a few graduate students. The club recently added business and marketing departments to garner funding and sponsor sh ips to cont i nue it s development. This has opened up opportunities in the club for students who aren’t from physics or computer science backgrounds. Engineering sophomore Yi Meng Su, who is vice president of public relations for the club, was excited for the upcoming Society of Automobile Engineers competition in April, saying that she looks forward to designing and building their next creation. Although the

club is only in their second year of participating in competitions, they hope to continue their winning form after the last competition. Engineering senior and lead engineer for the club, Ben Kramer, outlined his vision, saying he believed fir mly that Penn Aerial Robotics can become a formidable force in the sphere of collegiate aerial engineering. He said that now the club “has a really solid base of people, solid members, solid funding,” and that they hope to succeed even more in the future. Penn Aerial Robotics now has something to prove in the IARC in August of next year. They have yet to perfect their design to meet the challenge of guiding ground robots with their autonomous flying quad-copter. The aim of this particular competition is to continue attempting increasingly difficult tasks until one school’s team is able to achieve the goal. Penn has a sizable head start over the contending schools for next year, since they were the only team to complete semi-autonomous f light this year.

still wants this job. That’s what love [for] this country looks like.” The cheers from the audience quickly turned into jeers once the First Lady mentioned the name “Donald Trump. ” Obama attacked the Republican nominee and 1968 Wharton graduate numerous times throughout her speech, calling him unfit and too inexperienced to serve as commander-in-chief. “We know that being president is not the same thing as being a game show host,” Obama joked, taking a stab at Trump for his well-known stint as the host of “The Apprentice.” Notable Democratic political

candidates in Pennsylvania also spoke before the First Lady, including Democratic senatorial candidate Katie McGinty and Congressional candidate for the 2nd District Dwight Evans. They both delved into local and state issues that they would like to solve, prefacing Obama’s speech on mostly national reform. She noted how the former secretary of state has traveled to over 112 countries, negotiated long and challenging peace agreements and spent over eleven hours testifying in front of Congress over the Benghazi issue. The crowd let out a roaring cheer when the First Lady concluded by proclaiming, “Hillary is tough.”

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“I’m the first one on the scene when there is an emergency on the college campuses. I put the safety of others before myself. I’m fighting for $15 for the dignity and the respect I deserve.” - LaRhonda Whitmore Philadelphia security officer

LaRhonda Whitmore works as a security officer on college campuses across the city. For her hard work keeping Philadelphia’s college students safe, she only earns $10.25 an hour. She barely makes enough to support her daughter. LaRhonda and 2,500 security officers who work across the city in prominent office buildings, hospitals and universities are fighting for $15 an hour so they don’t have to struggle to provide for themselves and their loved ones. Shouldn’t the men and women who keep our families safe earn enough to support theirs? 32BJ SEIU is the largest property worker’s union in the country. 1515 Market St., Suite 1000, Philadelphia, PA 19102 | www.seiu32bj.org

OPINION Home is where the hatred is THE TITUS TOUCH | A call to action

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 77 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor

Dear Amy Gutmann, Vincent Price, Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum and Monica Yant Kinney, I, as a black student, do not feel safe on this campus. In light of all of the violence that has and continues to occur to black and brown bodies in this country, I have one question for you all: Is it so difficult to, at the very least, write a letter speaking out against the genocide that is occurring across this nation? It’s perplexing to me that you choose to remain silent, as approximately 7 percent of your student body, a 7 percent which I am a part of, grieves and mourns the lives of those with our same complexion. We fear for our lives on a daily basis because we don’t know if today is the day one of us will be slain. We constantly witness cops in this country

laying waste to unarmed black bodies and nearly never facing consequences. On the other hand, you release statements about divesting from fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are a problem, yes, but they are not one as immediate as police brutality. The University’s lack of action makes it clear that its administration will act or speak out only if the name of the school is in danger of slander. Think back to how quickly you had a statement prepared for the sexist, rape culture-enforcing OZ email situation. Yet when black and brown lives are being lost nationwide, the University of Pennsylvania remains silent. What will it take for Penn to even think about making a statement, let alone taking action — One of our black students getting murdered? If that’s the

case, I can guarantee whatever you do will be too little and too late. I care about this place. It’s my home and that is why I am so critical of it: I want it to be better. If it

ties in the nation, it should be the obligation of the institution to aid in the enactment of social change. Penn needs to make a statement calling out the injustices of police forces na-

Yet when black and brown lives are being lost nationwide, the University of Pennsylvania remains silent.” takes putting the reputation of this university on the line to do so, then so be it. Which then begs the question: Why does the University require our protests to spring into action? As a private university, Penn’s voice is not restricted by taxpayer dollars. Rather, being one of the most prestigious universi-

tionwide. It’s a national issue right now, but it’s only a matter of time before it affects Penn. Penn also needs to listen to the voices of its students of color more, and it needs to listen and react to what they want and need. How is it that the University of Vermont, where black students make up 1 percent of the student body,

is doing more than a school in West Philadelphia that loves to brag about its diversity and about being 7 percent black on paper? Answer: You do not care about our mental or emotional stability. In fact, once we’re here you don’t care about black people at all. To you we become nothing more than another statistic. It’s frightening to know that my university does not care what happens to me or my friends until it may become too late for one of us. Actions speak louder than words, and your actions have spoken volumes. As a black man I am already a perceived threat to the country I was born in. I already only have a select few places where I feel safe. This university, along with life experience, has taught me that silence is compliance and I find it disgusting that my univer-

TITUS ADKINS sity, my home for the last three years, has not taken a stand nor has it spoken out on the genocide of black and brown bodies in this country at all. It’s sad to me that my home isn’t a place where I can feel at all safe. Gil Scott-Heron was right when he sang, “Home is where the hatred is.” TITUS ADKINS is a College senior from New York, studying philosophy. His email address is titusa@sas. upenn.edu. “The Titus Touch” appears every other Tuesday.

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One of the problems that has baﬄed journalists for months now is Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary unpopularity. Despite being lucky enough to run against a slurswinging megalomaniacturned-reality-TV-star, Clinton’s unfavorability ratings remain an average of 54 percent — only four points better than that of the Donald. This month’s Atlantic gave a sophisticated pitch of what seems to be the emerging explanation for the more bitter aspects of Clinton’s unpopularity: “Clinton’s candidacy is sparking” a “sexist backlash.” Misogyny, The Atlantic explains, is how a “highly conventional presidential candidate” could face such “unconventional” dislike. The argument, of course, was empirically uncompelling — Clinton was assumed comparable to Obama and the author ignored female political figures like Palin or Fiorina who enjoyed popularity in the same demographics that eviscerate Clinton. But what was most marked about the article was the author’s startling blindness to the primary reason that Clinton faces severe hatred within voter demographics that are not, like his own, staunchly establish-

ment-Democrat. For, in scouring journals to find evidence of societal misogyny, The Atlantic failed to note that no major politician in living memory has run for president with such a clear and continuous record of involvement in unethical activity and demonstrable mendacity when questioned about the same. Over the past decade and a half Clinton has profited greatly from companies paying her husband to “give speeches” directly before she put forth policies favorable to those companies specific interests. For instance, in 2008, Clinton had to prepare an environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL Pipeline. Clinton publicly opposed the Pipeline but after the largest shareholder in the Pipeline project sponsored 2 million dollars worth of Clinton speeches, her private attitude seemed to change. Shortly thereafter, Clinton put through a report so favorable to the pipeline project that the EPA threw a fit — and Congress moved forward with an attempt to approve the project. Examples of such apparent corruption — from the Keystone XL Pipeline to

Swedish telecom giant Ericsson — could be (and have been) enumerated at great length leading to the ineluctable empirical conclusion that the Clintons do make specific policy decisions in response to specific financial contributions to their foundation and their private pockets. What else goes on, no-

does not mean, of course, that the FBI found evidence of wrongdoing among them, but it does mean that Clinton’s own aides were so acutely conscious of being in a cesspool of illegality that they figured an investigation was likely to find reason to charge them, even if, in the final analysis, they might only have been guilty by as-

One of the problems that has baffled journalists for months now is Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary unpopularity.” body — but close Clinton associates — seems to know. But there is little chance that her behind-the-scenes operations are legal, much less ethical. To take an example in the news last week, Clinton’s former chief of staﬀ required immunity in exchange for cooperation with the FBI investigation of the Clinton email server. She was following in the footsteps of four other Clinton aides and associates, forced to deal with the FBI over Clinton’s emails. This

sociation. It is this kind of thing that creates a particular frustration about Clinton as a candidate. The Clintons have perfected a system of mendacity which allows them to reap the benefits (worth, at minimum, millions of dollars) of shady behavior at the apparent price of little more than Bill’s $90,000 fine for perjury. Each time it seems the Clintons may go down permanently in yet another scandal, they tell a careful

sequence of lies that demonstrates their guilt without leading to their punishment. To take the most recent email scandal, Clinton claimed in 2015 that she provided to the State Department “all [her] emails that could possibly be work-related,” in order to avoid troubling allegations that held some back. When nearly three dozen Clinton emails surfaced that were clearly work-related and had not been handed over, Clinton was not punished. Instead, she simply backtracked on her previous lie, claiming she did not send or receive any “classified material” being “well aware of the classification requirements” — parrying a second accusation of criminal carelessness in handling information. When classified emails were found on her server, Clinton retreated again, claiming they were not “marked classified” at the time they were sent and received. When emails were found with content marked by a parenthetical ‘C’, denoting classification, Clinton settled on her current claim that she did not know what ‘C’ stood for, speculating that “it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order,” despite

JEREMIAH KEENAN the absence of any other part of the alphabet heading other paragraphs. Clinton has not backed down on this startling assertion, and — though it is clearly untrue since it references her own psychology — it cannot be conclusively proved false. And that, I think, is the reason so many Americans find the Clintons infuriating. From Travelgate, to Whitewater, to Paula Jones, to 1600 Pennsylvania — in retrospect, the Clintons clearly always have a piece of the guilt, but — with one exception only — they have never failed to lie their way out of the penalty. JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College senior from China, studying mathematics and classical studies. His email address is jkeenan@sas.upenn.edu. “Keen on the Truth” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Lettuce celebrate at the Edible Books Contest The contest was held at the Kelly Writers House MANXI WANG Contributing Reporter

The annual Edible Books Contest was held on Wednesday at the Kelly Writers House to entice people with creative food, hilarious puns and numerous prizes from “Most Appetizing” to “Least Appetizing.” Participants of the Kelly Writers House Edible Books Contest cooked or baked their entries in reference to books. “It’s a great way to bring together lots of different people in different communities at Penn and in the city to celebrate the two things we love the most at the Writers House — books and food.” Kelly Writers House Program Coordinator Alli Katz said. Upon common themes for past entries, Katz said, “Apparently classics are the easiest, because most people know them. And [there are] usually some Harry Potter ones. It’s a very powerful commonality which results at many really great things.”

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Grove. The NEC scheduled a runoff election between the two candidates, but Kim dropped out of the race leaving Grove to win the position. In the second running of the freshman Class Board presidential election, the remaining candidates were El Sewedy, Wharton freshman

Two Harry Potter themed entries appeared this evening, and both turned out to be prizewinners. “Fantastic Treats and Where to Find Them,” which won “Most Conceptual,” featured candies hidden behind huge white balloons. “Hairy (pot) ter” presented a pot attached with sketches of characters with their distinctive haircuts. The piece came to win both “Best Pun” and “People’s Choice.” Many classic novels took a delicious turn at this year’s contest. “This Slice of Pear-adise,” referencing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, was tasty enough to win for “Most Appetizing.” Alongside this entry, “Crepe Expectations” and “MATCHA-do about MUFFINS” were sweet salutations to Dickens and the Bard. And “Life of Cake” took away prize for “Least Appetizing.” Katz said that most of the advertising for the event was done through the typical social media outlets in order to get people interested in the Kelly Writers House. “A lot of it is to get people in the House excited about it,

Rahul Chopra, Wharton freshman Bradley Smith and College freshman Matthew Schnitzer, who filed the charge against Talley. The NEC had filed the other charge against Wright. Voting took place from Monday to Wednesday and a total of 821 votes were counted. El Sewedy received 425 votes and the runner-up, Smith, collected 250 votes. Chopra received 90 votes and Schnitzer tallied 56 votes.

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talking about it, and telling them to tell their friends,” Katz said. College junior Lacy Wright, a first-time participant, knew about the event through affiliation with Kelly Writers House. “I write for the Moviegoer, and that’s actually funded by Kelly Writers House, so we kind of heard about it and our editor-in-chief really wanted to do this,” Wright said. Her group submitted “Consider the Lobster,” a bowl of spaghetti with lobsters. “We want to do something based on the movie “The Lobster”, which is actually based on a short story. Originally I just wanted to get a lobster. And we also remember that there’s a series of essays called ‘Consider the Lobster.’” Wright said. This year, the Writers House invited two judges, food writer Drew Lavor and librarian Caitlin Goodman. Participants also picked out their personal favorites in the category of “People’s Choice.” “We tried different formats. In the first year when the project was managed, I think we purchased ingredients for people

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ahead of time to allow them to put all of their creative energy in the book making,” Director of the Kelly Writers House Jessica Lowenthal said. “We had changes in the judging structure too. Sometimes we have participants

choose their favorites. And some years we had judges do that. One year the judges made the categories on the spot based on the entires and tried to give out as many prizes as possible.” This year marked the 20th

anniversary of the Kelly Writers House and the seventh year for the Edible Books Contest. Again Lowenthal said, “Our hope is that it helps to make the House accessible for anybody who really wants to do this.”

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‘The Late Night’ returns and keeps bending the rules The second season will feature student stand-up acts ALEX RABIN Contributing Reporter

As students settle into the new semester, a team of Penn’s brightest comedic minds is preparing to have them in stitches with the Sept. 30 launch of the second season of “The Late Night.” Created last fall as the pet project and legacy of 2016 College graduates Emma Soren, Daniel Locker and Alexa Fecca, the entirely student-run show enters its sophomore season in the hands of new leadership excited to streamline and expand the enterprise. “This show is the coming together of titans on Penn’s campus,” Digital Media Executive Producer and College senior Blue Bookhard said. He isn’t exaggerating — heavyweights in Penn’s comedy, production and multimedia circles

are fusing their ideas and talents to produce “The Late Night.” “I think in the first year it made sense for us to pretty much stick to how traditional late night shows do it,” Head Writer and College senior Maurin Mwombela said, but the “The Late Night” team has no intention of relying on the show’s past formula. “Tradition is not something we’re trying to stand for,” Bookhard said. “We’re trying to blow that out of the water and flip the entire idea of a student-run show at Penn on its head.” The show’s team anticipates change on numerous fronts. “The biggest change,” Host and College senior Trudel Pare said, is the division of Soren’s enormous behind-the-scenes role into the three separate roles of head writer, showrunner and digital media executive producer. She added that this adjustment of internal structure, coupled with personnel changes and

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In its second season, “The Late Night” will eschew interviews in favor of more comedic segments and stand-up by students from nearby schools.

the installment of a female host, will alter the tone of the show. Organization isn’t the only aspect of the show the team is tweaking. The format of the episodes themselves has also evolved. “‘The Late Night’ episodes used to be themed,” Showrunner and College senior Abigail Lowenthal said. “It’s better

and allows for more freedom in creative content to have less formal themes…so that will give us more freedom.” Because of the both live and online nature of the show, its leaders are looking to continue streamlining it and maintaining its raw excitement.

“I think we’re trying to bring a little bit more of a faster paced energy behind some of our sketches and some of our guest games and that sort of thing,” Lowenthal said. Additionally, the host and cohost intend to engage more on set, starting “some little banter back and forth and some unscripted stuff,” Mwombela said. To help to maintain the show’s dynamic flow, the team is gutting the long, unscripted interview that slowed the momentum of last year’s episodes, Pare added. “The Late Night” team seems thrilled about the addition of an element absent from last season and from most late night shows: stand-up comedy. This season “The Late Night” will have performers from Penn and other Philadelphia schools. While some talk shows employ stand-up comics to warm up audiences, this season will see them perform as acts on the show, Mwombela said.

As for promoting “The Late Night,” Bookhard assures he will focus on “marketing the living hell out of it and really getting a really huge audience.” While the first episode of the season will be loaded with witty material, including satire about oncampus recruitment and interviews with the junior and senior class board presidents, it will also serve as “a test run to see how these changes are working and what we want to do moving forward,” Lowenthal said. As the show enters this season, the students running “The Late Night” are less concerned with precedent and more with making their own rules. “Something we’ve talked about is to allow ‘The Late Night’ to get a little weird and to get a little crazy humor,” Lowenthal said. “I think we’re trying to push a little bit, push the strict framework of what’s supposed to be in a late night show and get a little more kooky.”

Penn Career Services and LinkedIn partner to create new app

New app to match students to job opportunities JACOB WINICK Staff Reporter

Not sure what to do now that oncampus recruiting is nearing its end? Fear not — Career Services has teamed up with LinkedIn to launch a Penn-specific LinkedIn app, which can be downloaded on the iOS App Store and Google Play store. Starting this week, the Penn LinkedIn app will allow students to view thousands of jobs and internships added to the app by Penn’s Career Services, in addition to the normal LinkedIn listings available to the public.

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and live animal research specialists at Penn, consider euthanasia of the red-eared sliders to be the most ethical and legal way to resolve the overpopulation issue and restore the health of the pond. Some members of the Committee, including Casper, Dunham, the manager of the garden and the associated greenhouse have considered various solutions to the overpopulation issue. “We thought a lot of what to do with them,” Casper said. One such option included transplanting the red-eared sliders back to their natural habitats, but was rejected for fear of introducing new genetic combinations and potential diseases to the native population, Casper said. Dunham added that giving the turtles away to willing pet owners would not have been sustainable either. The risk of humans contracting salmonella from interacting with a turtle is very high, and he predicted that if they were to just give away the babies, they’d probably end up back in the BioPond again or in another nonnative ecosystem when they grew

“We in Career Services are anxious to get more students using LinkedIn,” said Patricia Rose, director of Career Services. “This student-specific app will help introduce students who are nervous to use LinkedIn because they don’t know what to put on their profile and it also another way for us to push out our jobs listings.” LinkedIn began testing school specific apps last year with beta tests at San Jose State University and the University of Central Florida. LinkedIn recognized a need for an app, which according to its website helps students “navigate [the] uncharted waters of finding your first job out of school.” LinkedIn and Penn’s Career Services began planning the

Penn-specific app last spring as a way to help Penn students feel more comfortable creating a LinkedIn profile and use it as a networking tool. “LinkedIn is the largest data set in the world of professionals. It’s extremely important for students to establish a LinkedIn profile, and learn how to start using it to help find jobs,” Rose said. “The app is simple and it’s mobile, so we’re hoping students will use it.” The app, which is decorated with pictures of Penn, only requires students to answer two basic questions when creating a profile: “What’s your major?” and “When are you going to graduate?” The LinkedIn algorithm then works to match you with jobs

too large. “Invasive species are really a threat to biodiversity, it’s one of the biggest threats worldwide to biodiversity, and I think that we have a responsibility to make sure that we’re not releasing invasive species in the wild and we’re not helping propagate them, right. So that’s where we’re coming from,” Casper said. “And we haven’t finalized the plans yet, we have no date, we’re still planning this. But we see no other option. This is the most humane and the most ecologically appropriate course of action.” The overpopulation has been attributed to irresponsible pet owners who introduced the redeared sliders to the pond once they grew to a shell length of greater than four inches, Casper said. The introduction of the turtles began between 10 and 15 years ago, Dunham said. The red eared slider and the painted turtle were cohabiting the pond at the time of the pond’s last restoration, about a decade ago, but nothing was done at the time because the balance of the ecosystem was not perceived to be a threat, they said. Release of any non-native species into the wild is illegal in

Pennsylvania. The Food and Drug Administration banned purchasing any turtle with a carapace of shorter than four inches in 1975 in an attempt to stem the spread of salmonella, an easily communicable bacterium to humans that can cause fatal illness. Exceptions to the ban included the purchasing of such turtles for an educational or scientific purpose. Despite the ban, turtles fewer than four inches long continue to be sold illegally online. Along with the euthanization of the turtles, the BioPond will also be removing the overpopulation of koi fish, which Dunham estimates number in the several hundreds. The large size of the fish and their high population density prevents the pond from maintaining a stable nutrient load because the koi also feed off of the vegetation. Dunham added that the turtles could help maintain the ecological balance of the pond if they were eating more of the baby koi at a higher rate. The committee has located a volunteer to keep all of the koi once they have been removed from the pond. The koi will now be kept in a koi pond where they will swim out their days instead of being placed in another natural

and internships that it thinks you would be interested in, even considering companies that have in the past hired students from your school with your major. “Say you are a [Philosophy, Politics, and Economics] major, for example, the app is going to show you the sorts of things that other PPE majors are doing or what else fits in that category,” Rose said. “It’s a good way to broaden your horizons.” While anyone can download the app, only Penn students with an active Penn Key and password would be able to open the job and internship listings posted on a weekly basis by Career Services, from PennLink, Penn’s online job and internship database.

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Due to their invasive nature, professors have decided that the best way to deal with the red-eared slider turtles in the BioPond will be euthanize them. The turtles have impacted the rest of the pond’s ecosystem.

ecosystem. Following the koi’s removal, more plants will be put in the pond, Casper said. Dunham added that the native painted turtles and native species of fish will gradually be added to the pond as well. The garden will post signs around the pond expressly prohibiting the introduction of animals into the pond. The prohibition is already on the James G. Kaskey’s Memorial Garden’s website. Casper added in an emailed

statement that other species, such as cats, are sometimes released into the Kaskey Garden at the end of the Spring semester. On one occasion, lab rats were found in the garden, she added. College junior Annie Freeman, co-president of Penn Animal Advocacy, emphasized the complexity of the issue and assigns part of the blame for this decision to the irresponsible pet owners who initially abandoned their turtles in the pond, but she still

opposes the euthanasia. “I do understand that this is kind of nuanced situation, but that isn’t really important in the case of each of these individual turtles’ lives…They should do everything in their power to find an alternate option,” she said. Dunham and Casper believe that they already have. “I don’t like this any more than anybody else does but we don’t really have any ethical or legal alternatives,” Dunham said.

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Penn looks to keep rolling vs. Harvard in Ivy home opener

booster for the Quakers. â€œWe went toe-to-toe with them and beat them pretty soundly in one set, so we know what we are capable of and know how to get better,â€? coach Kerry Carr said of the loss. Carr was impressed by the teamâ€™s ability to move forward and dedicate itself to improving. â€œIt was such a g reat Monday pract ice, wh ich doesnâ€™t always happen after a loss,â€? the 19th-year coach said. The players seem equally as optimistic as Carr about learning from the Princeton match and improving as a team. â€œEveryone was super excited to get back into the gym and work harder,â€? junior captain and setter Sydney Morton said. With a team lacking any seniors, Morton has been leading the team on and off the court. â€œSomething good about this team is that we are young, so we all have this optimistic approach to the game. We have open minds; we are not afraid to take chances,â€? she added. Carr went on to express admiration and confidence in her junior leaders, including Morton and her co-captain, junior middle blocker Kendall Covington, for stepping up this year. It will be a crucial weekend for the Quakers, as Ivy League play continues its early stages. Harvard and Dartmouth played each other in their

was switching senior Claire Kneizys with sophomore Paige Meily. As a freshman at Columbia and since transferring to Penn, Kneizys has exclusively played back. Meily was lauded earlier this year for her versatility and her ability to play both back and midfield. So what caused the change? â€œI think it plays to both of their strengths a little more,â€? Fink said, who is happy to put Kneizys in a position to succeed. â€œI was asking her to do something that was not her instinctual style and that was hard... Now she has a lot more freedom to play her style, rely on her instincts.â€? Positional changes, especially at such a high level of play, can be daunting, but Kneizys has worked hard to take it all in stride. â€œItâ€™s been good. Elise helps me, tells me where to be and Paige is helping me from the back positionally so Iâ€™m not doing it alone,â€? Kneizys said of her recent transition, adding that Meily has helped to smooth the process. â€œPaige has been doing a great job.â€? Fink agreed. â€œ[Meily] is far more composed ... Sheâ€™s not a forcing tackle kind of player... Sheâ€™ll allow the tackle to come to her and thatâ€™s a little more what you need in a center back.â€? With that, the midfield and defense have been much improved. Theyâ€™ve allowed one goal or fewer in three of their last four contests and are limiting quality chances from opponents. On the other hand, the midfield and attack have had plenty of quality chances but have had trouble turning those near-goals into points on the board. Fink assures that it is

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Dartmouth (6-5, 0-1 Ivy) 7 p.m.

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Harvard (3-7, 1-0 Ivy) 5 p.m.

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Penn volleyball season is heating up. The Quakers will look to bounce back from last weekâ€™s five-set home loss against Princeton as they face Dartmouth and Ha r va rd this week. Penn (5-8, 0-1 Ivy) hosts Dartmouth (6-5, 0-1) on Friday and Harvard (3-7, 1-0) on Saturday. The match against Princeton marked the start of an important stretch of conference games for the Quakers. Penn will look to take advantage of home court to win its first conference games of the year. The team will rely on its experience playing many non-conference games thus far, but will attempt to turn up the level of intensity. Pr inceton (7-3, 1-0) is highly regarded as a talented and well-built team this year. Therefore, competing with and nea rly defeating the Tigers was a huge confidence

respective Ivy League openers earlier this week. The Cr i m son dom i nat e d t he match, defeating the Big Green in straight sets. As for Penn, the team will use its experiences against Dartmouth and Harvard to prepare for the upcoming matchups. Last year, Penn beat Dartmouth in both of the teamsâ€™ contests and will look to continue the success. This year, Dartmouth started off well in its first two tournaments but struggled during the West Virginia Invitational, losing all three matches, before the loss to Harvard. On the other hand, Harvard defeated the Quakers in both matchups last year. The Quakers will be taking it one match at a time, focusing on Dartmouth in practice for much of the week. But, one cannot help but look forward to what should be a very telling match against Harvard, last yearâ€™s Ivy League Champions. â€œFor Harvard we kind of have something to prove, because we lost to them in 3 sets last year,â€? sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn said. Without a doubt, it will be an exciting weekend for Penn volleyball, especially when it comes to the teamâ€™s defense of its home court. â€œPlaying at home is a great advantage,â€? Carr said. â€œThereâ€™s nothing like playing in the Palestra.â€? So, as Ivy League competition continues, the Quakers seem confident and ready for the challenge.

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on precipice of record WILL AGATHIS Associate Sports Editor Sunday

Harvard (4-4, 1-0 Ivy) 12 p.m.

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Heading into the thick of Ivy season, Penn field hockey is ready to roll. After winning their first Ivy contest on Saturday, the Quakers (6-2, 1-0 Ivy) look to repeat their success on Sunday when they host Harvard. The Crimson (4-4, 1-0 Ivy) have had their high and low moments this season. They took down 19thranked Maine on Sunday but have lost three times to unranked opponents. The team faces another challenge in 13th-ranked Boston University before traveling to Ellen Vagelos Field on Sunday to face off with the Quakers. The Red and Blue have the better record and the higher RPI rating â€“ the NCAAâ€™s objective points based system to rank teams based on record and strength of schedule â€“ but the Crimson have defeated a ranked opponent. In other words, it is clear that no team is unequivocally superior to the other. In the Quakersâ€™ last game, they handily took down Drexel, 2-1. They outplayed and outchanced the Dragons from start to finish and never let their opponents establish their offensive attack. That leaves the Quakers with momentum after a stinging loss to No. 1 Syracuse on Sunday. With the season now at its halfway point, coach Colleen Fink is happy with the progress the team has made resolving one weakness, but feels that the team still needs to improve in other facets. Early on, the team most needed to work on its transition defense. The midfield and defenders struggled to get back during possession changes and often left prime real estate open for opponents to shoot at goalie Liz Mata. â€œWeâ€™ve really worked on that very well and our positioning off the ball is much better,â€? Fink said. That certainly helps, but another essential factor in this transformation

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being addressed. â€œWeâ€™ve had a lot of opportunities across the goal. I just donâ€™t think weâ€™re either playing physically enough or working on our timing enough to be able to finish in those situations,â€? Fink said. â€œI donâ€™t think weâ€™re threatening enough in those situations, and I think itâ€™s one thing we need to address.â€? For Penn, the variegated scoring has been one of the teamâ€™s strengths, albeit a relatively novel development. Junior Alexa Hoover â€” far and away the teamâ€™s most potent scorer in 2015 and one of the nationâ€™s most respected â€” has been more pass happy to date, even as she sits one goal away from the programâ€™s career record. The attack is now able to split defenses by drawing in the opposition before feeding the ball to other midfielders and attackers such as Rachel Huang, Sofia Palacios, and Gina Guccione. That trio has combined for 12 goals already, with four apiece. The key to Sunday, however, extends beyond all notions that the team is struggling to threaten on the attack. Instead, it will be about the Quakersâ€™ ability to play the game their way, the teamâ€™s mantra all season long. On Sunday, those two words, â€œOur Way,â€? could be the difference between a happy ending and a crushing conference defeat. â€œKeeping our head and playing our kind of hockey,â€? Kneizys said. â€œSometimes we get [in our heads] if they score on us or have a couple quick good plays, but I think if we play our style weâ€™ll be successful.â€?

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Big wins are great, but the encore is just as important. Penn sprint football will travel to New Hampshire for a Saturday afternoon clash with Franklin Pierce. The Quakers are fresh off a 14-9 triumph over Army, Pennâ€™s first head-to-head win since 2008 and Armyâ€™s second loss overall since 2011. It marked the first win over a service academy for every current Penn player. The Red and Blue were ready for the Black Knights after last yearâ€™s 16-13, double-overtime loss in West Point. Playing lockdown defense, the Quakers surrendered just three field goals and forced three interceptions and two turnovers on downs to sever Army drives. Penn struck first with 11:24 left in the first half on a 40-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Mike McCurdy to sophomore wide receiver Aidan Kelly and followed it up with an 85-yard touchdown to junior wide receiver Andrew Sutton. Penn was able to play from ahead the entire game. After a second-place finish in the CSFL last season, coach Bill Wagner thought Penn demonstrated it could play at the level of the leagueâ€™s best teams, and on Saturday it beat one of them. â€œItâ€™s part of the leg thatâ€™s needed to win this league,â€? Wagner said.

â€œYou have to beat the service academies, and weâ€™ve got one under our belt.â€? Although the Quakers had plenty of time to reflect on last yearâ€™s loss, which was the last game in that season aside from a game against now-defunct Princeton, they wonâ€™t have nearly the time to celebrate their recent win. With a seven-game schedule, there is little room for offgames. â€œJust because we beat one of our tougher opponents doesnâ€™t mean that itâ€™s a walk in the park the rest of the season,â€? Sutton said. Led by McCurdy, the Quakers boast an explosive passing offense. Sutton has stepped up as the top target and his 158 yards and one touchdown against Army earned him CSFL Offensive Player of the Week honors and bumped him up to 289 yards and two touchdowns through two games. And after nine yards against Mansfield, Kelly produced 123 yards against Army and could be another key contributor opposite Sutton. â€œWe all felt that Andrew Sutton was going to step up, and he has a quarterback that can throw the ball deep and has a great arm and heâ€™s able to make those plays down the field,â€? Wagner said. On defense, junior linebacker Quinn Karam earned CSFL Defensive Player of the Week, but there have been many other impactful contributors including senior linebacker Robert Diorio with three interceptions, sophomore linebacker Tom Console with 16 tackles and senior defensive lineman Arthur Dâ€™Angelo with three sacks. In last yearâ€™s matchup, the season opener for each team, Penn beat Franklin Pierce handily in a 51-7 rout. On offense, McCurdy threw

for 211 yards and three touchdowns on 12 of 21 passing, adding another score on the ground. 109 of those yards and two touchdowns went to then-senior wide receiver Henry Mason. Sophomore running back Max Jones turned 16 rushes into 130 yards and two touchdowns. With Mason graduated and Jones out for the season with a broken ankle, expect a lot of sophomore running back Jake Klaus, who will look to bounce back from a rough game against a stout Army defense last week After the loss to Penn and another loss at the hands of Cornell, the Ravens rebounded and won four of their five October games to close out the season in 2015. That included a 18-16 home victory over Navy the week after the Midshipmen defeated the Quakers 29-14 in Annapolis. â€œThey came on, they found a way in which to believe in themselves, and they started winning,â€? Wagner said of Pierce. The 2016 season has been a mixed bag for Franklin Pierce through two games. The Ravens opened with a 24-6 win against Post before a 54-13 shellacking by Navy. So far, their offense has left something to be desired, as quarterback Jose Melo has completed just 29.2% of his passes and has two touchdowns to three interceptions. It hasnâ€™t been much better on the ground, as running back Tyler Zech is averaging just 2.8 yards per carry. However, the Ravensâ€™ strength comes from their defense, which has accumulated 22 tackles for a loss, 10 sacks and three interceptions so far. â€œThey have a real good, aggressive, defensive team, â€œ Wagner said. â€œI think itâ€™s going to be a very physical, tough game for both of us.â€?

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Quakers look to avenge loss with win over Cornell W. SOCCER | Penn hopes

to avoid repeat of 2015 NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor FRIDAY

Cornell (5-3, 0-1 Ivy) 7 p.m.

Ithaca, N.Y.

It’s hard not to draw parallels. In 2015, Penn women’s soccer started out 4-1-2 in non-conference play, scoring at a torrid pace thanks to a strong showing from a freshman forward. Then Ivy play hit, opening with a shutout loss to Harvard. Here we are in 2016. After going 4-1-1 in non-conference contests — with freshmen Emily Sands and Emma Loving outpacing defenses left and right — the Crimson shut the Red and Blue out, scoring on a suspect penalty and swiping three points at Rhodes Field. The Quakers (4-2-1, 0-1 Ivy) outshot Harvard (6-3, 1-0), 13-9, much as they were wont to do a year ago. Statistically, on paper, it seems as though events are repeating themselves. Penn coach Nicole Van Dyke, understandably, feels

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mired in a winless start. But that ignores the reality of scheduling. For Penn, opening the year against Lehigh and Fordham is a purposeful test. The Mountain Hawks make a ritual of running through Ivy opponents in their non-conference slate and the Rams boast one of the FCS’ preeminent athletes in star running back Chase Edmonds. Both represent opportunities to size up the state of the program headed into all-important Ivy play. “I don’t think we’ve shown our best colors these first two games. We have a lot left in us,” senior captain Nick Demes said. “Going back at the film for the last two games you can see those little instances where if we just did one more thing we were coached, the game could have been totally different. On the swing of it, one thing could have changed the game entirely.”

differently. “Last year, we’d outshoot 20 teams, we never looked like we were going to score a goal,” she said. “This year, even if we score two goals, we still have three, four, five opportunities that look like great opportunities.” At the start of conference play, the Red and Blue found themselves in an awkward spot. Because of NSO and the logistics of scheduling, they played their first Ivy contest with two fewer games than almost every other team in the league. Nonetheless, Penn now has two options. Either the Quakers can let themselves stay in the treads of 2015, or they can grow beyond last year’s foundation. “We want to have a known identity,” senior defender Paige Lombard said. “When people watch us play, we want them all to say the same thing, ‘This is the kind of team they are.’” This weekend offers the chance to pick the path for the rest of the year. Cornell awaits, a nice, low-hanging fruit for Van Dyke’s squad. The Big Red (35-1, 0-1) haven’t finished in the top half of the Ivy League since 1995. They’ve finished last 13 times in that span, including nine straight times from 200513.

Dartmouth has elected to begin with New Hampshire and Holy Cross. The Big Green needed a late comeback to win their opener, 22-21, before beating out a 1-3 Holy Cross squad. Solid wins, not aweinspiring. But as long as the Ivy League maintains its ban on postseason play, the non-conference record is irrelevant. That leaves teams with two options: Schedule some easy wins early to boost confidence, or test yourself from the get-go and take your lumps early for the sake of growth. “We’re really hungry to get this first win. We’re definitely hungry to get this first win in the Ivy League,” sophomore corner Mason Williams said. “So it really doesn’t matter who we’re playing, we’re going to prepare as hard as we can to get a ‘W.’” Penn and Dartmouth have chosen differently, and this weekend will provide insight into the success of each method. In this clash of philosophies,

“It’s almost like we finished the [Harvard] game like, ‘OK, I feel bad for Cornell,’ because we want to take it against Cornell,” Van Dyke said. “We don’t care who we’re playing. We just want to win games.” In short, this game is entirely about Penn. If the Red and Blue are going to define the season instead of letting it define them, it will have to start this week. That said, there’s plenty of confidence to go around. “We’re gritty, but it’s more than that,” senior forward Olivia Blaber said. “We play good soccer.” The Quakers have built internal faith on their growth from a year ago. They’ve changed, the Ivy League has changed and Van Dyke has had time to more fully implement her system. A significant portion of that has revolved around the offense. Van Dyke alluded to the squad getting better at converting opportunities. Thus far, that has spelt out a more balanced spread of scoring. Seven different players have found the net, and two more have added assists to the scoresheet, including defenders like Lombard and senior Riann Winget and midfielders like Sands and junior Erica Higa, and it has

the nation’s eyes will turn to Hanover. For the first of three times this year, Penn will be playing in a Friday night game on NBC Sports Network. “You get that little extra edge, that little extra 10 percent of excitement for a night game under the lights,” Demes said. “It takes you back to the high school days, makes it that much more fun.” Though the Quakers take the field on short rest, it’s not a novel situation for them. Last year, they were featured in the same program, beating Yale at home, 34-20. “I think you end up doing a little less, and less a lot of times is better,” said Penn coach Ray Priore, reflecting on the compressed week. “Focus on the little things there, don’t dream up so many different plays, just find what we do, and do it well.” This season will not be defined by Friday night, but a statement will certainly be made. While this is not Penn’s first test of the year, it’s the first one that’s graded.

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Senior forward Oliva Blaber has been a consistent presence in Penn’s offense this year. After having only scored two goals in her first three years, the N.J. native has already doubled that with two in her final season.

taken pressure off of the forwards. “I can’t imagine what teams are saying about us, ‘Their whole team are goal scorers, watch out for everyone.’ I think it’s just

awesome and is a testament to what we want our identity to be as such an all-around team,” Lombard said. Perhaps it’s just internal facing, perhaps it reflects the

truth. The Quakers say they’re more confident. The stats say they’re at risk of repeating what happened a year ago. Penn has six more Ivy games to reveal the answer. That starts with Cornell.

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the performance we are looking to put in, how we want to approach it. And that’s no different going into this weekend,” Fuller maintained. With a win this weekend over Cornell, Penn could improve its record to 3-1-4 and start off strong in Ivy League conference play. With Neumman and the rest of the team starting to gain momentum, we can expect an entertaining game in Ithaca. “It’s a process, and we want to get better every day,” Fuller said. “The goal going into Cornell is just to continue getting better.”

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Senior forward Alec Neumann had a hat trick in the first half of Penn’s 5-0 win over Drexel Saturday, Penn opens Ivy play this weekend.

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Penn women’s soccer must confront the struggles of 2015 headed to Cornell

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Fresh off blowout W, Ivy play awaits M. SOCCER | Neumann looks to

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KUNAL NAIK Contributing Reporter SUNDAY

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conference play. But fast forward to this year. The Big Green (2-0) lost almost the entirety of their starting lineup, while all of the Quakers’ weapons have returned. In an apparent reversal of expectations, it has been the Hanoverians that have jumped out quick in the beginning of the season, while the Red and Blue are

“Ivies are another level,” Penn men’s soccer coach Rudy Fuller said of his preparation for his team’s next big game. This Sunday, Penn (2-1-4) will be heading up to Ithaca to face Cornell. Although Penn has played six games already this season, this will be its first against an Ivy League foe. Penn is fresh off of a resounding 5-0 win over its next door neighbors, Drexel. Fuller was predictably pleased with the way the team performed last Saturday. “We hadn’t had a multiple goal win in a while and it’s nice to get that going into the Ivies,” Fuller said. “We want to be a team that plays on the front foot. We want to be proactive. We want to be aggressive. We want to be a team that puts a stamp on the game.” Senior captain Alec Neumann had an especially excellent performance, scoring a hat trick over the weekend. He hopes that he can carry this momentum into the team’s meeting with Cornell. “It really helps your confidence and I think everyone on the team has played well and we are really starting to find our groove,” Neumann reflected. Cornell currently holds a record of 0-7-2 which may seem comfortable for Penn. However, the Big Red’s past matchups this season included the always strong Virginia and No. 3 Syracuse. They have also not yet faced an Ivy League opponent. Neumann does not underestimate the strength of Cornell and is looking forward to facing the Big Red to start Ancient Eight play. “I think it’s really good to start against Cornell because they’re a pretty tough team and they’ll really battle you the entire game,” Neumann said. “I think it really sets the tone well for the rest of the Ivy season.” However, Fuller sees little benefit in looking too deeply into records and would rather focus on his own team. “You know, to be honest, we haven’t really done a lot of talking before any game about an opponent, their record, whether their a high or low level team,” Fuller said. After Penn’s recent wins at Drexel and La Salle (5-4), it is understandable why Fuller will want to keep his philosophy the same. “We have really put the focus on ourselves and

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NICK BUCHTA

FRIDAY

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Senior Sports Editor

Hanover, N.H.

Last year, Dartmouth football came to University City and put the Ivy League on notice. They trounced the Quakers, 42-20, on the backs of standout performances from quarterback Dalyn

Williams and wide receiver Victor Williams. Then-junior quarterback Alek Torgersen went down in the first half, forcing Andrew Lisa to step in after the Red and Blue had dug

themselves into a 27-6 hole. It was a confluence of events that left the Quakers on the short end of things. Across the Ancient Eight, the punditocracy — even on Penn’s campus — felt that that the Ivy title was the Big Green’s to lose. They were half right. Or, more accurately, one-third right. Yes, Dartmouth went on to take the title, sharing it with Penn and Harvard after going 6-1 in

DP SWAMIS

CAPTION AMERICA SAVES THE DAY Mission report: September 29, 2016. While thinking about what to write as I fill in for “The Incredible Sulk” for a third straight week, I remembered that a great man once said, “With great power comes great responsibility” (a far, far lesser man once said, “Dartmouth football will win the Ivy League”). But when senior sports editor Nick Buchta told me to write a superherothemed Swami blurb, I decided not to include too many superhero movie puns and references, so as not to

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wind up on the wrong end of Nick’s Fury. Nick often complains that if I spent as much time and brainpower on doing my job as sports editor as I do making memes, making puns, and making Nick angry, he would have no work to do. But intelligence is a privilege, and it needs to be used for the good of the people. While the 2015 Ivy League football trophy had more names on it than the cast of Captain America: Civil War, I had high hopes for the Quakers in their quest to win the whole thing

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this year. But the Red and Blue have come out flat thus far, possibly showing signs of the all-too-common Ivy Title Hangover. Peace has cost them strength. Victory has defeated them. So while I don’t think Penn will be able to turn it around this week against a hot Dartmouth team, I do believe they will turn it around at some point and make a run at the Ivy title. Why? Because we’ll need them to. Let the games begin! Prediction: Dartmouth 34, Penn 24.

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