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Penn hosts open forum on sexual assault survey results Students criticized lack of change since 2015 ZOEY WEISMAN Staff Reporter

Students criticized Penn at an open forum Tuesday on the results of the recent Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and

Sexual Misconduct, which demonstrated no significant change from the results of the 2015 survey.

Administrators at the forum, including Penn Violence Prevention Program Coordinator Katie Chockley, explained statistics from the survey and students in small groups discussed peer support and fraternity sexual vio-

lence. The event was held at the LGBT Center.

The 2019 AAU survey results found that at Penn, 25.9% of undergraduate women reported experiencing some form of unwanted sexual contact since coming to college, a 1.3% decrease from 2015.

The percentage of transgender, non-binary, and genderqueer un-

dergraduate students who reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact since entering college also rose to 21.5%, up from the 19% reported in 2015.

Chockley began the forum by presenting data from the AAU survey. One piece of data is that the second-highest reason that students did not report sexual assault was that they felt it was not seri-

ous enough to contact a program or resource.

“The survey touched on so many different things that we have to address and it’s hard to have one conversation,” said one meeting attendee, who introduced themselves as a graduate student.

“I think that one conversation is: How do we address students not saying that they do not know

where to go? And another conversation is how to stop sexual assault and violence; how can faculty, staff, [teaching fellows] help undergrads?”

While some attendees expressed anger, others noted more complicated feelings they had in reaction to the data.

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NEC conducts internal training on diversity Members called for more sensitivity in student gov.

CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

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Tom Steyer spoke to around 50 students at an event organized by Penn Democrats at Irvine Auditorium. After the event, Steyer sat down for an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, describing his plans to combat climate change, boost civic engagement, and take on Trump.

The Nominations and Elections Committee held a diversity training for all six branches of Penn Student Government on Oct. 19, following internal calls for the governing bodies to be more sensitive to diversity earlier this semester.

Malik Muhammad, an associate director of the LGBT Center, led the hour and a half long training in Irvine Auditorium. NEC Vice Chair for Nominations and College junior Urooba Abid, who was a primary organizer of the train-

ing, said that Muhammad’s presentation included topics like privilege, microaggressions, biases, and interactive games for the participants.

Muhammad defined these terms, talked about how to realize how some words can impact people of certain backgrounds, and encouraged those in attendance to share their own experiences with their peers.

Abid said 48 people in total attended the presentation, including three-fourths of the NEC body. Abid said NEC members were required to attend and those who did not attend had to submit a valid excuse.

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At Penn, Steyer calls Trump ‘a fraud’ The DP sat down with the presidential candidate GRANT BIANCO Senior Reporter

Presidential candidate and billionaire financier Tom Steyer discussed climate change, economic fairness, and immigration with an audience of about 50 students and community members at a Penn Democrats event

Monday evening.

After the event at Irvine Auditorium, Steyer sat down for an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian in which he laid out his plans to combat climate change, boost civic engagement among young people, and take on President Donald Trump.

The hedge fund manager-turnedpresidential candidate, who appeared at another Penn Dems event in February 2018, is currently poll-

ing at a RealClearPolitics average of 1.0%.

Despite these low national numbers, Steyer has spent extensively on local television advertisements in early-voting primary states and has qualified for the fifth Democratic debate in November. Steyer is the candidate who most recently entered the 2020 race, having announced his presidential bid in July.

Steyer has gained media atten-

tion for his large ad buys in the 2020 election, spending tens of millions of dollars of his own money on his presidential bid. On Monday, NBC News reported that his spending on TV ads has nearly reached $30 million.

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All-conservative immigration panel frustrates Penn students Speaker says undocumented immigrants are trespassers HANNAH GROSS Staff Reporter

A Penn Undergraduate Law Journal panel about immigration Monday included six conservative speakers, prompting criticism among some attend-

ees for not featuring viewpoints of those in favor of immigration.

One panelist at the event was Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Somebody who doesn’t belong here — who has broken

the law to get here — is a trespasser,” Krikorian said at the event when asked whether undocumented immigrants should be entitled to benefits provided to citizens. “If somebody breaks into my house, I don’t have to feed them dinner.”

College junior and attendee Elsa Wefes-Potter said it is important to include a balance

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of perspectives in immigration debates.

“To actually have a productive conversation, it’s not having six people all of the same perspective with the furthestleft person declaring himself as center-right,” Wefes-Potter said. “While I think that having conversations about immigration in the current age is really

important, it needs to be done respectfully and the bare minimum is that people who are actually living that experience are an active part of the conversation.”

College sophomore and Penn Undergraduate Law Journal Director of Programming and Communications Joseph Ravenna, who served as the

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Co-founders of theSkimm visit Penn Authors came for the Authors@Wharton series KEELY DOUGLAS Staff Reporter

Co-founders of the newsletter theSkimm, 2008 College of Arts and Sciences graduate Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, spoke at Penn on Tuesday evening about the importance of civic awareness, their journey in start-up culture, and overcoming obstacles as women in business.

Zakin and Weisberg visited as a part of the Authors@ Wharton Speaker Series, which was moderated by Management professor Adam Grant and which aims to foster dialogue between various members of the Penn community outside of the classroom.

In Huntsman Hall, Zakin and Weisberg discussed their book “How to Skimm Your Life,” a New York Times bestseller

that provides insight into personal finance, stress management, and career-building. theSkimm is a seven-yearold media company that aims to increase civic engagement through its subscription-only newsletter. Their daily newsletter, along with their Skimm Ahead app and the Skimm This podcast, is curated as a short and easyto-read summary of news and current events that is marketed toward urban millennial women.

Throughout the event, the pair touched on how their lack of previous management experience, along with advice from various mentor figures, led them to experiment with ways to create a positive company culture and promote brand loyalty.

Longtime friends Zakin and Weisberg met on a study abroad trip in Rome, while both on the hunt for fried artichokes. The two ended up working at the Washington, D.C. branch of NBC and both left at the same time to de-

velop theSkimm.

When Grant asked if their goals have changed as their company has expanded, the pair said they have maintained their goal of creating a source of non-partisan information for the “SkimmGirl” — what Weisberg called the ideal woman who is an informed and active citizen.

“We always loved reading and telling stories, and we always wanted to let people know what was going on first,” Weisberg said.

After considering the distance between the conversations in Washington and her native Chicago, Weisberg explained that although she loved working in news, she was frustrated by the lack of connection between the events that were occurring in Washington and the lives of ordinary people they affected.

Zakin said the pair had a “crazy amount of trust” in one another, which was necessary in the early years, as they were so busy that

they did not have time for anything less. They spoke specifically of the difficulties they found in the world of fundraising both as women and as individuals who had never raised capital before.

“We don’t advise people to go into business with their friends,” Zakin said. “We know we’re the exception.”

At the end of the event, Zakin and Weisberg emphasized their mission to help people make informed decisions in life through both theSkimm and their book.

“What we say is that it’s a movement for choice,” Zakin said. “And it’s a movement so that you have the ability to make an informed decision. We don’t care what you do with it. We don’t care what you do with your personal finance and whether or not you invest. We do care that you have all the information in front of you to make an educated decision and make a choice — and that’s power.”

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Zakin and Weisberg visited as a part of the Authors@Wharton Speaker Series, which was moderated by Management professor Adam Grant and which aims to foster dialogue between various members of the Penn community outside of the classroom.

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students who attended the event recieved packets with the results from the most recent Association of American Universities Campus Climate survey.

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in terms of bystander intervention, in terms of reasons why folks weren’t reporting in 2015, versus what it looks like now,” said another attendee, who was wearing a Division of Public Safety jacket.

While Chockley acknowledged the increase in awareness and understanding of resources regarding assault, she also noted that Penn lags behind its peer institutions “in a distinct way.”

After the presentation of the data, attendees broke out into five groups to discuss specific aspects of sexual assault on campus. Some groups talked about ways dorms can be a setting for education and violence, while others discussed fraternity violence and programs to provide sexual assault education.

During their small-group presentation, one attendee said that the existence of fraternities allows for sexual violence.

The event was sponsored by multiple organizations including the LGBT Center, Penn Women’s Center, the Undergraduate Assembly, the Penn Association for Gender Equity, and the Lambda Alliance.

Chockley said the goal of the forum was to highlight student voices in light of the survey results. Chockley, along with LGBT Center Director Erin Cross, spoke of the importance of providing students a space on campus to have their voices heard

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“We wanted to make sure that a forum was created for a more diverse audience [because] all of these issues affect everybody on campus, so we just wanted to make sure there was a student forum where all student voices would be heard,” Cross said.

Chockley said most of the discussion surrounding the AAU survey is centered on a select number of “topline” statistics. She spent a large portion of the forum comprehensively explaining the data from the survey.

“My hope is that students go into their advocacy work around these issues better informed and better able to use this data and use this information we have from AAU and having targeted smart activism,” Chockley said.

Students who attended the event said while this forum did not solve the issues reflected in the survey data, it did provide a space where they could honestly and constructively continue a very important conversation about sexual assault on campus.

As PAGE chair, College senior Tanya Jain said she is fortunate to be able to meet with administrators, but the ability to raise critical questions should be extended to all students.

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Expert unpacks Egyptian authoritarianism Amy Hawthorne visited the Middle East Center JOHN PARK Staff Reporter

Middle East expert Amy Hawthorne gave a talk at Penn Tuesday evening on the changes that Egypt has gone through under the rule of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, arguing that al-Sisi’s rule is worse than that of former president Hosni Mubarak.

The lecture, titled “A New Authoritarianism: Egypt in the Age of al-Sisi,” was organized by Penn’s Middle East Center. Hawthorne, the Deputy Director for Research at the Project on Middle East Democracy, gave a brief overview of the situation in Egypt today under al-Sisi, who led a coup to overthrow Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. She was joined by Nada Matta, an assistant professor of global studies and sociology at Drexel University, who provided feedback and questions.

During the lecture, Hawthorne mainly focused on several trends in Egypt that she observed after al-Sisi came to power. She compared al-Sisi’s rule to that of Hosni Mubarak, who served as president from 1981 to 2011 before stepping down as a result of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

“My assessment is that for a lot of Egyptians, the alSisi government is somewhat worse that that of Mubarak,” Hawthorne said. She cited recent economic crises and fiscal reforms enacted by the al-Sisi government that have worsened underemployment and living conditions for most Egyptians compared to conditions before 2011.

Hawthorne added that alSisi has expanded the role of the military in the econ-

omy to secure his position as Egypt’s leader, which she said has worsened corruption and damaged private business in the country.

Hawthorne contended that the al-Sisi regime has actually been more repressive than the Mubarak regime when it comes to mass incarceration and detaining civilians.

“The Mubarak regime was a semi-authoritarian regime in which there existed a small margin for civilian participation and diversity of political parties,” she said, contrasting this to the lack of civilian politicians under alSisi. “The judiciary along with the media and the parliament are filled with people loyal to [alSisi], and even if you individually express your opinion without any

political affiliation, you might face arrest and detainment.”

Although al-Sisi and Mubarak both started out as military officers, Hawthorne added, Mubarak had some experience in civilian politics as vice president before becoming president, while alSisi had none. She highlighted the al-Sisi government’s inability to address the nation’s security threats, including acts of violence committed by anti-state groups that have often targeted civilians.

Considering that security is crucial in a economy dependent on tourism, Hawthorne said such ineffectiveness fuels the “ongoing cycle of the citizens’ resentment toward the government.”

Toward the end of the lecture, Hawthorne expressed

concern that the al-Sisi regime is putting Egypt’s long-term sustainability in jeopardy, especially since the vast majority of its citizens are excluded from the nation’s policy-making process.

She said the United States should continue monitoring the situation in Egypt.

“Egypt is a recipient of a huge amount of foreign aid by the U.S., and U.S. tax dollars are being used to support the [Egyptian] government, so that means that we have a direct stake in what happens in Egypt,” Hawthorne said.

“Also, it’s the biggest [and] most populous country in the region, and it’s important to the Middle East, which is a region that continues to loom large in U.S. foreign policy.”

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Hawthorne, the Deputy Director for Research at the Project on Middle East Democracy, gave an overview of the situation in Egypt today under al-Sisi, who led a coup to overthrow Mohamed Morsi, in 2013.

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said. “It just so happened that we got people that seemed to be leaning one way, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.”

At the event, titled “Is Immigration a Right?,” the six men with backgrounds in immigration law from academic, legal, and advocacy perspectives all agreed immigration to the United States is not an inherent right.

About 40 people attended the event and heard the panelists discuss issues including birthright citizenship, fiscal impacts of immigration, ways the United States should decide who is permitted to enter the country, and what rights should be provided for those who are in the country without documentation.

“I think that there is no inherent right [to immigration], but the United States has recognized political rights as part of our jurisprudence since the very beginning,” said panelist David Spaulding, a lawyer at the Philadelphia office of immigration law firm Green and Spiegel.

Following about an hour of prepared questions, the event switched to a town hall format.

Audience members wrote questions which were screened by Penn Undergraduate Law Journal members before being passed to the panelists.

In response to a question on climate change refugees, Krikorian said, “Climate change will

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happen — if it does happen — slowly and gradually. It will not be a question of 16% of Bangladesh being underwater in a year.”

Wefes-Potter was motivated to interject, citing an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that up to 1 billion people could be displaced by 2050 due to climate change.

“I do think in an intellectual discussion we do need to be basing the figures [on] the facts,” she said.

The back-and-forth was cut off in order to maintain the format of the panel. Ravenna said that while it would have been interesting to have more interaction between the audience and the panel, the main goal of the event was to provide information on immigration’s legal issues rather than giving a platform for political opinions.

College freshman Jay Allen said this goal was achieved and there was much to be learned for those in attendance.

“I feel like whether you were someone on the left, [a] moderate, or the right you had a chance to learn something new,” Allen said.

Immigration continues to be a hot-button issue around the country and at Penn, days after student protests led Penn to shut down a Perry World House event where former Immigrations and Custom Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan was scheduled to speak.

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Attendees at the event criticized the organizer’s decision to enlist panelists of largely similar perspectives for the immigration debate.

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impeachment. As an early adopter of the impeachment cause, Steyer has seen his position become mainstream in the Democratic party in recent months.

Steyer said he is passionate about addressing climate change because of his desire to assist young people and save the planet — not out of political expediency.

“I’m not talking about climate change to be political. I’m not doing it to please young people,” Steyer told the DP. “What we could be setting in motion, if we’re not smart, is totally scary.”

Steyer also said he hoped the climate would get more coverage at future debates, calling the absence of environmental questions in past debates a “disservice” to Americans.

The Democratic National Committee has drawn the ire of progressive activists for refusing to hold a debate devoted solely to the issue.

“At the last debate, I brought up climate [change] two or three times.

I think Bernie mentioned it once in passing, and that was it,” Steyer said.

“It’s priority one.”

Steyer also emphasized his business credentials as a reason he could beat Trump in a head-to-head matchup, calling the 45th president and fellow billionaire a “fake businessman” and a “fraud.”

“He’s going to try to run [his campaign] on the economy,” Steyer said. “If there’s anyone on the Democratic side who has the expertise to go toe-to-toe with him on the economy, it’s me.”

Steyer singled out Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and trade war with China as policies he saw as especially harm-

ful. Steyer said the tax cuts, which lowered the corporate tax rate, cut income taxes for the majority of Americans, and capped state and local tax deductions, unfairly benefited wealthy Americans.

“The tax plan he put through is the biggest giveaway to rich people and corporations in America,” Steyer said of the 2017 tax cuts. “It’s a direct attack on every working American.”

The candidate was equally harsh on Trump’s imposition of tariffs on major United States trading partners, such as China and the European Union. “[Trump’s] trade war is a failure, hurting working Americans, hurting businesses, killing farmers, a straight-up mistake,” Steyer said.

“He refuses to acknowledge it.”

Despite his pessimism about Trump’s current policies, the candidate said young people were the “linchpin” for solving many of America’s problems, and that his youth-centered advocacy group NextGen America demonstrates his long-time commitment to addressing the concerns of young voters.

“NextGen America is really focused on mobilizing young people,” Steyer said. “It’s not new to me about how important young people are.”

Steyer added civic participation from young people was critical to addressing important issues and creating a better America.

“If we can break the corporate stranglehold on our democracy and stabilize the climate, [young people] are in the best position of anyone ever,” Steyer said. “If your generation really turns out and votes comparably with the rest of America, we’re going to win everything.”

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New Penn Labs website makes course planning easier

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Penn Labs recently launched the product LEANNA TILITEI Staff Reporter

As students begin registering for spring classes, a new product from Penn Labs is set to make course planning even easier.

Penn Course Plan compiles the information from Penn Course Review and Penn InTouch on one webpage. Students can search for courses, build mock schedules, and filter classes by requirements, difficulty, and quality without switching between tabs. A subgroup within Penn Labs has been working on the site using course description data provided by Penn and student reviews of classes.

Penn Labs Co-Director and Engineering junior Davis Haupt said Penn Course Plan is built from an older site known as Penn Course Search, which was created by 2018 Engineering graduate Ben Bernstein.

Penn Course Search allowed users to search for classes and

build mock schedules, but it did not integrate data from Penn Course Review. Bernstein began the project his sophomore year and asked Penn Labs to take over when he graduated.

“We really wanted to focus on the mock scheduling course planning aspect of it, which is really why we rebranded it,” Haupt said. “With Penn Course Plan, you’re really planning your courses out.”

College junior Jacob Linfesty said he has found Penn Course Plan useful when planning his schedule for the coming semester.

“When you use Penn InTouch to do your scheduling, you have to add courses to your course cart and then add it into mock schedules,” Linfesty said. “[Penn Course Plan] takes out that middle step of switching screens, which really helped me out.”

Linfesty said, however, that “many people don’t know about” Penn Course Plan, adding that he only heard of the site because his co-worker in the admissions office men-

tioned it to him.

When asked about Penn Course Plan, both Wharton freshman Pedro Saltos Montenegro and College freshman Dylan Radley said they did not know what the platform was.

Once they visited the webpage and played with its features, both quickly formed strong opinions about the site.

Saltos Montenegro said he finds the website exciting because its features “update in the moment.” He also praised the site’s interface and commended how it calculates each user’s average hours of class per day, a feature Penn InTouch does not have.

Radley, however, said he does not find the integrative aspect of Penn Course Plan particularly necessary because he can already create mock schedules using Penn InTouch.

He added that while he recognizes that Penn Course Plan’s integration of course description and course rating “could be useful,” he is “relatively happy with Penn InTouch” for now.

Even so, Penn Course Plan has room for improvement.

Linfesty pointed out discrepancies between the information on Penn Course Plan and other platforms, adding that some courses on PennInTouch do not appear on Penn Course Plan and some ratings on the new site differ from ratings on Penn Course Review.

Haupt said Penn Labs already has plans to improve the website in the near future.

Once advanced registration ends, he said, Penn Course Plan will allow users to see if a class is open and will connect users to Penn Course Alert to let them know if a closed class opens. Penn Labs also hopes to provide course recommendations on the site based on courses that users put into their schedules, as well as allowing users to create mock schedules for more than one semester in the future.

“We want to serve people’s needs, and if we’re not serving people’s needs right now, we are actively working to get closer to that,” Haupt said.

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hiladelphia will hold general elections for its City Council on Nov. 5. Over 237,000 votes were cast in the May primary elections, a turnout that surpassed that of the primary elections in both 2017 and 2018 and the general election in 2017.

Of the 17 seats on the City Council, the entire city can vote for seven — the “at-large” seats — which do not represent specific geographic zones but rather the city as a whole. Each party can list up to five at-large candidates on the ballot. This historically has meant that five of these seats are held by Democrats and the other two

by Republicans, since Philadelphia is an overwhelmingly Democratic city.

But these seats can be filled by any candidate from any party, which is why alongside two of the incumbent Democrats, The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board is endorsing two Working Families Party candidates, who are on the verge of unseating the Republican incumbents.

Penn students should vote in this election regardless of their political beliefs. Political apathy among young people is an ever-present issue. In fact, only 31% of eligible young people voted in the 2018 midterms. At Penn, it’s easy to feel insulated from the problems that the rest of the city has to face. But students don’t have to see it that way. Penn students should strive to use their voices and their political power to help the city, especially considering many of Penn’s actions, historically and currently, are perceived by residents as harmful to the community. By understanding the role that students play as residents, albeit temporary, of Philadelphia, they can help make this city a better place.

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Incumbent Democrat Helen Gym, a 1993 College graduate and former Daily Pennsylvanian and 34th Street editor, was first elected to City Council in 2016, and since then has pursued a consistent human rights agenda. She has made education a priority, particularly as chair of City Council’s Children and Youth Committee. Gym has contributed to legislation to enact progressive policies that focus on young people as well as working families by improving living wage laws.

As the first Asian American woman to have a seat on City Council and a second-generation immigrant, Gym has pursued a strong agenda of racial justice and immigrant rights. Her con-

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stant positive impact as an at-large City Council member has served the city well, which is why Penn students should vote to re-elect her. Her focus on youth issues and Philadelphia students in particular ought to make her a popular candidate among Penn students, particularly those who went to public school before coming to Penn.

Allan Domb Allan Domb, also an incumbent Democrat, was first elected to City Council in 2015. He has successfully used his experience as a businessman, real estate broker, and president of the Greater Philadelphia Association of Realtors in order to stimulate business in the city. His actions have contributed to positive job growth and attracted millennials to Philadelphia’s manufacturing and technology industries.

As an at-large Council member, Domb has also been committed to eradicating poverty, particularly through his advocacy for the Earned Income Tax Credit. He is committed to efficient economic growth and equity for Philadelphia’s residents. Students, especially those interested in staying to work in Philadelphia after graduation, should look to him as someone who cares about their ability to find a high-paying job, as well as the wellbeing and job prospects of the city’s less fortunate residents.

Kendra Brooks Endorsed by both presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and incumbent Democratic Council member Helen Gym, Kendra Brooks has thus far raised $213,000 in campaign funds, unheard of for a candidate outside of the two major parties.

The Working Families Party, of which Brooks is a candidate, is a grassroots movement of working people that prioritizes progressive values.

Brooks’ platform, which emphasizes affordable housing and quality education as part of the broader goal of ending inequality and poverty, promises to tackle issues that Brooks considers “deeply personal.” She aims to ensure that the voices of low-income and minority Philadelphians are no longer excluded from the policymaking process.

Brooks, along with her fellow WFP candidate Nicolas O’Rourke, represent a unique opportunity to unseat incumbent Republicans David Oh and Al Taubenberger. The structure of

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Philadelphia’s City Council at-large districts means that instead of voting straight-ticket for the Democrats, Penn students can prioritize progressive voices and leaders regardless of party affiliation by voting for Kendra Brooks.

Nicolas O’Rourke Nicolas O’Rourke, also of the WFP, is a strong proponent of social justice.

He is a community organizer for POWER, an interfaith organization which seeks to empower Philadelphians and improve quality of life in the city. He’s also the pastor of the Living Water United Church of Christ in Oxford Circle. His campaign website states that his focus at POWER has been on

and Philadelphia students. With a detailed plan for long-term solutions to pressing problems, O’Rourke would be an effective City Council member who would strive to meet Philadelphians’ unaddressed needs, including many of the problems that Penn students can witness right here in West Philadelphia.

Philadelphia City Council elections are usually determined by the primaries — Democrats have such a large majority in this city that they will likely win most wards and all five of the at-large districts that they’re allowed to put up candidates for. But Democrats aren’t the only ones fighting for better conditions for Philadelphia students, criminal justice reform, affordable housing, and the many other

Penn students should strive to use their voices and their political power to help the city, especially considering many of Penn’s actions, historically and currently, are perceived by residents as harmful to the community.” dismantling the disastrous effects that police brutality and mass incarceration have wreaked on people of color in Philadelphia.

O’Rourke’s platform is derived from the People’s Platform for a Just Philadelphia, which he and other community activists and organizations created with the goal of creating an affordable, safe, and healthy Philadelphia. His campaign has raised $145,000, surpassing previous records for non-major-party candidates alongside Brooks.

His priorities include affordable housing and increasing funding for Philadelphia schools, both of which should be popular among Penn students who care about gentrification

issues facing the city today. Most Penn students are not often forced to face these issues, but those who are registered to vote here have a responsibility to pick candidates who will fight to bring the whole city what it needs.

Penn students should re-elect the incumbents, Gym and Domb, but should also put the Working Families’ candidates Brooks and O’Rourke into office.

Penn should join the rest of the city in ousting the Republicans and elevating two strong, progressive voices. No matter who they support, most of all Penn students who are registered in Philadelphia must do their civic duty to the city that they live, work, and study in, and vote this Nov. 5.

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enn has seen a considerable amount of controversy in the last few weeks surrounding regressive statements from prominent voices. The idea of firing Penn Law School professor and “cultural-distance nationalist” Amy Wax has picked up steam.

A demonstration by student protesters led to Perry World House canceling a talk with Thomas Homan, a former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who has been charged with ramping up “terror tactics” used against undocumented immigrants such as family separation. The hiring of Jonathan Anomaly as associate director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics department has been questioned in light of a paper he authored last year defending eugenics.

But the largest aspect of these controversies hasn’t been the fact that professors and speakers made racist claims or had a history of authorizing human rights violations.

The voices of student activists have been drowned out by the claims that their actions threaten free speech. Right now, there are many places in the world where free speech faces serious challenges.

Penn is not one of them. We need to stop using the fiction that free speech is under attack as a justification for affording violent, racist ideology any respect.

In the last several years, the idea that free speech is under siege on college campuses has become a

Once the act gets dropped, maybe we can make space for an open dialogue about the deep divisions that are clearly present in our community — I think it’ll be better without that pretense.” heavily parroted talking point, so cliched that it often feels less like a coherent dialogue than a series of buzzwords tossed out with varying levels of anger: deplatforming, trigger warnings, safe spaces, kids these days. The irony is that young activists, who have historically made massive contributions to the legacy of free speech in the United States, are now being accused of destroying it. “Free speech” has been misinterpreted and weaponized by powerful interests to protect views that are impossible to defend, save for the fact that you are technically allowed to have them.

The concept of free speech is so frequently misunderstood that it’s worth defining here. At the most basic level, when people talk about freedom of speech in the United States, they are talking about the protections enshrined in the First Amendment that prevent the government from restricting expression. You have the right to say

whatever you want; other individuals have the same right when they respond to you. Scrappy college kids with chants and signs are not the U.S. government; they are not bound by the same laws, and they don’t have anywhere near the same amount of power to disenfranchise people.

To be fair, that is a very basic summary, and it ignores the fact that other institutions have a vested interest in facilitating free expression. Society offers protections for free speech that aren’t just restricted to the legal realm, and that’s a good thing. I am grateful to live in a country where I can express myself, to attend a school that brings together a diverse array of perspectives, and to write for a publication that gives me the chance to share my opinions (even when they’re bad). I love free speech; I benefit from it greatly, and I think everyone else should, too — even people I disagree with.

But that doesn’t mean I think

that there shouldn’t be limits on expression that is violent or exploitative. It doesn’t mean that I think the government, Penn, and individual people are all bound by the same restrictions in how they respond to provocative speech.

And it definitely doesn’t mean that I think we should give white supremacists, bigots, and out-andout liars any credence by listening respectfully while they do horrible things. The “marketplace of ideas” is filled with people who would push the limits of sanctioned speech to incite violence, who would harass you into debating them so they can promulgate half-truths and outright falsehoods, and who do not care one whit about the virtues of honesty, tolerance, and freedom they are ostensibly so upset about. We should absolutely allow for free speech, but we still have to navigate that reality.

Offensive speech isn’t just offensive because it hurts people’s feelings; it can turn into discrimination and dehumanization. Not every bad take or fabricated statistic is going to result in violence, but the idea that there is never any link between the two allows for horrible things to happen. I am happy to respectfully disagree with professors and peers, even on things I feel very strongly about, but the dignity and equality of other human beings is not a fun intellectual puzzle to solve. Bad faith actors love to invoke free speech because they are looking for a chance to

ANA WEST put racist rhetoric, or any kind of discriminatory view, on the same level of legitimacy as other ideas.

We have no responsibility to give them the chance to try.

If defending racial hierarchies, family separation, or the rising tide of fascism is how you want to spend your precious and limited time on this earth, you’re in luck: The government can’t stop you from doing so, and neither can I. But let’s all stop pretending that the reason so many people are upset about pushback from Penn students is because they care so deeply about free speech, and only about free speech.

Once the act gets dropped, maybe we can make space for an open dialogue about the deep divisions that are clearly present in our community — I think it’ll be better without that pretense.

ANA WEST is a College junior from Spring Lake, Mich. studying English. Her email address is anawest@sas.upenn.edu.

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ast week, a petition circulated around the Penn community demanding that an event where the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement was slated to speak be canceled.

Penn initially refused, but then the event was canceled because of loud protests at the start of the event. While the protestors and those who signed the petition are well-intentioned, they are misguided. The best way to deal with ideas that challenge our own is to engage with them through discussion and debate.

Refusing to engage with challenging ideas not only does a disservice to ourselves but also to our democracy.

Let me be clear: This is not a defense of the atrocities that ICE

has committed on the southern border, or of detention camps, or of President Trump’s family separation policy. I do believe that the protesters were well within their rights to protest the event, and I admire the passion of the Penn community in being welcoming to and protective of the DACA students and those affected by American immigration policy on this campus.

Yet, however admirable that passion is, using it to silence someone is not productive.

The event at which Homan was speaking was not glorifying ICE or current immigration policies. It was a discussion and debate on those issues. A debate only works if both sides of the issue are present and allowed to speak. While Homan

One of the left’s main goals is to give voice to those who have been historically discounted in democratic discourse.

While that is a very admirable goal, the left cannot uplift certain voices and then turn around and silence others.” represented ICE at the event, Penn also hosted Sozi Tulante, an attorney who helped defend Philadelphia’s sanctuary city status. If Homan were allowed to speak, he would not have been unchallenged. The discussion would have forced Homan to describe his time leading ICE, and may have allowed him to reevaluate his stance on immigration.

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The attendance of former ICE acting director Thomas Homan (third from left) sparked the controversy surrounding the event as well as the protest by dozens of students.

Regardless of whether or not Homan would have chosen to walk back his views, it would still have been important to let him speak. As he said in an interview with The Washington Post: “People don’t understand what we do or how we do it.

They just make assumptions.”

Perhaps he is correct and the public at large actually doesn’t understand what ICE does. Perhaps he is wrong and ICE is just as atrocious as its public image makes it out to be.

It’s impossible to know whether or not Homan was correct because he wasn’t allowed to make his case. One of the left’s main goals is to give voice to those who have been historically discounted in democratic discourse. While that is a very admirable goal, the left cannot uplift certain voices and then turn around and silence others.

Many of the beliefs of rightwing activists and proponents are nauseating. But so long as the left refuses to meaningfully engage with them, they will continue to feel fundamentally misunderstood, and perhaps worse, go completely unchallenged.

The petition asking Penn to cancel the event states that “inviting Homan as a guest speaker contradicts Penn’s claim of being a sanctuary campus that is committed to ensuring the well-being and safety of all

its students.” But Penn did not invite ICE to raid campus. It invited one man, a retiree no less, to give a talk and leave. As for campus well-being, Penn students were not required to go to the event at which Homan was speaking and expose themselves to him if his presence made them uncomfortable. Further, no one could reasonably believe that Penn was reversing

JAMES MORRISON of our own beliefs and learn how to be fully realized, democratic citizens.While at Penn we may be able to demand that we be sheltered from what makes us uncomfortable, that is not a luxury we will always be given.

If we hope to function in society, we must learn to listen and work with everyone, even those

The event at which Homan was speaking was not glorifying ICE or current immigration policies. It was a discussion and debate on those issues.

A debate only works if both sides of the issue are present and allowed to speak.” its sanctuary campus policy just because it invited one former ICE administrator to campus.

In fact, Penn would not be doing its job if it did not invite controversia l f igures like Homan. As an institution of higher learning, Penn’s purpose is to expose students to challenging ideas, not to insulate them: We do not need to know what to think, but how to think.

Only by engaging with opposing viewpoints can we come to a more thorough understanding

that we vehemently disagree with.

In doing anything else, we are only doing ourselves a disservice. Engaging in debate is the first step toward positive change. Preventing that dialogue from taking place ensures only that things remain as they are.

JAMES MORRISON is a College sophomore from Pipersville, Pa. studying English. His email address is jmorr2@sas.upenn.edu.

Big Tech — Big legal risks Are Facebook, Google, and Amazon Violators or Victims of American Law?

Take LGST 205/805 Innovation, Marketing Strategy, and Antitrust and find out Taught by PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp, an award-winning teacher and the most-cited antitrust expert in America. Hovenkamp, with appointments at both Wharton and Penn Law, helps students interested in tech, consulting, engineering, and finance understand how law impacts market structures and innovative business models.

This course considers the role of antitrust law in controlling the competitive and innovation strategies of dominant firms and joint enterprises, including technology-driven companies such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Uber, and Microsoft. In each case, we will consider how firms adapted their strategies to rapidly changing competitive environments and ask whether antitrust law served to promote or to hinder innovation.

Focusing mainly on American law and business, we will pay special attention to the role of intellectual property rights, especially patent law, in fostering both individual and collaborative innovation.

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Seminar ties together architecture and literature in cities Frank Lloyd Wright will be explored in the class CELIA KRETH Staff Reporter

A Benjamin Franklin Seminar offered this spring will let students study architecture and literature side by side.

This is the second time the Architecture Department will offer “Topographical Stories: Architecture, Literature, and Cities,” a seminar taught by Architecture professor David Leatherbarrow.

Leatherbarrow said students in the class will examine texts from authors writing about specific cities and compare them to pieces of architecture from the same city and the same time period. Author Sherwood Anderson will be paired with architect Frank Lloyd Wright for a discussion of Chicago, while Italian writer Dino Buzzati will be paired with architect Ernesto Rogers to explore Milan. Other

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Members from the other five branches of student government — the Undergraduate Assembly, Student Activities Council, Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, Social Planning and Events Committee, and the four Class Boards — were not required to attend.

College and Wharton senior Maria Curry, who chairs the UA’s Dining, Housing, and Transit Committee, said all members of the UA Cabinet, which includes the executive board and committee directors, were present at the training. She also said members from every branch of student government were in attendance.

Curry said the leaders of the six branches of student government should make attendance at the diversity training

featured cities will include Berlin, New York, Paris, London, Venice, Vienna, and Shanghai.

Leatherbarrow said his goal for the course is to get students thinking about architecture in a new way by looking at the discipline using many approaches.

“What I hope the course [will do] is help students reacquaint themselves with the world in which they live by looking at it in different ways and discovering in it different content that there is to be grasped, and only needs to be looked for with eyes wide open,” he said.

When the course was offered for the first time last spring, Leatherbarrow said, the class had a mix of students, including freshmen, sophomores, and seniors from all schools at Penn.

Wharton senior Meghna Sreenivas, who took the course last spring, said only 10-12 students were enrolled, allowing for long discussions and ample time to

mandatory in future years.

Abid, who is also an opinion columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian, said the NEC hosts a mandatory diversity training every semester, but this was the first session that was open to all branches.

Inter-branch training will continue on an annual basis, Abid said. She said although she feels the training was a success, she hopes to require all incoming freshmen in student government to attend diversity training, as well as extending the length of the sessions.

“It should be required for all leaders in any forum to have some sort of interaction with a diversity style retreat or lecture,” Abid said. “I think a lot of leaders go into these roles without understanding the complexities of the identities they’re representing.”

Curry said the training was

ask questions. This year, enrollment is capped at 18 students.

“It’s a really good introduction to the global environment in a way that most people don’t study, and it just gives people a good sense of appreciation of the buildings around you,” Sreenivas said.

The course also includes student presentations on architectural components of each city.

2019 College graduate Peter Carzis said the student presentations were a great way to hear about others’ backgrounds and gave the class more of a diversified, personal touch. Wharton sophomore Nia Robinson added that she enjoyed working on her independent presentation and hearing others’ presentations. “[It is a] very nice, independent, interactive class to take at Penn, which you don’t really get that often,” Robinson said.

Students also said they enjoyed having Leatherbarrow as a profes-

a good first step because she feels PSG must continue to have a conversation about diversity. She said that UA leaders have been discussing holding more training sessions specifically for the UA, in addition to the inter-branch training. This training would focus on the UA’s work on representing the student body in dealing with administration.

UA President and College senior Natasha Menon said diversity training for the UA will likely occur at the end of this semester or early next semester. The session will focus on microaggressions and will encourage UA members to be mindful of the identities of the communities that they work with on campus, Menon said.

She added that attendance at future diversity training will be mandatory and that not attending will count as a general body meeting absence.

sor. Robinson said Leatherbarrow was “very invested in the work and what he was teaching” and “super knowledgeable every time he would speak on a topic.” “[He was] knowledgeable, had really interesting arguments, and facilitated fascinating conversations among the students,” Carzis added. “I would have difficulty finding anyone who I enjoyed more than professor Leatherbarrow.”

Carzis, who took the course during his final semester at Penn, said it helped unify different things he learned at Penn and showed him a new way of thinking. “[It] allowed me to tie up different strands of different areas of the humanities and social science that I studied over the course of my four years at Penn into a cohesive set of frameworks for thinking about urban space and more broadly about how a culture is used in processes of collective self-identification,” Carzis said.

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Professor David Leatherbarrow said students will examine and compare texts from authors writing about specific cities.

New club teaches undergraduates how to manage personal finances It was founded by College sophomore John Ta NOAH LEWINE Staff Reporter

A sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences has started a new club to teach Penn students how to manage their money.

Penn Common Cents, founded this fall by College sophomore John Ta, is the first club at Penn dedicated to teaching financial literacy to undergraduates. There have so far been several open information sessions about the club, and club leadership plans to bring in speakers to teach Penn students how to manage their finances for life beyond college.

Potential events include a talk from a Capital One representative about long-term debt planning and a presentation from 2013 Wharton School graduate and NFL player Brandon Copeland, who taught a class on personal finance last spring.

Ta came up with the idea for the club when he learned a friend of his was applying for a credit card but did not know what a credit score was.

“The thing that was really worrying was that this was one of my smartest friends, and he could make a mistake now that could affect him seven years down the road,” Ta said. To deal with this problem, Ta founded Penn Common Cents to promote financial

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Penn Common Cents, founded this fall, is the first club at Penn dedicated to teaching financial literacy to undergraduates.

literacy at Penn.

Since 2016, Wharton Common Cents has been teaching personal finance to MBA students. Ta said when he reached out to heads of the group, they came to the agreement that undergraduates would need to be taught by a separate group, since undergraduates have completely different financial needs than graduate students.

“Graduates have to worry about financing a wedding ring, whereas undergrads are touching a credit card for the first time,” Ta said.

Wharton sophomore Julia Zhu, one of the club’s vice presidents, said there is a large demand for basic financial information in the undergraduate community, especially because most high schoolers do not receive a formal education in managing expenses.

“For a lot of students nationwide, not specifically at Penn,

university is the first time they become independent in a financial sense,” Zhu said.

Ultimately, Penn Common Cents hopes to expand beyond Penn’s campus to the larger community. Co-Vice President Vivek Olumbe, a sophomore in Wharton and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, stressed a desire to give back to the community and address poverty in Philadelphia.

“We really want to expand to the local community by going to high schools and teaching students about personal finance,” he said.

For now, however, the focus remains on providing resources and education to any undergraduates interested in learning more about how to handle their money.

“I would encourage anyone who has an interest in learning more about personal finance to come out to our events,” Zhu said.

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An inside look at Penn Athletics’ multi-million dollar fundraising efforts Tim Folan spearheads the fundraising efforts for Penn BIANCA SERBIN Associate Sports Editor

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Penn Athletics operates with a budget of around $41.5 million a year. That money comes largely from alumni fundraising efforts led by Tim Folan.

On April 4, 2018, Penn Athletics announced the launch of the Game Onward Campaign as part of the overarching Power of Penn Campaign.

By the end of the 2018-19 fiscal year, the Penn Champions Club had raised $157.4 million for the Campaign, exceeding its original goal of $150 million. This money is slated to help support the program’s three major priorities: competitive excellence, student-athlete experience, and campus engagement.

Penn Athletics itself has an overall endowment of roughly $80-85 million. It’s clear that it costs a lot of money to run the program —

Penn Athletics’ expenses were about $41.5 million in the 2017-18 fiscal year. The question, then, is where the program gets its money from.

Penn Athletics receives very little money from the University, which is why it launched Game Onward.

Most of the money the program has to work with comes from fundraising, supplemented by ticketing revenues from the more popular teams like football and basketball. Penn, like most Ivy schools, cannot rely on tickets or merchandising revenue streams in the way some bigger athletic programs around the country can.

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Quakers look to pick up first Ivy win against Brown FOOTBALL | The game is the 1400th in Penn history CHARLIE MA Sports Reporter

Desperate for an Ivy win, the Quakers are primed for their first victory in conference play.

On the heels of a shootout loss to Yale, Penn football will return to Franklin Field on Saturday to face off against Brown in the 1,400th game of the Red and Blue’s illustrious history — a feat that no other football program in the NCAA has ever accomplished.

Going into Saturday’s matchup, the Bears (1-5, 0-3 Ivy) find themselves in the same boat as the Quakers (2-4, 0-3) — both teams will en-

ter the game winless in League play.

“The importance of the game is that you come out and play. We love the sport of football, and the guys love to be out here to compete and win,” coach Ray Priore said. “Sure, our long term is not there, but our seniors are playing in the last four games of their career.”

Leading the way for Brown is EJ Perry, the junior standout who has emerged as one of the top Football Championship Subdivision quarterbacks in the country. In his breakout season, Perry is leading not only the Ivy League but the entire nation in total offense, currently averaging 350.7 yards per game — 278.33 yards per game through the air and 72.33 yards per game on the ground.

Last week against Rhode Island, Perry alone amassed 463 yards of

total offense.

“Perry is definitely a talented kid.

We have a bunch of formations and sets we are putting in this week,” junior linebacker Brian O’Neill said.

“I think we’ll need to switch it up with a bunch of pressures just to get him off balance and scrambling so that players can make plays.”

While Perry is averaging more than 70 yards per game rushing the ball as quarterback, sophomore running back Allen Smith has not been able to find the same success, averaging just 54 yards per game. However, the sophomore does lead the team with five rushing touchdowns on the season.

Through the air, senior wide receiver Jakob Prall and junior wide receiver Scott Boylan have benefited from Perry’s success, as Prall

This group of players journeyed from JSerra High School to Penn football Nick Robinson and Sam Philippi are JSerra grads BREVIN FLEISCHER Sports Reporter

The trip from JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. to the University of Pennsylvania is a long one — like 2,700 miles long.

Considering that fact, one might fairly assume that the two schools’ football programs rarely come into contact with each other.

However, that assumption could not be further from reality, and, despite a distance that nearly spans the width of the entire country, the JSerra-Penn football connection has become a fruitful pipeline for the Quakers.

JSerra, a private school with a total enrollment hovering

around 1,200 students, is a football powerhouse in California, as evidenced by the numerous players that join the Division I ranks upon graduation.

As such, the program caught the eye of the Penn coaching staff, and the first player who jumped out to them was Sam Philippi, the Quakers’ current captain and starting safety.

Through scouting Philippi, coach Ray Priore and the rest of his staff forged strong relationships with the JSerra staff, enabling the Penn coaches to gain valuable information about the JSerra players as both athletes and people.

“The connection was Sam,” Priore said. “But it was also the coaches on their staff that we knew. Those coaches gave us insight into the players that we wouldn’t get just watching a highlight video or looking at stats, so I think that’s why our

connection has been so successful.”

Evidence of that success is littered all over the Quakers’ roster, which includes a remarkable six players from JSerra.

Philippi was the first, but soon after him came senior defensive back Connor O’Brien, senior quarterback Nick Robinson, junior defensive back Riley O’Brien, sophomore punter Jake Haggard, and then finally freshman defensive lineman Grant Ristoff.

According to the players, the JSerra takeover can be attributed to the values that the high school instills in its students.

“Our high school produces hard workers and coachable kids,” Connor O’Brien SEE JSERRA PAGE 10

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Evidence of the strong connection between the two schools can be seen all over the Penn roster, which includes six JSerra graduates. Those six have found significant success with the Red and Blue.

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leads the team with 345 receiving yards on the year and Boylan leads the team with five receiving touchdowns.

“Perry does a good job spreading the football. Brown does a good job on offense by mixing up run plays and pass plays. He’s got some really good go to receivers. Equally with that, Perry extends plays really well. He uses his feet really well and avoids pressure,” Priore said. “We just got to keep an eye on him, spy on him through the course of the game and play tight coverage.”

Luckily for the Quakers, the Bears’ defense is one of, if not the worst in the Ivy League. Brown is at the bottom of almost all of the defensive statistical categories in the SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

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Last week, Penn fell to Yale in a shootout loss. The final score of the game was 46-41, which brought the Quakers to 0-3 in the Ivy League.

Freshmen poised to make an impact for Penn cross country at Ivy Heptagonals Both teams will travel to the Bronx, N.Y. for Heps HELEN LY Contributing Reporter

This weekend will be an eventful one for Penn men’s and women’s cross country, as both squads will take the course on Friday for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.

Ivy Heps are an annual tradition marking the culmination of the Ivy season, and this year the Red and Blue will travel to the Bronx, N.Y. for the race. Last year, the men finished in fourth place while the women brought home the pack in eighth, so both teams have high expectations to improve on their results.

With an influx of new talent on both sides, the runners are hopeful that their youth can step up to the challenge. Rookies Sean Banko and Jared Cooper join the team for the men, while Olivia Babski, Lizzy Bader, Samantha Green, Lauren Henderson, Jessica Riedman, and Delia Russo have been contributing for the women. For the women’s team in particular, coach Steve Dolan is excited to see what this weekend holds.

“One of the freshman that has been very consistent for us is Lizzy Bader, she’s been in the top scoring group all season long,” Dolan said.

At the Penn State National Open two weeks ago, Bader was the fourth-fastest finisher on the team and 33rd overall with an time of 21:33.10. Ivy Heps will be yet another test to see if the newcomers can hang with their more experienced teammates and opponents.

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Men’s and women’s cross country are looking to improve on last year’s results, when the men took home fourth and the women took eighth.

The success of the cross country teams takes much effort and practice. Dolan reflected on how much the team has improved and the determination his athletes have accrued since starting practice in the summer.

“I credit the captains and the seniors and the team for keeping the others accountable during the summertime,” he said.

Meanwhile, the men have been consistent in placing in the top group at their races, including a couple of second-place finishes and a team win at the Main Line Invitational in September.

The women have also had their fair share of success, posting a pair of third-place showings among talented opposition and breaking into the national rankings for the first time since

2016.

One of the most unique aspects of the Heps is the history behind the competition. It’s much more than another race — school pride is on the line.

The adrenaline and spirit of competing against one’s biggest academic and athletic rivals is reflected in the team’s spirit heading into Friday. The rich history shared by all eight Ivy League institutions comes together for one day and amplifies the competition.

“The amount of family and alumni that attend the event is really something special,” Dolan said. “Each team will have a tent while the alums gather and cheer, so it’s a pretty cool atmosphere.”

With both teams performing at such a high level, Ivy Heps is coming at the right time for the Quakers to make some waves.

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Players to Watch: Which Penn players will scare this Halloween?

Peyton Raun has played 1,130 minutes for Quakers BRANDON PRIDE Sports Reporter

With fall sports beginning to wrap up, winter sports are gearing for their first action of the year. But in the spirit of Halloween, here’s a look at the “scariest” fall athletes who have made a consistent impact for their teams.

Erin Quinn – Field hockey Junior Erin Quinn comes from a field hockey family, but she is making a name of her own at Penn.

The forward, whose sister plays at Richmond and whose mother played at American, has been an integral part of the Penn team during all three of her years with the Quakers.

Quinn played at least 15 games in both her freshman and sophomore seasons, and she has appeared in every game thus far for

the Red and Blue in 2019.

Her 10 points this year are double her total from her first two seasons combined.

Although it has been a relatively disappointing year for the 6-9 Quakers, they have reason for optimism with Quinn’s play and will look to capitalize on her performance in their last two games of the season.

Daniela Fornaciari – Volleyball After making a solid impact during her freshman year, sophomore middle hitter Daniela Fornaciari got off to an impressive start this season, leading the Ivy League in nonconference blocks with 38.

She has kept up that pace, recently recording a career-high 12 kills in a win over Dartmouth and following up that performance with another 12 in a loss to Harvard.

“She’s been absolutely killing it,” said junior outside hitter Parker Jones, who is also a staffer at the

Daily Pennsylvanian. “[Through] the transition from last year to this year, she’s just been one of our players we can rely on heavily to score points and get blocks. She continues to show that she’s one of the best middle [hitters] in the league.”

The San Diego native’s 51 blocks rank among the top 10 in the Ivy League.

As the Quakers travel to New York to take on Cornell and Columbia this weekend, they will look for another strong performance from Fornaciari.

Peyton Raun – Women’s soccer Despite only being a freshman, Peyton Raun is already a key contributor for Penn women’s soccer.

She has started every match this season and has played a total of 1,130 minutes, or nearly 19 hours, so far.

Her stellar defense has been key for the team’s success this season and has helped them win lowscoring games, such as their 1-0

victory over Dartmouth on Oct. 19.

“It’s been a lot of fun,” Raun said. “It’s been a really smooth transition, and honestly everyone around me has set me up to succeed. At a lot of moments, I’ve been learning new things about our team and how we play. I’ve really been able to adapt.”

With only two games remaining this year, Raun will look to finish off her freshman season strong.

Brandon Bartel – Men’s soccer Senior midfielder Brandon Bartel is wrapping up his soccer career at Penn, but his final season has been one for the books.

A key contributor throughout his four years on the team, Bartel had appeared in 50 games before this season, but he had never scored a goal. This year, however, he has already scored twice, including a game-winner against No. 24 Yale.

His goal gave Penn their first victory over a ranked opponent

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Forward Erin Quinn has been consistent for Penn over the past three years. This season, she raised her career goal count to six.

since 2010 and kept the Quakers alive for the Ivy League title. His performance against the Bulldogs also netted him Ivy League Player of the Week honors.

Bartel has played every minute so far this season, and he will likely continue to see significant action as the Red and Blue make a final push for the championship.

Freshman Lammers’ soccer career modeled after his father’s Lammers’ father played pro soccer in the Netherlands LOCHLAHN MARCH Contributing Reporter

For Penn men’s soccer defender Kai Lammers, soccer is the family business.

The freshman’s father formerly played professional soccer in the Netherlands, meaning Lammers inherited his passion for the game early on. He started playing organized soccer when he was six years old and has never looked back.

“The joy I get from the game is always there for me, and I’ve never really had moments where I’ve wanted to not play,” Lammers said.

“It’s a huge part of my life that I’ve always wanted to have.”

Growing up in Greenwich, Conn., Lammers played for two soccer programs simultaneously

throughout high school, NYSC Academy and NYCFC Developmental Academy. He has won two U.S. Soccer Development Academy National Championships in the past two years with NYCFC, and earlier in 2019 earned an invite to the U.S. U18 national team camp.

Lammers, who starts at left back for Penn, credits his academy training for preparing him to take the leap to collegiate-level soccer.

“We were training almost every single day there,” he said. “We do film and stuff like that. We were doing similar things in the academy as we do here, but the difference really is obviously a higher level of play here. It’s a little bit more intense obviously, and there’s more on the line and stuff, but overall the academy does a good job, just preparing players for what most college teams have to offer.”

And with this training, it didn’t take him long to make his pres-

ence felt on Rhodes Field. Lammers scored less than ten minutes into his first collegiate appearance, netting his first shot against Monmouth.

His goal opened the scoring for the Quakers this season, ultimately helping them to a 2-0 victory on the road.

Lammers hasn’t let up since: this season, he is ranked by Top Drawer Soccer as one of the top 100 freshmen in the nation at No. 93, one of only two Ivy League players on the list. He ranks fourth on the team in minutes played, boasting the most of any other freshman at 1,140, and he is one of only two Penn defenders with a goal under his belt, along with junior midfielder Alex Touche.

Lammers joined a cohort of Quaker defenders that allowed only 0.94 goals per game and shut out their opponents on seven occasions last year. He has played a key role in helping Penn’s backline maintain this dominance over the 2019 sea-

son. With three games left to play in the regular season, the Red and Blue have allowed only 15 goals, for an average of 0.92 goals against per game.

According to Lammers, support from the veterans on the team was key in the remarkable opening to his NCAA career.

“They’re just all just really supportive guys,” he said. “Whenever something may not be going my way, they’re always there for me.

They’re always helping to support me on the field, and even off the field as well, and they’re just giving tips and a little feedback as well. They’re kind of like secondary coaches.”

And as for following in his father’s professional footsteps, Lammers is keeping his focus at Penn for now.

“It’s always been a dream of mine, but right now I’m just focusing on obviously the soccer here,

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getting an education, getting a degree. Depending on how it goes here, there’s always that opportunity, and it is something I’d love to pursue. But that is something for the future that I could think about in a

few years.”

With Lammers leading the charge of a talented freshman class, the future looks bright for Penn men’s soccer, with his name as one to watch.

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Volleyball’s Daniela Fornaciari flies to success under the radar

The sophomore leads the team with 51 blocks so far VINNY VEERAMACHANENI Contributing Reporter

Offense may get noticed, but it’s defense that gets wins. Fortunately for sophomore middle hitter Daniela Fornaciari, she can do both.

Fornaciari has made her presence felt throughout the Ivy League. She currently leads Penn volleyball in blocks with 51 on the season, and has generated an astounding 0.84 blocks per set, good for eighth in the Ivy League.

While most people who play volleyball pick up the sport during high school, the San Diego native began playing when she was nine years old.

“There was a clinic at my elementary school after school,

and I signed up for it and fell in love, so I’ve been playing ever since,” Fornaciari said.

Fornaciari, who has always been one of the taller members of her team, plays middle hitter, a position whose main focus is to block the other team’s kill opportunities. Middle hitters must be reliant on their defensive ability and instinct to be successful.

“I really like playing middle [hitter] because I think it’s one of the more underrated positions, because we have to work hard,” Fornaciari said. “It’s not necessarily the position that gets the most glory or noticed, but it’s really important for the team’s success.”

As a sophomore, Fornaciari has found herself playing more sets than her freshman year, and both her offensive and defensive game have benefitted as a result.

Fornaciari is fourth on the team

with 104 kills and nine service aces, adding a multidimensional aspect to her game that she has focused on in the past year. Despite having tremendous awareness and skill, Fornaciari credits some of her success to her position.

“I think [junior middle hitter Caroline Leng] is only a few behind me [in blocks] but we both are working hard this season” she said. “I don’t think it’s necessarily anything I’m doing in particular, just the name of the game.”

Her improvements over the past year are not just on the court, however. Being such an integral part of the team, Fornaciari has stepped into a leadership role, guiding and supporting younger players both in practice and during games.

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Fornaciari hopes to continue to be on the Ivy League leaderboard in blocks as the season progresses, while also doing whatever she can to help the team generate wins. Despite some recent struggles within Ivy League play, she still feels confident in the team.

“I think this is a really special team and everyone is so talented; obviously our record does not reflect that right now, so I think moving forward in the season we are definitely looking to get some numbers that prove the talent we have,” she said.

The Quakers’ (9-8, 2-6 Ivy) next match is against Columbia (10-8, 3-5) on Friday, where they will look to turn their season around and gain some ground in the Ivy League.

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ons Club, which is the development and alumni relations office’s official name, but he also spends a good amount of his time traveling to meet with alumni and potential donors. “I think a lot of people on the outside look at me as a salesman,�

Folan said. “[To] some degree, it’s sales, but I’m selling something people have a built-in affinity for.�

Penn Athletics has to raise money for three major funds: annual, endowment, and capital building projects. The annual fund is the money used to keep the program running.

The other funds tend to concentrate on longer-term goals. “The annual is probably our most important from the sense of ‌ we need it every year. It’s kind of to keep the lights on. It’s what basically is the lifeblood of the program because without that money, we can’t buy uniforms, we can’t buy equipment, we can’t take trips, those type of things,â€? Folan said. “[The] endowment becomes your longerterm view on sustaining, making the programs, whether sports or some of our more broad-based programs like the leadership academy, more financially sustainable. “The capital piece is always one up, but we have to raise one hundred percent of every dollar that goes into a new building. The University doesn’t help in that regard, so it’s kind of on us, which is kind of a beautiful thing at Penn because Penn has a very entrepreneurial spirit in the way that it runs the University.â€?

Each year, Penn Athletics hopes to raise about $6.7-6.8 million to cover the operating expenses of all of its sports. There are other costs

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said. “And that fits perfectly with Penn football and football in general.�

However, shared values alone didn’t cement this pipeline, as the recruiting efforts of Philippi proved equally consequential. “Sam definitely swayed me a little bit,� O’Brien said. “We were good friends and had been playing football for so long, so when he was describing how

not covered by those operating expenses, however: Penn football, for example, needs roughly $3 million a year to function smoothly. This money is mainly used to pay for recruiting, travel, equipment, and nutrition needs.

By the nature of his position, Folan works with the majority of the higher-end donors, those that are going to make the biggest monetary contributions. One of the biggest changes he’s tried to implement in his time at Penn is transparency with regards to finances. “We’ve spent a lot of time trying to educate people on why we need support [and] where their support is going, because there have been many years built up where people weren’t getting those types of answers,� he said.

One of Folan’s core goals is to be partners with the donors, which is why he travels to ensure that most donation meetings take place in person. Very rarely does he make deals over the phone, though he does handle some logistics over the phone as a donor draws close to finalizing their contribution.

Most donors give with a particular interest in mind, hoping to support a particular program. “We just try to get into a dialogue and try to understand if people want to help, how they want to help, but everybody’s motivated by different factors,� Folan said. “Some people are really philanthropic and really want to give. Some people are super competitive and want to make sure our teams beat Princeton. It really runs the gamut, and I think the skilled fundraisers can really understand what motivates a particular person who they’re sitting across the table from and help them make the

impact that they want to make.�

Folan emphasized that a lot of donors played sports at Penn themselves and want to make a contribution to their former team. He estimates that 80-85% of the donors to a particular sport are people who once played it for the Red and Blue. Other donors include parents or alumni who are just fans.

Since some teams are bigger than others, it naturally follows that some will have more donors. For example, the men’s tennis team has a roster that is only a fraction of the size of the men’s lacrosse roster, and as a result, the latter has a larger fundraising ability.

Basketball and football are anomalies in this sense. With a roster of over 100, football far exceeds basketball in the number of alums it produces, the latter having a roster of only 15. However, this does not translate into football raising more money through alums. In fact, Penn basketball raises more money from its on a per-person basis. “We have plenty of fans that didn’t play the sport or weren’t parents for football. We have people who still come [to games],� Folan said. “[With] basketball, we can sell the Palestra. [There were] 9,000 people coming to games, we’ve been to the Final Four. There’s a lot of history there, so you get a lot more donors that didn’t play the sport, or weren’t parents of people playing the sport in football and basketball, specifically basketball.�

As part of increasing transparency, Folan has tried to make it abundantly clear to donors exactly where their money will go. “One thing we don’t do in fundraising is we don’t lie to donors, and we raise money very much by initia-

tive,� Folan said.

In fact, the biggest question most donors ask is about how the economics of the program work. Donors want to know why they need to give and how the money they give will support certain initiatives.

That being said, Folan and the rest of his office try to emphasize the human aspect of donating. They want to make it clear that the money has an actual impact on the players themselves, and they do this by making it very clear what donations

will go towards. “Our goal is certainly to raise money, but if you fundraise the right way, the money is kind of secondary, and the impact that the person, the donor, or the philanthropist, is having is really the primary piece, and with that comes the money.� “I won’t lie to you, there are times when it’s very transactional,� Folan said. “The majority of the gifts that I’m working on are transformational for not only our student athletes, but [in] the impact that the person mak-

ing the gift, or the people making the gift, are having.�

Donors can also contribute to the Strategic Initiatives Fund, which is for unrestricted giving. This means that the donations aren’t made to a specific varsity program and can be used at the discretion of Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun to support Penn Athletics in general.

Whichever method donors choose to give, they know their gifts play a role in keeping Penn’s athletic programs going.

fun Penn football was, I knew that I had to check it out.� “I think that my exact words were, ‘I love it here. At Penn, football is actually fun,’�

Philippi interjected with a laugh.

Whatever he said certainly worked, and the plethora of JSerra players on the Red and Blue roster later helped to convince Robinson to transfer to Penn after stints at Georgia and Saddleback Community College.

“When you see guys from your high school having success at a program, and it’s multiple guys, that’s really something that attracted me to Penn,� Robinson said.

When explained in these terms, the abundance of JSerra players on the Penn roster seems logical or even expected, but the players recognize the uniqueness of their situation. “None of us imagined this happening,�

Philippi said. “When we were in high school

together, we didn’t think that we’d all go to the same school to play football together. The odds of that happening were so low that I don’t even know if you can calculate that.�

To the players, that rarity makes their situation even more valuable. “It’s going to be really cool looking back and seeing that we all played ball together in high school,� Riley O’Brien said. “And we’re all going to have the same memories in college too.

It’s definitely special.�

Although six players on the roster at one time might never happen again, the Penn-JSerra pipeline is sure to remain strong. “It’s a very good program in one of the best leagues on the West Coast,� Priore said. “There’s no reason why we wouldn’t keep going back there when the kids they’ve given us have been as good as these guys have been.�

Priore won’t get any objection from Philippi, who views

the situation as a win-win for his two schools. “It’s beneficial for everybody,� he said. “Penn gets hardworking players that can contribute, and it’s a selling point for the high school, too, that they’re producing guys that can compete at a high academic and high athletic level.�

Now there remains only one question that Priore has yet to solve. “They might be Penn West.

Or are we JSerra East?�

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ness to try to put our players in the best spots, and then it comes down to running, blocking, throwing and catching.�

The Red and Blue will look to take advantage of Brown’s defensive weaknesses during Saturday’s matchup. After all, the Quakers are filled with offensive threats.

Leading the way, senior running back Karekin Brooks leads the Ivy League with 126.8 yards per game and eight rushing touchdowns.

Quarterback Nick Robinson is coming off of his best game on the season, where the senior threw for 395

yards and three touchdowns.

Looking to capitalize on Robinson’s success, sophomore wideouts Ryan Cragun and Rory Starkey will look to improve on already impressive seasons, as Cragun currently leads the Ivy League with 604 receiving yards on the season with Starkey just four spots after him with 373 yards on the year.

Priore will enter Saturday’s game with an all-time record of 4-0 against Brown. He’d like to make it 5-0 by the end of the day and come out with Penn’s first league win of the season.

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Inside Penn sprint football and field hockey’s tailgating tradition Players’ families organize a potluck for each home game SAMANTHA KLINGELHOFER Sports Reporter

There’s no doubt that food certainly has the ability to bring any group of people together.

For many of the teams at Penn, postgame tailgates provide a space for friends and family to congregate after a match or meet.

Penn sprint football has long held a tradition of having a potluck, where each family typically brings its own dish or item. The tailgate is set up before each game so that friends and family can enjoy food before the contest starts. After the game, the players come out of the locker room to see a fully set up postgame tailgate.

Junior wide receiver Joshua Trybus believes that the tailgates are representative of the close-knit culture of the team and of the program at large.

“Sprint football definitely has a strong culture with many alumni, friends, and family that help back the team,” Trybus said. “The tailgates are another example of just how close the team truly is.

“Everyone’s family contributes to the potluck just as they contribute to the team, so the players can have the best possible experience … and we are very appreciative of that.”

Senior wide receiver Billy Murphy also views these potlucks as being a unique space for all members of the sprint football community to get to know each other.

“It’s really great for the team because we get to form a deeper bond by getting to meet each

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The potlucks, held in a parking lot outside the team’s locker rooms in the Hollenback Center are a good opportunity for all members of the sprint football community to get to know each other after home games.

other’s parents, siblings, cousins, friends from home, grandparents, etc.,” Murphy said. “This is something that is unusual in a college relationship. You don’t usually get to meet your friends’

families and friends week in and week out.”

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Likewise for Penn field hockey, the postgame tailgates require a decent amount of planning, particularly by the captains’ parents, who are in charge of duties such as organizing the food, planning themes, collecting donations from other parents, and keeping track of financing.

Each tailgate always includes drinks, a main course, sides, and desserts. The field hockey players agree that this tradition has, season after season, served as an important way for family and friends to connect with the team after games and to build the Penn field hockey community.

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BLackburn central 350 microclick, usb, light set Scwinn speedster Regular: $39.99 SALE: $35.99 Sunlite standard u-lock with bracket Regular: SALE:

$24.99 $22.99

Kryptonite kryptolok combo u-lock Regular: SALE:

$47.99 $43.19

Kryptonite New york university city Fahgettaboudit mini

4040 locust street (215)$116.99 387-7433

Regular:

SALE:

$105.29

save while in school!

faculty gets 10% OFF non-sale bicycles and accessories with valid I.D. Students and Faculty sale

4040 Locust Street (at the end of locust walk)

get 10% OFF non-sale bicycles and accessories with valid school I.D.

$299.99@KeswickCycle (215) 387-7433

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