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U. creates committee on climate change An ad hoc Faculty Senate Committee will foster research on climate change ANYA TULLMAN AND MANLU LIU Staff Reporter and Senior Reporter

Binti Hasbullah, who hails from Selangor, Malaysia, is majoring in health and societies with a concentration in global health and minoring in anthropology at Penn. She plans to pursue master’s degrees in social data science and public policy at Oxford.

Binti Hasbullah said she wants to take what she learns at Oxford back to Malaysia to eliminate the “gender data gap” in her home country, citing the

Penn will create a committee of faculty members to address climate change and sustainability, Penn Faculty Senate Chair Steven Kimbrough said.

The group will talk about how to foster research and teaching of climate change worldwide, in addition to discussing how Penn could be more sustainable. The group will commence at the beginning of next year, and Kimbrough said he is currently recruiting faculty members to be on the committee.

The group began “due to the widespread interest of the faculty in all aspects of the climate emergency, which I share and share strongly,” Kimbrough wrote in an email. “After a few months on the job as Senate Chair, it appeared to me that appointing an ad hoc committee of the Faculty Senate would be an effective way to organize a discussion on this topic.”

Kimbrough made the announcement at a Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting, which was only open to standing faculty members, on Nov. 20.

No members of the meeting objected to the formation of the ad hoc group, Kimbrough said.

The group will be between six to 12 members, Kimbrough said. He said he wanted to bring a group together at the earliest possible date, and continue to search for new members, which is something that he has done with the other ad hoc committee — on scholarly communications — in the past. While he said he is focused on recruiting faculty members for now, he said students could potentially become a part of the committee in the future.

Kimbrough said he thought of the idea for creating an ad hoc committee on climate change after the Faculty Senate Executive Committee approved the one on the scholarly communications.

The creation of the group comes after Kimbrough announced that climate change is one area

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College senior Nurul Ezzaty Binti Hasbullah (left) and 2019 College graduate Stephen Damianos (right) have been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship. The prestigious scholarships fund up to four years of graduate study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Penn students named Rhodes scholars This is the third consecutive year Penn studens were selected CONOR MURRAY AND ASHLEY AHN Senior Reporters

A Penn student and recent graduate were selected as two of this year’s 100 recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, bringing Penn’s total number of Rhodes Scholars to 30.

College senior Nurul Ezzaty Binti Hasbullah

will receive the Malaysian Rhodes Scholarship, and 2019 College graduate Stephen Damianos, former Daily Pennsylvanian staffer, will be one of 32 American Rhodes Scholars. The prestigious scholarships fund up to four years of graduate study at Oxford University.

This is the third year in a row that Penn students have won the scholarship. In 2018, 2019 College graduate Anea Moore was named a Rhodes Scholar, and in 2017, two Penn students won scholarships.

Esformes ordered to pay $44 million for Medicare fraud The former Penn parent will pay Medicare and the U.S. govt JONAH CHARLTON Staff Reporter

Former Penn parent and convicted healthcare mogul Philip Esformes was ordered to pay more than $44 million to Medicare and to the United States government, a federal judge ruled Nov. 21.

Esformes was sentenced to 20 years in prison this September for a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme that included

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bribery, kickbacks, and money laundering. On Nov. 21, U.S. District Judge Robert Scola ruled that Esformes must pay $5 million to the Medicare system to reimburse the loss, $39 million to the U.S. government as punishment for his crime, and $617,000 to the U.S. government to cover the costs of his incarceration, the Miami Herald reported.

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A recent report showed an increase in women and minorities ANYA TULLMAN Staff Reporter

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OPINION | Give us Wednesday off

“To promote student well-being and allow students greater travel flexibility, Penn must expand this break by adding the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.”

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SPORTS | Football falls to rival Princeton

While a serious injury to a Princeton player overshadowed the game, Penn football saw its win streak come to an end with a Senior Day loss.

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In the past two years, the number of women and minority faculty members at Penn has slightly increased, according to a recently released diversity report.

The 2019 Action Plan for Faculty

Excellence and Diversity found that 35% of University standing faculty are female and over 8% are underrepresented minorities. The last report, released in 2017, found that 32.7% of University faculty were female and 7.9% were underrepresented minorities.

Penn launched its Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence in 2011 to create a more diverse faculty and cultivate a “more inclusive cam-

pus community” over the next five years. Updated reports on the progress of the diversity action plan are released every two years.

The report, which was released Nov. 12, shows significant growth in the diversity of faculty since the original numbers. The 2019 report found that from 2011 to 2018, there was a 46% increase in the number of

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Transgender Day of Remembrance volunteers object to noise guidelines Activists claim the rules were unfairly applied NIDHI BHATT Staff Reporter

Students involved in the vigils for Transgender Day of Remembrance claimed noise guidelines sent by the Office of Student Affairs silenced their activism on Locust Walk.

The LGBT Center held a series of vigils on Locust Walk in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20.

Students and professors assembled near transgender pride flags outside of Steinberg-Dietrich Hall to read out the names of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals who were killed in 2019.

The day before the event, LGBT Center social work intern Loran Grishow-Schade emailed all the facilitators of the Transgender Day of Remembrance stating that OSA issued guidelines to the group to not be too loud and to avoid blocking the flow of traffic.

Some students, however, expressed concern about the policy and viewed it as an attempt to silence students at the vigil.

“We should be loud about this issue, we shouldn’t be quiet,” said Jax Lastinger, a second-year student in the Graduate School of Education who volunteered to read words of remembrance at the vigils. “We should be shouting from the rooftops that what is happening to the transgender community is not okay.”

OSA officials said their interaction with the LGBT Center was standard practice for groups organizing events on Locust Walk.

“My office both works to support student groups and

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The committee’s formation also comes after a surge of action dedicated to preventing climate change by students and faculty.

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LGBT Center volunteers hung up transgender flags on Locust Walk in front of SteinbergDietrich Hall for the vigils held for Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20.

their events, as well as serve as the point of contact for Open Expression support,” Katie Bonner, executive director of OSA wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “As such, when a student group is planning an event where sound concerns might be an issue, we provide guidance in line with the policy, so that they plan accordingly.”

Other groups on Locust Walk, however, play loud music on campus while selling tickets and baked goods for fundraising. The a capella group Penn Sirens never received an email from OSA regarding noise levels, said College freshman Sara Hansson, the Penn Sirens publicity director.

“To book space for Sirens, I had to sign up on a portal and make a reservation for a pole space,” Hansson said.

She added that Penn Sirens plays music at its table on Lo-

cust Walk to sell tickets for its shows.

Rachel Watson, who is a second-year student in GSE and was a volunteer at the vigils, said the noise guidelines made it difficult for the event to attract people to walk past.

“Part of the purpose of the free-form and pop-up nature of the vigils was to get passersby to pay attention to the names, to the fact that it was the Trans Day of Remembrance, and to the ways that black trans women are particularly affected by that violence,” Watson said. “It’s difficult to draw peoples’ attention if we’re restricted in our noise levels, especially when surrounded by loud groups who are also trying to draw attention to themselves.”

Watson said if they had not been asked to avoid be-

ing loud, they would have used a bullhorn, which would have increased attention and awareness.

In response to the volunteer criticism about the OSA noise guidelines, Bonner wrote in an email that the OSA issues these guidelines on a case-bycase basis.

“It is very common for our office to be in touch with groups on Locust and those hosting events on College Green proactively, or in response to a complaint, regarding noise,” Bonner wrote in an email to the DP. “We were being asked to conform to a certain level of respectability in order to exist and create our memorial, which ran counter to our purpose of disrupting trans erasure through a small disruption in people’s commute down Locust Walk,” Watson said.

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that he wanted to focus on for the upcoming school year in the Faculty Senate, according to his welcome back message in the Penn Almanac in August.

“How can the various disciplines and forms of expertise at Penn, both within and without climate science, contribute to meeting the challenges of global warming?” he wrote.

The group’s formation also comes after a surge of action dedicated to preventing climate change by students and faculty.

Earlier this month, Fossil Free Penn shut down a Board of Trustees meeting. Protesters shouted and sang slogans asking the University to divest from fossil fuels, drowning out the proceedings of the meeting.

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underrepresented minority faculty members who are tenured or on the tenure track and a 22% increase in women faculty members.

Underrepresented minorities still comprise 8% of the standing faculty. Women represent 35% of all standing faculty.

In 2011, 30.7% of the faculty were female and 6.2% of the faculty were underrepresented minorities.

Despite the slight increases, women and minority professors make up a small percentage of the faculty in several schools.

Women make up less than 20% of faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

The number of Penn faculty who identify as Native American also remains minor, at two standing faculty members, according to the report.

“In the past, students have articulated to our office the ways in which faculty diversity might matter to them, particularly if they’re underrepresented groups in order to have people who understand their experiences and can role model success in various fields for them,” Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Lubna Mian said.

“It’s important that the professoriate gets the experience of

In October, Penn released its latest Climate and Sustainability Action Plan 3.0, highlighting its five-year goals to promote sustainability on campus.

The new plan, which sets goals from 2019 to 2024, addresses issues such as increasing academic study of environmental issues, reducing carbon emissions and waste, and promoting sustainable behaviors among members of the Penn community.

This is Penn’s third Climate Action Plan, following an initial five-year plan in 2009 and 2014’s Climate Action Plan 2.0.

The Faculty Senate is made up of 2,700 standing faculty, who are tenured and tenuretrack professors. The Executive Committee, which is a subgroup of the Faculty Senate, has 58 members.

the students.”

Faculty Senate Chair Steven Kimbrough said the positive trend in minority faculty members is a positive sign moving forward.

“There’s no pushback on this from anybody,” Kimbrough said. “I can’t imagine you resisting this in any way. There’s a consensus that I see of viewing diversity in many kinds as a really positive value for a society, for a university.”

Penn’s 12 schools are individually responsible for implementing the plan’s goals. The University appointed diversity officers to work with the deans of each school to implement the Action Plan, Kimbrough said.

Each year, the Provost meets with the deans of each school to discuss faculty diversity, Mian said. Climate surveys are also conducted at regular intervals to measure faculty satisfaction.

Mian said the University’s administration is committed to promoting access and opportunity for both students and faculty.

“As we go forward in this particular political moment, diversity and inclusion issues are among the most pressing contemporary issues of our day,” Mian said. “I think there’s a sense in which this is very, very important to the University as a whole.”

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PAGE events tackle ableism, fatphobia, and trauma

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Penn Association for Gender Equity board members Margaret Zheng, Tanya Jain, Cami Doo, Serena Martinez, and Chandni Shah celebrated PAGE’s annual “Body Reclamation Week.”

The week featured four discussion-based events ANDIE PINGA Staff Reporter

PAGE’s annual “Body Reclamation Week” broadened its focus this year to include programming that centered on systems that strip women of their bodily autonomy — a shift from previous years’ “Love Your Body Week.”

Penn Association for Gender Equity Chair and College senior Tanya Jain said the name change reflects a new focus on the institutions rather than simply telling women to love their bodies. She said the programming evolved to include more discussion-based events.

The week, which aims to address ways women can reclaim their bodies after their autonomy is taken away, featured documentary screenings, workshops, and discussions on bodily autonomy, fatphobia, ableism, and trauma.

“Generally, as the umbrella group on gender, a lot of our work is about bringing awareness to discussions,” College sophomore and PAGE board member Serena Martinez said.

“We try to cover topics that we think aren’t discussed on campus as much. We try to choose topics to center the experiences of people who don’t get the attention they deserve.”

The first event was a Monday evening screening of “Death

by Delivery,” a documentary which explores maternal mortality among black women, followed by a discussion of medical discrimination more generally.

PAGE brought sex educator Jazzmin Boyd to talk about fatphobia and the ways diet culture and health care are implicated in the topic. At the Wednesday panel on ableism, Penn students with disabilities spoke about their experiences and discussed allyship.

College junior Elizabeth Kim went to a panel on “Deconstructing Ableism” at the Penn Women’s Center Wednesday — the first disability discussion she has attended at Penn.

Kim, who has cochlear implants, said these discussions are vital. Kim said the discussion fostered greater understanding and helped students with disabilities feel less alone in their experience.

“I think each person with a

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disability has a unique experience,” Kim said. “Each person [with a disability] comes from different backgrounds, and I think some of them are bad at asking for help. But I also feel like people who don’t have disabilities don’t know how to approach people with disabilities because they don’t want offend them. I feel like when that happens, there’s a gap and nothing happens.”

The final event took place on Friday and focused on recovery from sexual trauma, providing a space for survivors to discuss the effects of trauma on their bodies. The 2019 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct, released in October, found that one in four undergraduate women at Penn experienced unwanted sexual contact since entering college.

“There’s not a lot of resources and programming at Penn that says, as a survivor, how do we become more comfortable with our bodies after we experience violence,” Jain said. “A lot of violence prevention is looking at education for perpetrators. I think it’s really important that PAGE is looking at how we support survivors.”

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current lack of data regarding school dropouts because of menstruation.

“When I came from a science background, I always felt like data was objective,” she said.

“During my time as an undergraduate volunteering around the world, I’ve seen this discrepancy and gap. Data is not really objective. It’s not black and white.”

With her degree in public policy, Binti Hasbullah said she plans to increase representation in politics for young people and women in Malaysia.

In the past year, Binti Hasbullah has engaged in various service projects, including volunteering with refugees in Guatemala and Poland. For her contributions to community service, Binti Hasbullah was awarded Penn Alumni’s Association of Alumnae Rosemary D. Mazzatenta Scholars Award. At Penn,

she serves on the Muslim Students Association board, the Dining Advisory Board, and the Rodin College House community service programming team as a co-chair.

Binti Hasbullah said she was first inspired to apply for the Malaysian Rhodes Scholarship when she saw 2018 College and Wharton graduate Adnan Zikri Jaafar win one himself.

“I’m super grateful and I’m still processing a lot of it,” she said about hearing the news for the first time.

Damianos, who comes from North Hampton, N.H., graduated from Penn with a degree in political science and is currently pursuing development studies at the University of Cambridge. He said he aims to pursue a doctorate in migration studies at Oxford and attend law school so he can advocate for the rights of refugees within current legal systems.

“The refugee study center at

Oxford — the only of its kind there in the world — and the scholars there have deeply influenced my academic research and works,” Damianos said.

At Penn, Damianos founded Penn Undergraduates for Refugee Empowerment, which provides translation and tutoring services for refugees. He also volunteered with refugees in Greece, Philadelphia, New York, and Cambridge.

Damianos said his experiences working with refugees motivated him to apply for the Rhodes Scholarship.

“The desire to apply came directly from the fact that these incredible and inspiring and deeply resilient people would come to me looking for support and asking questions I did not have the answers to,” Damianos said. In 2018, Damianos received the Truman Scholarship, which awards recipients with $30,000 to pursue graduate studies relating to public service.

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Allen more than $300,000 as bribes so that his son, a 2019 Wharton graduate, would gain admission to Penn as a basketball recruit. Allen testified in Miami federal court that he had received $300,000 from Esformes to recruit his son.

Prosecutors found that the money involved in the bribes came directly from the Medicare fraud case, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Esformes’s Medicare fraud trial also revealed that he sent more than $400,000 to the charity of William “Rick” Singer, the college consultant at the center of the national college admissions scandal.

Justice Department prosecutors proposed Esformes be required to reimburse $207 million to Medicare given his $78.9 million net worth at the time of his arrest in 2016, the Chicago Tribune reported. Scola opted for a lesser payment to Medicare based on evidence from Esformes’s trial, but he agreed

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Philip Esformes, a former Penn parent, operated 24 health care facilities in America, which bribed medical professionals.

with the significant federal payment proposed by prosecutors, the Miami Herald reported.

“I gave him a lesser number of years in prison in anticipation of a significant financial penalty,” Scola said in Miami federal court, the Miami Herald reported.

Esformes operated 24 health care facilities reaching from Chicago to Miami which bribed medical professionals to refer patients to his Florida facilities,

the Chicago Tribune reported.

In many of the facilities, elderly patients were placed alongside young adults suffering from mental illness and drug addiction.

“An elderly patient was attacked and beaten to death by a younger mental health patient who never should have been at [a nursing facility] in the first place,” prosecutors wrote in a pre-sentencing memo, the Chicago Tribune reported.

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Penn should add an extra day to Thanksgiving break

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enn students don’t get a lot of time off. In the 2017-2018 school year, we had the fewest amount of days off out of any Ivy League school, receiving almost 27 fewer days off than Princeton University students. Penn students are yet again reminded of this reality this week, with only two days off for the Thanksgiving break, with the first day off being the holiday itself. To promote student well-being and allow students greater travel flexibility, Penn must expand this break by adding the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

While expanding the holiday by a day or two may seem like a trivial change, it has several major benefits. Life at Penn can be stressful, and there’s a lot that needs to be done to address student wellness. Giving students an extra day is a small step, but particularly as finals are approaching, it is important to have an opportunity to relax and decompress, spending time with family or friends.

Lengthening the holiday would have benefits for students concerned with money. The day before Thanksgiving is frequently the busiest travel day of the year, and as a result, is often one of the most expensive days to fly on. Giving students that day off allows more flexibility for travel plans, meaning less money spent on airfare and less time spent in traffic going to the airport or train station. Traveling home can be prohibitively

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To promote student well-being and allow students greater travel flexibility, Penn must expand this break by adding the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.” expensive for low-income students, and so this policy change could make the difference for

people who would otherwise be forced to spend Thanksgiving at Penn.

In the past, the administration has argued that Pennsylvania state law prevents Penn from adding more days off to justify short breaks. This hasn’t limited schools like Swarthmore College, which is also in Pennsylvania, from giving its students longer fall breaks, reading day periods, and winter breaks than Penn. While Penn may have to remove a day or two off summer break to implement a longer Thanksgiving break, the benefits of an additional day off during the

school year outweigh the cost of losing an additional day of summer.

Penn students are stressed enough as is. Penn students stay up later than students at most other schools and deal with tremendous pressures on a daily basis. Penn can take a small step to show its commitment to prioritizing student wellness and making breaks more accessible to all students by giving everyone time to be thankful and expanding the Thanksgiving break.

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THE ANGRY PHILADELPHIAN | We’re sick, we’re tired, we’re overworked. More days off could help.

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t’s no secret many Penn st udent s a re st resse d , overworked, and under an immense amount of pressure.

A quick survey of what happens once classes finish for the week reveals a host of different ways we deal with that pressure, from parties to dinners to sleep. When we spend time with friends and family is in part determined by our University Council-approved Academic Calendar. This calendar mandates grade change deadlines, which days we have finals, and most importantly, when we have days off.

When comparing Penn’s calendar to our peers’ calendars, a striking statistic jumps out.

In the 2017-2018 school year, we had an average of 18 fewer days of breaks than the rest of the Ivy League. It is time for the University to reconsider its calendar and add more days for rest and recuperation to our schedule, giving us an additional break from the often stifling Penn bubble.

During the academic year, we lose the majority of our potential time off in our mid-year breaks. We receive two days off for fall break, two days off for Thanksgiving, 18 days off for winter break, one day off for Martin Luther King, Jr. day, and five days off for spring break. For the 2019-20 academic year, that totals 28 days off compared to 36 for Columbia, our nearest ‘competitor.’

The benefits of having more days off are fairly obvious. Not having classes frees up precious time to catch up or get ahead in class, work on assignments before the 11th hour, or devote time to non-academic things, like catching up with f r iends, pla n n ing for the months ahead, or just sleeping in to recover from the semesterlong cold many of us have.

But it’s also important to distinguish between having University-mandated breaks and just taking a personal day. Mandatory days off can serve as a proactive minimizer of negative stress and, if

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well-placed, can give students some breathing room as the demands of college increase.

On the other hand, encourag-

days off, many workers took few (if any) days off. Researchers found that when a person was in a competitive, tight envi-

given such latitude, work often bled into personal time more than before, and resulted in less restful time off.

As Penn students, we can actually make a change.

Penn’s last major calendar update (our two-day fall break) was lobbied for by the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education and successfully added in 1984.

So the bottom line: There is precedence for more changes to be made.” ing students to take a personal day can often go unheeded, especially for the many workaholics at Penn. Case studies from the workforce show that even when given unlimited

ronment, self-selected days off were seen as a sign of weakness and used by cutthroat employees as evidence of superiority, a further deterrent for taking a day off. In fact, they found that

As a university, there are different ways we could incor porate add itiona l time off. One of them would be to increase the duration of our winter break (where many of

our peer institutions allot most of their time off). However, increasing the number and duration of mid-semester breaks is a better solution as it gives a true “break” — long enough to give a pause in work, but short enough that we don’t forget information critical to the semester.

There are many places a break could be implemented, but it should be at a time where it can break up the drudge of a semester (like in the spring around Presidents’ Day or in the fall near election day). Additionally, extra days could be added to already existing breaks (like making fall break a full week à la Yale.) Extra days would let students visit their families or explore the greater Philadelphia area.

As Penn students, we can actually make a change. Penn’s last major calendar update (our two-day fall break) was lobbied for by the Student Committee on Education and successfully added in 1984. So the bottom line: There is precedent for more changes to be made.

As Penn makes deliberate efforts to increase student wellness at Penn, our academic calendar has to be leveraged as a tool to decrease the negative effects our campus culture has on ourselves and our peers.

ALFREDO PRATICÒ is a College freshman from Philadelphia, Pa. His email address is pratico@sas. upenn.edu.

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Stop flyering on Locust THE OXFORD C’MON | Everyone can help the environment in some small way

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esterday I put not one, not two, but three flyers in the recycling bin after digging them out from the bottom of my bag. All three of these small scraps of paper were handed to me on Locust Walk and, if I’m being perfectly honest, I don’t even know what events or clubs they were promoting. When a peer offers me a flyer on Locust Walk advertising their upcoming show or asking me to Venmo their club for a worthy cause, I feel rude to dismiss them because they’re putting in the work to advertise what they’re passionate about. But I promise you that I’m not going

to read the flyer I’ve been handed, which ultimately makes it a waste of paper and money. Clubs on Penn’s campus can be doing more to actively combat our carbon footprints, and eliminating the practice of handing out flyers on Locust Walk is one small way to make a difference.

I would also like to acknowledge that this article is going to go to print, which means these words will be inked on paper that will be passed out on Locust Walk, but this is necessary for newspapers and not so much for clubs. Banners strung up along Locust Walk advertising opening nights or up-

coming events for their respective clubs are enough to get the message across.

Last year, Swarthmore College tallied how much paper they were printing: “Last Fall (2017) from September 4th to December 23rd, we printed 1,259,649 pages, of which nearly 82% were 2-sided (Duplex). That’s 11,348 pages per day (average), 9.25 trees worth of paper, 6,402 kg of CO2, and 210,921 equivalent bulb hours of electricity.” Now consider the fact that Swarthmore’s undergraduate population is only about 1/10 of Penn’s. Penn students should cut down on some of our paper usage,

and the flyers that no one reads are a good place to start. Not to mention the fact that many of these small pieces of paper end up drifting down Locust Walk anyway, tossed to the wayside by hurried students and left as sad reminders of the daily waste we don’t even consider.

More positively, we live in the era of social media, which would simply be a more effective way of broadcasting club news. There are aspects of student life here that inevitably create waste — especially when Penn has still not divested the $13.8 billion endowment despite students advocating tirelessly for it.

But until larger structural changes occur, students have a responsibility to help curb their waste production in any way they can. It’s our futures that will pay the price. This includes small steps, like ceasing the unnecessary printing of flyers to pass out on Locust Walk. I’m sure I’m not the only one with scraps of unread paper crushed in the bottom of my bag. If you’re with me, I say let these be the last flyers to go to waste.

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Penn students in Hong Kong forced to leave amid protests

The decision affected three Penn undergrads JASON YAN Staff Reporter

Amid bloody protests that disrupted everyday life in Hong Kong, Penn mandated that its three undergraduate students studying abroad leave the city. Two Penn Law students in Hong Kong also left after their campuses closed.

All of Penn’s partner universities in Hong Kong suspended in-person coursework and shifted to an online setting for the rest of the term, Penn Abroad Associate Director Kristyn Palmiotto said.

“We determined that [removing students from Hong Kong] would

be the safest, given that the campuses were not functioning as they had prior,” Palmiotto said.

The wave of protests in Hong Kong began in June after the government planned to pass a law allowing extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China. Mass protests followed, leading to violent clashes with police.

Recently, police shot a protester and a protester stabbed a police officer in the midst of escalating violence.

Palmiotto said administrators have not yet determined whether next semester’s study abroad program will be canceled, but students who are concerned about the rising unrest can opt to study elsewhere.

“All students planning on study-

ing abroad in Hong Kong for Spring 2020 had received communication from our office, walking them through their options,” Palmiotto said. “Any student that expressed concerns about pursuing Hong Kong in the spring had been offered to pursue an alternative in the spring.”

Wharton junior Colette Gordon, who was studying abroad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong this semester, said the protests did not affect her experience in Hong Kong until the beginning of October.

“Around the Chinese National Day, the MTR station near the campus was closed for three days straight, and that impacted my experience just because that’s how we leave our campus in CUHK typi-

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Gordon said the situation worsened around mid-November, when there were protests happening around the CUHK campus and there were barricades around the area by both the protesters and police.

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“I called the U.S. embassy to see what help they can give me about leaving campus and Hong Kong, but they just told me that they are aware of what is happening and are only interested if you are injured or arrested,” Gordon added.

Gordon later decided to leave the university campus with her suitemate from Italy, with the help of the Italian embassy in Hong Kong.

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which is understandable given the situation,” Gordon said.

Gordon is now home in the United States.

Associate Dean of the College and Director of Academic Affairs Kent Peterman said the College Office, Penn’s Office of International Risk Management, and Penn Abroad worked alongside International SOS and the individual partner universities to determine safety

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Peterman said students need to be responsible for making decisions on whether or not they want to take the risk.

“We wouldn’t just say, ‘Don’t worry and just go,’ but I would say that every student has to assess for themselves whether they want to step into an environment where there had been turmoil recently,” Peterman said.

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A pair of Wharton graduate students have developed a new ice cream brand that is now carried in 500 stores across Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

MBA students Vedant Saboo and Mike Weber founded the ice cream brand, Frutero, in May 2019. The students teamed up to sell tropical fruit-flavored ice cream inspired by Indian, Southeast Asian, and Latin American fruits. Frutero offers five signature flavors: guaGILLIAN DIEBOLD nabana, coconut, guava, passion In “Managing Disruptive Change: Cryptocurrencies,� each three-hour weekly class meeting includes HANNAH GROSS fruit, and mango. A box of four presentations from one professor and one industry leader. The course meets for a total of seven sessions. eight-ounce containers retails MBA students Vedant Saboo and Mike Weber founded the for $20, according to the Frute- tropical fruit-flavored ice cream brand, Frutero, in May 2019. ro website.

The half-credit course was employers are looking for ex- see the long-term value of Saboo said he met Weber samples to speak to managers supermarkets to let customers perts on. this, year-in and year-out, was first offered this semester when they were assigned to and convince them to try their try out their products. “I would recommend this amazing for the program.� sit next to each other on the product. Weber rode around on course, especially to anyone Management professor “They stand out because they EVIE ARTIS Staff Reporter first day of class in 2018. The his bike to deliver ice cream go after these new flavors,� who is interested in going into Saikat Chaudhuri, one of the two connected because of their and talk to customers as part Wharton MBA student Ryan the payment industry or any- featured lecturers of the course, For the first time, students one interested in blockchain,� said his session focused on shared passion for entrepreneur- of Frutero’s “Philly Delivery� Morgan said. “But it’s not just have the chance to take a half- DeVore said. “I feel like a lot blockchain, the record-keepship, and Saboo approached service, which has since been the flavors. The taste and the credit course in cryptocurren- of what we want to see in terms ing technology behind bitcoin.

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Men’s and women’s fencing individual competitors shine at Penn State Both teams had individuals land top-three placements JUSTIN DECHIARIO Sports Reporter

Penn men’s and women’s fencing both had individuals place in the top three this weekend in what was a strong showing for the Red and Blue.

This weekend, the Quakers stayed in state when they traveled to University Park, Pa. to compete in the PSU Garrett Open.

The story of the day was junior Michael Li’s run in the foil competition. After advancing to round three with relative ease, Li went 4-1 in that duel to advance to the round of 16, where he faced off against North Carolina sophomore Lucas Fernandez and won resoundingly by a score of 15-3.

Li’s quarterfinal and semifinal matches were closer, but he ulti-

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Penn women’s fencing had a strong showing at the PSU Garrett Open with seven top-10 finishes, including an eighth-place finish by sophomore Vanessa Dib in the epee, where two other Quakers also finished in the top 10.

mately prevailed in both rounds by a score of 15-10, vaulting himself into a finals match against junior Sidarth

Kumbla from Columbia.

Li’s run would end there as he fell, 15-1, to Kumbla, and finished

in second place, the top finish for both the Penn men and women during the competition.

Freshman Julia Thompson was a bright spot for the women’s team (3-1) on Saturday. After dominating the early rounds, she defeated teammate and freshman Grace Hao, 1514, in the quarterfinals. Hao finished in eighth place, while Thompson ultimately lost in the semifinals, finishing tied for third place in the foil competition.

While Thompson placed highest on the team, other Quakers also performed well. In all the events combined, Penn had seven top-10 finishes.

The epee saw three Quakers place in the top 10, as sophomore Vanessa Dib finished in eighth place, freshman Chloe Daniel earned sixth, and freshman Madeline Adams-Kim placed fifth.

In the sabre, Penn had two top-10 finishes, with junior Miranda Gieg coming in eighth and freshman Amber White finishing her day in the fifth spot.

The Quakers saw exceptional

performances from some of their young fencers. Six out of the seven top-10 finishers are underclassmen, and five are freshmen. This is an encouraging sign for a team with a large crop of young athletes, who will have a chance to learn from these opportunities and grow as their collegiate careers continue.

The men’s team (3-3) competed on Sunday as the group looked to follow up a strong performance by the women with a solid showing of its own. The men’s best finish in the epee came from sophomore James Armstrong, who came in 11th place.

Senior Adam Green highlighted the men’s sabre squad, making it into the quarterfinals before having to withdraw. With this performance, Green ended the competition in the seventh spot.

The Quakers will return to University Park in January for the Penn State Invitational, as they look to build upon their performance from this weekend’s Garrett Open.

Player of the week: Colaiocco WRESTLING | Freshman won the 125-pound class JACKSON SATZ Associate Sports Editor

He may be only a freshman, but Michael Colaiocco has already begun to make his presence felt for Penn wrestling.

At the 2019 Keystone Classic, which the Quakers hosted on Sunday at the Palestra for the 24th consecutive year, Colaiocco made his mark by defeating University of Virginia redshirt freshman Patrick McCormick to claim the crown in the 125-pound weight class.

Going into the event, Colaiocco was already shouldering significant expectations for the Red and Blue, as he was the highest-ranked wrestler entered in the weight at

No. 11 in the nation. He faced stiff competition within the weight class, with 2018 champion and national No. 20 Jonathan Tropea from Rider joining Colaiocco as the only ranked wrestlers in the 125-pound division.

Last year, then-redshirt sophomore Tropea defeated then-Penn freshman Carmen Ferrante by a 7-3 decision, but Ferrante wrestled in the 133-pound weight class on Sunday. Additionally, Tropea’s Rider teammate and redshirt senior Anthony Cefolo, who was an NCAA qualifier last season at 133 pounds, moved down a weight to compete at 125 pounds.

For Colaiocco, the win at Keystone is the first collegiate title of his career. En route to rising to the top of his weight class, the freshman won three bouts, including a first round matchup with VMI

freshman John McGarry, whom Colaiocco needed just 1:29 to pin.

In the second round, Colaiocco went up against Harvard first-year Beau Bayless. Colaiocco proceeded to defeat Bayless, 6-1, to secure himself a spot in the finals.

The championship round saw Colaiocco squaring off against Virginia’s McCormick. Colaiocco registered two takedowns in the first period, after which he led, 4-1.

After two periods, Colaiocco had extended his lead over McCormick to 7-1, and it wasn’t long before he had earned himself a 10-2 major decision to claim victory in his first-ever Keystone Classic.

Colaiocco was one of four wrestlers who made it to the finals for the Quakers, and he was joined by sophomore Doug Zapf, who emerged victorious from the 141-pound weight class.

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“We knew they were going to do that, especially after we came out with a decent lead in the first half. We knew they were going to come out and pressure us,� Betley said. “We didn’t handle it too well at the start, but it’s just a matter of settling down, understanding what they were doing and just being tough with the ball, being gritty.�

After a Luwane Pipkins three for Providence cut the lead to seven with 10:53 to go, the Quakers were able to settle down and break the press more effectively. The Red and Blue got into the half-court, which slowed down the game, as well as Providence’s momentum. Additionally, Penn knocked down several foul

shots, in spite of the hostile environment, to hold a comfortable lead for the remainder of the contest. “Me, Dev, and AJ, the three of us seniors, we’ve played in that type of environment,�

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The Friars made it interesting in the final seconds by getting the margin back to six by game’s end, but it was too little too late, and Penn held on to secure its second victory against a power conference team this year.

came for a visit, so [his injury] touched everybody when he went down.�

Priore in his postgame address urged all reporters in attendance to say a prayer for Gray.

Unlike most columns I write, I am not pushing any particular takeaways or looking to state anything beyond the obvious. In the end, as much as I sometimes forget, as a collegiate sports reporter, most of the athletes I cover are my peers. Even watching revenue-driving Division I athletes from Duke basketball or Alabama football, I often forget that most of the players are my age or younger until something horrible hap-

pens. Moore, who made the hit on Gray, is my classmate.

With this incident, it is important not to extend blame or contextualize the tragic hit beyond a typical football hit gone wrong.

Though Penn lost, 28-7, the most important happening surrounding the game is that Gray will be fine long-term and that both coaches and players from Penn and Princeton demonstrated extreme class and maturity throughout the ordeal.

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on the Penn big man. However, Brodeur held strong on the low block, as Watson shot just 2-for-7 from the field. “He’s a great low-post defender; he’s a great defender in every aspect,� Donahue said. “He switches one through five. ... He guards and he competes. I thought we did a great job in the first half of making them really shoot challenging shots.�

Providence switched things up on defense in the second half and implemented a fullcourt press. Penn struggled to handle this pressure and turned the ball over four times in the first six minutes of the half.

“I hope that we as seniors set an example for people to never give up no matter what it is,� Philippi, who had battled back from a hip injury last year, said. “There wasn’t one moment where I felt that we weren’t a team. We stuck together through it all.�

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Quakers were led by their seniors as well. Captain Sam Philippi registered three tackles and a pass breakup, defensive back Tayte Doddy had seven tackles, and defensive lineman Prince Emili totaled seven tackles and three quarterback hits.

Undoubtedly, this senior class, winners of the 2016 Ivy League title, will be greatly missed, but the impact that they’ve had on this program will surely live on.

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coaching staff to check on the running back. “I told Ray this, but what a classy guy to come over.

I hope I would do the same thing in that situation,� Princeton coach Bob Surace said. “He is class personified.

That’s why he’s had so much success as a coach. There is a healthy respect you have for the people on the other side.

For Ray to do that just exemplified it.� “In this world, you get a chance to meet a lot of fine young men, and [Trey] is a fine young man,� Priore said. “He was recruited here and

MARC MARGOLIS is a College Senior from Lower Merion, Pa., and is a Senior Sports Reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com

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Two wrestlers capture titles as Women’s squash splits pair of Quakers win Keystone Classic matches, men’s squash sweeps An all-Penn matchup for the 141-pound title ended the day WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor

Penn wrestling did not disappoint in its opening performance on the Palestra mats.

The Red and Blue faced stiff competition from nine other schools at the annual Keystone Classic, but coach Roger Reina’s crew came away with the overall team title and individual title wins from freshman Michael Colaiocco and sophomore Doug Zapf.

Competing against wrestlers from as nearby as Drexel and as far as Duke, the Quakers held their own across the board, posting 16 total quarterfinalists — 14 of whom were underclassmen — across the 10 weight classes.

Colaiocco was the top seed at 125 pounds, and the highly touted rookie ran through his competition over the day with ease to claim his first collegiate title. Heading into the finals with a pin and a 6-1 win already in the books, Colaiocco earned a 10-2 major decision win over Patrick McCormick of Virginia to earn the first-place finish.

“I was happy with the way I

wrestled today,” Colaiocco said.

“As long as I’m improving from week to week, just focus on the small things I do everyday, I’m going to have a good season.”

Wrestling at 133 pounds, sophomore captain Carmen Ferrante came close to replicating Colaiocco’s success. Two convincing early wins were enough to see him into the final, but a late takedown from Virginia’s Louie Hayes meant Ferrante would take second place for the second consecutive year in a tight 3-1 decision.

The third final of the day was the cherry on top for the passionate home crowd, as senior captain A.J. Vindici met sophomore Doug Zapf in an all-Penn affair. Vindici might have had more experience on the collegiate level, but it was the younger wrestler who prevailed on Saturday as Zapf earned the win by an 8-3 score.

Colaiocco and Zapf’s wins meant that the Quakers had multiple champions for the first time since 2015.

“These guys were used to standing on the top of the podium in high school, but in college that’s something you have to re-earn,” Reina said. “Being on the podium and medaling is great, but there’s a special feeling when you stand on

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Sophomore Doug Zapf was victorious in a match with senior captain AJ Vindici in the 141-pound final at the Keystone Classic.

the top.”

Elsewhere, four other young Quakers — freshmen Jesse Quatse and Cole Urbas and sophomores Grant Aronoff and Anthony Artalona — came ready to impress and all placed in the top four of their respective weight classes.

At 149 pounds, Aronoff picked up two tight wins before being tripped up by top-seeded Jonathan Millner of Appalachian State in the semifinals. His forfeit in the third-place match meant he took fourth in the weight class.

As the top seed at 157 pounds, Artalona was expected to be a key contributor for the Red and Blue on Sunday. He raced through his first three bouts, winning the first two by a combined score of 29-5 and pinning his third opponent.

After losing a narrow 3-2 decision to Appalachian State’s Matt Zovistoski in the semifinals, Artalona would take third place following a 2-1 victory over Parker Kropman of Drexel.

Quatse and Urbas both lit up the mat in their first collegiate home meet, taking fourth at 184 pounds and third at 197, respectively. After losing to eventual champion George Walton of Rider, Quatse rode a 15-0 technical fall win into the thirdplace match, where he fell 4-2 to Sacred Heart’s Kyle Davis.

Perhaps even more than the individual title wins, the Penn collective was the loudest when Urbas closed out the day with a pin in his third-place match. His victory would be enough for the Quakers to clinch the team title, their first since 2010.

“It was really the combined effort of guys up and down the lineup,” Reina said. “We put a lot of emphasis on offense and scoring bonus points, and ultimately that’s what made the difference in this tournament.”

Two years ago, Penn finished seventh of 10 and only had four wrestlers place in their weight classes. Last year, the team came in third. After this year, it’s safe to say #TheMovement has arrived.

Both teams won Saturday versus George Washington DANIEL WITTMER Sports Reporter

This weekend, Penn men’s and women’s squash continued to show why they’re among the elite programs in the country.

The No. 3 men’s team went on a weekend-long road trip to take on No. 9 George Washington and then to Annapolis, Md. to compete against No. 16 Navy.

The Quakers routed both George Washington and Navy, 9-0.

On the women’s side, the No. CAROLINE GIBSON 7 Quakers were barely edged, 5-4, at home against No. 4 Stanford, Sophomore Aly Abou Eleinen and the rest of Penn men’s squash but the Red and Blue came away dominated their opponents this weekend, winning both matches 9-0. victorious with a 6-3 result against No. 15 George Washington on the in any of his four career matches, Scott and senior Lindsay Stanley, road. netting a 13-0 overall record. who set the tone with wins in both For the men (4-0), their shut“I’m very pleased with how the of their matches to start. Freshman outs this weekend can be seen as freshmen are coming along with Euwie Park sealed the victory by a result, in part, to upperclassman their games, and we aren’t exactly dominating her match, 3-0, and leadership. where we want to be, but we are giving the Quakers their fifth point “The upperclassmen such as working toward that and are con- on the day. captains [junior] Andrew Douglas tinuing to develop our games in One of the main stories of the and [senior] David Yacobucci are different areas where we struggled weekend was freshman Amina doing an excellent job of setting earlier in the season,” Lane said.

Abou El Enin, as she is one of the tone in these matches,” coach On the women’s side of things, only two players on the roster who Gilly Lane said.

Penn (3-1) had a 1-1 split this is still undefeated in matches this Lane recognizes that having weekend, suffering a close loss season. upperclassmen win their matches to start the doubleheader against For both the men and women, early in the day can fire up his Stanford (1-1). quick turnarounds like these are squad and lead to multiple wins Coach Jack Wyant was pleased typical. along the way. with his team’s effort and how the “Growing up and playing Against George Washington group fought back from a 3-1 defi- squash, you’re used to playing (1-3), Douglas and junior Yash cit to tie it at 4-4. a couple of matches in a day, so Bhargava both won their matches, The contest’s result came down they’re used to playing quite a bit 3-1. This 2-0 cushion fueled the to the final matchup of the day be- in juniors,” Lane said. underclassmen to play with confi- tween Stanford sophomore Elena In addition, Wyant credits dence. In fact, five out of the nine Wagenmans and Penn senior cap- Penn Athletics for taking steps to wins on the day came from under- tain Jessica Davis. mitigate the stress associated with classmen.

The first game was a tight con- doubleheaders for the squash proThe Quakers then traveled to test with Wagenmans barely edg- gram.

Navy (6-5) to take on the “ex- ing out Davis, 12-10. However, “One of the things [Athletics tremely athletic” Midshipmen, as Wagenmans went on to take the Director] Dr. [M. Grace] Calhoun Lane described them. next two games of the match by has done that has been helpful The result was another 9-0 vic- an average of six points, which from the coaches’ standpoint is tory. To begin, junior Ryan Mur- secured a team victory for the Car- she’s increased the size of the staff ray got the start in the ninth posi- dinal. in terms of trainers and mental tion on the day, where he gave the The Red and Blue weren’t go- performance professionals, which Quakers their third win on the day. ing to let their loss to Stanford neg- has paid dividends,” Wyant said.

However, one of the main stories atively affect them, however, as All in all, both teams are lookwas freshman Dillon Huang, who they came out swinging to take a ing strong early in the season, and continued his undefeated match 4-0 lead against George Washing- they hope that this momentum streak for the season. In addition, ton (1-3) the next day. The finish will carry into the rest of nonconhe hasn’t dropped a single game was highlighted by junior Haley ference play and beyond.

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Penn falls to Princeton on Senior Day The Quakers’ three-game win streak ended with loss BREVIN FLEISCHER Senior Sports Reporter

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ever has the old adage of football as a game of inches rung more true.

In the season finale for both teams, Penn fell to rival Princeton by the score of 28-7, but that point

differential resulted not from a disparity in talent or ball control but rather from several key fourth down opportunities.

Throughout the contest, both the Quakers (5-5, 3-4 Ivy) and the Tigers (8-2, 5-2) were able to consistently drive the ball down the field. In fact, the Red and Blue, despite their relatively low point total, produced 446 yards of total offense, a figure that exceeded the output of each of Penn’s last three games, all of which were conference wins.

The separation between the two teams came on the all-important

fourth down, where the Quakers converted on only one of six chances. Four of those opportunities came within the Princeton 15, with Penn electing to go for first downs rather than kick short field goals.

Whether it be a run or a pass, the Quakers simply could not penetrate Princeton’s fourth-down defense, and failures on such pivotal plays eventually resulted in Penn’s demise.

According to head coach Ray Priore, many of the those decisions to go for a first down resulted from being in “gray areas” where

Quakers knock off Big East opponent Providence behind strong opening half Penn has now beaten two power-conference teams

even a field goal would have been a difficult proposition. That being said, he understands that those types of risks will be put under a microscope and that Penn’s inability to convert set them back in the game.

“In the first half especially, we got some momentum, and we got the ball down there,” Priore said.

“But we didn’t capitalize on those opportunities, and we knew that was going to be difficult to overcome.”

Despite these fourth-down frustrations, the season finale resulted in several positives for the

Quakers, especially for the senior class.

Captain and star running back Karekin Brooks produced yet another strong offensive output, gaining 95 yards on the ground and adding 62 through the air.

With that rushing total, Brooks eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark on the season, becoming just the 12th running back in Penn history to accomplish the feat and the first since 2006.

“It’s pretty special to get 1,000 yards in a season, but right now, I’m still pretty mad about the game,” Brooks said. “But, I’m

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glad that I was able to do that, and I’m thankful for my teammates and for my coaches for believing in me.”

Fellow senior Nick Robinson also delivered a strong performance, passing for 354 yards and a touchdown. On Penn’s opening two drives, Robinson was especially prolific, executing several deep passes and throwing a strike to sophomore Rory Starkey for a seven-yard score that gave Penn its first and only lead at 7-0.

On the defensive side, the SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

Injury reminds us that some moments are more important than just wins and losses MARC MARGOLIS

DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Providence fans were standing at the beginning of the game, but Penn gave them little reason to be on their feet for the rest of the contest.

After an explosive first half, Penn men’s basketball held on in the final stages to secure the 81-75 victory on Saturday. The Quakers (3-2) were unable to maintain the same offensive effectiveness at the beginning of the second half, but they made enough plays down the stretch to hold off the Friars (4-2).

Going into halftime with a 47-30 lead, the Red and Blue scored just six points in the first eight minutes of the second half, and Providence cut the lead to as little as six points with 8:51 to play.

However, freshman guard Jordan Dingle and senior guard Ryan Betley silenced the raucous crowd by knocking down two straight threes with just over six minutes remaining to extend Penn’s lead

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Senior forward AJ Brodeur finished with a double-double for Penn men’s basketball, recording 17 points and 10 rebounds in the win.

to 12. Providence would never get closer than six for the rest of the game, as Dingle put the game out of reach with two more threes to give the Quakers the victory. The freshman finished with 19 points on the evening.

“There were critical times that we needed to score, and we did,” coach Steve Donahue said. “I thought Jordan had a couple big shots there.”

The first half was marked by dominant play from senior forward AJ Brodeur and Bet-

ley, who scored 15 and 14 points in the first 20 minutes, respectively. As a team, the Quakers shot lights out from beyond the arc, knocking down seven of their 14 attempts, with Betley making four of them.

The Friars seemed to put an emphasis on going right at Brodeur in the first half, usually with junior center Nate Watson, who has a slight height and weight advantage SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 8

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In my final Penn football column, I expected to write about something related to the play on the field, my thoughts on the Penn-Princeton rivalry, or the Quakers’ outlook for next season.

However, there are moments that transcend sports and rivalry. On the second half kickoff, in what seemed like a routine play, Penn senior running back Dante’ Moore collided with Princeton sophomore running back Trey Gray. What ensued afterward was not typical, though probably all too common in football. After the collision, I could hear a pop from the press area, located on the far side from the hit and 23 rows up. Gray’s body seemed to freeze mid-fall, and he laid motionless on the field for at least 10 minutes before being carted off in a stretcher.

I’ve watched football my whole life and have seen terrible injuries replayed on television. However, in all my years playing and watching sports, I had never seen anything like what happened to Gray in real time. In the mo-

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Princeton sophomore running back Trey Gray suffered a scary injury on the second-half kickoff and was stretchered off the field.

ment, there were no updates on his injury status, though it was later revealed in the postgame press conference that he suffered a “head-related injury” but will be fine long-term.

This column is not meant to discuss the dangers of football or rehash the debate about whether we, as a society, should allow kids to play football. What is important to convey is that in that moment, the one-possession game and the historic rivalry did not matter. Everyone was most concerned with whether Gray could move his extremities.

Even after play resumed, it was hard to really care about

whether Penn football could mount a comeback or whether senior running back Karekin Brooks would surpass 1,000 rushing yards on the season, which he ultimately did. For all I knew, a peer who happens to be a student-athlete could be in the hospital with a life-altering injury.

Though watching him lay motionless was horrible to see, the worst moments often bring out the best in people. In a one-possession rivalry game, Penn coach Ray Priore stood with the trainers and members of Princeton’s SEE INJURY PAGE 8

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