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CLASSIC In wild late finish, Penn beat rival Princeton WILLIAM SNOW Senior Sports Editor

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It wasn’t quite a buzzer beater, but it was a win over a bitter rival on Homecoming. And that’ll do.

Princeton’s failed 31-yard field goal attempt in the last 10 seconds secured Penn football

a 38-35 victory in a fiercely fought Homecoming game that finished in fireworks.

The Quakers led for almost the entire game, but for three minutes late in the fourth quarter, the hosts fell behind after the Tigers took their first lead of the contest to make it 35-31 with 4:26 left.

On the ensuing drive, Penn drove a full 80 yards down the field in nine plays that featured highlight-reel heroics from senior captain and wide receiver Justin Watson to give his team the lead and the game its fi-

nal scoreline. All three of the drive’s passes were aimed at Watson with one 26-yard bomb from senior quarterback Will Fischer-Colbrie to a fading Watson saving the Quakers just as they looked stuck in front of a stout Tigers defense.

A 15-yard pass from FischerColbrie to Watson, who burned his man with ease on a cut to catch the ball in the end zone untouched, secured the win for Penn.

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Penn to open ‘New College House West’ on high rise field

Penn Police works without contract for a third month

Some worry the dorm will take away green space

Salaries are lower than those at Harvard and Yale

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The University Board of Trustees approved plans on Nov. 2 to build New College House West — a residential building that will cost the University a record-breaking $163 million, Penn President Amy Gutmann said at a board meeting.

The new building will be constructed on 40th and Walnut streets, where high rise field is currently located.

New College House West will begin construction in the spring of 2018 and is expected to open in the fall of 2021, according to a press release.

The budget for the New College House West exceeds the $80.5 million cost of renovating Hill College House, which was completed this past August, and the $125 million cost of building New College House, which was completed in June 2016 and marked the first construction of a college house at Penn in more than 40 years.

Since 2004, Penn has invested $425 million in residential services.

The proposed plans for New College House West will bring that number to $588 million. The new dormitory is designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects, a

More than a month after the Penn Police Department took out a public advertisement calling for the University to “compensate their police department fairly,” Penn Police officers are still working without a contract.

The contract between Penn Police and the University expired on July 31, and has yet to be renewed because representatives from the Penn Police Association and the Division of Public Safety have not been able to agree on the terms of the contract.

“Morale is horrible right now; [the officers] feel unappreciated,” PPA President Eric Rohrback said. “[DPS Vice President] Maureen Rush just did an article last week or the week before on how great of a department we are. We are the largest private police department; we are larger than Princeton [University], we are larger than Yale [University], but we are the lowest paid. She didn’t mention that in her article.”

According to data provided by the Penn Police, Penn officers have a starting salary of less than $52,000 and maximum annual

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New College House West will be located at 40th and Walnut streets.

Penn President Amy Gutmann said the location will form a “third Quad.”

firm which also designed New College House.

“New College House West will enable more Penn students to participate in the College House system, and it will also give us the capacity and flexibility to continue renovating existing student housing,” Gutmann said in a statement, adding that the intended location for New College House West was strategic and will form a “third Quad” for students to spend time in. She said the area enclosed by Locust Walk and Walnut Street near 40th Street “right now is a dead space.”

New College House West will include typical suites with four

bedrooms and a small kitchenette.

The college house will also include seminar rooms and kitchens for student use and for formal events.

Many of the decisions for New College House West are informed by student feedback of Hill and NCH, Gutmann said, adding that the construction of the building represents “a signature moment to improve student life at Penn.”

Despite Gutmann’s statements, students have expressed concerns that the establishment of the new residential building will demolish one of the few green spaces left on campus.

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Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said that move-in and other events were conducted safely despite the contract dispute.

salary of less than $65,000, both of which are lower than those of officers at Princeton, Yale, Stanford University, Rutgers University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University.

A Penn Police officer with 14 years of experience agreed with Rohrback, adding that some officers feel that DPS representatives have not been transparent in their negotiations with PPA. Rohrback said the issues standing in the way of a contract are the salaries and pensions of the officers, which has traditionally been an area of disagreement

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between the two organizations.

More recently, officers’ access to data from body cameras has also become an important point of contention, he said.

In 2015, after the Philadelphia Police department launched a pilot program for officers to wear body cameras while on duty, Penn students called on DPS to implement the same policy for Penn Police officers.

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Penn offers students a ‘misleading’ personality test

CAPS and Career Services use the Myers-Briggs test KELLY HEINZERLING Deputy News Editor

In less than 30 minutes and fewer than 100 questions, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is supposedly able to sort a person’s personality into one of 16 categories.

Most professionals agree that the assessment of the MBTI test is inaccurate and misleading, but many professional companies, including 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies, use the test to

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College junior Daniel Kranseler said despite living off campus, he spends quite a lot of time in the high rise field playing frisbee or football.

“It’s just really frustrating when there’s not much green space on campus where you can run around, play sports, and just enjoy yourself

analyze an individual’s career compatibility. Closer to campus, Counseling and Psychological Services and Career Services have also made use of the test for decades.

For at least 20 years, CAPS has held a Personal Wellness and Career Workshop together with Career Services, CAPS Executive Director Bill Alexander said.

At the workshop, all students take the MBTI and occasionally the StrengthsQuest questionnaire in a group setting that is monitored by a CAPS psychologist and a Career Services representative. The aim of this exercise

is to help students better assess their personal career interests.

“We use [MBTI] to start discussions,” Alexander said. “It’s a nice way to [help] people think about what their strengths and weaknesses are.”

However, many professionals argue that the MBTI is not only ineffective, but can also be harmful.

Wharton professor Adam Grant is a strong opponent of the test, and has argued in multiple articles that the test is unreliable and that its outcomes are insignificant and inaccurate.

“There is no convincing body

of evidence that types affect job performance or team effectiveness,” Grant wrote in Psychology Today. “Palm readings and horoscopes can spark insights too.

That doesn’t mean we should talk about them in our work teams.”

Alexander conceded that before giving the test, CAPS and Career Services tell students that the MBTI is more of an exploration rather than a diagnosis or definitive result.

“We would never use it in a psychological assessment,” Alexander said. “The psychologist who runs it usually says this is more like a parlor game. It’s a

outside,” Kranseler said. “The high rise field was one of the few spaces left, and putting a building there would put more people in a place with less green space.”

While he acknowledged that the field was “a bit underdeveloped,” Kranseler said he would prefer having the field over another large residential building.

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more Jennifer Chen, who lives in Harrison College House, said that although she does not spend much time at high rise field, she loves seeing the green space that it provides.

“I’m opposed to [the construction] for the same reason that many people are,” Chen said. “I feel like this side of campus is already really cramped and I can’t imagine another high rise right

there, so close to Du Bois [College House] and Rodin [College House]. I understand that there needs to be more living space on campus, but I just don’t think they picked a good location.”

But Gutmann said during the Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 2 that the creation of the new residential building will actually result in a “net addition of green space.”

“We specifically rejected the idea of having that large college green being a private space, and made it public so that it’s open and welcoming to everybody,” Gutmann said.

Vice President for Facilities and Real Estate Services Anne Papageorge also told administrators during the meeting that the new building will make the existing field “a more useable green, not just a leftover one.”

According to a statement from the University, Penn aims to obtain a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certification for its new project, which will retain the public green spaces adjacent to Locust Walk, north of Harrison College House, and east of Rodin, as well as the space near Gregory College House.

“These common green spaces are openly accessible to public pedestrian access and available as gathering spaces for University and community events,” the statement read.

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fun exercise that gets you thinking.”

Third-year government administration and educational policy graduate student Abigail Dym, who is running a MBTI training session next Thursday, agreed with Alexander.

“I found it to be incredibly useful primarily as a tool to understand my work style,” said Dym, who first encountered the test in her early career. “It really helped me to think about my own preferences and my own expectations about working.”

Students who have taken the exam said the results were often

inaccurate and seemed to be a waste of time.

College junior Elena Prieto, a history major who paid $25 to take the test her freshman year at Career Services, said the test reported that she is best suited to be a biochemical engineer.

“Being at Penn, taking a test like this doesn’t help because so many courses that you would do well in at other schools are weedout courses here,” Prieto said.

She added that due to the difficult nature of Engineering introductory classes, she would not have been able to tell whether she could succeed in that field.

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Penn plans to spend $163 million to build New College House West at the intersection of 40th and Walnut streets.

The new residential building will also provide green rooftops and a private courtyard for residents.

Penn has previously received a gold-level LEED certification for New College House, Joe’s Cafe in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, and the Music building. Penn’s climate action plan, which began in 2009, requires that all new buildings meet at least the silver standard.

In the past two years, Penn has invested $205.5 million in the construction and renovation of two residential buildings: New College House, a newly built dorm located near 34th and Chestnut streets, which first opened to students in 2016 and Hill College House, which reopened at the beginning

of this semester with $80 million worth of renovations.

Gutmann said the construction of New College House West is part of an ongoing effort to ensure that more undergraduate students are able to live on campus, although many students have indicated that on-campus housing is not the most affordable option for them.

More than 40 percent of undergraduates live off campus and often cite lower costs as a reason to do so. Penn’s financial aid packages also seems to reflect this: Students on financial aid who live on campus can receive $9,818 per year for their housing, while students living off campus can only receive up to $8,217.

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Trevor Noah discusses transition from South Africa ‘Daily Show’ host spoke about his autobiography DANI BLUM 34th Street Managing Editor

While the South African comedian Trevor Noah is widely known for being the host of the award-winning late-night program, “The Daily Show,” he told a crowd of students at Irvine Auditorium on Nov. 5 that he could have very well been a veterinarian. He said he could have gone into medicine or pursued a number of different “tributaries” as long as he achieved his goal of “making people feel better.”

Two branches of the Social Planning and Events Committee — SPEC Connaissance, which is in charge of bringing influential speakers to Penn, and SPEC-TRUM, which repre-

sents undergraduate minorities — worked together to bring Noah to campus. For over an hour, Noah and Political Science professor Mark Pollack tossed around jokes, anecdotes, and Trump impressions.

After College juniors Dayzia Terry and Natasha Allen introduced Noah, the audience — many of whom had been waiting for over 45 minutes for the event — clapped in a frenzy. Noah smoothed his knees and shuffled his bleach-white sneakers, before saying, “It’s good to be here.”

Pollack and Noah spoke extensively about the comedian’s autobiography “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,” which The New York Times has described as a “raw account of life under apartheid.”

“I am a product of a despi-

cable time,” Noah said about his childhood. When he added that apartheid in South Africa and systemic racism in the United States are “cut from the same cloth,” several members of the audience whooped in agreement. Noah also discussed how black people in the United States “code-switch” or alter their language to fit into predominantly white spaces, also prompting members of the audience to respond in agreement.

Another central subject of Noah’s talk was his mother and the role she played in shaping him.

“I didn’t realize how much I loved her until I wrote the book,” Noah said. “She gave me an adult understanding of a world that I wasn’t privy to.”

Noah added that his relationship with his mother has shaped

the way he views American politics, and that he sees a link between how Hillary Clinton was perceived as a presidential candidate and how his mother has been treated throughout her life.

“We don’t apply the same judgment and logic to a woman that we do to a man,” he said, to cheers from the audience. “[Clinton] doesn’t get treated like any other politician. We live in a world where people feel threatened when a woman considers herself equal to a man.”

As the event came to a close, Pollack asked Noah whether he had any advice for juniors and seniors feeling anxious about life after Penn.

“Oh, there is no future,” Noah joked. “Have fun. We’re done.”

He then added more serious-

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The South African comedian Trevor Noah said that he was “a product of a despicable time,” referring to apartheid.

ly, “My master plan has always been: be like water. It flows, it commands, it follows the path

of least resistance. If I had a master plan, I wouldn’t be on ‘The Daily Show.’”

How Penn responds to controversial statements from faculty University responses seem to differ from case to case MANLU LIU Staff Reporter

Several Penn faculty and teaching staff have received strong backlash for making strong political statements this semester, prompting a growing discussion over how and whether the University should act when professors choose to air their personal views in a public forum.

Officially, Penn abides by the Office of the Provost’s Guidelines on Open Expression, which considers “the freedom to hear, express, and debate various views” as “fundamental rights that must be upheld and practiced by the University.”

However, in recent years, the University’s treatment of faculty and staff who have made controversial statements has varied from case to case.

Penn did not release a statement in 2015 when Religious Studies and Africana Studies professor Anthea Butler used a raciallyoffensive term in a tweet, or more recently, when Penn Law professor Amy Wax wrote a contentious op-ed that sparked widespread campus backlash. However, the University broke their silence last month by releasing a statement in response to criticism surrounding history teaching assistant Stephanie McKellop’s tweets on “progressive stacking.”

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or receiving disciplinary action so that they can confirm that what was shown in the cameras is entirely accurate.

DPS gave PPA a “final offer” for a contract in early October, but members of the PPA rejected it with a vote of 59 to 4, Rohrback said.

“It was 9 percent [base-salary raise] across three years, and that still doesn’t take us where we want,” he said.

He added that while going on strike is an option, he did not think that the negotiations warrant such a reaction at this point.

This is not the first time Penn Police has disagreed with DPS

Both Butler and Wax are tenured professors at Penn, while McKellop is not, though the Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen said tenured faculty at Penn are not given more freedom of speech than untenured faculty.

Wax’s op-ed praised bourgeois values and in a subsequent interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian she identified Anglo-Protestant cultural norms as superior to others.

In response, the Graduate and Professional Students Association published an online letter denouncing her views and calling upon the University to do the same though Penn has maintained its silence on the issue for three months. It included a list of demands including that Penn release a formal outline of its grievance procedures and create a committee to “develop a formal policy for censuring hate speech.”

Haley Pilgrim, the chair of GAPSA’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Leadership Council and a sociology doctoral candidate said Wax should no longer be allowed to teach a mandatory first-year course because it places students affected by the public comments in an unfair learning environment.

“When someone is a professor, there are dynamics of power that are involved in speech,” Pilgrim said in an interview. “By making that a required class, you’re forcing students of color to be with a racist professor who they know is racist

and doesn’t believe that they will succeed.”

IDEAL Deputy Chair and linguistics doctoral candidate Betsy Sneller echoed these statements, adding in an email that IDEAL wants the University to establish a system that evaluates “reported incidents of bias and recommends next steps.”

Wax declined a request for comment.

This is not the first time Penn has stayed silent in the face of a national media storm surrounding one of its faculty.

Two years ago, Butler prompted strong reactions from people nationwide when she wrote that former presidential candidate Ben Carson deserved to win a “Coon of the Year Award” on Twitter. While Butler faced numerous threats for her post, the Penn administration did not release an official statement regarding her statement.

Butler did not respond to request for comment.

School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty said in an email that SAS “typically follow[s] Penn policies and procedures [regarding faculty affairs] but the precise nature of any action taken depends very much on the nature of the situation.”

Allen said Penn does not punish faculty members for what they say in the media, adding that Penn draws a distinction between faculty making comments in the media and implementing discriminatory prac-

over the terms of their contract.

When the previous contract was signed in 2014, the two parties also went through lengthy discussions to settle conditions surrounding officers’ salaries and pensions. To wrap up those negotiations, PPA agreed to a three percent base salary increase and a postponement of pension discussions until this year, Rohrback said.

“We will continue to negotiate in good faith at the bargaining table,” Rush said in an email, adding that DPS had recently submitted another proposal to the PPA for review.

In September, the PPA submitted an advertisement to The Daily Pennsylvanian to publicize their frustrations with the negotiating process and call on students to

advocate for their interests. The ad encouraged students to ask the University to “compensate their police department fairly.”

Despite the ongoing dispute between the PPA and its employer, Penn, Rush asserts that the security and safety of students on campus has not been compromised.

“Through all of this, we successfully moved in the 2,457 members of the Class of 2021, safely hosted several high-profile events, and continued the regular patrol and security response to all within our Penn Patrol Zone,” Rush’s email read. “We appreciate that all the women and men of Public Safety continue to demonstrate their dedication to the safety and security of the Penn and West Philadelphia communities.”

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tices in the classroom — the latter being more problematic than the former.

In response to the recent controversy around McKellop’s use of progressive stacking in the classroom, Allen said, “free speech and open expression apply to faculty and students.”

Progressive stacking is a technique meant to ensure that historically-marginalized students are able to participate in class.

“I will always call on my Black women students first. Other POC [people of color] get second tier

priority,” McKellop tweeted on Oct. 16. “WW [white women] come next. And, if I have to, white men.”

In response to requests calling for Penn to suspend McKellop, Fluharty released a statement that said Penn is “looking into the current matter involving a graduate student teaching assistant to ensure that our students were not subjected to discriminatory practices in the classroom and to ensure that all of our students feel heard and equally engaged.”

Penn is not the only institution

that has had to address controversies surrounding its faculty, but does not seem to have taken as dramatic action as some of its peer institutions.

Last month, Drexel University politics professor George Ciccariello-Maher received various threats to his safety after posting a series of controversial tweets including one from Christmas Eve which read, “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.” Drexel not only released a statement denouncing his comments, but placed Ciccariello-Maher on administrative leave.

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The Novaya Zemlya effect and our gravitation to finance REAL TALK | Why we should reject the pressure to pursue careers we’re not passionate about

MONDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 84 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor MADELEINE LAMON News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor

If you’re ever visiting an arctic region, and the weather conditions are just right, then you might have the chance to see what you normally couldn’t — things that are just out of sight over the horizon. The Inuit, indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic, witness the sun weeks before it should be visible and see mountain ranges hidden across an ocean. This is what’s referred to as the Novaya Zemlya effect — a polar mirage caused by a precise layering of cold and hot air that presents an image of things obscured over the horizon as if they were directly in sight. The Novaya Zemlya effect is unique to polar regions and, I would argue, the University of Pennsylvania.

As Penn students, we are constantly concerned about our future — our postgrad employment and our graduate school opportunities — as if this future were not on the horizon, but instead directly in front of us. In other words, we too experience the Novaya Zemlya effect. But instead of it being an awe-inspiring feature of the natural world, we experience it as a constant preoccupation with pursuing Penn’s most popular career paths: finance and consulting.

There’s nothing innately adverse about having a forward-looking perspective and yet it continues to fuel a sense of anxiety among Penn

students. The focus we place on our futures often manifests itself as an unhealthy preoccupation with getting competitive internships and stuffing our resumes. Penn is filled with ambitious students who pressure themselves to succeed, and that’s one source of our mental strain. But we also feel anxious because the future we envision for ourselves is perverted by the dominance of finance and consulting at Penn.

When we lament our university’s preprofessional culture, it’s not because this culture makes us career-oriented, but rather because it orients us toward certain careers.

Working at a bank is just one of many possible jobs that Penn students can pursue, and yet it feels like a possibility that we’re all pressed to consider, regardless of our true passions. It is by no means unusual, for example, to meet someone studying psychology or even English who says they’re going to work as an analyst at American Express after graduation. At Penn, all paths lead to finance and consulting.

Of course, that’s not to say that humanities students shouldn’t pur-

sue a job in finance if that’s what they’re passionate about. But I have trouble believing that genuine interest accounts for the fact that nearly half of all 2016 Penn graduates went to work in finance and consulting. I worry that when we consider our potential careers, when we peer over that horizon, it is not with an open mind, amenable to any opportunity that suits

never crossed my mind. But the fact that Penn’s career recruiting platform, Handshake, lists positions at Deloitte and J.P. Morgan as popular among English majors has made the idea seem more acceptable. And as a current senior who’s concerned about even being able to find a job after graduation, I feel it is wrongheaded to neglect the recruitment emails in my inbox, even if they’re only offering financial advisor positions.

Ultimately, I’m sure that I won’t follow that path. Those suggested jobs on Handshake just aren’t for me. But I’m confident that there are other students at Penn who are also not meant for these professions but may end up exploring them anyway.

Of course there are worse things in life than working at Deloitte and J.P. Morgan, even if they don’t fit your interests. But there is a real danger in allowing the dominant culture at Penn to dictate our future careers.

For while it may seem that an internship at one of the top banks is the be-all end-all of the Penn experience, the path toward that internship may be unnecessarily

When we lament our university’s pre-professional culture, it’s not because this culture makes us careeroriented but rather because it orients us toward certain careers.” our passions, but rather with a perspective influenced by the dominance of those two career fields.

Even as someone who’s instinctively averse to working in finance, I have felt that attending Penn has made this feel like a real option for me. Before coming to Penn, when I envisioned my future career, titles like analyst or financial advisor

CAMERON DICHTER anxiety-inducing and the attaining of that internship ultimately unsatisfying.

There’s nothing innately wrong with focusing on one’s future, but at Penn, the one we envision is often a reflection of the one we’ve seen others pursue. The Novaya Zemlya effect can allow us to see what’s over the horizon but the image it produces is often distorted.

And so too are our perspectives of the future distorted by the value our community places on finance and consulting.

Penn students are extraordinarily career-driven and that’s often a good thing. But we shouldn’t let that same drive lead us astray from our passions.

CAMERON DICHTER is a College senior from Philadelphia, studying English. His email address is camd@ sas.upenn.edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.

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“Everyone here is just too busy.” “The club recruitment process is overly competitive.”

“Why is it so stressful?”

There are some topics that The Daily Pennsylvanian writers return to year after year, not, I imagine, for a lack of creativity, but because some problems doggedly persist in our school year after year after year. Busyness, over-commitment, hyper-competitiveness, the club recruitment process — problems fester, unresolved. Recently, while airing my grievances to a friend, she suggested that I should “write about it.” And for some reason, a sick, sinking feeling just hit me in the stomach.

What else is there left to say?

What else is there left to write?

We know we renege on our appointments. We know we are busier than we actually need to be. We know that we don’t make time to rest, to relax, to just indulge guiltlessly in leisure, as much as we should. We are acutely aware of the stress and mental health issues that plague this campus.

We all know that some of Penn’s clubs — stretching from business clubs to a cappella groups, from dance groups to club sports — have competitive

application processes that induce yearly flurries of worry, stress, anxiety, and disappointment.

We know that it makes finding a home hard. Most of us have had our insides die a little when we receive rejection email after rejection email. A few of these rejections leave us a little more wounded than we expect; they haunt us. We don’t need another DP article written to tell us about them.

Now as an upperclassman, with growing responsibilities in student clubs, I have become more sensitive — uncomfortable even — with the “recruitment process.” It’s starting to feel like some warped Stanford Prison Experiment — I exaggerate. People become the power they have and take on the roles of authority they are given.

We are collectively complicit in this annual circus of interviews, suit-and-tie events, and application essays, dressing our “call for applications” and “congratulations” and “info sessions” with important-sounding language. If

all of us want to fall into collective amnesia, forget how it felt to be “on the other side,” and remember the past through rosetinted lenses, “memoria praeteritorum bonorum,” so be it. DP columnists will still be writing about this 10, 20, 50 years down the road, hammering the wretched life out of these topics.

But what if this can change with us?

From freshmen to upperclassmen, student club member to club president — we all have our

processes congruent to our clubs’ goals?

How do we settle on the “limit” of students we take in each year?

Why do we impose a limit on the number of people we can take?

Lack of funding? Resources?

Have our clubs tried hard enough to apply for more of these? Are we spending more time creating hoops and obstacles to curb numbers, or instead innovating ways to respond to increasing interest?

If we are on any school-wide councils in charge of distributing funding and resources, what can we do to promote inclusivity among the clubs we look after? Is this something we are willing to prioritize?

Can we “challenge the process” and be open to suggestions and change? Can we make “finding our homes at Penn” a little easier for everyone?

Can we make an effort to be the ones reaching out to others, instead of lamenting that no one is reaching out to us? Is there anyone you’ve been wanting to “grab a meal” with?

Can we find it within ourselves to

From freshmen to upperclassmen, student club member to club president — we all have our own ‘spheres of influence,’ no matter their size.” own “spheres of influence,” no matter their size. We are able to bring things up during meetings, we can start our own initiatives, we can spark dialogue and action. Are our clubs’ recruitment

SARA MERICAN be a little less busy, a little less competitive?

Or are we going to continue beating this horse black and blue, venting our frustrations, wishing Penn’s clubs would become “more inclusive,” that “others” would be less competitive, and that Penn would just be a nicer, warmer, friendlier place — while refusing to acknowledge that we do have power, that we do have small spheres of influence? We should believe that one day, when all our little spheres of influence collide, and all our tiny efforts come together, we will indeed see a newer, better Penn.

SARA MERICAN is a College sophomore from Singapore. Her email address is smerican@sas. upenn.edu. “Merican in America” usually appears every Monday.

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The problem with carpe diem THE CONVERSATION | On more meaningful ways of discussing competition at Penn I often find myself conflicted by what I call “carpe diem” articles, pieces that criticize the mundaneness of everyday life or some other aspect of collective society and instead urge the reader to find happiness in small things. This seems to be a recurring theme especially at Penn, where various columnists, including myself, have come to write about the idea from different perspectives.

More specifically, these pieces tend to focus on — and usually criticize — Penn’s overly pre-professional culture or hyper-competitiveness. They usually call for us to step back and enjoy life more. Don’t care so much about that internship, it’s ok to get a B-plus, and so on.

Even when I am the one saying something along this line, it has always struck me as an ultimately unfulfilling piece of advice. Because here’s the thing: We care, and we are extremely, almost manically competitive.

Most of us are here because of this collective common characteristic.

Whether in the classroom,

the athletic fields, or other arenas, we were the kids that cared about winning. And make no mistake — winning is only meaningful as long as there is a loser. We are not here because we were exceptionally nice, or the most generous, or even the most morally commendable people. As diverse as Penn is, I feel safe in saying that the drive to succeed is one of the few qualities that unite us as a community.

This point, while universally accepted and assumed, is generally missing in our debate about how and what Penn ought to be. The culture of competition results in a setting in which students push themselves and others to their full potential. So it has always seemed somewhat self-denying, somehow not true to ourselves when people talk about how we are too competitive, or too career-oriented, and so on. The same mindset that has gotten us here can’t suddenly be declared a negative trait now that we’ve identified problems in the culture it creates.

It is also troubling because

it suggests that there can be no complete solution to the issues we face concerning mental health and stress without compromising Penn’s defining identity. For Penn to keep commanding so much respect from the world, it must continue to admit people based on their qualifications, which most

there is nothing that can be done to reconcile our view of what Penn should be with what it actually is. For me, the key lies in how we self-identify.

How we choose to think of ourselves directly influences how we react to failure and how we deal with the stressful environment that is Penn.

As diverse as Penn is, I feel safe in saying that the drive to succeed is one of the few qualities that unite us as a community.” times are a direct result of just how much people care and try.

So how do we then go about trying to address the issues of competition within Penn culture? I don’t believe that the fact that this is a fundamental part of who we are means that

For example, many people consider their first career path out of college to be a defining characteristic of themselves — some argue that we are even more of a LinkedIn generation than one of Facebook. And it is of course obvious that we would

care about what we do professionally. But it is when we only think of ourselves in this way, when we think of ourselves just as everyone else does, that things become more difficult for us.

My fellow columnist Lucy Hu wrote that “happiness doesn’t come from your resume.” This is a claim that for reasons aforementioned, I feel uneasy about.

I would say that happiness does and should come from your resume, but that it does and should not come only from your resume. The distinction, while seemingly minor, is crucial. It allows us an honest yet hopeful premise on which to facilitate our continuing conversation about Penn’s culture. Our professional and academic achievements are something that we naturally take pride in. But it is important to realize that we are more than that, even though others may not have the opportunity to find that out.

We are complex human beings, each having taken different paths that converged onto Locust Walk. We are indeed

JAMES LEE our majors, our GPAs, our SAT scores, our professional experiences, our leadership positions, and LinkedIn connections. But we are also our human relationships, our challenges overcome, our moments of courage and resilience, our dreams dreamt, and our values discovered. It is perhaps a miracle that the beauty of that doesn’t make it any less true, and we ought to remember that more often than we do.

JAMES LEE is a College senior from Seoul, South Korea, studying English and philosophy, politics and economics. His email address is jel@ sas.upenn.edu. “The Conversation” usually appears every other Monday.

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SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla. Her email address is skhan100@sas.upenn.edu.

What’s the best way to petition the administration?

GROUP THINK GROUP THINK is The Daily Pennsylvanian’s roundtable section, in which we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick. Read your favorite columnist, or read them all.

This week’s question: Fossil Free Penn organized a demonstration this week titled Divestfest that is a departure from its usual tactics in urging the administration to divest from fossil fuels. In general, how can student activist groups lobby Penn’s administration effectively in order to promote change?

What strategies work best for making administrators actually listen?

Lucy Hu | Fresh Take In an ideal world, the Penn administration would actively seek out student opinions and work to create a democratic governance.

For issues of mental health and general welfare of students, the onus should not fall on the students to make the administration care. The Campus Conversation was delayed and inadequate, and no fault lay with student activists.

But there are issues for which the administration occasionally has legitimate reasons for straying from student opinion.

For example, the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

have full jurisdiction on the issue of divestment from the University endowment based on social responsibility. They follow a stringent process, informed by formal guidelines, in making decisions on divestment. Community members must make a “proposal to the University Council Steering Committee for consideration.”

Working with rigid logistics, Penn activists must pursue rational operations over impassioned, dramatic action in order to pragmatically effect change.

Most tailored to an unmalleable administration is a targeted approach that abides by rules and regulations.

Administrators want open dialogue and discourse, not inflammatory behavior, as Fossil Free Penn has recognized.

So, while FFP’s sit-ins and protests have garnered attention among the student body, changing tactics might just persuade who they really need — the administration.

Amy Chan | Chances Are I’m going to be cynical and say that in general, there’s not much student activist groups can do to make Penn’s administration listen. The administration does whatever it deems necessary and — for the most part — appeals to its pockets and its PR goals. The only time

they enact real change is when some great tragedy strikes or in the last hour of most, most dire need.

But because that’s kind of a non-answer, and because that doesn’t really help anyone, I’ll say that I believe the most effective call for real change is much in line with what Fossil Free Penn is doing now. Inflammatory protests won’t do much to administrators besides annoy them, and they usually go on ignoring them anyway. It’s best to work within the system to change it. It’s a numbers game, and the more students who join a certain activist group — not just say they support it — and work closely with administrators, draw up plausible petitions and plans, demonstrate how the pros of their specific lobby outweigh the cons, the more impossible it becomes for the administration to reject their idea. In some ways, it’s kind of like marketing. You take an abstract idea and make it as concrete and persuasive as possible, so that there’s no way the buyer (or administrator) can turn it down. As the old saying goes, “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.”

Spencer Swanson | Spencer’s Space I wholeheartedly agree with the new tactics that involve a

more inclusive strategy to engage a broader base within the Penn community. In addition, it may be extremely valuable for Fossil Free Penn to engage with the Penn alumni community.

Perhaps some Penn Nursing alumni are particularly wellversed in the health aspects of fossil fuel use or Wharton alumni have insights into promising, high-yielding alternative fuel investments. It seems that organizing elaborate and often time consuming FFP activities on campus have failed to produce effective change, so an approach that aims to educate a larger number of students, faculty, alumni, and trustees will yield better results. Moreover, if the FFP leaders are willing and able to engage in a dialogue with the Penn administration an even more effective action plan could be explored. With 90 percent of the Penn student body urging Penn to divest from fossil fuel related investments, the policy will is clearly here.

It’s just a matter of translating this sentiment into an effective message to bring to the administration, which in turn must demonstrate that it is prepared to listen to the concerns of the FFP. James Lee | The Conversation I commend Fossil Free Penn

for taking a more inclusive approach to their activism. As mentioned in the article, only a few people showed up consistently to their meetings in the past, and it seems like they’re now focused more on raising awareness and promoting education on the issue rather than just inflammatory actions committed by those select few. This transition is necessary to be effective in the long run. FFP is a group that most students have probably heard of and know at this point, but the reasoning behind their position might be more unfamiliar for most.

I also believe that the University will be more inclined to have meaningful discussions with the group, as they can no longer point to illegal behavior as grounds for ignoring it. I personally do not believe that divestment is a moral imperative at this point in history, but activism for an issue that people are passionate about ought to be applauded regardless, especially as college students.

Sara Merican | Merican in America I think it is great that Fossil Free Penn has moved towards education this semester. Also, some activist groups’ agendas may appear “niche” to the general student body, and education is crucial to bridging

that. How do you share something related to “fossil fuels” to students who perhaps do not “care” as much about climate change as you do? Education is a great way for the group to also rethink their approaches, gather student feedback, and through these efforts, strengthen their case in front of the Penn administration.

Cameron Dichter | Real Talk Every student group that’s interested in enacting change at Penn should be willing to adapt its tactics when a more fruitful method presents itself. If Fossil Free Penn believes that it is better served by focusing on education and recruitment at this time, then I think it’s smart to change its focus.

However, we shouldn’t overlook the fact that FFP made this decision partially because the administration claimed it wouldn’t work with FFP if it kept “breaking the rules.” We should all recognize the danger apparent in letting the administration dictate what methods are and are not acceptable. As we learned from the citations issued to FFP after their last sit-in, the administration is not above arbitrarily changing the scope of acceptable conduct when it feels threatened by student activism.

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Students discuss religion in ‘Interfaith Dialogue’ class Course stems from a 2006 spring break trip DEENA ELUL Contributing Reporter

A class at Penn brings students from different religious and nonreligious backgrounds to lead discussions on topics around religion, politics, sexuality and gender, and work on community service projects with local religious organizations.

Called “Interfaith Dialogue in Action,” the Education course stems from an interfaith spring break trip organized in 2006 by Hillel and the Muslim Students Association to provide disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina. In 2012, after years of dialogue, the weeklong experience grew into a class where students of all backgrounds could continue learning from one another.

Associate Chaplain Steve Kocher, who teaches the class, said it was established to fill a need for long-term opportunities for interfaith dialogue.

“We talk a lot about having a very diverse campus, but we don’t have as many opportunities as I think would be ideal to engage this diversity and really get to know people from different backgrounds,” he said.

Students who took the class emphasized that it provides a space for genuine connection with a diverse group. College senior Serena Bian, who took the course last spring and will be a teaching assistant for the course next semester, said iBelieve is an ideal setting for students interested in learning about each other’s backgrounds and asking difficult questions about faith.

“It’s really turning the typical education curriculum on its

head,” she said. “We’re actually just talking and asking each other questions, and I think a lot of students really crave that on campus.”

Kocher noted that the class is also unique because of how much of it is devoted to discussion and reflection.

“With all of the challenges that students are facing these days in terms of stress [and] in terms of dealing with and thinking about larger issues that are going on in the world, we want courses that can also be reflective spaces for students,” he said. By assigning reflection prompts to students as homework, Kocher said he hopes to encourage students to think deeply about their own religious experiences.

Students have also said that the personal relationships formed in the course extend beyond the class. College sophomore Jack-

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Associate Chaplain Steve Kocher, who teaches the course, said “Interfaith Dialogue in Action” was designed to foster long-term interaction between students of different religions.

son Foltz, who took the class last year, praised “the sense of family” he felt in the class. Foltz said he remembers that his Jewish classmates hosted a Shabbat dinner for the group.

“I had never been invited over to somebody’s home because we were in the same class,” he said, adding that the strong communal atmosphere allowed the discussions to continue beyond the

classroom.

Bian agreed. “I’ve learned many life lessons from this class, and I can’t say that of most classes,” she said. “This class helped me think about wisdom.”

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What happens when restaurants violate health codes Chipotle and Mad Mex have been shut down before NATALIE KAHN Deputy News Editor

From Mad Mex to Chipotle, Penn students have seen a series of restaurants on campus closed or sus-

pended in recent years for violating health regulations.

But Director of Environmental Health Services for the City of Philadelphia Palak Raval-Nelson said the number of closures around Penn is not unusual.

“We don’t get any more or less complaints from the Penn area —

the West Philadelphia area — than we do from any other pockets of the city,” she said.

Raval-Nelson said sanitarians from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health check most food establishments once per year, without prior announcement. There are about 12,621 food establishments in

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Philadelphia, so only those that cater to higher-risk populations — such as hospitals, nursing homes, and daycares — receive more frequent checkups, she said.

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health website explains that inspectors grade establishments according to more than 56 categories. Some come from definitions of improper practice set by federal agencies, such as the absence of an individual certified in food safety.

Inspectors also check the establishment’s “retail practices,” which include food temperature, cleanliness of the space, and the “category 36” violation of insects and other pests.

Eateries near campus cited for health violations: DOH representatives inspect any establishment that serves food, Raval-Nelson said, even if it’s just gum or juice. This means that even food trucks are subject to investigation.

For instance, DOH determined that Magic Carpet was in compliance at its last inspection, as was Lyn’s.

Chez Yasmin and Yue Kee had a few infractions but were all corrected on site.

In January this year, Penn students craving Chipotle were disappointed when they arrived at 3925 Walnut St. to find a yellow and white striped sign with the red, all-caps words “CEASE OPERATIONS.” This came after DOH sanitarians presented seven violations for the eatery, including the lack of a food safety provisions and debris on a food preparation area. The DOH ordered the restaurant to close for a minimum of 48 hours to address the violations, and two days later, Chipotle was back in business after a successful reinspection.

Chipotle has remained open since January, though the restaurant’s recent inspection in September found that it was “not in satisfactory compliance” with all health regulations.

Inspectors found flies, mouse droppings and dead mice in the attic of the restaurant, suggesting that there were rodents in the restaurant.

Some students who frequent Chipotle, such as College senior David Kinnaird, said they remain unfazed

by these violations.

“I still eat at Chipotle because I never got sick,” Kinnaird said. “I just don’t feel like it will be me.”

Engineering sophomore Eduardo Ortuño said he tries not to go to Chipotle too frequently, but does not think the health violations are enough for him to avoid the eatery entirely. He explained that the convenience and moderate cost of Chipotle meals sometimes outweigh the potential health risks.

“I think it’s very interesting because people are very aware of these health violations but they still don’t really care,” Ortuño said. “They still go to these places just because they love them.”

Other West Philadelphia restaurants have also gotten into trouble with the DOH — inspectors pegged Bobby’s Burger Palace with four violations in November 2016, which required them to go to the Court of Common Pleas, but not cease operations. More recently in January, a second inspection of Bobby’s found seven new violations, three of which were corrected during the procedure. Before closing for good due to an inability to finance a planned refurbishing, Mad Mex faced 15 health violations in May 2017, and then three more — including evidence of mouse activity — during its June reinspection.

Establishments on campus have also shut down after health inspections.

In November last year, the cafe in the Penn Bookstore shut down voluntarily after a health inspection. Director of Communications and External Relations at the Division of Business Services Barbara Lea-Kruger said the cafe closed to address problems with the hot water tank that coincided with the DOH inspection and reopened two days later when the tank was fixed.

When establishments violate health regulations: More serious violations that carry higher potential of spreading illness — such as a lack of hot or cold water, no food safety certified individual on the premises, or a mouse infestation — may lead to eateries being shut down, Raval-Nelson said.

Penn serves as the landlord for various eateries on and around campus, and there are rules in the contracts between food establishments and their landlords to ensure that they comply with government regulations, Penn’s Executive Director of Real Estate Ed Datz said.

If restaurants don’t address the DOH’s instructions in given periods of time or accrue too many violations, landlords can seek the disciplinary action laid out in their contracts, which can include eviction, Datz added.

When shut down, restaurants can receive anywhere from 24 hours to a few weeks to fix the violations, Raval-Nelson said, after which the DOH will conduct a reinspection to ensure that the issues have been addressed and no new ones have arisen. Otherwise, the establishment will incur fees and/or be submitted to the Court of Common Pleas.

But some restaurants, like the cafe at the Penn Bookstore, may also voluntarily stop operations while they correct health violations that were flagged. In addition, when a food establishment first receives a notice of a violation, due process grants them a chance to correct it, Raval-Nelson said.

“Everyone has the opportunity, in this country, to correct what what they need to correct,” she said. “We want to educate folks because the goal is to get them to do what they need to do, safely, when we’re not there. We are very much about education and then regulation.”

Datz also said tenants are generally receptive to fixing violations once they are notified of them.

“You trust them because they’re the ones that go ahead and are harmed. Their reputation is harmed if they’re closed,” Datz said. “As a landlord, we want to make sure our tenants remain in compliance and remain open.”

Raval-Nelson added that her staff is limited, so students should educate themselves about food safety practices.

“We investigate every single complaint. We get about 950 a year, and we investigate every single complaint,” she said. “All of us have to eat.”

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Penn football isn’t out yet — ­­­ that’s good for the league WILL DiGRANDE

Don’t count the Quakers out of it just yet.

After Saturday’s wild 38-35 Homecoming win over rival Princeton, combined with other results from the ever-tumultuous Ivy League, Penn football has launched itself back into the mix for the conference title.

As it stands after this week’s games, the Red and Blue sit tied with Princeton at 6th in the league standings with a conference record of 2-3. Yale is alone at the top with a 4-1 Ivy record and astoundingly, four teams are tied with a record of 3-2.

This logjam means that, in the final two weeks of the season, all of the top seven teams have some chance to earn a share of the Ivy title if results go their respective

ways.

You read that correctly. Somehow, it’s still entirely possible that these top seven could all finish at 4-3, which would lead to a mindblowing seven-way tie for the conference title.

Some might say that this isn’t at all what sports should be about.

There should be one winner and a bunch of losers, right? Wrong.

In my opinion, this is actually a great thing for the league. It means seven of the eight teams are still alive and fighting, which, in itself, is incredible. Usually, at this point in the season, more than half of the conference is out of title contention, which realistically results in lower quality, less-spirited play.

But now, in this conference, every game matters. Literally every game.

For the Quakers, this mentality is nothing new. They have already been playing with this do-or-die mindset ever since their 0-3 start in the Ivy League. Since then, they have picked up two straight con-

ference wins and have completely changed the momentum of their season.

As strong as Penn has been the last two weeks, the team still needs other games to play out in its favor. For starters, the Quakers need to win their remaining two games against Harvard and Cornell, who are both 3-2 in the Ancient Eight.

That would put the Red and Blue at 4-3, and at this point that’s the best they can hope for, and it might just be enough.

“It feels great. We talked about [the Ivy title] but it’s one week at a time. It’s about playing the best we can, but it’s definitely cool that we’re not out of it,” senior captain Justin Watson said.

Princeton would also have to win out as the other 2-3 team for this massive tie to occur. The Tigers play league-leader Yale and 3-2 Dartmouth, and if they finish at 4-3 as well, they will have done a lot of the hard work needed for the Quakers and 5 others to share the title.

Yale, at 4-1, would have to lose

its next two games to Princeton and Harvard for Penn’s hopes to remain intact.

The only predictable games involve Brown, stuck at the bottom of the league standings and still looking for its first Ivy win. Nobody expects the Bears to score upsets over Dartmouth or Columbia, and as a result, both of those teams will have to lose in their other games, against Princeton and Cornell respectively, for the seven-way tie to hold.

Moving away from all the permutations, this whole scenario, while complex, intense, and improbable, is great for the Ivy League as a whole. To have this many competitive teams racing down to the wire for the league title is as much as any football fan could ask for.

Over and over, I’ve heard pundits lambast the “participation trophy” trend in sports. “Championships are supposed to be earned,” they say.

“Not everyone deserves a trophy,” they say.

I’m here to tell you that “they” are wrong in this case. This Ivy

Squash teams start season at Ivy scrimmages Men and women both place third against Ivy foes THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Associate Sports Editor

The results are promising, but they’re not getting ahead of themselves.

This weekend, both Penn men’s and women’s squash finished third in the annual Ivy league squash scrimmages at Yale. It was a stellar result for the men’s team, and a finish which may not have been perfect for the women, but still good nonetheless.

In these scrimmages, all eight Ivy League teams were seeded based on their finish from last season’s championships. The men started the weekend as a seven seed

while the women had the No. 2 spot.

The men vastly outperformed last year’s ranking. Though these matches were just exhibitions, the Quakers’ third place finish was their highest in the last 15 years.

Over the weekend, the men went 2-1 with big wins over Dartmouth and Yale.

Still, men’s coach Gilly Lane is not getting overly excited about the results.

“We’re still in that area where we are still improving,” Lane said.

“We are trying to get better everyday. Our motto is one day at a time and I think we have to stick to that.”

One of Penn’s most prominent performers over the weekend was senior captain Hayes Murphy, who played “three ridiculous matches,” according to Lane.

His biggest win was his matchsealing performance against Yale, where he fought off five match points to snatch the victory. Aside from the senior captain, sophomore David Yacobucci showed a lot of promise, going 2-1 at the No. 3 position after playing at No. 7 for the Quakers last year.

Despite injuries to junior Rowaida Attia and first-team All-Ivy senior Melissa Alves, the women’s squad finished only one spot below its initial seed at No. 2.

In particular, sophomore Jessica Davis provided a spark for the Quakers. After playing mainly at the No. 4 and No. 5 positions, Davis played at No. 3 this weekend and did not disappoint, going 3-0 on the weekend and only dropping one game all weekend.

In addition to Davis, reigning

Ivy League Player of the Year junior Reeham Sedky, nicknamed “The Hammer” by her coaches and teammates, had another strong weekend playing at No. 1. Still, there is always room to improve, according to women’s coach Jack Wyant.

“What we are trying to do is work on the softer side,” Wyant said. “A little more touch, a little more deception.” Even with needed adjustments to her game, Penn squash expects nothing less than another dominant season from its star.

As the preseason winds down “We are definitely excited to have the matches count,” Lane said.

Looking ahead, both teams will face Franklin and Marshall at the Penn State Classic on November 11.

League season has had last-minute comebacks, goal-line stops, dramatic upsets, and overall, no shortage of excitement.

All of these players and teams have been laying it all on the line all season long. The seven-way tie scenario wouldn’t be the result of the lack of competition that people say the “participation trophy generation” breeds, but rather, it’d be the result of a surplus of dramatic competition.

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Men’s soccer falls on Senior Day in overtime to Princeton Wancowicz caps career with one final goal for Penn VINCENT LUGRINE Sports Reporter

There was a celebration before the game but not after.

Penn men’s soccer left Rhodes Field heartbroken after losing to rival Princeton, in a 2-1 overtime thriller on senior night. The Quakers (3-12-1, 1-41 Ivy) more than held their own against the Tigers (6-6-4, 2-22), who had not been defeated in their previous six games, going 4-0-2 in that span.

The seniors — Austin Kuhn and Sam Wancowicz — were honored prior to the match, as Saturday’s contest was their last at Rhodes Field. The team travels to Cambridge next week to face Harvard in their final match of the year.

“Austin and Sam have represented our program with the utmost class over the past four years and have been invaluable this season in shaping the culture of the locker room and maturing this young team through a difficult stretch,� coach Rudy Fuller said. “Everyone within the organization would have liked to send the seniors out with better results and certainly a win.�

The seniors’ impact was definitely felt in this contest, as Sam Wancowicz netted the Quakers’ lone goal in the 14th minute, capitalizing on a rebound from a shot by freshman midfielder Jake Kohlbrenner, giving Penn an early lead. “Sam has played a huge role in our success over the years and has really developed into arguably the top right back in the league and I think one of the top right backs in the country,�

Fuller said.

Fuller’s praise of his seniors carried over to Kuhn. The senior midfielder has started every game this season in the midfield. “Austin Kuhn has matured greatly since he first stepped foot on campus and has become a tremendous mentor and leader in the locker room in helping shape the careers of those coming after him,� Fuller said.

The Quakers were outshot by the Tigers 13-5 in the contest and surrendered two unanswered goals, converted by Gaby Paniagua (22’) and Bobby Hickson (94’), to give Princeton the victory on the road.

The Red and Blue had numerous opportunities to score in regulation, but could not capitalize. Senior Joe Swenson narrowly missed a free kick attempt late in the second half, as the Tigers’ keeper parried the shot with a terrific diving stop.

“We really looked to take advantage of Princeton in transition, and I thought we had our fair share of opportunities to score another,� Fuller said.

Coach Fuller has continuously emphasized the growth of his team as the season has progressed and has praised the strides his players have taken this year. “I think the team reached a turning point after the Villanova game, and our team has played well in our games thereafter,�

Fuller said.

Looking forward, a bright spot for the Quakers has been the young Kohlbrenner, who was awarded an assist on the lone goal. Kohlbrenner has made significant contributions throughout the season, compiling six points on two goals and two assists. He figures to be a leader of the youthful Quaker team that features numerous

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Senior captain and right back Sam Wancowicz capped an illustrious career for Penn men’s soccer with one last goal against Princeton.

freshmen.

More presently, the Quakers will look to close out their sea-

son and gain momentum for next season with a win next weekend against Harvard in Cambridge.

How teams from around Penn Athletics did on Homecoming Several programs had bright performances YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

While most eyes were focused on Penn football’s thrilling Homecoming victory over Princeton this weekend, more than half a dozen other teams were also in action for Penn Athletics — some playing their last competitions of the year, others playing their first.

Check out what happened for five of those teams in the Homecoming version of the sports weekend roundup.

Field hockey: In the team’s last game of the

season, Penn field hockey came up just short in a 2-1 loss to No. 14 Princeton. While the Quakers’ (9-8, 4-3 Ivy) season would have been over even if they had won, the loss allowed the Tigers (11-6, 7-0) to secure sole ownership of the Ivy League title.

The day got off to a promising and fitting start when senior and all-time leading Penn field hockey scorer Alexa Hoover got the Red and Blue on the board in the fourth minute. Penn’s defense held strong for the rest of the first half, but two second half goals propelled Princeton to victory.

As it was for Hoover, the game also served as the final collegiate appearances for

seniors Jasmine Li, Rachel Huang, Gina Guccione, and Liz Mata.

Volleyball: Hosting the Ivy League’s two New York schools in Penn volleyball’s final home matches of the season, the Quakers gave their seniors a proper Palesta send-off.

On Friday, the Red and Blue took down Cornell 3-1 before defeating Columbia 3-2 the next night to give the team its fourth straight victory.

With the wins, Penn (12-9, 7-5 Ivy) stays alive in its unlikely hunt for a shared Ivy championship. The Quakers still do not control their own destiny and will need to sweep on the road next weekend against Dartmouth (8-13, 4-8) and Harvard (12-9, 7-5) to have a chance.

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Men’s golf: Playing in its final tournament of the fall, Penn men’s golf finished third at the City Six Championship. Playing at the Union League Golf Club at Torresdale, the Quakers shot a 295 to finish seven strokes behind first-place Drexel.

Senior Carter Thompson, who is also an associate sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian, and junior Josh Goldenberg put up particularly strong performances for the Red and Blue. Thompson shot two over par to tie for third overall individually, while Goldenberg finished one stroke behind. Penn’s lineup was rounded out by senior Amay Poria, freshman Mitchell Cornell, junior Zareh Kaloustian, and sophomore

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different players was something that gave the team a lot of confidence heading into next week’s matchup. “It was huge. We made a note of it at half time, and at the end of the game, just to our players. It showed the resiliency that some of our young players have,� Jones said.

Despite the early miscues, Penn’s defense came back to put together a very strong overall performance. The Quakers finished the game with six forced turnovers, a season high, including several deep inside their own territory. They also blocked both a point-after attempt and a field goal.

The night was an emotional one for the seniors, and getting a win in their final game at Franklin Field was very much appreciated.

“It wasn’t just a regular season game for me,� Jones said. “For me, and I think for other seniors it was one final goodbye to Franklin Field, and to all our fans and everything, so it meant a lot.�

This game served as one final tune up for Penn’s showdown with Army. The Black Knights (7-0, 3-0 North) handed the Quakers their only loss this season, a 24-14 game in which Penn’s offense struggled mightily. Statistically speaking, Army boasts both the best offense (50.6 points per game) and defense (6.6 points per game) in the league, and beating them will be no small task for Penn.

So while this might have been the seniors’ final game at home, they still have one game left next week, and it’s for all the marbles.

early on in the game on Saturday.

With his third catch, the senior became Penn’s all-time leader in career receptions. He finished with eight (for 124 yards and two TDs) to take him to 265 in total. “Would you stop it?� Priore joked to his talisman at the postgame press conference. “I don’t know what happened,�

Watson said, grinning ear to ear. “The win feels better, but it’s gonna be cool looking back on my career, for sure.�

Other stars on offense shone bright against Princeton. Running backs Abe Willows and Tre Solomon ran for 142 and 116 yards, respectively. It was the first time Penn had two rush for over 100 since 2004.

Likewise, Fischer-Colbrie came back from injury to deliver his best performance for the Red and Blue.

The senior went 15-18 and threw for 202 yards and two touchdowns, giving him an astonishing quarterback rating of 214.3.

The entire offense put up 545 yards — 331 on the ground and 214 in the air. Princeton managed 448, the vast majority of which came from its passing attack. Of the Tigers’ long scoring drives, quarterback Chad Kanoff sliced open the Quakers’ secondary for a glut of mid-range completions. At times, the Tigers were ruthless.

Especially when the Quakers gave up 14 points in 90 seconds.

A botched 14-yard punt on one possession, followed by a fumble

on the very first play of the next, gave Princeton remarkable field position that allowed for two easy touchdowns. Though Penn still led 24-21 at the time, it felt that the air had left the stadium — and the 9000 fans in it — altogether.

Earlier in the season, the team might have panicked itself into a loss. But Priore was pleased at the different result on Homecoming. “We grabbed the team together at that point and told them, ‘Just relax. Look up at the clock and the scoreboard, see that we’re winning.

Take a deep breath, and go have fun.’ The last thing you can do in a panic situation is cause more chaos,� Priore said. “They needed to take a second to get the blood pressure down, get the pulse down, and go out there and have fun. That’s what the kids were able to do today, and I’m very, very proud of them.�

The result leaves Penn and Princeton tied for sixth in the Ivy League standings, but neither team is out of the title race — a scenario still exists in which all seven teams not named Brown could tie for the championship at 4-3 for the season.

The Quakers and Tigers sit just one game behind four teams all tied for second, with Yale being the only remaining one-loss team in the league.

Penn takes on tied-for-second Harvard next weekend in Cambridge. If this year’s madness in the Ancient Eight continues, then next Saturday could be yet another one for the ages.

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Swimming and diving: On Saturday, both Penn men’s and women’s swimming and diving travelled to Columbia for their first meets of the season, but only the women left the Big Apple happy. While the men fell to the Lions 198-102, the women won narrowly 152.5147.5.

As disappointing as the meet was for the Penn men, freshman Sean Lee impressed in his collegiate debut, finishing first in both butterfly events. On the women’s side, freshman Madison Perry also impressed with two top-place finishes to help the Red and Blue to victory.

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The Red and Blue started to turn things around though and got on the board with just six seconds left in the quarter, courtesy of a touchdown run from junior running back Jake Klaus.

This drive proved to be the kickstart that the Quakers needed, setting off a stretch of five touchdowns in eight drives.

Penn ultimately took the lead for good with 5:36 left in the second quarter on a five-yard run from Trybus. The offensive highlight of the night was a 72yard TD bomb from Trybus to freshman Alex Fruhbeis. The touchdown was the first career passing score for Trybus and receiving TD for Frubeis.

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Women’s soccer: Competing in its final match of the season, Penn women’s soccer fell 1-0 to No. 13 Princeton at Rhodes Field on Saturday. While Princeton’s (14-2, 6-1 Ivy) victory lifted the Tigers to an Ivy League championship, it might’ve been Penn (5-8-3, 3-3-1) sophomore goalie who had the day’s most impressive performance with eight saves.

The game also marked the end of the collegiate careers of seniors Anna Estep, Erica Higa, Darby Mason, and Kristen Miller. Higa finished her final season with three goals and seven total points to lead the team in scoring.

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of the time, I release to the outside; that’s kind of how the play is designed, but just working with Will ‌ I knew that if I released to the inside, then we’d be on the same page,â€? Watson said of the play. “Sure enough, I got open to the inside, and Will saw it and delivered a great ball.â€?

After the go-ahead score, Princeton had just over a minute to put together a drive of its own, though, and threatened to send the game into overtime — or even win it in regulation. After a series of wild plays and calls that included an interception disallowed and a Princeton touchdown catch later called incomplete, the Tigers had a 31-yard field goal attempt to tie the game and send it to overtime.

Then came the ice. Then a second timeout. When the kick finally went up, it was wide right, sending Franklin Field into sheer pandemonium. “We’ve had some classics against Princeton. There have been some phenomenal ones in my tenure here. This one here is right up there with them,� coach Ray Priore said.

The win put the Quakers (4-4, 2-3 Ivy) level in the conference standings with the Tigers (5-3, 2-3).

It also avenged last year’s humiliating 28-0 defeat at Princeton in the Quakers’ worst showing in 2016.

Watson broke yet another record

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FOOTBALL | Senior captain won the game for Penn BREVIN FLEISCHER Sports Editor

Another Penn football win, another DP Sports’ Player of the Week award for senior star receiver Justin Watson.

The All-American wideout posted another in a long line of impressive games for the Quakers, leading his team to a crucial win over archrival Princeton on Homecoming Weekend.

In a game that the Red and Blue needed to win in order to hold onto a shred of hope for an Ivy title, the greatest wide receiver in Penn history played one of his greatest games.

As is often the case with Watson, his impact transcended the numbers, which is incredible, because the numbers themselves are beyond impressive. With eight catches for 124 yards and two touchdowns, Watson established himself not only as the best player on the field but also as the most accomplished receiver in Penn history.

After setting program records for receiving yards and receiving touchdowns earlier in the season, Watson caught his third ball of the day to become Penn’s all-time leader in receptions as well.

Continuing the theme of Watson’s counting numbers not telling the full story, his eighth and final catch was ultra-important for the Quakers, as it proved to be the game-winner. With 1:12 left on the

clock and his team down by four points, senior quarterback Will Fischer-Colbrie lofted a beautiful pass to the back of the endzone, right into Watson’s waiting arms.

“I think probably 80 percent of the time, I release to the outside; that’s kind of how the play is designed, but just working with Will … I knew that if I released to the inside, then we’d be on the same page,” Watson said of the play.

“Sure enough, I got open to the inside, and Will saw it and delivered a great ball.”

The crowd erupted, the sideline morphed into a mosh pit, and Watson pumped his fist in triumph.

Against the backdrop of 9,000 Penn fans clad in red and blue, perhaps this was the greatest way to celebrate one of Penn football’s greatest legends.

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SPRINT FB | Quakers trounce Mansfield in final game before championship next week JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

For Penn sprint football’s seniors, Friday was a night to remember.

In their final regular season game, the Quakers took down Mansfield by a score of 35-13.

The game also doubled as Senior Night, as Penn (6-1, 4-0 CSFL

South) honored each of its nine seniors before kickoff.

After beating Navy last weekend to secure the Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL) South Division title, the game this weekend had no implications for the postseason. Regardless of the outcome, Penn was set to take on Army next week in the championship. But as the last home game in the seniors’ careers, there was still plenty left to play for.

The game actually started off very poorly for Penn, as Mansfield (1-6, 1-3) jumped out to an early 13-0 lead in the first quarter.

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With freshman quarterback Joshua Trybus getting the start and several players hurt or getting the night off, the Quakers struggled offensively at first, with their first two drives ending in a turnover on downs and a fumble respectively.

“I think we came in overlooking them a little too much, I think on both sides of the ball,” senior wide receiver Marcus Jones said.

“I think our timidness in different positions, that we didn’t have our starters in... I think it took a while to adjust, for some of our SEE SPRINT FOOTBALL PAGE 10

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PENN BEATS RIVAL ON HOMECOMING Penn football fought Princeton in an intense rivalry game on Saturday for the Quakers’ Homecoming. Penn scored with just over a minute left, and Princeton missed a field goal with three seconds left to give the Quakers the 38-35 win.

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Sophomore linebacker Conor O’Brien

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Defensive backs Jyron Walker (left) and Eric Markes

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Sophomore running back Abe Willows

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Senior running back Tre Solomon breaks free

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