October 27, 2022

MAGILL INAUGURATED

North Dakota-born legal scholar becomes Penn’s ninth president

Penn inaugurated Liz Magill as its ninth pres ident Friday, formally commencing the tenure of the University’s first new leader in 18 years.

In a 30-minute inaugural address inside Irvine Auditorium, Magill said that Penn is called upon to “redouble” its commitment to preserving the truth and maximizing its com mitment to people of all backgrounds. She cited University founder Ben Franklin’s kite and key experiment, which produced the world’s first lightning rods, as a parallel to her current call to

action: “Let the experiment be made.”

“In its long and illustrious history, Penn has always met the moment. Now, and in the future, we will help make the moment,” Magill said, adding that the University “has to evolve” like the city it is a part of.

even less usual channels, still didn’t work.”

As protestors led chants in the middle of the field, some people in the crowd held up the orange flyers in support, but many began to boo the protestors and demand that they get off the field so the game could continue.

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IMRAN SIDDIQUI Senior Reporter

Thirty-nine days after setting tents up on College Green, students involved with Fossil Free Penn have ended their encampment in the center of campus.

After an hour-long protest interrupted the Home coming football game on Oct. 22, which led to the arrest of 19 students, FFP organizers packed up their belongings later that night. FFP coordinator and College junior Sarah Sterinbach said that the organizers collectively agreed to end the encamp ment in order to leave on a “high note,” but they plan on continuing to push their demands through other avenues.

The encampment began on Sept. 14, with three demands for Penn: a public commitment toward preserving the University City Townhomes; total fossil fuel divestment; and making payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs, to Philadelphia public schools. Students continued to camp on College Green for over a month despite harsh weather conditions and alleged intimidation from University administrators.

75 students rushed onto the field right before the second half of the game was set to begin. Protestors carried three banners with their demands and led chants, asking the crowd, “Whose side are you on?”

Penn administrators and open expression observ ers went onto the field, took pictures of protestors, and asked them to leave. Police, meanwhile, stayed on the sidelines with zip-tie handcuffs in hand.

Other students passed out orange flyers in the sta dium that explained that FFP intended “only to delay the game, not end it.”

Sterinbach said that it is never FFP’s goal to “ruin student events,” but she said that after eight years of organizing for fossil fuel divestment and a month of sleeping on College Green, this was a “necessary step.”

“We really are sorry to people that had to wait outside and sit for a bit. We know that was not fun, and Homecoming is an exciting event,” Sterinbach said. “We did it because these are things that are

FFP coordinator and College junior Megha Neelapu said that while external pressures and safety concerns were not ultimately the main reason for ending the encampment, FFP members present at the encampment later in the afternoon received harassment from adults passing by after the game.

Sterinbach echoed this sentiment. She said that most of the responses she saw from students were predominantly positive, but Sterinbach said more alumni criticized FFP’s protest during the game.

About half an hour into the demonstration, Sterin bach said that the group planned for the majority of protestors to peacefully walk off the field — leaving students who were willing to risk getting arrested on the field with the banners.

Twenty minutes later, police officers escorted the remaining 19 student protestors off the field in zip-tie handcuffs. The students were detained at the Penn Police headquarters and “received citations for defiant trespass for refusal to leave the field,” according to a statement provided to The Daily Pennsylvanian by the Division of Public Safety.

Sterinbach said that FFP moved their planned press conference from College Green to outside of the Penn Police headquarters in order to support the students who were detained.

Penn to offer bivalent COVID-19 vaccine at booster clinic next week

The booster clinic will take place from Nov. 3 to Nov. 4 and be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

JONAH MILLER Senior Reporter

Penn will host two COVID-19 booster vaccine clinics next week in Gimbel Gymnasium in the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center.

In an email to the Penn community on Oct. 24, Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé announced that the Univer sity will now offer the Pfizer mRNA bivalent COVID-19 booster shot for free to the entire Penn community and their families. The booster clinic will take place from Nov. 3 to Nov. 4. It will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days.

“As personal agency and individual decisions will guide us through the next phases of the pandemic, we want to make sure that members of the Penn community have access to resources to protect their health and minimize disruptions to their work or study as we enter the colder months and the holiday season,” Dubé wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian in an email.

As of the fall 2022 semester, Penn required all eligible community members to be fully vaccinated and have received at least one booster vaccine against COVID-19. The University mandated students to submit proof of vaccination to their Wellness Portal. Although Penn is offering the bivalent booster vaccine for free through its upcoming clinic, students are only required to have their primary immunization plus at least one booster shot to sat isfy their compliance requirement, Dubé wrote to the DP.

“While students are not required to receive the bivalent booster, they are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the booster clinic on campus to further strengthen their immune response to circulating variants,” Dubé wrote.

Community members and their family members can sched ule a clinic appointment through the Penn Cares booster portal.

All individuals, ages 5 and up, are eligible to receive the bivalent booster vaccine if it has been two months since their last COVID-19 vaccination, whether from the primary series or an original booster, Dubé wrote, citing eligibility recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Penn’s second COVID-19 booster clinic will mark the

Amy Gutmann and Judith Rodin look on as Penn formally inducts its third female president, a first in the Ivy League.

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JARED MITOVICH

Penn alum speaks on the importance of recognizing Black

America

1994 College graduate Erica Armstrong Dunbar dis cussed the importance of recognizing suppressed voices in American history in her lecture “Truth be Told: Black Women and the Making of a Democ racy.”

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— where Dunbar, a Rutgers professor, spoke about the neglected history of Black women’s roles in the development of the nation and the necessity of tell ing all sides of their stories.

“It is my responsibility to inject and complicate what’s been a very two-dimensional narrative about Black people in this nation, that spills over into some

of the issues we still grapple with today,” Dunbar said during the lecture.

The lecture was a part of America 250 at Penn, an event series organized by University departments including Penn Libraries, University Archives, and the Division of the Vice Provost for Student En gagement. The initiative aims to uncover how the United States in 2022 encompasses the values it was founded upon and how these values can be used to guide the future.

Vice Provost for Student Engagement and Dis tinguished Senior Fellow at the Graduate School of Education Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum has known Dunbar since her first year at Penn through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship pro gram. McCoullum recommended her as a speaker for the program to highlight Penn’s diversity and promote conversation about the unique voices and identities that make up the school.

“Our University of Pennsylvania in 2022 is a beautifully diverse, exciting and vibrant commu nity of scholars — including students, faculty, and staff — who are from West Philly, Philly, the nation, and the world,” McCoullum said. “Hearing from as many people about the history and prospects at Penn from their perspective is really exciting as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary.”

Dunbar, who is also the national director of the Association of Black Women Historians, received her B.A. in history and Afro-American studies at Penn and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She is one of the few Black women scholars studying Black women’s history during and after the Civil War.

Through her research of authentic stories of Black women’s experiences in America, including that of an early Black settler named Alice, Dunbar aimed to introduce the audience to the lesser-known narra tives of America’s foundation.

“Alice watched a city and a nation boast lib erty and opportunity all the while she spent her living days enslaved in the hinterlands of the City of Brotherly Love. Her life is emblematic of many things: a flaw to democracy, contradictions of the rhetoric around the laws regarding freedom and in dependence, but it is also emblematic of strength, perseverance, and survival,” Dunbar said.

Dunbar added that there are challenges when it

Invizibles at Penn

Founded last fall, the Invizibles at Penn is a stu dent group that works to raise awareness for invisible illnesses and hidden disabilities. The organization’s goals are to raise awareness, fundraise for research, and foster a community, according to its website.

The student group currently has around 40 mem bers, according to College senior Rebecca Nadler, the president of the Invizibles at Penn. Nadler said that more individuals are living with chronic illness

comes to sharing the complex and hidden lives of Black women as they can contradict the mainstream understanding of history.

After receiving hateful letters and death threats for publishing an op-ed about Ona Judge — a slave who escaped servitude from George Washington — Dunbar said she was tested on her role as a scholar and historian.

“If that many people were going to act in ways that were evil and violent over the truth, I was ob ligated to tell the story, to have us rethink the founding of the nation,” Dunbar said. “It was my job to try and tell an objective, complicated narra tive about the founding of the nation not through George Washington’s eyes, but through the eyes of this Black woman.”

Many audience members said they resonated with her message, including English and Africana studies professor Herman Beavers.

“Listening to professor Armstrong Dunbar talk about looking at the same documents that other his torians have uncovered and left out, [it showed] that there’s all kinds of knowledge and perspectives out there that we haven’t bothered to invest in that might completely change how we think about something that we think is a settled issue,” said Beavers. “You have to figure out how to make space for that, and she’s doing it.”

Concluding the lecture by describing her expe riences as the co-executive producer of the HBO series “The Gilded Age,” Dunbar redefined the per ceived role of historians in the context of the digital age. By transitioning from a historical fact-checker to a producer, Dunbar used her expertise to develop a more accurate portrayal of the American Gilded Age.

This meld of history and media in Dunbar’s career inspired College sophomore Adeoluwa Fatukasi to attend the event.

“She is at the intersection of what I want to study,” Fatukasi said. “Looking into her work scene, I no ticed that she puts storytelling at the forefront of her historical research and that she’s also using her education and Ph.D. to inform pop culture. That is something I feel like I want to do — combining that practicality of communication and the theory and the ideas of the history of Africana studies.”

than many expect.

“According to the CDC, every six out of 10 adults in the U.S. has at least one chronic condition, which I think is very infrequently discussed,” she said. “Starting that conversation and raising awareness and building community in that space [is our goal].”

In addition to advocacy work, Nadler added that the Invizibles at Penn is involved in the creation and centralization of more resources for students with invisible illnesses and hidden disabilities.

SEJAL SANGANI Staff Reporter

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with represen tatives from each of these student groups to learn about their missions, club initiatives, and advocacy work. The student leaders said that they formed the groups in order to create space and support neurodi vergent and disabled students at Penn.

Advocates for Neurodiversity

Formed this past month, Advocates for Neu rodiversity is an organization that aims to create a community for neurodivergent students on campus.

College junior Ellie McKeown, an AND board member, said that the organization’s founding was driven by a need for more inclusivity for neurodiver gent students on campus.

“We are starting this club because of a perceived lack of space for neurodivergent identities and from quite a few experiences of lack or failure within the system,” McKeown said. “[AND is] a welcoming space for neurodivergent individuals, although neu rotypical people are also welcome to join.”

McKeown said AND hopes to involve the Penn community in advocating for neurodivergent in dividuals through education and peer-to-peer meetings. The group is also excited about forming a relationship with the Disabled Coalition at Penn.

“We wanted [AND] to basically be like an affinity space for neurodivergent people as well as work on things like advocacy in educational settings and ad vocacy in our personal lives,” McKeown explained.

While AND represents neurodivergent students, the group also emphasizes that they are speaking from a general set of terms — not every neurodi vergent person may share their ideas or experiences.

“We believe that all neurodivergent people de serve a seat at the table and deserve equal respect just like any of their other peers, neurotypical or neuro divergent,” McKeown said. “Above all, we are just trying to create a space of respect and equality.”

Disabled Coalition

The Disabled Coalition at Penn is an umbrella organization for disabilities officially created at the start of this semester. The coalition’s mission is

to “create a safe space for the University of Penn sylvania’s disabled community to build authentic connections and support one another.”

College sophomore Lex Gilbert is the founder and president of the Disabled Coalition. They said that seeing a lack of representation for disabled identities within student organizations was the driving factor in the creation of the Disabled Coalition.

“We are focused on empowering students through education,” she said.

Dale Brokaw is a second-year Ph.D. student and the vice president of the Disabled Coalition. Brokaw spoke to the coalition’s desire to form an intersec tional community, spanning different years, schools, and identities.

“What we’d really like is a large coalition across the entire University that will hopefully outlast us,” they said, adding that in the future, the organization hopes to host a Disability Pride Week.

Gilbert explained that the coalition is working to make students aware of what accommodations are available to them and how to be self-advocates. He also said that the group hopes to work with faculty and professors on the topic of having disabled stu dents in their classes.

Brokaw said that creating accessible and inclusive spaces for disabled students is not only equitable, but also beneficial for the community at large.

“I often hear this tension described between giving [accommodations to] students with disabili ties and fairness; that somehow, giving students with disabilities accommodations makes the space less fair for able-bodied students,” Brokaw said. “I’d really like to push back on that and affirm that creat ing an accessible, inclusive environment is not just equitable and the best thing to do for students with disabilities, [but] it makes the environment better for everybody.”

The Disabled Coalition also holds a seat on the University Council — which was previously held by Disability Advocacy at Penn. Gilbert said that the coalition is also working with Disability Services, the Weingarten Center, and Wellness at Penn.

Annenberg School for Communication Dean John L. Jackson Jr. hosted the event in Irvine Auditorium

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graduate Erica Armstrong Dunbar (left) and Walter H. Annenberg Dean John L. Jackson Jr. (right) in Irvine Auditorium.

Magill also described what she sees as the “many” current challenges facing Penn and the world, saying that faith in democracy and the usefulness of institutions has “eroded around the world.” She also described climate change as an “existential threat,” warned of a “profoundly po larized society” that cannot agree on the facts, and said there is a widening gap between “those who have a lot and those who have far too little.”

The inauguration festivities were steeped in tra dition, adorned by ceremonial organ music and multicolored regalia worn by members of the aca demic procession. The procession walked from

the west side of College Hall to Irvine Audito rium, where the ceremony was held and attended by over 900 people, according to University com munications. During the procession, which was led by the University Secretary Medha Narvekar, Magill was joined by trustees, faculty, and admin istrators.

Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok presented Magill with three solid brass keys first used to inaugurate the school’s provost in 1895, officially marking her investiture as president.

“Like any new beginning, we face it with ex citement, joy, and a seriousness of purpose,” Bok said of Magill’s inauguration, describing it as a “renewal” for Penn. “We live in complicated times and cannot know what challenges are ahead. What I do know is we are ready.”

During the procession, a dozen protestors associated with the Coalition to Save the UC Townhomes stood alongside the steps of Penn Commons and next to the Irvine Auditorium entrance on 34th and Spruce streets. One of the protestors, College senior Gigi Varlotta, told The Daily Pennsylvanian that the coalition would continue to show up at University events until ad ministrators — including Magill — commit to the preservation of the University City Townhomes.

Around 100 seats were empty inside the audito rium during the ceremony, which was invite-only but livestreamed online. Former University presi dents Amy Gutmann, the current United States ambassador to Germany, and Judith Rodin were in attendance.

In addition to Magill, Bok, Faculty Senate

Chair Vivian Gadsden, Penn Alumni President Ann Reese, and University of Virginia President Jim Ryan delivered speeches. During his speech, Ryan described Magill as a “Cavalier Quaker” and recalled first hearing of her when the two were undergraduates at Yale University, before becoming close work friends at UVA.

“Although she is not a huge fan of sports analo gies herself, she as much as anyone I know keeps her eye on the ball,” Ryan said.

Ryan added that UVA and Penn share a connec tion through their respective founders — Thomas Jefferson and Franklin.

Magill, a legal and constitutional scholar who previously served as the provost of the University of Virginia, began her tenure as Penn’s president on July 1.

Sheryl Crow performs at packed concert celebrating Magill’s inauguration

Justice Elena Kagan talks ‘finding common ground’ within divided Supreme Court at Penn inauguration event

JARED MITOVICH Senior Reporter

Penn held a picnic and concert on Friday fea turing musicians Sheryl Crow and Jeff Tweedy to celebrate President Liz Magill’s inauguration as the University’s ninth president.

The celebration — which took place on Shoe maker Green on Oct. 21 — included free food from local vendors, giveaways of picnic blankets, and games, in addition to the live music. The formal inauguration ceremony and a procession down Locust Walk preceded the event, which was open to the Penn community and special guests.

The concert featured some of Magill’s favorite musical artists: Jeff Tweedy of the Grammywinning rock band Wilco, and Sheryl Crow, a

Grammy-winning country music star. During Crow's performance, she told the crowd — including Magill, who was dancing with her husband, Leon Szeptycki — that she was excited to see the “wonderful Liz Magill bringing on change” and encouraged attendees to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. The picnic included offerings from several restaurants in the CookNSolo hospitality group — such as Zahav, Federal Donuts, and Goldie, tastings from Neuman’s Kitchen, and scoops of specially made "Penn-augural Berry Chocolate Chunk" ice cream from Bassetts Ice Cream. At tendees were greeted with embroidered red and blue blankets and tumblers.

Although the celebration included long lines to wait for the food and giveaways, students expressed excitement about the event and its openness to the Penn student body.

“It is a great crowd,” College first year Benji Elkins told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “We have people from all over to celebrate.”

Eileen Miller, a first-year graduate student in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, echoed this sentiment. “We haven’t seen this kind of community event before, so it has been really fun,” she said.

Students also mentioned that they are looking forward to seeing what Magill brings to the Penn community.

College sophomore Tess O’Brien said that “I hope that she makes some meaningful change to the administration.”

Some students reported that the festivities could be heard from inside David Rittenhouse Laboratory, where several classes were being held at the time. College sophomore Maya Wil liamson Shaffer said that she had not been aware of the event previously, but looked into it when she heard noise during a lecture in DRL. The picnic and concert were followed by an invite-only academic symposium in Irvine Au ditorium that featured Magill in conversation with United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.

Newly inaugurated Penn President Liz Magill and United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan spoke about the importance of compro mise on the court and free speech on college campuses at a University event on Friday.

The academic symposium — which followed Magill's inauguration, formally commenc ing her tenure as Penn's ninth president — was held in Irvine Auditorium before an invite-only audience of around 900 attendees. Magill and Kagan spoke for nearly 90 minutes and touched on lighthearted and heavier topics alike — in cluding some allusions to the climate of the court amid the fallout from its recent overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Kagan herself is a former university adminis trator — she was appointed the first female dean of Harvard Law School in 2003 and held the po sition until 2009. She has served on the Court for 12 years and worked closely with the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom Magill worked for as a law clerk from 1996 to 1997.

“Liz and I share a bunch of things in common, we go back a long way, and I can tell the entire Penn community that they have got the real deal

here,” Kagan told the crowd. “You are going to get a lot of innovative ideas, a lot of good sense and judgment, and a lot of integrity all wrapped up in one. You are a lucky university.”

In response to a question from Magill about how the Court gets along amid disagreement, Kagan said that “some years are better than others” in terms of the ability to have greater work collaboration. She mentioned that the Court has continued to hold weekly lunches where talk about cases is off-limits, but she is still “clear-eyed” about the current challenges.

“Time will tell whether this is a court that can get back to finding common ground, to ratchet ing down the level of decision-making so we can reach compromises,” Kagan said.

Last term, the Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of precedent and eliminating the constitutional right to have an abortion. The decision has sparked protests and strong reactions at Penn and throughout Philadelphia.

Magill and Kagan did not directly address the decision, which Kagan and two other justices opposed.

“I think the audience knows the questions they

would love to ask, I’m not going to ask you,” Magill said, appearing to hint at more conten tious topics.

Kagan — who Magill called the Court's “dis senter-in-chief” — responded that she “wouldn't be able to talk about that.” She prompted contin ued applause in the crowd when speaking about the stare decisis doctrine, which says that courts will adhere to precedent when making rulings.

Kagan warned that judges who are making “jolts to the system” are turning the Court away from its role as a court and toward being a politi cal institution.

“You give people a right, and then you take that right away,” Kagan said. “Well, in the mean time, they’ve understood their lives in a different kind of way. Law should be stable.”

Magill and Kagan also spoke about the issue of free speech on college campuses, which Magill said was a question of frequent con versation. Kagan said that universities play an important role in encouraging robust debate and the exchange of different viewpoints, adding that people should be given “the benefit of the doubt” if they say something that another person

disagrees with.

“It’s really important to a democracy that we be able to speak to each other about sensitive issues. If it can't happen in the university, where can it happen?” Kagan said.

The question of free speech has been a conten tious debate at Penn this year. Tenured Penn Law professor Amy Wax is currently under a formal University investigation for her conduct, which has included making racist statements inside and outside the classroom. To Wax and her support ers, the investigation represents a threat to tenure protection, which serves as a guard for academ ics' freedom of speech.

Magill and Kagan concluded the event with a lightning round of questions. Kagan said her favorite show continues to be “The Sopranos.”

When Magill asked Kagan what job she would want if she was not on the Court, Kagan said it was a question for which Ginsburg — Magill's old boss — always had a distinct answer.

“[She] would say, 'I want to be a diva,'” Kagan said.

“Yes, she would," Magill replied. "And there are ways in which she was.”

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MOLLY COHEN Senior Reporter

University of Virginia President Jim Ryan (left) and President Liz Magill.

Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok formally inaugurating Liz Magill as Penn's ninth President.

Dean of the Wharton School Erika James (left) and Dean of the Engineering School

Vijay Kumar (right) walking the procession.

Save the UC Townhomes protestors outside Irvine Auditorium where the inauguration ceremony was held.

Sheryl Crow, one of President Magill's favorite musical artists, performs at a picnic reception after the inauguration ceremony.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks with President Magill in an academic symposium on Oct. 21, 2022.

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IN PHOTOS: Homecoming game features football victory and fossil fuel divestment protest

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On Saturday, 11,972 raucous fans — predominantly composed of Penn alumni, but not without its fair share of current students — turned out to watch the undefeated Quakers take on Yale in the team’s biggest test to date. Though the first half was largely a defensive slog, the Homecoming crowd remained heavily invested and was rewarded when Penn’s offense capitalized on a Yale turnover to tie the game just before halftime. Just before the start of the third quarter, a group of around 60 demonstrators from Fossil Free Penn stormed the field, calling on Penn take to action on their three core demands.

The protest drew wildly mixed reactions from the crowd — with many fans leaving the stadium — throughout the hour-long delay and particularly when police arrested the final 19 protestors and escorted them off the field. When play resumed, so did the defensive battle, as both offensives struggled to move the ball and first downs came at a premium. Tied at 13 deep in the fourth quarter, Penn’s offense regained possession and sophomore quarterback Aidan Sayin took advantage, leading a methodical, game-winning touch down drive to make the Quakers 6-0.

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Sophomore linebacker Jack Fariman tackled a Yale player during the first half.

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With time winding down in the first half and the Quakers trailing by a touchdown, senior linebacker Jake Heimlicher picked off Yale quarterback Nolan Grooms. The Quakers would score on the ensuing drive.

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the second half, Penn tried misdirecting the Bulldog defense, with junior wide receiver Maurcus McDaniel throwing a double pass.

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Half: Penn 10 – Yale

After about 50 minutes, police officers began arresting demonstrators. DPS confirmed that 19 people were detained.

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After student organizers and residents of the UC Townhomes spoke about the protest at the Homecoming football game, the press confer ence attendees began to spill onto the block of 41st and Chestnut streets and demanded the im mediate release of the arrested protestors.

“We did not stop chanting or singing until every last person was released,” Sterinbach said.

College junior Alyssa Chandler said she was the first student protestor that was released by Penn Police. She said that after taking down her information, officers told her that the conse quences were “to be determined.”

“I am not worried. I think that, hopefully, city and state consequences will be fine,” Chandler said. “I am just interested, and a little scared, for what Penn is going to do.”

The other 18 students were released one-byone. Sterinbach said that seeing each protestor released brought a “sigh of relief,” and the last student was not let out of custody until nearly 7:30 p.m. — about four hours after they were first apprehended.

The University reiterated a statement made by Penn Athletics, writing that “The intentional disruption of today’s football game was neither an appropriate expression of free speech, nor consistent with Penn’s open expression guide lines,” according to an email sent to The Daily Pennsylvanian from University spokesperson Ron Ozio.

The statement said that the “student pro testers’ conduct does nothing to advance their legitimate policy concerns, concerns the Uni versity shares, but rather impinges upon the rights of others in the community to participate in the life of the campus,” adding that any stu dents involved will be referred to the “Office of Community Standards and Accountability.”

Sterinbach said that it is important for the student body and Penn administration to under stand that the end of the encampment does not mean that FFP’s work is over. She said that their first priority right now is to ensure all charges are dropped against the 19 people arrested at the football game.

“We said to everyone who was coming to this action, that this doesn’t end when when you get off the football field, and this action doesn’t end if we get arrested or when people get out of their holding cells,” Sterinbach said. “It ends when everyone who was participating in the action receives the lowest charges possible.”

Chandler said it was important for them to participate in the demonstration because it seemed like the best way to draw a lot of atten tion to an issue that matters to them.

“The protest was a great way to garner media attention,” Chandler said. “Also, within the school, Penn only really cares if alumni are threatened — specifically alumni who donate. The action was able to target that directly through the sports game.”

Looking forward, Sterinbach said that FFP plans to push for its same demands in differ ent ways. She said that the group knew this was their “power weekend,” with lots of eyes on the University due to Penn President Liz Magill’s inauguration and alumni visiting for Homecom ing.

“The encampment showed that we are dedicated students, but we need a ton more ded icated students,” Sterinbach said. “You heard us probably a million times repeating the same spiel about our demands, and we can repeat it to you again a million more times. But, at a cer tain point, it’s just saying the same facts. We need action, and we need all of you to join us in taking this action.”

Developers to build new grocery store and research complex near 39th and Market streets

Wexford Science + Technology, a Drexel partner, plans to convert the space from a surface parking lot

ELEA CASTIGLIONE Contributing Reporter

third time the University will use Gimbel Gymnasium as a vaccine clinic location this year. In January 2022, Penn held its first-round COVID-19 booster clinic from Jan. 14 to Jan. 19. Most recently, in September 2022, the Uni versity held its annual flu clinic at Gimbel, where over 11,000 community members were vaccinated.

Executive Director of Public Health and Wellbeing Ashlee Halbritter previously told the DP that the University chooses Gimbel as a location for vaccine clinics due to a history of success and its accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Drexel University’s real estate development partner will build a new life sciences research complex and grocery store on Market Street between 38th and 39th streets.

Wexford Science + Technology plans to convert the space from a surface parking lot to an office, laboratory, parking, and retail space, The Philadel phia Inquirer reported. Penn Facilities & Real Estate Services Director of Communication Jennifer Rizzi confirmed in a written statement that the development is not part of Penn's real estate portfolio.

The development project will take place in two phases. Phase one, which will take place at 39th and Market streets, will involve constructing a 13-story building with 225,000 square feet of lab and office space. Six floors below, there will be a five-floor park ing garage with 500 spaces. On the ground floor, there will be 24,000 square feet of retail space comprising a grocery store and public space including a cafe.

Phase two will take place at 38th and Market streets. The taller building will include 330,000 square feet of lab and office space, 280 parking spaces, and 15,000 square feet of retail.

West Powelton Saunders Park RCO — the regis tered community organization for the area — is in support of the development project, according to the Inquirer. Chair of the West Powelton RCO Pam An drews surveyed the community residents about the project beforehand and reported finding widespread approval.

“The community at large actually are looking

forward to having a supermarket there,” Andrews said.

The Wexford development will require a special ex emption from the Zoning Board of Adjustment for the above-ground parking aspect of the project. If the proj ect can secure the exemption, construction is expected to begin early next year.

Life science development is on the rise in Univer sity City, with a 2020 report by real estate firm CBRE ranking the Philadelphia region seventh in the coun try’s top life sciences clusters, above New York City, Seattle, and Los Angeles. Within Philadelphia, Uni versity City is home to a large amount of laboratory space in the region.

This development announcement follows Chicago and New York developers' plan to acquire land at the intersection of 38th and Chestnut streets to build a high-tech office and lab building earlier this year.

There are multiple other development projects hap pening concurrently in University City including One uCity Square at 37th and Warren streets, both of which include extensive laboratory space.

The new Wexford development would be directly adjacent to the University City Townhomes. The sale of the townhomes and looming evictions have sparked widespread protests on Penn’s campus, including during Convocation. Most recently, Penn students set up a 39-day encampment on College Green to demand that Penn preserve the UC Townhomes.

The complex had originally received attention from developers looking to build spaces for life sciences companies — an offer that the city refused.

RENDERING FROM WEXFORD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY A rendering of the new life sciences research complex and grocery store on Market and 38th streets.

CLARKE Contributing Reporter

Oct. 21 and 22, KWH celebrated its 25th anni versary with three events,

with an informal party from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday. Two events took place Saturday — an Open House and a recep tion, which showcased 10 KWH affiliates speaking about the impact the community has had on them.

According to KWH founder and Faculty Director Al Filreis, KWH is best known for its events, which host a wide variety of authors, artists, and other creatives. The monthly Speakeasy Open Mic Night initiative, which began in the fall of 1997, is the house’s oldest ongoing tradition. KWH also offers student internships through the RealArts program, as well as several grants and prizes that fund stu dents’ creative endeavors.

KWH also has a recruiting program that seeks out prospective students from around the country who show interest and demonstrate talent in writing during high school. When College senior Kendall Owens submitted a poetry piece to a magazine in high school, the editor — who is a Penn alumnus — referred her to a recruiter, she said. Owens began working at KWH as a first year through the workstudy program.

“As a freshman, it was just kind of a place to work. But over the years, this is kind of my home,” Owens said. “I’m here all the time, just to hang out with people, to see what food we have in our snack bin. And it’s just a place that I can call my home — like a home away from home.”

Jessica Lowenthal, who has been the director of the Kelly Writers House since 2005, also said that KWH feels like a home — in fact, many of the pots and pans in the KWH kitchen are from her own house.

“The domestic nature of the rooms encourages a kind of relating that is less institutional and more home-like,” Lowenthal said.

According to Filreis, the “home-like” feel is vital and intentional — KWH deliberately avoided build ing lecture halls or auditoriums even as it expanded.

Filreis and other founders laid out what the purpose of each room would be in 1995, and their original

purposes stand true today.

“All along, we had this idea that architecture is destiny. That if you create a space — a physical space — that is conducive to the kind of learning that [we’ve] been striving for, then you will create it by the very architecture,” Filreis said. “Too often when we’re trying to teach people in innovative ways, we are fighting against the architecture.”

Program Coordinator Alli Katz said that archi tecture also serves to level the playing field between esteemed guests — writers who have won Pulit zers, or even Nobel Prizes — and students who are

beginning their careers.

Undergraduates perform in the same space, even with the same audio setup, as accomplished artists. Fileris said that this is a part of KWH’s mission to never place one artist above the other.

“We don’t want a famous person standing up and everybody else sitting quietly in an audience. We want conversation, we want noise, we want in teraction,” Filreis said. “There are no lectures at the Writers House. Whatever the opposite of a lec ture is, is what we do every day. The opposite of a lecture is a conversation that’s exploratory and

improvisational.”

This commitment to breaking down barriers be tween students and teachers, novices and experts, and the University and the surrounding community reflects the original mission statement written by the KWH founders in 1995 to cultivate a welcoming at mosphere that fosters growth.

“It just feels really good to be able to find a po sition to say ‘yes’ again and again and again to students and community members,” Katz said. “A lot of positions everywhere are about saying ‘no’ first. This is about trying your best to say ‘yes.’”

Penn professor Marjorie Margolies releases memoir on the impact of motherhood on her career

PAIGE RAWISZER Contributing Reporter

first unmarried woman in the United States to adopt a child from another country, according to a press release.

A trailblazer for women in both politics and journalism, Margolies was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives for Penn sylvania in 1993. Throughout her time in office, she fought for women’s rights by opposing the “Hyde Amendment” and pushing for funding for breast and cervical cancer research.

Margolies first decided to adopt internation ally while she was covering stories of adoption in Korea as a TV reporter.

“I was doing a series of stories and I got really involved with hard-placed kids,” Margolies said. “I asked my desk if I could follow up and go to Korea to look at the orphanage situation.”

Margolies would continue to adopt interna tionally, adopting another young girl, this time from Vietnam. Soon after, her marriage led her to expand her family. Margolies now has 11 chil dren and over 40 grandchildren.

“I married someone with four girls. I went and got married and we had six girls. And then we had two boys. And then we were asked to take in a refugee family,” Margolies said.

The memoir explores her journey as a mother and how it has intertwined with her career in politics and journalism. When asked how motherhood weaved into her professional life, Margolies said that it was not a choice, but a

necessity.

“If the question is by definition, ‘Do you weave [motherhood] into your life?’ you have to. And it didn’t work all the time,” Margolies said. “We tried to make it work and sometimes it did and sometimes it didn’t. But, I think that’s a good way to look at life.”

After her time in Congress, Margolies served as the president of Women’s Campaign International, an organization dedicated to em powerment and leadership training for women internationally and domestically. WCI works in over 45 countries to promote women’s rights.

Due to travel hardships from COVID-19, WCI increased its programming within the local Philadelphia area, working with local girls in its Girls Advocacy Leadership Series. Margolies titled her memoir after an experience she had with WCI.

“We went to see the Maasai warriors, and they don’t say, ‘How are you?’ They say, ‘And how are the children?’ So, that’s where it comes from.”

Margolies hopes that the book will inspire women to take action in things they are passion ate about.

“I think my message is — and it’s pretty bland — to just do it. If you think you can, do it. It might not work out, but it’s worth a try.”

“And How Are the Children?” is available for purchase at the Penn Bookstore and other retail booksellers.

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Kelly Writers House celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Marjorie Margolies, a 1963 College graduate and current professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, has released a new memoir

the way motherhood has intertwined with her political

journalistic career.

memoir is titled “And How Are the

Children? Timeless Lessons from the Front lines of Motherhood,” and features a foreword by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Margolies has written five best-selling novels, won an Emmy Award for her work in journalism, served as a member of Congress, and become the

Opinion

Penn should create benefit corporations to counter gentrification

Penn and its neighbors are facing a significant gentrification event with the reported plans to sell the University City Townhomes, a stable and successful low-income housing complex. Creating a benefit corporation (B corp), a specially chartered for-profit corporation with an ad ditional legal obligation to produce public benefits of identified kinds, could do the job of not only preserving the Townhomes, but also improving them.

Presumably, upon sale of the Town homes to a developer, the developer would then expel the residents, raze the complex, and replace it with “market rate” housing and commercial establishments. The situ ation has been reported and has received local and national attention: For exam ple, the DP’s story, various Philadelphia Inquirer stories that are unfortunately behind paywalls, and the Daily Kos story (with interesting comments), which was reprinted from Prism, have offered com prehensive coverage on the issue. There has also been much local agitation and protest, both in the local community and at Penn.

The question stands: What, if anything, should and can be done?

What should be done, I submit, is to preserve and expand low- and middleincome housing in West Philadelphia in a way that sees its flourishing to the benefit of both its residents and its neighbors, including the Penn com munity. We all gain from diversity and inclusion in the neighborhood. Its various cultural benefits alone are im mensely valuable.

But how can this be accomplished?

The owners of the UC Townhomes have every right, and even obligation, under their existing legal arrangements to max imize their profits without taking into account the broader social interests that are certainly present. This is what stan dard for-profit corporations (so-called C Corporations) do. They are profoundly amoral, and will always be so unless in centives change.

Pretty obviously, then, it is necessary to change the incumbent legal arrange ments if gentrification is to be countered. How can that happen? This can happen by changing the ownership of the Town homes to a benefit corporation that has a mission to sustain flourishing low- and middle-income housing (including quality construction with weatherization, excellent insulation, and full electrification in recog nition of climate change). This promising idea should be explored urgently both for the UC Townhomes and as a counter to gentrification generally.

The U.S. Small Business Administration explains what a benefit corporation is:

“A benefit corporation, sometimes called a B corp, is a for-profit corpora tion recognized by a majority of U.S. states. B corps are different from C corps in purpose, accountability, and transparency, but aren’t different in how they’re taxed.

“B corps are driven by both mission and profit. Shareholders hold the company ac countable to produce some sort of public benefit in addition to a financial profit. Some states require B corps to submit annual benefit reports that demonstrate their contribution to the public good.”

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provides for creation and operation of B corporations.

Here is how creating a B corp might work regarding the UC Townhomes situation:

After careful investigation of the idea and securing of the necessary management expertise, a B corp would be created with an appropriate mission (low- and moder ate-income housing support with quality construction, weatherization, excellent insulation, and full electrification in recog nition of climate change) and funds would be raised to operate the firm (e.g., through

stock sales; one hopes the Penn community would step up here; I know I would).

After its creation, the B corp would negotiate with the owner of the UC Townhomes (or other landlords in the neighborhood) and purchase the prop erty. The deal might be sweetened with an agreement that the present owner would re ceive a contract to continue managing the property, under the supervision of the new B corp, of course. In this way, the owner gets both the sale price and a continuing business opportunity.

This B corp would operate the prop erty in accordance with its fundamental mission, and would do so sustainably and permanently.

If anything like this can be brought off successfully, the effects may well be trans formative in a profoundly positive way. Success could be propagated to transform housing markets in gentrifying neighbor hoods. We should expect resistance, and even sabotage, from some elements of the C corp interests. There would be much riding on making this work.

Of course, serious due diligence would need to be performed. The idea has to be penciled out, and eventually, a business plan would need to be developed. But,

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what’s needed now is leadership with both expertise and means. Penn itself would be one candidate. Laudable as Penn’s present efforts are, fostering a B corp for low- and moderate-income housing, greened for cli mate change (and maybe for student or staff housing?), would potentially have an enor mous effect — including health and safety benefits from improved indoor air quality and the elimination of fossil fuel combus tion — just to name a few of many notable positives. Let us hope Penn steps up; how ever, there also are others who could supply the leadership and expertise necessary to implement this solution. May it happen.

STEVEN O. KIMBROUGH is a pro fessor of Operations, Information, and Decisions and a professor of Phi losophy at Penn. He served as Chair of the Faculty Senate during the 20192020 academic year. During his term as Chair, he instituted CIRCE, the Faculty Senate Committee on the In stitutional Response to the Climate Emergency. His email is kimbrough@ wharton.upenn.edu.

Penn’s accountability deficit needs addressing

A BRIT ABROAD | Magill must decide who she truly represents

In January this year, Liz Magill was unanimously selected to be the presi dent of Penn by the Board of Trustees. In her acceptance speech, she talked about building on a legacy of “making a differ ence” through “pragmatism, creativity, and humanity,” and expressed her desire to work with the whole Penn community to achieve that. The issue is, though, that that community isn’t who she answers to — instead, the only ones with any power over her are the Board of Trustees them selves, a detached group of alumni and bureaucrats who most of us students will never get to see or meet.

The president functions much like a politician; she makes decisions about what goes on in the University and represents us to the outside world. The key concept about (democratic) politicians, though, is that we can hold them accountable — when they let us down, we don’t vote for them, and they

lose their jobs. The issue with the Penn administration is that they don’t grant us that ability. Sure, there’s the Undergraduate Assembly, which does some great work to improve our campus, but even that can only make recommendations to the administra tion. The administration has no reason to take those recommendations and no reason to engage with any other student bodies.

So, they don’t.

For instance, they’ve been threaten ing and intimidating the Fossil Free Penn encampment on College Green since its inception, but it is yet to be reported that they have met with the student protesters about their demands. So much for working with “faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members” as Magill pledged to do when she got the job.

I’m sure that you can see what I’m getting at — there is a serious account ability deficit here. On one hand, it makes

sense — it’s not like we can realistically threaten Penn administration with drop ping out en masse if they ignore our demands. But when the University repeat edly avoids talking to student advocacy groups and takes eight months to respond to issues such as the UC Townhomes sale (the protest of which also has widespread faculty support), they demonstrate a bla tant and deliberate disregard for anything the Penn community cares about that might be inconvenient for them.

While we can’t threaten any staff’s positions directly, I find their cavalier at titude unwise; for an institution that relies on alumni donations, Penn is doing an aw fully bad job at making current students want to give back. Regardless of what the reality is, we’re meant to be members of a community, not customers of a business. We deserve a legitimate voice.

Now, Penn doesn’t have to enact every

desire of its students, no matter how so cially prescient — if it did, I doubt an endowment even as big as the one it has would last very long. While I absolutely believe that the University should divest from fossil fuels (a move made by most other Ivies thus far), help the Townhomes, and use its vast wealth to benefit the West Philadelphia community which it has so damaged, I don’t believe that I should be able to force them to.

What we should expect, though, is for our opinions to be respected. Students shouldn’t have to interrupt Convocation, stage protests, or occupy the field outside Magill’s office in order to open any sort of dialogue with her. (In terms of prag matism and creativity, though, they’re definitely winning.)

But students are left without much choice. When they try to protest through official means, they get sidelined and palmed off. Can you really blame the activists for taking over College Green? Our president may try to avoid it, but she can hear their voices loud and clear; what she doesn’t seem to understand is that the more that she ignores it, the louder they will get. If she wants to represent this community in the way that she claims she does, she should listen to them. We are Penn — the students, the faculty, the staff, and the West Philadelphia community, too. The Board of Trustees is not.

We choose to attend institutions like Penn, I hope, because we believe that we will be well represented by the values that they stand for, both in our time here and in our futures. But it’s equally important that those values grow and change to represent us, too. It’s time that those who claim to lead the Penn community respect the fact that they answer to more than a board of invisible bureaucrats. They can’t ignore us forever, I’m sure.

ALEX BAXTER is a junior exchange student from the University of Edin burgh studying philosophy, politics, and economics in the College. His email is ajgb@sas.upenn.edu.

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Let’s passionately celebrate big business

T he American Dream. It’s a phrase we all know well, a cornerstone of social and po litical discourse. Many of us here at Penn are trying to pursue it. Whether we pour scorn on the idea, or have faith in its promise, there is no disputing its emotional power.

The American Dream has proven an indis pensable tool in building the American national ethos. Yet its political effects are arguably more important, buttressing allegiance to a highly successful, capitalist economic model. The idea that one can achieve upward mobility through perseverance and energy, in a society with few barriers, is individualistic and thus hostile to state intervention. It’s no wonder that, in recent years, Republicans have been far more comfort able using the term than Democrats. Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush underscored the American Dream as a creed of self-reliance, family values, and plucky entrepreneurialism. American Dream mythology is closely tied to the middle class and small business. The public does not associate the dream with “becoming wealthy,” instead citing goals associated with the middle class, such as retiring comfortably and owning a home. This makes sense, considering the prize at stake; the U.S. middle class is the most prosperous of any large Western country. Yet there is a hole at the heart of this ethic. The American Dream tells us about the values of those who seek upward mobility, and little about those that actually deliver material pros perity. If we are to wax lyrical about the spirited individual, then we must also celebrate the modern midwives of success: the large, sprawl ing corporation.

Increasingly, large firms produce the steady jobs people rely on. According to Census Bureau data, almost 40% of Americans work for companies with more than 2,500 employ ees, and are more likely to work for a large firm than a small one. Think about how many Penn students are eager to land jobs at Google and Goldman Sachs. However, at the same time, only 21% of Americans have ‘a lot of con fidence’ in big business; 53% hold a negative view, up from 39% in 2012.

Businesses are far from perfect. Their col lective reputation has been tarnished by several high-profile corporate scandals, such as En ron’s collapse and Facebook’s data leaks. Critics point out that corporations pollute the environ ment, and may neglect to provide proper pay and workplace conditions. Large financial insti tutions, acting irresponsibly, played a major role in tanking the economy in 2008.

Yet the overall picture is positive. Corpo rations’ adverse impact on the environment simply reflects their disproportionate share of global production. Big business is now leading the fight to mitigate climate change. Over 5,200 businesses, representing 40% of the world’s private capital, have now pledged to meet netzero targets by 2050. Big firms also provide better paid and more secure jobs, invest more

in R&D than small firms, and are overall more productive, driving technological and economic growth. For example, the financial and insur ance sectors are the leading contributors to real GDP growth in 24 states. Big businesses also supply smaller outfits — an independent phar macy needs to buy drugs from somewhere. We cannot understate their vital role to U.S. eco nomic prosperity.

Given their importance, we need to develop a positive message about big business, or else risk their demise at the hands of high taxes, over bearing regulation, and stringent union laws. It is not enough to just celebrate small outfits. Ironically, The American Dream’s focus on gutsy individualism can put it morally at odds with establishment companies, even though the clearest way to achieve the dream is through their steady employment.

Sure, we can cite statistics about social

mobility, but the American Dream’s appeal is fundamentally emotional. It is an optimistic, moving force. The opportunity to live with dignity, to attain freedom, to live on your own terms, is a prospect that stirs the heart.

In the same way, we need an emotional de fense of the big corporation. Talking about GDP alone will not cut it. Large corporations afford us opportunities to raise our children in secure, prosperous environments. They supply goods which keep our families safe and happy. They pay us well so we can afford a life of pride and self-respect, where we can pursue our hobbies with abandon. Becoming a “company man” often results in career advancement and fulfilling one’s potential. More broadly, corporations export American soft power abroad, enhancing domes tic security. Literature, music, and art are also far richer when responding to economic dynamism that corporations are crucial at producing.

‘Bonjour-hi’ to a multilingual United States

“Hello.” “Hello.”

That’s a pretty normal way to begin a conversation here at Penn. However, that’s just one option. One of the most intriguing alternatives comes from the Canadian province of Québec: “Bonjour-hi,” to which “hello” is just one of many responses.

The form of the word bonjour-hi gives some clues about how it works as a greeting. It’s really two greetings combined into one — a bonjour, for people who want to speak French, and a hi, for people who want to speak English. The response says which language to speak in.

Bonjour-hi, however, also plays a political role. Québec is the center of Canada’s Francophone culture, which feels itself under siege from a wave of English domination. Consequently, bonjour-hi keeps a spot for French in public space, but it isn’t enough to satisfy some Québécois nationalists, who consider it an unfair capitulation to English.

There are only two choices with bonjour-hi. However, in other countries people have adopted different systems where people bargain about what language to talk in; somebody leads with a greeting

in one language, and the other person responds in the same, if that is acceptable, or responds with a different one, to switch it.

Yet pretty much every conversation that I have ever had or heard in the United States starts in English and ends in English. Google only pro duces a few irrelevant results for hola-hi or hi-hola, and bonjour-hi hasn’t made it across the northern border, as far as I can tell.

The simple answer to why this happens is that the United States is a monolingual country, unlike bilingual Canada. However, this isn’t entirely true.

Although bonjour-hi is principally used in Québec, the center of Canada’s Francophone culture, it also pops up occasionally elsewhere, such as in a part of Nova Scotia with English multilinguals. Eightynine percent of Nova Scotians don’t speak French, and over 99% can carry on a conversation in Eng lish. Furthermore, after Québéc, no province has more than 9% French monolinguals.

Meanwhile in the United States, 14% of Ameri cans speak Spanish at home. Forty-five percent of Californians and 12% of Pennsylvanians speak a language other than English at home. There are

more Spanish speakers in the United States than in Spain itself. It demonstrates that what Canada uses to create a bilingual atmosphere could also work in the similar environment of the United States.

Furthermore, the United States is continually trending toward bilingualism, at least at home. Thus institutions at all scales, from the U.S. gov ernment to Penn, are faced with a choice: embrace the hidden bilingualism of the United States, or continue to maintain a de facto policy of English monolingualism.

Both choices are certainly possible, but I’d en courage bilingualism. A large body of linguistics research has shown that bilingualism offers cog nitive benefits, while concerns about bilingual children not learning both languages well have been proven unfounded. Furthermore, having a language in common connects us to the rest of the world. Other benefits are too numerous to list, but here’s one more: Canadian bilinguals earn more than people who only speak English.

On the other hand, machine translation can sometimes serve as an alternative to actually know ing a language. However, it’s often riddled with

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Like everything in politics, the fundamental question has deep historical roots. Should we subscribe to a Jeffersonian view of the world, and celebrate the small, independent artisan, or should we follow Alexander Hamilton, and throw our weight behind established industry? I say that we can do both. There is an unexplored romantic case for big business, and I hope con servatives, who are rightly intent on defending free markets, make it more passionately. Penn students, often tarnished with the pejorative “corporate sellout,” should wear the badge proudly.

KEYVAN FARMANFARMAIAN s a College senior studying history from London. His email is keyvanff@sas.upenn.edu.

errors, especially in lesser-studied languages; you can check this out for yourself. Additionally, while monolingualism does lessen the need for transla tion services, there are enough Americans who need them that the danger of excluding people who do not speak English is greater.

One approach to making the United States more multilingual is to make more Americans multilin gual through increasing multilingual education, but that’s only half of the story, given that the United States actually has a large Spanish-speaking popu lation. The other part is about activating the United States’ hidden multilingualism and preventing people from losing languages through ways like reducing biases against accents that indicate speak ing other languages.

To unlock this reserve, I’d suggest implementing a bonjour-hi, or rather hola-hi, policy in the United States. Although the Canadian version hasn’t sat isfied many Québécois nationalists, it logically still puts conversations in the language best suited to them. An additional benefit for Americans is that making it a norm, if done well, could prevent people from picking what language to use based on stereotypes.

However, the United States can still improve on bonjour-hi in a few ways — hola-hi (or hola-hello) if Spanish is preferred, hi-hola if English is preferred, and just hi for people like me who speak pretty much no Spanish yet. Furthermore, there’s no end to how many languages this system could support; I could greet my friend with “Hello-hallo-salvē” and he could respond with “Hello-hola-salvē” indicat ing a conversation that should probably happen in English, but could theoretically also take place in Latin.

However, language doesn’t change by sheer force of will. The U.S. government and other major institutions could begin to encourage the use of compound greeting, unlike their Québécois coun terparts. From here compound greetings would have a solid base to spread into universities like Penn and finally into everyday life, showcasing that the United States isn’t as Anglophone as it appears.

I’m hopeful that, in the future, fewer conver sations are going to begin with a simple “Hello.” “Hello.” But this will take work to undo the current dominance of English. When that happens, there’ll be a whole new world waiting out there, full of mul tilingualism for people who want to broaden their horizons beyond “hello.”

BENJAMIN McAVOY-BICKFORD is a College first year from Chapel Hill, NC. His email is bmcavoyb@sas.upenn.edu.

MCAVOY-BICKFORD’S MUSINGS | The United States considers itself an English-speaking nation, but this is not the full story

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teams changed. As kids, both broth ers played offense and defense. They also had to play linebacker because of their stature when on defense. But now, they have transitioned into new posi tions. Logan Nash is a cornerback, and Lawson Nash is a safety.

But why defense?

“It’s a lot more fun making the tack les rather than getting tackled,” Logan Nash said. “You have to be reactive and not proactive. The offense knows what they’re gonna do — the defense just has to react to it, and it’s just a different type of challenge.”

Additionally, while the twins were still only in middle school, there was a group that topped headlines nation wide for their defensive firepower: the Seattle Seahawks’ Legion of Boom.

The Legion of Boom is the nick name given to the Seattle Seahawks’ defensive squad of the early 2010s that helped bring the team to prominence — and to its first Super Bowl title ever. This defensive juggernaut was an inspi ration for a young Lawson Nash, who

had a burgeoning love for the defensive side of the ball. He looked up to them, especially players like Earl Thomas.

“[I liked] being able to watch how [Thomas] was able to be really suc cessful at a below-average size for the position he played in the NFL — just seeing the techniques he liked to use and the off-the-field work he did,” Lawson Nash said. “That sort of thing is what I like to model my game after.”

All that time spent watching the Legion of Boom on primetime televi sion paved the way for much success for him and his brother.

In 2018, four years after the Seattle Seahawks won their first Super Bowl, the St. Edward Eagles won the State 1 Division State Championship of Ohio with Logan and Lawson Nash helping contain their opponents Colerain High School to only 10 points. It was that same school year that they were offered to come play for Penn.

Coach Ray Priore and his recruiting staff were drawn to brothers immediately.

“When you play for good programs, it comes with a lot of things — great leadership, great ability. You played at the highest level, so you’ve played against the best football players per haps in the state, in the country,” Priore

said. “They have a tremendous amount of football skills, and they’re showing that on the field.”

But recruiting brothers — especially twins — is not as easy as some may assume it to be. There are many factors to consider.

“Not all brothers want to got to the same school. And you want to make sure you’re satisfying both players’ needs,” Priore said.

But Logan and Lawson Nash never intended to go their separate ways for college football. As per Logan Nash, they didn’t sit down and have a formal conversa tion about their plans for college ball. Rather, they both felt that it made the most sense for them to play for the same team.

A major benefit of coming to play for Penn meant getting through the highs and lows of college together.

“It helped having my brother, especially when we were fresh men and sophomores trying to acclimate ourselves to a new en vironment,” Logan Nash said. “I always say I have a built-in best friend because if I feel uncomfortable doing something, I always have someone with me by my side … I always have a piece of home with me.”

The two brothers admire each other. They’re each other’s best friend and big gest fan. And like most best friends, they see

positive qualities in their twin that they aspire to emulate and admire.

For Lawson Nash, he praises the con fidence that his brother radiates.

“He’s always confident about what he’s doing,” Lawson Nash said. “He’s not always the biggest or the fastest, but he gets the job done. When push comes to shove, he’ll be out there with the best of them.”

Meanwhile, Logan Nash — often de scribed by his peers as the the jokester of the two — says that his brother’s natural killer instinct is one of his most special qualities.

“A lot of the times I want to take that killer instinct that he has,” Logan Nash said. “He just kind of locks in when it’s time to lock in … and it’s not just in athletics, it’s also in academics. Seeing him staying up late at night studying for a test and getting a good grade inspires me to do better.”

Getting to share their football career with each other is something that both Logan and Lawson Nash hold dear to their hearts. From the Pop Warner Super Bowl to a high school state championship to a cur rently undefeated season with the Quakers, the Nash brothers have been through a lot together, and they’ll never want to downplay the impor tance of that.

“Even though I lose sight some times, I’m out here playing with my brother,” Lawson Nash said. “It comes full circle when you have a lot of success and you’re able to do it with someone you spend every day with and are going to love for the rest of your life.”

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Junior defensive back Logan Nash prepares to tackle a Lafayette wide receiver during the game at Franklin Field on Sept. 24.

Wharton

On Friday, the Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club and the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative held the annual Wharton Sports Business Summit, a conference where stu dents interested in sports business and analytics have the opportunity to learn from notable individ uals in the industry and network with Penn alumni in sports business.

The Summit was originally founded in 2017, and it was the first in-person iteration of the event since 2019 due to COVID-19. Planning for the Summit was an extensive process, according to College senior, WUSBC co-president, and chief organizer of the event, Sarah Abbe.

“We started to plan the Summit as soon as school began in August 2022, and finalized all of our outreach, logistics, finance, and marketing initia tives within the final week before the event,” she said. “Planning the Summit required tireless work and constant communication with WUSBC board members and WSABI.”

The event started off with a morning fireside chat with keynote speaker Marc Lasry, the CEO of the Avenue Capital Group and, most notably, the co-owner of the 2021 NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks. Lasry talked at great length about his jour ney growing up as a Moroccan immigrant, going through law school, and managing hedge funds prior to shifting the conversation to the Bucks. He bought the team at arguably its lowest point, when they finished 15-67 the previous season, a new sta dium was required, and threats of relocation were rampant.

Lasry oversaw the development of a new stateof-the-art arena, an increase in the team’s net worth, and the Bucks’ rise to NBA champion. He concluded his conversation with talk of how he was a proponent of analytics in sports, especially in basketball, and his experience of the 2021 playoff run. The event itself was moderated by WUSBC member and College sophomore Kate Solomon, which Abbe was thrilled about.

“Before this year, there had never been a cur rent undergraduate student participating in one of our summits,” she said. “It was extremely special to see one of our own club members facilitating such an important and incredible conversation … and I would definitely recommend [that] the club imple ment more students as moderators in the coming years.”

After Lasry’s conversation, attendees were able to go to different panels that included Penn alumni who are well-established in the industry and local

Philadelphia sports executives. Topics for the panels ranged from following in the footsteps of recent Penn alumni, to sports betting and analytics, to sports networking, to investment opportunities in sports.

Additionally, during the lunch break, attendees were able to sign up for coffee chats and network with many of the panelists from organizations such as IBM Sports and Entertainment, the MLB, and the Philadelphia Eagles. WUSBC considered numerous factors when choosing speakers and panelists and focused on the different aspects of sports business and the unique backgrounds of each speaker.

“As co-president, I took this opportunity to pri oritize the diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, and thought among our panelists,” Abbe said. “Those speaking on each panel brought a different back ground with unique stories to the table: something we found to be extremely valuable to maximizing the learning potential and overall success of the Summit.”

Notable panelists from Penn include Eric Babitz, the manager of baseball operations for the

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Milwaukee Brewers; former Quaker basketball player Matt MacDonald, the scouting operations coordinator for the Brooklyn Nets; and Kelly Schrader, who is an associate manager for the NBA’s Global Strategy & Innovation Department. All of them stressed the importance having a will ingness to learn on the job, and of networking and cold-emailing in order to break into the industry.

In addition, other notable panelists were Ani Kilambi, the assistant general manager for the Na tional League Championship-winning Philadelphia Phillies; Amanda Herald, the vice president of mar keting strategy, insights, and planning for the NFL; and Will Misselbrook, the chief creative officer for the Washington Commanders, who oversaw the team’s rebranding over the past three seasons.

The Summit was capped off by another fireside chat with keynote speaker and current Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris, which was moderated by Eric Bradlow, Wharton’s vice dean of analyt ics. The conversation was centered on Harris’ life before the NBA, what he learned during his career so far, and his plans during his post-career in busi ness and building his personal brand.

Harris talked about what he looked for in a busi ness before making an investment in it; touched on recent sports business topics such as college name, image, and likeness deals; and discussed how he is a big proponent of analytics in basketball. He closed his remarks by giving some encouragement to the attendees, to keep working hard on what they love to do, and to be proud of what they accom plished so far.

Overall, the conference was a major success, ac cording to Abbe, and she and the rest of WUSBC were thrilled with the interest they received in the Summit even after a three-year in-person absence. Many of the attendees came from outside of Penn as well.

“Attendance wound up being amazing,” Abbe said. “We sold over 275 tickets to the event, and our attendees came from a variety of universities and businesses.”

WUSBC and WSABI hope to continue their success from this year’s Summit into the future, and WUSBC will continue to host events with no table individuals in sports business throughout the year.

field and in the classroom. So as long as we exe cute and do our plans, we’re hopeful that we have a talented enough team to be successful.”

The Quakers played a particularly strong de fense against Yale on Saturday, as they have all season, allowing just 13 points. This year, they’ve yet to give up 20 or more points against an Ivy League opponent, and have also been con tributing some big plays of their own. Just before halftime against Yale, junior defensive lineman and reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Joey Slackman tipped a pass, and senior linebacker Jake Heimlicher came down with a key interception that set the offense up for a game-tying score.

On the offensive side of the ball, sophomore quarterback Aidan Sayin has continued to step up, throwing all 12 of the squad’s passing touch downs this season. Despite Sayin’s impactful performance, he attributes the Quakers’ recent success to a growing sense of confidence among his teammates — both on offense and defense.

“I think confidence as an offense has been growing every game,” Sayin said. “That’s really been a spark to what we need in our defense that has kept us in every game and allowed us to put them away when we needed to. It’s still our first year with our offensive coordinator. So just im proving every week fixing little details that we need to work on, that’s been our biggest improve ment so far.”

Sayin currently leads the Ivy League in passing touchdowns and is at the forefront of an offense that is currently ranked second in the Ivy League behind Princeton. He showed off his cool compo sure against Yale last week, standing tall in the pocket despite the rush, making accurate throws, and calmly taking what the defense gave him on each play as he led the Red and Blue down the field for the game-winning score. He also flashed his athleticism by hauling in a 26-yard reception from wide receiver Maurcus McDaniel on a trick play. It was against Brown last season when he had his breakout game, and he hopes to put up another strong performance against the Bears this weekend.

Sayin is well aware of Priore’s priorities of at tention to detail and going out and playing hard. Sayin said that his squad plans to play with the intensity and explosiveness they have every other

week, and that even though the season is half way over and they’ve been undefeated, he and his teammates are motivated to keep improving and keep winning.

“We’re excited about what we’ve done so far,

but we’re not satisfied,” Sayin said. “We’ve just got to keep going, keep it rolling, and keep get ting wins together.”

Kickoff is at 12:30 p.m., and the game is available to stream on ESPN+.

Harris and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry were the event’s keynote speakers

EASHWAR KANTEMNENI

Sports Editor

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Keynote speaker Marc Lasry hosts a morning fireside chat with moderator sophomore Kate Solomon during the annual Wharton Sports Business Summit in Huntsman Hall on Oct. 21.

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The Penn offense lines up against Yale during the Homecoming game at Franklin Field on Oct. 22.

You would never expect it, but Penn women’s cross country junior Maeve Stiles would not de scribe herself as “someone who knows a lot about running.” Yet this has not stopped her from ex celling as a runner, a leader, a teammate, and an involved Penn student.

This season, Stiles has notched some impressive success. In September, she placed 15th at the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh and led the Quakers in all of the races in which they competed with a 19:57 6k time. Additionally, on Oct. 15, she took 14th in the 5k race at the XC23 Invitational at Panorama Farms.

“It’s great I’m doing well, but honestly, I’m just very grateful to be in the position right now where I can run,” she said.

Before she began thriving for Penn, Stiles began running with one purpose: “to beat the

boys” at her elementary school fun runs. Then, as a multisport athlete through much of high school, running was never priority number one. She envi sioned herself playing tennis through college, but things took a turn when her times began to drop during senior year.

“I realized that running was something that I wanted to do at a pretty high level, but it helped me a lot doing other sports and not putting all of my worth in running as my only sport growing up,” Stiles said.

Two main aspects of college running stood out to her at the beginning of her career as a Quaker: changing the way she trains, especially emphasiz ing strength and cross training for a holistically athletic approach, and running with a devoted and invested team who “see running just as valuable and fun as [she does].”

“Maeve is one of those people who is more of a ‘go with the flow’ kind of athlete than we usually get here at Penn,” associate head coach Matt Gosse lin said. “She likes to control what she can control.”

Though she may not overthink her competi tors, Stiles is fierce on the track. In the 5k at the Ivy League Championship, the junior set a school

record in what was her first time ever running the event.

Even with her focus and drive as a runner, Gosselin describes Stiles as having a “goofy per sonality in the most loving way.” She serves roles including team jokester and the “glue person” of the Red and Blue, always able to make her team mates smile.

“She is a great runner, but she is so much more than a runner,” Gosselin said.

Stiles encountered some hurdles off the track in the process of getting to where she is now. After compet ing last indoor season with success, she took a step back to reassess her priorities for the outdoor season.

“I was kind of putting all my worth in being an athlete and I was suffering from some other mental and physical stuff, [so] I decided to take a step back from the outdoor season,” she said.

Last season, Stiles was confronted with challenges that were mentally and physically draining. Even during this time, though, she kept her teammates in high priority. She felt respon sible for being someone the team could look up to, which she couldn’t do without caring for her self first.

“It’s so common for people who do sports to have your identity wrapped up with just being your sport,” Stiles said.

She stepped back, focused on “running for the right reasons,” and made sure she could see herself as a “student and a person” beyond just a runner.

Off the course, Stiles leads an involved life within the Penn community. She is a biochemistry major thinking about taking on a second major, bi ology, with aspirations of a Ph.D., a career in a lab post-college, and an interest in the field of immu nology. After looking up to her mother who works in a lab, Stiles has always been fascinated with pro tein structure and disease development.

Stiles also serves as president of the Penn Wom en’s Athletic Association. She notes how in the sports world, men’s athletics receive much more attention and funding, so establishing a strong community in women’s athletics, especially among different teams, is important to her.

Stiles is working in mental health as well, and finding healthy balances and practices extends beyond her and her team. She is involved in Cog well, a mental health club prioritizing active listening among peers and directing students toward professional resources.

Stiles is also a part of Young Quakers Commu nity Athletics, which partners with Philadelphia schools and provides students with the opportunity to come practice with the Quaker athletes.

Finding an appropriate balance between all facets of her life, and then determining how run ning fits into the picture, has been a key piece of Stiles’ success thus far this season. Gosselin cred its this time off as a factor that led to much of her personal growth and something that helped her es tablish a sustainable balance — which he feels that she now has.

“I really do think that she’s in a good place — she’s very healthy and very happy,” Gosselin said.

When getting ready for races, Stiles has a myriad of rituals that she sticks to, including a “signature hairstyle” and a pre-race playlist.

“I visualize what I’m going to be thinking about … and try to remember that there’s going to be a lot of pain that I’m going to feel, and not to shy away from it but to embrace it,” Stiles said.

The Ivy League Heptagonal Championships will take place this upcoming Friday. Stiles aims to have her team win Heps to make it to regionals. Personally, she plans to “run [her] hardest to make it to regionals, and place there to be able to compete in nationals.”

“The biggest thing that I want to continue to see from her is growth,” Gosselin said. “With her talent and her work ethic, we can continue to have consis tent training ... and she’s going to be someone who I think will be nationally competitive.”

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Penn Challenge at Franklin Field

March 19.

Football heads to Brown chasing

SCHARFF Sports Reporter

Coming off of a nail-biter Homecoming win against Yale, undefeated Penn (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) is set to play Brown (2-4, 0-3) this Sat urday in Providence, R.I. This game is yet another test of consistency and execution for the Quakers, as they aim to maintain their best start to the season in 19 years.

Saturday’s contest will likely be decided in large part by Brown’s passing game and Penn’s defensive efforts to stop it, as both units rank highly in the Ivy League.

The Bears are led by junior quarterback Jake Willcox, who has thrown for 1,662 yards so far this season, the most in the con ference, with a 154.0 passing efficiency, the highest in the Ancient Eight.

Penn’s passing defense, meanwhile, ranks second-best in the Ivy League in yards allowed and first in defensive pass ing efficiency.

The Bears’ record currently stands at 2-4 and winless in the Ivy League through three contests, but those losses came in close calls. Brown lost by seven to Harvard, three to Cornell, and fell by 16 to Ivy powerhouse Princeton.

Even though Penn comes in with more success this season than Brown, coach Ray Priore emphasized that this upcom ing game is no free win.

“[In Brown’s games against Har vard and Princeton], they did a great job just really fighting to the end,” Priore said. “They got their guys play ing really, really hard, and there should be a heck of a contest. It’s all about [our] preparation … both on the football

From pee-wee to Penn, brothers Logan and Lawson Nash stick together

After over a decade sharing the defensive backfield, the Nash twins work as one

They’ve always said that football is a team sport. But for Logan and Lawson Nash, it’s also a family sport. From pee-wee, to St. Edward High School in Cleveland, and now to Penn, these twins have played alongside each other for almost all of their lives.

With the Quakers, the Nash brothers — both juniors — have seen consider able action, playing in each game so far this season. Combined, they’ve man aged 26 tackles through the first six contests, with Logan Nash even snag ging a key interception during Penn’s home bout with Lafayette.

But it all started when they were 5 years old, and the Nashes drove by a football field every day on their way to elementary school. Curious by what they would see on the gridiron, they approached their mother if they could try football. She agreed, and soon after, Logan and Lawson Nash were playing tackle football.

By the sixth grade, they were playing for the Pop Warner National Champi onships.

After countless games and plays, their Pop Warner team won their city and regional championship. They went down to Florida to compete for the na tional championship — the Pop Warner Super Bowl — and while they lost in the finals, according to Lawson, it was still one of the most formative experi ences they had in their football career.

Pop Warner was just the start of the Nash brothers’ careers: They continued to play football, but as their careers went on, their places on the football

Ben squared: The men’s soccer duo adapting to specialized roles

ANTONIO MELONI Staff Writer

With three more games left to play in the season, the Penn men’s soccer team (10-1-2, 4-0 Ivy) looks to con tinue its strong form with the hopes of securing its first top finish in the Ivy League since 2013. Vital to the Quakers’ recent success has been their collective ability to transition from de fense to attack and their strong team chemistry.

On an individual level, many of Penn’s players have embraced their unique roles on the field and grown into specialized positions. The fluid brand of possession-based soccer that Penn has been display ing demands movement, positional awareness, and versatility among each Quaker player.

Senior attacking midfielder Ben Stitz has been one of the squad’s big gest attacking threats and has racked up nine goals and four assists so far this season. When watching Stitz play, it’s easy to see him linking up with sophomore striker Stas Korzeniowski high up the pitch when the Quakers are in possession. Although he is tasked with many offensive responsibilities, Stitz is officially listed as a midfielder and can be seen playing deeper in the center of the field at various moments in games.

“Last year I played more as an at tacking midfielder,” Stitz said. “This year, I have occasionally played in that role, but I’ve also played as the nine [center forward] near the opposition goal. I play in between the striker and the central midfielders and this gives me the freedom to roam around a lot, as long as I take care of my defensive responsibilities.”

Stitz brings creativity to Penn’s attack, scoring goals and creating chances with precise passes. In addi tion to his abilities on the ball in open play, Stitz has been an adept set-piece

specialist and is often tasked with taking a majority of the team’s free kicks.

“Throughout my playing career, I’ve had a lot of experience taking set pieces,” Stitz said. “You need to be a good striker of the ball and have good consistency about how you hit it. I think I’ve developed these skills a lot during my time at Penn because the coaching staff has put a lot of empha sis on practicing these scenarios.

“Being able to deliver the ball into tight spaces around the opposition’s goal takes a lot of practice and looks different depending on the different plays that we try and execute.”

Members of the Quakers’ defen sive unit have also matured into their specific positions this season. Soph omore starting left-back Ben Do did not always play a defensive position throughout his soccer career.

“I actually played as an attack ing winger up until my junior year of high school, before transitioning to an outside back,” Do said. “I came to Penn as a defender, but I still had to adapt to this role throughout my fresh man season. The college game is all about defending, and defenders are

consistently tested in difficult situa tions. I gained a lot of valuable insight from other players in the program who helped me make this transition.”

Do plays a specialized version of the left-back position, using his pace to cover vertical areas of the field. Other interpretations of the modern full back involve defenders who function as extra midfielders to aid their team’s offensive build-up play. Instead, Do calls on his familiarity with playing in external spaces to contribute to Penn’s attack.

“I think if you had asked me a few years ago whether I enjoyed offensive or defensive phases of play more, I would’ve definitely preferred getting assists and contributing to goals,” Do said. “I’ve recently taken a lot more pride in my defending. A big tackle or block feels just as important as putting a goal in the back of the net.”

With a crucial away match against Harvard on the horizon, Stitz, Do, and the rest of the Quakers will be called on yet again to bring home a critical result that would bring Penn one step closer to topping the Ivy League.

KRISTEL RAMBAUD Sports Reporter

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Junior defensive backs Logan Nash and Lawson Nash hug after the football team’s win against Dartmouth at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 30.

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Graduate student Ben Stitz looks to pass the ball down the field during the game vs. Rider at Rhodes Field on Sept. 2.

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Sophomore defender Ben Do dribbles the ball around a Drexel player during the away game at Vidas Field on Oct. 18.