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14% of Princeton’s class of 2020 are legacies

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ess than a week after the Trump administration announced that it plans to investigate claims of affirmative action discriminating against Asian-American applicants, a former Princeton University admissions officer called attention to another form of “affirmative action” — legacy ad-

missions. Legacy admissions refer to the preference that universities give to students who are related to alumni of the institution. In a letter to the editor published by The New York Times, the Princeton officer, who signed his letter as T.H. Rawls, called legacy admis-

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college students. Penn’s Admissions Office did not respond to requests for comment. Penn’s definition of a legacy applicant is broader than that of most other universities. SEE LEGACY PAGE 2

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Penn’s reported incidents of cheating have risen since 2013

‘Disorientation Guide’ after NSO 7.3%circulates are black The creator calls it a resource for students

The rise may be due to the use of Turnitin

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ing orientation last week, but a new, student-produced guide surfaced Monday. Called the “Disorientation Guide *The S**t Penn Won’t Say,” the booklet is an expansive critique of Penn’s administration and school culture. It contains articles by 15 Penn students on various issues including racism and sexual assault on campus, as well as challenges faced by first-generation, low-income students at Penn. “Congrats, you’ve made it to the top university in the world!!” writes the opening sentence in the guide. “There are a few things we forgot to mention in your glossy orientation packets. Like our larger white capitalist imperialist values that are central to the core of our money sucking busine — err higher-education institution.” University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy did not respond to a request for comment. College senior Miru Osuga was one of the students behind the guide. She came up with the idea after hearing about similar guides being made at

The amount of reported cases of plagiarism and cheating has risen remarkably at Penn in recent years, according to information released Tuesday by the Office of Student Conduct. In the 2016-17 academic year, the most recent date for which complete information is available, OSC investigated 60 cases of cheating, a 161 percent increase from 23 cases in the 2013-14 year. The report tells a similar story for cases of plagiarism. The office went from investigating 56 cases in the 2013-2014 year to 122 in 2015-2016, a 118 percent jump. Not all of these cases result in actual conduct violations — there has only been a 13 percent increase in total academic integrity violations from 2015-2016 to 2016-2017. However, the substantial rise in investigations parallels a crackdown in higher education on sharing information in computer science courses. As an entire category, academic integrity violations have been on a continual rise since 2012-13. The total amount of incidents, which is less than the total amount of case investigations, jumped up 11.45 percent from 2015-2016.

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sions “affirmative action for whites.” At Penn, legacies make up 16 percent of the undergraduate student body — a greater proportion than first-generation students at 12 percent and black students at 7.3 percent. It also exceeds the 15 percent of students who receive Pell Grants, a federal grant for

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During New Student Orientation, the “Disorientation Guide” surfaced, touching on Penn’s troubling history of racism and fraternity culture.

Wesleyan University and Cornell University. “There were all these guides that covered a huge amount of topics that I wish I had access to when I was a freshman,” Osuga said. “And I thought that if I had seen this information when I had come in, and just really know what was going on at Penn, there would be so many other students who would want access to this information as well.” The introduction of the guide says that it’s a “resource for people fighting injustice and a documentation of Penn’s blunders and resulting campus activism.” The first piece in the guide,

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titled “History and Tradition: Penn’s Legacy of Racism,” discusses the experiences of the first black students to attend the University. Author of the article and College senior Kellie Ramdeen said she felt compelled to write the section because she wasn’t aware of these issues until she attended an African American Arts Alliance presentation. “I thought about how I had no clue about any of it until that presentation because Penn is so proud of its diversity,” Ramdeen said. The guide also includes a SEE GUIDE 3

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OSC Director Julie Nettleton wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian that some of the increase in the number of plagiarism and cheating cases can be attributed to the more widespread adoption of Turnitin, which detects plagiarism in essays, and programs to detect matching code in computer science classes. She also pointed to “relationship building” between OSC and students, faculty and staff over the past three years, adding that OSC “widely encourage[s] faculty members to consult with [OSC] when issues arise.” When the DP previously re-

ported on an increase in yearto-year academic misconduct cases, Nettleton previously said OSC deals with most academic misconduct by imposing sanctions, which usually involve writing an essay. Over the last four years, the amount of punitive essay requirements has risen from 53 to 134, a 153 percent jump. Reports of unauthorized collaboration, a category within OSC’s report that presumably would cover cases of academic dishonesty in a computer science course, actually decreased from 2015-2016 to 2016-2017, from 105 to 95 SEE CHEATING PAGE 3

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Trump’s immigration plan may hurt economy

Penn researchers predict RAISE Act will backfire RAHUL CHOPRA Staff Reporter

A nonpartisan modeling tool designed by Penn researchers shows that the Trump administration’s proposal to drastically lower legal immigration will negatively affect the United States economy. Introduced by Republican Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) earlier this year, the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act proposes reducing the number of legal immigrants each year by 50 percent, while increasing the portion of highly skilled and educated immigrants to 75 percent. In early August, the White House announced that it would back the proposal. The Penn Wharton Budget Model, which is an interactive and nonpartisan tool that analyzes public policy proposals, has released their analysis of the RAISE Act. It is online and available to the public.

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At Penn, applicants whose parents or grandparents graduated from any affiliated school, even graduate programs are considered legacy applicants. At most other universities, undergraduate admissions offices limit their definitions of legacy applicants to those whose parents attended the university’s undergraduate program, said Co-Founder and Director of One-Stop College Counseling Laurie Kopp Weingarten, a 1986 Wharton graduate. While the legacy admission

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The Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan tool created to analyze policy proposals, shows that the Trump administration’s Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act will hurt the economy.

Kimberly Burham, the PWBM’s managing director of legislation and special projects, said the model shows that the RAISE Act will have a negative economic impact.

“We show that if you lower the number of legal immigrants, that has an expected negative impact on jobs, since it’s less people in the country. Even if you increase

the amount of skilled immigrants, you will still have lower GDP, and a lower GDP per capita,” she said. “All of those things can lead to less growth in the long run, shrink-

remains prevalent at Penn, college admissions experts disagree on the merits of this process. Brian Taylor, the managing director of the college counseling service Ivy Coach, opposes the practice. On Aug. 18, Ivy Coach posted an article on their website calling for an end to legacy admissions, claiming that the policy unfairly benefits wealthy, white applicants. Taylor rejected the focus of the Justice Department’s affirmative action investigation and said legacy admissions, rather than affirmative action, plays the bigger role in Asian-American discrimi-

nation in college admissions. In contrast, Weingarten, whose daughter is a current student at Penn, said legacy status doesn’t provide as much of an advantage as people think. Research into admissions seems to contradict this. A 2013 study from Harvard University found that legacy students have an approximately 23 percent advantage when it comes to getting admitted to highly selective colleges. If the student is related to a parent who attended the university as an undergraduate — also known as a “primary legacy” — they have a 45.1 percent advantage. Earlier this year in May, The Washington Post also reported that the University of Virginia annually compiles a “watch list” of the children of wealthy donors applying for admission.

Weingarten said as long as legacy applicants are qualified, there is a benefit to accepting legacies. “Considering legacy status helps build a sense of community,” Weingarten said. “Alumni are so excited to see their children or grandchildren attend. Sometimes they are more willing to donate time, to donate resources to the University and their attachment just grows exponentially.” Inside Higher Ed reported last week that while legacy applicants are admitted at higher rates than those in the general applicant pool, the majority of legacy applicants ended up meeting or exceeding the academic profile of their intended schools. “I don’t believe that the legacies who have been admitted didn’t deserve to get there,” Weingarten said. “I have seen lega-

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ing the size of the pie for everyone.” Its analysis found that between the years 2018 and 2040, average annual GDP growth would be 1.7 percent per year under current policies and 1.6 percent if the RAISE Act were passed. These figures may seem similar, but Burham explained that small differences are very significant for large economic figures like GDP. Proponents of the RAISE Act claim that reducing the supply of labor will increase wages for American laborers. But Burham said in actuality, the RAISE Act would only change the average hourly wage from $42.02 to $42.12. “It’s [a] very small increase and it doesn’t induce a lot more people to participate in the labor force,” she said. PWBM analysis also found that the RAISE Act could have severe consequences for the federal budget, since it would increase the old-age dependency ratio, which refers to the proportion of those not in the workforce and those in the labor force. By cutting down on the number of legal immigrants,

the government would also be cutting down on the number of overall workers in the US. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, PWBM Faculty Director and Wharton professor Kent Smetters said reducing the number of immigrants would make it harder for the government to pay for expensive entitlement programs. “As younger members of the workforce, immigrants help pay for Social Security and Medicare for the elderly. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — are going to absorb the entire federal budget at some point,” he said. “They’re on an exploding path.” Sociology professor Amada Armenta said that the RAISE Act would directly impact Penn students since it would sharply cut family-based immigration. “The RAISE Act would eliminate many paths for people who want to come and join their families,” she said, adding that if implemented, the RAISE Act would reverse decades of immigration reform.

cies apply who did not deserve to get in, and they were not accepted to Penn.” Admissions experts also disagree on why universities like Penn continue to accept a large percentage of legacy applicants. Weingarten said the University hopes to increase campus involvement from both incoming students and alumni, but Taylor said the University is primarily motivated by donations. “It’s the same reason why a real estate broker is more incentivized to sell you a high-priced apartment,” Taylor said. “They

get more on the deal. Legacy admissions gets them more money.” Taylor added that accepting the children of wealthy donors is potentially a violation of United States tax law. “When you donate clothing to Goodwill, you don’t receive an ownership stake in a professional sports team,” Taylor said. “When people donate to universities like Penn, they’re not supposed to get anything in return. And yet, their children are getting preferential treatment in admissions.” “Their files are literally being flagged,” he added.

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Penn’s National Lawyers Guild condemns Amy Wax Wax wrote that “not all cultures are created equal” OLIVIA SYLVESTER Senior Reporter

Penn Law Professor Amy Wax has fielded widespread criticism in the past two weeks for publishing an op-ed suggesting that ”not all cultures are created equal." Now, a group of Penn Law students are questioning whether Wax should be allowed to continue teaching a first-year class at Penn. Wax’s piece, entitled “Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture” expresses nostalgia for the cultural values of 1950s America and condemns attitudes like “the anti ‘acting white’ rap culture of inner-city blacks.” Penn Law School’s Chapter

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section written by members of Students for Justice in Palestine, which includes information about initiatives that they have organized on campus like the Apartheid Wall and the Gaza memorial. These were organized “as a visual reminder reminder of the ruthlessness of occupation and war,” the guide states. “SJP’s goal has always been to expose the human rights issues in Palestine, and for us it is a human rights issue,” Osuga said. “Just like brutality and violence against people’s bodies and that space — I think that piece speaks for itself in terms of what injustice they’re trying to expose.” Penn Hillel did not respond to a request for comment on this article. Not all students are fans of the guide. “The guide deals with some issues, but the trouble is they mix the real issues with what

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Penn Law School’s National Lawyers Guild chapter called Wax’s views “an explicit and implicit endorsement of white supremacy.”

of the National Lawyers Guild released a statement last week describing Wax’s views as “an explicit and implicit endorsement of white supremacy.”

They added that it may not be appropriate for Wax to continue teaching a required, firstyear course on civil procedure and called on the Penn Law

I regard as left-wing, politicized fanaticism,” said Michael Moroz, the co-director of the College Republicans’ editorial board and a College and Wharton sophomore. “It accuses this University of being a white supremacist organization that excludes any other people from participating, which of course, we know is not true,” Moroz added. “The University of Pennsylvania, as an institution, is not systematically and routinely discriminating against people of other races, and in fact, it’s proactively trying to include more of them in the student body.” But Moroz also said the guide raised important points such as class issues as well as the University’s troubled history with mental health. “One of few things I agreed with was [the guide’s] discussion about class issues at Penn,” he said. “My parents were born out of the country. I’m on financial aid, so I do recognize... there is a challenge in kind of, existing in a social sphere where many people

are much wealthier than you are — I certainly understand that.” The disorientation guide was also meant to show that student activism was vibrant on Penn’s campus, Osuga said. In a piece entitled “Stop Killing Ethnic Studies!!,” an anonymous author discusses Penn students’ protests to increase support for the Asian American Studies Program. The department has historically been underfunded, and last semester, students rallied for increased legitimacy for the program on College Green. College sophomore Jessica Li said she read the guide after seeing several students share the link to it on Facebook. “From reading the introduction, I was like ‘wow, this is exactly what we need,’” Li said. “Because I think it says a lot of issues that the Penn administration would never, ever say, and we have a history of covering up issues that need to be talked about.” Senior News Editor Rebecca Tan contributed reporting.

administration to take into account student opinions about Wax’s statements. “While we do not challenge Professor Wax’s right to express her views, we question whether it is appropriate for her to continue to teach a required first-year course,” Penn NLG’s said. “The Penn Law administration has long been aware that her bigoted views inevitably seep into her words and actions in the classroom and in private conversations with students.” Wax declined to comment on the group’s statement. Last week, Penn Law Dean Theodore Ruger ran an oped stating that “every faculty member and student [in Penn Law] has the right to voice an opinion and to speak for herself or himself.” Penn NLG described this response as “tepid” and unsurprising given Penn

Law’s “implicit mission” to train “the wealthy and powerful.” Co-chair of Penn NLG and Penn Law student Matthew Feldman said in an email that the University needs to address its affiliation with Wax given her endorsement of white supremacy and segregation as well as “her lack of academic rigor, intellectual dishonesty, and failure to support her opin-

ions with evidence.” “Students have complained for years that her ill-informed, bigoted opinions poison the classroom atmosphere,” Feldman wrote. “Penn Law administrators have some serious thinking to do about whether requiring a third of its incoming students to take her class every year is in the best interests of the school and its students.”

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case investigations. Separately, Penn logged 180 student conduct violations during the 2016-17 year, an 11.33 percent drop from 2015-2016. The category of student conduct violations, which includes stalking, sexual violence and vandalism, totaled a recent high of 308 yearly violations in the 2010-2011 academic year. That number has dropped since then, despite a 44 percent increase in cumulative violations from 20112012 to 2015-2016. This is the second straight year OSC has released its annual report in the fall. After failing to publish the report on an annual basis for four years, OSC released a backlog of reports in January 2015. Assignments Editor Ally Johnson contributed reporting to this article.

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Brian Akins, West Chester, PA Michael J. Auble, Egg Harbor Township, NJ Harris Avgousti, Kennett Square, PA Sanaea Bhagwagar, North Haven, CT Vikas Bommineni, Orlando, FL Kaitlyn Boyle, Cherry Hill, NJ Christina Cardenas, Bartlett, IL Juliana Tsz Yan Choi, Hong Kong Youvin Chung, Barrington, RI Dylan Cook, Freehold, NJ Sophia Dai, Canton, MI Karen Dong, Solon, OH Richard Li Duan, Carmichael, CA Benjamin Dubiner, Westwood, MA Alec Duquette, Pittsburgh, PA Evelyn Fabian, West Haven, CT Wanqi Fang, Paris, France Jay Fein, Media, PA Christopher Florez, Ardsley, NY Benjamin Geist, Buffalo, NY Erika Gustafson, Prescott, AZ Connor Hardy, Baltimore, MD Kenny Tran Hoang, Cary, NC Jonathan S. Hsieh, Potomac, MD Andrew C. Hu, Taipei, Taiwan Jeffrey Zhang Jiang, Salinas, CA Dana Jones, Hinton, VA Il Chan Sam Kim, Philadelphia, PA John V. Koga, Naples, FL Adam Konkol, Keyport, NJ

Uma Krishnan, North Potomac, MD Andrew P. Lam, Wappingers Falls, NY Jonathan Lee, Auckland, New Zealand Mingyu Kenneth Li, Guangzhou, China Vida Lugo, Lauderhill, FL Trent A. McHenry, Shawnee, KS Samira, Mehta, Southlake, TX Pallavi Menon, Bangalore, India Gid Merz, Lansing, MI Isabella Pabon, Elizabeth, NJ Raveena Patel, Sanford, FL Imañia Powers, Washington, DC Jacob S. Quon, Seattle, WA Siraj A. Qureshi, Sugar Land, TX Sarah Root, Wynnewood, PA Kelly Sakaguchi, Carlsbad, CA Alexander P. Seidel, Phoenixville, PA Yun Ji Seo, Gangnamgu, Korea Kuvam Shahane, Rochester Hills, MI Sumant Shringari, Parkland, FL Vraj Shroff, Skokie, IL Tiffany Tsang, Cupertino, CA Claire Van Duyne, Wallingford, PA Nathaniel S. Watkins, Doylestown, PA William M. Watkins, Doylestown, PA Olivia C. Wedig, Bridgeton, MO Yarden Wiesenfeld, Scarsdale, NY Alexandru Zanca, Ploiesti, Romania Susan Zare, Abedieh, Lebanon Celia Zhang, Powell, OH

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The art of existing as a minority CAL’S CORNER | How to tackle discrimination without letting it consume you

THURSDAY AUGUST 31, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 66 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor

On a brisk Friday night, Aryn Frazier, who is studying politics and AfricanAmerican and African studies at the University of Virginia, found himself locked in a church full of people in the midst of the Charlottesville riots. Upon his arrival to Emancipation Park, he was “talked at by a man wearing a red shirt,” who told him “Africa was for the black man and America was for the white man.” According to his account, that same man “told a white woman, who was holding a sign promoting peace, that she was a race traitor, and despite her wide hips, he’d be willing to show her what a real man was all about. He spouted racist theories about the testosterone levels of black women and the difference in brain sizes between the races.” Despite the chemical attacks from white supremacists throughout the night, perhaps one of the scariest moments for Aryn was that the man truly believed what he was saying.

Aryn’s story isn’t just limited to UVA. As we’ve seen, colleges from Auburn University to Texas A&M University have invited and therefore, empowered divisive figures such as Richard Spencer, an openly white nationalist leader who took the initiative to organize the Charlottesville rally himself. And while it may be shocking to some, such experiences are not new to college students across America and therefore students at Penn. With destructive intentions, racism in higher education was and is designed to stagnate the intellectual growth of black students. And as students with so much untouched growth, we need to remember to not let the fight against that stagnation hinder us from our growth and and reaching who we want to be. Because after all, the act of existing in the midst of something or someone that doesn’t want you to is groundbreaking. We see this in the spirit of Sadie Tanner Mossell

Alexander, who managed to become the first black woman to graduate from Penn Law School. She was able to practice law in Philadelphia despite being segregated and excluded from every restaurant near Penn by their owners and white clubs on campus by Dean Edward Mikell. We heard this at the

incident in which black students united and managed to go to class in the midst of threats of lynching. But with white supremacist flyers on campus, “preachers” that infect our campus with views that disagree with the existence of so many and a professor in the Law School who be-

… the act of existing in the midst of something or someone that doesn’t want you to is groundbreaking.” Convocation ceremony of the Class of 2021 just a few days ago, in which Claire Lomax, a member of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, reaffirmed Penn’s diversity through her own campus experience and the bomb threats received by Du Bois College House in 1993. We even saw this last year during the GroupMe

lieves that all cultures are not created equal and that “the anti ‘acting white’ rap culture of inner-city blacks” is “not suited for 21st century culture,” how do we manage being both activists and students while taking care of ourselves? About a week ago, Michelle Houston, associate director of Makuu, shared

a quote with me from Toni Morrison to live by. It’s simple. “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.” I cannot find this to be anything short of true. Instead of being able to focus in class, you’re stuck thinking about how your professor believes AngloSaxon culture is superior to others in 2017, and whether or not that will affect your grades. Someone in your study group reiterates a sexist stereotype about women, and you find yourself trying to prove it wrong despite having a midterm to study for. Instead of doing your homework, you can find yourself explaining, over and over again, your right to exist freely to that one racist friend you have on Facebook. And just a little too late, I’ve realized that not a piece of this is necessary, because you will never be able to satisfy those who do not believe in you. Simply existing as a minority at an Ivy League institution such as Penn is a

CALVARY ROGERS revolutionary act in itself. Take pride in that and celebrate it. Caring for yourself and reaching the person you are destined to be in spite of bigotry are just as important as tackling the injustice you may face in your day-to-day life. So, as a student activist, be able to operate among that line without letting discrimination define your experience at Penn — because after all, we are here to be students first. CALVARY ROGERS is a College junior from Rochester, N.Y., studying political science. His email address is calvary@sas. upenn.edu. “Cal’s Corner” usually appears ever y Wednesday.

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In my family, following our dreams isn’t just a cliched motto. It’s a religious truth, a way of life. My father was an immigrant who came to this country with a few dollars in his pocket and a dream of a better life. He worked from the ground up to put himself through college and became an accountant in Los Angeles. The second he discovered that being an accountant made him unhappy, he quit his job, moved across the country to Georgia and opened a car repair shop. To this day, it still stands as the friendly neighborhood reminder to the city of Hephzibah that cars don’t last forever. And my father still stands as my hope that dreams come true. My mother, on the other hand, was a dancer when she was young. She was accepted to one of China’s sole dancing academies, only to be turned away when they discovered my grandfather wasn’t Communist. My mother, after being unable to find more work as a dancer, married my father, moved to America and lived

a fairly content life raising my siblings and me. Still, in my proudest moments when I have crawled a little closer to my dream, her joy is often tinged with envy, as she tells me she never did and never will have the chances that I have. My dream has always been writing. I was a meek high school junior dealing with a lot of frustration and anger until the day my English teacher told me I should publish a personal narrative. The reception to the piece hooked me onto writing and made me realize that stories can form mutual understanding between the most different of people. I’ve been pursuing it ever since. Yet as the rejection letters to my writing applications rolled in this summer, I began to question the validity of all my parents’ lessons. Maybe at one point, following our dreams was a possibility. In this day and age, when everyone is trying to follow their dreams, often some variation of the same one, there is no room for an individual to feasi-

bly make their dream reality. And I began to wonder at what point I should give up trying to write and start looking for a “real job” — maybe as a teacher — to which my doom so inevitably called. There seemed to me to be two extreme perspectives

too familiar with the concept of selling out. We all know that Whartonite — that “snake,” as we fondly call them — who could have been a million other things, but chose to do something they didn’t enjoy for the money. At Penn, we are all multi-something. Many of

… I wanted to know, definitively, where the line between practicality and selling out lay. How difficult must circumstances become before giving up is no longer an evil, but wisdom itself?” on the matter. One could consider those who surrendered their dreams pragmatists, forced to let go out of necessity. On the other hand, one could also call them mercenary, selling out when the going became a little too hard. Here at Penn, we’re all

us consider ourselves artists, musicians, inventors, who just have to go into finance or accounting because we don’t believe we can support ourselves being creative. With all this conflicting information, I wanted to know, definitively, where

the line between practicality and selling out lay. How difficult must circumstances become before giving up is no longer an evil, but wisdom itself? I asked everyone I knew for their thoughts. The answers varied enough to make my head spin. The single conclusion I could come to, as much of a copout answer as it may seem, is that only we can decide these things for ourselves. Where the line lies between practicality and selling out is different for each person. It is a question of personal identity. We have to agree with ourselves what sacrifices we can make without compromising who we are. We have to balance between what we need to survive and what we want to achieve. It is a lesson in navigation that comes with growing up and maturing. For me, I will feel purposeless and empty unless I can share stories with the world. It doesn’t always make me feel happy, but it makes me feel less alone. I feel like I’m doing

AMY CHAN something to create a better world, and, moreover, to be a part of it. I must always be writing, whether it’s short stories or sales ads. I owe it to myself and my mother, who pushes for me every day to be the woman she could not be. And even if I am just Gatsby staring at the green light at the end of the pier, reaching out for something I can never grasp, I am satisfied. Because at least in reaching for that green light, I never betrayed my ideals of who I am or how I should be. AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas.upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Penn Atma Atma is UPenn’s award-winning all-female South Asian fusion a cappella group, most noted for bringing together a wide variety of genres to create a deep and unique sound. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 01 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 01 Counterparts Counterparts is Penn’s oldest co-ed a cappella group. Founded in 1981, Counterparts has a repertoire including standards such as “At Last,” hits like Radiohead’s “Creep,” and alumnus John Legend’s “Slow Dance.” Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 02 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 02 Disney A Cappella Disney is Penn’s co-ed, community service interest, a cappella group that specializes in Disney music. Along with semesterly shows, they perform at neighborhood hospital, schools, and service events and fundraisers. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 204 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 204 Full Measure We seek to worshipfully compel others to know Jesus Christ more through music and our lives. We’re excited to have freshmen join our FMily and share our purpose! Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 3-10PM; Williams Hall 219 Monday, 9/4: 5-10PM; Williams Hall 219 Off the Beat Penn’s modern rock & pop a cappella group that has been featured on 16 Best of College A Cappella albums and on POP TV’s aca-docu television series, Sing it On! Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 06 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 06

Pennchants A veritable all-male sonic avalanche, The Pennchants have drawn praise from audiences all across the country for their inventive arrangements, inspired choreography, and alarmingly rugged good looks performing your favorites. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 04 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 04 Penn Masala Penn Masala is the world’s ﬁrst and Penn’s own all-male South Asian a cappella group. We combine Western and Indian music to create innovative arrangements that we’ve performed around the globe, from London to Dubai. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 25 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 25 Pennsylvania Six-5000 Guys who like singing and long walks on the beach... We cover your favorite hits and sing our own original parodies. Sketch comedy and videos included at no extra charge. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 4-10PM; Williams Hall 29 Monday, 9/4: 4-10PM; Williams Hall 29 Penny Loafers Penny Loafers has been Penn’s premier co-ed indie and pop a cappella group since 1986. When we’re not loaﬁng around, we arrange and perform songs from a variety of artists from Bon Iver to Chance the Rapper. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 28 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 28 PennSori PennSori is an a cappella group that serves to connect Korean and American cultures. We mix Korean and American songs to create a product that is unique, cross-cultural, and fun. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 24 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 24 PennYo PennYo, Penn’s premier Chinese a cappella group founded in 2002, focuses on mashing up Chinese and English songs. We held tours in USA and Asia, and released 4 studio albums. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 27 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 27 Quaker Notes Quaker Notes is Penn’s premier all-female a cappella group! We sing a variety of contemporary genres without limiting ourselves to a particular style, and we create all of our own arrangements. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 03 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 03 Shabbatones The Shabbatones are Penn’s premier Jewish a Cappella group. We specialize in popular American, Israeli, and Jewish music and are looking forward to our Miami tour in January! Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-9PM; Williams Hall 23 Monday, 9/4: 2-9PM; Williams Hall 23 The Inspiration The Inspiration is a co-ed a cappella singing group dedicated to entertaining and educating its audiences through performance of music of the African diaspora. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 05 Monday, 9/4: 2-10PM; Williams Hall 05

DAC (Dance Arts Council) African Rhythms Drum and Dance Troupe African Rhythms is a traditional African drum and dance troupe that seeks to educate Penn, the surrounding communities, and ourselves about the culture of Africans, through dance, percussion, and workshops. Auditions: Tuesday, 9/5: 9-10:30PM; Platt 180 Wednesday, 9/6: 8-10PM; Platt 175 Arts House Dance Company Arts House Dance Company is a student-run dance company that performs contemporary, jazz, ballet, tap and hip-hop. We’re dedicated to presenting the highest level of performance and technique. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 8-11PM; Platt 175 Tuesday, 9/5: 9PM-12AM; Platt 175

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Your Guide to Freshman Performing Arts Night

Dhamaka Penn Dhamaka is the university’s ﬁrst and only all-male dance troupe. Dhamaka combines Western and South Asian dance styles, aspiring to present a fresh, unique, and innovative fusion of cultures. Auditions: Saturday, 9/2: 11AM-2PM; Em Sachs Sunday, 9/3: 11AM-2PM; Em Sachs Onda Latina Through performance, Onda Latina’s goal is to entertain and to educate both the troupe’s members and the community about the beauty and origins of Latin-American and Caribbean dance. Auditions: Thursday, 9/7: 5-10PM; Platt 175 Pan-Asian Dance Troupe Pan-Asian Dance Troupe seeks to celebrate and educate the community on Asian culture through traditional, modern, and fusion dances; and to establish an organization where people can express themselves through dance. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 3-5PM; Platt 175 Tuesday, 9/5: 6-8PM; Em Sachs PENNaach PENNaach, founded in 1997, is Penn’s premiere South Asian Dance Troupe and the ﬁrst in the nation of its kind. Our dance styles include Bharatnatyam, Kathak, Garba, Bhangra, Bollywood and Hip-Hop. Auditions: Saturday, 9/2: 10AM-1PM; Platt 180 Monday, 9/4: 6-9PM; Em Sachs Penn Dance Company Penn Dance Company is Penn’s premiere modern dance group. The oldest dance group on campus, Penn Dance stands out as the only company with a professional artistic director. Auditions: Monday, 9/4: 6-8PM; Platt 175 Tuesday, 9/5: 10PM-12AM; Em Sachs Soundworks Tap Factory Founded in 2001, Soundworks Tap Factory is University of Pennsylvania’s one and only strictly tap dancing group. We are a completely student-choreographed team that produces shows throughout the year. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 5-8PM; Platt 175 Wednesday, 9/6: 5-8PM; Platt 175 Sparks Dance Company Penn’s premiere dance company dedicated to both performing and community service, SDC maintains a high technical level of many styles of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, modern, and contemporary. Auditions: Saturday, 9/2: 10AM-12:30PM; Platt 175 Monday, 9/4: 12:30-3PM; Platt 175 Strictly Funk Strictly Funk is a diverse company that focuses on hip hop and contemporary styles, with members from Penn’s undergraduate and graduate schools and the greater Philadelphia community. Auditions: Monday, 9/4: 8PM-12AM; Platt 175 and Platt 180 West Philly Swingers Penn’s premier swing dance troupe! From Lindy Hop to West Coast Swing, social & performance: WPS keeps Philly swingin’ Auditions: Monday, 9/4: 1-5PM; Em Sachs Yalla Yalla is the University of Pennsylvania’s premier belly dance and drum troupe. Auditions: Monday, 9/4: 4-6PM; Platt 175

SMAC (Singers, Musicians, and Comedians) Bloomers Comedy Bloomers is the nation’s first all-woman sketch/musical comedy troupe! The group consists of band, business, cast, costumes, tech, and writing sections. Check out our website (bloomerscomedy.com) for more info! Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 5-9PM; Platt 180 Monday, 9/4: 4-8PM; Platt 180 The Excelano Project The Excelano Project is Penn’s first and premier spoken word poetry group. This group is about finding voice and finding family through the power of words. Auditions: Tuesday, 9/5: 6-8PM; Kelly Writer’s House Penn Glee Club Founded in 1862, the Penn Glee Club is one of the oldest performing arts groups in the country. The PGC is comprised of three sections: Singers, Band, and Tech Staff. Auditions: Saturday, 9/2: 1-6PM; Platt Performing Arts House Sunday, 9/3: 12-8PM; Platt Performing Arts House The Mask and Wig Club Founded in 1889, Mask and Wig is the nation’s oldest all-male collegiate musical comedy troupe, annually presenting two productions and an international Tour while maintaining a historic Clubhouse. Auditions: Monday, 9/4: 3PM; Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall New Spirit of Penn Gospel Choir NSP seeks to spread the Word of God through song and help be a catalyst for spiritual change for those affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and in surrounding communities. No auditions! First Rehearsal: Wednesday, 9/6: 8-10PM; ARCH 208 Open Rehearsals: Mondays and Wednesdays, 8-10PM in ARCH 208 Penn Band Penn’s most active, most attractive, most reactive performing arts group. We play at athletic, scholastic, and community events. Football! Basketball! Disney World! Flexible commitment! No auditions! All instrumentalists welcome. www.pennband.net/join First Rehearsal: Wednesday, 8/30: 5:30PM; Platt 182 Open Rehearsals: Mondays, 6PM in Platt 182; Wednesdays, 8:30PM in Platt 182

Contact with questions: ack.chair@gmail.com (A Capella) tace.chair@gmail.com (Theater) dacchair@gmail.com (Dance) smac.chair@gmail.com (Singers, Musicians, Comedy)

Penn Dure Penn Dure is Penn’s only Korean traditional drumming group. In addition to various on-campus performances, we carry out community services and performances for diverse communities around the Philadelphia region. Open Rehearsal: Tuesday, 9/12: 7-9PM; Platt 177 Penn Jazz Want to play jazz but can’t decide between all the different student-run big bands at Penn? Oh wait, there’s only one. Penn Jazz -- for Penn, for jazz, for you. Audtions: Sunday, 9/3: 8PM-12AM; Platt 177 Monday, 9/4: 8PM-12AM; Platt 177 Tuesday, 9/5: 8PM-12AM; Platt 177 Wednesday, 9/6: 8PM-12AM; Platt 176 Thursday, 9/7: 8PM-12AM; Platt 177 Sunday, 9/10: 9PM-12AM; Platt 177 Penn Sargam We bring together music ranging from South Asian and Western Classical to Bollywood, Pop, and Rock. Sargam features a variety of talented vocalists and instrumentalists from all over the world! Auditions: Saturday, 9/9: 6-9PM; Williams Hall 812 Sunday, 9/10: 3-6PM; Williams Hall 812 Penn Singers Light Opera Company Penn Singers is a fun-loving and tight-knit theatre company with performers and tech members, producing a Broadwaystyle musical every fall and a G&S light opera in the spring. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 4-9PM; Platt Performing Arts House Monday, 9/4: 2-6PM; Platt Performing Arts House Penn Sirens Penn Sirens is Penn’s premiere all-women’s vocal ensemble performing all types of genres. Each semester we put on a musical-style show, incorporating acting and dancing into our music. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 11AM-5PM; Platt Performing Arts House Monday, 9/4: 6-11PM; Platt Performing Arts House Simply Chaos Simply Chaos is Penn’s ﬁrst and only stand-up comedy collective. We perform at events around Philadelphia, sponsored campus events, and produce our own show every semester. Auditions: Saturday, 9/9: 1-5PM; Platt 177 Sunday, 9/10: 1-5PM; Platt 177 Without a Net Without a Net is Penn’s only improv comedy troupe, performing large-scale shows semesterly and small shows at philanthropic events. We’re dedicated to bringing a unique form of comedy to campus. Auditions: Tuesday, 9/5: 4-7PM; Platt 179 Wednesday, 9/6: 4-7PM; Platt 179

TAC-e (Theater Arts Council) African American Arts Alliance The African American Arts Alliance (4A) is the premiere student theater company on campus that produces shows written and/or performed by people of the African diaspora. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 215 Monday, 9/4: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 215 Front Row Theatre Company Front Row performs four shows a year and focuses on social relevance and community service. See our ﬁrst show of the year, the musical [title of show], this weekend in Harrison College House, free to new students! Audtions: Sunday, 9/3: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 214 Monday, 9/4: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 214 iNtuitons Experimental Theatre Founded in 1980, iNtuitons is the University of Pennsylvania’s one and only experimental theatre group. We will alternate you. Audtions: Sunday, 9/3: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 218 Monday, 9/4: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 218 PenNaatak PenNaatak is dedicated to promoting awareness of current global issues. We perform theatrical pieces of all works and genres from around the world. Audtions: Sunday, 9/3: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 216 Monday, 9/4: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 216 Penn Players The Pennsylvania Players is Penn’s oldest and only professionally directed theatre group. Auditions: Sunday, 9/3: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 203 Monday, 9/4: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 203 Quadramics Quadramics Theatre Co. consists of self-proclaimed theatre nerds who love to put on shows while having as much fun as possible. Remember...if it’s not Quadramics, it might be porn. Audtions: Sunday, 9/3: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 201 Monday, 9/4: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 201 Stimulus Children’s Theatre Stim is theater BY a bunch of big children, FOR a bunch of little children (and big, we don’t judge). Stim prides itself on community service, family, and fun. Audtions: Sunday, 9/3: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 220 Monday, 9/4: 7-11PM; Williams Hall 220 Penn Techies We represent tech members of the PAC Community. We spend time in various areas of tech such as costume, lighting, sound, makeup, set, stage management, etc. Becoming a member of our community affords you opportunities to work on many shows at once, and we love to teach, so no experience necessary! You’ll ﬁnd us in a lot of the Theatre Arts Council (TACe) productions as well as several of the Singers, Musicians, and Comedians (SMAC) groups, and every now and then, we’ll work with A Cappella Council (ACK) and Dance Arts Council (DAC) groups too! Reach out to smac.chair@gmail.com and tace.chair@gmail.com for more information.

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Students brought aid to Nicaragua this summer

Global Medical Brigades organized the weeklong trip GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

While many Penn students choose to spend their summers pursuing internships in big cities, 11 nursing, pre-med and pre-dental students opted to spend part of their summer break in Nicaragua setting up clinics and providing health care to rural communities. For a week in May, members of UPenn Global Medical Brigades took patients’ vital signs, filled out prescriptions, shadowed physicians and recorded patient histories for the people of La Estrella, a rural community in Nicaragua. They also helped dig trenches and set up a water pipeline for a nearby community called El Hatillo. Over the course of the trip, which was coordinated through

the non-profit Global Brigades, the volunteers provided treatment to 1500 patients. College senior Mnali Patel said the most memorable part of the trip was the “charla,” which translates to “chat.” In this activity, students used song, dance and interactive games to teach children basic dental hygiene. Patel, who is a pre-dental student, recalls a four-year-old girl who brushed her teeth for almost ten minutes after learning how to brush them properly. “[She would] run to me, grab my leg and want more toothpaste,” Patel said. “It became like a little game for her. She was laughing and having so much fun.” Though all the volunteers learned “medical Spanish” in order to interact with patients, the students already fluent in Spanish could provide additional support

for members of the community. College sophomore Tanya Jain said knowing Spanish helped her when patients wanted somebody to talk to about their physical and mental wellbeing. “When you would ask patients what their problems were,” Jain said, “they would give you [a list] of all the things they’d experienced for months without medical care.” These medical problems ranged from common ailments such as high blood pressure and ulcers to those caused by poor water quality, such as intestinal problems and diarrhea. Many remained untreated until these free medical clinics arrived because there were no hospitals in the area. Jain said she was initially skeptical of the trip because organizations like Global Brigades often focus on providing intermittent care rather than working with lo-

cal governments to create a sustainable healthcare system. Jain said she raised these concerns during the trip and learned that Global Brigades seeks to pursue a more community-based approach to healthcare by engaging local, Nicaraguan doctors. “A lot of other brigades will come in and just bring in supplies,” Jain said. “But we had doctors from the community come in who knew the system.” College junior Michelle Yang said she appreciated the chance to learn from and build a relationship with one of these Nicaraguan doctors. The doctor told Yang that she was persistent in getting into English language classes because she knew they would help in her medical career. Yang also said the trip helped her rekindle her passion for medicine, which she said is sometimes difficult to keep in mind amid all

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tunnel,” Yang said. “Seeing people who don’t have access to these necessities get them through us was really fulfilling.”

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Meet Lorene Cary, Penn The LGBT Center has alumna and author named a new director She founded Art Sanctuary for black authors in Phila. MANLU LIU Staff Reporter

As a schoolgirl in West Philadelphia, Penn Lecturer in Creative Writing Lorene Cary never thought she would be honored by the city for her work. But on Aug. 22, in what is just the latest in a string of commendations, Cary was chosen as one of the seven people to serve as Resident Artists for the American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development program. Cary came to Penn as a freshman in 1974. She spent the next four years earning both her bachelor’s and her master’s degrees in English, all while working between 20 and 40 hours a week and writing for The Daily Pennsylvanian after being recruited during the paper’s push to recruit more black reporters. Despite feeling overworked, Cary led a successful career at Penn. She won the prestigious Thouron Award her senior year, which allowed her to study abroad at Sussex University in England. There, she studied Victorian literature and religion. She also met a group of black graduate students from Africa who introduced her to their discussion of their respective countries and political movements of the time. “When I was in England, I went from a minority to a person of color in the world,” she said. “That was enormously liberating.” After receiving a second master’s degree, Cary served as an intern for Time magazine and an editor for TV Guide. In 1995, hoping to take on a more stable job, she began teaching English in the College. Aaron Levy, Senior Lecturer

in English and the History of Art departments, said Cary is unique as a teacher because of how she connects her lessons to the larger Philadelphia community. College junior Madeleine Schirber, who took Cary’s Advanced Writing for Children course last spring said she is “super charismatic.” Cary has also received institutional recognition for her teaching abilities. During her time at Penn, she has won the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing and Affiliated Faculty twice, first in 1998, then in 2017. Cary published her first book in 1991, and her publications have continued to receive widespread praise. In 2003, her novel “Price of a Child” was chosen as the inaugural book for the One Book, One Philadelphia reading project. “I have found her to be an extraordinarily gifted writer,” former colleague and Professor Emeritus of English Peter Conn said. “[She] combines a novelist’s imagination and immense intellectual curiosity with a passionate commitment to getting things right – to telling the truth about herself, about American society, about the past of America as so far she can reconstruct.” On top of being a writer and educator, Cary is also a passionate activist. In 1998, she founded Art Sanctuary, an organization based in North Philadelphia that connects black authors, historians, musicians, filmmakers, photographers and dancers in a celebration of black art. Inspired by her national book tours, she said that she wanted “to bring this intellectual and artistic conversation to the hood in [her] own city.” Although Cary stepped down as the organization’s director in 2012, “the entire spirit of the organization continues to work

Erin Cross has been at Penn for 20 years DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor

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Lorene Cary is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Penn.

as she started [it],” Valerie Gay, Director of Art Sanctuary, said. Cary also founded the website “Safe Kids Stories” in 2015 after serving as the chair of the Safety Committee of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission. The website aims to promote peaceful stories for young people “in opposition to the conventional journalistic fascination with violence and loss of safety,” said Conn, who also worked on the project. In 2003, she was awarded the Philadelphia Award “for her leadership in the Arts communities of Philadelphia,” according to the award’s website. When presenting Cary her award for teaching excellence this spring, former Provost Vincent Price included commentary from one of her students: “She is a brilliant human being. I am honored to know her. When I think about someone who has truly changed my life, I think of her.”

Erin Cross, a senior associate director at the LGBT Center with close to 20 years of experience at Penn, will be the center’s next director, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum announced Tuesday. Founded in 1982 as one of the first places of its kind on a college campus, the LGBT Center has grown from a small office tucked away in the student activities office into one of the largest centers for LGBT students in the country, equipped with a team of fulltime staff, work-study students and affiliated groups. Longtime director Bob Schoenberg who was hired as the Center’s first staffer in the 1980s, announced his retirement last spring. “I am thrilled to continue my career as director of the LGBT Center, my professional home,” Cross said in a statement. “Advising students, advocating for meaningful change, and building bridges across the Penn community have been, and will continue to be, my highest priorities. The LGBT Center is a welcoming space, a safe space, and an enduring space for all who enter.” As senior associate director, Cross was responsible for the day-to-day center operations, training and staff oversight, in addition to serving as an advisor for other university offices and academic departments. “I do consulting with faculty who want to be more open and accepting of LGBTQ students or include related [content] in their syllabi,” she said in an interview with Penn Current.

“For mainly transgender-identified students but others as well, if they are having issues with faculty or staff and don’t feel comfortable addressing it themselves, I tend to be the one who takes that on and works with that.” Cross has a degree in political science from the College of Wooster and a master’s degree in political science from Penn State. In 2010, she earned a Ph.D. from Penn’s Graduate School of Education. She has taught in the Graduate School of Education and the School of Social Policy &

Practice, in addition to serving as an advisor to the Office of the Sexual Violence Investigator, a pre-major advisor in the College of Arts and Sciences and a house fellow in Stouffer College House. “I look forward to seeing Erin take on more leadership within a Center she helped build,” Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Hikaru Kozuma said. “I am truly excited to work her and continue the work to support the LGBT community at Penn.” Cross is set to begin her new job on Sept. 13.

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He was a legend. Longtime coach of Villanova menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball Rollie Massimino passed away this week after a long battle with lung cancer. Massimino, best known for taking a No. 8 seed Villanova team to the 1985 NCAA Championship and beating Patrick Ewingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Georgetown Hoyas, won over 800 games in his career. And while the 82-year-old spent much of his career at Villanova, he was no stranger to Penn. The season before he took the helm with the Wildcats, Massimino was actually an assistant coach for the Quakers. Likewise, the Palestra was Massiminoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home. Back in the 1980s, during his heyday, Villanova played its home games in the Cathedral of Basketball on 33rd street. The roiling, rowdy coach attracted crowds from all over Philadelphia to see him â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including current Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball coach Steve Donahue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember coming here as a kid to watch Patrick Ewing versus Ed Pinckney at the Palestra,â&#x20AC;? Donahue said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coach Massimino

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was probably the show of them all. I think he was the first coach that everyone started focusing on, just his sideline antics, showing his passion all the time out there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought the world of him,â&#x20AC;? Donahue continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know him very well [at the time], he was an inspiration to all young coaches growing up. The way he coached, the family atmosphere that he created â&#x20AC;Ś it inspired me to be a coach.â&#x20AC;? By the time Donahue had risen up the ranks to an assistant coaching position, Massimino was still dominating the Big 5 with Villanova. Donahue even got the chance to coach against him for Penn between 1990 and 1992. The two teams split their two meetings in that time. Massimino then left Villanova to coach at UNLV. But Donahue and Massimino met one last time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just last year, in April 2016. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coach Mass,â&#x20AC;? as Donahue and many others called him, was honored at the 13th annual Coaches vs. Cancer Basket Ball event, a fundraiser for cancer research. An exhibition game featured Donahue and Massimino, and Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coach fondly looked back on one memory from the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jackson Donahue hit like five threes in the first half. And he was throwing the ball inbounds next

to coach Mass â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jackson told me this story, since I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but he kind of punched Jackson in the arm, and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey! Hey!! What the hell are you doing??â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jackson was stunned by coach Mass, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just who he was.â&#x20AC;? Donahueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Quakers won the exhibition match â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at least in part thanks to Jackson Donahueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three-pointers. But that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep coach Donahue from praising Massiminoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coaching qualities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was great to see Rollie back at the Palestra. To be honest, he was the same old Rollie â&#x20AC;&#x201D; very fiery, into the game, all the things I saw growing up watching him coach, which was incredible. It just shows you his love and passion for the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I got to know him later on a personal basis,â&#x20AC;? Donahue continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got to see thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who he is. He basically loves basketball, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell you where he stands, he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold back, and he did that up until he was coaching last year, when we were fortunate enough to coach [against] him.â&#x20AC;? He loved basketball. That was one of Massiminoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last exclamations, one he was heard shouting to old Big 5 coaches at the exhibition game last year: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love these guys!â&#x20AC;?

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Penn cross country has never been more successful than it was in 2016. But while the team has entirely new leaders this season, the mindset remains the same: the Quakers are the team to beat in the Ivy League. Last fall, the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country team, led by then-seniors Nick Tuck and Brendan Shearn, broke a 43 year-long drought for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even close. The gap between the Quakers and Princeton, the runners-up, was a decisive 13 points, as five of the top 12 finishers donned the red and the blue. The problem for the 2017 team is that three of those five received their diplomas this past May. Coach Dolan acknowledged the challenges that the team would face this year, but remained optimistic about the younger members of the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a different teamâ&#x20AC;Ś there will definitely be new people that are going to have to lead the charge. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always exciting to have new people join the team,â&#x20AC;? he said. After years of languishing toward the bottom half of the Ivy League, the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country made a serious breakthrough in 2016. The now-graduated trio of Clarissa Whiting, her twin sister Cleo Whiting and Ashley Montgomery propelled the team to levels of success seldom reached in program history. The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third-place finish at Heps was the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best performance since 2006, and, perhaps more remarkably, the team made its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Championship, placing twenty-fourthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;highest among the Ivy League schools participating, thanks in large part to Montgomeryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eighthplace finish. Obviously, graduating is a natural part of the life of a college sports team, which is why senior captain Abby Hong is excited rather than anxious

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about the new look of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a big loss for usâ&#x20AC;Ś but I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all excited coming into this season with a different face in the front of the team,â&#x20AC;? said Hong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a much more collective effort this year. Instead of relying on a couple of people who can finish out in frontâ&#x20AC;Ś weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to focus on having the whole team come together.â&#x20AC;? Integrating the new faces is crucial to both teamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; potential success this year, and because of a team trip to the Poconos before NSO, the groups have already started creating chemistry. Hong recalled that the runs would â&#x20AC;&#x153;fly by so much fasterâ&#x20AC;? when surrounded by her teammates. The new faces are not just limited to the athletes. Chelsea France will take on an assistant coaching role after a highly successful stint as an assistant at George Washington University, where she helped lead the team to three Atlantic 10 conference championships.

The first test that the men and women face this fall is this Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rider Invitational in Pennington, NJ. And after both teams got off to near-identical starts last season, winning their first two meets, and placing in the top-five in the third, the early momentum that these results created greatly contributed to the success the teams would find later in the season. Hong described the early, more local meets as being instrumental in building confidence for the more consequential meets in the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latter days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The Rider Invitational] is a good place for everyone to get their feet wet â&#x20AC;Ś itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance for the team to practice running together, get comfortable racing with a whole bunch of teammates around, and get that momentum going forward,â&#x20AC;? she said. So while Penn cross country might not have all of the same key runners as last year, this weekend could be the start of another successful season.

ally well, but we were just a little shady in the final third...we could have been sharper in the final third, but we scored a couple of good goals.â&#x20AC;? The promising start indicated that maybe the team wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the departed first-team All-Ivy striker Alec Neumann, who graduated in the spring. Along with the also-graduated midfield anchor and vocal leader Matt Poplawski, Penn lost a couple of key pieces that will need to be replaced. The two departed starters are more than counterbalanced, however, by the improvement of the returning core of the team, and a giant freshman class of 11, which will add depth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and potentially more â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to the mix. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to give our older guys credit,â&#x20AC;? Fuller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked really hard to set an example, explain the standards and expectations, and the freshmen have come in humble and hun-

gry. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve hit the ground running, and they fit in seamlessly with the group.â&#x20AC;? Playing Monmouth and Bowling Green wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a new experience just for the rookies of the roster â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Quakers have faced neither side in the past four years. And though they may be unfamiliar opponents, Wancowicz says he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really worrying about them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re two good opponents, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more focusing on ourselves this week. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just gonna work hard, and if we do what we need to do, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna get the job done and get two results.â&#x20AC;? In 2016, Penn needed until its fifth game to record a win. And the year before that, the team needed until its seventh. While the Quakers will likely look for quality play more than just a win, they can rest assured that this year brings more promise for it than any other in recent memory.

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Now with a couple of weeks of practice under its belt, the team will kick off its season on Friday night with a trip to Monmouth in New Jersey, before they come home to open things up at Rhodes Field on Sunday against Bowling Green. If last season was a step forward for the Quakers, 2017 looks to feature lunges forward on their part. Besides the playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; physical improvements, Fuller cited intangibles, such as chemistry, as one of the biggest differences from 2016â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team. A 2-0 exhibition win over West Chester last week already showcased their potential for the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We controlled the momentum of the game and dominated from the get-go,â&#x20AC;? senior captain Sam Wancowicz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We worked the ball around re-

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The offseason has come to an end and Penn volleyball is preparing to take on Campbell, Central Michigan and George Mason this weekend in Virginia. The Quakers are feeling very confident going into the weekend under new coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley. The team is scheduled to play many competitive teams this season, but the players believe the coaching staff has done well to make them feel prepared and cohesive. “I think we worked a lot harder this preseason than we had in the past. There was just a new mentality and a new standard that our coach set for us, and everyone really rose to the occasion in preparing themselves over the summer,” junior outside hitter Courtney Quinn said. “The freshmen were a big part of that too, coming in and already being close to, if not at,

the level [the rest of us] were on having been here already.” “We can tell [SchumacherCawley] is putting in a lot of work for us and it is really encouraging us to give it back on and off the court,” senior outside hitter Kendall Covington said. It’s certainly a good thing that spirits are high from the start, because the players made it clear that synergy and morale are a huge priority for this year’s squad. “Developing a team culture on the court is one of the big goals we have this season,” Covington said. “We want to work on our chemistry on the court and on the bench and just having an overall positive attitude,” senior Sydney Morton added. In these early matchups, the Red and Blue will, of course, be looking for three wins against Campbell (1-0), Central Michigan (3-1) and George Mason (13). But perhaps equally important is the opportunity for the team to organize itself when it comes to the logistics of mak-

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII NO. 66

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Women’s soccer heads west to find winning ways After two losses, but good showings, the Quakers fly out to California for a win

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After suffering two shutout losses to start the season, Penn women’s soccer is hoping that flipping coasts will mean flipping game outcomes. The Red and Blue (0-2) will head to Southern California for a pair of non-conference games this weekend, as the Quakers will take on UC Irvine (1-1-1) on Friday before facing UC Riverside (1-2-1) Sunday night. “Taking the trip is huge,” Penn coach Nicole Van Dyke said. “There’s so much to be said for travelling — making it a business trip that you learn from.” “If you have great team chemistry, it will translate to the field,” junior forward Sasha Stephens added. “They go hand in hand.” Stephens, like a whopping 13 members of the team’s roster, calls California home. Thus, the trip will present the team’s West Coast natives a rare chance to play in front of friends and family. “My parents can now easily come see me play a game,” Stephens said. “There’s a lot of good soccer out in California.” The game also provides a crucial chance to show off the Red and Blue to the next batch of possible California-bred Quakers. “It’s an amazing opportunity for recruiting, getting the Penn brand in California,” Van Dyke said, noting that six other Ivy teams are making similar trips this fall. “We wanna do it every year, is possible.” The Red and Blue have yet to score a goal in 2017, having dropped a pair of 1-0 decisions to La Salle and Lehigh. The team’s slow scoring start is largely attributable to the youth of the squad — three freshmen (as well as a pair of new transfers) started the season opener. The Ivy League also starts its season significantly later than mostother Division 1 programs — many of whom played their season openers as early as Aug. 18, a setback which Van Dyke admits exacerbates the growing pains of having a such a young roster. “Game fitness — you can’t replicate that in training. It doesn’t matter how much you run during the summer. The only way to get game-fit is to play games.” As the team’s leading returning goalscorer, Stephens finds herself as a veteran leader in her penultimate college year, though she doesn’t see her tutelage as a one way street. “They’ve helped me more than I helped them, almost. They’ve created a nice competitive atmosphere for everyone,” Stephens said. “We really push us to be better, and we push them to be better. And while the trip will bring plenty of off-the-field

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This time, they’re ready. Out of all the seasons in Penn men’s soccer coach Rudy Fuller’s recent memory, no squad has arrived at preseason training in such good shape as this year’s. It’s no surprise why — everyone was playing this summer. From sophomore winger Dami Omitaomu scoring for and assisting Nashville SC in the South all the way up to junior fullback Erumuse Momoh protecting the goal for Seacoast United in New Hampshire, the players

got real experience this summer. “It was a really good summer for us,” Fuller remarked. “It was the first time I think I can remember where everybody was placed with a team, getting good minutes, good experience and staying sharp over the summer … from a fitness perspective, and from a sharpness perspective, we were in a really good place on day one.”

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Tough opponents await field hockey in opening game Quakers to face off with Rutgers, No. 1 UNC YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

When the top-ranked team in the country is just a few days away on your schedule, one can imagine that it would be a bit difficult to focus your attention on another opponent. But that’s exactly what Penn field hockey is doing as they prepare for a busy opening weekend of regular season play. On Sunday, the Quakers (00) will host top-ranked North Carolina, but just two days before that they will play at home against Rutgers. While the Tar Heels (1-1) clearly present a more challenging matchup, the Red and Blue are resolved to approach both games with the same preparation and mentality. “In terms of us approaching every single game, we watch film on them, we look at how they play, and we prepare for

that. But in terms of knowing, you know how good their skill is, we just make sure we’re well-prepared to face them,” senior captain and forward/midfielder Rachel Huang said. “And playing against UNC, playing against Rutgers or any of the other teams, we go in with the same mentality.” And beating Rutgers (2-0) will certainly require Penn’s best effort. Though the Scarlet Knights don’t field the same talent that the Tar Heels do, the talent they do present is nothing to scoff at. Last season, the Rutgers finished with a very respectable record of 9-9. That record included victories over Cornell and Saint Joseph’s — two teams that Penn also beat last year, but only by a combined three goals. The match might hold some extra meaning for Huang, as she grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey, which is only a few miles away from Rutgers’ campus in New Brunswick. Getting a win over her hometown team

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Senior captain and forward/midfielder Rachel Huang and her teammates have to hit the ground running this weekend, as they take on top-ranked North Carolina in just their second game of the year.

would definitely be a great start to Huang’s final season in the Red and Blue. As much as a win over Rut-

gers would mean to Huang and the Quakers, there’s no denying how big a statement victory over North Carolina would

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make. Having making it all the way to the NCAA Championship last season, there’s a reason the Tar Heels are ranked at the

top. North Carolina’s defense shut out seven of its regular season opponents last year, and the offense was equally impressive, scoring five or more goals in seven games. One of those games in which North Carolina scored more than five goals was actually against Penn, when the Tar Heels triumphed with a 6-2 result. While Penn was competitive that game, the team will need to do a lot more to get revenge. Luckily for the Quakers, they have several key experienced players to lead the charge. Starring for the Red and Blue are first-team All-Ivy senior forward Alexa Hoover and junior forward Sofia Palacios, who scored both of Penn’s goals last year against North Carolina. Of course, Penn also has Huang, who is hungry as ever to start the season strong. “We’re thinking that we want to come out on top and win, no matter the skill,” Huang said. “We’re going to put forth our best effort.”