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Inside a Penn office in turmoil Office of College House Computing lost seven of nine staffers since 2012 DAN SPINELLI City News Editor

They work in every college house, installing and fixing equipment, troubleshooting over 3,000 student help requests a year and assisting house staff. They are responsible for overseeing the close to 120 student Information Technology Advisors in total across Penn’s 12 college houses.

And, say multiple members of Penn’s nine-person Office of College House Computing (CHC), they are members of an office divided against itself, rotting with continual staff turnover, a hostile work environment and widespread resentment toward the Penn administrators charged with managing them.

In interviews with four former CHC employees and two student ITAs — most of whom asked for their real name not to be used out of fear of retaliation from their bosses — the picture of a small office on the precipice of boiling over comes into focus.

The tension inside the office finally exploded on April 10 when Lewis, a 15-year veteran of the office, sent a scathing email to Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein, who oversees college house staff. (Lewis let The Daily Pennsylvanian

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Budweiser's Made in America dominated Labor Day weekend in Philadelphia. The two-day music festival, curated by hip-hop and business mogul Jay Z, sprawled five stages across the Ben Franklin Parkway and showcased a mix of hip hop, rock, R&B, pop and EDM from roughly 70 artists. For its fifth year, the festival brought Rihanna and Coldplay on as headliners and also featured performances from Chance the Rapper, 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled, Bryson Tiller, SZA, Martin Garrix, Jamie xx, FKA twigs, Travi$ Scott, A$AP Ferg, Lil Uzi Vert, Desiigner and DJ Mustard. Various celebrities were in attendance, including Bill Clinton and members of the 76ers basketball team, as well as Sasha and Malia Obama, Carmelo Anthony, and Jay Z and Beyoncé.

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Penn adjusts to fall on-campus recruiting The change follows a policy shift by major companies

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On-campus recruitment for next summer’s internships and post-graduate positions have been moved to the fall semester for the first time.

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Following a shift in hiring policies led by major Wall Street banking firms, on-campus recruiting for next summer’s internships has been moved to the fall semester — for the first time in Penn’s history.

While tech companies have long done their on-campus recruiting for internships in the fall semester, recruitment for summer internships for other sectors will now take place in the fall. The change reflects a trend that has been occurring on

college campuses for the last several years.

“We were one of the last,” Career Services Director Patricia Rose said.

“It was really just the Ivy [League] schools with a handful of other exceptions who restricted internship recruiting to the spring.”

But holding recruiting in the spring had its advantages as well.

“Frankly, I think our preference would be to keep it in the spring,” said Barbara Hewitt , the Senior Associate Director at Career Services. Hewitt works primarily with students at the Wharton School. “I think students have had a little more chance to have another semester here, maybe explore more, but we SEE OCR PAGE 3

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Phila. mayor blasts Trump during visit to city

Trump spoke about crime in Philadelphia M. EARL SMITH Staff Reporter

In a presidential election stop on Friday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lamented the current conditions of Philadelphia and promised to bring about change in the city that houses his alumni, the University of Pennsylvania.

Trump, a 1968 Wharton graduate, spent the last two years of his college experience in the city.

“The guns on the street, they have to take them away from criminals, they know who they are. You have criminals who are carrying guns and beyond guns…they’re carrying bombs,” Trump said after a private meeting on North Broad Street with

black community leaders, according to NBC10.

He later reiterated his claims in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“I know the city so well, because I went to college here, but it’s very sad to see what’s going on inside Philadelphia,” he said.

“It’s gotten so much worse than when I was going. It’s dangerous; the crime numbers are up.

Your mayor is doing a terrible job.”

Trump said crime has risen sharply in Philadelphia, but statistics suggest the exact opposite. The number of murders in the city, which approached nearly 500 in 1968, have fallen to 246 by 2013, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.

Violent crime, which includes homicide, rape and aggravated assault is at its lowest rate since 1985.

Trump has trailed Clinton by wide margins among black voters in every recent poll.

“While pushing a hateful, divisive and dangerous agenda, his photo-op in Philadelphia today is nothing more than an offensive gimmick,” Clinton Pennsylvania State Director Corey Dukes said in a statement.

Trump spared his most vicious attacks for Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney, telling the assembled crowd, “Your mayor has done a terrible job. I don’t, the mayor, know not much about him. But the mayor of Philadelphia has done one terrible job.”

Kenney did not mince words in his response to Trump.

“Several words come to mind after reading the candidate’s comments, but perhaps ‘nincompoop’ is the most family-friendly,” Kenney said. “‘Terrible job’? Coming from

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Donald Trump, I’ll wear that as a badge of honor.”

He continued, “Honestly, I’m more concerned not about what Donald Trump says, but about what Philadelphians say. And

I’m sure they don’t appreciate a candidate who has barely set foot in this city, who clearly fails to grasp the root causes of poverty, parachuting in and declaring that he understands their

lives.”

A recent YouGov poll, released on Sept. 4, shows Clinton with an eight-point-lead and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson polling 6 percent of the vote.

Phila. school lead test not up to highest safety standard, prof. says

The School District will test 40 schools CHARLOTTE LARACY Deputy News Editor

Philadelphia schools will soon have their drinking water tested for lead, but one Penn professor does not think the test standards will be sufficient for student safety.

P h i l a d e l p h i a’s Wa t e r Department follows the Environmental Protection Agency’s testing guidelines, which sets an “action level” of 15 parts per billion, the amount of lead in drinking water that requires attention and then action by the city and the Water Department.

But some experts have argued that this is not the threshold for public health, meaning that a reading below that number doesn’t mean the water is safe to drink.

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences lecturer Richard Pepino, who also teaches the Academically Based Community Service course “Urban Environments: Speaking about Lead in West Philadelphia,” said he does not think 15ppb is a healthy or appropriate benchmark for lead levels.

“I applaud the city for their efforts in retesting the schools, however, I do not agree with the technology-based standard. I prefer the health-based standard of 0ppb,” Pepino said.

Councilwoman Helen Gym, a 1993 College graduate, has been advocating for yearly monitoring and testing on the city’s water system to ensure safety in the district’s schools.

The Philadelphia School District said it will be retesting 40 schools across the city.

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One Penn professor says 15 parts per billion is not the appropriate or healthy benchmark for the amount of lead in drinking water.

based on neighborhoods where children’s blood levels have tested high for lead, where students attend class in old buildings or ones that haven’t been renovated

for more than 20 years.

“What came out of our work around lead poisoning in the spring was the importance of our water department to expand

testing so we have a better sense of what the variations in our water are, what the needs are and what our capacity is when we encounter problems,” Gym said. “We are really pushing for expanded testing.”

The lead service lines can expose children to the dangerous hard metal. It is estimated that 20 percent or more of human exposure to lead may come from the lead service line that holds our drinking water, according to a fact sheet released by the New Jersey state government.

In June, the American Academy of Pediatrics called for stricter federal standards of one part per billion in school water fountains.

Children are particularly vulnerable to lead exposure, causing large and permanent health effects, including the development of the brain and

nervous system. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no safe blood level in children has been identified. In adults, low-levels of 10 micrograms per deciliter can cause high blood pressure and kidney problems.

In 2000, a similar situation occurred where 20 percent of Philadelphia schools had unsafe water in water outlets so the district decided to shut off 594 drinking faucets. The councilwoman said that they do not plan to shut down water structures.

“I hope we start to establish a set of standards and procedures that keep us vigilant and attentive to infrastructure needs and safety concerns so they don’t slide,” Gym said. “I also think we need to think about what our long-term solution[s] are going to be. We don’t have that right now, we are not really sure.”

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58,000 sq. ft. Pennovation Center set to open The new center will open on Oct. 28 RAY POMPONIO Staff Reporter

Whether members of the Penn community are looking for research labs, affordable coworking space or drone-testing facilities, they can find these resources and more at the new Pennovation Center.

Here’s everything you need to know to interact with the center: Where is it?

The Pennovation Center is a 58,000 square foot business

incubator and laboratory located on Grays Ferry Avenue by the Schuylkill River.

The center is just one part of a larger campus of buildings, called “The Pennovation Works,” a 23 acre property adjacent to Penn’s University City campus.

“This is not just an island,” said Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services Anne Papageorge.

The University envisions a broader plan of growing the community in and around The Pennovation Works, including working with the city to optimize traffic in the area.

“The hope is to keep these businesses in Philly,” said Managing Director of The Pennovation Center Amy Yozviak.

When will the center open and how can students get there?

The Grays Ferry Avenue location is set for a grand opening on Oct. 28, though events (both public and restricted) have already begun and will continue up through the formal opening.

SEPTA bus routes 12 and 64 also service the site, according to the Pennovation website.

Penn Transit provides free on-demand transportation to the center for PennCard holders.

Penn student sent to hospital on Friday after alleged robbery The student was accosted near Copabanana CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI Staff Reporter

One Penn student was robbed early Friday morning and brought to the hospital after an altercation with three men a block from Copabanana, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

At around 1:15 a.m., three men allegedly robbed the Penn student in an alleyway behind the restaurant that leads onto Delancey Street. They punched him and stole cash, his cell phone and a watch that held sentimental value, Rush said.

Two Penn Police officers, stationed outside of Allegro, responded to the alleged robbery

and, with the assistance of two separate Penn Police units, captured two of three suspects after the group scattered in different directions.

Fifteen minutes prior to the incident, Rush said, the same three men stole a different Penn student’s phone as she sat on her porch on a house in the 4200 block of Spruce Street.

When two of the perpetrators were apprehended, police recovered the female student’s phone and the male student’s stolen cash.

After the male student was brought to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, a separate Penn Police officer used her phone’s “Find My iPhone” app to track the student’s phone.

Officers recovered his phone minutes later and, after an hours-long search of the area

near the alleged robbery, ultimately recovered his watch and two hooded sweatshirts worn by the suspects under a fire escape of a house on the 4000 block of Baltimore Avenue.

“Our officers take this stuff personally. Since early this morning, we’ve had everyone work around the clock to find this watch,” Rush said.

The two suspects were both charged with robbery and other related offenses. The third suspect is still at large and is “immediately out of the area,” Rush said.

“We need all the Penn community to work with us to ensure their safety,” she added.

“Travel in well-lit, populated streets on and off-campus. Use the walking escort service.

Don’t go down alleys.”

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Inside the center, memberships start at $99 per month and include access to the co-working space.

A cafe area will be operated by Heathland Hospitality group.

What events will take place there?

The building will host a number of programs geared towards fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. In a program called ”Startup Grind,” monthly speakers come in to share their stories and lessons learned in the foundation of successful businesses. In “AppItUp,” students can submit app ideas in a competition for the chance to have their

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began to feel that it was a disadvantage to our students not to allow employers to come in the fall,” she said.

In addition to networking sessions held over the summer in cities like Chicago and New York, Career Services has started off the semester with information sessions on oncampus orientation and resume and interview workshops, which will begin this week.

“In the past, [students] might have learned of opportunities in the fall but they didn’t know, should they hold out until spring when the internship process through OCR was going to happen,” Rose said. “At the same time, if you’re a student who thinks ‘Oh, maybe I would like to work at one of these organizations and it doesn’t work out for you, you know that in November. That gives you six months to gear up, really do a successful search for an internship.”

For those students who hope to work at internships that do not participate in oncampus recruiting, such as many governmental or nonprofit organizations, Rose and

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“It’s an ecosystem,” said Executive Director of Facilities and Real Estate Services Ed Datz.

“You have access to other entrepreneurs, mentors and business leaders.”

Other events and speaker series will be held at the Pennovation Center throughout the year.

The Pennovation Center was designed with flexibility in mind, Datz said. As members grow their businesses and require more resources, they can move into larger office spaces which are dispersed throughout the

Hewitt also emphasized career resources for students that did not center around on-campus recruiting. The new job and internship search series will focus largely on such positions.

Nevertheless, on-campus recruiting is a source of stress for many students each year. Leading up to the change, Career Services met with administrators at Penn’s various schools about how to help students handle the stress of OCR, particularly at the beginning of the semester.

While students who planned on studying abroad in the fall have expressed concern about the change in the OCR schedule, Career Services has tried to make the process available to them as well.

“We worked very heavily with Penn Abroad so that [for] students who wished to study abroad in the fall…we can make information available to them;

building.

“The idea is that we have a continuum of space for you to grow into,” Papageorge said.

Which businesses will be there?

Among the members that have recently signed-on are past President’s Innovation Prize winners FeverSmart and XEED, according to the center’s website. The Hershey Company joined as a corporate sponsor in May. “It’s exciting to have a connection with the school and the city,” said Fever Smart and 2016 Engineering graduate co-founder William Duckworth.

it’s doable to look for a job and recruit while you are abroad,” Rose said.

Despite the change in the recruitment timetable, students appear to be dealing with OCRrelated stress.

“I’m probably going to use resources like Piazza Careers and PennLink, and ask friends,” College junior Lily Wu said.

Wu, who studies mathematics and computer science, said that she feels that both her classes and her friends have helped prepare her for on-campus recruiting.

“During recitation for CIS 121, they always gave problems that might come up in interviews or at least concepts that might come up in interviews, “ she said. “And people will help you do mock interviews in Engineering.”

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OPINION If we’re talking body GROWING PAINS | Ruminations inspired by a massage

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Before coming back to Penn, I got my first professional massage. I had been saying “I need a massage” for years before actually getting one. This was partially because, despite my desperation to loosen the tension in my neck and shoulders, the concept of a massage — a complete stranger intimately rubbing your body — made me somewhat nervous. Yet the second the massage started I no longer felt awkward, instead beginning to think about the instinctive habits of the body, how they are intertwined with our minds and actions and what they might reveal about how we conduct our lives.

The first thing the masseuse said to me was, “Today is your day. You call the shots.” She then said that if I didn’t like a particular massage technique she used, I could tell her to stop or change what she was doing. Obviously, this made sense — the whole point of a massage is to make the person who is getting mas-

saged feel better in the affected areas. This can only be done if the person who is getting massaged articulates what he or she wants, what feels good and what feels bad to him or her.

Yet I often feel that this sort of bodily agency, this listening to what the body says and then articulating and respecting it, is rarely present in everyday life. As college students, we’re used to blinking away our exhaustion. We say, half-jokingly, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” and tote around to-go cups of coffee. We observe the hookup culture around us and critique the fact that it is the norm, yet feel like we might be missing something if we don’t partake.

How else do we prove that our bodies are attractive and desired and thus valuable?

More generally, humans constantly feel the need to apologize for their bodies: “Sorry, I haven’t shaved my legs in two weeks.” “Sorry, I’m super sweaty.” In a world so heavily saturated with commercials and pho-

tos and Instagram accounts telling us what our bodies should look like, how they should be clothed — in a society that simultaneously promotes everything “sexy” yet views sex as taboo and accessible, but not discussable — we find it difficult to say “I am proud of my body.

I’m going to stick up for my

bodily agency — to stand behind our choices of what we do or don’t do with our bodies — if we feel that they go against popular choices.

Similarly, our bodies can reflexively acquiesce to the physical circumstances around us. For example, several times the masseuse lifted my arm and moved it

We all take for granted that we have a body, that we live in a body. But how often do we acknowledge all that that means?” body, regardless of what others may think.”

After all, consider how much peer pressure relates to the body: drinking, drug use, partying and sex are all, at the basic level, physical activities. And it can be hard for us to exercise our

to a different position. The first time she did that, she said, “Stop helping me.”

I was confused: “What?”

Then I realized. As she lifted my arm, I hadn’t let it dangle limply; the second I sensed she was trying to move it, I automatically

moved it in the desired direction as well.

The masseuse told me that everyone has that reaction. As the massage continued, I consciously worked to keep my arm limp as she moved it. It led me to wonder how many actions we do without even thinking.

How much autonomy do we exercise over the habits that have been ingrained in us?

What do our most minute actions reveal about our relationship to our bodies and to the world around us?

I don’t necessarily have answers to these questions, but I think they are worth asking. Because perhaps the most important thing one can do regarding one’s body is to think about it. We all take for granted that we have a body, that we live in a body. But how often do we acknowledge all that that means?

My feet were massaged last. I kept laughing and fidgeting because they were so ticklish. “Most feet are rarely touched,” the masseuse said. And I thought

EMILY HOEVEN about how ironic it is that we don’t really give our feet a moment’s thought. I hadn’t even expected them to be massaged, despite the fact that they carry me around all day. I resolved to give my feet a good rub now and again. After all that my body does for me, the least that I can do is stand up for it — celebrate it — be unafraid to be myself, in my own skin.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College junior from Fremont, Calif., studying English.

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Imagine the following scenario: You’re a club leader organizing a protest. You have an issue you care passionately about, and you’re gathering likeminded students to make a public display complete with rehearsed chants and picket signs. The event is coming up soon, and you have to make an important choice. You’re not going to get anywhere with this social activism unless you make some widespread noise about the event. You have to decide how you’re going to do that.

Are you going to post on social media? Ask your fellow protesters to post on Facebook and Twitter?

Alternatively, you could look to the traditional news media resources to spread your vision. The school paper shot you an email weeks in advance, the moment they heard about the protest, and they want to do a sit-down interview with you. You know they’re go-

ing to ask the tough questions, because they have an obligation to get both sides of the story. You’ll need to be very prepared, and a slip of the tongue or a question you answer poorly will get blasted to the entire school.

This interview could be tough, and if you fail, it might hurt your cause more than it helps.

This is the question that Penn students and public figures around the globe are starting to face when it comes to traditional news. Before technology made it easy for everyone to broadcast their vision to the world, traditional media was the only option.

If a club leader, activist or public figure didn’t talk to a reporter, their story didn’t get told.

Now, a new generation has access to tools for spreading a message that gives them total control over its content. If movements have a strong network of supporters behind

them to spread the word over social media, they might even have greater access to the eyeballs of the general public than they ever could have through traditional media.

Still, the incentive to turn away from the reporter’s microphone runs a lot

of their messaging, and the media old guard is being left in the dust.

We’re starting to enter the age of “no comment.”

This is the flip side of the current struggle of traditional newspapers. Not only are consumers turning to other sources for news,

We’re starting to enter the age of ‘no comment.’” deeper than that. With more competition than ever, traditional news outlets are becoming more inflammatory, more ideologically stratified and more aggressive than ever.

The modern interview is often a hunt for the smackdown. In response, subjects are often turning away from traditional media. Activists look for resources where they can get tight control

but subjects no longer need traditional news as much as before to spread their vision.

On the national stage, Hillary Clinton has shied away from the press conference, not having held one in over half a year. Donald Trump has mastered the tweet and has gained more visibility from his incendiary and compelling social media style than he

ever possibly could from his television appearances.

And locally, student activists and leaders are increasingly turning away from print media in favor of the new media approach of public relations.

Here we have to address the elephant in the room: I’m criticizing newspapers in a column being published in a newspaper. But there’s a good reason I’m publishing here and not a random blog, and that reason is central to this entire discussion.

Newspapers hold themselves to a certain standard of rigor, and it lends them inherent credibility that social media will never be able to emulate.

Even as “official” news struggles, it is still a critical resource for discovering the truth. But it’s not the only resource, and we have to look to diversify our informational diet with the social media voices that we gather from the ground.

AARON COOPER We’re going to have to be more than well read, we’ll need the cultural competence to gather knowledge from old and new media alike.

And finally, we have to accept that change is healthy. The sooner we adapt to change, both on the reading and reporting side, the smarter we’ll be.

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Faculty Senate prioritizes mental health The Senate will also address faculty diversity CHASEN SHAO Staff Reporter

The Faculty Senate’s priorities for the coming year include examining diversity among faculty and increasing mental health services for students.

The Faculty Senate is a group that governs Penn’s 2,600 faculty, mostly through the 58 members of the Senate Executive Committee. On Aug. 23, Faculty Senate Chair Laura Perna wrote a letter explaining what the group is looking to accomplish this year.

The Senate hopes to release the results of the 2015 Faculty Climate Survey, which examines whether faculty who are women, part of the LGBTQ community or members of varied racial and

ethnic groups are being treated fairly. The committee also wants to publish a five-year Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence, to be released in early 2017.

Penn has already come a long way in diversifying its faculty. When Penn elected interim president Claire Muriel Mintzer Fagin in 1993, she was the Ivy League’s first female president.

At the time, only 21 percent of standing faculty were women and just 8.4 percent of faculty were minorities Today, 32.5 percent of the standing faculty are women and 23.4 percent of faculty are minorities.

But the Senate committee is not the only group tackling the issue of diversity. Soon after his appointment as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences in 2013, Steven Fluharty created

the diversity council, and has been meeting with the council monthly ever since. “[The council] will be working to develop a new diversity action plan around faculty,” Fluharty said.

The Senate will also work to increase the availability of mental health services for students and to implement the Faculty Wellness Ambassador program.

The program, based on the recommendation from the 2014 Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare, will train faculty to respond to student mental health issues. Faculty who are part of the program will watch for signs of mental illness among students and recommend help when necessary.

Perna said the program, which is supposed to be implemented this year, is part of the “ongoing attention to mental health.”

Copabanana’s South Street location closed for violations 40th St. location unaffected, employee says RAY POMPONIO Staff Reporter

Copabanana’s South Street location was ordered to temporarily shut down for a series of health violations, the third time this year the restaurant has closed for healthrelated reasons, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article, on Thursday, Sept. 2.

The location at the intersection of 40th and Spruce streets is a separate entity and is not affected by the violations, a Copabanana employee,

who did not give her name, said in an interview.

Due to repeated health-code violations, Court of Common Pleas Judge Nina Wright-Padilla ordered the South Street restaurant to cease operations for 48 hours.

“We’ve had a few repeat violations, but some of them weren’t health issues,” South Street Owner Dan Christensen told the Inquirer.

The South Street location did not return a phone call requesting comment.

In the most recent inspection, conducted on Aug. 31, the Philadelphia Department of Health found mouse droppings in the kitchen

and observed an employee touching ready-to-eat food with his bare hands, both of which were repeat violations. Other infractions included improper food storing temperatures and a missing lid on an indoor trash receptacle.

Health Department sanitarians have visited the establishment eight times this year, finding persistent issues in each re-inspection.

The South Philadelphia restaurant, which has served burgers, fries and margaritas for 37 years, was also ordered to pay $4,020 in overdue inspection fees in addition to a $500 re-inspection fee, if it is to reopen.

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use identifying details to corroborate his story with other sources, but asked to be referred to by a pseudonym so an online search of his name would not connect him to a story about workplace turmoil.)

“You may not be aware, but I am the fourth person that has left the department of College House Computing this academic year,” he wrote in an email acquired by The Daily Pennsylvanian. “I feel this would be a red flag in other departments, but seemingly it feels no one is giving great attention to this matter. The morale is low and the leadership here is only what I can describe as toxic.”

Four employees did leave CHC within one year, which combined with three additional staffers who

left in 2012, resulted in seven members of the nine-person department quitting within four years.

The email went on to describe widespread resentment toward the management style of Executive Director of College Houses & Academic Services (CHAS) Martin Redman and Director of IT Services Marilyn Spicer, whom Lewis said has been the subject of at least six employee complaints to Human Resources without any resolution.

(Two other former staffers in addition to Lewis confirmed to the DP that they cited Spicer as reasons for leaving CHC in exit interviews with HR. The other three employees Lewis cited either could not be reached or declined to comment.)

Of Redman, who oversees all offices connected to college houses, Lewis wrote to Winkelstein, “He is abrasive, condesending [sic] and

outright rude to most of the people he interacts with in CHAS. He, for a lack of a better term, is a workplace bully.”

Lewis said Winkelstein never replied to his email.

Spicer deferred comment to a statement released by Leo Charney, executive director of external affairs and communication in the Provost’s Office, which read in part, “HR cannot legally speak about specific cases and specific details.”

Redman addressed the employee concerns in an hour-long interview with the DP, where he initially shrugged off Lewis’ claim that he was a “workplace bully.”

“Sure, if that’s somebody’s opinion, I’m not going to say no,” he said. “I would generally say that’s not who I am and it depends upon the circumstance.”

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not be surprising in a small, closeknit department where the tenure of some staffers exceeds that of their bosses and where Lewis himself said he was recently being passed over for a promotion months before quitting.

“Turnover is a natural part of the workplace. It is our understanding that each of the departing employees took an opportunity to grow in their careers,” said Vice President of Human Resources Jack Heuer in a statement sent to the DP. “We support this kind of professional development and career growth.”

But those seven departures, which occurred in three spurts from 2012 to 2016, were due mostly to frustration toward Spicer and Redman, former employees said.

Under their leadership, staffers interviewed said, Redman and Spicer were unwilling to compensate staffers for assuming the workload of their departed colleagues, unable to even respond to questions or emails and quick to condescend or humiliate longtime employees.

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Because CHC is already broken up into smaller, informal divisions, Lewis said he was essentially doing the work of two other people with minimal to no help from his other colleagues in the department.

Other workers within the office were tasked with running the college house websites and handling equipment and other devices, like the projection rooms in the rooftop lounge of each high-rise building.

“No one should be expected to manage that many computer labs,” said a student ITA who reported

to Lewis and was familiar with his workload. “It’s not a one-person job.”

From Oct. 30, 2015 until Feb. 29, 2016 Lewis finished over 72 percent of all 133 “orders,” or routine maintenance requests, issued to CHC staff, according to work documents acquired by the DP. Lewis and one other employee finished over 95 percent of the requests between just the two of them in that time, effectively taking on work that had once been shared among Lewis and two other staffers.

In the beginning of February, Lewis asked Spicer and Redman to receive an “acting rate,” or extra compensation for assuming the workplace duties of his co-workers who left. According to the Penn HR website, “Acting Rates may be awarded to a staff member who has temporarily assumed major responsibility for, and performance of, a vacant position in a pay grade that is higher than that of his/her current position. Such assumed responsibility is usually in addition to his/her SEE COMPUTING PAGE 9

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primary job responsibilities.”

Given that the lead specialist who quit had a higher salary than Lewis and supervised him, he assumed he would qualify for the policy.

Redman said he would speak to HR about whether Lewis qualified and, after being prodded for a progress update on a request Lewis issued on Feb. 1, responded in nine days later, “You will not get an answer for some time. I need to work on several things with others before I can respond.”

Redman continued, “Since two 2011 October 30, 2015 of our staff left on or about Nov 1 and you asked this question only on Three Office of Two additional February 1 and today is February 10, I do not have the same sense of College House staffers leave. Five urgency that you do. I have other things to get accomplished that exComputing professional staff isted prior to your request.” staffers quit remain.

The request was eventually denied, Lewis said in an account independently verified by two of his Lewis would not have qualified for staff and student ITAs contributed former colleagues. an acting rate because he was doing to workplace discord. The profesWhen asked about the shift in the work of his technical supervi- sional staffers were treated like workload after Oct. 30, Redman sor, the lead specialist. children, employees said. said Lewis had been assisted by According to the Penn HR web“They weren’t respected,” said other employees in covering for site, extra pay is generally given for the ITA, who has witnessed Spicer his former colleagues. And other work performed “outside the scope interact with professional staffers large-scale plans, which would have of the staff member’s job classifica- during a training session. “During otherwise occupied Lewis’ time tion” and “typically is not given for training and stuff it was constant — such as a plan to introduce a com- the staff member’s supervisor.” nagging. It was like [she was] talkputer loan system — were delayed.

Or, as Redman put it, “I can’t ing to students.”

As for the work order statistics give an acting pay rate for a superviSusan Curran, the director of that showed Lewis completing over sor if you’re supervising yourself.”

Human Resources, Provost Cen70 percent of student tech requests ters, responded to the description of for the whole department, Redman A culture of distrust and fear staff turnover with a statement that joked, “Well, he wasn’t doing 100 “You’re walking on eggshells read in part: percent, was he?” before explaining and the eggshells are covered in “Turnover is a normal part of any his comment. lava,” said Lewis when asked to de- workplace and staff may leave for a “It may show that 70 percent of scribe the workplace culture during variety of reasons, including other the work went through a particu- his final few months at CHC. opportunities here on campus and lar plumber, just because that was Spicer would react tempestu- opportunities in another industry or the plumber that was assigned to it ously to even the slightest perceived another part of the country.” After but that doesn’t mean [the] person error, employees said, and was listing the different centers availnecessarily had to physically do nearly impossible to reach by email, able to take workplace concerns, anything,” Redman said. “A huge even when they concerned timely including the Office of the Omamount of that work is being com- personnel issues. budsman and Office of Affirmative pleted by the ITAs, who also fill out In one instance, an email Lewis Action, she added, “Any specifics timesheets.” sent on March 1 to Spicer asking regarding individuals, including Lewis admitted ITAs do about equipment improperly re- any performance management, are complete the bulk of work in the de- moved from his cubicle was not confidential and are not shared.”

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set. Toledo (4-2), however, recovered just in time, bouncing back to take the fifth set 15-10 and win the match.

Penn’s match against Houston Baptist (4-4) wasn’t as close (2516, 25-20, 25-23), but the Quakers, after again falling down two sets to none, fell just two points shy of a third-set win that might have sparked another comeback.

Against North Florida (5-3), the seemingly inevitable 25-23 set-loss came in the second set, as the Quakers fell just shy of getting themselves back in the match once again. The fourth match, against Northern Colorado (3-3), pitted the Quakers against their toughest opponent, and also produced Penn’s most decisive defeat: a 25-18, 25-15, 25-17 match in which the Red and Blue never really threatened to take a set.

falls to four tough foes TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

The Quakers messed with Texas, and while their record is worse to show for it, morale is certainly not headed down south.

Penn volleyball went winless against some tough opponents on a trip to Houston to open the season, falling to Toledo in five sets before losing to Houston Baptist University, North Florida and Northern Colorado, all in straight sets.

The first match of the season was a nail-biter. The Quakers (0-4) lost the first set, 25-17, and fell just short in the second set, 25-23, but won the next two sets fairly comfortably to force a deciding fifth

However, especially in the preseason (well, maybe only in the preseason), it’s not all about the score. In fact, the final performance — the worst one, on the scoreboard — was, to Penn coach Kerry Carr, the most encouraging. “Even though the score doesn’t show it, we played them really well, and we did things in that match that we didn’t do on day one,� Carr said. “And we outblocked a tough Northern Colorado team. And that — if you had seen them, they’re taller, they’re bigger than us — to outblock a team like that, that was really fun to see.�

Carr admitted that Penn wasn’t on the level of the teams they were heading down to Houston to face, but did think that the Red and Blue certainly could have come away with at least one win. “Our first match, I really would

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love that match back, because I think we did play better than them.

We just didn’t know how to close it out. It being our first match of the year, their experience came through,� Carr said, noting that Penn’s foes had entered the weekend with previous game action under their belts.

That being said, Carr was by no means satisfied with a winless trip. “I’m not saying that a win wasn’t the end-game of every single set we played. It was. It always will be, whether we’re in Ivy League play or not. I love to win, I hate to lose. But we were able to take a lot of good growing points from [the matches], and not bury them under the fact that we got beat this weekend. It’s super important to talk about, ‘Hey, here’s what we did well here.’ And exponentially, we grew every single match.�

This early in the season, one of the biggest priorities is to figure out whom the team can rely on when the regular season starts. One possible breakout player Carr singled out for praise was sophomore middle blocker Taylor Cooper, who was injured much of her rookie season. Cooper had 13 kills and six blocks in the three matches she played over the weekend.

Carr also praised the performance of the two main setters, junior Sydney Morton and sophomore Grace James, as well as the duo of junior liberos, Emmy Friedler and Michelle Pereira.

The coach felt the team’s kill totals were too low across the four matches, but was impressed with junior attacker Hayley Molnar (29 kills) and called sophomore Courtney Quinn (40 kills) “a cornerstone of our offense.�

Quinn was one of three Texans, along with Kendall Covington and Caroline Furrer, on the team making a trip home for the matches, and a fourth player, Kynnedie Maloz, hails from nearby Louisiana. But a warm southern welcome was extended to the team beyond that local quartet. “I know it was a homecoming for only four of them, but it felt like a homecoming for all of us,� Carr said. “It really felt like home, especially because most of the people in the stands were our fans. All the parents were there, and they fed us, and they had an opening dinner with us. And we just had so much support and love and food that it did feel like a home gym that was just in Texas. “It was like we just picked up the Palestra and put it in Texas. It was about that hot in there, too.�

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minutes of soccer that looked decidedly different from the season opener, as the Penn women’s soccer team blitzed visitors Robert Morris for four first half goals on the way to a 5-0 rout.

In stark contrast to their match against Maryland a week ago, where the Red and Blue surrendered two goals in less than 12 minutes, the Quakers (1-1-0) completely controlled the opening possession figures.

In the sixth minute, sophomore Allie Trzaska played Loving into

nab first win of 2016 Sam Altland Sports Reporter

If you got to Rhodes Field 10 minutes late for Sunday’s game, then you missed a few things.

You missed freshman Emma Loving’s first two collegiate goals. You missed senior Paige Lombard’s first goal of the 2016 season. And you missed 10

space outside the box, which the forward proceeded to take full advantage of by firing a shot into the upper corner of the net.

Penn fans had barely sat back down when they were yanked out of their seats again as Lombard headed home a goal off a corner from sophomore Sasha Stephens to make the score line 2-0 in the very next minute of play.

And before Robert Morris (0-5-0) could even decide what changes to make in order to stop the hemorrhaging, Loving struck

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again in the ninth minute, muscling off a defender and slotting home a cross from sophomore Cami Nwokedi. “Capitalizing on opportunities early was a huge part of our game today, and coming out strong from the beginning was something we wanted to focus on,� Loving said. “This week we worked on being not only physically ready for the first whistle but also mentally switched on and being ready for whatever they threw at us.�

While the scoring pace subsided slightly after the initial onslaught, the Red and Blue showed no sign of allowing their focus to slip. They continued to test Colonials keeper Makenzi Shearson — and the Robert Morris back line — and were once again rewarded for their persistence in the 23rd minute.

Taking advantage of a broken

play inside the penalty box, freshman Emily Sands added her name to the score sheet with a strong finish over a diving Shearson. All in all, Penn totaled 10 shots and four corner kicks in the first 45 minutes of play. “Before the game the team, not just the coaching staff, talked about what they wanted to focus on, and what we discussed was starting early and starting sharp,� second-year coach Nicole Van Dyke said. “There was a real sense that when we got in for half time that we had accomplished that and we were able to reassess and decide where to go from here, and what we wanted to do was keep pushing.�

The second half produced few surprises, as Penn continued to pound against the Colonial’s defense and easily broke up the few attacking forays Robert Morris

was able to launch. Though Penn amassed another 11 shots on goal in the second half, their sole breakthrough came in the 53rd minute. Junior Erica Higa easily buried a cross from Stephens to make the score 5-0, capping off a stellar offensive day for the Quakers. “I think today wasn’t about who we were playing, but about us building our own identity as a team,� Van Dyke said. “I can see how well we are learning and growing within training and the improvements we can make from game to game, and that will be the key for us the rest of the year.�

Penn will continue its nonconference home stand next Friday when Lafayette comes to town, and will hope to build upon its offensive momentum with less than three weeks remaining until the first Ivy game of the season.

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Penn hopes to rebound after rough 2015 season Youth, injuries doomed campaign WILL SNOW Sports Editor

2015 was a year to forget for Penn men’s soccer.

Three wins out of 16 games, including just one against a conference opponent. Seventh in the Ivy League, after having won the league just two years ago. Star players were injured, others underperformed.

But this is a new year, and thankfully for the Quakers, this is a new team.

There are a lot of things the team will have to do in order to find success this year, but one of the first tasks will be to put the past season behind them — or perhaps use it to their advantage.

For example, because of all the injuries to the squad, head coach Rudy Fuller was forced to throw freshmen into the mix, even once sending out a starting unit of ten

rookies. That worked against the team in the short term, but giving freshmen so much playing time helped them adjust more quickly to the college game.

“We had a lot of freshmen step into starting positions last year, probably before they were ready,” Fuller said. “And they got shaken up a bit. I think there were a lot of lessons learned last year, and that having that year under their belt is going to benefit them and this program greatly going into this fall.”

Another thing for the Quakers to look forward to this season is that, for the most part, they have the same squad. The team lost six seniors to graduation, but only a pair of them were regular starters.

Unit cohesion should advantage the Red and Blue against their opponents this season, who will likely have had less time working together as a side.

“We’ve got a lot of camaraderie coming back,” junior defender Sam Wancowicz said. “Team spirit is high. We’re looking

ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Junior defender Sam Wancowicz hopes to be one of the veteran leaders the inexperienced Quakers need to bounce back from 2015, helping to anchor Penn’s defense as the offense looks to produce more.

forward to a good year.”

Fellow junior Joe Swenson echoed his sentiment, showing a very positive outlook towards the

Coming up in 2016 Sept. 9 Sept. 11 Sept. 17 Sept. 20 Sept. 24 Oct. 2 Oct. 5 Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 19 Oct. 22 Oct. 25 Oct. 29 Nov. 5 Nov. 12

at Creighton, 8:30 pm at Nebraska- Omaha, 3 pm v. La Salle, 7:30 pm at Lehigh, 8 pm v. Drexel, 7 pm at Cornell, 4 pm v. Delaware, 7 pm v. Columbia, 7:30 pm at Dartmouth, 4 pm at Villanova, 4 pm at Yale, 7 pm v. West Virginia, 7 pm v. Brown, 7:30 pm at Princeton, 4 pm v. Harvard, 5 pm

season.

“I think we’ve got more of an understanding with each other,” the midfielder said. “Everything

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is starting to come together.”

Swenson was spot on, it seems — looking between the first game of 2015 and the season opener

on Friday night, both against American, the progress the team has made in the past 12 months is easy to see.

Last year’s trip to American was a torrid affair: the Quakers fell 4-0 in what would be the beginning of a dismal stretch of matches.

This year’s season opening match against the Eagles, however, was full of hope and promise — a 2-2 draw in which the Red and Blue had several chances even to win the game and showed the world a glimpse of what this season could be.

Before anyone declares them Ivy title contenders, though, a few caveats must be placed. 2015 saw the team hit by multiple injury crises, limiting their ability to compete against higher-quality opposition. If 2016 is to be a successful season, Fuller declared, fitness is pivotal to the team.

“We’ve got to keep everyone healthy. I think if we keep everyone healthy, we have a really good shot at being successful.”

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Sam Wancowicz Junior right back, lines to attack, scored against American University on Friday

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Alec Neumann

Dami Omitaomu

Senior captain of the team, focal point of the team’s offense, 15 goals and nine assists in three seasons

Freshman winger, lightning quick, won a penalty against American University on Friday

Nebraska looms large as biggest test yet for the Red and Blue No. 8 Creighton awaits high-flying Quakers JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor

After a stellar start to the 2016 season, Penn men’s soccer will be looking to this weekend’s trip to Nebraska as an opportunity to assess the team’s improvement and depth.

This Friday’s contest against No. 8 Creighton followed by Sunday’s clash against University of Nebraska-Omaha provide two difficult matches in three days, the only time this season that the Quakers (0-0-2) will have such a

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tremendous adjustment to make when entering the Ivy ranks.

“You can’t prepare for it, you’ve got to experience it,” he said. “Even the group we have as freshmen this year, they have done a great job so far, they came in fit and ready for preseason, but it’s still going to be an eye-opening experience when we ... head into the Ivy League season.”

A year of experience for the talented youth on the Red and Blue will be accompanied by a healthy core of veterans, something last year’s squad dearly missed.

“Right out of the gate having guys like Alec Neumann, Matt Poplawski, and Sam Wancowicz healthy is going to be the biggest difference. Without question, despite how talented the group was last year, the reason we struggled was we lacked experience and leadership,” he said. “We just threw them into the fire, and that was not the plan at all. The current sophomore class gained a lot of experience and even though that wasn’t planned, it will pay

short turnaround.

Interestingly, the two Nebraska universities played each other Monday night, battling to a 1-1 draw and showing the quality the Quakers will be up against this weekend. Despite the quality of competition and the long flight, some more nuanced factors come into play with extended trips like these.

“Dealing with the Friday-Sunday schedule is a real challenge in terms of preparation,” Penn coach Rudy Fuller said. “It’s especially difficult when you’re up against two quality opponents in Creighton and Omaha.”

Sophomore forward Jerel Blades echoed Fuller, adding that

a lot of dividends for us. Having a year under their belt, having been humbled as a group that came in with a lot of accolades and a lot of humble, was really good for them.”

Senior forward Alec Neumann, a captain and arguably the best striker on the team, led the Quakers in shots last season, but only found the back of the net twice. His luck can and presumably will change this year, but he is also embracing an entirely new role as one of those seasoned veteran for this inexperienced group.

“Going through the years I have had junior and senior leaders impact me greatly, and I hope to continue that along, passing what I have learned and make it a cohesive team,” he said. This group of guys has been close knit from the start and the new freshman have molded well from the start. That big sophomore class has really grown this past year and I think we are a lot further along then we were at this point last year.”

Despite the underwhelming record, the Quakers had their fair share of tough losses.

One that stood out was a loss to

the Red and Blue will stick to what they know out west.

“Obviously the location changes, but the gameplan always stays the same,” Blades said. “It’s a great time to bond with the guys. Not much else changes.”

The team’s 2-2 and 1-1 draws to start the campaign mean that the Quakers already have more goals in their first two games than they did in their first six matches last year. Good performances against Creighton (1-1-0) and Omaha (2-1-0) could be essential to the team’s confidence heading into the brunt of the season.

“We have a lot of young guys, so especially with younger teams you like to build momentum

quickly and get everyone on the same page,” senior midfielder Matt Poplowski said. “Winning games early can keep guys’ confidence high and help them on the field.”

Fuller noted that early success can build confidence, and also commented on the team’s internal atmosphere.

“We feel good at this point in the season. There’s a really good energy about the guys and there’s a great spirit,” Fuller said. “We know we have a difficult stretch of games coming up, but confidence is high right now.”

Over 20 different Penn players have gotten minutes in the two games thus far, indicating that

some of the starting roles are still up for grabs. When asked about the rigidity of the depth chart, Fuller seemed hesitant to jump to any conclusions.

“You hope you have a good feel of the group at this point in the season, but things can certainly change,” Fuller said. “Guys develop at different rates, and you have a number of guys who it’s their first year in the program.

You don’t know how those guys will respond to the higher level.

Fortunately, we have a lot of experienced guys that will help us out while the new guys are adjusting.”

In addition to the obvious strength of Creighton and Omaha, the Red and Blue will also be

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ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Senior forward Alec Neumann struggled to score in 2015 despite leading the team in shots. Penn will rely on him even more in 2016.

eventual Ancient Eight champion Dartmouth, who scored in the final minutes to break Penn’s hearts. Winning those games takes experience, something the Quakers desperately lacked last season.Those losses can easily swing in the other direction in 2016, and they will.

“Learning what it takes to win and how to close games and teams out is a big ask when you consider that often, like in the Dartmouth loss, ten of the eleven players we had out on the field were freshmen. That’s where upperclassman leadership really comes into play,” Fuller said. “It’s huge motivation. What this team has done really well is

put the negatives of last season behind them and tapped into the positives. They are a spirited group who are humble and hungry for success.”

Can the Quakers bounce back after a down year? If they are able to stay injury free, the ceiling on this team is incredibly high and the 2016 season could see them bounce back right back into contention for the Ivy League title.

MATT FINE is a College junior from New York, N.Y., and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

his teammates involved.

“My biggest strength as an offensive player is my speed and craftiness on the ball, which I like to use to get other people into the play,” the Nigerian-born Omitaomu said.

“Even though the collegiate game is more physical, I can use my speed to get defenders on their heels.”

With Blades and Omitaomu on the field simultaneously, the Red and Blue can outrun anyone, a feature that excites Fuller and, as he says, makes everything a little bit easier.

“Speed kills,” Fuller said.

“Speed can create something out of nothing and I think that Dami and Jerel both have it. But I also think the two of them are very different players. Even though they both have pace, I think Jerel is really good at running behind and getting on the end of things and Dami is a little bit more slippery. He’s a little bit better in tighter spaces and creating things off the dribble.”

Kouzine is another young

battling against a statistical obstacle — the Quakers have not won a game away from the east coast since 2009. Although the odds are stacked against Penn, the team insists that the expectations for this weekend remain the same as always.

“We want to win any game we play,” Fuller said. “I think a lot of these guys have been on successful teams and either played with or against a lot of the guys we’ll be seeing this weekend.”

“Creighton is a huge stage, playing in front of seven thousand people,” Blades said.

“We definitely want to show them what Penn soccer is all about.”

player who will receive substantial playing time in Fuller’s system. The long-limbed forward, who is measured at 6-foot-2, towers over his freshman colleague Omitaomu, but is equally artful on the ball.

While figuring to be a prime target in Penn’s aerial attack off of set pieces, Kouzine has also been described as a natural goalscorer.

“He’s a No. 9 target forward and he’s got deceptively soft feet. He’s very skilled for a guy his size,” commented Fuller.

“And he has the good fortune of working with Alec Neumann, who’s been through the wars, who’s an Ivy League champion, who’s played a lot of minutes.”

“I’m kind of crafty when I’ve got bigger defenders on my back and I can turn them quite easily and beat them with pace,” Kouzine said. “I’d say I’m pretty versatile, I may not do everything perfect but I do everything pretty well.”

So with the introduction of these new forward-minded freshmen, hopes are high that the Red and Blue’s attacking machine will be firing on all cylinders this season.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

MEN’S SOCCER ISSUE Quakers poised for strong 2016

ON THE

ATTACK

MATT FINE

SANJAY DURESETI Sports Reporter

In September of last year, the Penn men’s soccer team took the field against the Washington Huskies, a team ranked No. 7 in the country. They held on for a scoreless draw, a fantastic result against for a young, talented squad against a heavily favored PAC-12 opponent. However, despite the early optimism, the Quakers would go on to have a season that could only be summed up as disappointing.

The Red and Blue would go on to finish the year seventh in the Ancient Eight standings, struggling to score and keep the ball out of their own net. They finished second to last in the conference in goals and goals allowed.

It seems the lack of success last year can be attributed to two main points: youth and injuries to the team’s few experienced leaders.

In 2016, look for those issues to be almost completely resolved.

The Red and Blue had one of the youngest teams in the Ivy League. Last season’s freshmen comprised one of the most highly touted recruiting classes ever to arrive at Penn, and while talent is a major factor in a program’s success, even the best athletes aren’t usually ready for the grueling nature of Ivy League soccer.

“You see that top 15 recruiting class ranking, but when you get into the Ivy League, it comes down to the nitty gritty, last second goals, and that ranking doesn’t mean much anymore,” said senior goalkeeper Nick Savino. “Here in college, it’s a lot more physical. I think it’s a bit alarming for the freshmen that come in but the freshmen that get that year of experience under their belt will certainly have an advantage.”

At times in 2015, the Quakers had 10 freshmen on the pitch at the same time, even in clashes against the best squads in the Ivy League. This will not happen in 2016.

Head coach Rudy Fuller agreed that even the best players coming out of high school have a

Quakers looking for spark from young, healthy offense in 2016 Penn men’s soccer, still nursing the wounds of last season, nevertheless enters a new year with optimism and a set of fresh, young faces who will look to make their mark on the field. The team attempts to move on from a disastrous spate of play over the course of 2015, during which the Quakers compiled a record of 3-11-3 and recorded just one win against an Ivy League opponent.

The Red and Blue, however, will restore some bite to their toothless offense through the addition of an attack-minded recruiting class. Penn coach Rudy Fuller and his staff focused heavily on bringing in proven scorers and creators to help a team that scored just one goal through the first seven matches of last season. Out of the five freshmen, four are midfielders and forwards, a number that is far from accidental.

“The group that were freshmen last year was really focused on the back half, on the midfield back,” Fuller said.

“When we were going into [recruiting] for the 2016 recruits, we really felt like we had to fill some holes and give use some depth in the attacking half.”

Fuller attributes last year’s dearth of production to the lack of “natural attacking players,” with only sophomore Jerel Blades and senior captain Alec Neumann demonstrating genuine offensive instincts.

This year, those players will be joined by the likes of freshmen Dami Omitaomu, Sam Hefter and Arty Kouzine, who all excel at creating and converting scoring opportunities.

Omitaomu is a particularly intriguing addition. Despite his diminutive stature, he is a menace on the flank, using his exceptional speed to regularly burn defenders. Omitaomu’s main aim as an attacking midfielder, however, is to get SEE OFFENSE PAGE 11

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Quakers draw Seton Hall, continue undefeated start

Back-to-back draws precede Nebraska trip NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

Two games into the 2016 season, Penn men’s soccer is undefeated. It’s also winless. For the first time in program history, the Quakers have begun their slate of games with a pair of draws — a 2-2 effort against American on Friday, followed by a 1-1 affair at Seton Hall on Monday.

After being held to a single goal in their first six matches of 2015, the Red and Blue (00-2) matched that total in the 37th minute of the year when junior right back Sam Wancowicz chested down a long ball and rifled it past the American keeper to put his team up, 1-0.

“I decided, ‘Why not?’” Wancowicz said, “tried to go through a couple people, I took a shot, and fortunately, it went in.”

Just a few minutes later, the Eagles (1-0-2) capitalized on a corner kick to level the game at 1-1.

“With that lack of communication, switching off at the corner kick, we should have been 1-0 up at halftime,” Wancowicz lamented.

After halftime, the Quakers were put under a long period of pressure, which ultimately led to an American goal in the 53rd minute. Rather than let their chins down, though, the team was quick to respond.

Freshman debutant Dami Omitaomu ran down the wing after the restart, beat his opponent into the box, and was then dragged down by him, winning his side a penalty kick. Senior forward Alec Neumann put the penalty into the back of the net to tie the game up again at 2-2.

While there were more chances, the scoreline ultimately held for the rest of regulation and the two overtime periods.

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“We would love to have finished out with a win,” Omitaomu said. “But this is a good way to build. We will learn from this, and move on.”

Sunday, it seemed the Quakers had a ready-made chance to build off of the 2-2 draw. Just seven minutes into the contest, sophomore midfielder Patrick Burd was sent off with a straight red card after stomping on Penn junior Sam Wancowicz — leading to the first of several near-brawls on the evening — and Seton Hall (1-21) was forced to play a man down for the duration of play.

Despite the disadvantage, however, it was the Pirates who struck first. A perfectly placed through ball was followed by a somehow more perfect shot from Jonathan Jimenez, who found the top right corner of the goal over Penn sophomore goalkeeper Etan Mabourakh’s arms.

The Pirates maintained control throughout much oft he first half, but the Red and Blue took only a

one-goal deficit into the half. Out of the break, the Quakers came to life — tying things up when freshman Arty Kouzine emerged from chaos in the box to find the equalizer.

“I felt like if we had a different makeup of our roster — maybe if we had sever or eight seniors on the field — then it would have been a little bit different,” Penn coach Rudy Fuller noted. “But we were still trying to feel our way through it.”

Penn threatened for much of the rest of the game but never could find the net again, leaving a feeling of dissatisfaction in the air.

“We really wanted to try and get a better result here but for the second time in a row, they showed some resiliency and grit,” Fuller noted.

Draws in hand, the undefeated Quakers will seek their first win of the year as they head to Nebraska for a pair of games this coming weekend.

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Freshman Dami Omitaomu made a quick impact for Penn men’s soccer, earning a penalty kick in his debut against American on Friday.

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