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Sorority members shun OZ after email Some members have distanced themselves from OZ DAN SPINELLI City News Editor
The backlash toward off-campus organization OZ amplified on Wednesday as various sorority members informally cut ties with
the group. Individual members of both off-campus group OAX and an affiliated sorority that asked not to be named harshly criticized OZ and said they left group chats with members of the group. “This narrative of, frankly, misogyny and lack of respect for women was not something I
was surprised to see,” said OAX member and College sophomore Abby McGuckin. Along with some of her friends, McGuckin said she left a group chat that also had OZ members in it. An affiliated sorority also distanced themselves from OZ in light of the flyers. “As an all-women organization,
interested both in women’s and human rights, we highly value the maintenance of a safe space for our sisters and all other women on campus,” said the sorority in a statement. “We will not stand for this blatant show of disrespect to our fellow students.” SEE REACTIONS PAGE 3
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Penn students write book on campus culture GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Staff Reporter
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This email not only solidifies the normalization of misogynic thinking across campus, but also targets the youngest female minds on campus…” - The Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion Board PAGE 4
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he first page that precedes the glossy photographs and pages of sobering text in “33 to 40” contains a dedication that reads simply, “To the spirit of creation.” The motto explains the driving force for a couple of Penn students in creating the book “33 to 40,” the student fashion guide turned Penn time capsule. The book’s release party on Friday culminated a project set in motion in February 2016 by Bryan Choo, who at the time was a senior in Wharton and the College. The book was inspired by “Take
Ivy,” a book of fashion photography originally published in Japan in 1965 documenting the clothing and culture of Ivy League students at the time. The book became what Choo described as a “style bible” and hugely influenced Japanese fashion. The book didn’t gain popularity in the United States until the 1990s, when it was discovered and gained value as a time capsule of the period. This past year Choo, along with College sophomore Alex Fisher — who is a senior photographer for The Daily Pennsylvanian — stumbled upon a
recreation of “Take Ivy” in the Japanese magazine Popeye. They were inspired to create their own version, specifically capturing Penn culture, from the unique perspective of Penn students rather than outsiders. “We as students at Penn are living the lives that these publications try to capture,” Choo said. “Also in the broader context I think Penn has its own unique nuances as a school, but also has a lot of themes that expand to include broader Ivy League culture.” Choo set out to create this project in his spring semester, unaware of the
work-intensive process that publishing a book requires. Using friends met through Penn Coffee Club, he recruited a team of editors, writers, photographers and models committed to making his idea a reality. In February, Choo and Fisher started collecting photographs, which they aimed to make relatable, accurate and holistic. The photographs of students who are fashionably dressed at familiar campus locations are accompanied by long articles describing different facets SEE 33 TO 40 PAGE 2
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Morgan Brown met model Amber Rose and ASAP Ferg ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter
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Wharton junior Morgan Brown was selected through a nationwide search done by MTVU, a division of MTV that focuses on college students.
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Wharton junior Morgan Brown landed a gig any videographer would die for: reporting on the MTV Video Music Awards as a vlogger for the network. She was selected for the job out of a nationwide search done by MTVU, a network geared toward students. “We received some great video submissions, including several from
Penn students,” said Kelly Diamond, an MTVU producer and 2013 College graduate. “Morgan’s stood out to us because her personality shined on camera.” Brown was not expecting to be chosen. “I was super shocked,” she said. ”It was pure excitement when I found out.” On Aug. 26 Brown flew to the Viacom office in New York City, where she met with Diamond to discuss how the week would be scheduled. SEE VMAS PAGE 3
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Some take the road less traveled to medical school JULIA BELL Staff Reporter
Although the quintessential pre-med student is a Biology major, at Penn, a variety of majors are represented by premed students. Everyone knows someone — a friend, a classmate, 70% of your freshman hall — who is on the pre-med track. The majors of choice for pre-med students are usually Biology, Biochemistry or Biological Basis of Behavior. Some students choose the “more fun” Health and Societies option. Students pick these majors to prepare for the subjects on the MCAT, the medical school entrance exam. And the prerequisite classes are extensive; they range from biology and chemistry to physics and mathematics, according to the course requirements for medical school on Penn’s website. However, some students at Penn choose to major in other disciplines while still pursuing
pre-med as an option. Although less common, these paths do not preclude admission to medical school as long as students fill the requirements outside of their major. In fact, on Penn’s Career Services website, it says, “medical schools do not require or even prefer a particular major.” College junior Caroline Sands is a French major and plans to go to medical school. She said she came to Penn with her language requirement fulfilled and took her first college French class on a whim. “The language program at Penn is really exceptional and the professors are great,” Sands said. “And the people in classes are generally really nice, so I decided it would be something I continued and it stuck.” At first, Sands was worried that majoring in French could hinder her acceptance to a medical school, but she is no longer as concerned because she is still taking the recommended courses. “Reactions are mostly positive,” she said about other students’ response to her choice
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Rather than studying traditional pre-med subjects like biology or biochemistry, some students major in other disciplines.
of major. “But among the other people I have science classes with, the pre-med people are always talking about their other biology classes or biochem class and I’m not really taking a lot of the same ones as the majors.” Sands liked that her French classes generally had a calmer
atmosphere than her science classes and included students from more diverse academic backgrounds. Often Sands will have French classes with students across various majors, including Urban Studies and English. Jacqueline Dougherty, a
French professor at Penn, taught Sands both semesters of her freshman year in Advanced Grammar and Composition and an introductory French literature course. She said that she teaches a mix of students from the humanities, STEM fields and Wharton. “I’ve never seen any type of gap you can’t close between humanities students and nonhumanities students,” Dougherty said. “I always think they end up on the same plane.” Cass Dinh is a pre-med College sophomore studying anthropology with a concentration in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. Dinh said that she landed on her major by process of elimination. “I was looking at the list of majors on the website and crossing off the ones I vehemently didn’t want to do,” Dinh said. “That left me with a lot of humanities majors, and I decided to go with Anthro because it encompasses a lot of things I really like, like Sociology, Psychology, some components of Biology and a bit of Chemistry.”
Penn Med professors say Clinton coughing fits should not cause alarm Penn profs warn against speculation CHASEN SHAO Staff Reporter
Democratic presidentia l nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not have a great Labor Day Weekend, according to speculations by medical professionals on television and Twitter users. During her rally on Monday in Cleveland, Ohio, Clinton suffered a coughing fit. A couple of hours later, Clinton suffered yet another coughing fit while giving a press conference on the plane, according to CNN. Clinton’s health has captured the attention of the nation through social media, with the hashtag #HillarysHealth already garnering thousands of mentions by the end of the day. Celebrities have also taken to Twitter to voice concern, or rather criticize Clinton’s health. Actor and producer James Woods tweeted on Monday, writing “I feel badly she’s obviously very sick, but she can’t responsibly be president with serious health problems.” Republ ica n president ia l nominee and 1968 Wharton
graduate Donald Trump has also been feeding the fire that Clinton is secretly suffering from health problems. Conservative media outlets have helped to further the spread of rumors regarding Clinton’s health. Medical professionals have appeared on the media outlets in an attempt to diagnose Clinton’s condition. Medical experts at Penn, however, warn that doing so without examining the Democratic presidential nominee or even extensively researching her medical documents is treading into murky waters. “There is no law against it. It is just considered bad judgement,” Jonathan Moreno, professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy said. For the majority of physicians, there are no legal consequences for giving such diagnoses of patients. However, even with no law against it, the credibility of the physician can suffer due to such claims. Steven Joffe, vice chair of medical ethics at the Perelman School of Medicine, said that doctors who attempt to diagnose patients they haven’t properly examined are “treading on thin ice.”
Dinh thought that pursuing a strictly science-based major would be restrictive. She enjoys the flexibility of an Anthropology major. “When it comes to being premed, so much of your curriculum is supposed to be centered on the sciences,” Dinh said, “but when you go to college you’re supposed to open your mind.” It is expected for pre-med students to pick diverging courses of study, according to Dinh. “It’s kind of like being a doctor itself,” she said “There are doctors that deal with mental illnesses, physical illnesses, work with children or work abroad. Your major is just a way of pursuing what you’re really passionate about. We all have different conclusions that we’re all trying to reach and they all have to do with medicine.” Dinh is thinking about joining the organization Doctors Without Borders after medical school. “It’s not like we all love dissecting cadavers,” she added. “We all have different interests and different reasons for pursuing the things that we do.”
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The members protested OZ’s behavior by likewise leaving a groupchat shared by the two organizations. College junior Amanda Silberling, one of the leaders of Tuesday’s protest, said it felt “incredible” to see women in Greek organizations stand in solidarity with them. “We’ve been trying to make it clear that this isn’t a witch hunt against people in Greek organizations,” she said. “This is something that is trying to eradicate as much as possible a harmful culture that exists in American life, not just [in] the small microcosm of college
campuses and the even smaller microcosm of fraternities.” While several members of OZ have not responded to multiple requests for comment, the group did appear to react to the publicity around their leaked email by canceling the “Wild Wednesdays” party this week, according to emails provided to The Daily Pennsylvanian by a member of a separate affiliated sorority who asked not to be named. It was not immediately clear if the party was permanently shuttered. The email posted around campus on Tuesday morning was an invitation sent to freshman girls to attend Wild Wednesdays by an email account linked to OZ.
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Penn professors specializing in medical ethics warn against speculation of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s health.
Inappropriate long-distance diagnoses of patients who physicians have neither met nor seen in person have often been subject to debate. In 1964, Fact Magazine published a report that Barry Goldwater, then Republican presidential nominee, was psychologically unfit for president, on the claims of 1,189 psychiatrists who responded to an open survey. The Goldwater Rule was implemented soon thereafter, which forbids psychiatrists from speculating about the mental health of public figures.
Dominic Sisti, assistant professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, said that the rule prevents psychiatrists from giving diagnoses that may breach medical ethics. Politics, at times, may use external factors that may be considered immoral to achieve the end result. However, according to the Penn medical ethicists, until the time that complete medical records are released, medical professionals cannot correctly or ethically judge the health of a public figure.
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Youth of the Year awarded trip to Rio Olympics
College sophomore sees Rio behind-the-scenes RAY POMPONIO Staff Reporter
For College sophomore Whitney Stewart, representing those who have conquered adversity is a lifelong commitment. And
that commitment does occasionally have its own perks. Stewart, who was named National Youth of the Year by Boys & Girls Clubs of America last fall, was flown to Rio de Janeiro to get a behind-thescenes tour of the programming production set for the Summer Olympics, cour tesy of
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Olympian Michael Phelps was just one of the many celebrities that College sophomore Whitney Stewart met during the Rio Olympics.
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In the days before the ceremony, Brown toured Madison Square Garden and even peeked at one of Rihanna’s rehearsals, she said. Brown interviewed artists as they walked the “red carpet,” which was actually white. “It was all a blur,” Brown said. Some of the celebrities she talked to included rapper ASAP Ferg, actress and model Amber Rose and Nev Schulman from the MTV show, “Catfish,” among others. “She was fun to watch and showed a level of excitement that excited us as producers,” Diamond said. Brown said that one day she could see herself as an onscreen television host, and that the experience gave her ideas for additions to her alreadypopular YouTube Channel. Brown’s channel “ItsHeyMorgan” has over 360,000 subscribers and her latest video
reached nearly 1.5 million views. The channel talks about lifestyle topics relevant to teenage girls including makeup, fashion and hair. Working as a host for MTV gained Brown new fans as well. In her hometown of Chicago she was featured on the local Channel Five news. “I was just at Target one day and people were following me,” Brown said. “They came up to me and said that they followed me online.” Brown looks forward to doing more work with media in the future and potentially with MTV, although she does not know yet if she will have another opportunity to work for them. “As the producer, I was hopeful that we¹d get great footage, but the most important thing for me was to show viewers what a fun time Morgan was having,” Diamond said. “I wanted it to be clear to our audience that a college student’s dream was coming true.”
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Comcast-NBCUniversal. Along the way, she collected a number of memories, including meeting Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps and Simone Biles, as well as trekking atop the city in an open-aired jeep to see Christ the Redeemer, a famous city statue. The chance to see two sides of Rio — both the luxury of Copacabana Beach and the favelas — was a valuable experience, Stewart said. “We were able to get a view of the city, just Rio unedited,” she said. As National Youth of the Year, Stewar t serves as a spokesperson for BGCA and represents four million youth across the country, many of whom have come from disadvantaged backgrounds. To represent them at the Olympics in Rio was a once in a lifetime opportunity, she said. “The Olympians I was able to meet had to conquer a lot of adversity growing up,” Stewart said. “It’s a testament to how much the kids of the Boys and Girls Club are able to achieve in spite of any obstacles they may face.” Comcast-NBCUniversal, a national partner of BGCA, arranged the four-day trip which included a tour of the TODAY set and the chance to speak to television personalities Ryan Seacrest and Bob Costas.
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of Penn’s culture, which are all anonymously written, creating the sense that the pieces represent the voice of the campus. Descriptions of Penn’s culture include “the extension of Penn’s competitive spirit into the workplace creates a palpable and proximate anxiety.” “I really thought the text of ‘33 to 40’ makes it what it is, because it actually is more critical of Penn’s shortcomings,” College sophomore Abigail McGuckin said, who is also one of the book’s columnists. The students received financial support and mentorship from
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College sophomore Whitney Stewart was named National Youth of the Year by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and subsequently got an in-depth behind-the-scenes trip to the Rio Olympics.
Stewart met Phelps on the set of the TODAY show, where he talked with her about his family and his plans for after he retires from Olympic swimming, she said. She encountered another surprise when she ran into actor Zac Efron on the way to the gymnastics competition. At Penn, Stewart is a member of the Black Wharton Undergraduate Association and the
a printing company owned by a Penn alumnus, as well as the Kelly Writer’s House. The South Philadelphia clothing store P’s and Q’s also donated clothes for the photographs and eventually hosted the release party. However, the final product was completely written, designed and produced by Penn students. “At Penn we neglect to pursue ideas just because they’re fun,” Choo said. “When I started, I knew there was a huge chance that we would fail terribly, that this book wouldn’t get published, but I thought ‘I’m going to try’ and that’s what we did.” Choo ended up spending up to 100 hours every week on the book’s layout, dedicating his final
vice president of the Polybian Society, which is a branch of the Government and Politics Association. “[Whitney is] a very thoughtful and intelligent young lady,” Associate Marketing Director for BGCA Lauren Price said. After graduation, Stewart would like to be a consultant, eventually pursuing a career at the intersection of law, public service and business, she said.
semester to this project. More than just a style guide, he envisioned it as a yearbook, a physical object that would allow alumni to reminisce or friends to catch a glimpse of what life was like at this place in time. “That’s kind of what we noticed as well as we were reading ‘Take Ivy,’ which was in the 60s in this context. There’s some parts of the Ivy League that remain the same, there are a lot that have changed,” Choo said. “The buildings remain the same, some parts of the culture are still very much entrenched, it is very interesting to capture those differences in the 50 year timespan that has since passed.” Copy editor and College junior Sammy Krouse admittedly
She believes that consulting will give her the tools to find innovative solutions to complex problems. Stewart, who is the oldest of three children, was delighted by her family’s excitement as they followed her on social media throughout her trip to Rio. “A lot of my family and friends were able to experience the Olympics through me.”
described the book as “a bit selfaware pretentious,” but, “I hope people look past that, I hope people see the whimsicalness of its style.” The students’ efforts appear to have paid off, as the University will preserve the book in Van Pelt’s Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. Choo hopes that the book will live up to the theme stated in its dedication, and will encourage students for years to come to pursue creative projects for the sake of creativity. “The vision is taking those ideas that you talk about with your friends at 1 a.m. and actually going to do it,” Choo said. “We did this in three months. Imagine what you could do in four years.”
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OPINION In response to the OZ email flyering EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 65 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor WILL SNOW Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director
Two days after an OZ email for a “Wild Wednesday” party addressed to Penn women was flyered across campus with the captions “THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE” and “WE ARE WATCHING,” many of the physical papers have been taken down. But the discussion surrounding the protest is far from over. There is no way to read the lines written in the poem as anything other than sexually aggressive. This email not only solidifies the normalization of misogynistic thinking across campus, but also targets the youngest female minds at Penn in order to establish and perpetuate an unspoken rule — that social life at Penn comes with a seriously disturbing tradeoff: Young women must objectify themselves if they are to be invited into an elitist world of campus partying. This poem also speaks to the sadly worsening culture around sexual violence on Penn’s campus. These “Wild Wednesday” emails have been sent to freshmen girls for at least three years,
but a look at the emails from similar accounts three years ago reveals that there were no explicit statements about sexual or behavioral expectations for female invitees. Rather, while OZ still targeted freshmen girls when sending email invitations to their “Wild Wednesday” parties, the email content did not contain derogatory language toward women. However, this year’s email was explicitly suggestive and perpetuates the notion that women must act in a certain way to be accepted into Penn’s social culture. What does this say about the direction of our collective opinion regarding women’s place in social life at Penn? In a context of unfamiliar surroundings filled with new people and new norms, the freshman class should not be bombarded with any expectations about how they should act as a member of the Penn community. Whether it be an influence regarding the “necessary” or “correct” major, career path, friend group or social lifestyle, incoming students at Penn should not
have to face any unwelcome pressure to conduct themselves in a certain way. While this may be an offcampus fraternity or OZspecific incident, it’s ironic that while Penn attempts to
by calling in the Penn administration. The administration has rightly called the email “offensive and ha[ving] no place at Penn,” as Director of Media Relations for the University Ron Ozio said.
This email not only solidifies the normalization of misogynic thinking across campus, but also targets the youngest female minds on campus ...” draw attention to the issue of sexual violence, the culture regarding it is worsening. The only way to foster cultural change is to stop dismissing seemingly “one-off” incidents as insignificant. We need to recognize the powerful consequences of allowing “small” incidents to build up, until they form unspoken and pervasive campus norms. However, this is not a problem that can be solved
However, Executive Director of Communications and External Affairs in the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Life Monica Yant Kinney also pointed to a previous letter sent to undergraduate parents, explicitly calling off-campus fraternities unaffiliated with Penn. The fact that OZ is able to send these emails — and have sent similar emails in the past — is a cultural problem that students, not
administrators, need to address. OZ and its fellow off-campus fraternities are off-campus by popular demand. They are unaffiliated organizations that exert a significant amount of social pressure — pressure that has been, in this instance, misused. Misogyny, rape culture and other parts of off-campus fraternity cultures persist to some extent because we do not publicly address instances of them. Calling out behavior and drawing attention to actions that perpetuate rape culture is a step in the right direction. We cannot anticipate Penn stepping in. If we want change, we — the students — need to make it ourselves. To this extent, we applaud the actions of all those involved in the protest for spreading awareness throughout the Penn community and beyond. However, the fact that many of the flyers were quickly taken down, most notably the ones across the bridge and the ones covering the LOVE statue, suggests that some would prefer to rapidly dismiss the callout.
The action suggests that some would like to see the impact of the flyers lessened, which we find questionable. Perhaps it is easier — and far more comfortable — to dismiss the email as a stupid mistake. An isolated incident that is unquestionably wrong, but isolated nonetheless. But nothing is created in a void, and the mindset expressed in the email already existed in people’s minds: the email only serves to make it tangible. The email’s tone was misogynistic and derogatory, but the cultural attitudes expressed within it did and continue to exist even without vocalization. The Daily Pennsylvanian opinion board commends those who took action to disrupt the culture of making new students feel compelled to act in a predetermined way during their time at Penn. Especially when this pressure comes from a group of older males who do not understand the issue with trading party invitations for expectations of female promiscuity to benefit the drunken male gaze.
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As the Class of 2020 begins to settle into their new lives at Penn, if its members are anything like me, I’m sure that they’re feeling a complex mix of emotions at entering the first step into adulthood. However, I can also definitely tell you above this complicated state of mind is a loud, shrill voice shouting “FREEDOM!” repeatedly while turning the music all the way up. This, of course, is for good reason. An American college campus is probably the freest setting in the world — Penn even more so than its peers considering its urban setting. So, freshmen: I understand where you are right now. Go forth and reinvent yourselves. Make decisions that you know you’ll regret. Take that shot you know is a mistake. Shout the praises of your perfect lives. For our generation, freedom is the name of the game. As globalization and rapid advances in technology occur, we have more and more options in nearly every aspect of our lives. Institutions such as religion and government
that formerly held great power and control over individuals are becoming less and less relevant. Increasingly, social barriers are challenged and broken down. Intellectually, students are encouraged to consider and debate matters that would be unacceptable in many other environments. This, combined with our “YOLO” mindset, means that universities truly are the beacons of liberty of society. Ours is a generation that seemingly values choice above all else. It seems to me that this trend is generally thought of as progress. The thinking goes that the more choices we have, the more control we have over our lives. Yet, this simply isn’t true in many cases. Even in much more important, lasting matters such as careers or relationships, I wouldn’t say we’re better off with this dizzying range of choices. Do we at this point in our lives truly know what we want? What we need? The difference between the two? Obviously, the follies of youth are not new phenomena. Adolescence is, and al-
ways has been, about making mistakes and learning from them. However, I would say we live in a fairly unique age in which we are pulled in every possible direction, by every potential course of way. The result is that oftentimes we are paralyzed, unable to proceed in any single path. We are capable of thinking in
and let live. That’s all fine, but when it comes time for us to make decisions, not having this foundation can be damaging. Consider that graduates of Penn and other elite institutions will often decide between going into investment banking and Teach for America. These are two completely
The thinking goes that the more choices we have, the more control we have over our lives. Yet, this simply isn’t true in many cases.” a way that makes every choice seem legitimate and appealing. A side effect of the relatively recent trend of weakening social norms is that fewer people are comfortable claiming that something is right, while other things are wrong. Everything has become relative — to each his own, live
different fields with different lifestyles and values. Yet, for us Generation Z members, each way can seem equally appealing, each in its own way suitably prestigious for our Instagram photos, our Tinder profiles. I’m not trying to make this personal, but my experiences made me think about the na-
ture of freedom. For the past two years, I took time off from Penn to fulfill my mandatory military requirement as a Korean citizen. I served as an English translator at the Korean Ministry of National Defense — so it was hardly action movie material. The main point of difference, unsurprisingly, was in the level of discipline and the focus on uniformity. I didn’t get to choose what I ate, when I woke up or what I wore. I interacted with the same people every day and stuck to a tightly scheduled routine. Before I began my service, I considered this a kind of death, especially as someone who had always been taught to express my personal opinion and thoughts. It was basically the antithesis to the American college experience. At Penn, we are taught to think in terms of the person we could be, but this often leaves us feeling more lost and directionless than before, since we can envision ourselves in almost any situation. When every day was an echo of the day before, I found that
JAMES LEE I no longer had that luxury. I won’t say that this life was better than the one that many freshmen will come to live in the coming months, but I will say that I had more opportunities to figure out what kind of a person I was. So, to freshmen: Enjoy, but know that sometimes less can be more. You don’t have to be everything to everyone. You only need to be something true to yourself. JAMES LEE is a College junior from Seoul, South Korea studying English and PPE. His email address is jel@sas. upenn.edu “The Conversation” usually appears every other Monday.
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Clinton volunteers target newly-eligible frosh voters Campaign targets first-time voters in Pa. campuses CHARLOTTE LARACY Deputy News Editor
As hundreds of freshmen were taking pictures for their PennCard or pushing their move-in carts into their new dorm, numerous Hillary Clinton campaign volunteers were ready to greet them with the question, “Are you registered to vote in Pennsylvania?” Clinton’s campaign has had a large presence on campus by trying to get new students to register to vote in the influential swing state as well as to participate in the 2016 election. “Hillary for Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Democrats are fully committed to mobilizing and organizing millennial support on college campuses across Pennsylvania and talking about key issues like raising the minimum wage,
tackling student debt, making college affordable, enacting criminal justice reform, combating climate change and fighting discrimination in the LGBT community,” a Clinton spokesperson said. Barry Johnson, a Clinton campus organizer and College senior, said the main focus right now is to continue to register voters in Pennsylvania until the deadline of Oct. 11. “During NSO, we stationed ourselves outside freshman dorms and tried to persuade them to register in Pennsylvania versus other states like New Jersey and California,” Barry said. “The primary reason we encourage students to vote in Pa. is because it is a swing state and a student’s vote will be more influential here rather than in their home state” State Campus Organizer and College senior Max Levy said their biggest push was during NSO and on-campus move-in days due to the
huge influx of people, many of them first-time voters, moving to Pennsylvania for the first time. “This is a time when students are thinking about who they are going to vote for and where they plan to vote so we wanted to make sure that during move-in we pushed as hard as possible,” Levy said. “It was impressive how many students, staff and community volunteers came out to help register new voters.” In a recent Monmouth University poll, Clinton has an eight point lead over Trump. Democrats are also holding a lead in the senatorial race with Katie McGinty holding a four point lead over Sen. Pat Toomey (RPa.). At a Trump rally in early August, the Republican presidential nominee told the crowd in Altoona that the only way he would lose in the state is if some sections of Pennsylvania cheat. Trump said, “The only way they can beat it in my opinion
— and I mean this 100 percent — if in certain sections of the state they cheat, OK?” Trump is referencing the 2012 election in which Mitt Romney received zero votes in 59 divisions in Philadelphia, causing some locals to speculate that voter fraud had been committed. But Levy said successfully registering voters and getting students excited about the election is not fraudulent. “I think what we are doing here isn’t cheating,” Levy said. “We are doing the work required in an election. We have received hundreds of registered new voters into the fold and it’s not a problem of the system, it’s essential to our system.”
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What’s impressed you most about the fall season? DP SPORTS EDITORS A week in to the year, it’s time to say definitively who is good and who is not. What has impressed you most so far from Penn Athletics? Senior Sports Editor Nick Buchta: Everyone had the same question about Penn men’s soccer heading into the season: Could they score? Apparently, they can. To be sure, the draw against Seton Hall was especially rough after playing a man up nearly the entire match — but after scoring only 12 goals in all of 2015, the Quakers have managed three through just two contests. Coach Rudy Fuller said that his staff made improving the offense his almost-singular focus this offseason. Clearly, they succeeded. Dami Omitaomu has shown explosive speed in his first two matches and Arty Kouzine found the net for his first career goal against Seton Hall. Couple that with Sam Wancowicz anchoring the back line for the Red and Blue and Matt Poplawski’s
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game to look forward to playing every year, because after you graduate college, you’re not playing football anymore,” current assistant coach and former sprint football captain Sam Biddle said. “It’s great to have one more you can play each year.” “It’s nice to know that you have that option once a year to jump on the field and suit up and get your
Associate Sports Editor Jacob Snyder: The most exciting aspect of Penn Athletics so far this season has definitely been the way field hockey has played in its first couple of outings.
With star attacker Elizabeth Hitti having graduated and more than half of this year’s team made up of underclassmen, the Quakers could easily have labeled this season a “rebuilding” one and lowered expectations. But the Red and Blue are better than that, and so far this season, they have been much, much better than that. Coming off last season’s heartbreaking loss to Princeton, the Quakers are playing with a chip on their shoulder. In the season opener, onlookers were treated to a clinic on how to dominate a game both offensively and defensively. In all honesty, the 2-0 scoreline was easy on Lehigh; the Red and Blue more than tripled the Mountain Hawks in shots and shots on goal. The match against No. 1 ranked UNC that followed was always going to be a tall order, but you really have to be impressed with the poise the Quakers displayed for most of the night. If you remove the fiveminute period where UNC scored three quick goals, the 6-2 final score becomes a lot less lopsided. There’s a belief among the women that this could be the year, and it’s showing on the field.
Associate Sports Editor Jonathan Pollack: For me, the most impressive development in Penn Athletics has been the goal-scoring prowess of the women’s soccer team through its first two games. The biggest knock on the Penn team last year was that the Red and Blue couldn’t score in high volume. The Quakers averaged just over a goal a game in 16 contests, but only managed to notch three in the seven conference matchups. In the offseason, coach Nicole Van Dyke made some adjustments to the team’s offensive scheme by taking more risks with the outside backs. Already, the new system has shown some positive results. In just two games the Quakers have scored six goals, including five in a drubbing of Robert Morris last Saturday. Several defensemen have gotten involved on the score sheet, and the team has stayed true to the system, pushing their backs up the field to create more chances. If they keep this up, they have a good chance to make some noise in Ivy play.
After a dearth of scoring characterized 2015, Matt Poplawski and the Penn offense has shown improvement in the first two games of 2016.
fix for the year,” fellow coach and sprint football alumni Dave Hubsher added. Since graduating in 2011, Hubsher and Biddle have participated in four alumni games, but one in particular stands out the most. “[In 2012], the year after I graduated, the alumni won. We were pretty stacked that year,” Hubsher said of the 20-0 victory. “Half of them were single, still felt they were invincible, and they shut us down,” Wagner added.
The game has also been a financial boon to the team, serving as an important fundraiser for sprint football, as the alumni pay to play. “Hubsher and Sammy [Biddle] have been going out, helping to push the return of players,” Wagner said. “[The alumni] have been so gracious, generous, and supportive in a lot of ways.” The game features players from as long ago as the early 1970s suiting up, including 1973
graduate and current assistant coach Chuck Hitschler. The game spans multiple generations of families as well as players, as father and son Robert Shnider, a 1985 graduate, and Derek Shnider, a 2016 graduate, will
both take the field for the alumni on Saturday. The game looks likely to continue, as current players are already talking about playing for the alumni when the time comes. “We’re already starting to talk
experienced hand (foot?) marshaling the midfield, and I think the Quakers are going to be in a good position once Ivy play rolls around. At the same time, as experienced as this team feels — and they are — they’re also still incredibly young. Fuller knows this, however, and this weekend offers a real opportunity for growth. Not only will there be a lot of young guys flying halfway across the country for a weekend of matches — they’ll deal with a top-ten team in the country in Creighton. So I’d say I’ve been most impressed with men’s soccer to this point. There was a sense Fuller would get this team back into form, but it’s surprising to find the team where they’re at right now. More work needs to be done for sure, but I’m a lot more optimistic than I thought I’d be at this point in the year.
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trash to the younger guys, telling them we’re coming for them next year,” Colavita laughed. “It’s been a very, very strong success,” Wagner said, “So we’re going to keep it alive for many years to come.”
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with the exception of about four and a half minutes,� Penn coach Colleen Fink said. “They scored some great, two-versus-one, attacking goals, and we got caught on our heels. Our transitional defense was an issue ... but for 55 minutes I thought we did really play well and we hung with one of the best teams. I’m not discouraged by the loss because I’m glad we played that team when we played them early on. That team is what we aspire to be and they play like what we want to play like.� Senior captains Claire Kneizys and Elise Tilton emphasized the mental toughness and strength of identity that the Quakers need to continue to develop. “We’ve spent this preseason and years past really defining who we are as a team and how we play,� Tilton said. “We’re going to play teams that are better than others, but we have to play Penn field hockey regardless of who we’re playing.� “UNC was a really good game to point out our weaknesses, but I think we did also have moments of greatness,� Kneizys added. “We scored twice on one of the top teams in the country, which was awesome. But it definitely pointed out how we can be mentally stronger and going forward we want to work on our fitness and our team defense and defense in transition.� The Quakers will see a bit of
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After a Labor Day weekend of lessons learned at the hands of the then-No. 1 team in the nation, Penn field hockey is looking forward to a different type of weekend starting this Friday. After a quietly dominant 2-0 win in their season opener against Lehigh, the Quakers (1-1) took on North Carolina in an early-season test against the national runner-up from 2015. The scoreline wasn’t pretty — UNC made off with a 6-2 win — but realistically, the game was much closer than the score indicated. Four of the six Tar Heel goals were scored within a 10-minute period in the first half, a costly if brief lapse in play. “In the UNC game, to be frank, I thought we played fantastically
a different type of competition in the coming days when they host upstart program LIU-Brooklyn (0-2) on Friday and then make the crosstown trek to Saint Joseph’s (3-1) on Sunday. The Red and Blue will be LIU-Brooklyn’s third-ever opponent in its history, while on the flip side Penn will
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freshman, and a lot of them will be playing a lot,� senior captain Olivia Blaber said. “It’ll definitely be something in terms of our recovery on Saturday and recovery right after the game, that’s important, but in terms of how we think about the game, we’re still going to put everything out there.� With Ivy League play only a few weeks away, the Red and Blue are looking for every opportunity to build momentum and improve as a team. This week gives them just that chance.
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Fink. “One of the points I want to make publicly is that ... at our coaches’ conventions, everyone talks about growing the game of field hockey. We’re a smaller sport nationally, we only have 80 Division I teams, and everyone complains that there aren’t enough programs.� “However, those same programs will then in turn not play that new team, because it will hurt their own personal RPI, strength of schedule, etc. I think that’s a selfish mentality to have, so when [LIU-Brooklyn coach Patricia Kennedy] called me and asked to play, we said, ‘Absolutely,’ without hesitation.� The games against St. Joe’s, on the other hand, always present a homecoming for Fink. She captained the 1999 squad that beat Penn 3-2, while her father was the Hawks’ track and field coach when she was growing up. Having such strong connections to the Philly area, fostering passion for the Big 5 games is important for her. “We’re going to always play every Big 5 game we can. I think it’s important for the student body at Penn to know how special it is to have what we have in this area, you don’t have it anywhere else in the country,� Fink said. “Penn has the best academic reputation in the city, so I think we should strive to have the best athletic reputation as well.�
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have yet to lose, going 3-0-2. Strong defense and goalkeeping from the back end of Lafayette’s squad has led to only three goals against, as opposed to the 10 goals they have scored. The Quakers then travel to Delaware to square off with a struggling University of Delaware squad on Sunday at noon. The defense for the Blue Hens (15-0) has been under siege so far, with opponents scoring 13 goals
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Off to an 0-4 start for the first time since 2006, it’s been a long week for Penn volleyball. But if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, there’s no better place than the Palestra to provide it. Following a frustrating performance in Houston, the Quakers will return home in an effort to snatch their first win of the year. In this weekend’s Penn Invitational, the Red and Blue will host Bucknell (2-4) and Howard on Friday before taking on George Mason (0-6) and Lafayette (2-2) on Saturday. “It’s the same as this past weekend; if we improve every point, every set, every game, then it’s a win for our endgame, which is the Ivy League Championship,” coach Kerry Carr said. “I think learning how to win when it’s 23-23, we need to learn how to
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the lead doesn’t erase the memories of Penn students charging onto the field at the final whistle last season.) I want to think that people didn’t know about the game because it is still relatively far away. In a world where the instantaneous is preferred and knowing what you’re ordering for dinner when you wake up seems like a planning feat, nine days is an eternity. At nine days away, Class Boards or Penn Athletics haven’t blasted listservs to drum up interest, neon colored fliers haven’t been left on tables
close out those types of matches ... part of improving is learning how to win.” Decimated by the graduation of four of their top five scorers and 2015 Ivy League assists leader Ronnie Bither, the revamped Quakers couldn’t put the pieces together at last weekend’s tournament. Penn won two out of 14 sets in four matches, going 0-3 in sets decided by the minimum two points. “We could’ve done better honestly; I feel like we were kind of right there in a lot of matches, but the cool thing was we figured out so much about our team,” sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn said. “It was cool to see us growing as a team together, so I think we’ll be able to take things from those games heading into this weekend.” Although Penn’s four opponents all didn’t participate in last year’s Penn Invitational, that doesn’t mean that the Red and Blue are entirely unfamiliar with them. The matchup with George Mason is intriguing not only because the two squads faced off in 2015 — with the Patriots ultimately winning a five-set thriller — but also because former George Mason assistant Scott Schweihofer has swapped sides,
at Houston Hall, nor have Facebook event invites been sent. But we shouldn’t need those things to care about a team that is one of the hallmark programs of this university. For international students, football is an inherently American experience. You have one of the most historic stadiums in the country at your doorstep, so why wouldn’t you go, even if it is just for one game? And what about the toast throwing? There’s no experience quite like flinging a slightly crispy piece of Wonderbread at the home team bench below, watching waves of carbs rain over your head like those
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Sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn is off to a good start for Penn volleyball, but the team will need all hands on deck as the Quakers look to secure their first win (and more) this weekend at the Palestra.
joining Penn’s staff this season. “That’s a great advantage [to have Schweihofer’s inside knowledge of George Mason],” Carr joked, before clarifying her stance. “He’s a stand-up guy; he won’t tell any trade secrets. ... The
great thing about Scotty is now we get film on everybody’s games from last weekend, so we can get all their stats and come up with a game plan. But there’s no super secret thing to beating [George Mason].”
Additionally, the Quakers faced Howard a year ago, dominating the Bison en route to a three-set victory. But even when considering last year’s beatdown, the Red and Blue would be mistaken to sleep on the
Bison in any capacity. Howard returns every starter from a team that reached the NCAA Tournament, including outside hitter Khalia Donaldson, who notched a remarkable 405 kills a season ago. This season, the Bison are off to a 4-3 start, with two losses coming against opponents from Power Five conferences. “[Howard] has been very professional on the court, and I totally believe they’re the strongest team to come into the gym this weekend,” Carr said. “They’re a very athletic team, and if they’re injury-free they are a huge force at the net.” So for the Red and Blue to end their offensive troubles — the team ranks 287th nationally in hitting percentage at .135 — and finally crack the win column, all hands on deck will be needed to usher in Penn volleyball’s new era with a bang. “Everyone just needs to find their role, because that way we can work together well as a unit instead of being focused on other things,” Quinn said. “We’ve been talking about getting 15 kills per set, so that’s been on our board all week during practices. I think if we meet that benchmark during the games, we can really come out with some wins.”
infamous balloon drops at the end of political party conventions. I firmly believe that every Penn student is obligated to experience this bizarre tradition at least once a year. So go to the game. If you’ve read this far, you know where and when. But once more, with feeling, it’s September 17 at 5 p.m. at Franklin Field against Lehigh. See you there. LAINE HIGGINS is a College senior from Wayzata, Minn., and is a senior sports reporter at The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com. “Let me expLaine” appears most Wednesdays.
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here are nine days until Penn football kicks off its 2016 campaign. That’s 22 days after the first college football game of the season. Sports buffs out there will know that the first game, a matchup between Cal and Hawaii on August 26 in Sydney, Australia, was in the FBS division whereas the Quakers’ first game, against Lehigh on September 17 at 5 p.m., will be played a subdivision below in the FCS. They will also know that Ivy League rules allow for only 10 games per regular season where most FBS schools play 14. Unfortunately for Penn football, the vast majority of the student body can’t claim the title of sports buff and likely haven’t a clue about opening day. Not where, not when, not who we play. I was curious to know generally how aware Penn students are of the athletic going-ons at Franklin Field, so I conducted a straw poll of 50 innocent diners at the Houston Hall lunch rush. Of those, three knew the date of the Quakers’ opening game. Strangely, four knew the opponent. My first question, “do you know when Penn football’s first game is?” was usually met with nervous laughter and blank stares. One couple answered “no,” but defended themselves by saying they knew the date of homecoming – but only because it conflicted with their cousin’s bar mitzvah and their family friends’ wedding. What’s the good of awareness if the positive externality of attendance is nonexistent? The second question I asked students was whether they knew Penn’s opponent. Guesses ranged from the impossible – Temple – to the improbable – Princeton. A junior boy tried to convince me that the first game had to be Villanova, because it was the first game during both of his previous two years at Penn. He mentioned that he even attended a football practice as a freshman to scout the Quakers’ offensive scheme so he clearly was a fan. Except that he was wrong. In the 111year history of the Penn-Villanova series, it has never been the season-opener. Look, I understand that there is supposedly little hype around football at this school because we are an Ivy and sports don’t matter and students are too busy to go because they are studying blah blah blah. I don’t buy it. If we can spend three hours binging on Netflix every night before bed, we can rearrange our priorities a little bit and make the walk to the Frank to watch four quarters of the greatest American sport. Oh, and the team happens to be good; they’re the defending league champions! (The fact that two other teams tied for SEE HIGGINS PAGE 9
SPRINT FOOTBALL | Alumni
game no joke for Quakers
STEVEN JACOBSON Sports Reporter
It’s become nearly as much a staple of Penn sprint football as longtime coach Bill Wagner himself. But when and how did the annual sprint football alumni game come about? Penn picked up the idea from Ivy League rival Cornell, which started pitting its sprint football team against a team of young alumni for a preseason exhibition game 25 years
ago. The Quakers followed suit seven years later, holding their own version of the annual event for the first time in 1998. Far from going easy on the alumni, the team and its coaches see the game as an important preseason tune-up and a chance to evaluate their new talent before the real competition starts. “It’s a great way to get a preseason game against a couple bodies against someone other than your own players,” Wagner said. In particular, since the team refrains from full tackling during practice to help maintain their bodies
over the season, the players view the game as an opportunity to practice their form. “It’s good to get that chance to get some form tackling in, even if it’s against people who haven’t played football in awhile,” senior defensive back Chris Colavita said. “It’s still great to get our techniques down and solidify some stuff before the season starts.” In this regard, the alumni are more than happy to oblige. “One year, [the game] wasn’t tackle — we had to play a flag game,” Wagner said. “It was terrible. My alums don’t want to do that.”
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The tradition also serves as an opportunity for players across generations to meet each other. The game has expanded into an event spanning the entire weekend that includes a networking panel on Friday evening featuring sprint football alumni and a barbecue after the game in which the players and their families participate. Parents of both current players and alumni come to watch their sons play. After all, it’s a special event for the alumni. “You always have one football SEE SPRINT FOOTBALL PAGE 7
Quakers carry momentum into weekend clashes W. SOCCER | Team readies
for next challengers JONATHAN POLLACK Associate Sports Editor FRIDAY
Lafayette (3-0-2) 7 p.m.
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Delaware (1-5-0) 12 p.m.
University of Delaware
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Senior captain forward Olivia Blaber is confident that playing two games in three days will have no ill effects on Penn as they come off a 5-0 win over Robert Morris on Sunday, their first victory of 2016.
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If you plan on going to a Penn women’s soccer game this season, make sure you get there on time. So far in their young season, the Quakers (1-1-0) have seen much of the goal scoring action, both for and against them, happen within the opening minutes of their matches. The Red and Blue started off the season yielding two goals in the first 12 minutes en route to a 3-1 loss to Maryland, but the team responded last weekend. With a
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barrage of four first-half goals — including three in the first nine minutes — Penn cruised to a 5-0 victory against Robert Morris. The quick start is something that both the coaching staff, led by Penn coach Nicole Van Dyke and the team have focused on so far this year and want to continue leading up to this weekend’s double header. “In soccer you always want to get that first goal, but it is something that we actually talk to the team about in pregame,” Van Dyke said. “We said, ‘Hey, what are some of the things you guys want to focus on as a group,’ and they named that. One of the things they said was, ‘We want to get off to a quicker start and be a little sharper.’ That was the player’s goal in pregame, and we were happy that they accomplished that.” Another point of emphasis from the coaching staff this year for Penn was getting the defensive backs moving up the field and becoming more involved in the offense. The Quakers struggled to score goals last season, and part of Van Dyke’s new philosophy involved taking more
risks with their defense. The squad has already reaped some of the rewards of the new system, as the defense contributed significantly in the Robert Morris game. Senior Paige Lombard scored the team’s second goal with a header off a corner kick, while sophomore Cami Nwokedi assisted on Emma Loving’s second goal. “Off the top of my head I know at least three goals have come automatically because the outside backs were involved,” Van Dyke said. “Any time that we have the ball and our outside backs are both in the final third, it means that we’ve pinned teams in and we’re in the right area. We’re going to continue to work on that, it’s a competitive position and I think we have a lot of good players, everyone who has stepped in has impacted the game in their own way.” The Red and Blue kick off their weekend double header at home on Friday at 7 p.m. against a Lafayette team that has posted the best start in program history. In five games so far, the Leopards SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 8
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