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Gutmann ‘aghast’ at OZ email

Penn president supported actions of students who voiced opposition JENNA WANG Staff Reporter

President Amy Gutmann spoke out against a suggestive email that sparked a protest against rape culture, condemning it as having “no place” at Penn.

“I was aghast when I heard about that email,” Gutmann said in a meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian on Tuesday. “It has no place in a civil, respectful university.”

OZ, an off-campus organization, was thrust into campus and national spotlight for an email the group sent to an undisclosed listserv of freshmen girls. The email contained an invitation to a party with lines such as “We’re looking for the fun ones/And say f**k off to a tease,” and, “Tonight is your first showing/So please wear something tight.”

In response, a group of students obtained the email and printed it out on more than 600 flyers posted around campus, emblazoned over with the words “THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE,” and “WE ARE WATCHING.” In the interview Tuesday, Gutmann praised the actions of the students who spoke out.

“I was very proud of the student response to it,” Gutmann said. “It was an entirely appropriate response. That’s what we have our speech SEE GUTMANN PAGE 3

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Obama speaks at rally in Philadelphia

‘Anger and hate’ not what U.S. is, he says

One hundred protesters greeted the president

Crowd cheered ‘Yes we can’ during the president’s speech

LEONARD EISEN Staff Reporter

President Barack Obama cast a stark electoral choice for American voters today during a campaign stop in Philadelphia for Hillary Clinton.

“This is a fundamental choice

about who we are as a people,” he said. “This is a choice about the meaning of America.”

The outdoor rally, which started at about 1:15 p.m., was held at Eakins Oval, just in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and was open to the public.

Obama’s speech — presented on a light blue, arrow-shaped SEE OBAMA PAGE 5

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Most Penn students were in middle school when President Barack Obama was inaugurated.

As he nears the end of his second term in office, a stop in Philadelphia to campaign for Hillary

Clinton marked one of his final opportunities to argue for his legacy.

He has clearly embraced these few returns to the campaign trail on Clinton’s behalf, and on Tuesday afternoon at Eakins Oval in Center City, he strode to the stage after a series of introductions from Philadelphia organizers, Democratic senatorial candidate Katie SEE SPEECH PAGE 5

Prof. Maria Paredes Fernandez wins major award for teaching

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I do doubt that everyone who posted a strident Facebook status denouncing OZ has thought the issue through in full.”

The Spanish professor is also an abroad instructor MADELEINE LAMON Staff Reporter

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Spanish professor Maria Paredes Fernandez has been an instructor for several abroad programs, including Penn-in-Madrid and Penn-in-Alicante.

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It’s not every day that you get to run a road race with your awardwinning instructor.

Maria Paredes Fernandez, who was named the 2016 Teacher of the Year at the college level by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, served as an instructor for two summers with Penn-in-Alicante, for one summer with Penn-in-Madrid and most recently for two summers with Penn-in-Buenos Aires.

An avid runner, Fernandez encouraged students to sign up for road races and marathons while abroad. She accompanied them on all of their excursions and was a positive force both in and out of the classroom, her students said.

“She encouraged lea rning,” her former student and Wharton junior Kayvon Asemani said. “She encouraged you to speak if you wanted to say something and never set up a space where you could feel uncomfortable.”

In addition to working as a lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages for the past six years, she serves as a course coordinator, as a pre-major advisor for the College and has recently become an advocate for Penn First, a group geared towards first-generation students.

“She is a wonderful colleague in a program that requires more than just teaching,” said Spanish lecturer and Penn-in-Buenos Aires Program Director Jean O’Bryan Knight. “She helped to get students integrated into the culture quickly.”

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Penn’s only peer counseling group looks to expand Penn Benjamins provides free counseling to students KATHLEEN HARWOOD Staff Reporter

As the school year gears up, Penn Benjamins Peer Counseling is hoping to expand.

The group, Penn’s only peer counseling service, was founded last fall by group of students who realized the power of open discussion, offering casual peer listening and referral services to undergraduates.

College senior Roy Lan was moved to help found the group after observing the need for a studentrun support group on campus.

“After an acquaintance of mine passed away due to suicide, I started calling up the presidents and leaders of peer counseling organizations from other schools...” he said. “I created a spreadsheet of all the information, and then sent it to Amy Gutmann who told me to cancel my classes for the rest of the week to meet with the head of Counseling and Psychological Services, Bill Alexander. He then

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Growing up in Upper Darby, PA as the daughter of immigrant parents, Fernandez said she did not really embrace her heritage until her time as an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University .

put me in touch with a couple other students who wanted to start the organization, and we got started from there.”

Penn Benjamins counselors refer to themselves as “Bens” and are as approachable as their selfgiven nickname applies. Unlike the counselors available at CAPS, Bens consist of peers who are experiencing many of the same issues as the students they counsel.

Training to become a Ben lasts an entire semester. Potential Bens meet once a week for three hours to discuss and practice their counseling skills using in-person role play.

Students must pass multiple written exams in order to complete their training. This fall’s training class will select sophomores and juniors, while this coming spring a larger group including freshmen will be selected.

“We have an advantage in that our experiences as peers let us empathize and relate more than an adult counselor with no experience at Penn,” said Nursing sophomore Morgan Shick, who went through training last spring. “Coming to talk to the Bens is really a great

“Ironically I had wanted nothing to do with Spanish just because I wanted to fit in with everyone else growing up, and I hated that I had to speak Spanish at home,” Fernandez said.

“When I was in college, I took a Spanish class, like a Spanish for heritage speakers class, just to see what this is all about. At the

way to get things off your chest, and everyone is so easy to talk to.

You know that nothing you say will be repeated, you won’t be judged

and you have the Bens on your side.”

Penn Benjamins’ model is based on facilitating honest one-on-one

conversations. In one of their three locations the Bens provide a variety of snacks and coffee and a safe space for students to try to put their

issues in perspective. If a Ben finds that a student could use further professional support he or she will provide a referral.

Students come in to discuss any number of problems.

“I went into Penn Benjamins last spring because I was thinking a little bit obsessively about what I was eating,” said a College junior.

“I went and talked and felt a little better, like it’s not just a problem that I am dealing with. They referred me to professional support and I am now happily on the road to recovery.”

Engineering junior Max Schechter became a Ben last year when he recognized the stress of simply being a freshman.

“Penn can be overwhelming, especially for freshman, and it’s just always great to be able to talk to somebody who’s been through it,” he said. “We’re hear just to listen and to talk. It can be about any subject or issue, no matter how big or small.”

Students interested in becoming a Ben can find the application on Penn Benjamins Facebook page, due Sept. 14.

time I thought that my major was going to be kinesiology, and I realized that I really liked the language a lot.”

During her senior year, while completing her degree in Hispanic studies, she discovered her love of teaching after her professor asked her to work as a language instructor for

incoming students.

“I really enjoy teaching,” she said. “I love my students. I love the capacity that I get to meet students because I get to interact with them as people.”

Following this unexpected introduction, she received her masters from the University of Delaware and worked as an

instructor in various programs before coming to Penn.

In years past, she and her col leag ue Ka ra Mora nsk i have been recognized for their technological contr ibutions to language learning at Penn.

They were awarded grants for various projects, such as the creation of an introductory

video, which is now shown to most incoming students in introductory romance language courses, and the reorganization of course content on canvas.

“You’re always happy to see Maria coming down the hallway,” Knight said. “Because she’s always smiling and there’s something fun going on.”

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Penn Benjamins is a student-led group that looks to offer counseling by students, rather than professional counselors, as they are often able to relate more effectively.

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Penn says it has found no direct connection to slavery Other schools have looked into their own histories DYLAN REIM Social Media Staffer

Despite a book’s claim that all colonial-era universities have connections to slavery, Penn told The Philadelphia Tribune it has not found evidence to suggest a connection to slavery.

Several prominent educational institutions are having conversations about their own history in regard to slavery.

Most notably, Georgetown University recently made news by offering preferential admission to descendants of slaves whose sale paid the school’s historic debts.

This policy change was accompanied by a formal admission of the school’s historic involvement in slavery and reliance on racially oppressive institutions.

Craig S. Wilde, professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues in his book, “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities,” that “practically every college and university founded during colonial-era America – Harvard, William & Mary, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Brown, Rutgers and Darthmouth – has a history of slavery to confront,” as quoted in the Tribune.

But an investigation into Penn’s history indicates otherwise, the article, which ran as a commentary piece, added.

Ron Ozio, a Penn spokesman, told the Tribune that “Penn has explored this issue several times over the past few decades and found no direct university involvement with slavery or the slave trade.”

Ozio added that Ben Franklin owned slaves as a young man, but became a prominent abolitionist and served as president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. His university maintained an institutional separation from the buying and selling of slaves, Ozio told the Tribune.

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Penn finds no history of slavery in the university’s history after Georgetown’s historic decision on descendents of slaves, a spokesman told The Philadelphia Tribune.

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and responsibility for, to stand up for respectful, not disrespectful, speech.”

She went on to highlight the status of OZ as an off-campus group that does not abide by school regulations or policies, referring to a letter the University sends to incoming freshmen and parents cautioning them of such organizations.

“We want to tell students and parents that to join clubs that are not recognized by the university, you do so at your peril,” Gutmann said. “Yes, you have a right to do so — you have a right of free association — but that doesn’t mean we approve of what clubs do. They basically go against the very well thought through and important values of our community in how we treat

one another.”

OZ, along with groups such as APES, THEOS, OAX, The Owl Society and The Tabard Society were named as groups the University “strongly encouraged” parents of students to “dissuade your student from” in the letter.

The email incident — which has since been condemned by on-campus sororities, off-campus female organizations, the governor of Pennsylvania and University administration — sheds light on a larger issue of rape culture and sexual violence on campus.

Gutmann said the school puts “an enormous amount of time and energy and resources” into addressing such issues.

“We’ve been doing more and more to educate our community about what needs to be done to prevent sexual assault and harassment, where you can turn,

how you can help your peers, how you can create a culture that’s opposed to all forms of sexual harassment and violence,” Gutmann said. “We’ve developed programs, we’ve partnered with student groups.”

Gutmann named the school’s doubling of the number of Penn Anti-Violence Educators as one example of its progress on sexual violence since last year’s AAU report on Penn’s sexual violence climate.

“I’m really proud of these students — they work on bystander intervention training, which is peer to peer,” she said.

“They work with multiple student groups, including Greek life groups. We hired new full time staff members, we tripled the size of the sexual violence and prevention office and we created three working groups to focus on particular problems.”

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Penn President Amy Gutmann lauded students for speaking out against an email that told women on campus to wear tight clothes to attend a party. It was apparently sent by an off-campus organization.

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OPINION Trust falls SMALL TALK | Why Penn’s latest ED changes don’t bring in better applicants

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Over the summer, Penn introduced a major tweak to its early decision application process that prevents students from applying early decision to Penn and early action to another private university. Penn’s Admissions Office claims that this will make it so that students who apply to Penn ED are more assured of their decision to pick Penn.

However, until the problem of over-accepting ED students stops, this new policy does nothing to bring in more dedicated students.

A more accurate measure of an applicant’s dedication and commitment to Penn is not whether he or she applies to Penn over another school, but if he or she picks Penn over other schools despite being admitted to both. Not all schools have the same acceptance rates and therefore high school students must strategically apply by taking into account how realistic their chances are of being accepted.

One of the main reasons this is true is because of Penn’s vastly overinflated ED acceptance rate, which amounted to 23.2 percent for the Class of 2020. Compare this to Penn’s overall acceptance rate of 9.4 percent and the regular decision acceptance rate of 7 percent and it becomes obvious that many applicants may feel compelled to apply to Penn ED simply because it is their only chance of getting in.

Imagine a high school senior who is on the fence between Penn and a school with a higher admissions rate. This student would have a tough time selecting between both schools given that they would be accepted to both, but seeing as their odds of getting into Penn would be three times lower if they applied regular decision to both schools, the student might feel compelled to apply ED. In the scenario above, Penn isn’t receiving the kind of fully committed

applicant that Dean Furda would expect to apply ED to Penn. As The Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion Board argued in an editorial last year, Penn can’t keep admitting more than half of

yield of accepted students enrolling in Penn this year at between 68 and 69 percent, around the same rate as that of Princeton. By increasing its yield, Penn can make itself appear

This will only result in the students believing that their only shot of getting into Penn is through the ED system.” its incoming classes solely through ED — it filled 54 percent of the Class of 2020 through it. This results in students believing that their only shot of getting into Penn is through the ED system.

By admitting more and more of its incoming classes through Early Decision, Penn can increase its yield to a greater extent. This has obviously paid off, as Penn recorded its highest

much more desirable to future applicants who will note that a large majority of accepted students end up enrolling. It’s not stated explicitly, though, that more than half of those students who ended up enrolling did so through ED and therefore had no choice but to enroll.

ED as a system exists primarily to allow students to pledge their loyalty to Penn as their first choice

school. By eliminating the possibility of applicants applying concurrently to early action private schools, Penn Admissions hopes that this ED pool will be more eager to be a part of Penn than ever before.

However, as demonstrated earlier, these applicants may simply be applying to Penn ED because they feel that it is the only way they will be accepted — even if Penn isn’t their stand-alone favorite school.

There is no way that Penn will abolish the ED system any time soon, as that would make Penn less appealing to students who would prefer to finish the college application process

by December. Therefore, I believe that Penn Admissions should lower its ED acceptance rate to a similar level as its regular decision acceptance rate and defer more ED applicants. This way, the perceived dedication to Penn that ED applicants offer can still be factored in, but those who

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK are deferred to regular decision must prove their loyalty again by selecting Penn over other schools to which they are accepted.

If Penn Admissions truly values dedication to the school as much as it claims it does, this is the only path to ensure that it receives students who embody those very qualities.

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You may not have heard about this, but OZ sent a sleazy email which got leaked.

Just kidding.

Unless you live under a rock, you know about what I’m now calling #OzGate.

Personally, I have mixed feelings about how campus has reacted to the exposure of the crude poem. Let me be clear, I have little interest in defending the email itself. The sentiments expressed in the lines of truly terrible poetry indicate some attitudes I find deeply troubling.

The belief which “f**k off to a tease” betrays is clear: If a woman attends this party and subsequently decides not to engage sexually with the hosts, her decision will be met with scorn and hostility. The implication is that attending such an event makes one party bound to some kind of contract — entry for sex.

I think this belief is substantively wrong. If there’s an overarching moral premise of 21st century sexual ethics, it’s that the individual’s sexual autonomy is inalienable — the right to say “no” cannot be taken away, but, equally importantly, it cannot be voluntarily surrendered. A college woman who attends a party, even with the full knowledge the hosts intend to facilitate casual sex, should not be retaliated against, even just with scorn, for opting not to go along with the program. OZ’s email implies otherwise. That’s a shame.

But here’s the thing: The idea that attending a party is a sort of sexual contract is a coherent idea, albeit a misguided one. It can be argued; it can be refuted.

The at-large community’s reaction, however, has been to treat the email as a transgression or sin requiring denunciation,

rather than an indication of beliefs with which we disagree and which can be engaged. To be fair, OZ hasn’t shown any willingness to engage, but we’ve hardly given them a reason to do

exist to begin with.

Rather, I’m dissatisfied with the popular response.

It’s important our reaction makes it clear we want not simply to affirm and demonstrate our own righteous-

“Unless you live under a rock, you know about what I’m now calling #OzGate.“ so. Instead, as a community, we’ve mostly reacted with self-righteously indignant Facebook statuses and an angry, unsigned, denunciatory open letter.

To be clear, I’m not objecting to the actions of the women who made the email public — if we’re going to put serious effort into combating beliefs about sex we believe are wrong, we need to know that those beliefs

ness, but also to engage those whose ideas we think are misguided, to persuade them of the superiority of our attitudes and ideas to theirs. The last thing we would want, as a campus, is for those who honestly don’t believe women’s sexual autonomy is inalienable to learn from this only that they ought to just keep quiet about those beliefs.

The trouble with outrage

is that it encourages insincere conformity rather than actual contemplation and subsequent change. Maybe there is someone, or even a substantial body of people, who think there’s nothing really wrong with the OZ email. Maybe, even probably, there’s someone on campus who thinks that when a girl goes to a party, she is tacitly agreeing to have sex.

The way this has played out, as a tidal wave of outrage, I sincerely doubt those people will be in any hurry to make those views public.

Rather, they are likely to keep acting on them, simply in more discreet and insidious ways than before. If that happens, nothing will change.

We should remember that shame can alter what people say, but only persuasion can change what they think.

As we’ve seen this political season, people who hold

ALEC WARD beliefs we object to don’t typically respond well to being demonized. If anything, vilification causes those beliefs to galvanize.

And honestly, do we really want an insurgent Make Penn Great Again movement of angry sexist OZ bros? Didn’t think so.

ALEC WARD is a College senior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard.

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stage built to resemble Clinton’s campaign logo — was largely focused on doling praise on the Democratic nominee. “I don’t think there has ever been a man or woman more qualified than Hillary to be president,” he said, mentioning her experience as first lady, New York senator and U.S. Secretary of State.

“And then there’s the other guy: Donald Trump,” he said, provoking boos from the crowd.

“Don’t boo,” he said. “Let’s talk about Donald Trump.”

The President had a lot to say about Trump, commenting negatively on the Republican nominee’s alleged admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as what he characterized as divisive language Trump has used to rile up supporters.

“Anger and hate ... that is not the America we know,” he said.

“That is not the America I know.”

Obama then challenged statements by Trump that his presidency would champion the interests of the working class.

“He’s spent most of his life trying to keep as far away from working

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people as possible,” he said.

He also defended what he believes to be the successes of the Democratic Party’s leadership over the past eight years, competing with the bleak vision of our nation’s trajectory, which has so often been the focal point of Trump’s rhetoric.

He claimed victories on marriage equality and in repairing the U.S. economy, as well as in the nuclear deal with Iran.

“And gas is $2 a gallon,” said the President. “Thanks Obama!” he added, self-referencing his own meme, which is typically used sarcastically on the Internet.

Not everyone in attendance was happy, however. Outside of the rally, a group of roughly 100 activists had gathered to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, construction of which has desecrated sacred burial sites and threatens to contaminate water supplies according to the the Sioux people of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Chants of “Water is a right!” could be heard distantly during Obama’s speech, accompanied by drums.

Obama was not distracted, however, from his goal of

building support for Clinton, frequently referring to her experience in the White House.

“Nobody fully understands the demands of my job, the demands of the president, until you sit behind that desk,” he said. “[And] the closest you can be is where Hillary’s been.”

Although Clinton was the main topic of the event, passion for Obama was electric throughout the crowd. “We love you!” yelled a few fans. “I love you too!” he would reply, without missing a beat. “But you gotta love democracy too. You gotta vote!”

Towards the end of his speech, the President made use of the campaign slogan he had used to win the Democratic nomination over Clinton in 2008, now as a means to support her bid over Trump. “America is not about ‘yes, he will,’” said Obama. “It’s about ‘yes, we can!’”

“Yes we can! Yes we can!” the crowd roared in response.

According to the Associated Press, after the rally, Obama attended a closed fundraiser for Clinton’s campaign, to later fly to New York to fundraise for congressional Democrats.

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McGinty and U.S. Rep. Bob Brady (D-Pa.), to fight for his choice of successor.

“I couldn’t be more proud of the leader who will take my place,” Obama said. “I will do everything in my power to get her reelected.”

As if his point were not already emphasized, he added, “I really, really, really want to elect Hillary Clinton.”

For Obama, a Clinton presidency is the key for his work to be preserved, he said. After endorsing Clinton on June 9, he

praised her as his natural successor at a July 5 rally in North Carolina and, only a few weeks ago, spoke on her behalf at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

As he listed his many policies, such as the Iran nuclear deal, the Affordable Care Act and the Paris Climate Agreement, the crowd was jumping up and down, screaming his name.

And, if his approval rating is any clue, those cheering fans aren’t just an echo chamber of Obama’s support.

Obama has a 50 percent approval rating according to Gallup’s most recent tracking

poll and a 58 percent approval rating per a Washington Post/ ABC News poll from this week.

The 2016 election is a continuation of change and progress, the president said.

“Progress is possible, but change doesn’t happen in one presidency,” he said to chants of “Yes We Can,” from his supporters, a reprise of his 2008 campaign slogan.

At the end of the speech, Obama slowly walked around the stage, waving at the roaring crowd and soaking in the last couple of months before he will have to leave the Oval Office behind.

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DP: What’s your team in 2K? Williams: My favorite team to use in 2K is Portland.

DP: So you went to Sidwell, did you ever hang out with the Obamas?

Williams: Yeah, they’re really cool. Malia just graduated and she’s going to Harvard next year.

They’re both real cool.

DP: Can you dunk? When was the first time you dunked?

Williams: Yeah. I think the first dunk I had was freshman year, midseason was probably my first dunk.

DP: If you were in a dunk contest, what’s the best dunk you think you could probably pull off?

Williams: I can windmill. But that’s, like, inconsistent. I haven’t gotten to the point where I’m consistently doing it. I wouldn’t try it in a game.

DP: What’s something you want people to know about you?

Williams: Great personality, ready to contribute for four years, ready to bring a lot of wins to Penn basketball.

DP: What’s something you want people to know about you that has nothing to do with being a basketball player?

Williams: I love music. Music has been, especially hip-hop, music has been like my life pretty much outside of basketball, outside of hanging out with friends and stuff. Music is probably one of my favorite things.

DP: Do you have any certain artists you listen to before a game or when you’re working out?

Williams: Before a game, when I’m working out, maybe Future. But I’d say my favorite artist right now is probably J Cole?

DP: Biggest question: Can you understand Future?

Williams: Um, uh, yeah. Not, everything. Most of it.

DP: What are some players you’ve tried to model parts of your game after?

Williams: The player I get compared to the most and that I probably play the most like is Michael Carter-Williams.

DP: Thoughts on Deflate-gate?

Williams: I’m not a big Tom Brady fan so I’m glad — I’m a little upset that he got off like he got off, though.

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No. (ed. note: Incorrect) What’s the first word that comes to mind when you think of Coach Wagner?

Legend.

What’s your pregame ritual?

Playing acoustic music in my headphones.

What’s your real secret talent?

Oh boy. Singing used to be the secret one.

I’m a pretty good freestyle rapper.

What’s your favorite song to perform?

My sister and I do this duet to “Same Girl” by Usher and R. Kelly.

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and I didn’t realize it was him.

The way he went from defensive end laterally to the ball was nice to watch.”

It’s a testament not only to Cai’s work ethic but his talent that he has been able to so seamlessly reintegrate himself into the program.

On a team already viewed as a contender for the Collegiate Sprint Football League title, bringing back an old hand is the kind of move that can put a program over the top. Certainly, his teammates are glad to have him back.

“It definitely makes us more versatile — he can play pretty much anywhere on defense and it gives us a little more freedom to mix everyone else around,” sophomore linebacker Sam Smallzman said. “He’s a leader.

He’s one of the older guys. He’s experienced. He’s a laid back dude, but I’ve heard he really turns it up in the games.”

While Cai has yet to see game time in his return to the gridiron, that will change

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For Cai, though, it doesn’t matter who the opponent is.

This weekend, he gets back in the ring.

“Not playing for a fall, I realized how much I missed football — because I could have just dropped out and continued working, but playing football was a big reason why I came back.”

And, most importantly, the decision paid off. Cai says he sees a future for himself in tech — but not until he takes one last shot at his sole remaining goal.

“I’ve never won a championship in my 13, 14 years of playing football. So I definitely want to check that off. This is a really good team — this is the best team I’ve ever played with, so I think we’ve got a really good chance.”

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Penn Athletics Quakers take home first announces new wellness set of weekly Ivy honors and concussion center Furrer, Sands named Rookies of the Week

Center to be on East End of Franklin Field JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor

As the conversation around athletics — and particularly football — has centered on player health, and concussions specifically, Penn Athletics has purposefully worked to stake a claim at the forefront of safety initiatives.

In the latest move along this trend, Athletic Director Grace Calhoun announced plans for the construction of a new Holistic Wellness and Concussion Center in Franklin Field.

The Silverstein Wellness and Concussion Center, which will be housed on the second floor of the Frey Athletic Training Room in the East End of Franklin Field

will provide students a wide range of wellness and medical services.

On the concussion side of the facility, the space will be a hotspot for concussion research — bolstering Penn’s claims to be at the forefront of the field. Since Calhoun began her tenure, she has helped lead Penn’s involvement in both the Ivy League/Big Ten Concussion Study and the Department of Defense SportRelated Concussion Study. “I am thrilled to provide Penn Athletics with an innovative, state-of-the art facility that not only improves the care and management of concussions, but also takes care of Penn’s student-athletes as a whole,� said Howard Silverstein, whose donation helped put his name on the building, in a press release. “Today’s athletes deserve integrated care. This facility will

make a difference to all of our student-athletes, now and for the future.�

The center — the first of its kind among the Ivy League institutions — will also include office space for Penn’s head athletic trainer and its sports nutritionist, as well as meeting rooms for small consultations with players. The space also boasts conference space intended for collaboration among Penn’s many sports performance professionals.

In this way, the center is hoping to bridge the gap between Penn Sports Performance and Penn Medicine, offering in-service opportunities with Penn Med physicians. The hope is that the establishment of this center will induce more communication between the two departments in the fields of research, evaluation and analysis.

TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor

Considering they have yet to even take their first college midterm, a pair of Penn freshman athletes had quite precocious weeks for their respective teams.

Women’s soccer’s Emily Sands and volleyball’s Caroline Furrer both picked up Ivy League Rookie of the Week Awards following high-scoring performances that led their teams to winning non-conference weekends.

Sands played a part in three out of the four Quaker goals this weekend. After picking up an assist in Friday’s 2-1 win over Lafayette, the West Chester, Pa., native tallied a goal and picked up another assist as Penn took down Delaware by the same score on Sunday.

Sands is now tied for the team lead with six points on the season,

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Freshman midfielder Emily Sands had has no trouble finding the net for Penn women’s soccer, earning six points thus far in 2016.

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Also, despite having played over 300 minutes already, Qu has remained largely untested, only having been forced to make seven saves. On the bright side, a quiet day for a goalkeeper is a good sign from the backline, which was one of the strongest aspects of the Quakers’ 2015 campaign. “They are absolutely amazing,� the goalie said of her defenders. “They are so helpful in just helping me gauge the flow of the game or helping me in those situations where I might lack that experience.�

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The idea of a sweeper-keeper — a goalie that not only stops shots but acts as a deep-lying center back at times — has become a key component in today’s game, and Qu has adapted well. “I think it’s really important to just stay calm because that’s where a lot of mistakes happen,� she said.

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A pair of freshmen brought home Ivy Rookie of the Week honors on Tuesday

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fter falling just short of its first league title since 2010, Penn sprint football returns much of its starting defense from 2015. So coach Bill Wagner isn’t going to need to bring in too much untested talent.

But what about an old friend?

After taking the 2015 season off, senior defensive end Ed Cai is finally back for a fourth year — and he might just be better than ever.

As a sophomore, the Fairfax, Va., native was named first team All-CSFL, followed by honorable mention league honors a year later. After logging team highs in tackles for loss and sacks that season, expectations were high for Cai’s senior year in 2015. But when the lights came on at Franklin Field, the defensive end was nowhere to be found.

In fact, he was almost 3,000 miles away.

Following a pair of summer internships in finance, Cai realized he wanted to try something new. As a software engineer, he was able to secure a position working in California with Facebook for the fall semester.

In most situations, an athlete in Cai’s position would have to choose between essentially ending his career and foregoing the opportunity to work in California. But sprint football is a different beast.

Cai’s roommate, Wesley Zhao, was a linebacker for the

Quakers who graduated in 2015. Zhao also went through a similar process, taking a year off from sprint to go to work following his freshman year before then returning.

Having seen Zhao’s ability to transition back made the decision much easier for Cai. “Mentally, I think it has been a really easy process, but the first week of full hitting was — it was the first fall in probably 13 or 14 years that I didn’t play football so that was pretty crazy for me,” he noted. “So coming back and hitting for the first time helped me remember how much I missed football.”

The decision wasn’t to forego his final year — it just simply got delayed.

That’s not to say his time in California was wasted from a football perspective. Cai kept in shape and was ready to go in spring practices once he returned to campus. In fact, his coaches think he’s even sharper after a year off.

“He does ten thousand things at once, but he is one heck of a defensive end. He can come off the edge as fast as anybody in this league,” Wagner said. “I expect him to have a big year — and he does too. He’s in top shape right now.

“He did not miss a step. Last night he got my attention, SEE CAI PAGE 7

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It only took 12 minutes for freshman Kitty Qu to get the signal to put on her gloves.

After her team went two goals down just minutes after the season-opening whistle, Penn coach Nicole Van Dyke called up the untested newcomer for her first taste of collegiate soccer.

That was over two weeks ago, and Qu has played every minute of action since.

“It’s cool for me because it’s taking a lot of responsibility as a freshman,” the Foster City, Calif., native said.

In the three games that followed that opening 3-1 loss to Maryland on August 28, Qu has held on to her starting spot, showing that her stint in goal was not a one-time occurrence.

And with Qu in goal, the Quakers (3-1-0) have opened their season with fantastic momentum.

In her first start, a week after the Maryland game, Qu recorded her first career clean sheet as the Red and Blue steamrolled Robert Morris to a 5-0 victory.

Penn then moved on to grab 2-1

Earlier this month, Sidwell Friends point guard Jelani Williams announced his commitment to Penn as part of the Class of 2021.

The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with Williams on his decision.

Daily Pennsylvanian: You recently committed to Penn. Who else did you consider in the recruiting process?

Jelani Williams: When I made my decision I had about 15 offers.

I had narrowed my list down to seven schools and was considering Penn, Princeton, Rice, Delaware, Pepperdine, Temple and GW. DP: Were there any other top basketball programs that took a look at you that you had narrowed out earlier in your process?

Williams: Northwestern, Georgetown and Maryland.

DP: When did you decide you were going to go with Penn?

Williams: I visited a couple weekends ago, and made the decision when I got home, I talked to my family and my high school coach and called coach Donahue that night and let him know I wanted to go there.

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Earning the starting position in her second game for Penn, freshman goalkeeper Kitty Qu has let in three goals in four games this season.

wins over both Lafayette and Delaware, bringing the team to a 3-0 record with the freshman starting in net.

“Freshman to me is just a title,” Van Dyke said. “You want experienced players on the field, and you want players that know the system, but we come out every week, and the top players play.”

After the graduation of Kalijah Terilli — a United States U-23 National Team-recognized goalkeeper — last spring, there was uncertainty as to who would grab the starting spot when the new season rolled around.

Senior Carrie Crook looked to be the favorite, after assuming the role last year when Terilli succumbed to injury early on in the campaign. It was Crook who started in net against Maryland

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before she was subbed out in the first half.

Another contender could be found in sophomore Kiera Towell, who saw action in two games last season and holds the number one shirt – the traditional goalkeeper identifier.

“I think this [competition] is a testament to the players,” Van Dyke said. “They come out every practice and compete for a starting spot. It’s the same with the goalkeepers.

“As you settle in throughout the year, it might become more apparent who might be a starter.”

For Qu, who only began playing goalie as a child because of her early growth spurt, assuming such a central role in the team in her first SEE QU PAGE 8

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COURTESY OF JELANI WILLIAMS

Earlier this month, Sidwell Friends point guard Jelani Williams became one of the first commits for Penn basketball’s Class of 2021.

DP: As a basketball player, what are your main strengths?

Williams: I’m a big point guard, I can see over the floor. I’m pretty athletic, I can shoot it. But I think probably my leadership and being able to create for others is probably my biggest strength.

DP: And what are some things you want to work on when you get to Penn?

Williams: Mostly my explosiveness, like around the rim, being able to jump faster so that I can

explode over people. And extending my range so I become more of a threat from deeper.

DP: How many unread emails do you have in your inbox right now?

Williams: *laughs* unread emails — right now … on my school email or my personal email?

On my school email I have 45 unreads. On my GMail that has a bunch of spam I have 28 thousand SEE Q&A PAGE 7 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640