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NEC: Underrepresented students slighted UA defends its appointments of students to U. Council ELLIE SCHROEDER Deputy News Editor

A conf lict between the Undergraduate Assembly and the Nominations and Elections Committee over questions of student

representation on the University Council came to a head after a failure to implement a compromise between the two groups. On Monday, UA President and College senior Jane Meyer sent an email to members of the NEC announcing three new appointments to the University Council. NEC chair and Wharton senior Michael

Roberts alleges that these appointments violate the UA bylaws on two counts and prevent the appointment of students from mis- and underrepresented groups to the council. The University Council, a body of student leaders and administrators that meets on a monthly basis, provides 13 seats to undergraduate students, in addition to two

other spots always held by the UA president and vice president. One of the 13 seats, one is reserved for the UA speaker and up to nine are reserved for “mis- and underrepresented groups” chosen by the NEC, according to Section V of the UA bylaws. SEE UA PAGE 2

JOINING FORCES Wharton teams up with Forbes to award $1 million to young entrepreneurs BRYN FERGUSON Deputy News Editor

Forbes thinks that $1 million can change the world. So does the Wharton School. For the first time ever, Wharton is collaborating with Forbes in the selection of the winners of Forbes’ $1 Million Under 30 Change the World Competition, a part of its annual 30 Under 30

ranking. With a prize pool of $1 million, the competition is the largest of its type. The winner will receive $500,000 and the five semifinalists will each receive $100,000. The money was pooled by a combination of Forbes and six

other donor foundations. Unlike many competitions, in which applicants submit business proposals, Forbes’ new competition is for social entrepreneurs under the age of 30 to showcase their companies that are already making a difference. Companies could be for-profit or

non-profit. “[The applicants] are people who have a model that can actually scale globally,” said Editor of Forbes Randall Lane, who is also a 1990 College graduate and former editor of The Daily SEE 30 UNDER 30 PAGE 7 KONHEE CHANG | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Greek board to oversee cultural sensitivity Greek Community Judicial Board formed in response to previous controversies JESSIE WASHINGTON AND LILY ZANDI Staff Reporters

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Leaders of both Greek and minority organizations have announced the formation of the Greek Community Judicial Board, a body that will hold Greek organizations accountable for issues regarding cultural insensitivity. Last semester, Phi Delta Theta fraternity came under fire for a controversial Christmas card photo in which members of the fraternity were seen posing with a black sex doll. Many students felt as if there were no mechanisms for punishing the fraternity. “What I saw directly in the

aftermath of the Phi Delt situation was that there wasn’t something that could hold the Greek community accountable,” said Lambda Alliance chair and College senior Erich Kessel, whose organization participated in the construction of the judicial board. However, Kessell said he cannot comment on what originally sparked its creation. The Interfraternity Council’s Judicial Inquiry Board manager, College junior Griffin Rubin, who helped facilitate the drafting of the new board, said the impetus for the GCJB did not come from a single place. “While certain incidents over the past two years in the Greek community indicated that a change was necessary, speaking for the IFC, we also saw the creation of the GCJB as an opportunity to reaffirm the goals SEE GREEK PAGE 7

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The remaining three seats go to students jointly appointed by the NEC and UA, according to the bylaws. NEC and UA members call these “flex seats.” The NEC had hoped to appoint students from “underrepresented groups that needed to have their voices heard,” Roberts said, adding that he could not disclose the names of the student groups. However, after several meetings between the NEC and the UA, the two groups did not come to an agreement on who would fill the three seats. On Monday night, Meyer emailed NEC executives saying that the UA had appointed three UA members to the University Council. The NEC alleges that the UA’s unilateral decision violates the UA bylaws because the UA did not consult members of the NEC before making the appointments. But the UA says the appointments were legal. “The UA believes that it needs those seats to adequately represent the school,” Meyer said.

The UA believes the seats should go to students in the Nursing, Wharton and Engineering schools to ensure that each school is represented on the University Council. The three UA members who already sit on the council are all students in the College of Arts and Sciences. The NEC charged the UA with violating a second part of the bylaws by appointing members to the University Council after the deadline explicitly outlined in the bylaws, which was Sunday night’s UA meeting. NEC executive members received the email from Meyer with the three additional representatives approximately 24 hours later. Meyer said that the UA was not obligated to secure NEC approval for the three appointees and that they were appointed during Sunday’s UA meeting, before the deadline. She maintained that the UA did not violate any bylaws. After disagreeing over how to allocate the three remaining seats months ago, the NEC and UA proposed a compromise: Any of the nine students appointed by the

NEC from mis- or underrepresented backgrounds could also be considered representatives for their undergraduates schools. This double-counting would free up some of the flex seats for other student representatives who are not necessarily from different undergraduate schools. The compromise would also allow the UA to replace the speaker with another student if needed. However, the long hours students from the NEC and UA spent drafting the compromise were rendered in vain when, on Sunday, the UA general body struck down an amendment to its bylaws that would allow for the new plan to be carried out. The two student government groups arranged a meeting through their advisor in the Office of Student Affairs, where they will discuss the conflict and how to proceed. “The NEC definitely still wants to compromise with the UA,” Roberts said. “I’ve reached out to our shared advisor in the Office of Student Affairs in order to set up a meeting with [Meyer].”

WHO GETS A SEAT ON UNIVERSITY COUNCIL? By Carter Coudriet, Henry Lin, Ellie Schroeder

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The Nominations & Elections Committee has alleged that Undergraduate Assembly President Jane Meyer (left) has violated UA bylaws.

“…the President and Vice-President shall seats on UC and UC Steering [sic].” (Bylaws of the Undergraduate Assembly, Section V.51) “One seat shall be ﬁlled by the UA Speaker.” (Bylaws of the Undergraduate Assembly, Section V.51)

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Twelve of the 15 undergraduate seats on the University Council — one of Penn’s most prestigious committees — have already been appointed. Yet the last three seats are at the root of a dispute between the Undergraduate Assembly and the Nominations and Elections Committee, with each group citing different bylaws to build their cases. Here’s a look at who gets appointed to the University Council.

“The NEC shall allocate up to nine seats to representatives of mis- or underrepresented groups.” (Bylaws of the Undergraduate Assembly, Section V.51) “After the NEC determines which groups to appoint, the NEC and UA Executive Boards will meet to determine the allocation of the remaining seats. All seats allocated to the UA shall be ﬁlled by UA members selected by the Executive Board by the ﬁrst or second meeting after the transition meeting.” (Bylaws of the Undergraduate Assembly, Section V.51) “ … The Undergraduate Assembly shall insure [sic] that, to the extent possible, each undergraduate school is represented. The members of Undergraduate Assembly who are members of the Council shall otherwise be chosen in accordance with the rules of the Undergraduate Assembly.” (Bylaws of University Council, Section II.1.e)

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Law School recieves three donations totaling $12M

Donors all have familial or personal connections to Penn Law School CAROLINE SIMON Deputy News Editor

Penn Law School recently received three major donations — totaling $12.1 million. The first gift, which amounts to $8.6 million, is a bequest from the estate of Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of 1898 Penn Law graduate, former editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, former Penn Law dean and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts. Roberts, who served as dean of Penn Law in from 1948 to 1951 after retiring from the Supreme Court, took steps to provide students with

greater scholarship funding, and the funds donated in his name will be used to enhance Penn Law’s financial aid program. The second donation, which comes to $2.5 million, is from Robert and Jane Toll, 1966 graduates of Penn Law and the Graduate School of Education, respectively. The funds will support public interest programming at Penn Law through the Toll Public Interest Center, which was renamed in 2006 after a $10 million donation from the Tolls. Robert Toll serves as the executive chairman of the Board of Toll Brothers, Inc., a builder of luxury homes. The third gift, $1 million, was given by 1963 Penn Law

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graduate Michael Rotko in memory of his late wife, Denise Rotko, who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the School of Nursing, as well as serving on the faculty there. The donation will endow the Denise A. Rotko Associate Deanship of Legal Writing and Communication, a position that will be held by Eleanor Barrett, the head of Penn Law’s Legal Practice Skills program. “These gifts provide crucial support for students and programs across the Law School,” Penn Law Dean Theodore Ruger said in a press release. “This funding will help us continue to attract the best students, while supporting them financially, academically and professionally.”

Penn Law School recently received three major donations that total $12.1 million.

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Sexual assault survey results to be released in coming weeks Administration to publish Penn’s results CAROLINE SIMON Deputy News Editor

Penn’s administration is anticipating the results of last April’s sexual assault climate survey, set to be released in the next few weeks. Penn was one of 28 colleges that participated in the survey, which was sponsored by the Association of American Universities and administered by the independent social science research firm Westat. The questionnaire required 20 to 30 minutes to complete and was designed to collect information on students’ experiences with sexual misconduct on campus. Though no release date has been announced by the AAU — which is currently chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann — Penn is expecting to see results within the next few weeks. While the AAU will report the aggregate results of the survey, Penn will be responsible for disclosing its individual information. Gutmann noted that she intends to immediately publicize Penn’s results and that she hopes the new information will help the administration’s efforts to solve a deep and pervasive problem. “I think seriously the survey will help inform us more, and that will be the same for all institutions,” she said. “I have said quite a while ago what I still stand behind, and that is that one sexual assault is one too many.” Although the University has taken several steps to streamline the process by which complaints of sexual assault are adjudicated — such as the hiring of a sexual violence investigation officer — Gutmann believes that Penn can improve its efforts to stop such crimes from happening in the first place. “We really also are very focused on proactive measures

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Last semester, Penn was one of 28 colleges that participated in a sexual assault climate survey sponsored by the AAU.

of prevention,” she said, “and I think that’s an area where we continue to have to look and ask our students what more can be done.” Provost Vincent Price, who specializes in survey research, echoed Gutmann’s enthusiasm at the opportunity to make more informed change. “This is a chance for us to assess the climate at Penn,” he said in a meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian in late August. “What I look forward to is taking those results, whatever those results are … and ask how we can move forward.” The survey’s success may be hampered by a low studentresponse rate — the day before it closed, only 25 percent of students had responded, compared to a goal of high-30 to mid-40 percent of students. However, the final response rate has not been released. While the survey was live,

Vice President for Institutional Affairs Joann Mitchell explained that the lack of participation might be due to the survey’s timing. The survey was administered during a particularly busy window that included Easter, Passover, Spring Fling and early preparation for finals. However, Mitchell said the importance of the information being collected was worth the time commitment. “At the end of the day, it’s an investment of their [students’] time that will help us ensure that we have a campus that is free of sexual assault and sexual misconduct,” Mitchell said in a DP article last April. “It’s really, really important, not only for students who are on campus now, but to students who will follow them in the future.” Check back in the next few weeks for The Daily Pennsylvanian’s coverage of the survey’s release.

OPINION Burn-covered warriors

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KEEN ON THE TRUTH | Sometimes the untold stories of “survivors” are the ones that matter

y some combination of a ghostly white mask, irregularly cropped hair and a shirt from her mother’s wardrobe, she had finally managed to make herself look unattractive. I would have found it amusing — the usual mishaps of a middle-school girl trying on adulthood — if it hadn’t been for the anger in her hazelgrey eyes and the stolid resentment in her voice; both as new to her as the fashion she was in the process of adopting. Rose was the first time I saw the effects of suicide on loved ones left behind. That night I sat at my living room table alone past 1 a.m. and thought back over the 14 months since her older brother Nick’s death. Two weeks after, she had dried her eyes and was again a bright, pretty middleschooler, giggling with her girlfriends and trying to charm me into believing that Fido ate her homework. But gradually, Rose changed. She was late for class

or didn’t come. Open-ended essay assignments started reaching my desk as miniature rants against everyone in her life. And her friend group shrunk till she sat alone.

story rarely told. It’s a story lived by many, shared anonymously by an increasing number of people on the internet. Some testimonies are stunning: “Since I lost my

to tell you all the things I never said. I never told you I loved you or that you always made me feel better … You always used to tell me that when I hit the big one-eight you’d take me

Directly after a suicide, the media focuses on painting those who kill themselves as beloved heroes.” I remembered what my father had said after Nick killed himself: the harm done to his younger siblings would run deep — even though they never mentioned it like their mom. Directly after a suicide, the media focuses on painting those who kill themselves as beloved heroes. This is natural. When someone is dead, we want to honor their memory. When parents think they can blame some third party for their child’s demise, it also makes the news. But the bone-deep emotional pain which fuels such protests and litigation is a

father [to suicide] two years ago,” writes one survivor, “I can’t eat or form normally functioning relationships. I do a lot of drugs, and am barely passing my college classes.” And the eerie response from someone else: “… my sister went down the same road as you until she almost killed herself …” Most people cope better, but their stories are still laced with the same pain and — almost always — a subtle self-blame. One woman wrote to her brother two full years after he killed himself: “… I’d give [so much]

to the pub. I went to the pub on my 18th without you, and I think that hurt the most …” Assigning blame for suicide is a prickly task that is bound to offend someone. Facebook “friends”? CAPS? Administrators? Amazon.com? Parents? Any number of people might wittingly or unwittingly contribute to a wrong choice in the emotionally disturbed mind of someone struggling with depression. But it is important to realize that the final decision rests with the individual. David Foster Wallace compared “psychotic

depression” to the circumstances of someone trapped in a burning high-rise. When the “invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level,” jumping to your death becomes “the slightly less terrible of two terrors.” Depression is the flames. Suicide is the jump. Of course, we should do what we can to help people fight that fire. Of course, it is damnable to deliberately heap fuel on someone else’s flames. But the final choice rests with what one depression sufferer described as “burn-covered warriors” — those who balance daily the fear of jumping to their deaths with the fear of another day of hopeless pain. It’s a pain that often persists temporarily even when they get professional counseling and do everything “right.” And what is it that motivates successful warriors to keep fighting when the days stretch into weeks and weeks into months? It’s the one thing that the media rarely seems to have

JEREMIAH KEENAN time for — the story of that mother, that son, that little sister with glassy, hazel-grey eyes. This alone, at times, can motivate us to choose the slightly more terrible of the “two terrors” in order to keep from plunging others into the flames — and through that noble determination to sacrifice for the good of others, find a way out of the burning building.

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College junior from China, studying mathematics. His email is jkeenan@sas. upenn.edu. “Keen on the Truth” appears every other Wednesday.

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THE QUIXOTIC QUAKER | Mental health advocates should allow research to catch up to our emotions

ast week was National Suicide Prevention Week. For Penn students, it was an emotional week, that spurred responses including reflective Facebook posts and a march down Locust Walk. As our University and national leaders consider policy changes that support mental health and wellness, I worry that our sympathetic nature and sense of urgency surrounding this issue may hinder the impact of our efforts. Emotionally charged issues often elicit emotionally charged policy responses, which may not be ideal. To this end, I offer a cautionary tale from a discipline I am familiar with — substance abuse prevention. Substance abuse and suicide are both mental health issues, and I hope that, when choosing which policies to endorse, suicide prevention advocates can learn from the mistakes made by early substance abuse prevention advocates. About 40 years ago, substance abuse prevention policymakers witnessed increasing deleterious effects of drugs in their communities and made the mistake of allowing highly

charged emotions to force fast policy responses. These responses were timely and seemed

among kids — was commendable. But D.A.R.E. was not con-

likely to use drugs than those who had not. Worse, some studies indicate that the D.A.R.E.

D.A.R.E. wasn’t just a bad program for the time it ran — it left a legacy that continues to hinder the field of substance abuse prevention to this day.” intuitively positive — but they had not been tested by sound research principles and turned out to be counterproductive to the field for decades to come. The most conspicuous example of this mistake is the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, known as D.A.R.E., a school-based substance abuse prevention program developed in the 1980s. D.A.R.E. was produced by Daryl Gates, former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, as a solution to rising and highly-publicized substance abuse and drug-related violence among young people. Gates had seen his fair share of drug deaths through the LAPD and was undoubtedly sympathetic towards those who had lost a loved one to drugs. His intention — to reduce drug use

ceived through careful investigation and controlled experiments (Gates was a cop, not a psychologist or research expert). A research-based intervention would take too long to develop — and besides, how hard could it be to teach kids about the obvious dangers of drug use? With that sentiment, D.A.R.E. offered a “commonsense” response to an emotional outcry for something to be done. As such, it quickly became the most widely disseminated substance abuse prevention program in America, reaching 75 percent of American school districts. The problem? D.A.R.E. didn’t work. When researchers got around to testing D.A.R.E., they found that the students who went through D.A.R.E. were no less

students were more likely to use drugs than their control group counterparts. It turns out, preventing substance abuse was not as easy as “just say no” or providing fatality statistics. Solutions that seemed intuitively obvious failed. Practitioners bypassed the research stage of policymaking, and they ended up spending billions of dollars on an ineffective program — not to mention the opportunity cost of not implementing effective programming. But that’s not the worst part. D.A.R.E. wasn’t just a bad program for the time it ran — it left a legacy that continues to hinder the field of substance abuse prevention to this day. D.A.R.E. dominated the school-based “market” and became a behe-

moth in the substance abuse prevention field. But D.A.R.E. was also stubborn about changing, and by refusing to improve its decidedly ineffective program (until 2009), it made suboptimal prevention the norm for years, even after better prevention practices were discovered. Many activists and those in recovery became convinced that the “just say no” mantra and scare-tactics employed by D.A.R.E. were best practices — but research shows otherwise. Critics of prevention programs often cite the failure of D.A.R.E. as proof that all substance abuse prevention is fruitless (even though it is decidedly not). D.A.R.E. didn’t just cost taxpayers money for ineffective programming — it set back the prevention discipline by several decades by preventing effective programs from being adopted. I worry that, if we act on our emotions and sense of urgency, the field of mental health may suffer a similar fate. That said, D.A.R.E. is not truly “the bad guy” D.A.R.E. came to be becuase of an emotional need for an immediate and expedient repsponse to the pressing problem of drug

THEODORE L. CAPUTI abuse. I understand that suicide, like drug abuse, is a sensitive and emotionally charged issue for hundreds of thousands of affected Americans. But I urge our policy makers to be cautious in expediently adopting policies supported by emotion rather than research. Research-based solutions will take longer to develop and implement, but in the long run, the state of mental health will be better off for it.

THEODORE L. CAPUTI is a College and Wharton junior from Washington Crossing, Pa., studying finance/statistics and mathematics. His email address is tcaputi@wharton. upenn.edu. “The Quixotic Quaker” appears every other Wednesday.

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Friday: Penn cross country opened its season at Belmont Plateau, performing well in the Big 5 Invitational.

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Friday: Students talk to prospective companies and employers at Career Link, Penn’s premier career fair.

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Sunday: A conchero puts on his headdress at the Mexican Independence Day Festival held at Penn’s Landing.

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Sunday: The Wombats performed second to last in Radio 104.5’s biggest block party concert series to date.

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Tuesday: The Colonial Penn Center under construction.

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the young entrepreneurs who are doing incredible things.” Wharton, through the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, played a significant role in the selection process. Faculty, staff and “scores” of MBA students read through the proposals of 1,000 applicants and narrowed them down to just 50 semifinalists, Lane said. Lane emphasized that Wharton has been a good partner for Forbes, in part because of their complementary missions. “They understand the importance of the social mission and balancing,” he said. “It’s a business school’s mission to train future business leaders, and having social impact is as fundamental to business as pure profit.”

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meet on a regular basis and will only convene if and when demonstrations of cultural insensitivity within the Greek community are brought to its attention. The board represents a departure from old OFSL policy, which involved administrators putting sanctions on Greek organizations that violated their rules. UMOJA co-chair and College junior Ray Clark believes that having students run and draft the board will ensure its effectiveness. “I can guarantee that this project will be effective because it came straight from the students.

We got feedback and support from Greek Life, the 5B and the UA, and knowing that no stone was left unturned gives me a very positive outlook on how things will play out,” Clark said, adding that varying perspectives among students will contribute to the board’s success. However, for Clark and other leaders of minority organizations, the council is not the only step toward fostering an accepting and safe culture on campus for minority students. “I think this is one of the most important steps that can be taken to address the problems that have

come up before in the Greek community,” Kessel said, though he added that there is a need for competency training as well. “I think it’s imperative that we really continue dialogue about these issues. At the end of the day, a lot of people still don’t know why some of the things we have seen are wrong, and I understand that people have different opinions,” Clark said. “My point is that it’s about being respectful enough to one of your peers to recognize that their feelings are legitimate, no matter what your intentions were in the moment.”

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Ann Taylor’s LOFT, pictured at its former location, reopened Monday at 36th and Walnut streets. JEFFERY CAREYVA Deputy News Editor

Ann Taylor’s LOFT in University City fully reopened at its new retail location — 120 S. 36th St. — on Monday, Sept. 14. The store had to vacate its former space in the West Philadelphia Trust Building at 36th and Walnut streets as preparations to construct Penn’s new Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics begin.

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of fraternities to scholarship, philanthropy and brotherhood,” he said. The board intends to serve as a medium for students to voice their complaints if members of the Greek community are culturally insensitive. It is comprised of one chairperson and six members, with each of the three Greek councils holding two seats. “There was no infrastructure nor system in place to deal with that kind of problem,” IFC

LOFT held a soft opening at its new location on Sept. 12 and assumed regular hours on Sept. 14. “FRES Real Estate team values LOFT in the retail mix on campus and worked with them to find a suitable location for them in our available retail spaces,” Executive Director of Real Estate for Facilities and Real Estate Services Ed Datz wrote in an email. FRES is also assisting in the

relocation of other offices that were in the Trust Building, including the Office of the General Counsel and the Office of Government and Community Affairs. The Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics is scheduled to open in summer 2018. An appropriate representative of LOFT could not be reached for comment before the time of publication.

Director and Wharton senior Jacob Wallenberg said. “I think that it is good for us to be prepared for the fact that there are cultural insensitivity issues.” After a case is brought to the attention of the board by a student, it will deliberate on the particular case and issue sanctions on the accused Greek organization, if necessary, with the approval of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. Wallenberg believes that many of the previous incidents of cultural insensitivity have been the result of miseducation. “I think some of them stem

from misunderstandings more so than spite or malice, but I think it is important to have somewhere students can turn to with their concerns and say, ‘This is something that I find offensive, and this is something that I think needs to be addressed.’” He hopes that potential sanctions will address this problem and avoid jeopardizing the charters of accused Greek organizations. “I think punishments coming from an equal group … makes the consequences a bit more effective,” Wallenberg said. The board does not intend to

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Wednesday marks the onset of another week of battle for one of the Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier fall teams, as Penn field hockey looks to add another pair of results to the win column when it hosts Villanova on Wednesday and Sacred Heart on Sunday. Since a tough season-opening loss to 13th-ranked Liberty, the Quakers (3-1) have rebounded nicely, securing important victories over Longwood, Saint Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Temple. They sit atop the Ivy League in non-conference record and hold a sizable lead in the Ancient Eight with their 4.3 goals per game. After an impressive statement win from Penn on Sunday, coach Colleen Fink recognizes that the tilt against Temple was an important learning experience for the squad. The defense essentially bailed the offense out of a tough contest and ultimately afforded the squad a positive result. Entering Wednesday, the margin of error decreases. At the

top of a shortlist of necessary improvements is the need to play a more disciplined game in the defensive zone, where the Quakers have let up a â&#x20AC;&#x153;clusterâ&#x20AC;? of penalty corner opportunities. Villanova will surely look to capitalize on Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defensive trials. The Wildcats (1-4) look to upset the Quakers in what could easily be a trap game for the team. For Penn, overlooking opponents is an unacceptable practice. Fink is a fan of the parity that her sport offers and is confident that her players understand that there is no transitivity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone wants to win every game. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t step on the field and anticipate that the other team doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re capable of winning,â&#x20AC;? Fink said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why you play the game. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the beauty of it. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why this whole â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;any given Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exists. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that you never overlook anybody.â&#x20AC;? From an offensive perspective, Villanova can be deceptive. Even though they have scored only two goals per game, the Wildcatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shooting statistics â&#x20AC;&#x201D; over 18 shots per contest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are an incredibly impressive mark. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re definitely a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;big ballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out of the back,

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theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hitting the ball in the front,â&#x20AC;? senior attack Elizabeth Hitti said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working on a lot is our defensive mentality, and with that defensive mentality is limiting the entry balls in the circle, limiting the shots that get off in the circle, limiting the corners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And if we can put all of that together tomorrow, which I know we can, then we can definitely keep Villanova out of the area where those big balls, so to speak, would be a threat.â&#x20AC;? On the attack, the Quakers look to keep up the quality of their chances while upping the quantity. The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 32.1 percent shooting clip is impressive, but likely unsustainable for an entire season. On top of that, Penn is about to go up against Villanovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talented goalkeeper, freshman Erika Miller. The Wildcatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; keeper ranks second in the nation among freshmen in save percentage (73.9) and holds the lead in saves per game (6.8). Part of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offensive success rests on the shoulders of sophomore attacker Alexa Hoover, who will look to maintain her nationleading 2.8 goals per game pace. She has a monopoly over weekly Ancient Eight honors, earning Ivy League Player of the Week nods in both of the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening weeks. It goes without saying that Hoover is not the sole cause for her 11 goals. She constantly praises her teammates for setting her up with top-notch opportunities. Fink

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in the Ancient Eight, she could certainly let her game do all the talking. But Genske is perhaps the most talkative of the bunch, and her â&#x20AC;&#x153;killerâ&#x20AC;? mentality gives way to lightheartedness once the game ends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My favorite part of being a captain is that we get to gossip with the coaches now that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seniors,â&#x20AC;? Genske says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of the staff,â&#x20AC;? Alex

Caldwell interrupts, drawing laughter from her four co-captains. Caldwell, who also received All-Ivy honors in both 2013 and 2014, is a jack-of-alltrades. Prolific as both a setter and hitter, the San Jose native finished second on the team in kills and assists; third in blocks, digs and hitting percentage and first in aces. She is versatile, both as an athlete and a captain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alex is really good at knowing what people need in terms of feedback,â&#x20AC;? Quinn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She knows whether she needs to go to

someone and say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, you need to get this ball,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s O.K., youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get the next one!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; She knows how people will respond, so that she can always pick them up.â&#x20AC;? Of course, sometimes an athlete needs something other than a morale boost to get on track. What goes on inside a playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head is crucial, but much of what happens on the court is decided right there: on the court. So when somebody isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t playing up to her usual standard, Jasmine DeSilva is the one who steps up.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Elizabeth can score goals. I think we have some people that can score goals in our attacking penalty corners, [senior midfielder] Alex Agathis being one of them, [freshman midfielder] Selena Garzio being another. [Junior attacker] Elise Tilton can attribute offensively. I think [sophomore attacker] Gina Guccione

can contribute offensively.â&#x20AC;? The Red and Blue will also take on Sacred Heart on their home AstroTurf on Sunday. True to her word, Hitti takes everything one game at a time. When asked about the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preparation, the captain admitted her focus on the task at hand, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t [yet] thought about Sacred Heart.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jasmine is a tough, tough person,â&#x20AC;? Carr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to get on you, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to hold people accountable on the court.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jazz is tough, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not afraid to take risks,â&#x20AC;? Quinn added. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mistake DeSilvaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toughness for coldness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those people you can go to talk to about anything,â&#x20AC;? Quinn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll help you out no matter what, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really supportive.â&#x20AC;? For DeSilva, the only captain who does not hail from California, constant intensity comes with the job, both as a skill and as a necessity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel more comfortable in being louder on the court, stepping out of that comfort zone,â&#x20AC;? DeSilva said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being a captain means that you have to be 100 percent on, not just physically, but mentally. The team deserves for you to be in the game mentally at all times.â&#x20AC;? As a result, during a game, DeSilva might not be outwardly peppy. That role belongs to Michellie McDonald-Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Michellie is one of the funniest people I have ever met,â&#x20AC;? Quinn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s someone who

brings all the energy to the court. If weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re down by 10 points, you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, because sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still cheering her heart out. On the court, off the court, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always an awesome energy source for our team. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really fun to play next to her and it gets everyone else hyped up.â&#x20AC;? D e Si lva a nd McD on ald-Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien have different dispositions, but both consider the uniqueness of the each captain a blessing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes it easier for all of us, the fact that we all serve different purposes,â&#x20AC;? DeSilva said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We balance each other out really well,â&#x20AC;? McDonald-Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien agreed. If McDonald-Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien is the soul, setter Ronnie Bither is the brains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ronnie is really smart on the court, she has a great volleyball I.Q.,â&#x20AC;? Quinn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She knows whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open without even looking. She has a very good court awareness thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really cool to watch.â&#x20AC;? But Bitherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contributions arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just mental. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the quiet leader, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the one thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the bulldog. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll run through a wall to win, so you want her leading a

team on the floor,â&#x20AC;? Carr said. Bitherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to â&#x20AC;&#x153;lead on the floorâ&#x20AC;? is a trait she shares with her co-captains, something crucial to the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. She may be in charge, but Carr knows that, at the end of the day, she can only do so much from the bench. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a player, you relate to and believe the people right next to you â&#x20AC;&#x201D; your peers,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the younger players, the peer aspect of the captainsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; leadership is so much more powerful than anything I can say to them.â&#x20AC;? With five student-athletes who share a title yet fulfill their responsibilities in such unique ways, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to put a finger on what their common purpose is. But McD on a ld- Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Br ien summed it up perfectly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rest of the team is super young â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there are no juniors. So we are trying to build a backbone, a framework for the future. What it means to be a captain is to show the younger players what it means to be a Penn volleyball player.â&#x20AC;? But Carr also realizes that a junior-less 2015 team ensures that there wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be any senior captains in 2016, let alone five of them.

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shares these sentiments and credits a lot of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offensive success to the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other contributors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it was fantastic to see Elizabeth Hitti step up and score a game-winner on Sunday,â&#x20AC;? Fink said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that shows and provides evidence that our offensive players are capable of [contributing offensively]. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not a one-man show.

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just two of those shots on goal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fuller saw a level of comfort in his team that hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been apparent in each of its two previous matches, losses to American and Florida International. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the team was far more comfortable tonight,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we were far more sound defensively, and we generated a number of good chances. So all in all, [it was] a step in the right direction.â&#x20AC;? While the Red and Blue had a difficult time applying pressure in Drexelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attacking third, the play of backup goalkeeper Etan Mabourakh, who was filling in for senior Max Polkinhorne after the latter suffered an injury against FIU, was particularly noteworthy. The Plantation, Fla., native made three saves and allowed only one score, despite the Dragons tallying 13 shots. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He came in untested against FIU because Max went out injured,â&#x20AC;? Fuller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being honest, it was a shaky performance against FIU. I think he would say the same thing. But I think tonight, he was much more sure of himself. He had a great command of his box and I think he organized well.â&#x20AC;? Although the numbers may not show it, the Quakers seemed to have been more fluid offensively than in their previous two losses. Junior midfielder Matt Poplawski had three of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s six shots,

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including one in the 86th minute from 25 yards out that nearly knotted the score, but went high. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we generated more chances tonight than probably the first three games combined, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a positive,â&#x20AC;? Fuller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the negative side, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t capitalize on any of those chances

and I think that is probably a case of guys being a little tight, because we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been putting the ball in the back of the net.â&#x20AC;? The Quakers will next be in action seeking their first win on Sunday when they host 23rdranked Big 5 rival Temple at Rhodes Field.

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For fans of Penn volleyball, Tuesday’s tilt against Delaware was the kind of game best watched between your fingers while wincing. Every match point was a near miss for the Quakers (4-4), and the squad was unable to claw its way after conceding the first two sets to the Blue Hens (5-5). The Red and Blue went onto lose, 3-1, despite exceptional offensive play from senior captains Alex Caldwell and Alexis Genske, who carried the attack on the court with 18 and 12 kills, respectively. Delaware jumped out to an early 10-6 lead in the first set, leaving Penn no chance but to chip away at the deficit point by point. Penn brought the score to within one point of the Blue Hens at 20-19 but was not able to overcome its opponent’s head start. Despite staving off three set points, the Quakers would drop the first set, 27-25.

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playing career, one that included playing stints with the U.S. U-20 National Team. “After coming so close and knowing what it felt like to lose [my freshman year], winning it the next year just made it that much more special,” she said. Oliver continued to shine with impressive numbers throughout her years at Stanford, graduating in 2014 with 36 career shutouts, good for fifth on Stanford’s career list. But now when Oliver steps onto the field, this time dressed

Cue the second set, and the narrative would be more of the same: an early Delaware lead and a valiant but unsuccessful rally from the Red and Blue. Although Penn would take a 22-21 lead late in the set, the Blue Hens would ultimately capture the set, 25-23. It was clear the Quakers weren’t going to sit idly by and let Delaware steal another set point — and this time the match — from under their noses. Running on all cylinders, Penn’s offense kicked off the third set with a 5-0 run. Armed with momentum, the Red and Blue won their first and only set of the game, 25-18. Senior middle blocker Michellie McDonald-O’Brien led the turnaround, recording three kills for Penn. The San Francisco, Calif., native only saw action in the third set but made her presence known on the court. Despite the squad’s brief success in the third set, Penn would not be able to mimic its surge in the fourth and final set of the game. Not even a refocusing timeout after the Blue Hens rocketed out to a 12-6 lead could put the Quakers back on track. For

the remaining part of the fourth set, Delaware’s defense stymied Penn to capture the set, 25-14,

and the game, 3-1. The loss on Tuesday night pulls the Quakers non-conference

record down to an even 4-4 winloss record. Penn has two days to bounce back to top form before

taking on Villanova at home on Friday in a game that will be broadcast on ESPN3.

in the Red and Blue, she has a different objective. She is no longer fiercely guarding the net or turning away opponents shots with ease. Instead, she is now a fixture on the sideline, coaching her team with the same passion and enthusiasm she emobodied during her playing career. “As a player, she was very good managing the game and keeping things calm,” said head coach Nicole Van Dyke, who coached Oliver at Stanford. “She never had to react. She prepared before things happened, and she brings that calm sense and silent energy as a coach.”

However, Oliver’s path to the sideline wasn’t always so clear. She wasn’t even sure she wanted to be involved in coaching until after her playing days ended. During her senior season at Stanford, Oliver was forced to retire from soccer due to concussions but remained on the team as the captain. “It was kind of a blessing in disguise,” she said. “It did teach me a little bit in terms of coaching. ... [I was] kind of like a coach with training wheels.” Her return to the game she loves is largely due to one person: Van Dyke, Oliver’s former coach who encouraged

the star goalkeeper to try out coaching for herself. “She hasn’t done too much coaching before this, but she’s got great energy,” Van Dyke said. “She was a great captain when she was at Stanford — very team-oriented — and she was always a good voice of the coach then, so it’s great that she has joined here.” Oliver has equal praise for Van Dyke, her mentor who has undoubtedly made her transition from the field to the sidelines easier. “Coming here was a nice way to ease in to coaching for me because I knew how [Van Dyke]

liked to run things,” Oliver said. “I thoroughly enjoyed playing for her at Stanford, so it’s an honor to be part of her staff and with her as a coach here.” But Van Dyke wasn’t the only reason Oliver made the trek from Palo Alto to Philadelphia. She appreciates Penn’s academic rigor and believes her time as a student-athlete at Stanford helps her relate to the current players. “I think that I can have some sympathy for them in terms of academics, just knowing how demanding it is and how much pressure they face — from themselves and from the

environment.” Besides being able to relate, Oliver relishes the opportunity to coach such bright and talented individuals. “We can challenge them with a lot of information and new concepts. And them being such smart kids they can absorb it,” she said. “It’s a level of communication that they understand.” So far in her time at Penn, there have been a lot of positives, but in her first year as a coach, Oliver isn’t sure where this journey will take her. “Who knows what the future holds,” she said. “But right now I’m loving it.”

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In Penn volleyball’s 3-1 loss to Delaware on Tuesday, freshman outside hitter Courtney Quinn had 11 digs and four kills for the Quakers. The freshman has been quick to work into the Red and Blue’s rotation this season, seeing significant playing time in last weekend’s Crowne Plaza Invitational.

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captains ever for Carr TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor

It’s hard for any foray into the topic of veteran leadership to hit on something new, but Penn volleyball coach Kerry Carr finds herself with a truly unprecedented embarrassment of riches.

capta ins Carr, the winningest and longesttenured coach in program history, has rarely appointed more than two captains during her 18 years at the helm and never more than three. This season, five players — all seniors — have been given the title. The reason? Carr said she didn’t have much of a choice. “Before the season, I said to myself, ‘There’s no way we can have five captains,’” she said. “But then I went through each one of them and

I realized [we] need all of them. You can’t not have one of them.” What makes them so indispensable? Five very different people require more than one answer. Alexis Genske, the Quakers’ star outside hitter, is the team’s lone returning captain, after having received the honor as a junior. “Alexis is the stable leader on the floor,” Carr noted. “She has leadership experience, and she leads by her actions.”

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W hen Pen n women’s soccer assistant coach Emily Oliver stepped on the field on Dec. 4, 2011, her objective was clear. It was the finals of 2011 College Cup, the NCAA women’s soccer national championship, and her Stanford team was facing Duke. After a tough loss one-goal loss in the championship to Notre Dame the previous year, Oliver — a sophomore and the starting goalkeeper — wanted nothing more than to lead her team to victory and expel the demons of that 2010 defeat. And that’s exactly what she did. Oliver held the Blue Devils scoreless and preserved her team’s 1-0 lead throughout the second half despite numerous scoring chances for Duke. She cites this game as the highlight of her illustrious SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 9

“Alexis is one of those lead-byexample type of people,” standout freshman Courtney Quinn added. “She’s someone that’s consistent throughout the entire game, and if you need a point, you go to her.” After she was named second team All-Ivy in 2013, Genske received honorable mention All-Ivy honors in 2014. Following a junior campaign in which she posted the fourth-highest kill total SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 8

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The streak goes on. After opening its season with a draw and two losses, Penn men’s soccer looked to get on track in a midweek matchup with crosstown foe Drexel on Tuesday night. However, despite stout play from their backline and backup goalkeeper, the Quakers fell victim to a Dragons’ goal in the 63rd minute and couldn’t respond over the final third of the match in a 1-0 defeat. Since an impressive draw against then-No. 7 Washington on Sept. 4, Penn (0-3-1) has dropped three consecutive matches by a combined 8-1 score. Four straight contests

without a win to begin the campaign is the Quakers’ worst start to a season since 2012, when the Red and Blue went winless in their first seven matches. The two squads began their matchup with a balanced first half, one that saw neither team assert itself on the offensive end. However, despite Penn’s prowess on defense, the Dragons (1-5) managed to maintain more possession in the second frame, eventually netting the winner on a back-post header from sophomore Colin McGlynn. “Unfortunately, no one is pleased by losing to Drexel,” coach Rudy Fuller said. “But it was a case of two teams really needing a win.” While the Quakers only managed six shots throughout the entire game — with SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640