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Benoit Dubé is ready to listen

Before beating out hundreds of candidates to become Penn’s first-ever Chief Wellness Officer, he was a physician with a passion for education KELLY HEINZERLING AND REBECCA TAN News Editor and Executive Editor

When Benoit Dubé, 49, first received an email from an international search firm gauging his interest in the role of Penn’s inaugural Chief Wellness Officer, he took one look before sending the note straight to his trash.

They send these emails to everyone, he figured, and besides, he was happy right where he was: a longtime professor of psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, with administrative titles that let him pursue his interests in education, wellness, and diversity.

But after another invitation from the Provost’s Office to apply for the position, the physician quickly emerged as the front-runner, eventually beating out hundreds of candidates from across the world. Now, as the Ivy League’s first Chief Wellness Officer, Dubé is charged with leading Penn’s strategy on an issue that has disenchanted students for years: mental wellness on campus.

“This was never part of my career trajec-

tory,” Dubé said from his new office at 3611 Locust Walk. “But the more I talked to the Provost and his team, the more I realized I could do the same things but with a broader audience. I could still be a student advocate, but for more people. And that’s what hooked me.”

A physician by training, Dubé arrived at Penn as a medical resident in 1997 and has since held close to a dozen administrative positions, many geared toward improving student experiences. It was this mixture of medical expertise and interest in student life that drew the attention of Penn’s search team, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum said.

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Wharton changes its transfer process policy

Two freshmen relocate after their ceiling caves in

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Penn students will no longer be able to transfer to Wharton or add a dual degree with the business school at the end of their sophomore year or later.

Until this past spring, students in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science were permitted to apply to transfer to or add a dual degree from the Wharton School at the end of freshman year, mid-sophomore year, or at the end of sophomore year. Now, however, students are only eligible to apply after completing two or three semesters at Penn — not four.

Two fresh ma n students were forced out of their dorm room in the Quad on Sept. 12 after the ceiling collapsed.

College freshman Connor Hsu and Engineering freshman Gabriel Frydman were relocated to another dorm room in Sansom Place East last Wednesday, and repairs to their room in the Quad began Saturday morning. The two still don't know when they will be able to return home.

“They set us up in a room here for the time being, but we’re not really sure how long that will be,” said Hsu. On Wednesday, Hsu noticed a large crack in the ceiling,

Students can’t transfer at the end of sophomore year

The students lived in Coxe in Ware College House

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To apply to transfer or to add a Wharton degree, students are required to complete six courses first, including Math 104...

For many students who planned on transferring or pursuing dual degrees, this policy shift, which was never formally announced, has made it nearly impossible. To apply

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Jiho Lee, the students’ RA, said he was unaware of any further steps being taken by the school to solve the issue of the caved ceiling.

spanning nearly wall to wall just a few feet from the windows when he returned to his room in Coxe in Ware College House.

Hsu continued on to classes,

but when he returned, he noticed the crack had gotten significantly larger. He said the ceiling surrounding the SEE CEILING PAGE 7

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Students protested Steiny-D’s hours in 1989 The sit-in pushed the admin. to reverse its decision HALEY SUH News Editor

Despite initial outrage, Penn students seem to be yielding to the changes in Huntsman Hall's opening hours. Last week, a planned sit-in to protest the decision passed without making a splash, ending after just 15 minutes. Twenty-nine years ago, however, when Wharton administrators tried to limit the hours of another popular study spot, Penn students took on a stronger fighting stance.

In 1989, when Wharton announced in August that Steinberg-Dietrich Hall would be closed at midnight daily instead of remaining open for 24 hours, students staged a multi-day sit-in, eventually pushing the administration to reverse its decision.

Unlike last Thursday’s protest, which attracted just eight students, the one in 1989 attracted a boisterous crowd of students and lasted for two consecutive nights, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported at the time.

The protests also sparked a series of student activity, including petitions and meetings with administrators that eventually led to the re-opening of Steinberg-Dietrich Hall as an around-the-clock study hall.

At the time, the issue that was getting students riled up wasn’t student wellness but University finances.

“It was a budgetary challenge,” said then-Chairperson of the Undergraduate Assembly and 1990 Wharton graduate Benjamin Karsch. “[Wharton] had to figure out where to cut corners, and the decision was to close SteinbergDietrich at midnight.”

The early closure of the building was meant to save Wharton

the annual $300,000 operational costs of keeping "Steiny-D" open at night. A memo written in July 1989 to Wharton staff noted that rising utility costs had increased the school’s allocated costs “at an alarming rate.”

1990 College graduate Kathleen Nicoll wrote an op-ed in the DP in 1989, arguing that Wharton’s decision was “a matter of confused priorities.”

"If the University considers itself an institution of learning, it should not close study halls in order to cut operation costs,” she wrote at the time. “It is tragic that this Ivy League school would even think to set such a precedent.”

Graduate students also voiced criticism, condemning the University for placing economic considerations above the academics needs of its students. The Undergraduate Assembly, which released statements acknowledging the

frustrations of students, passed a resolution demanding replacement 24-hour study facilities by the first week of October.

And so on Oct. 1, two months after Wharton's initial decision, Steiny-D reopened full-time.

"We made student needs very clear, set a deadline together, and they met student needs by the deadline," Karsch, the former UA chairperson, said at the time. "This is the perfect example of the success of student representation."

Unlike in 1989, efforts to fuel student activism in response to the change in Huntsman Hall's hours have not been quite as successful. Even though more than 300 students marked "going" to the planned sit-in last week, less than 3 percent of them turned up.

Another distinction this time is the reason for the closure. Wharton administrators have said closing Huntsman Hall from 2 a.m. to 7

Unlike the Huntsman protest, which attracted eight students, the one in 1989 attracted a boisterous crowd of students and lasted for two days.

a.m. is part of a wider initiative to improve wellness, adding that the decision is not saving the University any significant costs.

"The idea was to really emphasize student wellness. We want

students to go home at a reasonable hour and sleep," Director of Wharton Student Life Lee Kramer said.

"We're hoping this is a positive step for campus and that students will be receptive to it."

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U. centralizes resources for grad. students with children Family Resource Center is a primary resource for them COURTNEY DAUB Staff Reporter

In an effort to increase awareness of the growing resources for graduate students with children at Penn, Penn has designated the Family Resource Center as the primary contact for new parents requesting accommodation or leave of absence.

As of this past spring semester, all requests for leave or accommodation for graduate students who have recently had or have recently adopted a child are to be sent to the Family Resource Center. Before, these requests would go through the student’s individual department.

Executive Director of Graduate Education Anita Mastroieni said the decision to have information centralized in one location rather than localized by academic department is part of an effort to help make the student-parent experience easier.

Mastroieni added she hopes this change will remind students of the

resources that exist and better connect them to the resources available.

“If you’re a third or fourth year Ph.D. student, we told you about this place at orientation, but you may not remember it,” Mastroieni said. “This ensures students get the information exactly when they need it.”

Center Director Jessica Bolker said it is important for new parents to be aware of these resources since they often struggle to balance life as a student, spouse, and parent.

Mastroieni said options to relieve that stress for new parents include taking an “accommodation,” which refers to a shorter break with benefits, and taking “leave,” which refers to a longer break that suspends benefits.

Bolker said the center acts as a space to meet and receive support from other parents, such as through the Student Parent Wellness Group whose meetings include a counselor from Counseling and Psychological Services and a social worker.

“Most students at Penn come from someplace else,” Mastroieni

said. “It leaves you in a place where you don’t have a network to rely on.”

Mastroieni added the center also works with a council of deans to raise awareness for the issues graduate parents face. She said that something as simple as not having events in the late afternoon could make a big difference for these students.

Finances for raising a family on a student budget pose an additional challenge — an area Bolker said the center has been specifically targeting in recent years.

The Family Resource Center grants, established in 2012, have grown considerably in the past few years, Mastroieni said. Whereas grants to cover family expenses were previously limited to $2,500 per child, the center now provides $5,000 for one child and $2,500 for additional children up to $10,000.

The center also provides a Dependent Health Insurance grant that covers up to $1,000 per dependent.

For Sofia Torres, whose partner is a Wharton second-year MBA student, the Penn network for student parents is especially important.

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As of this past spring semester, all requests for leave or accommodation for graduate students who have recently had or have recently adopted a child are sent to the Family Resource Center.

Torres and her partner came from Mexico to Philadelphia when their daughter was eight months old, and the family has since become involved with the support network for families in Wharton.

“The biggest thing was the cul-

ture shock,” Torres said. “With them around to answer questions it’s been really easy.”

Despite an expansion of existing resources, graduate parents in the past have expressed issues with the University culture or climate, citing

lack of faculty empathy and exclusion. Recently, Penn has decided to focus on “valuing graduate students,” a project that includes the recent creation of the bias reporting form as well as increased grant support for parent graduate students.

Penn Law grad. runs for a seat in the House of Representatives

All Pa. congressional seats are currently held by men MAX COHEN Deputy News Editor

The state of Pennsylvania has 18 seats in the House of Representatives and two seats in the Senate — all of which are currently held by men. But come this season’s midterm election, 1984 Penn Law graduate Mary Gay Scanlon might help change that.

Scanlon won the Democratic primary election this May and is running against 2000 College graduate Pearl Kim, a woman who claimed the Republican nomination. The two Penn graduates will be fighting head-tohead for the historic Fifth Congressional District race, which will undoubtedly result in a woman representative.

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Hall,” Cade said. In the final stages of Penn’s selection process, eight candidates, including Dubé, were invited to meet a wide group of administrators, students, and faculty. After two consecutive days of interviews, Dubé pulled forward, heads and shoulders above the rest, she said.

“It was his effect,” Cade added. “It was also the semantics, the words, the import of his definitions. Interwoven in what he said were all of the concepts that students had told me were important to them.”

Following years of student activism around mental wellness, President Amy Gutmann announced the position of a Chief Wellness Officer in April this year. The role, housed under VPUL, oversees four departments, including the Counseling and Psychological Services and the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives. It is designed to consolidate and coordinate wellness initiatives across the University — a response, in part, to the frequent criticisms that resources and policies at Penn are too decentralized to navigate.

In his new position, not only will Dubé have to manage departments he has not led before,

gomery County. Regardless of the outcome, the race will produce a female Pennsylvania congressional representative.

Scanlon said her time spent at Penn helped shape her professional career in many ways. She credits Penn, at least in part, for inspiring her advocacy for pro bono efforts in Philadelphia, her continued engagement with Penn Law Clinic, and her current bid for Congress.

She came to Penn Law with an intention of entering into a life of public service and often volunteered in cases in which those involved could not afford counsel. But she points to a moment the summer after her first year at Penn as a catalyst for her desire to help those less fortunate in society.

Scanlon was working at the Penn Law Clinic and saw a woman’s eviction case in landlord-tenant court. The woman’s lawyer started to yell at her when she wasn’t giving the an-

swers he needed, and the woman began to cry. The judge stopped proceedings and asked the lawyer what he was doing, to which the lawyer replied, “Your honor, it’s pro bono.”

“It was appalling to me and it really reinforced a desire to represent people regardless of circumstances and to always treat them with respect,” Scanlon said.

Before deciding to run for Congress, Scanlon most recently served as pro bono counsel at the Philadelphia Law firm Ballard Spahr, where she coordinated the firm’s volunteer legal efforts. With the 650 lawyers at the firm and their numerous clients, Scanlon said Ballard Spahr gives away 50,000 hours of free legal services every year, equivalent to over $20 million.

“It’s a good job, and it all comes from starting at Penn, having started representing folks in the legal services system,” Scanlon said.

he will also have to work with deans from Penn’s 12 schools, dozens of administrators, faculty members, and student leaders, many of whom have different ideas for how to improve wellness on campus.

Dubé has already gotten a taste of this challenge. Less than a week into his job, Wharton administrators unveiled their decision to change Huntsman Hall’s operating hours in an effort to improve student wellness — a move that quickly proved unpopular with students.

“I had a feeling that this wasn’t going to be as successful as they thought … But it’s not my place to come in and undermine the dean of Wharton,” Dubé said.

“If we were to roll back time, I’m pretty sure it would have happened differently. And maybe with a centralizing, administrative government, we can prevent misunderstandings like this,” he added. “I want to make sure that students are heard, and I want to make sure they are part of the solution, not handed a solution.”

Before this role, Dubé spent much of his time as the director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Perelman School of Medicine, which allowed him to interact extensively with students, said Department Chair of Psychiatry Maria A. Oquendo.

“More than many faculty members, he was really involved in the day-to-day interactions with students. And so he’s acutely aware of the student experience,” Oquendo said.

Dubé describes himself as a strong student advocate, though he recognizes the students he has worked with until this point have been from the medical school. From his perspective, learning how to represent Penn’s seven other graduate schools and the four undergraduate schools is his biggest challenge.

“I really see my responsibility as approaching this from a position of humility and to ask questions so that people will give me the lay of the land,” he said. “I have some ideas on the issues, but maybe my ideas are wrong. It’s from talking and listening that I’ll figure this out.”

College senior and President of the Undergraduate Assembly Michael Krone met with Dubé over the summer along with Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President Haley Pilgrim and MERT Chief David Gordon.

“I thought he had a lot of really great ideas and a lot of really cool experience,” Krone said. “[But] obviously there will be a learning curve in terms of learning how to work with undergraduates and make that pivot

Scanlon stayed engaged with Penn Law well after her graduation, according to two Penn Law professors who hail her as a role model for their students.

Professor Fernando ChangMuy first met Scanlon when she was an attorney at the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania, where she represented children in the public school system. She has served as a guest lecturer in his refugee law class to speak about her work with refugees seeking asylum.

“She’s a great example of a public interest lawyer who left public interest and went to work with a big law firm, but nevertheless continued to do public interest work,” Chang-Muy said. “Many of my students end up working in big law firms, and Mary Gay showed them through her personal experience, how big law firms and corporations can still do great pro bono work like she did.”

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Rulli first connected with Scanlon through the Philadelphia pro bono community, and echoed Chang-Muy’s praises. Scanlon has also spoken with his classes about pro bono legal services and why it’s important law students are involved in pro bono work.

“Mary Gay is deeply committed to public service, her whole professional career has been about helping others, especially the most vulnerable in our society,” Rulli said. “She’s a great role model for all students about how you can integrate public service into your career, no mat-

ter what your career path is.”

For Scanlon, the most important issues this election cycle deal with voting rights, health care, and education, especially with regard to student loans.

“The student loan system is terribly broken, and we need to reform the process and make it more affordable,” Scanlon said.

“We also need to address the escalating student debt and look at student loan forgiveness, as that is money that will go back into the economy in a way that corporate giveaways will not go back into the economy.”

She urged Penn students to turn out to the polls in November, in order to buck the trend of older voters deciding the fate of the future.

“Students are poised to become the biggest voting block in the country — if they turn out,” Scanlon said. “They’ve got to come out, or their grandparents are going to dictate what the country is going to look like.”

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In Benoit Dubé’s new position as Chief Wellness Officer, he we oversee four departments, including the Counseling and Psychological Services and the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives.

from working in the [medical] school.”

Moving forward, Dubé said the plans to take a three-pronged approach to addressing wellness: equipping students with the skills to manage stressful situations, improving the academic environment, and work-

ing to “infuse” Penn’s culture with ideas on wellness. One of his first steps is to start an administrative overhaul of the departments relating to wellness at Penn.

“We can’t just say we want to integrate [wellness] on paper,” Dubé explained. “We actually

have to integrate it.”

While the physician is cleareyed about the challenges that lie ahead, he said he is above all, excited for his new post. Standing in front of his office on Locust Walk, he noted, “The last time I felt this energized was when I started medical school.”

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OPINION Limiting courseloads won’t solve wellness — but it’s a start

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ROAD JESS TRAVELED | Extending the pass/fail deadline and course unit limits may push students in the right direction

n Sept. 7, Provost Wendell Pritchett and Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein sent out an email to all undergraduates, outlining the new extension for the pass/fail deadline and new limit on the number of courses a students can take in a semester. This semester, the pass/fail deadline is now Oct. 26, and students can take up to 7.5 c.u.s, with a hard limit of 5.5 c.u.s for advance registration.

Similar to the decision to curtail Huntsman Hall’s hours, Penn is clearly trying to tangibly show that they are listening to students’ concerns over mental health at Penn. By working closely with student groups such as Penn Wellness and Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, the administration has begun to roll out

new changes that have received mixed reviews from students, but nevertheless have actually affected Penn’s academic environment.

While I understand the concerns students may have about finishing credits or wanting to take more classes than deemed necessary, I believe this change is ultimately a beneficial one, and comes at a good time when student wellness seems to have hit all-time lows. With many students trying to get dual degrees, triple minor, or simply take as many classes as they can, there is a culture of academic stress that certainly adds to the overall mental unwellness on campus.

Indeed, on other campuses across the country, it’s quite rare to take more than four classes per semester. When I talk to my friends that go to

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different universities, they are surprised to hear that the average Penn student typically takes more than 4 c.u.s. After being a student here for more than two years, I do not think it’s uncommon at all to take 5 or even 6 classes in one semester, which might be inherently unhealthy thinking. Why is it that we feel the need to overload ourselves academically, and think this is normal?

small, incremental changes such as imposing course limits and limiting a building’s hours, we can slowly turn around the deep-rooted problems of our campus.

A year ago, I think I would have been just as outraged by this new initiative as other students are. During the fall of my sophomore year, I had an existential crisis and ended up taking six classes in one semester,

On other campuses across the country, it’s quite rare to take more than four classes per semester.”

Many students have pushed back, claiming that academic pressure may not necessarily be the cause of unhappiness. Just like the Huntsman backlash, students claim Penn’s administration is not addressing the true issues behind mental health by closing a building early. While this may be true, it’s undeniable that Penn students are simply overcommitted and stressed — and small factors, such as overloading on courses and the pressure to stay up late to cram, all add to the toxicity of Penn’s environment. By making these

frantically exploring different subjects and trying to do more than I could simply because I felt pressured to get the most out of my Penn education. With many of my peers trying to graduate with dual degrees, it seemed like a normal thing to do.

Long story short, I crashed and burned — taking six classes was simply too much work, and I found myself drowning in the middle of the semester despite my confidence at the start. I realized that to truly get the most out of my education and learn

JESSICA LI from my classes, I needed to calm down and re-evaluate if I really needed to take this many courses. Ultimately, I realized that classes are about quality over quantity, and if I wanted to take advantage of my education, I needed to truly focus on prioritized classes and plan out my next few years.

At Penn, we are often peerpressured to do the most, in terms of extracurriculars, social life, and academics. While the new course limit will not fix Penn’s overarching mental health problems, this new initiative, and others rolled out this year, could push students in the direction of healthier habits and better priorities. So this semester, take a good hard look at your schedule — and see if you really need to take that sixth, seventh, or eighth course.

JESSICA LI is a College junior from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu.

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his summer, I took an Instagram cleanse. In general I’ve been trying to cut social media out of my life, at least on a temporary basis, until I can reconstruct my relationship with the internet in a more healthy way. I realized that the internet, which in high school had seemed like a glittering oasis of information, connection, and self-expression had become, for me, an echo chamber of my own narcissism and anxiety.

I spent the summer working in the Rare Books Library in Van

chatter of social media, the inside of my head felt different too.

This is the part where I’d love to say that deleting Instagram made me less of a narcissist. It would be great if I could tell you that during my summer without social media I became a kinder person, a better friend, did battle with my insecurities, and cleaned my room.

That’d be great! But I can’t.

Deleting Instagram didn’t solve any of my problems. All it did was create a bit of space inside my head.

And for a while, instead of echoing around the internet, my thoughts just bounced around my skull at a frightening velocity.

So then began the hard work of trapping my thoughts, slowing them down, and trying to rebuild them in a way that would actually make me kinder, more thoughtful,

The urge to document and perform our lives existed before social media.”

Pelt. Emptied of people, campus felt different, like I’d suddenly been dropped into an alternate dimension where everything looked the same but was somehow essentially different. Devoid (mostly) of the

and less self-centered.

When I started getting ready to go abroad, I seriously thought about whether I wanted to download Instagram again. After all, I was going to Paris, and the allure

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of tastefully filtered shots of the sun setting behind the Eiffel Tower, boxes of pastel macarons, and boomerangs of clinking champagne glasses seemed too hard to resist.

Here’s the thing: I want to be a more present person. I also want a super-cute Instagram profile. I’m trying to focus on being a person of genuine quality, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve stopped craving the glimmer of social media superficiality.

There is an urge to conflate our social media profiles, and the social media profiles of others, with the reality of our lives. More than once, I’ve had to stop myself from judging people’s characters by their Instagram posts, but the truth is that the two sometimes have little

correlation. Logging off Instagram didn’t make me a better person, in much the same way that getting back on isn’t going to make me a worse one.

Instagramming my way through Europe likely won’t substantially change my experience. Sure, I might have less storage on my phone and a few more Instagram posts when I come back to Philadelphia, but the work of being present and open to new experiences is work that happens independent of the internet, not in spite of it.

This summer, I was working my way through the backchannels of Netflix when I came across something that struck me. There’s a moment in Bo Burham’s 2016 comedy special “Make Happy” where the pretense of the traditional comedy show slips away completely. Burnham, the comedic wunderkind who rose to fame because of Youtube videos he made in his bedroom in high school, sits on the stage and ponders the psyche of the internet generation.

“What do we want more than to lie in our bed at the end of the day and just watch our life as a satisfied audience member,” Burnham said.

“I know very little about anything, but what I do know is that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it.”

For a moment, the camera cuts away from Burnham’s face to a wide shot of the audience. It’s a mo-

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF ment of simultaneous sincerity and absurdity. Burnham is performing a doctrine of non-performance.

The urge to document and perform our lives existed before social media and will probably exist in whatever wasteland remains after social media. After all, what is Ernest Hemmingway’s famous memoir of his time in Paris, “A Moveable Feast,” if not a carefully filtered and cropped version of the truth? It’s not the performance that builds the contours of our lives, but rather what happens in between the snapshots and the posts. You know, that thing, life. It’s super easy, and I’m sure we’ll all figure out how to get the hang of it sooner rather than later.

In the meantime, if you need me and you can’t find me, check my Instagram story.

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF is a College junior from Fort Wayne, Ind. studying history. Her email address is ralif@sas.upenn.edu.

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Banning hard liquor at frat parties is 2018 Prohibition SPENCER’S SPACE | Alcohol abuse will be driven further into the shadows

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have heard a lot of discussion the last few weeks dealing with the recent decision to ban hard liquor at fraternity parties. As usual, when it comes to issues surrounding Greek Life, outsiders tend to approach problems with preconceived notions. As a member of a fraternity, I could perhaps provide some insight into how the community has reacted thus far.

This decision likely means that binge drinking hard liquor will slip more deeply into the shadows.

Even with Penn’s Medical Amnesty policy, many students will fear the consequences of calling an ambulance for an inebriated friend more than the consequences of alcohol abuse itself. Oversight of and the ability to influence behavior surrounding alcohol will elude University authorities even more glaringly. Because, after all, when

ican Interfraternity Conference.

As Lisa C. Johnson, the former managing director of the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking said in a 2014 New York Times article, “It’s fraught with politics.

It’s fraught with, ‘Are we going to lose funding from alumni who value the traditions?’ Also, it’s complex because Greek houses may be owned by the fraternities, not the university.”

Alcohol abuse is undeniably a serious problem on college campuses. Nearly 2000 students “die every year of alcohol-related causes” with “600,000 injured while drunk, and nearly 100,000 … victims of alcohol-influenced sexual assaults.” And a shocking “[o] ne in four say their academic performance has suffered from drinking, all according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and

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People will always find a way to drink alcohol.” did attempts to make it hard to get hard liquor actually make it hard?

Everybody is well aware of the hazardous health consequences of the binge drinking in Greek life, and it is clearly in the best interest of both the University and students to curb this epidemic. However, administrators rarely take actual steps to hamper Greek life because former members of fraternities and sororities are some of Penn’s biggest donors. That is why decisions like this tend to come from actual Greek bodies, like the North Amer-

Alcoholism.” The rates of alcohol abuse at colleges seems not to have changed even after the drinking age was raised in the mid 1980s, with the rate of binge drinking remaining a frightening 40 percent among college students.

Many of our parents who were over 18 but younger than 21 before the mid-1980s still enjoyed drinking legally. This all changed when the drinking age was raised to 21.

Thanks primarily to the lobbying efforts of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the age for purchase and

public possession of alcohol was raised to 21 years of age in October 1986.

Any states that chose to defy this would lose 10 percent of its apportionment of federal highway funds. MADD’s efforts seem to have had a significant impact on the dangerous culture of drinking and driving, with far fewer teenagers, and also fewer adults, risking driving after drinking even one drink, let alone while inebriated.

In fact, “MADD was so successful that it reached its goal for 2000 (to reduce alcohol-related deaths by 20 percent) in 1997.”

However, if the primary motivation to raise the drinking age to 21 were to curb drunk driving, this was never truly relevant to urban campuses like Penn in the first

place, where students rarely have cars anyway.

Is prohibition ever actually a

ing when the drinking age was lower in the United States, a phenomenon that would be consistent

Administrators rarely take actual steps to hamper Greek life because former members of fraternities and sororities are some of Penn’s biggest donors.” winning strategy to reduce non-vehicular related alcohol abuse? Anecdotally, it seems that there was less “pregaming” and binge drink-

with international comparisons.

When it comes to alcohol and young people, America seems to have more in common with a

nanny state like Saudi Arabia that outlaws alcohol altogether than our closer cultural brethren in Berlin, London, and Paris. According to the World Health Organization, the lower drinking age in European countries seems to lead to more responsible consumption with only roughly 10 percent of European youth drinking to intoxication “while in the United States almost half of all drinking occasions result in intoxication”.

Just from observing my peers at Penn, I find that students who’ve grown up abroad and have been around alcohol since their teenage years are responsible drinkers, especially compared to students who had their first beer during New Student Orientation.

Moreover, evidence from our own nation’s years of Prohibition corroborates evidence from countries that ban alcohol altogether: People will always find a way to drink alcohol.

Prohibition didn’t work in the 1920s; it won’t work in 2018 at Penn.

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he recent release of an alarming Pennsylvania Grand Jury report about clergy sexual abuse continues to play out in the local, national, and global news. This added to a string of painful and trust-breaking news stories that have come out exposing the horrific abuse of power by religious leaders across the world. We know this information is deeply unsettling for many of you, and may be contributing to ongoing feelings of distrust and unease about religious leaders.

We write today to offer our support to members of the Penn community who have been hurt, and who are still hurting.

Some of you may be triggered by just the mention of these stories. Others have found themselves disoriented and deeply disappointed in an institution they have loved and trusted their

whole lives. All feelings are valid, whether you have a personal connection to this story or not.

It can be hard to know what to do with these conflicting feelings, especially when the stories themselves have seemed shrouded in silence and buried in a constant stream of headlines. There are several resources on campus that strive to be safe, welcoming, and accessible for any student with any need.

Students can talk 24/7 to clinicians at Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), which also has a sexual trauma treatment team providing specialized care. Special Services in the Division of Public Safety assists students interested in pursuing a criminal process. Penn Violence Prevention, the LGBT Center, and the Penn Women’s Center provide education and outreach, as well as confidential support

to students impacted by sexual violence.

Students also may want to connect with Penn’s Office of the Chaplain, where confidential staff can help you navigate complicated spiritual and religious thoughts arising from clergy abuse or other related news.

Penn staff stand ready to help students get the support they need wherever they are — on campus, off campus, abroad, regardless of when and where any acts of harm took place.

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UA votes to support divestment from fossil fuels

There were 17 in favor, one against, and two abstentions JULIA KLAYMAN Staff Reporter

Penn’s endowment investments in fossil fuel industries have been a topic of contention between administrators and students since the creation of Fossil Free Penn in 2014. As of September 9, the Undergraduate Assembly has decided to join the battle.

At the first general board meeting of the year, the UA passed a resolution endorsing Penn’s Board of Trustees to divest from companies involved in coal and tar sands, two particularly harmful fossil fuels. The assembly voted with an overwhelming majority of 17 in

favor, 1 against the proposal, and 2 abstained votes.

“Having that sort of support, it’s probably one of the biggest demonstrations of student support on campus thus far because the UA is the voice for the student body,” said UA Sustainability and Community Impact Committee Director and College sophomore Ben May, who proposed the resolution.

In early 2015, 87.8 percent of undergraduates voted in favor of fossil fuel divestment in a student body referendum. In September 2016, however, the University’s Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment decided against divestment despite two years of campaigning from FFP, which at that time called the University to divest from all fossil fuel compa-

nies.

UA President Michael Krone said he feels the assembly’s resolution will yield a more compromisable response, however, since it has a refined focus. The resolution asks for the removal of endowment funds from coal and tar sands industries rather than complete divestment from all fossil fuels.

Since January 2018, FFP has also narrowed its focus to coal and tar sands. FFP Trustee Coordinator and College senior Zach Rissman explained coal and tar sands as the “most carbon intensive, most environmentally destructive, most socially destructive, and the worst investments.” He said he believes the resolution will “definitely” make an impact.

“This is a much more focused and possible, immediate, pressing concern,” Krone said. While both May and Krone acknowledge the value of total divestment from fossil fuels, Krone explained that it is “a difference between need to have and nice to have.”

Although Rissman met with May and Krone to provide them with background information on the divestment issue, the resolution was an independent UA decision to undertake, proposed and authorized by May. Rissman, however, said he is excited to see growing support on campus from student groups.

The new resolution could be “exactly what we needed,” Rissman added. “Our goal now is to really gain that critical mass of

students to do whatever we need to achieve divestment.”

For the UA, the next step is to plan proper follow through. Krone said he hopes to leverage connections with administrators and continue collecting research for databased arguments to portray why the student body is pushing for divestment from coal and tar sands.

Despite the passing of the resolution, convincing the administration to divesting completely will likely be a multiyear process, Krone said. However, the goal is

to make the University divest from at least coal and tar sands over the next year, according to May. “That’s why the language [of the resolution] was that we want the board of trustees to commit to doing it, not necessarily do it right now because it’s not going to happen right now,” Krone said.

“These things take time.”

“If the university truly believes in a sustainable future, and truly believes in the success of the student body, it will divest,” May said.

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tory economics classes, and either Management 101 or Marketing 101.

College sophomore Vraj Shroff said he had planned to apply for a dual degree in Wharton at the end of this year.

He noted that he only learned about the change from an Engineering advisor, by which point he had already registered for courses.

Now, he is convinced he will not be able to complete the required classes in time.

“It seems pretty unfair that [Wharton] would make this change and not tell us until we register for our classes,” Shroff said. “I don’t think I have all the requirements to transfer now.”

Specifically, Shroff said he was unable to get into Management 101, in which it is notoriously difficult for College students to enroll. Wharton prioritizes its students in getting seats in the course, only allowing other students to register for the remaining spots about one week before to the start of

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crack began to bulge as time elapsed, prompting him to clear off belongings and valuables from the desks located directly beneath the section of the damaged ceiling, just as it was caving in.

“As I was [clearing off the desk] I heard the cracking sound and a bunch of plaster just fell,” Hsu said. “There was plaster all over the room and floor and everything.”

The students packed clothes for multiple days and brought along toiletries, though they still have access to their old room if they need to gather any other belongings.

Engineering and Wharton junior Jiho Lee, who is the students’ residential advisor, said Thursday he knew of the

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the semester.

College sophomore Vikas Bommineni, who is thinking of pursuing a Wharton dual degree in statistics, is also having trouble completing the course requirements. Bommineni said he originally heard about the policy change from friends after the start of the semester.

Like Shroff, he said he had trouble scrambling to get into the required courses.

Bommineni said he “actually offered to pay someone” for a spot in Management 101, adding he was ultimately able to enroll without shelling out money. Nonetheless, he said he knows a lot of people who were not able to secure a place in the class.

Jonathan Katzenbach, managing director of the Wharton Undergraduate Division, confirmed this policy change in an email statement. Although it was never announced to students, the Wharton website was updated to reflect the changes.

Katzenbach said the change is intended to ensure students pursuing a Wharton degree would have time to experience

various academic departments and explore their interests, which he said would be difficult to do in just two years.

“Our faculty expect the Leadership Journey to be followed sequentially over the course of four years,” he wrote, referring to the Wharton curriculum. “While the Leadership Journey courses can be worked into a three-year plan, condensing them into a two-year plan runs counter to the exploratory intent.”

The policy shift, which was made for the current academic year, was never formally announced to students. It is unclear exactly how many students will be affected by the change, since Wharton releases very few statistics concerning the number of transfer and dual degree applicants and its acceptance rates. According to data from a University report, 86 percent of all College students pursuing dual degrees from 1998 to 2008 sought the second from Wharton. Among dual degree holders in Engineering over the same period, 71 percent had a Wharton degree.

incident but was unaware of any further steps being taken by the school to solve the issue.

After calling emergency maintenance services and contacting the house manager, Hsu and his roommate were moved to Sansom Place East. They did not hear anything until Friday early afternoon, when they were informed via email that an inspector would come by their room to look at the damage, but they still do not know when they will be able to return.

This is not the first time ceilings have caved in. In February 2017, a ceiling collapsed in a dorm room in Ware, forcing the roommates to relocate to two single dorms in Fisher Hassenfeld College House. In October 2014, two college freshmen spent 10 days living in the Sheraton Philadelphia University City Hotel as they waited for

repairs to their ceiling and floor after sewage broke through their Quad room ceiling.

Administrators from Penn's Facilities and Real Estate Ser vices, t he depa r tment responsible for managing facilities issues with housing, declined to provide an on-therecord statement. From Ware College House, one residential advisor, an associate director of building operations, a guest services administrator, and a building administrator/senior house manager, all either did not respond to requests or declined to comment.

After last winter’s ‘Bomb Cyclone,' Harrison College House, Rodin College House, and Harnwell College House — the three on-campus high-rise residential buildings — experienced pipe bursts, flooding, and water damage.

“Students are welcome to take advantage of the Wharton curriculum to the extent allowed by their home schools and course-specific enrollment guidelines,” Katzenbach wrote in response to a question about

the issues sophomores now face in seeking to transfer to Wharton. “There are also opportunities to pursue a minor in Statistics or a University Minor, many of which have a curricular connection to Whar-

ton.”

Both Shroff and Bommineni said they would have preferred an announcement of the policy.

“I just wish they’d been more transparent about it,” Bommineni said.

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“Enemy of the People.”

“Fake news.” “Very dishonest people.”

These are just a few of the ph rases P resident Dona ld Trump has used to describe the press since taking office, contributing to what many schola rs say is an unprecedented media climate in America. But in an era with increased scrutiny of the industr y, many professors at Penn say they have adapted course structures and started awareness initiatives to address the political climate.

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Annenberg professor Victor Pickard said Trump’s election has presented opportunities to further examine issues he addresses in his political economy class, such as the proper role of the free press in society.

P rofessors at P e n n' s Annenberg School for Communication have been at the

forefront of this initiative.

Annenberg professor Barbie Zelizer said increased threats

to journalism, not only in the United States, but abroad, compelled her in Apr il to

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establish the Center for Media at Risk, of which she now serves as director.

"The point at which Trump came into power was an eyeopening moment for many of us," Zelizer said. "The center can deliver answers, formulate new solutions, bring exemplars from history and understandings of different media regimes across the world back into the conversation to help us understand what we got wrong."

Zelizer said the goal of the center is to facilitate the sharing of information from jour na lists worldwide who have experience working under regimes that threaten the free press.

Through events such as a symposium featuring panelists from the Philippines to Azerbaijan, the center has brought a focus to how media intimidation takes shape and how people can resist such efforts.

Zelizer stressed the need for collaboration between scholars and media practitioners to share information and fully grasp the threats facing the free press.

Zelizer added the Western world was far less prepared for an attack on media and called for a compilation of how intimidation is felt and how it can be resisted.

"In the United States, we have been cocooned in our own sense of exceptionalism, but right now, the rest of the world is far more knowledgable about this kind of regime and what it does to the public than we are," Zelizer said. "We rely on the media for so much, and we’ve been taking that for granted for far too long."

T hese sent i ment s wer e echoed by Cherian George, professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and a visiting scholar at the Center for Media at Risk. "[Trump's] rhetoric has been enthusiastically embraced by authoritarian leaders worldwide, most notably his rhetoric

on fake news, which has been picked up quite gleef ully by demagogues a round the world," George said.

Trump is simply learning f rom d ict ators worldwide, Zelizer said, employing trieda nd -t e st e d t e ch n ique s t o infringe upon media freedom. "[Trump] knew how to pull it all together and make it work," Zelizer said. "It’s not that anything he has done is new or inventive, it’s boringly familiar — it’s just that we just didn’t expect it here."

The press is also facing urgent financial threats, Victor Pickard, an Annenberg professor who specializes in the political economy of media, said.

“Before Trump took office, we had been seeing news organizations rapidly downsizing their workforces, seeing dramatic losses of journalism jobs and of revenue generated by commercial media outlets,” Pickard said. “Certainly today there is no longer a commercial model that supports the level of journalism that a democracy requires.”

P i c k a r d s a i d Tr u m p’s election has presented opportunities to further examine issues he addresses in his political economy class, such as the proper role of the free press in society, who controls media institutions, and what economic threats the press faces.

Experts agree that now is a pressing time for journalism in America, but some held out hope that the industry could overcome the rough period.

George said he's confident the tradition of free press in the United States will persevere because of America's "ability to self correct."

"The system is designed qu ite del iberately to r u n around individual bad leaders," George said. "It is still a strong system, and I would hope its underlying constitutional values can outlast this attack from the very top."

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Penn finishes second at Main Line Invitational XC | Both men and women squads finish behind ‘Nova WILLIAM SNOW Senior Sports Reporter

It may be early in the season, but Penn cross country is excited about its current standing.

On Friday evening, the Quakers bused to the suburbs of Philadelphia to duke it out with Villanova and several other nearby universities at the Main Line Invitational.

While both the women and men were bested by the Wildcats, each squad finished best among the rest in second place out of six and seven, respectively.

When the women took the course, it was clear they had a tough race ahead of them. Villanova, currently ranked No. 9 in the nation, went out fast and left the Quakers in their dust just a third of the way through the three–mile race. Rookie Isabel Hebner was the last one standing with the front pack about a mile in, but she ended up finishing 23 seconds behind seventh place.

“Going out with them was pretty fun, knowing I had a pack that was strong,” Hebner said. “It was fun trying to stay on their tails.”

The Wildcats swept the top seven spots for a clean 15–point victory in the women’s race, but the Quakers swept the next seven spots for 50 points and a runners–up honor. Hebner led the way with a 17:18 finish in just her

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second race for the Red and Blue, followed closely by junior Maddie Villalba, who crossed the line in 17:20.

“I would say we were fairly successful in focusing on ourselves and running our own race,” Villalba said. “We’re happy with what we did today.”

Both the women and men ran on Friday without their top runner. Sophomore Danielle Orie and senior Kevin Monogue each sat out the tune–up meet due to minor health issues, according to coach Steve Dolan. But had Monogue raced, the men might have taken the top spot from Villanova.

Penn, who won the meet last year, finished with 37 points, just four behind the Wildcats, who finished all five scorers inside the top 10. The lead pack of the men’s race was much more diverse, with Penn, Villanova, and other schools all vying for control of the race from the start. Even with a tight pack, the Quakers lagged towards the behind soon after the race’s start.

In the end, though, Philly’s two powerhouses claimed 16 of the top 20 finishes. Two of the remaining four went to the meet’s host Haverford, and the other two were unattached runners.

Over the final mile, sophomore Anthony Russo stormed from the back of the lead group out into a solo finish in second place, with nobody within seven seconds on either side of his time of 19:34.

“I was feeling good, and when

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scheduling comes from learning about its importance the hard way.

Back in 2015, the Quakers had by far their most successful season since Fink took over, finishing 13-3 overall.

But Penn’s only top-20 opponent all season was Princeton, who beat the Quakers in overtime to determine the conference’s automatic NCAA bid.

Considering the team’s weak schedule, the selection committee left Penn out of the postseason.

“It was highly influential [in scheduling tougher]. That was a really competitive team that could’ve made it into the postseason, but we were probably two or three teams out.

So that’s definitely a motivator,” Fink said. “But I’m also a firm believer that you can’t skip steps. You can’t go from when I got here, when we were 3-13, to all of a sudden scheduling opponents that are all top-10 teams, without building any level of culture or confidence. We had to go through that process to get to where we are today.”

Ever since Penn’s heartbreak in 2015, the team has been facing powerhouses like Syracuse, UNC, and Delaware annually. Some might back down from such competition, but the Quakers would have it no other way.

“I think it really gets us hyped, because it’s not every

I saw someone make a move, I was ready to go with them,” Russo said. “It paid off. So it’s good to see I’m right where I want to be with my fitness.”

Thirteen seconds after Russo’s finish, junior Colin Daly beat out a Wildcat to take the final top–five spot and a decent birthday present back to campus. Daly ran without his twin brother, Will, who was also rested from the race due to a minor injury concern, according to Dolan.

Without key runners and so early in the season, Dolan praised his team’s second– place results as a reasonable success. Around this point in the Quakers’ training, he said, the runners should be reaching their peak mileages for the season and training hard throughout the week, leaving little room for preparing too seriously for a tune–up meet like the Main Line.

“The goal is to see how much we can improve as the season goes,” Dolan added.

“I just hope we keep getting better.”

Penn has six weeks until the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, and a further two until the NCAA regional qualifier. If all goes according to Dolan’s plan, the Quakers will be a more formidable force come championship season.

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their offensive system as they adapt their newer starters to it.

“We’re making some offensive schematic changes as we speak,” Fink said. “Hopefully that will catch some people off guard in terms of creating numbers up offensively and dialing in a little more to set patterns and set pieces. I don’t think ... anyone watching film has gotten a glimmer of what [we’re] capable of.”

That opportunity for growth affects all parts of the lineup, upperclassmen and freshman alike. An ex-

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Freshman Isabel Hebner finished with a time of 17:18, good for eighth place among all runners.

day you get to play a top-five or top-10 team, so to try to knock them off is a great opportunity,” junior captain and midfielder Alexa Schneck said. “It definitely shows how much we’ve grown as a program.”

And the best news for Penn is that the Quakers can’t just compete with these juggernauts — when playing at their best, they can win, too.

October 2017 saw arguably the biggest non-conference win this century for Penn, as the Quakers stunned then-No. 10 Syracuse, 3-2, for the first top-10 win of Fink’s career.

Proving it was no fluke, Penn upset then-No. 14 Wake Forest, 1-0, in the 2018 season opener.

“That was a great boost of our confidence [to beat Syracuse],” junior goalie Ava Rosati said. “It’s really exciting to know that, even though we always knew we were capable of beating a team like that, having that experience firsthand was really great.”

Of course, Penn’s attempts to take down field hockey’s Goliaths can’t go as planned every time. For every upset of Syracuse, there’s a game like Penn’s 8-0 loss to then-No. 2 UNC earlier this month, which was the Red and Blue’s biggest margin of defeat in four years.

But even when Penn gets run off the field, its coaches and players are rational enough to understand the value in it.

“Playing easier games early on is nice because you can get

some wins, but playing harder games is preparing you more for conference games, which is what really matters,” senior captain and defender Paige Meily said. “We don’t ever expect to lose those games; we always go in with the optimism that we can win. But I also think playing a tough game can have more value than getting a blowout win.”

The ways that scheduling such strong foes can help the current Penn field hockey team, win or lose, are relatively obvious.

But just as much as the current generation of players can benefit, Penn field hockey can also make its next generation of athletes even stronger. And so the cycle continues, with better recruits and better competition mutually feeding into one another.

“It helps with recruiting, because everyone wants to beat that top team,” Meily said. “When I was in high school, Penn wasn’t as good as it is now, and I don’t think I would’ve ever imagined that I would be part of a team that beat Syracuse or Wake.”

Overall, it’s clear that Penn field hockey is in a new era.

Gone are the days of finishing 1-6 in the Ivy League, gone are the days of having to share a field with football and lacrosse, and gone are the days of shying away from tough competition. Fink’s program is aiming for the sky, and not afraid to take falls from anyone on its path.

ample of this is senior center back Paige Meily; she made her impact on the field as the team’s stopper, trapping balls often passed from Huang and setting up Hoover to make a formidable trio on penalty corners. Fink points out that without that Hoover and Huang, the opportunity opens up to move Meily from being solely a stick-stopper to a player that can pass or shoot in the short corner game.

As a result, the senior is now an asset for the offensive unit on set pieces as well, having just scored her first career goal in Sunday’s win over Drexel.

Nevertheless, the early part of the season is bound to be

an adjustment period for the Quakers. In their first five non-conference games, Penn has scored just three goals against its opposition. At this time last year, albeit against different opposition, Penn had scored seven goals in its first five games.

“I think we’re still developing in it, and we’re still trying to sort through some things,” Fink said. “It’s something we’re shining a pretty bright light on in this early part of the season and something we’re trying to correct and develop.”

And after the talent on this offensive unit learns to execute its vision, the team will be shining brightly on its own.

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Field hockey rebounds from Penn football still needs loss at Iowa to beat Drexel to give Robinson a chance Meily’s first career goal lifts Penn over crosstown rival

the [Iowa] game, have a hard practice yesterday, and get a W today ... to be able to pull out a win under those circumstances speaks to their resilience,� coach Colleen Fink said.

The Quakers started Sunday’s game with a bang, earning a penalty corner from senior Rachel Mirkin’s shot in the first minute of play, but ultimately could not find the back of the net.

For much of the first half, play went back and forth between the two teams. But the Dragons (4-3) struck in the 23rd minute, when they took a penalty corner that was initially stopped by the Red and Blue defense. A quick Penn turnover allowed Drexel to regain possession and put the ball past Rosati.

The Quakers fought to overcome the deficit and succeeded in converting on a set play five minutes before the end of the half. A penalty corner from midfielder Lily Clarkson was passed to senior defender Paige Meily, who left it to junior center midfielder Alexa Schneck to send over to the far post, where Mirkin was able to tap the ball in to tie the game.

Just two minutes later, Penn took the lead. Freshman midfielder Madison Jiranek was in the midst of creating a chance on goal before being fouled

TEIA ROSS Sports Reporter

Drexel and Penn share claims to University City, bus services, and 33rd Street, but the battle for field hockey superiority was won by the Quakers.

Coming off of a 3-0 loss at No. 16 Iowa (7-1) just two days prior, the Quakers were able to come out with an energetic performance to beat their nextdoor neighbors 2-1.

The loss to the Hawkeyes, despite the score, was much tighter than the stat sheet indicates. Penn’s defense held tough for the majority of the game, allowing all of Iowa’s goals in the final 13 minutes.

Although the Quakers (3-3) were outshot 18-5, they showed again they could hang until the very end with ranked opponents. Junior goalie Ava Rosati had a strong performance between the pipes with six saves, but Quakers’ offense was not able to match it, however, failing to convert any of the team’s six corners.

However, the Red and Blue would shake off the loss in a thriller just two days later. “For them to fly home after

by a Drexel defender, giving the Quakers a penalty stroke.

Meily stepped up to the line to take the shot and neatly put away the first goal of her career to put Penn up 2-1.

Although without any goals, the second half of the game belonged to the Quakers, who maintained the momentum from their two goals late in the first half. Rosati’s two saves in the second half ensured a Quaker victory, despite Drexel pulling its goalie for an extra player with a few minutes to play. “I think today was a good step in the right direction in terms of our offensive structure and our finishing,� Fink said. “I think the elephant in the room right now — well, it’s not an elephant because it’s been highlighted every time — is our attacking corners and being able to finish. The finishing skill has been the last to come and I think we’re knocking on the door.�

This week would be a good time to open that door. On Saturday, September 22, the Quakers will travel to Ithaca to take on Cornell for their first Ivy match of the season. While an Ivy Championship is the more sought-after title, for now, the Quakers can be content being the champions of University City.

MARC MARGOLIS

Since the graduation of record-setting quarterback Alek Torgersen in 2017, Penn football has been searching for answers at the game’s most important position.

This season, coach Ray Priore feels he can win games with either sophomore Ryan Glover or junior Nick Robinson at quarterback.

But only one quarterback can start, and on Saturday against Bucknell, Priore elected to go with his dual-threat option in Glover.

His first career start was a mixed bag.

There were definitely some highlights. Glover completed 57 percent of his passes, despite four drops from his wideouts.

His second touchdown of the game was particularly impressive, as Glover connected with junior wide receiver Kolton Huber on a beautiful pass across the middle, putting the ball in a spot where only his receiver could get it early in the fourth quarter.

Glover also made a few nice plays with his legs, using option plays and scrambles, to put together nine carries for 48 yards.

He also did not take a single sack.

Still, the Atlanta native’s performance was plagued by

turnovers. Glover threw two interceptions and fumbled once to account for three of the Quakers’ five total turnovers. The team also struggled on third down as Penn converted a paltry 30 percent of its third-down conversion attempts.

With the Quakers furnishing a big lead for most of the game, it was surprising that Robinson did not take a single snap after Priore said earlier in the week that both quarterbacks would see time. “It was just the flavor of the game,� Priore said of his decision to keep Glover in the entire game. “We had a [27-10] lead heading into the half, we had good flow going and there was no reason to disrupt that flow.�

The overall score does lend some credence to Priore’s logic.

However, Penn’s goal should be to position itself with the best chance to succeed during the Ivy League slate.

Given Glover’s up and down performance, Robinson — last year’s primary backup to Will Fischer-Colbrie — should be given a chance with game reps to prove he should be Penn’s starting quarterback.

Ivy League teams are not allowed to compete in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. As a result, the only games that count towards the Red and Blue’s championship aspirations are conference matchups. Penn has one more game — hosting Lehigh next week — before it opens Ivy League play the following week at Dartmouth.

With that in mind, there is little risk of inserting Robinson on the heels of Glover committing more turnovers than touchdowns in a non-league game.

After all, the former Georgia walk-on filled in admirably for Fischer-Colbrie when he missed time last year, tossing six touchdowns to one interception while completing over 65 percent of his passes in six games.

Considering Fischer-Colbrie’s inconsistent performance, Robinson arguably deserved to be the starting quarterback last year . Furthermore, if Robinson had put up those numbers over a starter-level sample size, there likely would not have even been a quarterback competition. Still, hypothetical situations should not govern who starts.

The coaching staff has a great opportunity to let a clear frontrunner emerge next week in a game that does not affect the team’s championship hopes.

Glover may very well be the better option, but he has not proven that outright based off his performance against Bucknell.

If Robinson doesn’t take meaningful snaps next week, Priore and offensive coordinator John Reagan will be missing a prime opportunity to truly determine who is the best quarterback to lead the Quakers moving forward.

MARC MARGOLIS is a College junior from Lower Merion, PA, and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at margolis@thedp.com.

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ing his first career start — the Quakers’ attack stalled and the Bison began to claw their way back into the game.

Just two minutes into the third quarter, Bucknell had cut Penn’s lead to just 27-17 before both teams traded turnovers and empty possessions for the remainder of the quarter.

The game also took a solemn turn at the end of the third quarter when senior captain and safety Sam Philippi went down with a lower body injury.

Play was paused for several minutes as both teams knelt on their sidelines before Philippi was carried off the field on a stretcher.

The injury did little to slow down the Red and Blue’s defense, though. On a day that Penn forced three turnovers and eight sacks, it also shut the Bison out for the final 28 minutes of the game. “We definitely know that we gotta ball out every play for [Philippi],� senior captain and

linebacker Nick Miller said. “As soon as it happened, we all just started saying ‘It’s for Sam, it’s for Sam’. So he knows we have his back and we just gotta keep balling for him.�

With 10:21 left in the fourth quarter, Penn scored on another touchdown pass from Glover to give the game its final score.

Glover played every offensive snap for Penn, despite coach Ray Priore saying in the days leading up to the game that junior quarterback Nick Robinson would also get snaps.

After the game, Priore said that Glover was the team’s starter and he didn’t want to disrupt the offense’s flow, but he also emphasized the importance of having two capable quarterbacks. “The most important thing is that those guys are great teammates, great players,� Priore said. “We’re gonna need them both there to make a run at this thing and be a good football team.�

Glover’s performance on the day was up and down. Despite several drops from his receiv-

ers, he tossed for 138 yards and ran for another 48, but he also finished with three turnovers — a problem that plagued the rest of the team as well. “I thought I did a pretty poor job of [taking care of the ball],�

Glover said. “But overall, I think I ran the offense pretty well. I think we executed and did some good things.�

Priore also stressed the the importance of ball security, expressing disappointment in the team’s five turnovers. “That’s not good,� he said. “You start doing that, that’s how we lost a year ago.�

Overall, though, Priore expects the team to continue to improve. “They often say that the greatest progression of a team is between the first game to the second game,� Priore said. “We’ll be back to work tomorrow to get better in that capacity.�

The Quakers’ second game will come next Saturday at Franklin Field against yet another Patriot League foe in Lehigh.

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Quakers consistently face way there — and it isn’t afraid to take anyone on nationally ranked teams to prove it.

COLE JACOBSON Senior Sports Reporter

To build a program from nothing to something, Penn field hockey coach Colleen Fink has used the creed of another local franchise: trust the process.

Like their NBA counterpart, the Quakers haven’t completed the process of a league championship quite yet. But one look at the Red and Blue’s schedules over the past few years shows that Fink’s program is on its

In two of the past three seasons, Penn has seen the defending NCAA champion on its slate. In both 2017 and 2018, the team scheduled six foes that made the prior year’s NCAA Tournament.

This year’s slate is the most difficult yet. Eight of this year’s 17 opponents were ranked in the top 20 of the Preseason NFHCA Coaches’ Poll, including four in the top 11. And this trend shows no sign of stopping any time soon. “[With] my loyalty to the City of Brotherly

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Love, I think we’ll always play a good City Six schedule no matter what. But outside of that, we definitely want our non-conference schedule to be one of the best,” Fink, a Saint Joseph’s alum, said. “We want a strong RPI to potentially get an at-large bid into the postseason, but also with the Ivy League being the third-strongest conference in the sport, those teams will prepare us for those tough conference games.”

Unfortunately for Penn, part of the reasoning behind such brave SEE SCHEDULE PAGE 9

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Penn seeks new identity after loss of three stars Quakers forced to replace Hoover, other offensive stars

Red and Blue top Bucknell with electric first quarter FOOTBALL | QB Glover throws 2 TDs in first start

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YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

It’s a problem unique to college athletics: every year, teams lose starters due to graduation and are forced to fill those spots. The result is teams often showing different tactical identities each year.

So when a team loses three of its four leading offensive players, including the best offensive field hockey player in program history, its offensive identity is bound to change.

And that’s exactly the situation that Penn field hockey (3-3) finds itself in this season after the loss of Alexa Hoover, Gina Guccione, and Rachel Huang, who all graduated as members of the class of 2018.

The backbone of last year’s offensive unit, these three seniors represented nearly half of the seven players who started in all 17 games for the Red and Blue last year. Hoover, who was recently named the Director of Operations for Penn field hockey, finished her collegiate career last season with 68 goals and 163 points, the most in program history and fourth all-time among Ivy League players.

Guccione finished her senior season with the second-most goals and points on the squad,

At first it looked like it would be a blowout. And then it looked like it might be close.

In the end it was neither, but a 34-17 win for Penn football nonetheless in its seasonopener against Bucknell.

The Quakers (1-0) dominated the game’s early minutes, intercepting the Bisons’ (0-3) very first pass of the

game before scoring just four plays later on a five-yard run from junior running back Karekin Brooks. The Red and Blue didn’t slow down from there, recovering a fumble and blocking a punt on Bucknell’s two ensuing possessions to give the offense field position deep in the Bisons’ territory.

Senior kicker Jack Soslow converted on a field goal attempt from 49 yards — the first of two successful 45-plus yard kicks on the night — before Brooks scored his second touchdown of the day on the next possession to put Penn

up 17-0 less than five minutes into the game.

“We were very fortunate to jump on them early,” coach Ray Priore said after the game.

“When you have a weapon like Jack, you’ll line a kick up and feel pretty secure that he’s going to hit it from inside of 50. That’s a confident weapon that we have as a team.”

But after Penn built its lead up to 27-3 early in the second quarter on a touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Ryan Glover — who was makSEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

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Senior center back Paige Meily will take a more offensive role on set pieces in the absence of graduated star Alexa Hoover.

with 7 and 15, respectively.

Huang played a key role as the team’s primary inserter on corners, feeding balls in to set up the stopper and shooter on penalty corners.

Simply put, it’s a tough act to follow.

“The nice thing about working with Rachel, and Hoover and Gucci[one] is that, over time, by the time they were seniors, they had a really good understanding of our offensive scheme,” coach Colleen Fink said. “Now we have to get more acclimated to breaking things down more than we have the last two to three years.”

What the Quakers have in their favor is knowing what offensive style suits them.

Penn has always been the team with a “high speed, fast break” offensive unit. For Fink, who is in her ninth year as Penn’s head coach, the question has never been about whether she has the right personnel. The talent is there. It simply comes down to how well her staff and players can communicate to execute the offensive vision.

While the loss of veteran starters can be viewed as a setback, it’s also a chance for the Quakers to improve aspects of SEE OFFENSE PAGE 9

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Junior running back Karekin Brooks scored two early touchdowns to help Penn football jump out to a 17-0 lead in the game’s first five minutes. The Quakers held on to eventually defeat Bucknell 34-17.

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