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Penn security guards receive unlawful wages Security guards and their union say U. pays below required $15 wage

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The Penn First Plus office will be housed in the ground floor of College Hall.

HAWTHORNE RIPLEY Senior Reporter

Penn has been paying security guards less than the city’s required $15 wage, said Gabe Morgan, vice president of the Service Employees International Union 32BJ. In February, Philadelphia City Council explicitly ruled that Penn security guards must receive the $15 wage by July 1. Two months later, hourly wages for the majority of guards are fixed at $11.85, according to a September pay stub obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian from SEIU 32BJ. The law established that all four-year higher education institutions that receive public subsidies would be required to pay the $15 prevailing wage to security guards.

Prevailing wage varies by occupation, and differs from Philadelphia’s minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

On July 22, about 50 security guards marched to the Municipal Services Building to file a complaint against publicly subsidized universities and hospitals for not complying with the prevailing wage law, according to a SEE WAGE PAGE 2

Penn First Plus Office to open in College Hall SON NGUYEN

This year is the first time Penn has reserved a position specifically for transfer students. The Nominations and Elections Committee made the policy change to guarantee transfer student representation in the UA.

New students elected to UA and Class Board 2023 Wharton freshman Derek Nhieu elected president of Class Board 2023 CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

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Penn has been paying security guards less than the city’s required $15 prevailing wage.

Penn’s student government announced the election results for a slate of Undergraduate Assembly and Class Board 2023 positions on Wednesday evening.

Wharton freshman Derek Nhieu will serve as president of Class Board 2023, winning with 296 votes to runner-up College freshman David Garnick’s 228 votes.

College freshman Abbie Chan won the race for executive vice president with 630 votes to runner-up College freshman Johaer

Jilani’s 303 votes.

This year also marks the first time Penn has reserved a position specifically for transfer students. The Nominations and Elections Committee made the policy change in April to guarantee transfer student representation in the UA, and this election was the first in which the change was implemented.

College sophomore Thomas Kaupas won the new transfer student representative election, winning against his three opponents with 31 votes. Only transfer students could vote in the election.

Kaupas said he is excited to use his platSEE ELECTIONS PAGE 3

The office will open in the 20202021 school year ASHLEY AHN Senior Reporter

The Penn First Plus office will be housed in the ground floor of College Hall, its first physical space on campus.

Construction on Penn First Plus’ permanent office will begin later this semester, Penn First Plus Executive Director Marc Lo wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. The Office of Penn First Plus students provides resources for first-generation, low-income students. The center is expected to open in time for the 2020-2021 academic year. The ground floor was previously occupied by the admissions center, which moved to the basement of Claudia Cohen Hall in May. Penn First Internal Outreach Chair and College senior Daniel Gonzalez said a physical space for the office is the important part of this new development in the University’s recognition of the FGLI community.

“They’re carving out a space specifically for a student like me to be there,” Gonzalez said. “The school is recognizing SEE PENN FIRST PLUS PAGE 6

PAACH’s new coordinator aims to ‘nurture talent’ HANNAH LAZAR

For the first time, an associate member is currently serving in the advanced position of

Associate UA members can now be commitee directors The change came after a vigorous debate that divided the student CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

diverse” community of students.

“PAACH is a sort of resource for students, but it’s very mutual,” Yoshida said. “To me, it’s reciprocal, right, because they’re teaching me about their experiences.”

Yoshida said she will focus on creating opportunities for students to realize their strengths and utilize their cultural backgrounds.

A recent controversy over the Undergraduate Assembly’s power structure has exposed fissures within the governing body.

A question over the proper role of associate members is at the heart of the conflict. Associate members are unelected, non-voting members of the UA who apply to join the organization.

For the first time, an associate member is currently serving in the advanced position of committee director. Despite the more influential post, associate members who are committee directors are not required to attend as many weekly general body meetings as regular members of

SEE PAACH PAGE 7

SEE UA ASSOCIATE MEMBERS PAGE 7

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Hitomi Yoshida (pictured above), a 1995 graduate from the Graduate School of Education, brings an extensive background in intercultural education and community work to her new role. Yoshida said she will focus on creating opportunities for students to realize their strengths and utilize their cultural backgrounds.

Yoshida replaces Kusum Soin, who retired in May after more than 18 years GIANNA FERRARIN Senior Reporter

Hitomi Yoshida, former manager of diversity programs at Penn Museum, has taken over as office coordinator for the Pan-Asian American Community House. Yoshida replaces Kusum Soin, who retired in

May after holding the role for more than 18 years.

Yoshida, a 1995 graduate of the Graduate School of Education, brings an extensive background in intercultural education and community work to the role.

Described as a “natural connector” by Ellen Owens, Yoshida’s former co-worker at the Penn Museum, Yoshida will regularly work with PAACH student leaders and staff to facilitate programming.

Yoshida said her favorite part of the job so far has been meeting with the center’s “amazingly rich and

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Michelle Malkin denies anti-Semitism at Penn event The author also decried illegal immigration MAX COHEN Senior Reporter

Conservative author Michelle Malkin denied accusations of antiSemitism and pushed for stricter immigration control during a College Republicans event on Monday night.

Malkin came to Penn to promote her newest book “Open Borders Inc.: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction?” and fiercely pushed her vision of a stricter immigration policy. She also specifically criticized Penn’s policies regarding undocumented students.

In the week before she came to campus, liberal-leaning outlet Media Matters described comments Malkin made on Fox and Friends as anti-Semitic, comparing them to the conspiracy theories that motivated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.

At the event, Malkin denied accusations of anti-Semitism, and said she is “the proud wife of a grandson of Ukrainian Jews who came to this country to escape pogroms,” that she loved the members of her Jewish family, and that she is “a proud supporter of Israel, but more importantly, a proud supporter of American sovereignty.”

Media Matters is also “propaganda,” Malkin said, to loud applause.

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statement from 32BJ SEIU. Since July, the city has informed Penn a second time that they are required to pay the prevailing wage, but wages for security guards have not increased, Morgan said. Other institutions, such as Drexel University and Temple University, have not complied with the new law either, he said.

“I am the child of legal immigrants to this family. I have immigrant family members in this audience that I love and that I am incredibly proud of,” Malkin said.

“I am not an immigrant hater. I am an America lover.”

Malkin also criticized the University’s status as a sanctuary campus.

Malkin read from Penn’s November 2016 statement that vowed Penn would “not allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)/Customs and Border Protection (CBP)/U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on our campus unless required by warrant.” Penn’s statement also said the University would refuse to “share any information about any undocumented student with these agencies unless presented with valid legal process.”

Malkin said this policy essentially granted undocumented immigrants more rights than American citizens have.

“Sanctuary policies across the country have made every single resident of this country more unsafe,” Malkin said. “Because once again what you’re doing is constructing these walls that block communication between federal immigration agents and everyone else.”

Malkin described the situation at the United States-Mexico border as an “invasion” and decried that the use of the word invasion and “illegal alien” was frowned upon

in modern society. She cited the Associated Press handbook style guide, which states that journalists should not use the term “illegal” to describe people.

Politico reported that the Trump administration was considering plans to limit the number of refugees accepted to the United States to essentially zero, a move which Malkin greeted.

“Does that make us cruel? Does that make us inhumane? Does that make us stingy? No,” she said. “We still remain the most generous, over-generous, and compassionate nation in the world, when it comes to welcoming people.”

Malkin criticized the Obama administration’s DACA policy, which shielded people from deportation and gave hundreds of thousands of people work permits.

“There are limits to the amount of compassion that any sovereign nation must enforce, before that sovereignty completely dissipates,” Malkin said.

Malkin also criticized the view that President Donald Trump caused children to be separated from families and being put in cages. She also called out 2020 Democratic presidential candidates saying they want higher wages for American workers.

“Well, they support that massive influx of low-wage workers who are suppressing those wages for Americans,” Malkin said.

Less than 10 minutes into her

Penn spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy and Director of Media Relations Ron Ozio did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The Penn Security Office, and Penn Office of Human Resources, which oversees employee benefits, also did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Penn is being investigated along with other institutions by the city’s Department of Labor, Morgan said, and if they do not

pay the prevailing wage, they will be required by law to return all public money to the city.

When the July 1 deadline for meeting the prevailing wage requirements passed and her wage remained the same, Security Guard Shakia Moore, one of the many Penn guards involved in filing the July 22 complaint, said she immediately reached out to representatives from her union, 32BJ SEIU. “Leading up to the date, me

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Malkin (right) came to Penn to promote her newest book “Open Borders Inc.: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction?” and fiercely pushed her vision of a stricter immigration policy.

talk, Malkin brought up The Daily Pennsylvanian’s coverage preceding her event. Citing the DP’s reporting, Malkin read the article’s headline and personally criticized the DP reporter.

“Let me give you a direct analogy of what an article might look like, if you were accused of say, pedophilia,” Malkin said. “’After accusations of pedophilia, Daily Pennsylvanian writer Grant Bianco to attend Michelle Malkin’s

speech.’”

Turning her attention to criticism of Trump as anti-Semitic, Malkin claimed that Trump’s close relationship with Israel proved he was not anti-Semitic.

“We have the most pro-Israel president in U.S. history, every single day being labeled an anti-Semite,” Malkin said.

“It doesn’t matter he’s the best friend of Israel. It doesn’t matter he has practicing Jewish

members of his own family, including his own son-in-law and his daughter. It doesn’t matter that my brown skin is much darker than yours, gentleman over there,” Malkin said, pointing at Bianco. “It makes it impossible to have rational discussions about where this money is coming from, how it’s being spent, and who’s responsible for sabotaging American sovereignty.”

and all of my coworkers were excited about it,” Moore said. “We felt like it was time for us to finally have that, since it is the law.”

Moore said she values being backed by a union as she is currently struggling with her mother’s medical bills and her own personal expenses.

Penn Student Labor Action Project said in a statement that the group stands in solidarity with the security guards of Philadelphia in their fight to secure

fairer wages.

“The institutions that employ them, such as Penn, Temple, and Drexel, are profiting off their labor and have more than enough money to spare a decent wage,” the statement read. “No one deserves to live paycheck to paycheck, and we commend SEIU 32BJ for their pushback against university greed.”

Allied Universal, the company through which Penn contracts security guards, did not respond

to multiple requests for comment. Multiple Penn security guards interviewed said the company has prohibited them from speaking publicly about matters relating to their legal battle for prevailing wage.

Asked why Penn is not acting in accordance with the ruling, Morgan said, “I don’t know what possible legal explanation there could be. It’s really straightforward; the law says what the law says.”

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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Messages cover LOVE Statue to honor Greg Eells

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CogWell members placed a sign at the base of the Love Statue that read, “Give Love & Take Love,” and encouraged students to read each other’s messages throughout the day. Members also urged students to take notes home with them as a positive reminder.

CogWell@Penn hosted the all-day event MADDY STROHM Staff Reporter

Students covered the Love Statue on Monday with colorful sticky notes displaying messages of support to honor former Counseling and Psychological Services Director Gregory Eells, who died on Sept. 9.

The all-day event was hosted

by CogWell@Penn, a student group which promotes active listening and suicide prevention.

Students gathered near the statue

and wrote messages of positivity and support on the notes before placing them on the statue in an effort to increase mental health awareness at Penn. CogWell co-president and Nursing junior Allison Gelfarb said the group organized the initiative in response to Eell’s death.

“Mental health awareness is an important topic to address, so I was very excited to see that CogWell was encouraging students in a positive and unique way through a Post-it note display,” said Wharton freshman Lori Feng, who left a note on the statue.

CogWell members placed a sign at the base of the Love Statue that read, “Give Love & Take Love,” and encouraged students to read each other’s messages throughout the day.

Members also urged students to take notes home with them as a positive reminder.

Messages on the statue included short, positive affirmations such as, “Keep Going!”

“You are Beautiful,” and “Much love to all — reach out, someone will reach back!”

The group wanted the event to be something they could put together quickly and make

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accessible to all students, Gelfarb said.

“We wanted it to be interactive, so students could come by, leave a quick note on their way to class or meetings, and then also something that could spread a good message,” Gelfarb said.

“We figured that a lot of people could use it right now, but people can always use it,” said College junior Matt Tomaselli, a member of CogWell. “We are just encouraging people to pass along positive messages and reminding them that people are here for you for support when you need it.”

Since Eells’ death, CAPS has released a statement honoring his compassion and leadership.

Plans for a campus vigil for Eells are still being discussed among staff, Penn spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said.

A memorial service for family and close friends took place on Sept. 14.

Eells was the director of Cornell’s counseling center for more than 15 years before he came to Penn in March. Cornell Health closed for a day so Eells’ former colleagues and friends could attend the service.

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form to elevate the voices of transfer students through the governing body.

The NEC also held elections for UA New Student Representatives.

The eight New Student Representative seats on the Undergraduate Assembly will be filled by freshmen Carson Sheumaker, Jonah Schenk, Thomas Kyong, Sachit Gali, Gabriela Montes, Isabella Hassett, David Garnick, Alfredo Wolfermann.

A special election was also held to fill the four Engineering representative seats on the UA that were left vacant after only one candidate ran a successful write-in campaign in April.

However this year, no candidates ran for the vacant seats, leaving the four Engineering seats still open.

NEC Vice Chair for Elections and Wharton senior Elizabeth Vinton said one Engineering student filed a successful write-in petition, but did not turn in the relevant spending forms, which kept them off the ballot.

Another special election for the vacant UA Engineering seats will be planned for the future, although Vinton said she does not yet know when the election will occur.

Vinton said there was increased turnout for this election compared to last year and strong participation from transfer students, which she attributes to collaboration with Penn’s Transfer Student Organization.

“I’m really excited about the fact that we had four transfers decide to run for ... a seat we’ve never had before,” Vinton said.

Vinton said the NEC’s promotions with local businesses such as coffee shop United By Blue, frozen yogurt bar Kiwi, and restaurant Hummus also helped increase turnout.

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OPINION

Include Greek houses in the “Second-Year Experience”

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n-campus Greek houses will not be open to sophomores under Penn’s new housing policy requiring second-year students to live on campus. While the University claims this decision was made to foster a sense of community and create a support system for second-year students, it is disrupting Greek communities that already strive to achieve these goals and putting the future of the Greek community at risk. Penn ought to reconsider its decision to bar sophomores from living in oncampus Greek houses.

Although Greek life is far from perfect, its mission is consistent with Penn’s in creating a “second-year experi-

ence.” Fraternities and sororities intend to serve as support networks to promote inclusion, integrity, and camaraderie. An email signed by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett claimed that Penn’s new policy will “measurably strengthen the sense of community [among first- and second-years], promoting students’ achievement and wellbeing, enhancing support for students’ academic and social lives.” Rather than undermining the efforts of Greek organizations by preventing sophomores from living in their houses, Penn must see them as consistent with this stated vision. Greek life provides many students with a supportive community.

While chapter houses are a key part of the Greek experience, Penn’s decision puts Greek life itself in jeopardy. Some fraternities and sororities will be unable to fill their houses, since they usually fill them with sophomores. In turn, member dues are likely to rise and some chapters may be forced to shut down.

If the University insists that on-campus housing is an important part of the “second-year experience,” it needs to be flexible and inclusive of the different types of on-campus communities that second-year students want to live in. Some will want

Fraternities and sororities intend to serve as support networks to promote inclusion, integrity, and camaraderie.” dorms; others will want Greek houses.

There are many problems in the Greek community, including lack of diversity, exclusion of low-income students, and risk of sexual assault. Despite its flaws, however, Greek life can also be an enriching part of students’ experiences at Penn.

Rather than reach out to those communities and include them in the Second-Year Experience,

the University has chosen to disrupt them. Sophomores will be left with a system that excludes a major part of the existing second-year experience: Greek housing. The University’s policy to exclude Greek houses from the Second-Year Experience will dramatically minimize Greek life’s role on campus and fundamentally change what it means to join a fraternity or a sorority at Penn.

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t’s easy to care about an issue when it directly affects you. I ca re about financial aid packages in college because I am a direct recipient of financial aid that allows me to attend this institution. Similarly, it is easy for me to care about preventing and eradicating anti-Semitism because I am Jewish. It is easy for me to care about drug abuse and alcoholism awareness because people whom I love struggle with these issues everyday. But the social issues I educate myself about and care about shouldn’t stop with the ones that directly affect me.

Penn’s campus is full of students who are in privilegedenough positions to have access to a plethora of resources. We can educate ourselves and others about basically any subject. It is

THE OXFORD C’MON | Don’t post about social issues if you’re not willing to act on them extremely disheartening to hear ignorance in the halls of this school or unwillingness to care about social issues that don’t directly affect the majority of students when we have so much at our fingertips. We are lucky to be living in a major city where news happens and is easy to read about everyday. Some communities don’t have this ease of access.

In the era of wokeness, it isn’t cool to only be woke on Twitter or on social media. Posting your proclamations of support for Penn dining hall workers while simultaneously refusing to bus your own table in a dining hall isn’t being woke; it’s being insensitive. Posting about the

You can’t pick and choose which issues you actually support and which ones you post about online to garner fame.” importance of funding for the arts while refusing to attend theatre shows isn’t woke; it’s fake.

Posting about the need to diversify college campuses while only accepting certain types of people into a club isn’t woke; it’s discriminatory. If you only care about the plight of the less fortunate people because it gets you retweets, then your charade of compassion is worse than the truth of the matter.

The other day, my friend

overheard a cluster of people discussing poverty in one of their classes, where a girl mentioned that talking about poverty was exhausting for her. One of Philadelphia’s poorest neighborhoods is Fairhill in North Philadelphia, where the median annual household income is $15,979. One full year at Penn costs nearly five times that amount.

If poverty is so exhausting for that student to talk about, how about she imagines living in it?

To feel guilty about the circumstances into which you were born is futile.

Some people si m ply h ave more. But in order to show proper support, you can’t pick and choose which issues you actually support and which ones you post about online to garner fame. There is so much injustice in this world that we need to care about. My generation needs to care about climate change.

Not to get famous for making a meme out of the hurricanes and fires ravaging the Earth, but because it is the CAROLINE CHIN right thing to do

SOPHIA DUROSE in order to make a difference.

As a columnist, I am acutely aware that I choose different issues to write about each week, and there is no way I can write about them all. But what I write is motivated by a belief in what I’m saying. In fact, I often get angry emails because of my articles, where some people call me names, say I’m probably living in my mother’s basement smoking cannabis and eating mac and cheese all day, or something equally unproductive to the conversations I am trying to instigate.

But that doesn’t deter me from trying to open discussions about both issues that directly affect me and ones that don’t.

Basically, if you’re going to truly be woke, you can’t pick and choose which issues to care about based on which issues affect you, and you can’t just do it because everyone else is. Genuine effort can reap genuine results, but only when someone is truly driven. I should also care about supporting the suppressed voices of marginalized ethnicities, the rights of transgender individuals, disability disputes, ageist rhetoric, and other hot topics that perhaps don’t affect me, but do affect the world I live in. Not because it will make me popular, but because it’s the right thing to do.

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Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn. edu.

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Stand up for your beliefs without canceling others

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TON TALKS | Engaging with different perspectives is challenging yet often necessary

a fe space is a ter m with ma ny mea n ings.

But her e on Pen n’s campus, it’s often referred to as a forum for open dialogue and conversation free from intolerable discrimination or emotional harm. Topics of identity politics and social issues are common components of campus conversations labeled as safe spaces.

Guidelines are created in order to encourage people to be more thoughtful before speaking. They are intended to hold people accountable for their words and actions.

Penn has students from all walks of life. Our differences in backgrounds, identities, and beliefs should be celebrated and utilized to bridge mutual understanding rather than weaponized as a source to be called out. You can offer someone your own perspective without forcibly trying to “correct” their beliefs with the assumption that your terminologies and beliefs are the most morally sound. Harmful language should never be tolerated. But consider the dangers of silencing people’s true opinions. We can hold a critical view of the world while also checking our own egos and biases to understand where others are coming from.

But not all campus conversations have been praised for their sensitivity. Some faculty at institutions such as the University of Chicago condemn “intellectua l ‘sa fe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”

In addition to the existence of space spaces within campus culture, some people go an extra step to voice their disapproval when someone has said

or done something “problematic.” In the context of activism, calling someone or something “problematic” is a loaded statement. It is an implication of offense, perhaps even moral wrongdoing in the eyes of the critic. In some cases, it’s used as a “catch-all” umbrella term to accuse someone of contributing to a larger social “-ism” (e.g. racism, sexism, etc.), without specifying exactly what the issue at hand is.

As imperfect humans, Penn students cannot be perfect judges of morality or correctness. We are not free from our own biases, we do not have per fect i n for mat ion, a nd many of us have been both victims a nd p er p et rator s of injustices. We should stand up for our core values, but we can do it without shutting down potentially meaningful conversations or publicly humiliating someone.

Verbal callouts are similar to safe spaces in that they are intended to hold p e o ple a c c o u ntable. The age of digital activism has allowed for public call-outs and widespread cancel culture. Although call-out culture has been fundamental in modern-day activism, it’s time to recognize the dangers that come with it.

Although Penn is an institution that encourages free speech and all schools of thought, the reality is that there are many students who repress their complete thoughts out of

fear of not knowing the “academic terminology,” not wanting to seem “non-PC,” or not wanting to be called out.

When is it appropriate to stop controversial language and when is it necessary to allow difficult conversations to flow?

When, if at all, should the line be drawn between meaningful criticism and unfair judgments?

Is call-out culture more harmful than it is productive in creating a more equitable and

The condemnation of Amy Wax is one of Penn’s primary examples of call-out culture.

The infamous Penn Law School professor has repeatedly been under fire for her claim that “all cultures are not equal” in a 2017 Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed. Since her publication,

just world?

These are some important questions Penn students can ask themselves before they become too blinded by their own biases.

When self-righteous students drown out the voices of those trying to learn, they are invalidating others’ experiences and beliefs at the expense of their own moral compass.

Wax has been called an insult to Penn’s values and has been the subject of various critical statements made by Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger, Latinx Law Students Association, and 33 Penn Law faculty members. A petition with over 60,000 signatures calls for her resignation.

Wax responded to this callout by telling readers not to

When is it appropriate to stop controversial language and when is it necessary to allow difficult conversations to flow?”

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follow this lead of condemning people for their views without providing a reasoned argument. Wax makes some important, valid points about the importance of being exposed to diverse arguments.

Shielding ourselves from undesirable opinions could certainly lead to dead dogma.

I n d e e d , “avo id ing and shunning people” with diffe r e n t pol it ica l viewpoints can be contradictory to the nature of democracy.

But the ha r mful effects of Amy Wa x’s statements go beyond posing an argument open for productive, civil debate. Her words uphold a system of prejudice and white supremacist beliefs, and even if she herself does not endorse Nazism JESS TAN or other racist ideologies, her position of power allows for people in those groups to use her words as ammunition for those very causes.

There’s a difference between language that brings harm and someone trying to express their own beliefs in an attempt to broaden their perspectives.

When language or behavior brings tangible harm to a

TON NGUYEN marginalized individual or community, calling out that harmful language is necessary to break the cycle of oppression.

That is the difference between shutting down a potential conversation with someone who actually wants to learn and engage versus condemning someone who has expressed irrefutably hateful language.

Still, there are some takeaways that people from all ideologies could benefit from.

Penn students should consider the dangers of policing someone’s words. Clubs can outline meetings or conversation spaces with clear rules if they can give definitions of terminology important to the discussion so that no one is left confused or too embarrassed to speak up and ask about the “appropriate” words to use.

If you have the capacity to, challenge yourself to engage with a different perspective.

P ushback in a n academ ic setting can occur in more productive ways than assuming that someone is unable to engage with you rationally and choosing to leave the conversation.

TON NGUYEN is a college junior from Atlanta, Ga. studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Her email address is nton@sas.upenn.edu.

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The renovation project to replace the flooring will cost about $500,000. The 51-year-old floor will be replaced by a more modern court, similar to what is currently being used in the Palestra.

“There have been quite a few upgrades to the gym area to improve the conditions for student

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my identity.”

The University first announced the creation of the Penn First Plus office in an email to students in May 2018. The office works on initiatives such as faculty and staff training programs on better understanding FGLI students, grow scholarship funds, and provide resources to prepare and retain FGLI students. The office consists of an executive director, two faculty directors, and student liaisons in each undergraduate school.

Gonzalez said, however, with the growing number of FGLI student groups and offices such as the Greenfield Intercultural Center and Student Financial Services, students can get confused about what each office does and where to go for certain ques-

of Chicago’s Gerald Ratner Athletic Center. It was described as “the finest campus recreation center in the region” by College Consensus.

tions.

“I know I would be excited to go to this space, but until there’s more communication and clarity, people might be confused what they would go there for,” Gonzalez said.

Three years ago, Penn became the second university in the Ivy League – after Brown University – to open a resource center for FGLI students. 15% of students admitted to the Class of 2023 are the first in their family to attend college, a slight increase from 14% of the admitted Class of 2022.

The admissions center moved from College Hall to the basement of Claudia Cohen Hall after nine months of construction. At the time, Lindsay Dussing, the director of on-campus programs for the Admissions Office, said the center needed a larger space to accommodate the increase in visitors to campus, but declined to comment on what the previous admissions center space would be used for.

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The basketball courts in Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, which have been closed for water damage repairs, are set to reopen on Oct. 14.

While the renovation is underway, students are using the basketball courts in Weightman Hall and the Tse Center, which are both located on 33rd Street, Director of Athletic Communications Michael Mahoney said. The courts were closed over the summer while officials planned the renovations, which officially started on Sept. 11, Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services project manager Dave Pancoe said.

The renovation project to replace the flooring will cost about

entire floor and upgrade it.”

The 51-year-old floor will be replaced by a more modern court, similar to what is currently being used in the Palestra and the John R. Rockwell Gymnasium at Tse Center. “[The old floor] actually surpassed what would normally be considered the normal lifespan of a gym floor,” Dausch said.

Pancoe said the new floor is a two-part system, with a subfloor and a maple hardwood floor on the top.

“It is a state-of-the-art system.

When you are jumping and landing, it is much easier on your knees and your joints, so it can significantly reduce the amount of injuries due to the floors,” Pancoe said.

Gustkey said there have been many renovations and significant investments over the years in athletic facilities.

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$500,000, Associate Athletic Director of Facilities Noah Gustkey said.

The water damage in the basketball courts was caused by rainstorms that were un-forecasted over the summer when roof renovation was being conducted, FRES Design and Construction Executive Director Mike Dausch said.

“We had more major rainstorms this summer than what we had in the history of the area,” Dausch said.

Instead of repairing the waterdamaged part of the floor, FRES decided to renovate the entire basketball court flooring.

“Some of the concerns with repairing the floor were the age of the floor and possible further damage to the floor, as it has already passed its useful life,” Dausch said. “So we took the opportunity to go in and replace the

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Penn professors speak at ‘1.5 Minute Climate Lectures’ Wednesday’s lectures were the third installment of the series ANYA TULLMAN Staff Reporter

This month, the College of Arts and Sciences has organized a series of popup lectures to discuss an issue that affects students and faculty members in every discipline: climate change.

On Wednesday, five Penn professors spoke in the third installment of the 1.5* Minute Climate Lecture Series, which has been held every Wednesday this September. The series takes its name from an October 2018 report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which showed there will be irreversible effects if the average global temperature rises by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The report estimated that temperatures have already risen by 1.0 degree Celsius.

Simon Richter, a professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, said he came up with the idea for the lecture series after noticing there was a large gap between what scientists know about climate change and the general public’s understanding of the issue.

“Scientists are essentially shouting,” Richter said. “They’re waving all the red flags that they can and ringing all the

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the UA, who are elected officials.

When the UA tried to hold associate members to the same attendance standards, a debate broke out over whether the body should allow associate members to be committee directors. Although associates have been able to take on these posts, it had never been formally approved until last week.

Some members argued that allowing associate members higher powers than those who had won elections would be unfair. Others contended that allowing associate members to serve as committee directors would elevate underrepresented voices in the UA. The controversy was sparked on Sept. 8 when the UA attempted to pass an amendment that would hold associate members serving as committee directors to the same attendance standards as elected general body members. This measure failed, because opponents said it didn’t address a deeper question over whether associate members could be committee directors.

The first amendment, proposed at the Sept. 8 meeting, stated: “Associate Members serving as Committee Directors shall be held to the same attendance expectations as elected general body members.”

Prior to the vote, the UA body engaged in a pro-con debate, in which three members volunteered to speak in favor of the amendment and four members spoke against the amendment.

According to the UA’s minutes, two members in favor of the amendment spoke about the importance of holding leaders to a high standard.

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“I see my job as a coordinator as more of nurturing talent,” she said.

“If you call it mentoring, that’s mentoring, but I spot so much talent and capacity within these students.”

Yoshida attributes her outlook on mentorship to her time at GSE, where she studied inquiry-based teaching strategies. As a mentor, Yoshida said her approach is to ask “very reflective, in-depth questions as a facilitator to promote learning and growth.”

“The learning that I gained, the philosophy and approach that I gained from that two years — it was just very eye-opening,” Yoshida said.

After graduating from Penn, Yoshida went on to work at Temple University’s Intergenerational Center. There, she partnered with local organizations that serve immigrant communities in facilitating conversations between youths and elders.

Yoshida returned to Penn in January 2015 as Penn Museum’s first ever diversity programs manager.

alarm bells that they can, and still people are not hearing. I wanted to bridge that gap and raise awareness and start ringing alarm bells on the Penn campus.”

When planning the lectures, Richter worked with College Dean Paul Sniegowski to ensure that professors from a wide variety of disciplines were included.

Many speakers addressed climate change in the context of larger social and political issues.

At the Sept. 18 lecture, English professor Paul Saint-Amour talked about humanity’s role in causing the climate crisis and the motivation of younger generations to reverse these effects.

Anthropology professor Nikhil Anand argued that it’s possible to change the energy industry in a lecture titled “Oil is Not Forever.”

“Oil companies were not around 100 years ago and they will not be around in 100 years,” Anand said. “The question is, what do we do between the last 100 years and the next 100?”

Herman Beavers, an English and Africana Studies professor, discussed the relationship between climate change and gentrification at the event. Beavers emphasized the responsibility of Penn as a prestigious research university to lead the way towards sustainability on college campuses. “[The lectures] really are

sparking a conversation,” Beavers said. “People who are far away from Penn are looking at the lectures online, so something is happening and Penn is going to be in the center of it.”

Many environmentally centered clubs on campus, such as Fossil Free Penn, say the administration should take steps to make Penn a more sustainable campus. Sierra Club, an environmental organization from California, ranked Penn 100th out of 282 colleges and universities for sustainability this year.

“There’s a pent-up frustration about folks feeling that somehow, within the institution, they have not been able to do enough,” Richter said. “And a frustration that Penn is just moving incrementally, isn’t really responding with the climate action at the level that is required.”

senior Elena Hoffman said during the pro-con debate that the amendment could threaten the merit of being an elected member of the UA, by allowing unelected officials to serve in higher positions than students who won elections.

UA representative and College junior Chase Serota called the amendment “devious” during procon debate, because the ability of associate members to sit on UA Cabinet was not previously discussed.

The amendment failed by a vote of 11 con votes to 10 pro votes. A primary argument in opposition to the amendment was that the ability of associate members to serve on UA Cabinet should have been discussed prior to passing an amendment regulating their attendance. At the time, the ability of associate members to serve as committee directors was not outlined in the UA bylaws.

“I felt that the amendment they were trying to pass was secretly and deceitfully trying to pass something else,” UA representative and College junior Kristen Ukeomah said.

Ukeomah voted con on the first amendment because she said the executive board was trying to allow associate members to sit on cabinet without formalizing this rule in the bylaws.

“People didn’t vote no on the attendance amendment because they don’t want to hold associate member leaders accountable for their attendance,” Hoffman said. “We voted no because we felt that there was a larger conversation that we [needed] to have before voting on this — and that conversation is, should an associate member be allowed to sit on Cabinet?”

The amendments were primarily concerned with the ability of associate members to serve as the director of one of the UA’s five committees

or as UA communications director.

UA members can apply to be committee directors or communications director, and are selected by the UA executive board.

The amendments were controversial because of the status of Nursing senior Jessica Andrews. Andrews is a UA associate member who currently serves as director of the Student and Campus Life committee.

Andrews was permitted by the current UA executive board to serve as a committee director. At the time of her appointment, the ability of an associate member to sit on UA Cabinet — which consists of the executive board and committee directors — was not explicitly banned or allowed by the bylaws.

Andrews did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

After the initial amendment failed to pass, a second amendment was proposed at the following week’s UA meeting to directly address whether or not an associate member can sit on the UA Cabinet.

The second amendment, proposed at the Sept. 15 meeting, was an extension of an existing provision, which originally stated: “Associate Members may, at the discretion of the UA Executive, represent the UA on a university-wide committee or board.”

The amended version added, “and apply for appointment to the role of UA Committee Director and UA Communications Director,” to the existing bylaw.

The UA body again engaged in a pro-con debate, during which four members spoke in favor of the amendment, three members spoke against the amendment, and one undecided member spoke, according to the Sept. 15 meeting minutes.

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In the role, Yoshida managed the International Classroom program, where she worked with educators from around the world to teach Philadelphia students in K-12 education about different cultural traditions.

Ellen Owens, the director of learning programs at Penn Museum, worked with Yoshida on the education program. She said Yoshida built “incredible relationships” with the international educators who grew under her guidance.

“She really likes to bring people in contact with one another that have things to share,” Owens said. “So in that regard I feel like she can put students in contact with departments or resources they might need.”

Before leaving Penn Museum, Yoshida worked with Owens to create a program for K-12 schoolchildren called “Inquiry into China,” and hired two Chinese educators for the program.

As coordinator, Yoshida will work with PAACH’s intern staff, facilitate the planning of Asian Pacific American Heritage Week, and help cultivate PAACH Pals, a new discussion-based program housed in the cultural center.

College senior Chris Carlson, who spoke at the Wednesday event, said he hopes the lecture series will inspire Penn students to take steps to reduce their carbon footprint by consuming less meat and buying secondhand clothing. Carlson worked with Biology professor Brenda Casper and College senior Bonnie Mendelson to give a lecture entitled “Will the Mongolian Steppe Step up to Climate Change?” which was based on Casper’s research in the country.

PAACH Director Peter Van Do said Yoshida’s background in diversity and education stood out to him in the search process, as well as Yoshida’s “connectedness with the local Asian-American community here in Philadelphia.” He added that Yoshida has been “hitting the ground running” since starting at PAACH in August, and recently helped hire five new interns for the center.

Asian Pacific Student Coalition Chair and College senior Kamal Gill was one of the students on the committee who met with Yoshida before she was hired. He noted her extensive working experience at Penn, and said that when he spoke to Yoshida, she was already brainstorming possible PAACH collaborations with community groups.

Van Do added that he looks forward to having Yoshida’s “fresh eyes and new perspective” in expanding PAACH’s work.

“I think that Hitomi’s strength would be connecting with the local community and connecting students with the local community,” Van Do said

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From right to left, College senior Chris Carlson worked with Biology professor Brenda Casper and College senior Bonnie Mendelson to give a lecture entitled, “Will the Mongolian Steppe Step up to Climate Change?”

College freshman Gabriela Skovronsky, who attended the lectures, said Richter’s lecture on “The Climate Patient’s Bill of Rights” resonated with her.

“I thought [Richter] had an interesting take on the lecture,” Skovronsky said. “He included students and took a sort of slam

poetry-esque style to the speech which was captivating to an audience.”

Richter is looking into the possibility of continuing the series past September in an effort to continue the campus-wide discussions about climate change that the lectures help spark.

“We’ve opened what we hope is a conversation with the University administration,” Richter said. “I hope that the administration is listening and I hope that they realize that there are a lot of faculty members who are not happy about where the University is right now.”

amendment during the pro-con debate, Ukeomah said this amendment would set a “dangerous precedent allowing for nepotism.”

College senior and Community Engagement and Sustainability Committee Director Arjun Swaminathan spoke in favor of the amendment during the pro-con debate. He said that the executive board would use their judgement to pick qualified members to sit on Cabinet, regardless of their status as an elected or associate member.

The amendment passed by a vote

of 14 – 8.

UA President and College senior Natasha Menon, who co-authored and voted pro on both of the amendments, said the amendments were part of an ongoing push to further integrate associate members into the UA body.

Menon said associate members are often selected with the intention of bringing underrepresented voices onto the UA body.

“It’s important to have those voices at deliberative tables like that of Cabinet,” Menon said.

UA representative and

Wharton junior John Casey said associate members have an equal status to elected members on the UA. He added that associate members may be able to draw upon their own personal “managerial experience and institutional knowledge” to be effective members of the UA Cabinet.

Casey voted pro on both amendments.

The amendment which passed at the Sept. 15 meeting will be added to the UA’s bylaws, and will confirm the ability of associate members to serve as a committee director or communications director for the UA.

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Players to Watch: Emily Sands looking to add to her goal count Men’s and women’s cross country back on the course DUSTIN GHANNADI Sports Reporter

The 2019 fall season is heating up for Penn’s teams. With most sports approaching the end of their nonconference schedules, these are the impact players to watch heading into this weekend.

Emily Sands — Women’s soccer Senior forward Emily Sands has taken a commanding role in the Red and Blue’s offense over the past few seasons. A four-year starter, Sands has achieved impressive offensive numbers, netting eight goals last year.

Through the first six games of this season, the senior has come back as an even more fundamental part of the attack. Already finding the back of the net four times while also being credited with three assists, she has been involved in over 60% of the Quakers’ goals. Sands has also been highly accurate so far, touting a 54.5 shot-on-goal percentage. “We have really grown since last year. Everybody came back better,� Sands said. “I think we are clicking in a really good way, especially in practice. I think we are a lot further along than we were last year.�

The Quakers are now focusing on their next pair of games at Rhodes Field against Hofstra on Friday and Temple on Sunday.

Sands views the matchup with Temple as more than just an ordinary contest. “It’s like a battle for the city, so that’s pretty exciting.�

Parker Jones — Volleyball Junior outside hitter Parker Jones has been key to Penn volleyball’s early success this season. Coming off of consecutive 200+ kill seasons, Jones, who is also a DP staffer, has not slowed down, leading the team with 71 kills in the first six games of the season. With a .216 attack percentage, Jones has been over 40% more successful in attacks than Penn’s opponents.

The junior also recently led Penn to an undefeated weekend at the Valley Forge Sports Invitational at the Palestra. Leading the team in kills, she earned AllTournament honors while also being awarded the title of MVP. Overall, strong hitting from the Red and Blue has led to their best start in the last decade.

The Quakers will head west to the UC Riverside Invitational this weekend, looking to extend their four-game winning streak.

Julianna Catania — Women’s cross country Penn women’s cross country will head to Boston College and

Haverford this weekend, with some of the runners competing in the Coast to Coast Battle in Beantown and others in the Main Line Invitational. One of the Quakers’ leaders is senior Julianna Catania, a veteran track and cross country runner. Currently holding the second-best mark in Penn history in the 3,000m steeplechase (10:28.23), Catania has proven to have endurance and lasting power throughout her events.

Last weekend, she led the Red and Blue to a fourth-place finish with a time of 20:03.57 at the Fordham Fiasco. As a group, nine of Penn’s runners all finished within four seconds of each other. Moving forward, Catania and the rest of the pack will look to hit peak form as the season progresses.

Anthony Russo — Men’s cross country Like the women’s team, Penn men’s cross country will be split between two locations.

After a third-place finish at the Fordham Fiasco last weekend, part of the team will travel to Haverford on Friday to compete in the Main Line Invitational. Having had recent success in this event, the Quakers are hungry for another strong showing.

Junior Anthony Russo is poised to have a strong performance on Friday. Having

finished in second place in the four-mile race last year, Russo is among the favorites in the event this time around. Penn’s solid showing last weekend was a good look at the talent of this team, and this weekend will give the Quakers another opportunity to impress.

Joey Bhangdia — Men’s soccer Junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia has taken command of the Penn men’s soccer of-

fense this year. With two goals in three games, he has become a key component of the Quakers’ attack. Nearly a third of all chances this season have come from Bhangdia, who currently places over 35% of his shots on goal. Furthermore, Bhangdia’s skills have also helped the Red and Blue in crucial moments, evidenced by his game-winning goal against Marist on Sept. 9.

As the Quakers head into the weekend, they will face Temple at home. Last year’s game finished as a scoreless draw in double overtime, with neither team finding the back of the net. Bhangdia came on as a sub last year and attempted one shot. The Red and Blue’s offensive momentum, as well as their strong defense, will put them in a good position this weekend against the Owls.

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Senior captain and forward Emily Sands has scored four goals in six games for Penn women’s soccer this season and will look to add to that total this weekend when the Quakers face Hofstra and Temple.

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The end of regulation was filled with tension, as neither team was able to convert on their opportunities at net. The game went into overtime, a familiar concept for Penn’s returning players.

Williams would catalyze the last solid opportunity of the night for the Red and Blue. After hustling to catch a long ball played from Bartel, he crossed the ball into scoring position, but the Quakers were unable to find the back of the net. “I’m really happy with [Tuesday’s game] in a lot of ways. I don’t

know if it was our best soccer performance, although I think we created a good number of chances,� coach Brian Gill said. “Probably there will be a mood of disappointment in the locker room. There will be a lot of, ‘How can we be better with our final ball?’�

Bartel also expressed a desire to work harder for a better end result. “I would’ve really liked for us to press a little bit more in the end, but I think it was a mature showing from the entire team, and I was proud of it,� Bartel said.

This is Penn’s first tie of the season after last year’s total of six, which was more than either wins or losses for the Quakers.

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on offense, the defense seems poised to repeat a season as strong as their last one, when the group allowed the fewest points per game in the conference.

This season, the Quakers will add fifth-year senior safety Sam Philippi, a two-time second team All-Ivy player who suffered a season-ending injury in the first game of the 2018 season. “It’s great to have Sam back for a fifth-year campaign, but he’s just one individual in a host of other senior contributors on defense,� Priore said. “On the defensive side, we’ve got a lot of returning starters,� junior linebacker Brian O’Neill said. “We are going to come out playing hard.�

Both sides of the ball will have their hands full with a big opening test this Saturday against Delaware (2-1), as Penn will play a ranked nonconference opponent for the first time since 2015.

Delaware will also be more pre-

pared in terms of gameplay than the Red and Blue. This will be the Blue Hens’ fourth game of the season. “They are big, they are strong, and they are fast,� Priore said. “To beat them we are going to have to play 50-plus players and sub early and often because there is going to be that emotional high of the first game and how tired you get with all that excitement.� “We have to play our game and do our job, fill our gaps, and fit our seams. They bring a lot of athleticism, but we have those same types of guys and we just have to show up,� O’Neill said.

While everyone respects the challenges ahead, the players are just excited to get back on the field. “I really just want to hit someone who’s not on my team,� Gibbs said.

After a long camp, the Quakers are more than ready to make sure that their championship memories become reality once again.

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After halftime, Rutgers flew out of the gate with the first two opportunities. However, the Quakers prevented the Scarlet Knights from adding to their total and took momentum of the game in the 70th minute with the bread-and-butter scoring play of Penn’s 2018 season.

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nod over last year’s starter, junior Ryan Glover, after Glover started all 10 games in 2018. Robinson is still relatively inexperienced, throwing just 40 passes last season, completing 67% of them for a total of 306 yards. “Efficient in what we are trying to do, run the calls, run the offense, take what people give you, and control the ball,� Priore said of what he is looking for in Robinson.

Beyond the quarterback, there may be just as many questions at wide receiver after the graduation of top receiver Steve Farrell. One new face in the receiving corps will be senior Abe Willows, last year’s second leading receiver in terms of yardage, who will make the transition from running back to slot receiver this season.

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Where are they now? | Sprint football ‘17 quarterback Mike McCurdy McCurdy is now attending med school at Georgetown EMILY CONDON Sports Reporter

Mike McCurdy, former sprint football quarterback and 2017 Penn graduate, never ceased to impress on and off the field during his time on campus, and things haven’t changed in that regard since he left.

Many of Penn’s athletes graduate and move on to accomplish great things, but McCurdy stands out among his colleagues. Originally looking to be recruited to Penn football out of high school, he ended up getting into the school without a guaranteed roster spot.

“I contacted the football head coach [once I got into Penn] and he said, ‘We don’t have a spot for you, but we do have sprint football. You should get in touch with [coach Bill Wagner].’

That’s how I got introduced to sprint football and the possibility of playing at Penn, which was exciting,” McCurdy said.

In his first season in 2013, McCurdy was a second team All-Collegiate Sprint Football League honoree for his performance as quarterback after playing in all of Penn’s games.

Moving forward, he posted even more impressive seasons in his sophomore and junior years. In 2015, McCurdy was No. 1 in the League in passing and rushing touchdowns and won the CSFL Co-MVP award.

In his senior year, McCurdy won another CSFL MVP award and had the most total yards and passing yards in the League, in addition to leading the CSFL in passing touchdowns.

“Sprint football’s a funny thing, and I think for the rest of my life it’ll be something I have to explain to people,” McCurdy said. “In [medical] school interviews, I would say that I played football, and the person would look and say ‘this says sprint football’, and I’d have to go into a 10-minute explanation telling people what it is. But honestly it’s been a great thing and can even break tension, especially during med school interviews where there’s high pressure.”

On campus, McCurdy was involved in a variety of other campus groups, including Penn’s chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Penny Loafers, an a cappella group.

McCurdy also immersed himself in academic life at Penn, majoring in Biological Basis of Behavior as a pre-med student.

His stellar academic perfor-

mance at Penn — which included his membership in Penn’s pre-med, pre-health society for athletes and his involvement at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center — helped lead him on his path to medical school.

After graduating from Penn, McCurdy headed to Georgetown to complete a master’s degree in physiology. He then worked as a medical scribe in his home state of Maryland in an emergency department, as well as at a private practice. This year, he began his first year of medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

“When you come to med school, you treat it more like a job than school I think, just dedicating 8-5 to school work,” McCurdy said. “Recently I’ve been getting into the idea of doing some type of surgery, I’m thinking either ortho, shock trauma — because we have a really good shock trauma facility at Maryland — or neurosurgery.”

McCurdy has a long road of school and hard work ahead of him with his plan to complete medical school and specialize in surgery. But grit and determination are second-nature to him, which will certainly aid him in achieving similar successes to those he had at Penn.

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Mike McCurdy was a decorated quarterback for Penn sprint football, racking up two Collegiate Sprint Football League Most Valuable Player awards and adding a CSFL championship with the Quakers in 2016.

Roundtable: Which fall team has been most surprising so far?

Penn volleyball is off to its best start since 2009 DP SPORTS EDITORS

Even though Penn football has yet to kick off its season, most of the fall sports are in full swing. It may still be early,

but here are three of the teams that have surprised us with their performances thus far.

Volleyball One of the biggest questions coming into the fall season was how Penn volleyball would bounce back from its worst season in history. After a year in which the team put up an

overall record of 6-19 and went 3-11 in Ivy League play, additional questions were raised in the offseason after allegations of mistreatment by first-year coach Iain Braddak emerged.

But despite some players leaving the team and others being lost to graduation, the Quakers have overcome these issues to

race out to a 5-1 record so far, the best start in 10 years for the program.

Penn has taken part in two four-team tournaments so far, falling only to Lehigh at the Crosstown Invitational and sweeping the competition at the Valley Forge Sports Invitational last weekend at the

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Junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia is one of the strongest offensive weapons for Penn men’s soccer this season. Bhangdia has picked up two goals thus far, including the game-winning goal against Marist on Sept. 9. The team has put up a 2-1-1 start four games into the season.

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Palestra. Junior opposite hitter and captain Parker Jones, who is also a staffer for The Daily Pennsylvanian, was named the tournament MVP last weekend in front of her home crowd and has racked up 55 kills and 32 digs on the season. Also paramount to the Red and Blue’s success is freshman setter Taylor Fourticq, who has burst onto the scene after Grace James’ graduation and put up 132 assists to lead the team so far, more than double her next closest teammate.

The 2009 squad started the season 8-1, and this year’s team has the chance to match that at this weekend’s UC Riverside Invitational.

Men’s soccer It’s no secret that Penn men’s soccer didn’t meet expectations last season. The squad finished 5-5-6, picked up just two Ivy League wins, and was held scoreless in eight contests.

This season, the Quakers have turned things around in a big way. They opened the year with a 2-0 victory against Monmouth, whom they edged in overtime last year. After topping Marist in their home opener, the Red and Blue lost a hard-fought contest to No. 19 St. John’s. The Red Storm broke through in the 80th minute to edge Penn.

Four days later, the Quakers tied No. 24 Rutgers, with junior defender Alex Touche netted the equalizer in the 70th minute — his first goal of the season. This is the first time since 2015 that Penn has tied with a ranked team. Though the

Quakers haven’t had a winning season since 2011, they have a good chance to get above .500 with the way they have been playing of late.

Field hockey Penn field hockey is no stranger to scheduling tough games early in the season. In each of the last three seasons, including this year, the Quakers have played at least two ranked opponents in their first four games.

To begin the 2019 season, Penn lost to top-ranked North Carolina and No. 15 Wake Forest, two contests in which the Red and Blue were underdogs.

Following these difficult tests, Penn’s next two matchups — against Monmouth and Villanova — were more favorable, at least on paper. However, the Quakers still weren’t able to get in the win column, and they are now 0-4 for the first time since 2011.

With Monmouth and Villanova both being unranked, Penn had a good opportunity to pick up some momentum before the beginning of Ivy play, but the group will now have to wait until Sunday — when it plays No. 14 St. Joseph’s — to get another chance to break the losing skid. Additionally, Penn’s most recent defeat against Villanova was its first loss to the Wildcats since 2011.

However, the Red and Blue have proven that they can bounce back from a slow start.

In fact, last season, they started with a 2-3 record before ultimately finishing the year at 5-2 in the Ivy League.

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One last run.

As the Quakers prepare to take on No. 20 Delaware to open their fifth season under coach Ray Priore, the team recognizes that this season marks the end of an era for Penn football.

“It’s a new start; everyone is ready to get back on the field,” Priore said.

Over the last few seasons, the departures of stars such as wide receiver Justin Watson and quarterback Alek Torgersen have made this squad almost unrecognizable from the back-to-back Ivy League champions of 2015 and 2016.

However, the Red and Blue have not yet moved on from these historic teams, as 16 of their 44 players listed on the depth chart were a part of the 2016 Ivy League championship team. But this will be the final season in which Penn’s players have any sort of championship pedigree unless they come away with another title.

“I think very good football teams start with great senior leadership. I think these young men have worked very hard since the end of last year’s campaign taking the younger players under their wing and leading by example in every aspect,” Priore said.

“I think they all want to go

out there and leave their mark with one final championship season.”

“I think getting that ring is the most important thing to every senior on this team right now,” senior offensive lineman Jeff Gibbs said. “We are just looking to go out on top.”

Part of the reason for Penn’s success early in Priore’s tenure was the dynamic duo of Watson and Torgersen, who led the Quakers to a top-two scoring offense in the Ivy League in both 2015 and 2016. However, outside of senior running back Karekin Brooks, a lack of consistent offensive production last season saw the Quakers put up their worst offensive season of Priore’s tenure. The unit scored just 18.6 points per game, but this season, new offensive coordinator Kevin Morris will be Penn’s playcaller.

“I’m excited; we’ve got a lot of new stuff with our new offensive coordinator,” Brooks said. “I’m really looking forward to the new play calls.”

A major part of Penn’s recent inconsistency has been the play at the quarterback position. For the third straight year after Torgersen’s graduation, the Red and Blue will run out a new starting quarterback on opening day. This season, Penn’s No. 1 will be senior Georgia transfer Nick Robinson, who is getting the SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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Old habits die hard.

Penn men’s soccer’s fourth game of the season against Rutgers on Tuesday night seemed like a page out of its book from the 2018 season. The teams played out both overtimes at Rhodes Field, ultimately tying with a score of 1-1.

The first half started off slowly for Penn (2-1-1), as Rutgers (5-01) put in a penalty kick goal just 10 minutes into the game.

Once the Scarlet Knights scored their initial goal, the Quakers began playing back on their heels.

Rutgers controlled most of the possession for the next 10 minutes of play. The Quakers were able to prevent any serious scoring opportunities, but they remained unable to have any meaningful possessions.

The visitors’ groove was disrupted by a pass from Penn junior defender RC Williams to

sophomore midfielder Anthony Rovito over the head of a Rutgers defender. Rovito was able to lay it off to sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz, but his tight-angled shot was parried away by Rutgers freshman goalkeeper Oren Asher.

The attempt caused a small momentum shift, however, as it allowed Penn to grab hold of posSEE M. SOCCER PAGE 8

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Junior linebacker Brian O’Neill will be one of the players to watch on defense when Penn faces Delaware this Saturday.

Freshman setter Taylor Fourticq poised for productive season VOLLEYBALL | The rookie has racked up 132 assists BIANCA SERBIN Associate Sports Editor

Penn volleyball is a changed team.

At this time last year, the Quakers had finished their nonconference play and had won only three of 11 matches. Two-thirds of the way through their nonconference season, with 17 matches left in the season overall, the Red and Blue currently have a record of 5-1.

“For team success and personal success, they just kind of go hand-in-hand. Everyone working together as a team is really what’s putting us on top right now,” junior setter Kacie Burton said.

“Passers make our jobs easy, hitters make us look good, and our bench is crazy all the time. Everyone’s energy and everyone’s effort at all times is why we’re winning and doing well.”

The Quakers ended their 2018 season with a record of 6-19, going 3-11 in the Ivy League. Despite the team’s less-than-ideal record, senior setter Grace James

finished the season with 641 assists. In 14 matches James had 30 or more assists. She also had 137 digs in 2018, putting her at thirdbest on the team in that category.

Sophomore setter Kylie Kulinski also stepped onto the court for Penn last year. She played in seven matches, totaling 204 assists, and she had more than 40 assists against both Delaware and St. Francis.

This year, however, a new setter is making an impact for Penn.

Freshman Taylor Fourticq has played in four matches and already has 132 assists. She notched 50 assists against Maryland Eastern Shore to help the Quakers win in five sets.

Fourticq is starting above sophomore setter Kylie Kulinski and Burton, though Kulinski did play in two matches instead of Fourticq.

“I think everyone has just been really welcoming. Especially being a freshman, it’s kind of hard being a setter because it’s a more vocal position than being a freshman [usually is], and I haven’t played with everyone before,” Fourticq said.

Part of what has made Four-

ticq so successful is the support from her fellow setters. The players aren’t overly competitive with each other and focus instead on helping each other out.

“We have position groups here, and the setting position group is easily the best one,” Fourticq joked. “I love all the setters, and it’s really good because whoever’s playing, it doesn’t matter. When they come off the court, everyone will talk and say, ‘Here’s what you’re doing well, here’s what you need to work on,’ and it’s super supportive and a good environment.”

Changes in the lineup aren’t the only reason Penn is having a fantastic season. The team also has a different vibe, one that is more energetic and encouraging than before.

“Honestly, everything’s different this season, on an energy level mostly,” Kulinski said. “Everyone’s so positive and supportive of one another, so in the setting position, it helps because every one of the setters is always supporting the other setters, always pushing each other. I think that’s just an overall difference from last year.”

“I think as a whole, our team

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Setter Taylor Fourticq (8) is already making an impact on the court for Penn volleyball after Grace James’ graduation last year. The freshman has tallied a total of 132 assists over the team’s six matches thus far.

has really good chemistry,” Kulinski said. “Everyone on the bench, everyone on the court, we’re all working together, and if you’re not physically out on the court, you’re

supporting from the bench. That all combined together is what’s helping us succeed.”

This weekend, the Quakers will travel to Riverside, Calif. to

compete in the UC Riverside Invitational, where they will finish nonconference play. They will start Ivy play next week, opening against Princeton.

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