September 21, 2015

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Who’s missing from Greek life?

Transgender students underrepresented in Greek groups DAN SPINELLI Senior Reporter

More than 25 percent of Penn’s undergraduates have gone Greek, but transgender students are few among them.

In interviews with Greek organization leaders, administrators and transgender students, the low representation was attributed to structural inequalities, slow institutional change and cultural norms.

The unwelcome ratio Common aspects of Greek life, like ratios of women to men

determining access to parties, marginalize genders outside of the male/ female binary.

“I think that frats and sororities as a whole are stuck in very regressive gender roles,” College senior Roderick Cook said.

Cook, a transgender student who uses they/them pronouns, is the president and co-founder of Penn Non-Cis,

a group dedicated to trans students at Penn through discussion of gender identity issues and awareness. To their knowledge, none of the members — which number about 12 — are in a fraternity or sorority.

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VANESSA BAYER Saturday Night Live’s Vanessa Bayer performed in Bloomers’ LaughtHERfest ANIKA RANGINANI Contributing Reporter

In anticipation for Saturday Night Live’s Vanessa Bayer and other big names in comedy, over 830 people crowded into Irvine Auditorium last Saturday evening for Penn’s first LaughtHERfest.

College senior Laura Petro’s brainchild LaughtHERfest is the first comedy festival that Penn’s all-female comedy group Bloomers has ever planned. It drew celebrities, both Penn graduates and not, like Bayer, Aparna Nancherla and Michelle Wolf as well as other college comedy groups.

The event focused on bringing attention to the role of women in comedy.

“Most of the comedy events I’ve been to are almost all men,” Petro said. “We want to empower and inspire women

interested in the field.”

The festival included a morning panel with Bayer and Julie Kraut, writer on “Odd Mom Out.” Both graduated Penn in 2004, and the two have been friends since their days in Bloomers. Bayer had entered Penn as a biology major, but ended up majoring in communication with plans for a career in comedy.

“I enjoyed [Bloomers] so much,” Bayer said at the panel.

“I hadn’t found anything like that except for school. I didn’t know what it was like to really enjoy and feel like you were excelling at something.”

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Survivor stories of a bad roommate

Students brave loud sex, cigarettes and dirty laundry JEFFREY CAREYVA Deputy News Editor

“Every few weeks [my roommate] would be screaming terror in his sleep late at night, and I could just never bring it up to him,” College sophomore Brian — who preferred to only use his first name — said. “A few times he yelled my name.”

Like many incoming freshmen, Brian went into his first year at Penn ready to live in the Quadrangle with a randomly assigned roommate.

“Everything was pretty normal and chill at first until around midterms when the stress of freshman year was really being felt,” he said.

“But then [my roommate] started doing weird things like wearing the same clothes for several days in a row, sleeping on the hardwood Quad floor, not doing laundry.”

Brian didn’t think much of it at first, but the issues only escalated.

“He would continually buy new clothes instead of washing much, so by the end of the fall, his half of the room was one big pile of dirty laundry — like I couldn’t even walk on the floor between our beds — partially because he would fall asleep on the floor once a week.

“It was hell living with him, but I’m not a confrontational person so I just never said too much about it. In hindsight, I should have made it clear SEE BAD ROOMMATES PAGE 2

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Museum opens papal exhibit

Exhibit featuring biblical texts open until Nov. 7 AMANDA ROTA Contributing Reporter

Over 1 million people will flock to Philadelphia to hear Pope Francis speak at masses or to possibly catch a glimpse of the pope himself. Along the way, they might want to check out the special pope exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Until Nov. 7, the Penn Museum is hosting a centerpiece exhibit to honor the pope’s visit. The exhibit, “Sacred Writings: Extraordinary Texts of the Biblical World,” boasts a display of the world’s rarest copies of significant religious works.

Divided into two parts, there is one section with works related to the New Testament and a fragment of the Gospel of Matthew on papyrus dating to the 3rd century C.E. Another section contains works related to the flood described in the book of Genesis and inscribed on a 1650 B.C.E. Mesopotamian clay tablet.

The Penn Museum and the Penn Libraries partnered to construct the exhibit.

“We wanted to put something together, and the museum really wanted to highlight these two pieces, which aren’t really on display that often,” Mitch Fraas, curator of Special Collections in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Penn Libraries said. “But we wanted to tell a bigger story.”

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The Penn Museum and the Penn Libraries partnered to construct the exhibit.

The exhibit also features two folios from a richly decorated Quran from Iran, a 13th century illuminated Latin Bible produced in Arras, France, the first complete Bible printed in the Western Hemisphere in the Native American Massachusett language in 1663 and an 16th century Rabbinic Bible from Venice, Italy.

The curators wanted a story to tell through the exhibit. The ancient tablet in Sumerian cuneiform, containing the earliest version of the Mesopotamian flood story, anchors the displays.

The flood stories “are all slightly different from each other, but they’re

all related,” Steve Tinney, associate curator-in-charge of the Babylonian Section in the Penn Museum said. “[We] wanted to tell each story going forward, so [we] looked for books. We wanted to highlight the different ways these two artifacts get taken forward in time.”

Lauren Heywood, a student at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, visited the Penn Museum for the first time to see the display.

“I was definitely drawn here because of the religious significance of the exhibit,” she said.

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Kayvon talks love and heartbreak in recently released mixtape

Administration addresses mental health open letter concerns

Wharton sophomore incorporates spoken word into new music

Compromises are discussed for each of the letter’s six proposals

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Penn’s favorite rapper is back and better than ever.

Wharton sophomore Kayvon Asemani released a new mixtape Sunday on his website kayvon music.com. Titled U4IC, Asemani’s newest music hopes to tackle powerful issues through thought-provoking lyrics.

Asemani often describes the importance of producing songs containing meaningful messages.

“At the end of the day, I could just make music,” he said. “But what is it if no one hears my message? What is a community without an advocate?”

In his previous tracks, Asemani often discussed topics such as racial and socioeconomic inequality, his personal life story and social advocacy.

He said he will continue rapping about those themes on this mixtape but will also share more about love and heartbreak. He added that the universality of love is important to him.

“Everybody has an emotional capacity for love,” Asemani said. “You don’t have to be poor or rich to relate to that. You just have to be a human being.”

Asemani draws from a range of genres in this new mixtape, including rock, electronic and hip hop. His supporters may be pleasantly surprised to find that the rapper has introduced spoken word poetry into a few of his new hits. “When you do spoken word, you can be eloquent, and poetic, and have rhythm,” he said. “I don’t have

On Friday morning, members of the Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative met with administrators to discuss last week’s open letter to President Gutmann. The meeting included Vice Provost for University Life Valarie SwainCade McCoullum, Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein and Counseling and Psychological Services Director Bill Alexander, among others.

The letter, which urged President Gutmann and the administration to reform efforts in protection of student mental health, was signed by family members and friends of Penn students who died by suicide as well as student leaders from mental health advocacy groups, student government, minority councils and Greek organizations.

During the meeting, administrators and students discussed each of the letter’s six proposals, reaching agreements on how to address mental health issues in the future.

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Kayvon Asemani, Class of 2018, draws from rock, electronic and hip hop music in his new mixtape.

to worry about a framework. It gives me more liberty to focus on my message.”

Asemani became well known in his freshman year for his spoken word poetry performances, which allowed him to branch out to new audiences for his music. This year, Asemani is equipped with more strategies for marketing his brand.

“When I got here as a freshman, no one knew who I was.

I was my own distribution channel. The combination of knowing people and understanding how Penn is set up — like the power of Locust Walk — has given me more knowledge of strategies I can use this year.”

In promoting his mixtape, Asemani and College sophomore Lea Kichler — who also worked on Asemani’s documentary — joined forces once more to create a trailer featuring a spoken word piece from part of a song on U4IC. “[Kayvon] is definitely someone who is guided by

a determined vision, and he really wants to fulfill everything he sets his mind to,” she said. “[The project] really speaks to what makes Penn unique and shows how entrepreneurial Penn students are.”

While attending Penn and managing an emerging music career may seem daunting, the sophomore has no qualms about keeping up with academics, working on his music and marketing his personal brand.

“Music is a part of my educational experience … My classes are interesting because I can apply them to what I’m doing in my life,” he said.

The artist has developed quite a following at Penn in the one year that he has been a student. Supporter and close friend, College sophomore Bryan Rodriguez said, “Kayvon has this well-rounded personality … it’s what makes him such a powerful artist, the fact that he’s able to portray his meaning, but in a way that relates to a wide audience.”

1. Designated Counselor The Initiative requested that students be assigned specific wellness counselors who will appear alongside academic advisors on PennInTouch and will arrange individual meetings with students throughout the year.

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how uncomfortable I was living with him,” Brian said.

Brian is not alone in experiencing a difficult roommate situation. Executive Director of College Houses and Academic Services Martin Redman approximated that between 20 to 25 percent of housing assignments involve a roommate conflict, but that the real issues happen between a smaller subset of students, often one or two residents in the housing assignment.

In Redman’s exper ience, roommate issues spring up all year long, but may spike in times of academic stress.

“There is no good way to match roommates in an incoming class. Even those who self-select their roommates as a freshman or an upperclassman aren’t immune to experiencing problems.”

While personality tests and matching interests do little to nothing to ensure an amicable roommate environment, Redman thinks that the expectations and experiences which residents bring determine a lot in the roommate relationship.

“Most of the incoming students are coming from family environments and have private bedrooms at home and a bathroom that is relatively private, so it’s a big change to go from that to more communal living, say, in the Quad,” Redman said.

Redma n’s most successf ul met hod for match ing room mates th roughout the years, he says, is matching expectations, whether that’s pairing up those students who want nothing from each other or those who want to be best friends.

The biggest problems between roommates stem from a

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capped off by the the all-female evening performance. Students performers included Penn’s Simply Chaos, Columbia’s Chowdah Sketch Comedy, Columbia and Barnard’s Control Top and Low Cut Comedy.

“Naturally, something like this will draw more women, but I think it says something good that there are men here,” College sophomore Sam Myers-Dineen said.

LaughtHERfest seems even more relevant with the recent social media whirlwind over the Vanity Fair spread, “Why LateNight Television Is Better Than

Administrators agreed to research a pilot program for incoming freshmen that involves specific wellness advisors. Members of the Initiative will be updated on the progress of the research at the end of this semester.

2. Anonymous Visits The Initiative’s second proposal asked for anonymity in scheduling initial CAPS visits, suggesting a system in which students can use anonymous IDs to schedule their first appointments.

Administrators did not agree to the proposal, explaining that anonymity would conflict with the overall goal of a therapeutic relationship between student and counselor.

3. Online Scheduling The Initiative asked CAPS to adjust its appointment scheduling system so visits can be scheduled online as well as over the phone.

Administrators agreed to review the scheduling process, with a promised update by the end of this semester.

5. CAPS Best Practices The Initiative requested that the University monitor students with specific stress factors, such as athletes, and that deliberations and policies on this matter be open to the public. The Initiative also asked that students who take leaves of absences for mental health reasons not be penalized in any way.

Administrators discussed the recent launch of the Jed and Clinton Campus Program advisory team to oversee the University’s mental health initiatives and agreed to maintain transparency, but did not address the Initiative’s suggestion to keep track of students with specific stress factors. Administrators also committed to reviewing leaveof-absence policies, but did not promise to unify leave-of-absence policies across schools.

4. Ongoing, Proactive Communication The Initiative requested that CAPS reach out to students once a month via a newsletter to provide updates and information about mental health issues.

Administrators did not agree to email students, citing existing means of communication, such as the forthcoming student wellness app.

6. New Student Orientation Events The Initiative’s final proposal requested an NSO event dedicated to mental health, as well as a separate meeting for parents to educate them about mental health resources on campus.

Administrators did not agree to create a new NSO event, but agreed to develop a virtual CAPS introduction for incoming freshmen by NSO 2016.

Administrators will continue to evaluate NSO programs for both students and parents, with an update at the beginning of next semester.

lack of communication and this mismatch of expectations.

“If you have a problem, the best thing to do is to talk it over ... but in our digital age students avoid talking to each other when it’s inconvenient, so problems fester over time until they blow up,” Redman said.

If conf licts cannot be resolved first through residential advisers and then College House staff, behavioral agreements or ultimately room changes are the last resort.

According to Penn Residential Services, which oversees the room-change process, less than one percent of residents request room changes each semester and requests come for a variety of reasons.

Most residents who request room changes end up staying in their original assignments.

In fall 2014, fewer than 30 residents changed rooms, despite the higher rates of roommate dissatisfaction.

And sometimes roommate situations become borderline dangerous.

“We had an empty spot we couldn’t fill in time, and that’s when we got the problem random roommate,” junior MS said, who preferred to only use their initials, as “we actually did have some safety concerns with some of their friends.”

MS and their other roommate’s issues with their new guest were nothing special at first.

“She was messy, would use our dishware, would be up all hours of the night until 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. — we all were on different schedules — just very normal bad roommate stuff,” MS said. “And then, we started smel l i ng ciga ret t e smoke coming from her room constantly.”

MS’s roommate had covered her smoke detector with tape

since the beginning of the semester, a safety hazard against fire regulation and building rules.

“At that point we got our RA involved and wanted him to tell her that she can’t smoke indoors in the high rises — this isn’t Mad Men.” Their roommate continually denied smoking, but did not permanently stop.

“Around fall break it didn’t get any better, since she started having a guy live in our room and we didn’t feel safe,” MS said. “She never introduced him to us and he basically lived there until December. We never met him, and he didn’t speak to us — so we had a new male roommate we didn’t know.

There were a lot of loud sex noises at all times of the day.”

Tensions boiled over by winter finals “when she threw a party in her room and then locked herself out,” they said.

“She was banging so hard on the door for us to let her in at four in the morning to the point that I thought the door was going to break down.”

At the end of the semester, MS and their other roommate met with the house dean about the conflicts and to request a change for the spring semester.

“He was so helpful and gave us numbers to call if we ever felt threatened, and he was concerned about the random guy living with us and made sure he wouldn’t be allowed back in,” they said.

MS’s problem room mate changed assignments in the beginning of the spring semester, and her replacement was much more amiable.

“My experience tells me that roommate issues here occur across the board — it doesn’t matter if you’re a first-year resident in the Quad or an upperclassman in the high-rises,” Redman said.

Ever,” which depicted predominantly white male comedians.

At the panel, Kraut had spoken about being a women, whether in comedy or in the corporate world.

“Being a woman in general, you’re just not a rich, white man,” Kraut said. “You’re working against the grain. Sometimes you feel it really acutely.”

The event was supported by a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised $9,501 as well as a grant from the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women.

“This is fabulous,” founding member of Bloomers and TCPW member Cindy Levy said. “This is exactly what TCPW wants to be involved with — women who

are funny and talented and cheer for other women.”

The number of attendees exceeded expectations, according to Bloomers Business Manager Emma Soren, who is a senior in the College. The group ended up opening the Irvine balcony and running out of the tickets they had printed before the show.

“It was really good timing at the beginning of the year. It was the first big show of the year at Penn,” Soren said.

After all the costs of the event are covered, some of the remaining money will be set aside for a future LaughtHERfest, and the rest will be donated to a local non-profit supporting women in the arts, according to Petro.

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Former UA Vice President leaves legacy of political engagement

Gabe Delaney founded the Penn Political Union JACK CAHN Senior Reporter

As Penn’s fall election season came to a close on Friday, dozens of freshmen scrambled to shake hands, plaster bulletin boards with campaign posters and chalk the Quadrangle with their names. But markedly missing from the election shenanigans was the 6’3” Dominican New Yorker who dominated the campus political scene for the past four years — the godfather of Penn politics, Gabe Delaney.

Before he graduated in May 2015 with a letter of acceptance from Oxford University, Delaney was a fixture on Locust Walk, where his celebrity status rivaled Penn President Amy Gutmann’s, his friends said. In 1920 Commons and the Quadrangle, nearly every staff member from janitor to dean knew his name. And in the gym, locker number 2040 — the year he will most probably run for United States president — was used every morning.

As vice president of the Undergraduate Assembly, founding speaker of the Penn Political Union — which has since become the go-to political club on campus — and chair of the International Affairs Association, he transformed political life on Penn’s campus and mentored dozens of political leaders from class presidents to UA representatives to Wharton bigwigs.

But before Delaney became the de facto leader of the Penn political community, he was just another wide-eyed, newly minted freshman scrambling to win the spot as freshman class president. From traveling worldwide to China, Israel and the United Kingdom as a student ambassador to his UA election scandal, Delaney’s journey has shaped his character and mission and, he hopes, made a lasting impact on the next generation of Penn leaders.

in a suit, grandiosely proclaiming in his campaign video that ‘Our moment is here; our moment is now.’”

His loss to the vibrant Ariel Koren, however, was not as devastating as it was for some of her other opponents, who eventually dropped out of Penn politics for good — Delaney had learned about tackling failure long ago, as a middle school student with a bullying problem.

“I had a very, very bad stuttering problem when I was a kid. Ever seen ‘The King’s Speech’? Imagine a kid about the age of 11 speaking that way and getting made fun of all the time because I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth,” Delaney said. When enrolling in acting classes at nearby Fordham University failed, Delaney turned to rehearsing speeches — which he admits was “kind of a weird thing” — and it worked like magic.

Martin Luther King Jr., who “sang everything he said,” Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy were among “the greats” who taught Delaney the art of public speaking. But these early years did more than shape Delaney’s vaguely southern drawl — they shaped his character. “I was able to make up my own tone, in terms of how I spoke,” Delaney recalls.

“Not only do these people have a voice, but they use their voice for some positive good,” Delaney said.

“And maybe I can do that … maybe I can do something for other kids who are not as privileged … and wouldn’t this be a really great profession.”

Learning from failure is a theme for Delaney, who Class of 2017 President and College junior Darren Tomasso says even his detractors respect. When he lost his race for class president, Delaney became a tireless advocate for minority communities and mental health, first serving on the academic affairs committee of the UA, and later as its vice president. But the process was anything but an easy one.

new outlet for his love of politics.

PPU is now one of the largest political groups on campus and regularly gets 80-100 attendees at its debates, he says.

The way Delaney tells the story, his senior year was much more reserved than previous ones. “It was a moment of using his final year in college to intellectually explore all of the opportunities he had.

A year of introspection,” Venon said. “After three years of a very public profile, he withdrew, and everyone was like, ‘Where’s Gabe Delaney?’”

Withdrawing worked out for Delaney, who wrote a senior thesis on the Presidency and was accepted to Oxford, where he will be studying comparative politics in the fall.

But Delaney will be back in policy making, he and his friends agree — it’s just a matter of time.

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Gabe Delaney, seen above with fellow members of the UA, looks forward to a career in politics.

A Patriot at heart Every morning his senior year, Delaney’s schedule was the same: At 7:00 a.m., his alarm rings. By 7:45 a.m., he strolls into 1920 Commons, where he says good morning to nearly every staff member, many of whom he’s developed relationships with over the past three years, and picks up a Caramel Macchiato Double Shot, which is usually waiting for him at the Starbucks below.

By 8 a.m., he finds his way to the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, where Tomasso is waiting — except for on leg days, of course, which Tomasso jokes Delaney is always conveniently late for.

Workouts are important to Delaney, whose second love is sports and whose “biceps bulge”, according to Flory’s editorial. A diehard Patriots fan, Tomasso recalls that Delaney wore his Patriots shirts everyday to the gym throughout the Deflategate controversy and College senior Varun Menon says he followed the controversy nonstop, watching television shows and reading articles online. “He had a Learning from failure Leading in a time of crisis very severe jealousy of Tom Brady,” Classes were just gearing up, and For Delaney, things changed Menon said, Delaney’s roommate the first fall midterm season was on when the string of student suicides last year. the horizon. The grass was just as became personal. “I knew one of Delaney’s favorite show isn’t on green as the admissions brochures the guys who ended up taking his ESPN — Menon says that every had promised and the castle-like own life. One of my hallmates had morning when Delaney got home Quad, where he lived, just as mag- gone to [high] school with him … from the gym, he’d sit down on their nificent. His classmates had moved and she lost it,” he said. “It hit home couch and watch Cupcake Wars on past the awkward phase of the four for me really, really hard.” the Food Network. “He’s very much questions — what’s your name, But as a student leader, it was a kid at heart … he makes idiotic where are you from, what are you even more difficult to watch the Dad jokes … his glasses make him studying and where do you live — Penn administration’s response to look like an old man … he’s just a and onto roommate bashing and the seven student suicides in two fun-loving and goofy person.” hookup drama. years. “Until you get seven, eight, Delaney used to blast heavy orchestra music or play soundt racks, like “Juras- President Obama sic Park.” But he was better But girls were the last thing on nine or 10 people, god forbid, they themselves, and having different known as a mentor to hundreds of Delaney’s mind. Even at parties, don’t react with a mindset that this shades of a color or personality, freshmen. In fact, Delaney met both where Delaney was an infrequent is an endemic problem,” he said. “It makes Penn more livable,” Del- Tomasso and Menon, who are one visitor, friends clapped him on bothered me that they didn’t see it aney said. “It’s more humanizing. year younger, when they lived tothe back and asked him about the that way, not just Amy Gutmann, When you try to fake it, people can gether in the Quad and both credit upcoming elections. Yes, he was but the people around her.” see through it.” him for their political successes at running for class president and UA. Delaney, along with his peers The jury is still out on whether Penn.

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During his tenure on the UA, Delaney said, the Gutmann administration did not adequately respond to mental health concerns until the UA received about 300 mental health-related emails following the death of Penn freshman Madison Holleran. “Only after we literally told this to Amy Gutmann did it elicit the kind of reaction that you’d have hoped from the very beginning,” he said. “They need to see the numbers, they need to see the reaction [and] they need to start being worried about things … that’s probably the number thing I learned as VP,” Delaney said.

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they weren’t his scene. “He’s very interested in seeing how other people are in their own shoes,” Menon said.

His openness to new experiences introduced him to a wide variety of Penn students. Even Tomasso, who is himself a class president, said that walking down Locust with Delaney could take a long time because of how many people he knew.

Usually the interactions were positive — everyone wanted to know his thoughts on political debates, and UA life — that is, until Delaney’s failed run for UA President, for which he became notorious.

A scandal in the UA Dark boding music plays as Delaney assumes the Southern accent of Frank Underwood, the fictional evil politico and protagonist of the Netflix original series House of Cards. “There’s nothing wrong with seeking power, as long as it’s for the right reasons,” Delaney says in his campaign video for UA president, which at publication time had over 2,600 views on Youtube.

The video wasn’t well received.

“With the UA rocked by the near impeachment of its current president and student apathy towards student government at a peak, what is Gabe Delaney trying to achieve by basing his entire campaign off the TV show, ‘House of Cards?’

The TV show epitomizes everything people hate about politics in general and the UA in particular: corruption, self-serving members and inefficiency,” Flory wrote.

Flory’s column was nothing short of prescient. Just a few weeks later, Delaney was charged with four campaign violations, two of which stuck. Delaney was found guilty by the Nominations and Elections Committee for not fully reporting the costs of buying Facebook likes and showing his campaign website to the Penn Political Coalition.

The loss was devastating for Delaney’s reputation. Combined with his controversial support for the impeachment of UA President Abe Sutton while he was vice president, Delaney’s election scandal made many question his ethics.

But even from this seemingly critical setback, Delaney recovered.

On an IAA trip after his election loss, he, Menon and Louis Cappozzi, another one of Delaney’s protege’s, agreed to found a Penn Political Union on campus. As the founding Speaker, Delaney found a

The Obama doppelganger It was his first time at the White House. He was still in high school, but already a student leader and was invited to meet the President in the West Wing. He was expecting a quick handshake and friendly banter, but what the President said to him took him by surprise.

“I ought to get you out on the campaign trail — you’re my doppelganger,” President Obama said.

“Well, thank you, Mr. President. I think you’re a good looking man, so I’ll take that as a compliment,” Delaney remembers saying.

While Delaney’s friends say he doesn’t like being called “Little Obama,” this was precisely what some freshmen called him during his time in the Quad. During the 2012 elections, Delaney did in fact work for the Obama campaign and in 2014, had the chance to visit the White House a second time.

It was the summer after Delaney graduated and his friend Uchechi Iteogu, who had graduated from Columbia University, met him at 1:30 a.m. at Penn Station. Once they arrived in Washington D.C., she blindfolded him as they rode a bus toward their destination.

“What is 4 p.m. in military time?”

Iteogu asked. “16:00,” Delaney responded as they pulled up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “Visiting The People’s House,” he posted on Facebook, afterward. Delaney hopes this is not the last time he visits the White House.

“He doesn’t believe in the idea of a career politician. He wants to serve — either in sports business, which he thinks engages communities, or in the military because he has a high regard for service before he’ll get involved in politics,” Menon says. “But I could see him running for Massachusetts State Legislature … and then Governor and eventually President of the United States.”

To Delaney, who spent hundreds of hours researching the presidency for his thesis and even more hours listening to the speeches of presidents in the shower, the President and White House are much more than just a person and a building.

“The President is a mirror to the American people. You can get a good sense of how Americans were feeling by the characters they elected … the White House is the jewel of America and I think everyone should take a pilgrimage to White House,” Delaney said.

“I’m going to go back, hopefully.”

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OPINION Not another mental health story

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 72 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

GUEST COLUMN BY KATIERA SORDJAN

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suppose I should be grateful that the dialogue on campus has changed.

I suppose I should be grateful that, unlike 19-year-old me sitting in a hospital full of shame, Penn students have a better chance to be heard and get the care they need when it comes to mental health. Students are speaking out and trying to help.

When I was on medical leave during the 2013-14 school year, I heard story after story about peers — one who I knew — committing suicide. I was angry that it took the loss of such beautiful students for people to realize that this was a problem running amuck under our noses.

But quite frankly, I’ve had enough with the way this conversation has turned out. I didn’t want it to be a topic people discussed just because it suddenly became the relevant thing to do. Now I find my-

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self rolling my eyes whenever someone brings it up.

Writing my opinion column last year was cathartic and showed me that I was not alone. But our mental health discussions on campus consistently reek of privilege. So common is the discourse about

anxiety and other mood disorders. Your classmates may begin exhibiting schizophrenic symptoms not because of their workload, but because their genetic codes destined them to fall ill in their 20s.

Penn exacerbates but does not spontaneously cause ill-

become a blame game for which no one takes responsibility.

My grandmother died believing my uncle was schizophrenic because someone drugged him, jealous of his intelligence and athletic ability.

Illness always had to be some-

We have been brought up to believe, aided by our parents’ fears, that our universities should hold our hands.” how Penn invites mental issues by virtue of its culture, that we forget what it is we are really talking about.

Mental illness is not something that is purely brought on by a stressful course or competitive peers. Your classmates who have been struggling with illness may have been doing so since they were teenagers, matriculating in the midst of

ness. The more we perpetuate this myth, the more we will guarantee that the stigma will continue and that mental disorders will not be truly recognized for what they are.

Make no mistake, if Penn wants to offer various health services, then those services should do as much as they can with the available resources.

However, mental illness has

one or something else’s fault.

We have been brought up to believe, aided by our parents’ fears, that our universities should hold our hands.

After all, why are we paying so much for tuition and tackedon fees if we can’t get adequate service?

The time has come for us to be adults and help each other and to stop waiting for some-

one else to step in. But there is one thing I must ask of the Penn students who have never dealt firsthand with mental illness. Please don’t pretend to understand. There is a difference between stress and anxiety disorder, between sadness and clinical depression. And of the vast number of documented health issues, anxiety and depression are not the whole story, and it does everyone a disservice to make these disorders the poster children of mental illness.

I recognize that it is a privilege to even be able to sit at a school like Penn and ponder these problems. When I was hospitalized, a nurse told me repeatedly that I had to get discharged so I could go back to my studies. Penn meant a way out. I didn’t feel as hopeful for the other patients.

It was easy to remove myself from peers who were selfabsorbed and competitive, to not feed into the mentality of

insecure egos. Penn attracts a particular type of student, and these traits are only magnified in a group.

It was a lot harder to look in the mirror and feel justified. It was a lot harder to go to class when I was having panic attacks in the DRL bathroom and face my friends and family when I felt ashamed of how poor my coping skills were.

Despite feeling forever marked by the labels on my past therapy bills, I do not consider myself a victim. I simply consider myself a person who has had to overcome obstacles.

We all have obstacles.

But if you want to change the places you call home, you need to really listen first.

KATIERA SORDJAN is a College senior and former DP columnist from New York, studying communication.

Her email address is skati@ sas.upenn.edu.

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A nontraditional students’ guide to greater success in college

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n the book “Distinction,” Pierre Bourdieu defines social and cultural capital as social resources which confer power and status in society. Today’s economy rewards students who are technologically adept, are able to secure internships, study abroad and maintain high academic standards — all symbols of social and cultural capital. Acquiring social and cultural capital is a labor-intensive practice for all students, but for nontraditional students — defined as 25 years and older — perhaps even more arduous.

Nontraditional students face distinct challenges in securing social and cultural capital. Due to complex social identities, non­ traditional students may face increased alienation or even social isolation. Finances, outside lives and coursework demands, all may limit the time nontraditional students have for socializing. As non­ traditional students grapple with adjusting to college norms, using school supports could enhance learn-

GUEST COLUMN BY KEMEUEL BENYEHUDAH ing outside of the classroom.

Nontraditional students should consider forming supportive communities to mitigate stressors stemming from work, social lives or even cognitive adjustments caused from re­ orienting to academic culture. Investing time is nec-

ate student at Hunter College, located in New York City, I quickly found myself overwhelmed by the academic course load. I overestimated my professional experience as properly preparing me for graduate work. I soon learned I wasn’t sufficiently prepared

vices — mental health, career services, professors, including student groups — could have improved my success that first semester.

After leaving Hunter’s graduate program, I worked four years with troubled youth in foster care. Working in so-

Instead of easing back into academic life slowly, I took on one too many classes. My desire to complete my program as fast as possible, instead led me to drop out.” essary for meeting not only academic standards, but also commitments expected from other social worlds. Although nontraditional students like to think of themselves as superhuman, many neglect their wellbeing to their own detriment.

For me, ignoring the need for help my first time out in graduate school led to unfortunate consequences.

As a first-generation gradu-

for the courses. I struggled with managing my personal and work commitments. Instead of easing back into academic life slowly, I took on one too many classes. My desire to complete my program as fast as possible, instead led me to drop out. When looking back at my time in Hunter College, I realized I never considered utilizing the student support systems available. Accessing those ser-

cial services taught me how to design a case plan for foster clients. Using the clinical skills I practiced in case management, I approached my first semester here at Penn as I would manage past clients. Clients were always encouraged to talk to people and find supports to help them meet their goals. Before the start of the semester, I contacted my advisor. Her response was extremely sup-

portive of my return to graduate school, and talking allayed many of the concerns about my age and time away from the classroom. Forecasting that I might become stressed from trying to manage both school and my personal life, I signed up for Counseling and Psychological Services. Reflecting on my significant time out of school, I thought it might be shrewd to take a class teaching strategies for success in higher education. So I enrolled in a higher education course in GSE focused on meta-­cognitive strategies for success in higher education.

In the spring of 2015, a writing instructor at the Weingarten Learning Resource Center, encouraged me to turn a course assignment into a student organization. Out of this conversation, she and I collaborated in forming Students to Scholars. The organization was created to provide non­ traditional students a safe space to discuss academic writing, meet doctoral students, address

institutional concerns and provide peer support. Students to Scholars hopes to help students tap into their rich identities, then connect their identities with fellowship and scholarship.

Non­traditional students may struggle more to actively build social and cultural capital as traditional students are able to do. Although all students have access to social and cultural capital resources in university settings, nontraditional students complex lives often prevents them from accessing additional school resources.

Student support services can provide social resources leading to a more rewarding experience while in the Penn community. Isolation should not be viewed as the de rigueur experience for nontraditional students or any other person on campus.

KEMUEL BENYEHUDAH is a graduate student from New York. His email address is kemuelb@gse.upenn.edu.

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AlunaGeorge will headline fourth-annual Skimmerfest on Oct. 3 Buttercream Cupcake and Mac Mart will provide free food for the event

Skimmerfest will be held after the first home football game against Dartmouth.

This year, the planning committee hopes to revamp the vibe of VIBHA KANNAN Skimmerfest by focusing more on Staff Reporter live music.

On Oct. 3, Penn Park will buzz “We want to try something with energy as students celebrate new and focus more on the talent. the fourth-annual Skimmerfest. A People aren’t going there for a hallmark Penn tradition featuring moon jump — they’re going to see free food and live music, the event a show,” Junior Class Board Histowill feature headliner and elec- rian Daniel Roberts said. tric music duo AlunaGeorge and The event will not have as many opener Blind Prism, a student duo carnival attractions as in years from Penn. past, but Senior Class Board NursOrganized by the Class Board, ing Chair Ally Lutfi added that the Social Planning and Events there would still be a photo booth Committee and Penn Athletics, and three food trucks — Mister

Softee, Buttercream Cupcake Truck and Mac Mart Food Truck.

The planning committee also hopes that the focus on music rather than carnival events will combat extremely long lines, which have been a problem at previous Skimmerfests.

SPEC Film Co-Director and College senior Sabina Spigner said that the food trucks may lead to shorter lines.

“We wanted to focus more on things with higher turnover rates,” SPEC Secretary and College senior Roshni Amin said.

Although Skimmerfest has undergone many changes, it has been around in some form for more than

60 years.

Skimmer began in 1949 in an effort to raise student interest in the men’s crew team races.

The event was named in 1951 for Penn crew coach Rusty Callow’s signature straw “skimmer” hat, according to the University Archives.

After being replaced by Spring Fling in 1973, Skimmer was revived in 2011 and then later combined with Fall Fest, an event showcasing student groups, in 2012.

“I’m a senior now, so Skimmerfest has changed a lot since I was a freshman,” Lufti said. “But it’s just a great Penn tradition, and that carries through every year.”

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Electric duo AlunaGeorge to headline Skimmerfest this year.

Penn’s tutors boost students’ GPAs while building friendships Tutors build on their own skills by helping others in difficult classes

Wharton classes.

“I like to write,” Cronin said, “So I like being able to use my writing skills to help people who might not be as good at figuring out how to SYDNEY SCHAEDEL word things or structure an arguStaff Reporter ment.”

Some students see their on- or Cronin got involved with the off-campus jobs as an escape from Writing Center as a freshman when classes and homework, but one she was chosen from her critical group of students makes money by writing seminar to be interviewed helping others with their school- for a spot as a tutor. work.

“Usually one student per seminar Both the Tutoring Center, which is chosen,” she said. provides scheduled private tutorIf the students pass the interview, ing, walk-in hours and workshops in they take a semester-long class in various locations, and the Writing pedagogy of writing in order to start Center on 38th and Walnut streets, tutoring. It’s a lengthy process, but are staffed by student tutors.

Cronin believes it’s been worth it.

Wharton junior Caitlin Cronin “The Writing Center is like one tutors in the Writing Center in part big support group,” she said. “I met to escape her quantitive-centric a lot of really cool people — fellow

tutors and students as well.”

She also said her tutoring experience has helped her grow as a writer.

“Being a writing tutor has helped me be able to explain an argument better, or be able to figure out quickly how to get across what I want to say,” Cronin said.

Sharpening skills by tutoring isn’t something limited to Cronin’s experience.

Helen Pun, a “super senior” in her fifth year of a dual degree in Wharton and the School of Nursing, said that because there’s so much information in the early nursing classes, most students forget a lot of it. Pun can sometimes answer tricky questions in class that reference much earlier content because she revisits it so frequently with her tutees.

“Everyone thinks I’m a genius and really it’s because I’d just reviewed it,” she said.

Pun explained that part of the reason she likes tutoring is the same reason she likes both business and nursing — the interpersonal nature.

In certain ways, she said, tutoring even feels therapeutic. But sometimes tutees surprise her with their candidness.

“Tutees tell me more things than I ever expected to know,” Pun said. “They tell me about the drugs they’re taking to help them study — I had no idea!”

Nursing junior Anh Tren has also connected with her tutees, and at times become friends.

“It’s not only a professional relationship, it can be casual too,” she said.

chapters in coordination with their national organizations. Greek groups are exempt from the Title IX gender equality requirements, meaning the national headquarters for each group can determine membership free of federal antidiscrimination claims.

Occasionally, national organizations are unbending to the will of local chapters in expanding membership.

Pi Lam has petitioned its national organization to become officially co-ed at Penn for six years, but the chapter has repeatedly rebuffed their request. At Penn, the chapter operates as a co-ed organization, but the national chapter only counts males for official documentation.

Despite bureaucratic hurdles to becoming gender inclusive, student leaders attested to Penn’s acceptance of non-binary students within gendered fraternities or sororities.

“We haven’t had a necessity to bring it up with the administration if a transitioning or transitioned person has been recognized,” Urrutia said. Two nonbinary students have been members of the fraternity during Urrutia’s time in Pi Lam, including one current student.

OFSL Director Eddie BanksCrosson agreed that convincing national organizations to change chapter rules can be difficult, especially when national executives aren’t exposed to the conversations about race, gender identity and privilege that occur on college campuses.

“Working in the field for quite some time, I’m thinking that ‘OK,

I’m living in an environment where we’re constantly talking about these issues.’ These people who are steering these groups do not,” he said.

Cook believes the problem of trans-inclusivity in Greek life is rooted more in the homogenous culture of the groups, rather than in any one group’s membership rules.

“Even if you look at mainstream sororities and fraternities, you don’t see a diversity of race, you don’t see a diversity of body type, body size, you don’t really even see a diversity in interests,” they said.

Wharton senior and Interfraternity Council President Jacob Wallenberg admitted that fraternities often have checkered pasts but remained optimistic about future inclusivity.

Many of these “organizations were founded in 1850 when women weren’t allowed to go to college. It’s possible that there’s still relics of that,” he said. “If there’s any biases left, they’re more cultural than institutional.

Then that becomes a student problem more than a Greek problem.”

members of APO, a co-ed service fraternity.

“Even the marketing of co-ed also does imply a gender binary that a lot of people don’t ascribe to,” Cook said.

Cook added that while “LGB” people may be represented at higher rates in co-ed fraternities, the groups “fall into the same category in terms of not exactly being safe or welcoming for trans people.”

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conformity,” Cook said.

Cook identified ratios as especially unwelcoming to transgender people.

“Assessing people for their gender and their attractiveness right at the door is something that affects everybody, but in particular for gender non-conforming people, that plays out in really bad ways,” they said.

Other leaders in the Greek community agreed that ratios are harmful for transgender students because they reinforce the notion that only men and women are welcome.

“I have trans friends who have gone to frat parties with the ratio and have been asked, ‘Are you a guy or girl?’” Wharton junior and Pi Lambda Phi President Christian Urrutia said. “It’s outright misogyny.”

For gender non-conforming students, some of whom are still in the process of transitioning, the strict gender binary encouraged by ratios is directly exclusionary.

“I think that the main issues that are criticized in general for frats are just something that piles on when you add gender identity into the mix,” Cook said.

Changing law and culture National chapters can slow down the process of opening up membership to transgender students, administrators and students said in interviews last week.

The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life leaves matters of membership to the individual

Going beyond co-ed The community that Greek organizations provide can often be found in other campus groups, Cook said.

“Companionship and spending time closely with a group of people are something that can be replicated at places like APO [Alpha Phi Omega] and even in groups like the Writers House,” they said.

Cook knows other trans people that have “really enjoyed” being

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Starting a Discussion Continuing to make transgender students feel comfortable and welcome within Greek life will be an ongoing issue, not solved by or restricted to correcting instances of cultural insensitivity.

“It’s up to the students to start the conversation,” Banks-Crosson said. “We can be here as experienced professionals to support and guide the conversation, but I think they need to start it.”

But is rectifying occasional instances of insensitivity enough to become more welcoming?

“There’s only so much you can do with sensitivity training and changing certain dynamics within Greek life that will make them more accepting,” Cook said.

Though Cook reiterated that they do not speak for all trans people at Penn, they believe it’s unlikely more trans people will be attracted to Greek organizations anytime soon.

“I think there’s something inherent in the structure of how fraternities and sororities interact with each other that is never going to be a welcoming place for trans people,” Cook said.

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College senior Iulia Tapescu transferred to Penn from Wellesley College as a sophomore and is originally from Romania. She double majors in biological basis of behavior and biochemistry , and is submatriculating into Penn’s graduate Chemistry program.

Above all, she’s passionate about organic chemistry — but she knows most students don’t share her love for the subject, especially at first.

“I know most people are terrified of [organic chemistry]and super

confused,” she said. “I really like converting people from haters to lovers.”

Tapescu’s mother is a teacher, which she said is part of the reason she got involved with tutoring in the first place. Even though her passions still lie squarely in medicine and the sciences, she doesn’t rule out teaching as having some presence in her future professional life.

“One cool aspect of medicine is that you also have teaching as you evolve in your career,” she said.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

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Red and Blue prove no match for ranked foe | Quakers fall victim to hat trick M. SOCCER

TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor

The box score reflected the reality: On Sunday night, the Quakers never had a shot.

Penn Soccer fell 3-0 to No. 23 Temple at Rhodes Field on Sunday night, dropping to 0-4-1 on the season. The Red and Blue failed to put a single shot on goal, and only thrice did they even send the ball in Temple goalie Alex Cagle’s general direction.

Instead, they spent far more time tapping the ball back to their own goalie, senior Nick Savino, in an attempt to reset their listless offense. The Owls, however, charged towards Savino with more malice, with star junior Jorge Gomez Sanchez putting a hat trick past the Penn keeper.

Savino did come up with four saves, including a seemingly impossible stop in the second half on a shot that had Temple’s bench

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celebrating, certain that the ball had found the back of the net.

The Quakers held level with Temple (6-0-1) for the first third of the game, but Gomez Sanchez took advantage of a Penn turnover in the 32nd minute to give the Owls a lead they would never relinquish.

Gomez struck again shortly after the intermission at 48:17, and again in the 57th minute to put the game out of reach.

However, it might be fair to say the game was out of reach after the first goal. The Quakers have scored only a single goal in five games, and Penn’s impressive performance in the season opener — a scoreless draw against No. 7 Washington — seems to have been a sign of things to come, for all the wrong reasons.

“When you’re going through a streak like this, it starts to affect your mentality. It starts to affect your confidence,” coach Rudy Fuller said. “If that affects how we prepare, how we play, that’s our fault.”

But Fuller pointed out that the offense wasn’t his squad’s only

by a defender, the quarterback checked down to Jones, who ran it in for his third touchdown of the day.

Jones put on a clinic with his 10 first-half rushing attempts, a number he saw in part because Klaus left the game in the second quarter with an ankle injury. Wagner said Klaus was held out of the remainder of the game as a precaution and will be ready to go for Penn’s next game.

“It’s always nice to get an opportunity,” Jones said. “It’s never nice because someone in front of you got injured, but I just took advantage of it, there wasn’t much else I could do. But to come out with the win, it was pretty nice.”

The Quakers were dominant on defense, maintaining a shutout until Ravens’ running back D.J. McDonald scored on a short run with 46 seconds remaining in the third quarter.

McDonald was mostly ineffective on the ground, finishing with 15 yards on seven attempts while serving as a valuable check-down option for Franklin Pierce quarterback Derek Reddy, catching four passes for

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But the star of the day was Jones, who churned out gain after gain and kept an explosive Penn offense going. In the first quarter, with the Quakers leading 7-0, he rushed left and was met by several Franklin Pierce defenders. Jones managed to stay upright, break through the gang tackle and continue about 10 more yards for his first touchdown of the day.

Three minutes into the second quarter, both Jones and fellow freshman Jake Klaus lined up on the field, with the latter split out left. Klaus went in motion and McCurdy faked a handoff to him, on which Franklin Pierce (0-1) bit. Jones then received the football from McCurdy and ran untouched straight up the middle for 65 yards to the house.

Later in the second quarter, the Quakers faced first and 10 on the Franklin Pierce 22 after McCurdy connected with sophomore wide receiver Andrew Sutton for a 44-yard deep ball along the left sideline. While being brought down

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quarterback Alek Torgersen and sophomore running back Tre Solomon went to work. With a dazzling array of runs and quick passes, the Quakers went 95 yards in just over four minutes to knot the game at seven apiece the first play of the second quarter.

Despite stopping the Mountain Hawks on their previous possession, Penn couldn’t repeat the feat on either of Lehigh’s final two drives of the half. Shafnisky threw a sixyard touchdown to sophomore wide receiver Troy Pelletier to cap off a 19-play, eight-minute drive and give his squad a 14-7 lead, one it wouldn’t relinquish the remainder of the afternoon.

After the Quakers were forced to punt, Shafnisky went to work again, this time needing only six plays to extend the Mountain Hawks’ lead

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To say the least, 2015 has been a frustrating season for star forward Alec Neumann and the rest of the Quakers’ offense. Through five games, the Red and Blue have only managed to score one goal.

issue in the defeat.

“You can talk all you want about the attack, but you’re not going to win many games when you give up

61 yards.

Penn defenders sacked Reddy nine times and pressured him on several other occasions, often forcing him to scramble out of the pocket. The Quakers picked off three of Reddy’s passes, most notably Stu Helgeson’s interception with 2:10 left in the first quarter, which the senior returned 39 yards to the end zone to make the score 21-0 in favor of the Red and Blue.

“Those key interceptions were wonderful,” Wagner said.

“I think the secondary played tremendous [and] our defensive staff did a super job of getting them ready. They played real well [and] they set the tone.”

Perhaps the biggest missed opportunity for the Ravens was after Jones’ receiving touchdown with just over three minutes remaining in the second quarter. Junior kicker Mario Del Cueto’s extra point attempt was blocked and defensive lineman Kevin Raymond returned the ball well into Penn territory and had a strong chance of scoring, but tripped around the Penn 29.

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with two minutes remaining before halftime. The veteran managed to avoid pressure in the backfield and chucked the ball downfield to Pelletier, who was wide open when he caught the ball at Penn’s 15 and nearly walked into the endzone for a 47-yard score.

In his return from a torn ACL suffered last October, Solomon showed flashes of brilliance for the Red and Blue. Highlighted by a nifty 22yard scamper, the Brooklyn, N.Y., native carried the ball 11 times for 89 yards, showcasing a backfield weapon the team sorely lacked in 2014.

“I didn’t really notice it, honestly,” Solomon said about his knee.

“I thought I didn’t take as many live reps during the summer, but I thought that I ran pretty well considering everything, and I wasn’t really thinking about it. So all in all, it feels back to 100 percent.”

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the second half, but failed to make a dent in the Mountain Hawks’ lead on its first two possessions of the period. After two poor punts from sophomore Hunter Kelley, Lehigh went 39 yards on six plays, with Shafnisky scoring on a keeper from three yards out to make it 28-7.

“The trend of using the running quarterback [means] we need to be better at the point of attack stopping the spread and fitting in our plays,” Priore said. “There’s room [for us] to move, room to build upon, and I think our guys are going to be watching the tape and film and see where we can make those improvements.”

Less than a minute later, the Quakers seemed poised to go threeand-out yet again. But on third and 10, Torgersen found wideout Justin Watson on a quick pass, and the sophomore took it 74 yards to the house on the longest reception of his career. With a 10-catch, 143-yard

three goals.”

And ultimately, the loss falls on the entire squad.

“Everybody has to do their

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opponent.”

And that’s entirely fair. First games always bring jitters and no matter how hard coaches try to replicate it, there is no real substitute for game speed.

Then again, a lot of the team’s issues were the same ones we saw last year.

Da r t mout h qu a r t erba ck Dalyn Williams and Yale quarterback Morgan Roberts — both mobile gunslingers — gave Penn problems in 2014 and Shafnisky followed in their footsteps. Whether on designed runs or broken plays, Lehigh was able to gain consistent yardage and keep drives moving.

Meanwhile, Penn struggled to sustain its own possessions. The Quakers have been defined by their short passing game for the past year with varying degrees of success, but too often on third and fourth down, junior quarterback Alek Torgersen was only able to find open receivers well behind the markers. It’s tough to win ball games when three of your drives end on failed fourth down conversions and the team

performance, Watson went over the century mark in receiving yards for the first time in his career.

But if the Red and Blue had any momentum, a long kickoff return by the Mountain Hawks quickly squashed it. Lehigh went to work from Penn’s 40, and Shafnisky found senior wideout Stefan Sansone from eight yards out to push the lead back to three scores.

The squads traded a pair of touchdowns early in the fourth quarter, as Torgersen found freshman Christian Pearson on a 45-yard bullet before Shafnisky responded with his second score on the ground. The latter finished 24-of-34 with 250 yards through the air, adding 95 yards on 16 carries.

Penn won’t have much time to recuperate after Saturday’s contest.

The Quakers will be back in action on Thursday against Villanova, a game that was moved ahead due to the papal visit later this week.

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Penn doesn’t seem to have fixed all of the issues that made it one of the weakest Ivy League teams last season. The rest of its season — and the hope that the team can turn around under a new coaching staff — hinges on the team’s ability to grow and adapt.

In terms of growth, the Quakers seem to have had plenty of young players successfully transition into key roles on the team.

Wide receiver Justin Watson and running back Tre Solomon opened their sophomore campaigns with two of their best games as collegiate players.

Watson had his first career 100yard receiving game and came up with Penn’s biggest play of the day, a 74-yard sprint to the endzone off a short pass. Solomon didn’t seem to feel any of the consequences of his 2014 knee injury on the way to 120 total yards.

On defense, underclassmen stepped up in big ways. Freshman Nick Miller came up with an interception, Penn’s only forced turnover of the game, and sophomore Colton Moskal led the team in tackles with 11.

So after one game, the Red and Blue look like a similar team with new faces on the field and on the coaching staff.

Their flaws were apparent, but not unsolvable. Priore and his coaching staff have their work cut out for them.

Working on a short week, it’s not as though we’ll see too much schematic change in Thursday’s game against Villanova. Past that, it’ll be interesting to see how Penn adapts.

Will the offense continue to revolve around the short passes to the flat that have defined the team throughout Torgersen’s tenure at quarterback? Can the defense successfully limit the mobile quarterbacks who dot Ivy League rosters?

Every team has challenges each and every season. One nonconference game isn’t going to define a season. But whether a team is able to adapt to the challenges it faces throughout the season certainly will.

HOLDEN McGINNIS is an Engineering junior from Gladwyne, Pa., and is a sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at mcginnis@thedp.com.

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job. It’s not like we have a defensive team and an attacking team,” Fuller added. “Everybody defends, everybody attacks. Just because

[Gomez Sanchez] scored three goals, that’s not the fault of the back four, that’s the fault of everybody on the field.

“Just because we’re not scoring goals, it isn’t the fault of [senior attacker] Alec Neumann, it’s the fault of the 11 guys on the field.”

Penn did wake up to some extent on the offensive end in the dying minutes of the game, putting more pressure on the Temple defense, sending some balls into the box and earning a corner.

“Towards the end of the game we started believing and trying to push,” Neumann said. “I think that showed, and I think if we can do that for 90 minutes, we’ll start to get results.”

“That was certainly a positive,” Fuller added. “It was something we had talked about at halftime: trying to get more numbers forward.”

Of course, it was far too little and too late, and if Penn did gain any momentum at the end of the game, it will be very hard to maintain. The Quakers’ next test is a Wednesday matchup with No. 13 Penn State at Rhodes Field.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

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THOMAS MUNSON | ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

FOOTBALL | Penn drops

New faces, same problems HOLDEN MCGINNIS

They are what we thought they were.

Coming into its first game of the season, no one thought Penn football would be flawless. The team is coming off a disappointing 2-8 season and was picked to finish sixth in the Ivy League preseason

Priore’s first game RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

media poll.

So when the Quakers struggled against Lehigh on Saturday, it wasn’t entirely surprising. The defense was unable to contain Lehigh junior quarterback Nick Shafnisky, and the offense found too many empty possessions in its short passing scheme.

As coach Ray Priore said, “One thing you can’t replicate when you go into the first game is the speed of your SEE MCGINNIS PAGE 7

ILANA WURMAN | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Sophomore receiver Justin Watson passed the century mark for the first time with 143 yards against Lehigh.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Maybe this season won’t be about change after all.

Coming off a 2-8 campaign in 2014, Penn football’s season opener shaped up a lot like most of its contests from last year.

Despite putting together a pair of long touchdown drives, the Quakers were eviscerated by Lehigh quarterback Nick Shafnisky throughout the afternoon, surrendering five total touchdowns to the junior en route to a 42-21 loss on Saturday.

The Ray Priore era got off to an inauspicious start, as the Mountain Hawks (2-1) traveled 76 yards on 13 plays on the

game’s opening drive to take an early 7-0 lead. It wasn’t difficult to see why Penn was so worried about Shafnisky heading into this weekend’s matchup: The junior from Whitehall, Pa., had thrown for 500 yards and was the team’s leading rusher through two contests, and he consistently hurt the Red and Blue with both his arms and legs.

“As I told the guys before the game started on Thursday, this is a 10 round fight and you get 10 opportunities,” Priore said.

“After round one, we need to get better as we go through the season.

Penn (0-1) went three-and-out on its first drive of the season, but the Quakers managed to force a turnover on downs after Lehigh made it all the way down to the five yard line. From there, junior SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 7

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Freshman leads drubbing in Quakers’ opening romp

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tallies three scores JACOB ADLER Associate Sports Editor

The game was over, and although he stood watching on the sidelines for the last 12 minutes of the fourth quarter, Max Jones was still registering the results of first collegiate game. So what did he have to say?

“It’s awesome.”

The Belmont, Mass., native and freshman running back did indeed have an “awesome” game, leading the way for Penn sprint football with 130

rushing yards — 125 of which came in the first half — and three touchdowns as the Quakers routed Franklin Pierce on Saturday, 51-7. The Red and Blue dominated from the get-go, jumping out to a 41-0 halftime lead while firing on all cylinders.

Calling Saturday’s effort the best first half Penn (1-0) has had in a while, coach Bill Wagner came away from the game impressed with his team’s performance.

“You’re going to have to come out right in the beginning of the game and really let them know we’re here to play four quarters,” Wagner said. “And they did that in the

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first half — offensively, defensively, every part of the game there, they stepped up to do what they had to do.”

Junior quarterback Mike McCurdy turned in a stellar performance, throwing for 211 yards and three touchdowns as well as adding the game’s first scoring play with a 23-yard rush. He consistently looked for senior wide receiver Henry Mason, who finished with five catches, 109 yards and two touchdowns, numbers that don’t reflect the two defensive pass interference penalties he drew on two separate scoring drives.

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Freshman running back Max Jones enjoyed a breakout game in his collegiate debut, accumulating 130 rushing yards and three touchdowns, and fueling an offensive explosion that guided the Quakers to a 51-7 victory over Franklin Pierce.

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