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Federal rule will bar GETUP from unionizing The National Labor Relations Board made the decision Friday HARSHITA GUPTA Staff Reporter

STUDENTS ON STRIKE Students joined the Philly Climate Strike to protest the global climate crisis CAMILA IRABIEN Staff Reporter

About 130 Penn students and professors protested at City Hall this Friday to raise awareness about climate change in Philadelphia, joining demonstrators in 150 countries around the world.

The Penn group joined the Philly Climate Strike, an event organized by the Youth Climate Lobby and

other groups to demand that Philadelphia implement a citywide Green New Deal. This would include a complete transition to renewable energy by 2030, an end to new fossil fuel projects, and “a just transition to a renewable economy.”

The Philadelphia event is one of many strikes that took place across the United States and the world ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23.

Before the event, Fossil Free Penn organized a “Penn Climate Strike Meet-Up” where students and faculty gathered with posters and walked to City Hall as a group. Fossil Free Penn is a student group

La Casa Latina hosts 20th anniversary party

Two years after it first petitioned to become a union, the graduate student group Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania will no longer be allowed to unionize after an anticipated National Labor Relations Board decision.

On Friday, the NLRB proposed legislation that would overturn their 2016 ruling that gave graduate student employees at private universities the federal right to unionize. The NLRB justified its proposal by stating that graduate students are “primarily students with a primarily educational, not economic, relationship with their university,” according to the Federal Register.

For GET-UP members, the predicted ruling is a set-back for their hopes for unionization. However, they remain hopeful that their efforts to advocate for workplace issues will continue, and Friday’s proposed ruling will be overturned in the future.

GET-UP has organized around a number of workplace issues, such as lobbying for increased funding and guaranteed health insurance, even though it has not been a formal union, according to a statement on GET-UP’s website. In the 2017-2018 school year, the group successfully improved the Graduate School of Education’s sexual harassment policies, with efforts like implementing yearly training for

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which aims to get the University to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

“I think it’s really important for one to be aware that Penn is being complacent, or how Penn is failing to take the action necessary to address the climate crisis,” said College sophomore Katie Collier, the campaign coordinator for Fossil Free Penn.

Collier added that divesting from the fossil fuel industry is “one of the most impactful things” the University can do, as “Penn’s role in the climate crisis is much more affected by its investment than its behaviors as a consumer.”

Many groups participated in the Philly Climate

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Penn requires students abroad in Hong Kong to live on campus An advisory was issued amid mass protests in the city JASON YAN Staff Reporter

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La Casa Latina Director Johnny Irizarry spoke at the celebration. The banquet took place in Bodek Lounge in Houston Hall.

Alumni urged students to take action at Penn CELIA KRETH Staff Reporter

At the 20th anniversary celebration of La Casa Latina cultural center, alumni speakers gave motivational talks on the importance of students taking advantage of resources to help them find a home at Penn. The dinner event took place the evening of Sept.

20 at Bodek Lounge and was crowded with about four dozen people seated at banquet tables.

Throughout the dinner, speakers urged students to take action on campus and urged alumni to support current students in their work.

1977 Penn Law School graduate Gilbert Casellas, who took part in the founding of La Casa Latina, encouraged alumni to be vocal in encouraging students to make their SEE LA CASA PAGE 2

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Weeks after Penn Abroad issued an advisory regarding student safety for Hong Kong study abroad programs, the protests show little signs of subsiding.

Now, Penn students studying abroad in the city in spring 2020 will be unable to live off campus, and will have to live in on-campus housing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Penn Abroad is currently working in collaboration with travel insurance agency International SOS, its overseas partner universities, and Penn’s Office of International Risk Management to monitor the situation, Associate Director of Penn Abroad Kristyn Palmiotto said. “[We] are constantly working in collaboration to be sure we have up to date information and are taking appropriate steps to ensure the safety of the Penn community while abroad,” Palmiotto added.

Penn students who have studied in Hong Kong said the city is a great place to learn, but cautioned against currently studying there because of the disruptions caused by protests.

The current political and social unrest in Hong Kong began in June, when people took to the streets to oppose the introduction of the Fugitive Offend-

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The current unrest in Hong Kong began in June, when people took to the streets to oppose the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance amendment bill.

ers Ordinance amendment bill, which would allow local authorities to detain and extradite citizens of Hong Kong to mainland China. The protests have escalated over the past few months, as excessive police violence has angered the protestors.

“We determined that living off campus would not be a safe option because students would not have support services from their host university,” Palmiotto said.

Given the unrest, some students who have previously studied abroad in Hong Kong expressed concerns with

studying abroad there now.

“I was able to take really interesting classes and travel over the weekends and met a lot of really cool people,” said College senior Josh Charap, who studied abroad in Hong Kong in spring 2019. “But I would not go [to Hong Kong] now because of the instabilities, and there are many other great options for studying abroad.”

Engineering junior Amy Yeung, who had an internship in Hong Kong during the summer, said the protests

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Career Services launches new peer advising program Students can walk in on weekday afternoons GORDON HO Staff Reporter

Penn’s Career Services has introduced a new Peer Career Advisor program, allowing undergraduates to walk in on weekdays to receive assistance with the job application process.

The new program allows walkins from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Career Services office inside the McNeil Building. Along with helping with resumes, cover letters, and interview preparation, peer advisors teach students how to use Handshake, help them prepare for information sessions, and discuss potential professional fields of interest with them, Associate Director of Career Services Jingy Yen said.

The team of seven Peer Career Advisors in the fall semester is comprised of three seniors, two juniors, one sophomore, and one

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voices heard and to give back to La Casa. Casellas was previously a trustee emeritus and said that it was important for alumni to contribute to Penn as one is an alumnus for way longer than one is a student.

In his speech, Casellas also emphasized the need for current students to be active and to partake in what is offered to them.

He said it is easy to sometimes feel isolated or like an “appendage of the University.” He told students that they “are not just part of a great university [but that] this is a great university because [they] are here.”

2011 Wharton graduate Wendy De La Rosa, the keynote speaker at the event, spoke about how the lessons she learned at Penn prompted her to become the person she is today.

De La Rosa said she grew up

graduate student. Four study at the Wharton School, while two are from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and one is from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Yen said Career Services looked for a diverse team that could represent the overall undergraduate population. All peer advisors have had previous internship experience and were trained in the spring and summer, Yen said.

Part of the inspiration to implement the new program came from the existence of similar programs at other peer institutions, where students offer advice and assist undergraduates with various aspects of the job application process, Yen said.

The program was implemented as a supplement to the existing services that the full-time Career Services staff already offers, Yen said. One difference is giving students an opportunity to hear about the job application process through peers, granting a different perspective than that of a full-time advisor.

in an apartment in the Bronx.

She said that upon coming to Penn, she felt ashamed and overwhelmed by the amount of wealth and social status.

She said she soon realized, however, that she was just as entitled to be there as anybody else. She then took advantage of her own power to make a difference on campus and get involved in organizations such as La Casa Latina to spread cultural awareness and celebrate her identity.

She encouraged students to take ownership of their time and experience in college.

“The world opens up to you when you share your story. Your story is your power,” she said.

“It is who you are and what shapes you and at the end of the day it is all you have.”

In their speeches, both alumni emphasized the fact that the power lies in the hands of the students. They said even though the established, vibrant,

Engineering graduate student and peer advisor Maddie Paliganoff said when she was an undergraduate, she didn’t have an opportunity to talk with peers who had gone through the same process as her.

“It has been easier to just level with people in terms of [saying], ‘Oh, I have taken that class,’ or, ‘I have had an internship there,’ or, ‘I have worked at this lab,’” Paliganoff said. Students may find it more comfortable if they are talking to someone who has been in the same situation before, Paliganoff said.

The peer advisors will also participate in cover letter workshops each semester and attend meetings with students at residential halls to explain how to prepare for a career fair, Yen said.

Currently, only undergraduates can access the service, though Yen added the program has the potential to expand its service to graduates.

Yen said 250 students have accessed the service since the beginning of the semester, referring to a

and progressive community of La Casa shows how far cultural inclusion has come, a long path to a completely inclusive understanding of cultural identities remain.

College sophomore Diego Caceres, who is the chair of admissions in the Latinx Coalition, said that he was attending the event because he was deeply involved in the club. He said that La Casa Latina not only provides students with fun events celebrating different music and food, but is also an emotionally supportive atmosphere.

First-year Graduate School of Education student Luis Morales-Navarro said he attended the event because it was the 20th anniversary celebration and because he is involved with La Casa. He said La Casa serves as a unifying house for both graduates and undergraduates to get involved on campus together and celebrate a shared identity.

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survey sent out after three weeks of classes.

“There is a real need for this program,” Yen said. “I am glad that we were able to support students in a different way.”

Full-time advisors still offer guidance on resumes, Yen said.

Students can either walk in, make appointments, or send emails to the office. But when students walk into the office without appointments during the hours when peer advisors are available, they will be directed to see a peer advisor.

The new program can make fulltime advisors more available to help with urgent issues, such as negotiating a time-sensitive job offer, Yen said. She added that students can still come back in the future with an appointment to meet with a full-time advisor to talk about their resumes.

Career Services is also considering expanding hours later into the evening instead of closing at 5 p.m., which Yen said can be a time when students are still in class.

College sophomore Austin

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did not directly affect her.

“There were a lot of protests happening near my house,” Yeung said. “I lived in between the Hong Kong government building and the Chinese government building, so sometimes the protests would converge in my neighborhood.”

Yeung added that weekdays were normal in Hong Kong and the protests would mostly happen on the weekends.

“Hong Kong is big enough where you can get far away [from the protests]. As long as you don’t go to the protests, you are fine,” Yeung said.

College senior Ian Bayer, who studied abroad in Hong Kong in fall 2018, said he is unsure if he would study abroad there during the protests because of their impact on the subway system, which is

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The program helps with resumes, cover letters, interview preparation, Handshake, and getting ready for company information sessions.

Smith, who has met with a peer advisor, said the session was helpful. Though Smith still plans on meeting with a full-time advisor, he said it was most beneficial to “definitely [have] that [perspective of] learning from [the peer advisor’s] own experience and knowing what looks best in her profes-

an affordable and widely-used transportation method.

“I would be really hesitant to study abroad in Hong Kong given that a lot of places where the demonstrations were held would have an impact on the enjoyment of the experience,” Bayer said.

The last Penn study abroad program that was canceled was in fall 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa because of student protests over the increasing costs of education and inequality in education access, Palmiotto said. Students were given the choice to stay at their host university or return to Penn.

Students who chose to return to Penn were able to complete the program academically through remote learning and proctoring of exams in collaboration with the undergraduate schools and the host university.

Palmiotto said if Penn need-

sional realm.”

“It’s really good getting an upperclassman to check your resume,” Engineering freshman Aditya Rathi, who has accessed the service, said. “Sometimes they do offer personal insights from their resume building or their extracurricular interests.”

ed to cancel the study abroad program in Hong Kong, Penn Abroad would work with their travel safety partner to remove students from the location and collaborate with the undergraduate schools and the host university to assess the academic situation.

“Hong Kong remains a very popular location for students interested in studying abroad,” Palmiotto said. “But we did have some students, given the current climate, that they were either uncomfortable studying in Hong Kong or concerned that the semester might be disrupted, and chose to pursue other study abroad locations.”

In August, Stanford University canceled its study abroad program in Hong Kong for the current semester, citing fears about student safety given the unrest in the city.

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FLITE aims to help first-gen., lowincome students in tech and engineering

New club to let Penn students teach civics in Phila. schools The group will be run through the Netter Center ELIZABETH MEISENZAHL Staff Reporter

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A new Penn student organization is serving first-generation, low-income undergraduates in engineering and technology.

FGLI in Tech and Engineering will focus on decreasing barriers to entry for FGLI students who have an interest in these fields, said FLITE copresident Jesse Cui, an Engineering and Wharton senior.

FLITE plans to host workshops for students to build academic skills and provide advice for navigating these industries.

“I wanted to start a community for FGLI students to come together and help one another grow in terms of learning how to succeed in engineering and technology,” Cui said.

Engineering sophomore Sarthak Jain, vice president of professional development for FLITE, said some FGLI

students face challenges in entering Engineering programs because of limited exposure to these subjects in high school.

Jain, who identifies as FGLI, said this was the case for him.

“For me, when I came to Penn I had no exposure to engineering in particular, Jain said. “When I got here, I took my first computer science class. I really liked it.’

“And I think problems like these, the initial barriers to entry, makes it harder for FGLI students to enter tech and engineering,” he added.

To address these barriers, Cui said, FLITE plans to host technical workshops on topics such as web development, research, and machine learning as well as recommend free, online resources for students who want to learn on their own.

FLITE recently hosted a welcome dinner on Sept. 17 for interested students. Cui said the student group has been publicized by all of the departments in the School of Engineering and Applied Science as well

as tech-related programs in the College.

Cui said the organization aims to inform members about “hidden knowledge” that could help FGLI students navigate technology and engineering such as the advantage of receiving referrals in applying to engineering and technology companies. Cui also noted that Penn students can use work-study positions, such as teaching assistantships and research positions, to help financially as well as professionally.

FLITE Internal Affairs Vice President and Engineering sophomore Adeeba Tak said the club wants to address specific problems that impact different subgroups of FGLI students, such as the work visa application process for international students.

Moving forward, FLITE hopes to build membership and collaborate with other affinity groups, such as Collective Success and the Society of Women Engineers, Cui said.

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A new club at Penn aims to facilitate civic engagement opportunities for students at a local West Philadelphia school.

The Civic Youth Action Partnership will bring Penn students to the Benjamin B. Comegys School to teach fourth through eighth graders about civics. At Comegys, the Penn students will conduct after school sessions twice a week to discuss democracy, branches of government, the Constitution, and what being a good citizen looks like. With a team of nine members, the group will begin running the after school program this week.

The club is part of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships’ University-Assisted Community Schools program.

It was created by College sophomores Noah Moyse and Caroline Donnelly Moran, who participated in the Penn Program for Public Service this past summer. As part of the summer program, Moyse and Donnelly Moran had to write a

paper proposing solutions for an educational issue at Comegys.

After consulting with Aurora Coon, the UACS site director at the school, Moyse said they decided to focus on the “lack of civic engagement opportunities for Comegys students.”

Coon said certain areas of Philadelphia have low levels of voter turnout or engagement, making it important to educate citizens. She added that the Comegys community “is affected greatly by policy and has a lot of needs that [it wants] to advocate for, but isn’t always informed or empowered to do that advocacy.” Working with students to increase civic engagement “could be a way to make a small difference in that large national problem.”

A recent study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found low rates of national civic knowledge, with only 39% of Americans able to name all three branches of government.

Moyse and Donnelly Moran said they worked with Coon and with Comegys’ teachers to develop a lesson plan for the civics program. Coon and Donnelly Moran hope to help Comegys students engage with democracy, rather than simply

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Aurora Coon said certain areas of Philadelphia have low levels of voter turnout or engagement, making it important to educate citizens.

teaching them information.

“We try to really engage students in designing programs, leading their own learning, and making decisions so that they’re choosing their own path, and they’re empowered through their education,” Coon said.

Donnelly Moran, who is also a copy associate at The Daily Pennsylvanian, added that students can be civically engaged in many different ways.

“In addition to just focusing on voting as a [form] of civic engagement, there are also ways you can create change in your community that you want,” she said.

CYAP member and Nursing junior Sukie Chek said the Penn students plan to modify the prepared curriculum to reflect what Comegys students are interested in. Moyse and Donnelly Moran said CYAP will also organize a student council for the after school program to give students experience in democratic participation and engagement in a community.

Many Netter Center programs, including ACTION and the Penn Reading Initiative, follow similar models of bringing Penn students to West Philadelphia schools for tutoring and after school programs. However, CYAP will be the only program to focus solely on civic education.

Chek said she joined CYAP because of the opportunity to work directly with young students.

“I really wanted to engage in something new and different,” Chek said. “I’m really enjoying that we can bring this resource to kids who might not have had the opportunity to have this beforehand.”

Coon was optimistic about the program’s potential future.

“You try things and learn what works and revise with the student input,” she said. “I can’t wait to see how it evolves.”

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Philadelphia schools must encourage student activism, not punish activists THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN EDITORIAL BOARD

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arches took place in 150 countr ies to demand immediate action regarding climate change this past Fr iday.

And despite criticism that young people would rather demand action on social media than get up and join a movement, the marches demonstrate that millions will take physical action to make their voices heard.

In New York City, more

than one million public school students were granted permission to skip classes to attend Friday’s demonstration. The School District of Philadelphia, however, chose not to permit students to protest.

Instead, a d m i n i st ra to r s announced that students would be punished for engaging with

the global community and proving that they were not, in fact, only apathetic activists. Philadelphia administrators should have encouraged

students to participate in the climate strike to help educate them to be active members of their community.

Encouraging civil engagement by teachers and mentors should be part of every student’s learning experience, from elementary school to college. Although the notoriously under-attended Huntsman Hall sit-in last year brought increased attention to the University’s “slacktivism” problem, Penn actually has a history of passionate and effective student protests. A parallel situation took place in 1989, when a series of sit-ins kept SteinbergDietrich Hall open 24 hours a day, stymieing University administrators who wanted to close the building at midnight.

Student activism on college campuses is so common that it is its own cultural phenomenon. College students, however, have far more freedom to do what they wish with their time than their younger peers who have not yet graduated high school.

According to the Philadelphia School District’s website, students are considered “at risk academi-

Millions of youths are willing to take physical action in order to have their voices and opinions heard.”

cally” if they miss 18 or more days of the school year, regardless of whether the student was taking part in crucial civic engagement. If the purpose of education is not only to prepare students for the workforce but also to encourage students to be active citizens of the world, no Philadelphia student should have been penalized for attending the climate strikes.

Learning occurs both inside and outside of the classroom.

A math lesson cannot teach a student how to be a good citizen, and protesting cannot make a student better at solving quadratic equations.

If there is no balance, schools will have failed their students by teaching them that a narrow, individualistic perspective is what they ought to take with them into the world when they graduate.

Repression of student activism, like what took place in Philadelphia last week, leads to the apathy that is far too prevalent among those who will inherit a world with rising oceans and melting glaciers.

Students should instead finish school with an understanding of community engagement, civic duty, and the knowledge that their voices can and must be heard.

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t’s been a cha l lengi ng few weeks. The sudden and unexpected death by suicide of Counseling and Psychological Services Executive Director Gregory Eells has sent shock waves through our campus — and the nation. How could this have happened? How could a man who spent his professional career promoting resilience take his own life?

We are all struggling to

answer this question, a question that, sadly, will forever remain unanswered. This ensuing frustration only adds to the initial sadness and anger we are experiencing.

Student response to this tragedy has been generous and reassuring. From CogWell’s hopeful notes on the LOVE Statue to an empathetic “Helpers Need Help, Too” editorial in The Daily Pennsylvanian, you

remind us that we can and must continue to take care of each other. Many of you attended last week’s Community Conversation, “Coming Together to Share a Story: Finding Strength in Vulnerability.” Please mark your calendars for our next Community Conversation (on Oct. 21 in the Hall of Flags) featuring 2015 College graduate Shadrack Frimpong, a President’s Engagement Prize winner and the inspirational

founder of Cocoa360.

Penn remains steadfastly committed to your health and wellness. I am personally overseeing the transition at CAPS. As a psychiatrist and administrator, I am aided in this work by four extraordinary veteran CAPS clinicians: Dr. Cyndy J. Boyd, Ph.D.; Dr. Batsirai Bvunzawabaya, Ph.D., Jane E. Kotler, LCSW; and Dr. Michal Nina Saraf, Psy.D. We remind students that you have 24/7 phone access to clinicians (215-898-7021) and can be seen immediately during business hours by dropping into CAPS (3624 Market St.). Wait times for initial appointments generally average just a few days. And CAPS services are free.

Next week, we launch Let’s Talk, which brings drop-in clinical access to spaces where students study and socialize — such as the ARCH, the Graduate Student Center, the Greenfield Intercultural Center, the LGBT Center, and Van Pelt Library. Initially, Let’s Talk will consist of at

least five blocks of time — about 20 hours a week — for brief, immediate conversations with counselors. Any undergraduate, graduate, or professional student can utilize Let’s Talk, which complements the embedded clinician model we offer in professional schools and at Wharton.

We expect the hours and number of locations to grow with student interest.

When Dr. Eells came to campus last spring, he set a goal of introducing Penn to the Let’s Talk program he spearheaded at Cornell “to meet students where they are, when they need us.” I cannot think of a better way to honor his memory.

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Strike, including Fossil Free Penn, Youth Climate Movement, PA Youth Climate Strike, Sunrise Movement, and 350 Philadelphia. College sophomore Vyshnavi Kosigishroff, the founder and executive director of the Youth Climate Lobby, was one of the organizers for the event.

“Organizing it was a lot of late night calls as well as a lot of emails,” Kosigishroff said. “But every time it got hard I would remember why we’re here, what we’re fighting for, and why it’s really important that people are here for it.”

Kosigishroff said the event is meant to be the first in a series of campaigns to fight climate change in an “efficient but equitable way” by including voices from historically marginalized communities and demanding “aggressive action” from elected officials.

Students said they came to the Philly Climate Strike to raise awareness about the imminence of climate change.

“It’s very important to get the message across to politicians, and corpo-

rations and everyone that the people [are] uniting on this issue, because this is actually our future,” College freshman Julie Flandreau said. “This is not just something that is going to happen in a while, this is the future of our children and our own.”

College junior Elliot Bones stressed Penn’s role in producing fossil fuel emissions in Philadelphia.

“We’re part of the West Philadelphia community, we’re part of the Philadelphia community, we’re part of the Pennsylvania community, just so on up to the global community,” Bones said. “Being here [at Penn] is causing a lot of emissions from us, so we kind of owe it to the rest of the world to be active and to get out into the world and make a change.”

Kosigishroff added that Penn has “done a lot of damage” to Philadelphia and that students should feel a responsibility to work to counteract this.

“Philadelphia is my home now, at least for the next four years, probably longer,” she said. “I care about the city so much that I feel it is my responsibility now. Students at Penn have a very unique responsibility to fight for change.”

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Chabad hosts speaker on vaccines and Judaism Shlomo Minkowitz is both a doctor and a rabbi AMJAD HAMZA Staff Reporter

Chabad Lubavitch House at Penn hosted a discussion about vaccinations and religion at its weekly Shabbat dinner on Sept. 20.

About three dozen Penn undergraduate and graduate students attended the event. During the dinner, guest speaker Rabbi Shlomo Minkowitz, an assistant professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, gave a lecture on the safety debate around vaccinations and its relation to Jewish law.

In his remarks, Minkowitz said while vaccines are “not 100% safe,” they are less risky than the disease the vaccine acts against. He said Jewish law does not obligate followers to vaccinate due to the relatively low risk of

contracting a disease and the slight risk involved in vaccination. However, he added that followers may vaccinate and are encouraged to do so for the good of society.

He added that he believes there is a biblical obligation to guard one’s health. The obligation traditionally means passively avoiding harm but can also mean taking proactive measures, such as fleeing a city which is about to be exposed to an epidemic.

Penn Campus Rabbi Levi Haskelevich said this week’s discussion was inspired by a Penn student who recently asked him why Orthodox Jews do not vaccinate their children. He added that a recent measles outbreak in New York City has drawn media attention to low vaccination rates among Orthodox Jews.

Both Minkowitz in his speech and Haskelevich in the interview said the narrative of Orthodox Jews being anti-vaccination in

New York is misleading since the majority of the community is vaccinated.

Closer to campus, the Jewish community at Penn has not voiced any concerns related to vaccinations, Haskelevich said.

Penn grants students exemptions from University vaccination rules if a vaccine threatens their health or if they object on religious or philosophical grounds. However, the “online student health history” and “tuberculosis risk screening form” must still be submitted.

College junior Alan Garcia, who attended the Chabad House Shabbat dinner for the first time, said he attended the dinner because he found the intersection between religion and medicine interesting as a pre-med student.

He added that this is his first time at the dinner and the discussions prompted him to consider attending more themed Shabbat dinners

in the future.

Second-year medical student Hannah Connor said the event didn’t change her opinions about vaccinations because she is firmly pro-vaccination. However, she said she thought Minkowitz successfully pointed out how even though media reports pointed to cases of Orthodox Jews who did not believe in vaccination, the majority of Jewish people do vaccinate.

“He did a great job explaining the stigma that a lot of religious Jews face about not vaccinating isn’t really [based in truth],” she said.

The Chabad House hosts weekly free Shabbat dinners that are open to all, regardless of religion. Haskelevich said most dinners are casual gatherings while some are themed like this week’s. In February, the Chabad House hosted a dinner in support of mental health and disability inclusion.

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Administrators hosted a town hall Thursday night addressing noise complaints from the New College House West construction zone and announced the amenities the dorm will feature. The event was attended by student residents from nearby dorms and took place in Gregory College House, the college house closest to the construction site.

Senior project manager at Intech Construction Zach Baron said in the meeting that the construction noise will decrease from fall 2019 throughout the winter and spring. However, the noise will spike up again during the summer when most students have left campus.

The response comes after students complained a few weeks ago about the “ridiculous” NCHW construction noise and said they are dissatisfied with FRES’ response to their complaints.

“You’ll be woken up at 7 a.m. if not earlier, because even though the start time is posted as 7 a.m., all the workers are getting there at 6 [or] 6:30, all the trucks are backing up,” College junior David Fernandez said at the time.

Baron repeated a previous email sent to students by FRES Vice President Anne Papageorge, in which she wrote the loud noises may be “coming from the trash dumpster pickup which has been occurring around or even before 7 a.m., attempting to get access to the area prior to the construction project team.”

Representatives also gave a preview of the different ameni-

ties offered by the college house.

The new building will also house a coffee bar and “engagement kitchen” where students can learn how to cook, project architect Dana Reed said said.

The kitchen will be NCHW’s dining hall for students on a meal plan. Separate from the kitchen will be the “dining porch” surrounded by glass windows where students can eat.

The suites in NCHW will not have stove tops, similar to those in Lauder College House.

Instead, students can use the kitchens in the eight club rooms located throughout the college house. The suites will still include a fridge, microwave, and sinks.

Reed said NCHW will feature a “Campus Green” with “a substantial amount of space” next to Locust Walk open to all and a courtyard within security boundaries of NCHW. When plans for

NCHW were first announced, students worried the construction will take away High Rise Field, the only remaining green space on the west side of campus.

Reed added NCHW will also include a fitness room, meditation room, two music practice rooms, an outdoor walkway above the dining porch, two seminar rooms, and one common living room similar to the one in Lauder College House.

Reed added NCHW will also have seven study rooms compared to the two in Lauder College House.

Senior project manager for FRES Design and Construction David Dunn said to prevent birds from colliding into the glass windows, the windows will be “bird-deterrent glass” on both sides of the dining porch.

Reed added NCHW will also feature green roofs which cools

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the building in the summer through transpiration and acts as a “blanket” to keep the building warm at winter. Throughout the construction of NCHW, the trees on Locust Walk will be preserved and 101 new trees will be planted, Reed said.

Announced in November 2017, NCHW construction is scheduled to be completed on July 30, 2021. The construction plans will be followed by the implementation of a policy requiring all sophomores to live in campus housing by 2021.

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Andrea Mitchell Center hosts conference on effects of inequality The event was organized by a committee of professors ABI MURUGADOSS Staff Reporter

A range of speakers gathered at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy this Friday to discuss why inequality is not an issue of skewed wealth distribution alone.

The conference on Sept. 20 kicked off the center’s 20192020 theme, “Reverberations of Inequality,� with three panels on “Health and Inequality,� “Barriers to Mobility,� and “Policy Responses to Inequality.� Guest speakers from universities across the country discussed various ways in which the lack of access to reasonably priced health care, fair policies, and other resources exacerbate inequality.

The conference was organized by a committee of Penn professors to highlight how equality is not always attainable and how a lack of equality might affect ac-

cess to democratic participation and liberty. “We have had a period of rising inequality in the U.S. in recent decades, and a lot of that research has looked at the economic dimensions of it,� Sociology professor and Reverberations of Inequality program chair Annette Lareau said.

Chloe Bird, a sociologist at the RAND Corporation, spoke about gender inequality in health care at the “Health and Inequality� panel. She said medical researchers in the United States are not required to carry out analyses to see if new treatments affect men and women differently, adding that institutions are reluctant to spend money on studying women specifically.

While researchers had assumed that women had worse mental health than men, Bird discussed that many studies reveal men actually have worse mental health on average. Her fellow panelists included Sociology professors Elaine Hernandez

the economic mobility of American children in comparison to their parents. He further analyzed social mobility for children in poverty with detailed graphs and charts. “There is an incredible variation in the spectrum of upward mobility in the U.S.,� Chetty said. “There are some parts of the U.S. that should rightly be called lands of opportunity.�

Attendees said they found the event interesting because they were able to connect it to their own research.

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The Friday conference kicked off the center’s 2019-2020 theme, “Reverberations of Inequality,� with three panels and a keynote speech.

of Indiana University and Bruce Link of University of California, Riverside.

Andrea Mitchell Center Director Jeffrey Green said the center’s executive committee decided to focus on inequality as the annual theme, but a special planning committee prepared the opening conference and selected the speakers. “It is important to us that these

events not only diagnose problems but also if possible try to address those problems,� Green said.

Throughout the year, the center offers monthly workshops on the theme, as well as a variety of other events focused on politics and democracy.

In the keynote lecture, Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty discussed his research on

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New course lets Penn students learn about Japanese religion through anime and manga ANDIE PINGA Staff Reporter

A new class lets students learn about Japanese culture and religion by watching anime and reading manga. “Religion of Anime,� taught

by Religious Studies professor Jolyon Thomas, looks at Japanese religion, culture, and history through the lens of anime and manga. Anime and manga are distinctive styles of animation and comic books, respectively, and both originate from Japan. The course is open to students from all disciplines, regardless of their previous experience with these art forms.

Though College freshman Tamia Harvey-Martin, a student taking the course, has been watching anime since childhood, she said the course exceeded her expectations of how it would study the medium. “What initially made me choose the course is a lot different for why I’m staying,�

Harvey-Martin said. “I thought professor Thomas would be

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faculty and staff on preventing sexual harassment and violence. “We’re still going to continue to organize around issues that affect us as workers,� said fifth-year Graduate School of Education Ph.D. student Jennifer Phuong, who has been a GET-UP member for several years. “Even if that doesn’t mean an active campaign to establish a union through legal systems, it still means we’re going to try to advocate for ourselves as graduate workers and different types of graduate workers across Penn.�

GET-UP leaders wrote in a statement to their members that the conservative board, with members appointed by President Donald Trump, will officialize the proposed legislation outlawing graduate student unions on Sept. 23. “On Monday, September 23rd the National Labor Relations Board (N.L.R.B.) will rule that graduate students are not workers and therefore are ineligible to form a union,� read the email to GET-UP members, dated Sept. 21. “We refuse to let this stymie our efforts to build graduate student worker power at Penn for the simple reason that N.L.R.B. Appointees, like the Presidents who appoint them, do not last forever.�

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talking about religion in anime, but he’s also doing more than that. He’s going into cinema studies, anthropology, [and] social sciences.�

Thomas said he hopes to teach students in the class how to be active media viewers and how to understand cultural references in manga and anime.

His syllabus includes anime and manga from a range of genres, including the popular anime films “Your Nameâ€? and “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.â€? Currently, the class is reading “Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits,â€? a manga that blends supernatural and food elements.

Beyond the course’s two weekly lectures and recitation, Thomas also offers an optional movie viewing and discussion every week. He said he hopes the course will make students think about what constitutes religion in the first place. “[When I was an undergraduate,] I was completely not sure about what religion was. And I still have no idea. So now I’m three degrees into the academic study of religion, and if anything, I know even less about what religion is,� he said.

The class is based on Thomas’s own academic research: Thomas has extensively studied Japanese religious practices and has periodically lived in Japan for the past seven years.

He also wrote a book in 2012 called “Drawing on Religion: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan� and has previously taught a Penn class on Japanese popular culture.

Thomas said he plans to offer the class every fall, emphasizing that students do not need to be fans of anime or manga to take it. Hector Kilgoe, a thirdyear Religious Studies Ph.D. student and one of two teaching assistants for “Religion of Anime,� said he had not extensively watched Japanese media or studied Japanese culture before this semester. “I’m learning a lot of the specifics of Japanese culture and religion through watching these films and hearing the lectures from professor Thomas,� Kilgoe said. “Even though I know film analysis and religion, there’s still a lot I’m learning in this course too.�

Wharton freshman Hassan Hammoud, another student in the course, emphasized the

groups, The New York Times reported. The rule will go into effect after a 60-day waiting period, during which the public can give feedback.

Phuong said the ruling gives a chance for graduate unions to make public comments and that GET-UP is working with unions across the country to draft a statement.

GET-UP member and second-year political science Ph.D. student Miranda Sklaroff said she thought it was “absurd� the NLRB ruled that grad students are not workers. “If graduate student workers went on strike on Monday, the university would basically shut down,� she said. “We are teachers, we are research assistants, we have a lot of small administrative jobs around campus, and so our labor continues to make the University of Pennsylvania what it is.�

GET-UP previously attempted to form a union in March 2017 following the Aug. 2016 NRLB decision that allowed graduate students to unionize.

The 2016 ruling was catalyzed

by Columbia graduate students’ petition to have their union officially recognized. Many graduate student unions at Penn’s peer institutions, such as Harvard University and Columbia University, succeeded in negotiating contracts. In Dec. 2017, the NRLB granted GET-UP the right to hold an election where graduate students could vote on whether they want GET-UP to become their union.

But after earning the right to hold a vote for a union, GET-UP members withdrew their union

petitions in 2018. The group thought that their case could go up to the NRLB, which would allow the conservative Trump administration to vote on their case and overrule the previous decision allowing for grad student unionization. Despite their efforts at preventing the NRLB from having the opportunity to rule against their unionization, the proposed NRLB anti-union legislation will be printed into the Federal Register and finalized on Monday.

Even if the proposed legislation becomes final after the comment period, graduate student union groups can still bargain with University officials.

In the past, however, Penn has opposed the union formation and has protested GET-UP’s legal grounds to unionization. “As we have stated before, we view our graduate student scholars as students and our future colleagues rather than employees, and believe we can better support them without the intervention of a labor union,� Penn spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian when the NRLB first allowed GET-UP to vote to become a union.

In advance of the impending ruling, GET-UP issued a statement on their website on Sept.

13 announcing their next meeting and telling students to come join in shaping their next step of organizing without formally forming a union. “At present, there is no straightforward path to winning a union formally recognized by the NLRB,� the statement read.

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“I feel like this panel piqued my interest even more in maternal and child health and even more in women’s health,� attendee Erica Danhoui said. Danhoui is a public health graduate student at Temple University.

Chloe Zhu, a Master of Science in Social Policy student, said she enjoyed Chetty’s lecture because it tied into her own work. “I think the research was great because I’m also doing research on the same topic,� Zhu said. “He’s really inspiring to me.�

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Men’s soccer edges Temple thanks to another Bhangdia goal

Junior midfielder leads Penn with three goals this season JACOB WESSELS Associate Sports Editor

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Sometimes the bounces just keep going your way.

Penn men’s soccer got the crucial bounce when it was needed, and the resulting goal was enough to edge city rival Temple, 1-0, on a beautiful Saturday night at Rhodes Field.

Out of the gate, both teams tried to enforce their physicality on the defensive end. The first half saw lots of fouls but generated few real scoring opportunities.

For the first 20 minutes of the game the Quakers (3-1-1) dominated the tempo and possession, winning the ball from the Owls (2-4) and sending long passes over the top on the wings. The Red and Blue failed to capitalize on these early opportunities. Despite earning two early corner kicks and three free kicks just outside the box, they managed just one shot on goal, a slow roller that was easily saved by Temple senior goalkeeper Simon

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to her second season with the Red and Blue. It took her just six games this year to surpass her season total of 53 kills in 25 games in 2018. She’s currently sitting at a season total of 103.5 points, which at an average of 3.34 per set puts her at sixth overall in the Ivy League.

Later on Friday, Penn had a meeting with UC Riverside. The Highlanders (4-6) took the first set before the Red and Blue bounced back, winning the next three sets consecutively. Freshman outside hitter Autumn Leak led the Quakers with 11 kills, while Planek had a strong showing on defense, posting four blocks. While the Red and Blue consistently defended their side of the court, they were forced to step up their offensive

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Robinson contributed to the effort as well, scrambling for some important first downs and connecting with sophomore wide receiver Ryan Cragun, who was playing in his first-ever collegiate game, for eight catches and 145 yards.

The Quakers’ defense was impressive for significant stretches as well. After allowing a touchdown on the very first drive of the game, Penn held Delaware scoreless for the rest of the first half, forcing several three-and-outs in the process.

The Red and Blue were particularly strong upfront, producing three sacks and only allowing a total of 100 rushing yards.

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Delaware couldn’t do anything with the ball after getting it back, as junior defensive lineman Benji Mowatt sacked Henderson to force a three-and-out. On the ensuing drive, Brooks helped lead the Quakers into enemy territory, but the Blue Hens were able to intercept Robinson to regain possession.

After forcing another Delaware three-and-out, junior running back Isaiah Malcome ripped off a 46-yard run and capped off another successful series with a one-yard touchdown reception to give the Quakers their first lead of the afternoon. The Red and Blue continued their stout defensive performance throughout the first half and entered the locker room with a 14-7 lead.

Coming out of the break, Penn’s offense didn’t miss a beat.

Robinson lofted a deep ball over the middle to Cragun for a gain of 32 yards on the first play of the half, and he threw a 12-yard fade

Lefebvre.

While the Owls had fewer opportunities in the first half, it seemed that they may have found a breakthrough in the 34th minute, when an Owls header floated over sophomore goalie Dane Jacomen into the top corner. However, Temple’s midfield celebrations were cut short — the linesman had indicated the goal was offside. After clearing up the confusion, the goal was disallowed and the Red and Blue went into the half with the contest knotted at 0-0.

Starting the second half, both teams came out with more energy on the offensive end. After a deflection in the box freshman defender Jack Rosener found himself all alone in front of goal but sent his volley sailing over the bar.

With the Quakers continuing to look dangerous, a breakthrough seemed inevitable. That breakthrough came just a few minutes later after junior defender RC Williams started a break up the right wing.

The ball eventually found its way to junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia on the far right corner of the box. With plenty of time to set his feet, Bhangdia loaded up and sent a low cross toward net intended for junior forward Jake Kohlbrenner. Instead, the ball skipped off the ground missing both Kohlbrenner and the Temple defender and rolled past a stunned

Lefebvre into the bottom left corner.

“From a goal-scorer’s perspective I’m always going to say I was shooting,” Bhangdia said. “Those are the kind of plays where in your mind before you hit it you know anything can happen … that one was maybe a little fortunate to get to the back post but Jake did a great job shielding the keeper.”

With the Quakers now in the driver’s seat, Temple was forced to push forward. The Owls generated a number of dangerous chances that all found their ways into the arms of Jacomen or cleared by a Penn defender.

“One of the things that we felt like we needed to instill here was the value of needing to defend well,” coach Brian Gill said. “That can make all the difference when you get into a game like the one we had here where there isn’t a whole lot of difference between the two teams.”

On the offensive end, the story was once again Bhangdia, who scored his team-high third goal.

As the result of an injury to sophomore midfielder Isaac McGinnis, freshman Nick Schimbeno was forced into action, logging 26 impressive minutes while also recording the assist on the game’s lone goal.

“With Isaac’s injury we talked with some of the guys early in the

attack.

“On the West Coast, we saw more solid defense,” Leak said.

“In the [previous two tournaments], it has been easier to get through blocks. This weekend, we struggled a little bit trying to put the ball on the floor, so we had to work extra hard to really find those open spaces and put the ball down.”

While attacking on offense was a challenge throughout the weekend, Penn’s defense — and particularly sophomore Carmina Raquel — performed well.

Raquel, a defensive specialist, currently leads the Ivy League in digs, with 162 in nine games. Additionally, this weekend marked her second consecutive all-tournament honor.

On Saturday afternoon, Penn capped off its weekend against Cal State Fullerton. After the

Quakers picked up the first two sets, the Titans (7-3) fought back to take the next couple, capitalizing on errors by the Red and Blue.

Penn put up a fight in the fifth set but ultimately lost, 15-12, ending its six-game win streak.

After facing some tough competition in Riverside, a point of emphasis for the Quakers was efficiency.

“The whole theme of this weekend was holding ourselves to a higher standard and being more accountable to each other.

Also playing with a sense of urgency,” Leak said. “We’ve had a lot of five-set matches and fourset matches, but in the future, our goal is to really make sure that we beat teams in three.”

The Quakers will look to build off of another multi-win weekend as they open up Ivy League play at Princeton (4-5) on Friday.

are still areas where they can improve throughout the season.

Penn’s passing game slowed down significantly in the second half — Robinson only threw for 64 yards in the final two quarters — and the team’s secondary let up some big plays through the air to allow Delaware to take the lead late.

In addition, the Red and Blue, who were supposed to have a more fast-paced offense than in previous seasons, didn’t appear to change their tempo much pre-snap. The players looked toward the sideline for instruction before many plays, and the team ultimately committed three delay of game penalties.

Despite that, there are still many more positives than negatives for Penn moving forward.

As coach Ray Priore said after the game, the Quakers were “overmatched” physically, with

zero athletic scholarship players to Delaware’s 65. But they fought, grinded, and played strategic football for most of the day to put themselves in a position to win.

The decision to go for two after Malcome’s punt return might be controversial, and it might deserve an entire column of its own, but that wasn’t really the defining moment of the day for the Red and Blue. The defining moments instead came on each completion, defensive stop, and big gain, which indicated that this team could compete with top-notch FCS competition and possibly exceed expectations when Ivy League play begins.

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pass to Huber to extend the lead to 14.

The Blue Hens have scored 76 of their 97 points after halftime this season, and their secondhalf heroics were on full display against the Quakers. Led by Henderson, the home side rattled off two straight touchdowns while keeping Penn at bay to close out the third quarter all square.

In the middle of the fourth quarter, Pitts then beat his man for a 45-yard gain on the third play of a long Blue Hens drive, and Will Knight punched in a six-yard run as Delaware regained the lead.

But Penn wasn’t done just yet, and got some help from its special teams down the stretch.

Isaiah Malcome split two defenders on a punt return and found himself in the end zone with the Quakers ready to tie the game.

With the game on the line, the Red and Blue elected to go for the two-point conversion, but Robinson threw a low incomplete pass and Penn remained behind.

“We knew it was gonna be a tough day today, so we needed

to play to win,” Priore said. “At some point or another, we had to score more points than they did, and we felt like going for [the two-point conversion attempt] was the right decision.”

Attempting an onside kick, senior kicker Drew Brennan booted the ball out of bounds, giving the Blue Hens the opportunity to run out the clock and clinch the win.

Though the Quakers lost, the team excelled in a number of areas. Penn tallied 465 total yards of offense. Brooks added 158 yards on the ground, Robinson threw for three touchdowns, and Cragun caught eight passes for 145 yards in his collegiate debut. “[Cragun] did his job. He was open,” Robinson said. “Ryan is a great player, and last year even though he played on the scout team, we liked what we saw from him. I thought he did a great job today and translated his skills to real-game situations.”

Penn will look to rebound in another non-conference game next Saturday against Lafayette, whom they edged in their last meeting in 2013.

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Junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia scored his second game-winning goal of the season in Penn men’s soccer’s 1-0 victory against Temple on Saturday night. The win was the Quakers’ third of the year.

season that you never know when your chances are going to come around, and to stay optimistic about the opportunity and stay sharp on the field,” Gill said. “The assist was a really good little piece of soccer from him … but I’m almost more impressed with his ability to step into the game late at a position where he isn’t super comfortable.”

“I think we have a lot of confidence and momentum right now, guys are starting to step up, make their plays, and fill their roles. Tonight probably wasn’t the prettiest win we’ve ever had, but we played gritty, defended well at the end, and took some time off the clock,” Bhangdia said.

“A lot of small things that we

keep harping on are going really well; the team has heavily bought in to doing the small things really well, both on and off the field,” Gill said.

“There’s a lot of motivation to try and make this program relevant.”

The Quakers look to continue their hot start to the season as they return to Rhodes Field Tuesday to take on Lehigh.

Player of the Week: Eddie Jenkins The senior quarterback scored seven touchdowns JACOB WESSELS Associate Sports Editor

It did not take Eddie Jenkins long to get back on track.

Following a difficult threeinterception performance in a loss to Army last week, Penn sprint football’s senior quarterback bounced back in a big way against Cornell on Friday, turning in a record breaking performance that was good enough to earn him DP Sports Player of the Week.

After being named to the All-Collegiate Sprint Football League first team in 2017, Jenkins’ 2018 hit a bit of a snag after he was knocked out for

one game due to an injury he suffered midway through Penn’s contest against Cornell. He more than made up for lost time in his appearance this year against the Big Red, recording seven total touchdowns en route to a dominant 61-7 Penn victory.

Jenkins got the scoring started early, rushing for a five-yard touchdown just two minutes into the game. Only four minutes later, he found senior wide receiver Billy Murphy for his first touchdown through the air. By the end of the first half, Jenkins had five touchdowns, three of which were on the ground and two of which were in the air, to send the Quakers into the half up 47-0.

The senior signal-caller would later put the finishing touches on his historic performance by throwing for two more

touchdowns in the second half.

In the win, Jenkins set career highs in passing yards with 221, passing touchdowns with four, and rushing touchdowns with three. He also threw the longest touchdown of his career, a 45yard pass to junior wide receiver Barry Klein. Jenkins was also incredibly efficient, throwing just one incompletion and averaging over 18 yards per attempt.

While this was certainly a huge win for Penn sprint football, it is not even its biggest win with Jenkins at the helm. In 2017, Jenkins dominated in his first career start, leading the Red and Blue to a 69-6 victory over Caldwell.

Jenkins will look to keep the momentum going as the Quakers prepare to play Post next weekend.

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get back to Philadelphia until 6 o’clock in the morning,” Wagner said. “[Cullen] is a great coach and I’m happy to have shared so many great memories with him.”

Cornell received the ball first on Friday night, but quarterback Aneesh Agrawal was picked off by senior Josh McBriar near midfield.

Looking to improve off a rough last game against Army, senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins quickly found junior wide receiver Barry Klein for a 37-yard gain on the Quakers’ first offensive play. Jenkins punched in a five-yard run to put the Quakers on the board.

After forcing a Big Red threeand-out, Jenkins again marched the Red and Blue down the field, finding senior wide receiver Billy Murphy for an 18-yard score.

With Cornell punting the ball on the ensuing possession, the Quakers put together a five-play, 69-yard drive culminating in another Jenkins rushing touchdown.

Jenkins found Klein for a 45-yard touchdown, and the Quakers entered the second quarter with a

commanding 26-0 lead.

In the second quarter, Jenkins added two more touchdowns — one on the ground and one through the air — while sophomore running back Laquan McKever scored a seven-yard rushing touchdown.

The Red and Blue headed into the halftime locker room with a 47-point shutout on the board.

Coming out of the half, the Quakers took nine minutes off the clock on a 15-play, 69-yard drive that ended with Jenkins finding sophomore tight end Ben Klaus for a 13-yard score. Late in the third quarter, Penn was forced to punt for the first and only time of the day.

“Eddie Jenkins continued to totally dominate as a rusher and a passer,” Wagner emphasized. “He is a player I’m extremely proud of.”

In the fourth quarter, the Red and Blue netted another touchdown on a run by sophomore running back Sam Mintz to stretch their lead to 61.

Late in the fourth quarter, the Big Red finally mustered some short gains against the stout Penn defense, and Cornell’s Jacob Wynkoop scored from four yards

out to end the Quakers’ attempt at a shutout.

The game marked the Quakers’ first win of the season while a number of players set career highs across the board. Jenkins totaled seven touchdowns — bringing his season total to 10, which leads the CFSL. McKever ran for a career-best 154 yards and his first collegiate touchdown, while McBriar and junior Joshua Trybus snagged their first collegiate interceptions.

Wagner was impressed with his team’s performance and noted that the game would likely be historically significant.

“This final game against Cornell will be remembered for many, many years … this team went out and scored 47 points in the first half, and played with such a passion, an energy, a desire to make this 50th year a championship year for Penn,” Wagner said.

“Everyone played, [and] all 45 kids contributed.”

The Quakers will look to build off their big win when they travel to Waterbury, Conn. to face Post in their final non-divisional matchup of the season.

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Women’s soccer splits weekend slate against Hofstra and Temple Senior Emma Loving scored game winner against Temple CHARLIE DOLGENOS Sports Reporter

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In a weekend that brought mixed results, one thing was clear: Coach Nicole Van Dyke may need to find a full-time job as a halftime motivational speaker.

Coming into the weekend, Penn women’s soccer was riding high.

The Quakers had won their previous three matches, were unbeaten in their previous five, and hadn’t given up a goal since Sept. 6. All three of those streaks ended on Friday against Hofstra, who beat the Red and Blue, 2-1. However, Penn

bounced back two days later with a 2-1 win of its own against Temple.

On Friday, the Red and Blue (52-1) took on Hofstra (6-3). They went down early, giving up a goal in the 10th minute before allowing another in the 23rd.

Down 2-0 at halftime, Penn stepped up its defensive intensity.

The team allowed just five second half shots after allowing 11 in the first. Junior defender Katharine Larson dribbled into the box, got fouled, and converted the ensuing penalty kick for her first career goal.

However, the Quakers’ comeback effort was ultimately stymied.

On Sunday, the Red and Blue matched up against Philadelphia rival Temple (2-4-3). In the 34th minute, Temple forward Emma Wilkins converted a goal off a rebound. Again, the Quakers found themselves playing from behind.

In the first few minutes of the second half, Penn ramped up its aggressiveness. In their first time touching the ball in the final 45 minutes, the Red and Blue earned a corner, and the chances didn’t stop there. Within six minutes, they

were on the board, as Larson scored her second goal of both the weekend and her career.

“I’ve been really fortunate to play with a bunch of players who have put me in good positions,” Larson said. “I’ve been playing a lot better with [forward Emily] Sands and [midfielder Allie] Schachter, so it’s been them setting me up.

Sands and Schachter were both credited with assists on Larson’s goal.

Just two minutes later, senior forward Emma Loving got in on the fun. Coming down the right wing, she cut the ball to her left foot, leaving a defender in her wake. She fired a shot from just inside the box, and it curved its way into the bottom-left corner of the net. “[Allie] Schachter saw a window open and found the pass that we’d been looking for for a while. I drove in, saw that [the defender] was letting me take it onto my left, saw the shot, and took it,” Loving said.

In the first halves of the two games, the Quakers were outscored by a combined three goals.

In the second halves, though, they

outscored Hofstra and Temple by three. They attacked with more purpose, created more chances in the final third rather than relying on long balls, and were more organized.

“I wish I could [attribute] it to some magical words of wisdom, but I think [the players] do a great job at halftime of figuring out what we need,” Van Dyke said. “The reality is, I think it took some fresh legs to get us into the game tonight.”

After the two games, there is plenty for Penn to build on. Hofstra, which made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year, was a tough opponent and a top-50 team in the country, and the Quakers had the chances necessary to tie them. In the second half of the Temple game, Penn was creating chance after chance.

Ancient Eight play begins next Saturday at Harvard, and Penn will need to put its best foot forward to find success. If the Red and Blue play like they did in these second halves, the Ivy League will need to watch out.

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NEWARK, Del. — Penn and Delaware are separated by 42 miles, but there wasn’t much of a difference between the way the two teams played Saturday afternoon.

In a tightly contested season opener, Penn football ultimately fell to the No. 20 Blue Hens, 2827. A failed two-point conversion attempt after a punt return for a

touchdown ultimately ended up costing the Red and Blue (0-1) the victory.

In the pair’s first matchup since 1983, Delaware (3-1) struck first as quarterback Nolan Henderson led a picture-perfect five-play, 72yard drive capped by a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Thyrick Pitts.

On the Quakers’ opening drive,

senior quarterback Nick Robinson missed senior running back Karekin Brooks on a routine screen pass that resulted in a fumble. The Quakers punted back to Delaware, who promptly marched down the field thanks to big gains by running back Andre Robinson.

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Volleyball takes West Coast tournament by storm with pair of wins against Seattle and UC Riverside Red and Blue already have was the first year the group has on the West Coast since more wins than in all of 2018 played 2014.

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Just over two weeks into its season, Penn volleyball has already racked up more wins than it did all of last year.

This weekend, the Quakers collected two more wins after traveling to Riverside, Calif. to compete in the UC Riverside Invitational. The meet gave the Red and Blue (7-2) exposure to a few West Coast teams that they rarely get to see, and it

On Friday, the Red and Blue faced off with Seattle. After narrowly winning the first set, the Quakers went back and forth with the Redhawks (7-5) in the next four frames, ultimately taking the fifth set to win the match. Sophomore captain Margaret Planek posted three aces and 13 kills, second only to junior captain and Daily Pennsylvanian staffer Parker Jones, who led both teams with 16 kills.

Planek is off to a solid start SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 8

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Sophomore defensive specialist Carmina Raquel continued her strong start to the season, and she now has 162 digs on the year.

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Penn sprint football came into Friday night’s matchup on a six-game winning streak against Cornell, and this time around things were no different.

For the first road game of the season, coach Bill Wagner and his team headed to Ithaca, N.Y. and dominated Ancient Eight rivals Cornell, 61-7.

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This game was significant on multiple levels. For starters, this game marked Penn’s (1-1) first and only matchup against another Ivy League squad.

For Wagner, though, this marked the last game against Cornell (1-1) of his 50-year career. He also has a storied history with Cornell coach Terry Cullen; the coaches have faced off 66 times in their career and have a collective coaching experience of 104 Collegiate Sprint Football League seasons.

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first drive — led a 78-yard drive full of big plays. Robinson found sophomore wide receiver Ryan Cragun for a 27-yard gain while adding a 19-yard run of his own.

He capped off the drive by rolling out of the pocket and throwing a four-yard touchdown to senior wideout Kolton Huber to even the SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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Senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins set or tied career highs in singlegame passing and rushing touchdowns in Penn’s win over Cornell.

had a high snap, which is one too many,” coach Ray Priore said. “At the end of the day, this stuff gets better as you play more football.

It’s hard to iron out these mistakes in practice because you’re just not in a real game situation.”

Penn’s fortunes changed, though, after Delaware failed to convert a 39-yard field goal. Then, Robinson — shaking off a rough

The game came down to one play. With 2:24 left in the fourth quarter, Penn football lined up from the Delaware twoyard line. If the Quakers could find the end zone, they would lead 29-28, giving a defense that had just come up with a big stop a chance to seal the win. If they failed, the Blue Hens would get the ball back, needing only one first down to ice the game.

While the result of that play, a pass from senior quarterback Nick Robinson that found the ground in front of his intended target, determined the final outcome, it shouldn’t define how Penn football is viewed after its season opener.

Instead, the fact that the Red and Blue were in that posi-

tion, where a single play could give them a great chance at a win, should be viewed as a positive sign going into the rest of the year. Against Delaware, which is ranked ahead of any Ivy League team at No. 20 in the Football Championship Subdivision, the Quakers needed to fight for every inch as major underdogs coming into the contest.

And fight they did.

Penn’s new-look offense, with Robinson and first-year offensive coordinator Kevin Morris at the helm, was solid for much of the day. Senior running back Karekin Brooks was a workhorse, carrying the ball 28 times for 158 yards, and junior Isaiah Malcome came up with some big plays of his own, picking up a big 46-yard gain in the first half and returning a punt for a touchdown to set up the fateful two-point conversion SEE LANDAU PAGE 8

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Senior running back Karekin Brooks found a great deal of success in Penn football’s revamped offense, totaling 158 yards rushing.

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