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Former HUP employee files lawsuit against Penn for gender discrimination The employee claims she was wrongfully fired DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

A former Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania employee, who identifies as a transgender woman, has opened a lawsuit against HUP for gender discrimination. After a recent judge’s order, the lawyers for the employee and HUP are meeting to revise the plaintiff’s claims against the university. The plaintiff, given the pseudonym “Jane Doe,” claims she was mistreated after a routine medical procedure at HUP on Feb. 20, 2018. After the event, she claims she had difficulty returning to work because the hospital exacerbated her gender dysphoria, which is distress felt as a result of conflict between biological sex and gender identity. Four months later, HUP fired her, according to the lawsuit filed on July 2. The claims include assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, violation of right of privacy, medical malpractice, sex discrimination, and wrongful termination. “While we are unable to comment on pending litigation, respect for all our patients is a cornerstone of care across Penn Medicine, and we value and support diversity among both our patients and our workforce,” a Penn Medicine spokesperson said. Doe claims that when she arrived at HUP for a routine medical procedure in February 2018, the first receptionist she met misgendered her, calling her by her former male name and using masculine pronouns. The hospital also ignored Doe’s specific instructions about her sensitivity to anesthesia, causing her to wake up in the recovery room disoriented and panicked, according to the lawsuit. The report states the defendants were “simply watching as she started to climb out of her bed seeking help.” Penn Police officers arrived and forcefully subdued her,

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Grad. student group combats harassment in academia The Coalition Against Sexual Misconduct wants to start a unified movement among grad. students HARSHITA GUPTA Staff Reporter

Penn graduate students have started a new organization to combat sexual harassment in academia. The organization, called the Coalition Against Sexual Misconduct, hopes to involve students and staff across the Penn community. The coalition’s mission statement said it aims to “advocate for protections, policies, and a cultural shift surrounding sexual harassment and misconduct.” “We chose to be a coalition because we want to think

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Undergraduate Assembly distributes wellness guide UA members said it took on renewed importance after Eells’ death CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

The Undergraduate Assembly aims to tackle mental wellness this year, focusing on the distribution of a wellness guide that informs Penn students of resources on campus. The student governing body is circulating a list of mental health resources, planning to launch a study to learn more about the struggles Penn students face, and continue working to integrate Counseling and Psychological Services clinicians in more undergraduate schools. The initiatives were planned before the death of CAPS Director Gregory Eells in early September, but UA members said the measures took on renewed importance after the tragedy. The UA started off the semester by distributing the wellness guide at their table at the Student Activities Council fair, College senior and UA President Natasha Menon said. The wellness guide was also passed out at an ice cream social hosted by the UA and CAPS on Aug. 31. The wellness guide is a handout with contact information for different mental health resources on campus, Menon said. She said the UA is currently looking for additional ways to distribute the wellness guide to Penn students. “These were already projects in place before [Eells’] passing, but I think all the wellness partners are even more determined to create an environment that fosters mental wellness on campus, hopefully through these initiatives,” Menon said.

The UA will continue its tabling initiative on Locust Walk this semester, Menon said, with the intention of distributing wellness guides to students passing by. Building upon the physical distribution, she said the UA may also upload a PDF of the guide to its website or send it to students via email. Wharton sophomore and UA Secretary Dante Diggs is in the early stages of implementing a longitudinal wellness study, which will monitor the mental wellness of 50 students from each undergraduate school throughout their four years at Penn. Diggs is currently meeting with professors to develop a survey with questions that will provide insight into the mental health struggles that Penn students face. He said his next steps will be to construct effectively worded questions and to figure out how to engage students with the survey. Diggs said the goal of the project is to pinpoint specific stressors for students and then relay the findings to the administration. “We tend to have to shoot in the dark and find out what we think is a problem, or what may not be a problem, on our own,” Diggs said. “I think it would help a lot for administrators and for students to understand what the actual pain points are by analyzing students over the four years.” Additional mental wellness initiatives include College sophomore and Equity and Inclusion Committee Director Mary Sadallah’s ongoing work to integrate CAPS resources across campus. Sadallah worked on this project last year and presented her ideas at the “Your Big Idea” wellness competition in April. The project aims to extend the reach of CAPS beyond its traditional office to make it easily accessible to students on campus. She plans to continue her work with CAPS this year.

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John Kerry served as Secretary of State for President Barack Obama. At Perry World House, he drew on his experience of negotiating the Paris Climate Agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.

At Penn, John Kerry calls for urgent action on climate change Kerry was speaking at a Perry World House colloquium DANIEL TAN Staff Reporter

Former Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at Tuesday’s 2019 Global Order Colloquium at Perry World House, calling for urgent action to reverse climate change and criticizing President Donald Trump’s handling of Iran. Other distinguished world figures also discussed artificial intelligence, social media, and democracy. The colloquium, “How Emerging Technologies

are Rewiring the Global Order,” featured a keynote address by Penn President Amy Gutmann and conversations with Kerry, former President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbayeva, former United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Executive Director of the Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth, and Uber Chief Scientist Raquel Urtasun. Here are five main takeaways. Kerry: climate change is an “emergency” Drawing from his experience negotiating the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement (from which the United States withdrew in 2017), Kerry underscored the urgency of American action on climate SEE KERRY PAGE 2

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change. “We need to behave like we are in a war,” he said, noting that humanity was on a path toward Earth’s sixth mass extinction. However, Kerry said that the United States re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement would not be enough, as world temperatures would still warm by 3.7 degrees Celsius, well above a target threshold of 2 degrees Celsius. He suggested large-scale investments in America’s solar and wind capacities, adding that it was absurd that most of the United States lacks the grid capacity to handle these renewable energies even when both are now cheaper than coal. Kerry was more ambivalent towards geoengineering, which involves removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and introducing aerosols into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight. He cautioned that there was not enough information on the potential consequences of these approaches. Kerry: Trump’s Iran policy is flawed During his time as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, Kerry also brokered an international agreement that intended to slow the pace at which Iran could obtain nuclear weapons. The Trump administration has since pulled out of the deal and Kerry criticized the current U.S. policy toward the nation. “This is not smart diplomacy,” Kerry said, referring to the administration’s decision to abruptly rip apart the deal without consulting allies. He said that if the president disagreed with the deal, he should have first notified allies and allowed for a waiting period of two years for renegotiations before withdrawing. Although Kerry said Trump’s actions put America and the Middle East at risk, he remained optimistic that war with Iran would be averted. Roth: social media, despite flaws, is “fantastic” for human rights As social media weathers attacks from all corners of society, Roth wanted the audience to know that he was a fan. Describing social media as a “fantastic avenue for whistleblowing,” Roth noted that social media provided a platform for anyone with a

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 phone to expose corruption. He cited a recent instance in Egypt where a single construction worker triggered waves of protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after venting his frustrations with the current regime on Facebook. “Traditional journalism required you to be physically there,” Roth said. Now, Roth said everyone can collect evidence. While he conceded that social media platforms have also been a “key purveyor of falsehoods” because of the temptation to post provocative content, Roth said he would not wish to return to a world without them. Otunbayeva: Kyrgyzstan still stands by democracy It being a small, landlocked Central Asian nation at the crossroads of China and Russia, Otunbayeva acknowledged that governing Kyrgyzstan was a complicated affair. Otunbayeva acceded to the presidency amid the 2010 Kyrgyzstan Revolution, which deposed former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and left between 40 and 100 people dead. When asked if her experiences made her skeptical of democracy, especially against the appeal of China’s authoritarian model, Otunbayeva maintained that there was no question about her belief in parliamentary democracy. She noted that Kyrgyzstan’s constitution mandates elections and a balance of power. She praised Western democracies, even saying that “[the political system in Kyrgyzstan] should be like Great Britain today.” She also highlighted the role that the United States played in the democratization of her nation after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Carter: fully autonomous weapons are unrealistic Carter was bleak in his assessment of autonomous weapons, which have been met with opposition from the United Nations. Such weapons include robots that can search and fire at targets without human input. “We cannot be in a position where no one is responsible,” he said, adding that the American people would not be able to accept a scenario where the military used force but no human being was accountable. Earlier, Kerry had expressed similar skepticism on the role of autonomous weapons. “We’re not going to have war managed by [artificial intelligence] — no way this is going to happen,” Kerry said.

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Prof. criticizes China’s human rights protections Margaret Lewis teaches at Seton Hall Law School NOAH LEWINE Staff Reporter

Seton Hall University School of Law professor Margaret Lewis criticized human rights protection in China at an Annenberg event on Wednesday evening. The event, hosted by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, focused on China’s adherence to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a treaty adopted by the United Nations in 1966. China signed the ICCPR in 1988, but has not yet ratified it. In her talk, Lewis asserted that the international community should urge China to unsign the treaty. According to the ACLU, the ICCPR ensures protections for civil and political rights, including freedom of speech, religious freedom, and freedom from arbitrary detention. Along with other international declarations, the ICCPR, is considered part of the International Bill of Human Rights. Lewis, who specializes in criminal justice and human rights

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put her in a wheelchair and handcuffed her, according to the lawsuit. She claims she was wheeled out of the hospital partially naked and left on the street. After the incident, Doe’s gender dysphoria flared up and she had difficulty returning to work at HUP, according to the lawsuit. She claims the hospital was aware of her situation yet failed to make reasonable accommodations for her, and on June 28, 2018, HUP terminated Doe’s employment. “On information and belief, defendants were failing to act because Ms. Doe is trans, and a person with a disability; their failure to act and their malpractice and other wrong-

in China, argued that in the 21 years since China signed this treaty, they have done nothing to indicate that they are making an effort to ratify it or follow its guidelines. Lewis cited the Universal Periodic Review as evidence that China is “moving in the wrong direction” when it comes to protecting the political and civil rights of its citizens. The UPR, which is published by the United Nations Human Rights Council, reports on the state of human rights in all UN member states. The country was actively decreasing the number of executions, according to UPR’s first report of China in 2009. But in UPR’s 2018 report, Lewis said there was a weakening of civil rights under the control of China’s President Xi Jinping. Lewis spoke of mass detention, mass disappearances of rights lawyers, increased tightening of freedom of expression, decreased access to the internet, along with a host of other limitations. In telling China to leave the ICCPR, Lewis said the international community would send a message that certain core values are non-negotiable. She also said

ful acts were at least partially based on discrimination and hate,” the lawsuit states. Penn’s attorneys filed a notice on Aug. 9 requesting the plaintiff drop several allegations because they do not hold legal weight. The lawyers wrote that the defendants are not public entities and thus cannot be held responsible for the alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. They also wrote in the notice that the allegations in the complaint do not adequately constitute medical malpractice or privacy violations. In the most recent development of the lawsuit, a new court order has been issued by a judge. On Sept. 11, U.S. District Judge Mitchell Goldberg ordered the parties to

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Seton Hall Law professor Margaret Lewis argued that China should unsign the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

it would send a message to China and other countries that the world is looking closely at their actions. Lewis argued that it is difficult to know what exactly is happening in China because of the opacity of its government. She said that she would appreciate an increase in transparency so that researchers like her could enter criminal trials and examine the criminal justice system. After discussing her critique of the Chinese government, Lewis opened the floor to questions and

comments from the audience. Professor Neysun Mahboubi, a research scholar at the CSSC, disagreed with Lewis’ approach to China and the ICCPR. Mahboubi said that in a “post-truth world,” if other countries called on China to unsign the treaty, it could lead to a political debate over who has the power to govern human rights. “Maybe this [approach] wouldn’t work,” Lewis said. “But at least we would be taking more concrete steps.”

discuss the disputed allegations and for the plaintiff to file an amended complaint, a document that lists the claims against Penn. Penn attorneys submitted a legal filing on Aug. 2 requesting Jane Doe to reveal her real name, as it was a “strong presumption” in federal cases for litigants to be identified by their real names. The filing stated it was unfair for her to use “the shield of a pseudonym” to openly sue named Penn employees. In a responding Aug. 16 statement, however, the plaintiff argued that doing so would violate her HIPAA and other privacy rights. Penn dropped its request to unseal Jane Doe’s identity on Aug. 21. It is unclear why this decision was made.

The defendants include HUP, the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Dr. Octavia Pickett-Blakely, and several unnamed Penn medical employees as well as Penn Police officers. As part of an LGBT employee group, Doe provided education and policy guidance to HUP on how to treat transgender patients, according to the lawsuit. HUP’s chief medical officer, Neil Fishman, said to a state investigator that “a number of [HUP’s] internal processes have been reviewed and revised based on this incident,” according to the lawsuit.

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Steve’s will now be open Monday and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. The restaurant was previously only open until 4 p.m. on weekdays.

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A fter Steve’s P r ince of Steaks’ temporary closure resulted in confusion among students last spring, the restaurant has moved to standardize and extend its hours. T he rest au ra nt abr uptly closed from Jan. 25 to March 11 earlier this year because of a broken exhaust stove, the store’s co-partner Jason Magowan said. Students said the restaurant did not provide notice or publicly advertise the closure, and they would often find that the restaurant was closed only after they arrived. The cheesesteak restaurant is located on 39th Street near Hamilton Court. Steve’s will now be open Monday and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to

10 p.m. The restaurant was previously only open until 4 p.m. on weekdays. Steve’s is closed on weekends. College junior Jake Rabinowitz said he went to Steve’s multiple times last spring, but always found the lights off, leading him to assume the restaurant was permanently closed. Magowan said the store will not be closed anymore in the foreseeable future. Steve’s signed a 10-year lease in 2018 and will continue its operations until 2028. After that, the restaurant has three five-year options to decide whether or not to continue its operations for the next 15 years. Although students welcome the extension, they still remain disappointed that the store is closed on weekends. C ol lege ju n io r Z a ck Rovner, a regular customer, said Steve’s should extend their hours further. Rovner, a Daily Pennsylvanian staff member, said opening further

into the night during weekends would be beneficial because most of the nighttime weekend business comes between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. Rabinowitz also said he was disappointed that the store was closed on the weekends. In addition to the extended hours, the store plans on implementing new meal deals to students, instead of having all items available a la carte, Magowan said. “We are going to start offering a couple different specials that we don’t do at other Steve’s,” Magowan said. “So now, we are going to try and adapt to the area a little more on what we are noticing people want.” Instead of making students buy cheesesteaks, soda, and

fries separately, students can now have fries and soda with their cheesesteak for another $2.25, Magowan said. Magowan said the family plans on opening more stores around the wider area, but likely not another location in University City because the area is small and there are many food options. He said they a re consider ing other areas in Philadelphia or suburbs in South Jersey are more realistic destinations. The store is the fifth location within the family business, Magowan said. At least one partner from the family is present at each store, and all stores are situated in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia suburbs, Magowan said.

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Penn needs to enforce the ban on exams during religious holidays

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eligiously obser vant Penn students are being inconvenienced by Penn’s unenforced policies sur rounding exams and assignments during religious holidays. The Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are approaching, and scheduling examinations on days of religious or secular observance is explicitly prohibited by Penn policy. But the policy is not being fully enforced, leading some professors to schedule examinations and major assignments on days when observant students won’t be present. Penn must enforce their policy prohibiting exams on certain protected holidays and require professors to be cognizant of the pluralistic nature of the community in which they teach. Properly implemented, the policy on secular and religious holidays will affirm Penn’s goals of inclusion and community. It will also ensure that students of all religions can observe holidays fully, rather than forcing them to choose between a full and free expression of their beliefs and their grades. Penn’s current policy is sufficiently supportive of students, but unenforced it is ineffective. The policy

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states that for Christmas, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the first two days of Passover, and Good Friday, in “consideration of their significance for many students, no examinations may be given and no assigned work may be required on these days.” Some professors under the current system who fail to abide by the University’s policies are relatively flexible with students who have religious conflicts with exams or other important assignments. But observant students shouldn’t be expected to jump through hoops and rely on luck to make sure that the makeup exam doesn’t conflict with other classes or obligations. For the most important religious and secular holidays that affect large swaths of the Penn student body, it is inefficient and unfair to force students to police their own professors. Professors must anticipate these holidays, the dates of which are available far in advance when semester-long schedules are being made. Furthermore, if Penn administrators and departments inspected and adjusted syllabi at an earlier date, it would make it easier for students who want to observe holidays not currently

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protected under the policy to request special exemptions or better plan their schedule. This means that clear a nd d i re ct policy implementation would not only benefit professors, but would also streamline the process for students of any religion. P e n n ’s policy rega rding

observation of religious and secular holidays suffers in its lack of enforcement. Make professors schedule their courses in a way that is respectful to their students, and allow a streamlined process for students of all religions to reschedule any work which may conflict with their beliefs.

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OUT OF TURN | Coming to Penn can be an opportunity to reconnect with a faith or explore a new one

remember the first time that I doubted God’s existence. I was twelve, staring benignly down at a Bible, when it hit me that I wasn’t sure I believed any of what I was reading. I obsessed; I would push it out of my head, only to have doubts come back at the worst possible times. I felt guilty. I didn’t tell anyone. And although this process started well before I came to Penn, college is where many people experience something similar for the first time. For some, coming to Penn can be an opportunity to reconnect with a faith or explore a new one. But for many of us, coming to college can completely upend the worldview we walked in with. Maybe you are leaving a family, community, or country where practicing one religion was compulsory, and you realize you’re not sure you want to go to services or do your prayers when it’s your choice for the

first time. Maybe during a late night talk, one of your friends asks difficult questions about the logic of what you believe, and you feel defensive and attacked before you ultimately realize they’re right: you don’t have answers. Doubting your faith can be one of the most disorienting experiences you can go through. But it’s a very important experience. If the process of questioning leads you to stop believing in what you once did, that is genuinely alright. And college is an excellent opportunity to go through the process of challenging your religious beliefs. Religious practice is an important part of many people’s lives, and I believe wholeheartedly in its benefits. At its best in any form, it can foster community, provide solace in times of stress, encourage self-betterment and altruism, and offer a

framework for navigating key existential questions. But our generation is the least religious generation, driving up the increasing number of Americans who don’t identify with any religion. Some have taken this doubt as a symptom of a larger defect in our generation, but in my own experience, the problem has been with rigid religious institutions. It makes perfect sense that living in an increasingly diverse, connected world would make young people prone to question the truth and absoluteness of any perspective. I don’t think faith communities have done enough to respond to these questions. In the church that I grew up in, the worst thing you could do was leave. The flannel-clad pastors and guita r-playing worship leaders at my Evangelical church were effusive about bringing new converts to Jesus, but spoke in hushed tones

about young people “falling away” from the church. If you repented, God could forgive a multitude of sins—violence and murder, being gay and premarital sex (which were all somehow on the same moral plane)—but forsaking the one true faith was the one thing that permanently locked you outside of peace and grace. My experience was a Christian one, but I think this can happen in any religion, and I think the result is almost always the same. This kind of rigidity might drive up attendance numbers and keep order in the short run, but it doesn’t foster a faith worth holding onto throughout your life. If you are opening yourself up to engaging with the deepest mysteries of existence, you should be coming away with difficult questions. If you fixate only on the goal of believing one faith in one correct way, you are limiting your ability to

ANA WEST engage fully with the holy and wondrous. And if you make it through college without stopping even once to ask if your beliefs are the right ones, you are probably doing it wrong. ANA WEST is a College junior from Spring Lake, Mich. studying English. Her email address is anawest@sas. upenn.edu.

Wharton must have an environmental course requirement UROOBA ABID | Financial industries play a critical role in climate change

housa nds of st udents passionately ma rched at t he yout h-led Climate Strike protests this past week. Students held signs that read “There is no Planet B,” and “We Deserve a Future,” while shouting chants like “Climate change is not a lie!” While the cries for change are necessary at the global scale, they also have an important role closer to home. Although Wharton offers a concentration in Environmental Policy and Management, there is currently no environmental course requirement in the school’s core curriculum. Meaning, a Wharton student can graduate without ever having taken a course related to environmental responsibility. Given the critical role financial industries play in climate change, climate education and corporate environmental responsibility must be Wharton’s priority. According to NASA, global climate change finds source in rising carbon dioxide and methane production. These components are rapidly released into the atmosphere from human activities such as burning fossil fuels and raising domestic livestock.

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of the threat to our climate. Perhaps the most distressing truth is

firms that play a role in deforestation, gives high ranks to financial

Given the critical role financial industries play in climate change, climate education and corporate environmental responsibility must be Wharton’s priority.” Just this past month, the Amazon rainforest fires made international headlines, encouraging college students around the country to show solidarity in fear

that this incident was not natural. Instead, the fires are an intentional tool of deforestation, used to clear land for cattle and crops. The Forest 500, a list of the top

institutions such as Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and more. Financial institutions, many of which actively recruit Wharton students, are investing

and participating in actions that harm our planet. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that effective reduction in emissions requires substantial changes in investment patterns. This means that many of the institutions, for whom many Wharton students will work, will have a critical role in shaping our earth’s future. Therefore, Wharton has an ethical obligation to ensure these future business leaders are just as educated on the environment as they are on increasing profits. Wharton is one of the best business schools in the country. Beyond the ethical reasons to

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emphasize the environment, it should have competitive reasons to do so as well. With concepts like the Green New Deal making headlines, it is very possible to see the near future with a sustainable economy. As one of the top business schools, Wharton should be ahead of this new shift, not behind it. Additionally, Wharton is lucky to have access to a top ranked Urban Studies department through Penn. Studies show that the largest climate mitigation opportunities exist within growing cities. Through partnership, Wharton and Urban Studies students have the opportunity to

engage in a dialogue that will actually be essential to finding solutions to the environmental problems facing us today. Academic collaboration on these issues shouldn’t stop there. Future engineers, policy makers, city planners, and businesspeople all exist together on Penn’s campus. We have a rare opportunity in our time here to cultivate real solutions. We owe it to our planet to make the environment our top educational priority. The push for awareness on the urgency of climate change has been heard time and time again. Our generation, and those after us, will not be able to evade the effects of the earth’s changing conditions. It’s time for institutions like Penn to take action. Learning how to work with our planet is just as pertinent to our education as accounting or finance. We are past the point of making environmental education a suggestion — it must be a mandate.

UROOBA ABID is a College junior from Long Island, N.Y. studying International Relations. Her email address is uabid@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn Museum is hosting an interactive pop-up art installation this week to commemorate over 3,000 migrant lives lost at the border between Arizona and Mexico. The exhibit, titled "Hostile Terrain 94," is a 20-foot-long map of the Arizona-Mexico border filled with identification tags of those who died trying to migrate to the United States. Volunteers from the Penn community and the general public were asked to help assemble the project, which was coordinated by the Penn Museum and the Wolf Humanities Center Forum on Kinship. On Monday and Tuesday, volunteers filled the Penn Museum to write identification tags for each of the more than 3,000 people who

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about the ways that sexual harassment and misconduct happen in all of the different spaces at Penn; because it happens in undergraduate spaces very differently from graduate spaces,” said fifth-year Graduate School of Education Ph.D. student Jennifer Phuong, one of CASM’s student leaders. The sexual harassment committee under Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania, the graduate student union advocacy group, inspired the formation of new coalition. The GET-UP committee, of which Phuong was a member, led a yearlong campaign for the improvement of the sexual harassment policy. Their efforts led to the estab-

died. Each tag included a name (if known), case number, age, sex, date the body was located, condition of the body, cause of death, and the coordinates of where remains were found. Exhibit coordinators then placed the tags on the map in their respective coordinates, creating a visual depiction of just how many people died seeking a new life in the United States. “You see the tags hanging on the wall, but it doesn’t really hit you until you start writing them," exhibit volunteer and 1990 College graduate Deena Schuman said. "Each one of the tags represents a real human being who suffered so much that they were willing to die to get here.” Another volunteer, 1996 College graduate Jacqueline Silverman, said it was "heart-wrenching" to read the tags' brutal descriptions of causes of death, ranging from gunshot wounds to lacerations and hangings.

The exhibit was created by Jason De León, a professor of anthropology and Chicano/a studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. De León is also director of the Undocumented Migration Project, which uses ethnography, archaeology, visual anthropology, and forensic science to study covert migration between Latin America and the United States. Gabe Canter, an exhibit coordinator who works with De León, said the name "Hostile Terrain 94" references a Clinton-era border control strategy called "Prevention Through Deterrence." This approach, adopted in 1994, blocked urban entry points and led migrants to try crossing the border in the extreme heat and dryness of the Arizona desert, which was known as the "hostile terrain." Canter added that "Hostile Terrain 94" was first exhibited last January at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster. While the

popup began as a series of red dots on a wall, it was ultimately reimagined to be a series of tags scattered across the wall, giving the project a more personal feel. Canter added that the pop-up is anticipated to spread to 150 additional locations across the world throughMARIA MURAD out the next year, Each identification tag included a name, case number, age, sex, date the body was located, leading up to the cause of death, and the coordinates of where remains were found. presidential election in 2020. "We d id n’t The exhibit will remain at the Canter was impressed by expect it to be easy, but we were Penn Museum until Friday, the number of volunteers who surprised by how heavy, truly, just Sept. 27. De León will also give showed up at Penn to put the the task of filling out the tags was," a lecture at the Lightbox Film exhibit together. Canter said of his experience as- Center on Wednesday, followed "Everyone here has been sembling the exhibit. "I’ve done by a screening of "Border pretty amazing," Canter said. this four times and it still hits me in South," a film he was involved "We had people staying for different ways at different times." in. hours and hours."

lishment of a new centralized office for sexual misconduct investigation. The idea for a coalition tackling sexual misconduct came from a panel hosted by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly’s Sexual Harassment Reform Committee, titled “#AcademiaToo: The Impact of Sexual Harassment in the Academy.” This panel brought faculty members and graduate students together to discuss the impact of sexual harassment among Penn’s graduate community. CASM is still a fledgling coalition, one that wants to inspire campus-wide, collective action. At this point, CASM leaders have met with different offices and groups at Penn who also focus on tackling issues of sexual misconduct, Phu-

ong said. They are also speaking to staff members who can share their own experiences or wish to better serve students. As of now, they are focusing on learning about sexual harassment and its effects across campus, so that they can better address these issues. “Within the graduate level, we’ve been having trouble finding groups that are doing explicitly this work. And so, that’s where we kind of see ourselves situated,” Phuong said. The coalition has hosted events referred to as reading groups, where members read news articles and watch videos about sexual harassment issues at universities and then discuss them, Phuong said. They also wrote the sexual misconduct section of this year’s “disorientation guide” for graduate

students. One major issue the coalition wants to tackle is the lack of a united graduate student movement against sexual misconduct. This generally arises because Penn’s 12 graduate schools run very independently of each other, and each school has its own system for dealing with issues of sexual misconduct. “That’s really what allows a culture of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment to flourish — the fact that no one outside of the specific department or institution or school that it’s happening in is aware of it,” said CASM member and second-year political science Ph.D. student Miranda Sklaroff. “We really want to start thinking about what sexual

harassment becomes in all of these different departments and how does it get silenced and hidden because people don’t have chances to talk to each other,” Phuong said. “Each school has its own system that’s run really differently, and so that just makes it easier for Penn to mask what’s happening in those spaces.” Members of CASM gave feedback to administration in Jan. 2019 in response to the proposed policy establishing a centralized sexual misconduct reporting office. The coalition annotated the policy together and sent comments to the administration, but felt as if none of their feedback taken into consideration. “Since Penn is so siloed, even when we talk to administrators who might be really high up,

when we ask them questions, like ‘who was involved in making the decisions about the sexual misconduct policy; who was in the room?’ high-level administrators can’t answer that question,” Phuong said. CASM held their first meeting on Sept. 12. The discussion involved inherent power dynamics at the graduate student level, especially between advisors and students. Four administrators also attended the meeting, including Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dube, according to an email from VPUL chief communications officer Monica Yant-Kinney. Phuong said, however, it was clear from the meeting that the administrators and the group had different perspectives on how to effect change on campus.

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Malcolm Gladwell praises Generation Z at Penn event The famed author stressed the role of hard work in success PIA SINGH Satff Reporter

Renowned author Malcolm Gladwell debated ideas of success, intelligence, and the fundamental nature of our human abilities with Management professor Adam Grant at an Authors@Wharton event Wednesday night. Gladwell, a New York Times bestselling author, public speaker, and acclaimed journalist known for his writings on social behavior, spoke to a crowd of Penn students and faculty in Irvine Auditorium. Responding to challenging questions from Grant, Gladwell gave a lighthearted preview of sixth and latest book, “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know.” Grant challenged Gladwell on his idea that success depends on hard

work, citing research that natural intelligence help people process information more efficiently and contributes to success in all jobs. Gladwell acknowledged that success depends on many factors, going beyond raw intelligence alone. “Success is as much about hard work as it is about intelligence,’’ Gladwell said. “But there are certain, very particular things that I am increasingly interested in that I think are really useful predictors of real success, not on a granular level. One is people’s willingness to persevere past the point of pretty good.” Success, Gladwell added, means that you have the freedom to “do whatever you want.” He said that he feels he became successful 15 years ago, because that was when he began writing. Gladwell also touched on issues of privilege as it pertain to legacy college admissions, acknowledging that privilege is a systemic issue that is

hard to regulate. “Everything that we know about privilege in America suggests that privilege is not merely confined to immediate family circle,” Gladwell said. “It has ripple effects that these kinds of kinship roots grow over time and by the third generation you have a big kind of ball of privilege.” Gladwell also referenced recent race-related scandals, including the recent discovery of photographs of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau where people were wearing blackface and brownface. He argued that rather than complaining about these individual events from decades ago, people should focus on solving structural issues such as gerrymandering and voter suppression. “We did go through a period in this country and many other countries where we were very interested in structural solutions to problems, but it has fallen out of favor,’’ Gladwell said.

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“So what we really believe in now is our ability to raise our voices and cry shame, and what we don’t have any faith in anymore is to get together with some group of people and use existing political and social and regulatory channels to change structures.” Gladwell later took questions from audience members, ranging from his advice for insecure overachievers to his opinion on “how doomed Generation Z is from one to 10.” “Clearly the thing that is really lovely about, I think, this generation that makes it very different from mine is how deeply concerned about other people’s feelings, which is a fantastic thing,” Gladwell said of Generation Z. “That they think before they say something, that they want to have a disciplined thinking first.” The event was part of the Authors@ Wharton Speaker Series, a program Grant launched in 2012 to bring notable guest speakers to campus. Some past speakers have included technol-

ogy executive Sheryl Sandberg, Penn psychology professor Angela Duckworth, and social psychologist Amy Cuddy. Gladwell has also come to speak at Penn several times before, notably suggesting in 2013 that Penn students boycott football games because of the risks involved in the sport. Students said they appreciated Gladwell’s humor and Grant’s challenging questions. “When constantly questioned by Professor Grant, Gladwell’s intellectual opinions helped me think about things from contradictory perspectives, which was something so refreshing to hear,” Wharton freshman Anish Bikmal said. “I actually didn’t know who Malcolm was before this discussion, but the talk definitely gave me a feeling of inspiration and relatability,” College freshman Poojita Chinmay said. “His intellectual humor was so engaging, and his thoughts on emotions and success were thought-provoking.”

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Pair of Lehigh goals hands Three questions: Will volleyball’s hot start continue into Ivy season? Penn first home loss of year Men’s soccer goes on the road to face West Virginia JACKSON SATZ Associate Sports Editor

As the fall sports season continues, some Penn Athletics teams begin Ivy League play while others continue their nonconference schedules. Here are three questions heading into this weekend's matchups. Will volleyball’s hot start continue into the Ivy League season? On Friday, Penn will travel to New Jersey to begin its Ivy League slate with a match against Princeton. The Quakers (7-2) have started the season in convincing fashion and are coming off a West Coast trip to the UC Riverside Invitational, where the Red and Blue collected wins against Seattle and UC Riverside before falling in five sets to Cal State Fullerton. “We’re just excited to start Ivies and start seeing some familiar teams,” said sophomore Margaret Planek, who is second on the team with 99 kills in 2019. “[We want]

to prove that we’re not to be taken lightly this season.” The Tigers (4-5) are off to a slow start, but they took No. 14 Oregon to five sets at home on Sep. 17, and Penn hasn’t been able to secure a win against the Orange and Black since 2015. Nevertheless, the Quakers are off to their best start since 2009, when they finished 23-6 and made a trip to the NCAA Tournament. Can women’s soccer get results in League play with freshmen in key roles? League play will begin on Saturday afternoon for Penn when the Quakers head to Cambridge, Mass. to take on Harvard. The Crimson (6-2) have scored 12 goals and conceded just two in their last three contests, and while the Red and Blue (5-2-1) are coming off a weekend during which they split games with Hofstra and Temple, coach Nicole Van Dyke thinks that the team is playing better than some of its results would suggest. “Despite the fact that we didn’t get a result against Hofstra, we were the better team on the day, and they’re a top-50 team,” Van Dyke said. “This team relies heavily on

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getting better throughout the week and then implementing that on the weekend.” With regard to the Harvard matchup, Van Dyke admitted that teams do tend to rely on more experienced players as the League season begins, but she also said that strong minutes from freshmen like defender Peyton Raun and midfielder Sara Readinger have made for lots of healthy competition within the squad. Above all, Van Dyke sees the game as an opportunity for Penn to build on some of its momentum as it gets into its conference schedule. How will men’s soccer handle the pressure of a harsh West Virginia environment? After suffering their first home loss of the season on Tuesday against Lehigh, the Quakers will look to rebound when they head to Morgantown, W. Va. for a Saturday evening matchup with West Virginia. The Mountaineers (5-2-1) are coming off of a 4-1 win at Ohio State, and they’ve already secured a 5-2 win over No. 15 Coastal Carolina. “West Virginia is a good program and playing out there is not an easy place to go and play, but we’re excited about the opportunity to go play again against another really good team,” coach Brian Gill said. “We’ll have to regroup from [Lehigh] and hopefully make some changes that will give us a good opportunity to come back from West Virginia with a good result.” Led by junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia and his four goals on the year, the Red and Blue (3-2-1) have thus far had much better luck finding the net than during the 2018 season, and they hope that their increased offensive output can be maintained in a challenging environment.

M. SOCCER | Bhangdia scored fourth goal of year MICHAEL LAU Sports Reporter

They say your biggest enemy is yourself. For Penn men’s soccer, that proved true on Tuesday. Penn tasted its first defeat on home soil this season after falling 2-1 to Lehigh in a closely contested game that was decided by a couple of Penn errors. The game started off evenly, with chances few and far between. However, the tables turned in the 19th minute. Off a misplaced pass by freshman defender Kai Lammers, a low cross by Lehigh (5-2) into the penalty box found unmarked forward Michael Tahiru, who opened the scoring, with a simple finish from close range. However, the Red and Blue (3-2-1) rallied back to equalize almost instantly. A minute after play resumed, junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia took the ball in his stride and dribbled past a couple of defenders before unleashing a ferocious shot. The goalkeeper got a hand to it, but it was not enough as Bhangdia recorded his fourth goal of the season, and two in as many games. “The silver lining was that we did respond well in that particular moment [after conceding],” coach Brian Gill said. “So that was good for us to see." Things started to kick off for Penn from then, as it looked to grab hold of the game before halftime. Unfazed by his earlier mistake, Lammers was a constant threat to the Mountain Hawks with his overlapping runs down the left flank. However, his final ball into the box lacked precision, and the scoreline remained tied going into the break. Both teams upped their tempo considerably in the second half, though neither seemed to possess the creative spark needed for breakthrough in the final third. Fifteen

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Freshman defender Kai Lammers and the rest of Penn men’s soccer weren’t able to come back to get a result against Lehigh on Tuesday.

minutes into the half, the Mountain Hawks wanted a penalty after a shot hit Penn senior midfielder Brandon Bartel’s hand inside of the box. However, the referee adjudged Bartel to have kept his hand next to his body and awarded a corner to Lehigh instead. Off that resulting corner, a lofted clearance by Penn found junior forward Jake Kohlbrenner, who was off and running. With only the keeper to beat, he released a right-footed shot that sailed marginally wide. With both teams evenly matched, Kohlbrenner’s miss would eventually prove costly for the Quakers. Penn's second major error of the game came in the 66th minute from an unlikely source: junior defender Alex Touche. Having been so consistent at the back for Penn, he was unable to control a Lehigh clearance off a Penn corner. Tahiru, leading the ensuing fast break for the visitors, squared the ball to forward Josh Luchini, who side-footed a ball past Penn sophomore goalkeeper Dane Jacomen and into the net. For much of the game, the Red and Blue were able to contain Luchini, Lehigh’s leading scorer this season. However, even with only one opportunity, he smelled blood. With the clock running down, the Quakers put their foot on the

gas to try and level up the scoreline for the second time. However, they struggled to string together passes in the opposition's half, while their long passes from the backline also failed to find anyone up front. Sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz came closest to scoring for the Red and Blue. In the 79th minute, he dribbled through a crowd of Lehigh defenders, before unleashing a leftfooted effort that was deflected onto the post and out. Toward the end of the game, Penn had an opportunity for a penalty when sophomore forward Matt Leigh went down in the box, to which the referee yet again turned a blind eye. That summed up a night in which the Quakers were on the verge of finding some magic, but came up just short. “Lehigh does a very good job of punishing your mistakes,” Gill said. “When you make mistakes of that kind, those can be difference-making. We knew that coming in, but unfortunately we didn’t do what we needed in those moments to prevent [those errors].” Tuesday's result was a tough pill for the Quakers to swallow, but they will have a chance to get back on track this Saturday when they visit Big 12 foe West Virginia. That game will be Penn's last before Ivy League play kicks off.

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Tight ends coach Ryan Becker couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay away from Penn

FOOTBALL | Becker won two Ivy titles for Quakers MARIANA SIMOES Associate Sports Editor

Some people just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay away too long. For Penn tight ends coach Ryan Becker, football wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always an obvious career choice. However, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long for him to discover his talent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growing up I used to play football in the street with my friends, but I was always a basketball player first,â&#x20AC;? Becker said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ultimately, football was the sport I became the better player at. I was blessed to have a great high school career, with great teammates, so after a season or two, I started thinking it was a possibility [to play in college].â&#x20AC;? As a player, Becker did not have a usual path. He was all set to join the Red and Blue right after high school, but he had to postpone his time in Philadelphia due to financial issues, enrolling at Florida State instead. After one year, however, Becker was finally able to transfer to Penn, where he played 25 games and was on two Ivy League titlewinning teams. Ironically, Becker believes his most important season as a Quaker was the one when he was injured â&#x20AC;&#x201D; despite finding great success on the field. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I got hurt, I was also

Current Penn football tight ends coach Ryan Becker played in 25 games for the Quakers in his collegiate career, winning a pair of Ivy League titles in his sophomore and senior seasons with the Red and Blue.

able to build bonds with the coaches. I was constantly helping out. In practice I was with [coach Ray] Priore, and then on game days, I was with the offensive staff,â&#x20AC;? Becker said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was able to figure out the impact I could have on my teammates and the other quarterbacks, even though we were competing. I could talk to them and tell them what we were seeing from upstairs. It was a passion for me, and I knew I wanted to get in it right away.â&#x20AC;?

His coaching abilities were also very noticeable to the rest of the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a very intelligent quarterback, and he understood the game a little different than anybody else,â&#x20AC;? Priore said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;He had those instincts as a player that would make great attributes as a coach. He would come in everyday with the same focus and passion.â&#x20AC;? Following his graduation from Wharton in 2013, Becker received an offer to rejoin the

Seminoles and headed back to Florida State as a graduate assistant coach. During his three years there, Florida State went 33-7 and won the 2016 Orange Bowl. In 2017, Becker decided to return to Philadelphia, working as an Assistant Director of Operations for the Quakers. Last season, he moved once again and accepted the opportunity to work as a tight ends coach for East Tennessee State. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though my heart was here at Penn, it was an amaz-

ing opportunity,â&#x20AC;? Becker said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I was always told that if you know how to coach quarterbacks and the offensive line, you can figure the rest out. I teach the tight ends how to block and run routes like receivers, so I use my past knowledge to explain it to them what the quarterback sees.â&#x20AC;? However, his time with the Buccaneers ended quickly. Viewing Penn as a second home, Becker couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass up the chance to return. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a phenomenal time at East Tennessee State, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Red and Blue in my blood,â&#x20AC;? Becker said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for me to think of a better place to be, especially with the amazing coaching staff and my wife being here. It was a no-brainer to come back.â&#x20AC;? Beckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife also could not stay away from the Red and Blue after graduating. Since 2015, Kirsten Strausbaugh has served as an assistant coach for Penn gymnastics and has played a key role in Beckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coaching success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She worked in Tallahassee for a year, but one of her lifelong goals was to come back and coach gymnastics. It was hard being away from her, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her passion and I admire her a lot for that,â&#x20AC;? Becker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learn schemes and tactics from other coaches, but I learned how to talk to people and get the best out of an athlete from my

wife. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easily one of the best coaches Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen.â&#x20AC;? His passion for the Quakers and his previous experience as a player have also helped him connect to current players as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means something to have alumni on staff because I was in their shoes a few years ago,â&#x20AC;? Becker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know the goods and bads that come with Penn, and we can help the players through the hard times. We understand the stress the kids can be under and how to back off or push harder when they need.â&#x20AC;? As far as expectations go, Becker doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry about the number of wins and losses. For him, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about encouraging the players to give their best on the field. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wins start piling up as soon as you start understanding your assignments and doing your work to the best of your ability,â&#x20AC;? Becker said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you play the Philadelphia Eagles, for example, and you play the best game of your life, you still might lose but you can still be proud of what you did. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what really matters to me.â&#x20AC;? With nine games left in the season, the Quakers still have a long way to go if they want to bring home the conference title. Nonetheless, Becker knows what it takes to win a championship â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and most importantly, he has a genuine passion for the Red and Blue.

Quakers search for first victory against nonconference foe Lafayette FOOTBALL | Penn lost to No. 20 Delaware last week CHARLIE MA Sports Reporter

The Quakers have their eyes set on their first win. After a heartbreaking loss in the season opener against No. 20 Delaware, Penn football

will travel to Fisher Stadium in Easton, Pa. on Saturday to face Lafayette. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My takeaway from the Delaware game was the resilience. We went up, and then we were down. We fought back and really played all four quarters,â&#x20AC;? coach Ray Priore said. While the Red and Blue (01) are only one game into the new season, the Leopards (0-4)

already have four games under their belt. And although Lafayette may be winless so far, the Leopards still have plenty of talent. Leading the way for Lafayette is quarterback Keegan Shoemaker. The freshman standout has put up big numbers to start off the season, ranking first in the Patriot League in completion percentage (63%), comple-

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stressful for a defense, especially since only four players and the goalie are faced by as many 10 offensive players. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty intimidating at times. It really gets our adrenaline going. The other team is literally trying to hit the ball through you, and that ball is hard,â&#x20AC;? Vogel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is agreed upon that this is the shot that has the most potential power

behind it.â&#x20AC;? The Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; masks, however, have helped to mitigate some of the fear that comes with facing a corner. Before defensive corners, the players put the masks on to protect their faces. For Vogel, taking a pause to put on the mask helps prepare her for the stressful moment to come. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little weird, but for me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great moment to center myself and get focused for what is about to come at me,â&#x20AC;?

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Penn unveils throwback uniforms FOOTBALL | The 1970s look features red jersey and helmet WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor

The Quakers’ new retro look puts the red in the Red and Blue. Following in the trend of last year’s men’s basketball team, Penn football announced on Tuesday it would wear throwback uniforms this season to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Franklin Field. The look is inspired by the team’s 1970s uniforms and includes a combination of red jersey and white pants. The helmet redesign — now also red — might

be the most noticeable, featuring a blue “P” within two white footballs and a pair of blue stripes down the middle. While the games during which the Quakers will have the throwbacks on have not been released yet, the home opener against Dartmouth on Oct. 4 is a strong possibility for their debut. Fans might also look to the homecoming game against Cornell on Nov. 9 and the “Puck Frinceton” rivalry against the Tigers on Nov. 23 as solid candidates where we could see the retro red at the Frank. Last January, Penn men’s basketball debuted a similar all-red look for the team’s

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Philly and meeting all different types of people and seeing different personalities has been very eye opening.” With only a few months left in the season and even in her entire senior year, Shelton, like the other field hockey seniors, must grapple with the reality of her legacy and with making the most out of her remaining time at Penn. Shelton hopes that her legacy with the program inspires younger players

home game against Princeton to honor the 40th anniversary of the 1979 team that reached the Final Four. Led by coach Harry Gamble, the 1973 football team tied for second in the Ivy League, and this year’s squad will look to replicate that same success with a similar look. Senior running back Karekin Brooks, fresh off a performance against Delaware where he racked up 178 yards of total offense, is clearly a fan. The Red and Blue will take the field this Saturday against Lafayette seeking to earn their first victory of the 2019 campaign.

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take their turn in the cold. “We actually have it on

to work hard, prepare, and perform. “I think the biggest thing for me is leaving the program better off than when I came, and I think the biggest thing I can do is just do that by meeting other people, setting a good example, and showing that hard work really pays off,” Shelton said. “That’s what I think I want my legacy to be. … When people think of me, I want them to think of someone who is hardworking at every practice and that it shows in games.” When it comes to what Shelton will do after the season, the future

still remains unclear. “I don’t know yet what I’m going to do yet in the spring, since field hockey is my whole life here. Actually in-season I think it’s a lot easier to cope with school because I’m on such a strict schedule and have to get things done because I have such limited time,” she said. “So I’m not sure what the spring is going to look like yet.” As the season continues, Shelton and the rest of the field hockey seniors will look to make the most of their remaining time with the Red and Blue, both on and off the field, before it is time for graduation.

the schedule that the coaches and [Director of Strength and Conditioning] Cory Walts are going to go down and try it, so I’m kind of scared,” Fink said.

For the Quakers, cryotherapy has become a thrilling and exciting way for them to ramp up their recovery, while also having fun trying something new.

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The Quakers defeated the Owls in the 2018 season by a three-goal margin, and they hope to find similar success this weekend.

A win for Penn this weekend would give the group a morale boost going into the rest of the season, and Schneck has no doubt that the Red and Blue are poised for a win. “I think it comes down to hard work, preparation, and heart,” Sch-

neck said. Penn may not have begun the season in the way that it wanted, but a piece of good news for the team is that Saturday’s contest represents the beginning of a new season: the Ivy League season.

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Field hockey defender has started 18 straight games SAMANTHA KLINGELHOFER Sports Reporter

Laura Shelton might not score much, but she is a force nonetheless for Penn field hockey. In the 2018 season, the Schwenksville, Pa. native started 13 of the team’s 17 games, playing every minute against 10 opponents. So far this season, she has already seen 234 minutes of action against the first five opponents. But the senior defender’s field hockey journey and path to Penn started far before her time on campus. For her, the sport runs deep in her family.

“My aunt is the head coach at [North Carolina] and her husband is also a coach at UNC. This is her 39th year, so she was the main reason I got into field hockey,” Shelton said. “My mom never played, and I think she was my only aunt that did, so she recommended it for me and recommended what club to go to and it always made sense to me. I played other sports growing up, but field hockey was just always my favorite.” While she grew up playing the sport like most other collegiate field hockey players, Shelton’s recruiting path was a bit unconventional. “My path to Penn was a little different than most field hockey recruiting. Typically, you com-

mit in fall of your junior year of high school, but I wasn’t even looking at Penn until winter of my junior year,” she said. “I was looking at other Ivies and other schools close to where I’m from, like Villanova and Lehigh … but then I just knew I wanted to go close to home, which is 45 minutes outside of Philly, so I emailed Coach Colleen [Fink] and Coach Colby in probably January of my junior year, and they invited me to a clinic and then offered me a spot. So it worked out perfectly.” It really did work out perfectly; Shelton’s reflections of her past three years at Penn have been overwhelmingly positive, both on and off the field. She says her favorite moment thus far was when the

Unmasking the Quakers’ mindset when defending penalty corners Red and Blue wear clear masks during corners GRACE HYLINSKI & BIANCA SERBIN

Penn field hockey’s defense has an odd piece of gear with a very practical purpose. To help them out when defending penalty corners, the Quakers sport clear masks, which cover their faces almost entirely. In field hockey, a defensive penalty corner is called when the defense commits a foul in the circle, which spans 16 yards around the goal. During a penalty corner,

four defenders are allowed to stand in the goal behind the goal line, preparing to protect it from the other team’s offense. The offensive team is allowed to place as many players as they want around the circle. For the offensive side, corners are a very opportune moment to score. One offender inserts the ball from the goal line, and then the rest of the offense tries as hard as it can to overpower the defense and hit the ball into the goal. As soon as the ball is inserted, the defenders are allowed to run past the goal line to try and prevent the other team from scoring.

“We stand in different spots based on the scouting done by our coaches for each individual team we play, so we try to read the ball,” junior defender Reese Vogel said. It is in the defenders’ best interest to run out of the goal as soon as the ball is inserted because if the ball hits them anywhere on their bodies, it would constitute another foul. “That foul means another corner could be called or even a stroke, which means they could just shoot one-onone with the goalie,” Vogel said. Corners can be quite SEE CORNERS PAGE 10

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team upset ACC powerhouse Syracuse. “When we beat them, I think they were ranked [No.] 10 in the country and we hadn’t beaten any ranked teams in any of the past years,” she said. “So that was just a crazy, crazy win and a huge stepping stone for the program in showing everyone that we really are here to compete in the NCAA.” Off the field, Shelton says her favorite thing about Penn is the people, both on her team and in the classroom. “I come from a pretty small, suburban town and never really ventured outside my city,” the senior said. “So just coming to SEE SHELTON PAGE 11

Cryotherapy is the newest fad amongst athletes, and the fad hasn’t skipped over Penn field hockey. This season, the team has been taking routine trips to do cryotherapy sessions at a special clinic in Center City. Alongside regular strength and conditioning, the team has been taking weekly trips to help with recovery during their long season. The idea behind cryotherapy is speeding up recovery after intense exercise to help athletes get back onto the field. Cryotherapy involves getting into a cryo tube for two to four minutes and then dropping the temperature to sub-freezing temperatures. The idea is that after you get out from the cold, your body sends oxygenated blood throughout the body, leading to quicker healing. This science is similar to that behind using ice baths for recovery. “The lifting, the running, the practicing, that’s all critical to success,” coach Colleen Fink said. “But in reality, the re-gen, and the mini rejuvenations along the way are actually what support progress. If you just keep trying to build, and you nevver take a step back, you’re actually just going to continue to deplete yourself overtime.” Monday is the team’s recovery day, and the players typically rideshare together to the center every Monday. When they gets to the clinic, they get dressed in their choice of warm gear, including boots, hats, and scarves. While the goal is to embrace the cold, proper protection is important to prevent frostbite. Once they are properly protected, they get into the chamber where the temperature is dropped to a frigid -250 degrees

Fahrenheit for three minutes. “I hate the cold more than anyone, so cryotherapy for me is a thing that I dread doing,” senior back Laura Shelton said. “It’s great after, but during I’m like, ‘somebody distract me.’” Fortunately for Shelton, she has her teammates around her to help distract her from the temperature. The team is gathered in one room with one cryotherapy chamber, meaning that only one person gets treated at a time. Since the chamber is open at the top, the person getting treated can talk with those on the outside, in an attempt to make the time go by quicker. “It’s so cold, and in those three minutes the rest of us are trying to distract the other person as much as we can. We’re just like pounding them with questions, which makes it fun,” senior goalkeeper Ava Rosati said. While the cryotherapy trips are a fun bonding experience for the team, the physical benefits of the treatments are noticeable amongst the team. “I haven’t been sore — strangely — this season, even after playing full games,” Shelton said. “I still might feel a bit tired, but the soreness definitely isn’t there after cryo.” With early success for the field hockey team, this method could become a beneficial tool for more Penn athletes in the future. For the players, cryotherapy is a quick and unique way to improve their play on the field. “We’re trying to afford the opportunity for players who are playing week in and week out, significant minutes, that they’re getting that extra little boost of recovery,” Fink said. At the moment, the players have been the only participants in these cryotherapy sessions. However, that may change, and the coaches may SEE CRYOTHERAPY PAGE 11

Red and Blue eager to begin Ivy play after sluggish start Quakers open League play with game against Cornell

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When one door closes, another opens. After a winless start to the year, Penn field hockey has its sights set on the first Ivy League game of the season against Cornell at home on Saturday. After this League opener, the Quakers will travel to Temple the following day. “In the past, we’ve never looked at it as two separate seasons, but now we have the advantage of [saying], ‘Okay, that part of the season is behind us, let’s move forward and now attack this part of the season,’” coach Colleen Fink said. Senior goalkeeper Ava Rosati has saved 63% of the 79 shots she has faced this season. On the other hand, Penn’s offense has only converted 6% of its shots to goals, despite outshooting both Monmouth and Villanova. Cornell goalkeeper Maddie Henry has saved 67% of shots, and Temple goalkeeper Cristina Carotenuto has stopped 68%. Three of Penn’s four goals this season have come from sophomore forward Madison Jiranek. The other goal came from sophomore midfielder Gracyn Banks, who has taken 25 shots for the Red and Blue (0-5). Banks has been putting her own name on what used to be the role of the graduated Paige Meily who was a first team All-Ivy player last year. Despite being five games into the season, the Quakers will have the opportunity to have a new mentality with the start of Ivy games. “I think the key is going to be to

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Senior midfielder Alexa Schneck and the rest of Penn field hockey kick off Ivy League play this weekend when they compete against Cornell.

enter the game confidently, feeling prepared, feeling like we can win, and feeling like we put in the work to be able to reap the benefits despite the fact that we haven’t yet done that,” Fink said. “It’s Ivy play, so there’s always a different intensity,” senior captain Alexa Schneck said. “I think that’s what we’ve been looking forward to all season.” Last year, the Quakers were able to edge Cornell in a 1-0 match on the road, a contest that also marked the beginning of Ivy play in 2018. By that point last season, the Red and Blue had a record of 4-3. However, the team’s focus is not on this season’s early shortcomings, but rather the opportunities that lie

ahead. “For us, whatever happened is in the past, and we’re looking at it as a way of moving forward and going all out for Ivy play,” Schneck said. The Big Red defeated current-No. 18 Syracuse in their first competition of the season, so this weekend will be another tough test for Penn. Following their game against Cornell, the Quakers will turn around and play Temple (4-2) at Howarth Field on Sunday. “We do take the City Six very seriously,” Rosati said. “We’re really excited to come out and prove ourselves.” SEE PREVIEW PAGE 11

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