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Sophomores must live on campus starting 2021 Student leaders were told in private meeting on Tuesday

IFC, Panhel: Policy places future of Greek housing at risk

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Penn will require all undergraduate sophomore students to live on campus in college houses starting with the Class of 2024 students, who will arrive on campus in 2020. The implementation will happen after the construction of New College House West, which is expected to open in the fall of 2021 and house around 450 students.

The decision, which is part of an initiative to create a “Second Year Experience Program” for sophomore students, was released to student leaders on the Undergraduate Assembly Steering Committee at a meeting in Huntsman Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 25, said UA President Michael Krone. Four student leaders present independently confirmed this to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Administrators said at the meeting they planned to announce the news in an email on Thursday, but later sent a school-wide email confirming the decision 15 minutes after this story was first published at 2:05 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.

“We believe that a two-year College House system will measurably strengthen the sense of community among our first- and second-year students – promoting students’ achievement and well-being, enhancing support for students’ academic and social lives,” wrote the email, which was signed by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.

Communications representatives from the President’s Office and the Provost’s Office did not respond to requests for more details on the decision on Wednesday.

Until this point, only freshman students have been required to live on campus. According to

Leaders of on-campus Greek organizations are concerned that a future requirement for sophomores to live on campus will make it difficult for them to fill their chapter houses.

Sophomores typically make up a large percentage of residents in on-campus Greek houses, but under the new policy, they will no longer be allowed to live in them. Greek leaders worry this could lead to increased dues and push students to join off-campus organizations.

College junior George Costidis, who is the president of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, said the University requires each on-campus Greek house to fill a certain number of beds. Those that fail to do so face sanctions and could lose their leases. Without sophomores, Costidis said, organizations will have much more difficulty filling their housing quotas.

College senior Kyler McVay, Penn Panhellenic’s vice president of community development, agreed. “One of the reasons we’re so concerned is that Greek houses are for sophomores,” she said, adding that it can be hard to incentivize juniors and seniors to live in them.

McVay also said that for sororities, failure to fill houses could lead to an increase in dues, which are fixed by the national organizations.

Leaders of Greek organizations are also concerned that the policy change could have a negative social impact.

“Not having members around the house leads to decreased membership and a worsened brotherhood experience and unity between the sophomores and all the other classes,” Costidis said.

In a guest column published in the DP, College junior and Interfraternity Council Vice

Most at the meeting reacted negatively to the idea, attendees said

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Sophomores make up large percentage of residents in chapter houses

In a school-wide email Wednesday afternoon, President Amy Gutmann wrote that the policy change would “eliminate a major source of stress and anxiety for first-year students.” Gutmann meets today with the University’s Board of Trustees.

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First-generation, low-income students weigh in on new housing mandate Issues of cost have been central to student backlash GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

Penn’s new “Second Year Experience Program,” which will require all sophomores to live in college housing starting 2021, received widespread criticism from student leaders upon its recent announcement.

Amid the growing discussion, many have raised concerns about the potential negative implications for first-generation, low-income students. FGLI leaders however, say the issue is more complicated than it seems.

College senior Melissa Janet Perez — who is a board member

for Penn First, a student group for first-generation low-incoming students at Penn — said her primary concern with the program is the impact it will have on FGLI students who do not receive full aid from the University.

These students, Perez said, do not have their housing fully covered through financial aid and have “a huge incentive to go off campus.” She added that off-campus housing can often provide cheaper options for these students, who she said make up a significant portion of the FGLI community.

“There is that portion of the population that is kind of being lost in this policy,” she said.

But moving off campus has also presented financial challenges to FGLI students in the past. In the

2016-2017 school year, Student Financial Services offered up to $8,217 to students on financial aid looking to move off campus, which was more than $1,000 less than what was offered to those staying on campus. Moving off campus can also present logistical difficulties to FGLI students, who do not often have the disposable income to cover rent deposits and the fees around new furniture.

Administrators announced the initiative to student leaders at an Undergraduate Assembly Steering Committee meeting on Tuesday.

The plan’s purpose, Provost Wendell Pritchett said, is to “strengthen the sense of community” among first- and second-year students.

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EDITORIAL

Don’t make housing choices for students. Give them better options.

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

The administration’s decision to bar sophomores from moving off campus is part of a series of restrictive solutions Penn has announced this semester to protect students from themselves. If the University’s goal is to increase the number of sophomores living in college housing, we believe it should focus on improving the quality of on-campus housing, making dormitories a more attractive option, while continuing to allow sophomores to determine their own living situations.

Administrators’ decisions this

semester to close Huntsman Hall at 2 a.m., cap students’ academic programs at 7.5 course units, and now, make it mandatory for sophomores to live in college dormitories show that Penn is not afraid of taking decisive action when it comes to tackling the problems it perceives as pervasive.

But this approach of addressing campus issues by restricting the ability of students to choose for themselves is patronizing, especially when students were largely left out of the decisionmaking process.

Part of Penn’s justification for the decision is to improve the “sophomore experience.”

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However, instead of mandating that sophomore students live on campus, Penn should focus on making its on-campus experience a more attractive option to sophomores.

If Penn believes on-campus living during sophomore year is the best option for students, make this a reality. Ensure that new constructions like New College House West are designed so sophomores feel compelled to stay on campus. Renovate the decades-old high rises, address the pest infestations that plague various college houses, and finally install air conditioning SEE EDITORIAL PAGE 5

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PWH Colloquium welcomes big names in politics The two-day-long event featured Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Nick Clegg, H.R. McMaster, and Lara Logan.

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Some of the sharpest minds in politics and national security convened at Penn to discuss issues of national security and the state of American democracy this week.

The event, titled “Competing Visions of the Global Order,” is the culmination of the two-day-long Perry World House Colloquium on the future of world politics. The event hosted back-to-back conversations with keynote speaker and former Obama national security advisor Susan Rice, former national security advisor H.R. McMaster, and former Vice President Joe Biden.

At the capstone event, Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor Biden and former Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain Nick Clegg discussed matters related to international relations on Tuesday evening, such as NATO, Russia’s interference, and Brexit.

During the dialogue, Biden and Clegg expressed concern about countries not cooperating with each other.

“We are unwittingly dismantling our capacity to act collectively,” Clegg said, speaking of the international community and Europe.

“Next time we have a systemic crisis, I worry we don’t have the capacity to respond.”

Biden also condemned “phony populism” on the rise in the United States.

“The worst thing in the world we can have is this new naked nationalism, ‘America First,’” Biden said.

“I believe making America first in the way we’re doing it will make America last.”

The speakers still indicated they had hope for their countries and the globe. Biden said that as vice president, he was referred to as the “White House optimist, like I was the new guy in town.”

“I think America is the most essential nation, not that we do everything right but we have capacity to reach around the world,” Biden

said. “We could be a positive influence.”

The earlier event’s Keynote Conversation featured Rice and Edward Luce, a Washington columnist and chief U.S. commentator for the Financial Times. The conversation began with a discussion of the role of the U.S. in the world order amid escalating tensions with China, Russia, and traditional European allies.

“There are many who say that America is in decline; I don’t agree with that,” Rice said. “I think America in the last several years under the current administration had been in self-imposed retreat.”

The Trump administration inevitably became a focal point of the conversation, and specifically its choice to distance itself from Obama-era agreements such as the Paris Climate Agreement and the Iran Nuclear Deal.

“We need to be very sober and serious in understanding that we may have inflicted lasting damage on the global trading system, on the methods and means of international cooperation, and on our alliances,” Rice said.

The Rice event was followed with a 120-minute conversation between McMaster, who was President Trump’s second national security advisor from February 2017 to April 2018, and CBS Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan.

McMaster said the current issues with America’s traditional allies are not a result of Trump’s presidency, as popular opinion says. He traced the origin of these issues to mismanagement during Obama’s administration.

He ended his conversation highlighting the benefits of military service and briefly touching on his experience in the Iraq War. “I believe American soldiers are also humanitarians,” McMaster said. “I would encourage young people to serve their country, it’s very rewarding.”

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President Amy Gutmann introduces former Vice President Joe Biden at the “Competiting Visions of the Global Order” event.

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Physics Department lists gender pronouns on website 52 members of the department listed their pronouns MADELEINE NGO Deputy News Editor

Penn’s Physics and Astronomy Department now lists gender pronouns on its website for some of its student, faculty, and staff members in an effort to combat stigma, encourage respectful communication, and promote the department’s inclusivity.

The Diversity and Inclusion in Physics group initiated the project last semester with graduate students at the helm. In April, students and members of the department were emailed and given the option to submit their pronouns to be publicly shared on the website.

The department has been updating its website to include the

responses. Physics and Astronomy Administrative Coordinator Glenn Fechner, who manages the department’s website, collected people’s pronouns and added them to each individual biography.

Sophie Ettinger, a third-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in physics and a board member of DIP, had been a part of the initiative from the beginning. She said that she was partially inspired to support the push having seen websites from other universities and professional organizations that included pronouns.

She said making individuals’ pronouns accessible would promote respectful communication.

Ettinger added the group aims to break down the stigma that only transgender or gender nonconforming people have preferred pronouns.

“Regardless of how you identify, whether you’re gender conforming, trans, nonbinary, [or] nonconforming, it’s so important to include pronouns in introductions in your emails [and] in your bio online,” Ettinger said.

“It should just be a normalized thing that happens all the time, and that’s what we’re trying to do.”

So far, 52 members of the department have their pronouns listed on the site, Ettinger added.

Stephen Hackler, a thirdyear graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in physics and a board member of DIP, also said the group hopes to promote inclusive communication and to streamline conversations.

“When you’re communicating with people in a professional space, it’s important to do so respectfully,” Hackler said. “Having knowledge of what the other

Fossil Free Penn tweaks 2015 divestment proposal It focuses on divesting from coal and tar sands JULIA KLAYMAN Staff Reporter

After the University’s rejection of Fossil Free Penn’s proposal for comprehensive divestment from fossil fuels in 2015, FFP has decided to attack the divestment issue from a different angle. Its first weapon is a new proposal.

On Sept. 14, FFP submitted a refined proposal to the Penn administration that targets divestment from the two most harmful fossil fuels: coal and tar sands. The proposal calls for divestment from the top 100 coal companies and top 20 tar sands companies, ranked by the amount of carbon dioxide that would be emitted into the atmosphere if all their reserves were to be burned.

FFP Trustee Coordinator and College senior Zach Rissman said the new proposal aims to capture the attention of trustees by highlighting the financial advantages of divestment from coal and tar sands.

According to the University’s guidelines for divestment, proposals must show that Penn has both a fiduciary and ethical responsibility to divest. However, Rissman said he believes the administration is more interested in seeing the financial benefits.

Coal and tar sands “while being the most socially destructive, are also the most financially risky of all energy investments,” said Rissman, who pointed out that the coal industry is in terminal decline and the tar sands industry is plagued by high construction and overhead costs.

“We realized that trustees really only care about financial arguments,” Rissman said. “They don’t really care about social arguments at all.”

Vice President of University Communications Stephen MacCarthy did not provide additional comment other than a reference to the University guideline for divestment.

The proposal comes just five days after the Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution endorsing Penn’s Board of Trustees divestment from companies involved

person’s gender pronouns are can smooth that out and allow these conversations to happen in a respectful and accurate way.”

Physics professor Andrea Liu, who decided to list her pronouns on the website, said she thinks the project was a good idea because physics can be a “province of white, heteronormal males.”

“If we really want to get the best talent in physics, we want to draw from all populations. I think the whole idea of this is to make physics more welcoming,” Liu said, adding that the introduction of pronouns on the department’s website can show that physics can be an inclusive field.

“We really want to show everyone who looks at Penn’s website that we are a diverse, open, [and] accepting community,” Ettinger said.

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The new proposal aims to capture the attention of trustees by highlighting the advantages of divesting from coal and tar sands.

in coal and tar sands.

FFP’s original proposal arguing for full divestment from fossil fuel industries in 2015 was ultimately rejected by the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment in September 2016.

In response, FFP led a demonstrative protest campaign. The campaign included two sit-ins in November 2016 and March 2017 in College Hall as well as a demonstration at a University Council Open Forum in February 2017.

By April 2017, Rissman said he realized that the campaign strategy was “a very unfruitful path.” The group decided to refocus its goal.

“We started to understand that full divestment was not going to be possible in that year or the next few years,” Rissman said. “The trustees were very, very not willing to consider it at all. Neither were the administrators.”

Members of FFP spent the summer of 2018 writing a more targeted proposal that focused solely on coal and tar sands. According to FFP Student Outreach Coordinator and College junior Claudia Silver, the group is hoping that the proposal’s focused scope and research will present a more convincing argument to Penn’s administration.

Silver, who wrote about harmful fossil fuel industry lobbying practices as part of the proposal’s social injury section, found it “illuminating” to discover how easily she could see the direct connection between politicians’

funding from the industry and environmental policy votes.

“Whether or not it’s a political statement and it’s a political statement that Penn wants to make, it is an act that is necessary and for the good of civilization,” FFP Campaign Coordinator and College junior Jacob Hershman said.

Now that the proposal has been sent to University Secretary Leslie Kruhly, FFP plans to wait for a response before undertaking further action. The new proposal must first pass through the University Council Steering Committee’s initial determination of whether or not there is enough information to warrant further consideration.

If passed by the UC Steering Committee, the proposal will be sent to an Ad Hoc Committee where it will undergo a full analysis. The Ad Hoc Committee will then make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees.

The 2015 proposal spent about nine months in the Ad Hoc Committee before the University reached an ultimate decision against divestment, according to Rissman.

In the event that the proposal is accepted, FFP members said their plan will not stop there.

“Coal and tar sands are not the entire fossil fuel industry so best case that they do accept it, that’s great and that’s going to contribute a lot to both Penn and the divestment movement as a whole,” Silver said. “But we’ve still got

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The initiative was started in an effort to combat stigma, encourage respectful communication, and promote the department’s inclusivity.

Student Financial Services announced four initiatives intended to help “highly-aided” students navigate Penn and focus on their academic and professional growth rather than having to worry about finances.

Starting this coming summer, Penn will waive expected summer savings contributions from the tuition of incoming freshman and sophomore students termed “highly-aided” – a small selection of those on financial aid.

All students receiving financial aid have a section of their package that is designated to be covered using wages they should be making at a summer job, Executive Director of SFS Matt Sessa said. Usually this fee ranges from $1,500 to $1,800.

This new policy will allow students either to pursue unpaid internships or to keep their summer earnings.

SFS has also created a program that gives up to $4,000 in funding to highly-aided rising juniors and seniors pursuing internships or summer research opportunities.

Sessa said that highly-aided students are usually defined as students receiving full financial aid, and those who have a median household income of $65,000, or whose family tuition contribution is around $4,500.

These initiatives were announced to students affected by the policy via an email

other fossil fuels to go for.”

The proposal has yet to be made public due to issues with publishing private information on specific companies that must be redacted before going public. The proposal will likely be published publicly this week.

from Provost Wendell Pritchett and Vice President for Finance and Treasurer MaryFrances McCourt Tuesday evening.

Two other initiatives that were implemented for the first time this past summer and previously announced were also highlighted in the email. The first is a program that provides laptops to highly-aided students, and the second is that two new financial advisors, Sylvia Hanks and Jodie Wagner, are now available to the highly-aided student population.

Sessa said that his team brainstormed these initiatives after administrators met with different groups across campus, including Penn First, the Undergraduate Assembly, and the Student Financial Services Advisory Board.

“MaryFrances and Wendell worked with a group across campus of senior leaders, at the direction of the president, to determine what additional things we could do for first generation highly-aided students that would make their experience equal to other students across campus,” Sessa said.

Advocacy Chair of Penn First and College sophomore Lyndsi Burcham said the new initiatives will help students

focus more on academics and less on potential financial issues.

“These new initiatives should help alleviate a lot of worry that students have during the school years about upcoming financial burdens, like funding an unpaid or underpaid internship, or making enough money to pay their student contribution,” Burcham said.

Sessa added that the expected contribution waiver will allow freshmen who might have needed to work longer at a summer job to pay the fee an opportunity to participate in pre-orientation programs.

University Director of Finance Elaine Papas Varas said that though these initiatives may be new to students, Penn President Amy Gutmann has been marketing them to donors for a year and a half.

Gutmann is known for her ambitious fundraising efforts, as well as prioritizing financial aid initiatives during her 14 years at Penn. In 2015, she announced the University’s intention to raise $1 billion for financial aid by 2020. Last semester, the Board of Trustees approved a 5.25 percent expansion of the financial aid budget, along with a 3.8 percent increase in cost of attendance.

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UA President and College senior Michael Krone told The Daily Pennsylvanian that the increased cost of living off campus was one of the two main concerns among student leaders at the meeting. The second is the effect the plan will have on Greek life.

College senior Raisa Shah, the political chair for the Penn Association for Gender Equity, who identifies as a FGLI student, attended the UA Steering meeting on Tuesday, and said that she thinks there is “no doubt that [the program is] going to hurt low-income students and highly aided students.”

“From personal experience, I know that the amount of money I saved from going off campus my junior or senior year was honestly

ridiculous,” Shah said. “I think living off campus sophomore year definitely is a better move for students who are on high amounts of financial aid.”

College senior Lyndsi Burcham, who is also a board member for Penn First, said the plan might have some positive effects on mental wellness in the first-year students, who notoriously scramble to figure out housing early in their first semesters on campus.

The plan’s intention to eliminate stress, she said, may be especially beneficial for FGLI students. Burcham listed furniture costs, security deposits, and reduced financial aid as obstacles to FGLI students moving off campus.

“If wellness is such a big topic on our campus right now and that’s what students are saying is causing them issues,” Burcham said, “then this is a good sign that the Univer-

sity is listening to that.”

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PENN REACTS TO NEW SOPHOMORE HOUSING POLICY

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For the safety of campus and the future of greek life, sophomores can’t be barred from chapter houses

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he University just announced that sophomores will soon be required to live on campus. Unfortunately, the definition of “on campus” does not currently include affiliated fraternity and sorority housing.

What the University fails to account for in this decision is that chapter houses already function as places that promote sophomore wellness, and the negative effects of removing them would drastically impact chapter diversity and economic inclusion — bolstering unaffiliated, off-campus institutions.

Affiliated, on-campus chapter houses check every box the University is looking for when it comes to their new Second Year Experience Program: supervision, community, and wellness. Not allowing sophomores to live in these houses eliminates an important, and often healthier, alternative to college housing.

Penn is unique among its peers in that it often owns our chapter houses. All but a few function through PennCard swipe access and are always open to University scrutiny.

Because of this, they are some of the most well-monitored places on campus.

As for supervision, fraternity and

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They know when they need to act to keep younger members safe. Most importantly, these houses consist of students who are coming together over shared experiences and values, bolstering their sense of community and overall wellness.

However, the critical issue here is the enormous harm to Greek life that would result from barring sophomores from chapter houses.

The most immediate difficulty is the need to fill our houses, and it is well known within the Greek community that occupancy rates are already a problem. Rooms are often unclaimed, and there is great financial pressure from both the school and our alumni to keep them at capacity. Excluding sophomores would make that goal even less attainable since they currently comprise at least half of all chapter house residents. We’ve seen a steep loss in availability from juniors and seniors, and many larger houses would find it next to impossible to fill them using only those two classes.

What this means for fraternity and sorority life is that many organizations are no longer going to be able to support their chapter houses —

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By taking away the things that are good about Greek life, the school will create a truly broken and toxic system.” sorority chapter houses have a number of dedicated upperclassmen and advisors who can provide the same oversight and advice as any residential advisor. The upperclassmen and advisors in these houses have gone through extensive training from institutions like Counseling and Psychological Services, Men

the central element to Greek life and the rush process.

As a result, the first major blow to the Greek system will come in the form of decreasing diversity among chapters. Eventually, as fraternities and sororities disappear along with their houses, their individual cultures on campus will also vanish. One of

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the things that makes us believe in Penn Greek life the most is the ability for so many different definitions of Greek life to exist together. By cutting the total number of Greek organizations on campus, we lose that diversity.

That won’t be the only loss from this housing policy. It is incredibly expensive for Greek organizations to leave even a few rooms in their chapter houses unfilled, and this will result in a sharp increase in dues, effectively creating an atmosphere of financial exclusivity in Greek life at Penn. For sororities, just a few rooms left vacant often means triple-digit increases for anyone paying dues.

We believe that this policy would drastically change who has the financial ability to rush on this campus — and preventing low-income students from rushing is something the University cannot let happen.

A compounding issue may also come from Campus Apartments, the third-party housing company that owns much of the off-campus property around Penn. As sophomores exit its availability pool, off-campus rents will decrease, prompting juniors and seniors to choose those options over chapter houses. Lower off-campus rents will also bolster the

very institutions that the task force was originally hoping to rein in: offcampus fraternities.

The most unfathomable part is that, with this policy, the University could have the ability to end off-campus fraternities for good, yet has chosen not to. If it were to count affiliated, on-campus fraternity and sorority houses as additional places sophomores could live, the appeal of off-campus fraternities would vanish. Would you rather join a place you have to wait a year to live in or one that you can move into immediately? For most freshmen, it’s an easy answer.

We believe that off-campus, unaffiliated fraternities pose one of the greatest risks to the safety of the Penn Greek community. Their members do not have to go through the numerous training sessions on safety and violence that we do, and they do not have national organizations to make sure they follow hard alcohol and hazing bans. The University could make these organizations disappear with this simple change to its policy. The fact that it won’t makes me wonder what it is the school really cares about.

I’m not saying on-campus Greek life at Penn is perfect: it’s not. But, by

taking away the things that are good about Greek life, the school will create a truly broken and toxic system.

The school needs to see the danger in this choice. We ask for the support of the greater community, Greek and non-Greek alike, in bringing this to the University’s attention.

We ask President Gutmann and Provost Pritchett to sincerely consider allowing sophomores to live in affiliated Greek chapter houses.

This is not only to save our houses, chapters, and Greek community, but also to provide a safe and structured environment for our future sophomore members in helping them transform and grow in their second year at Penn.

We hope the University will listen.

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ill the Second Year Experience Program have air conditioning? Will the sophomores living in this new facility be forced to also purchase dining plans? Will the environment of the promised “social, intellectual, and cultural connections” take the place of the meaningful living experiences sophomores have previously attained by choosing to live with upperclassmen? As a current sophomore living off campus, paying my own rent and my own tuition to Penn, I wonder how far Penn will encroach upon the lives of its students in coming years. The policy of sophomores being required to live on campus may only be the beginning of further regulations on what

community among second-year students, while enhancing student support and fostering diverse opportunities across academic and social spheres. That sounds great. But let’s break it down a bit.

Seeing as I had no roommate, I lived alone on the fourth floor of Kings Court my freshman year. I hibernated through the winter with only my Cheez-Its and reading to keep me company. I recognize having a single room in a dorm is a blessing just as much as it is a curse, but I also recognize that my freshman year was one of the most isolating years of my life, despite me living in a campus dorm building whose floors are dedicated to Residential Programs. Yes, I got to know my hallmates due to our

Forcing students to fit their natural habits into the mold of what Penn thinks a ‘smart’ sophomore should be is not the way to encourage or support them.”

I believe to be our adult lives.

The Second Year Experience Program is being presented as an effort to strengthen the sense of

simple proximity to one another, and some of them continue to be my close friends. But, I don’t feel the need to perpetuate this living

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configuration in order to ensure my friendship with them.

The words “enhancing support for students’ academic and social lives” seems to me a tidy way of cleaning up the mess that is many students’ mental health here at Penn. Forcing sophomores to live on campus, uncurling their fingers from around the keys to apartments or fraternity houses that they can’t wait to own, is not the way to improve student support on this campus. That just isn’t a solution that will work for everybody.

The floor of my freshman dorm was dusted in eraser shavings from many sleepless nights of diary-writing. The diary-writing was a product of the stress and loneliness that sometimes consumed me, despite

having freshman neighbors literally three feet to my right or left. Moving off campus this year was better for my mental health, and ultimately allows me to live in a more affordable location with my best friend who is not in my year. If this policy had been enacted for my sophomore year, neither of those things would have been possible, and the floor of my sophomore dorm would have probably been littered with worse things than eraser shavings.

New on-campus housing built with the intention of fostering a better sophomore community sounds like a great idea — if said sophomores are offered a choice about participation. Some personalities are conducive to living in dormlike communities and thrive off the

constant activity and social events.

Some people find it more affordable to live in an apartment. The sophomore community being championed by this new policy promises to “help students develop smart, sound habits.” Again, that sounds great, but forcing students to fit their natural habits into the mold of what Penn thinks a “smart” sophomore should be is not the way to encourage or support them.

The “self-discovery” and “enrichment” that the Second Year Experience Program is promising can be found and defined in so many different ways, and I think it’s a shame that an institution with so many diverse students doesn’t realize that these diverse students have diverse needs. Penning them in is not the right way to help all students thrive.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College sophomore from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu.

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in every dormitory so students paying thousands in rent are not sleeping in study lounges.

The evidence that this will work already exists. Students living in New College House are choosing to stay in record numbers. Last year, over 500 NCH residents applied to live there again their sophomore year. Over 200 of those applicants were rejected due to space constraints. For many freshmen, NCH has supplanted the Quad as the ideal dormitory — a trend that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago.

Our peer institutions in the

Ivy League provide further evidence. Schools like Harvard University boast robust on-campus dormitory systems without mandating that students stay on campus beyond their freshman year.

More than 97 percent of Harvard undergraduates choose to live on campus, but more important is that they do so voluntarily.

Mandating that students live in on-campus residences also disadvantages those for whom the policy just does not work.

For many first-generation, low-income students, for example, on-campus housing can often be too

expensive. Moving off campus allows these students to negotiate leases or housing situations that may better serve their financial needs.

Penn needs to take an honest look at the state of on-campus housing and address the reasons so many sophomores currently choose other options.

Certain advantages like the lack of a resident advisor or quiet hours, and greater freedom to host guests may never be replicated in an on-campus dormitory. But working to provide superior amenities and more affordable rents are attainable goals. Doing so FILE PHOTO would accomplish the Uni-

versity’s objective of increasing the number of sophomores who live on campus, without sacrificing the these students’ autonomy.

Building a more vibrant community for Penn students is a commendable goal, and urging more students to stay together in on-campus residences may well be a step to achieve that.

But as with the decision around Huntsman Hall’s closing hours and students’ academic credits, this needs to be a discussion in order to work. To truly create a better experience for students, Penn needs to foster an environment where students feel empowered to make decisions that are right for them — not choose on their behalf.

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Six months after the former director of Counseling and Psychological Services Bill Alexander announced his plans to retire, Penn has yet to find a permanent replacement for his position. Alexander officially completed his nine-year tenure as director on Aug. 31, and since then, CAPS has been operating without the leadership of a director.

Meeta Kumar, the former director of Outreach and Prevention Services, officially took up the post of Deputy Executive Director on Sept. 1 upon Alexander’s leave. Kumar said CAPS is still actively searching for a permanent executive director.

While students have only been back on campus for a month now, several leaders of wellness clubs say they have found the delayed transition

challenging to work with.

Penn Benjamins Co-Director and College senior Gabrielle Rothschild said Alexander was a key supporter of the group since it was founded in 2014 as the University’s only inperson peer-to-peer counseling service. Alexander effectively functioned as the group’s faculty sponsor, a role that Kumar has currently taken over. Kumar said that she has met with the leaders of Penn Benjamins once this year.

Penn Benjamins Co-Director and College senior Max Schechter added that while he is confident in the ability of CAPS to continue supporting the group, he is worried that the delayed transition might make it difficult for him to form a productive relationship with the new director in the limited time he has before graduation. This, in turn, could hinder the growth of the club, Schechter said. “Any progress we make with [Kumar] we’ll have to sort of make again with the new direc-

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Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum and University spokesperson Monica Yant Kinney did not answer multiple inquiries on when a replacement for Alexander could be expected.

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Bill Cosby sentenced to 3-10 years for sexual assault Penn rescinded his honorary degree in February MANLU LIU Deputy News Editor

A judge sentenced former Penn honorary degree holder Bill Cosby to three to 10 years in prison Tuesday, the second day of Cosby’s sentencing hearing. Cosby, who was born and raised in Philadelphia, had his honorary degree from Penn revoked this March.

This is the first of the sentences delivered in the high profile #metoo sexual misconduct cases.

In April, Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.

While the comedian initially faced up to 30 years in prison,

attorneys for the defense and prosecution decided to combine Cosby’s three conviction counts into one charge for sentencing.

Steven O’Neill, the judge ruling in Cosby’s case, announced the charges had been merged because they all arose from the same incident. CNN reported the state sentencing guidelines recommend 22 to 36 months in prison.

On Monday, prosecutors asked judges to sentence the defendant to five to 10 years in prison, while the defense argued that Cosby is no longer dangerous because of his age and blindness. Still, a state panel recommended Cosby be classified as a “sexually violent predator.”

“Mr. Cosby is not dangerous,” Joseph Green, Cosby’s attorney, said in the sentencing

hearing. “Eighty-one-year-old blind men who are not selfsufficient are not a danger, unless perhaps to themselves.”

More than 50 women have shared remarkably similar stories accusing the entertainer of sexual misconduct. Cosby, who was accused in 2016 of sexually assaulting someone at Penn Relays in 2004, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Penn in 1990 and spoke at Commencement in 1997.

Penn revoked Bill Cosby’s degree in February 2018, two years after the initial allegations surfaced. At the same time, the University rescinded the honorary degree of former Penn trustee Steve Wynn after similar allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against Wynn. Wynn’s name was also removed from Wynn Com-

mons, which was renamed Penn Commons.

When the charges against Cosby first came to light, however, Penn released a statement stating that the University would not rescind his degree because it went against practice to do so.

At the time, 11 out of the 60 universities that awarded honors to Cosby had rescinded his degree. More universities followed suit during the two years of subsequent investigations following the accusations, but Penn wasn’t yet among them.

In March, Cosby’s lawyers unsuccessfully filed a motion to remove O’Neill from arbitrating the case because his wife, a Penn Counseling and Psychological Services counselor, was an advocate for victims of sexual assault.

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data provided by Penn Business Services in 2017, about 4,800 students, or 60 percent of sophomores, juniors, and seniors, live outside of college residences every year. These include the hundreds of students who live in chapter houses for on-campus Greek institutions.

Greek leaders from Panhellenic Council and from Interfraternity Council met with administrators earlier on Tuesday to discuss the implications this decision would have on Greek life at Penn, said Krone, a College senior. The conversation was mediated by Jazmyn Pulley, the director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Penn, as well as Rob Nelson, the executive director for Education and Academic Planning.

Krone said the administration acknowledged that the plan would have a particularly large impact on Greek life. He noted one of the main con-

cerns raised was that Greek houses on campus typically house sophomores. If sophomores are no longer able to live in these chapter houses, Greek institutions may struggle to fill their houses and eventually be at the risk of losing them, he added.

Krone said at the Tuesday evening meeting, Provost Pritchett emphasized the purpose of the plan is to create a better experience for sophomore students, who do not have as many class-wide or community programs as their freshman- or junior-year peers.

Pritchett also said this plan follows a recommendation from the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, which convened after off-campus fraternity OZ sent sexually suggestive emails to freshman women in September 2016. The policies that rose from the task force recommendations relating to alcohol and off-campus groups garnered significant attention and backlash last year.

After Pritchett discussed the Uni-

versity’s plans at the UA meeting, students expressed various concerns relating to the implementation of the plan. One Penn junior present at the meeting said nearly every comment and question was critical.

Among their concerns was the relative cost of living on campus versus off campus, Krone said.

Many students choose to move out of college houses after their first year because they are able to negotiate cheaper rents with landlords or find housing arrangements that allow them to cut down on costs.

After the administrators left, those present in the Huntsman Hall lecture room quickly came to the consensus that the University had already decided to move forward with this policy and shifted gears to discuss how to optimize the implementation of it in the next three years, the Penn junior said.

Krone said he believed the “what” and “when” of the plan are already set in stone but the “how”

is for student leaders to decide.

Krone urged students to email him directly with suggestions so he can present them to the administrators.

“Basically what they said is this is the policy change that’s going to happen. We understand that. We understand there’s a lot of room for improvement, we really want to hear student input and student voices into how to actually make this happen and make this successful,” he said.

Penn’s announcement on sophomore housing comes on the heels of several other controversial administrative decisions this semester. In August, the Wharton administrators announced that Huntsman Hall would no longer be open 24 hours in an effort to promote mental wellness, a controversial decision that prompted backlash for weeks. At the time, Wharton student leaders said they had expressed their disapproval of the decision months before the announcement.

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President Brian Schmitt argued that Greek housing should fall under the umbrella of on-campus housing. He wrote that the current plan would result in a substantial increase in fraternity dues, creating a culture of financial exclusivity. He also contended that this decision inaccurately assumes on-campus Greek organizations are harmful to the student experience.

Schmitt and McVay also disagreed that the change would address the problem of off-campus organizations. While speaking to student leaders on Tuesday, Pritchett said the policy change follows a recommendation put forth by the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, which was established after an off-campus fraternity, OZ, sent sexually suggestive emails to freshman women two

years ago.

The two Greek leaders argued that rather than acting as a deterrent, the new rules could drive more students to off-campus organizations.

“A house is a huge incentive to join an on-campus frat or sorority,” McVay said. “It’s a home base. And when you don’t have that anymore, that just drives more students to join off campus Greek life.”

Costidis also said the new rule is the latest in a series of changes, such as the decision to close Huntsman Hall at 2 a.m., where administrators are “doing things that I don’t believe the student body wants and needs at this time.”

“There are plenty of areas the University can improve on,” Costidis said, “and a policy like this just distracts us and them from the real problems at hand.”

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Football heads to Dartmouth for gritty Ivy opener

Defense to dominate as Penn looks to avenge last year’s loss

play the best way we can and make up for last year.”

Dartmouth has fared well through its two games this year.

After shutting out Georgetown

in their season opener, the Big Green blew out a a Holy Cross squad that upset Yale in Week 1.

“They’re a very, very sound team on defense, doing a great

job of keeping things in front of you, and they’re big and strong up front,” coach Ray Priore said. “This week is a definite challenge, and we hope our kids can step up to it.”

Not only were Penn and Dartmouth extremely evenly matched a season ago, but if one looks deeper at each squad’s respective strengths, the two foes seem to be nearly carbon copies of one another.

Long gone are the days of star quarterbacks like 2017 Penn graduate Alek Torgersen and 2016 Dartmouth graduate Dalyn Williams slinging the rock. After last year’s contest involved zero turnovers, only 29 combined points, and neither team reaching 200 yards through the air, it’d be no surprise to see a reprise of that old school, ground-and-poundstyle game.

“Dartmouth is known for their smash-mouth football … and we’re gonna combat that with loading up in the box and meeting them at the line of

the ball over 60 times.

With junior quarterback Eddie Jenkins nursing an injury, observers can expect more of the same from Klaus. After Jenkins went down last week against Cornell, Klaus took over. There was one drive near the end of the third quarter where Klaus ran the ball on all but two plays, resulting in the go-ahead field goal.

“Against Cornell, he had to take the bull by the horns, and he led the team down the field,” Wagner said.

After seeing what Klaus can do with the ball in his hands on the majority of plays, the game plan for this coming Friday’s game against Chestnut Hill College should be very simple.

“To Jake, fake to Jake, that’s what we gotta do,” Wagner said.

This mantra resonates with the entirety of Klaus’ career.

From day one, he was involved in the offense and on special teams, and this year especially the coaches want to utilize him in some way on every snap he is on the field for.

The heavy workload doesn’t seem to phase Klaus at all. He is always trying to think of new and better ways to accrue more and more yards, unbothered by how many carries he is given.

“I’m going to try and break some more plays, I think the offensive line is really setting me up with a lot of good holes,” Klaus said.

At the end of the day, all of Klaus’ efforts are to help the team win by any means necessary. Even though he may be more relaxed as he looks back upon years of success, there continues to be only one thing on his mind.

“Another title.”

Senior running back Jake Klaus appeared in all eight of the Quakers’ games last year and rushed for 604 yards.

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There was one second remaining. One yard to go. It ended in one heartbreak for Penn football in its 2017 Ivy League opener.

52 weeks ago at Franklin Field, the Quakers went toe-totoe with Dartmouth, falling in devastating fashion by allowing a walk-off touchdown in a 1613 loss.

This time around, the location is different, but the setting is almost the exact same. Entering Saturday afternoon’s contest at Dartmouth, both teams are 2-0 again, both are opening Ivy League play, and neither has forgotten last year one bit.

“It’s been a bad taste in our mouth for the whole past year,” senior offensive lineman and captain Tommy Dennis said.

“We just wanna come out and

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will return in some capacity this week. But even without them, players like O’Neill have stepped up and kept the defense performing at an elite level.

“It’s definitely surprising when veteran players like Connor and Jay go down, but it’s just a ‘next man up’ mentality,” said O’Neill, who leads the team with 11 solo tackles. “We pride ourselves in stepping up in big moments.”

O’Neill and the rest of Penn’s defense will need to back those words up for the Quakers to stay unbeaten. Exactly one year after giving up 229 yards on the ground — when holding Dartmouth to 228 would’ve resulted in a win — Penn has a chance to get its Ivy season off on the right foot and earn its first 3-0 start since 2003.

And if all of that is accompanied by revenge for one of the most bitter losses in program history, the Red and Blue will make sure that Dartmouth spends just as much time thinking about this one.

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still left over in his mouth after last year’s CSFL championship loss to Army.

“We all just know that we should’ve had another ring,” Klaus said.

The game against Army was one of the toughest losses in his entire football career, but he has clearly returned to his usual form as arguably the most dynamic player in Penn’s offense.

“He’s very productive, he’s a great leader by example, he does it on the field, he’s a workhorse,” coach Bill Wagner said.

“Workhorse” may be an understatement this year, as Klaus has had an excess of opportunities to showcase his talent and consistency. He has shouldered the load for the Quakers in both of their games thus far, carrying

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Sophomore outside linebacker Brian O’Neill is having a breakout season, leading the team with 11 solo tackles in just two games.

scrimmage,” sophomore linebacker Brian O’Neill said. “It’s just gonna be a battle of who wants it more, and who can outlast the other when we’re exchanging blows at the line.”

If the numbers are any indication, both offenses will be in for the toughest test they’ve seen yet.

Both teams are averaging more than 200 yards per game on the ground, with running backs Karekin Brooks of Penn and Rashaad Cooper of Dartmouth each thriving behind veteran offensive lines.

But, led by a powerful defensive front that recently held Holy Cross to a minuscule 13 rushing yards, Dartmouth has allowed a meager 1.2 yards per carry so far this year. Penn’s group, despite missing linebackers Connor Jangro and Jay Cammon Jr., has secured 17 sacks and limited opponents to a similarly low 1.5 yards per rush.

Priore said the team is “hopeful” those two players

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Despite injuries, Barger sets the bar for Penn men’s soccer Senior captain makes an impact from sidelines TEIA ROSS Sports Reporter

It’s all about the culture.

Most high school athletes who are getting recruited dream of playing at a starting position and of making an impact on the field during games. For the past three years, senior defender and two-year captain Gavin Barger has done just that. But this year, his contribution to Penn men’s soccer has changed.

Since the end of last season, Barger has been hampered by leg injuries. While they weren’t severe enough to completely end his season, shin splints have unquestionably limited his playing ability.

This year, Barger’s playing time has been diminished, coming off the bench in four out of six games after starting a majority of games the last two seasons. Still, his unique leadership role has been emphasized from the sideline this year.

Despite his injuries, Barger still fulfills, and exceeds, the responsibilities of his captaincy. Off the field, his impact on the team’s culture is irreplaceable. On the pitch, Penn players hear him shout tactical advice and encouragement from the bench as if he’s right beside them on field. “He’s had to deal with a lot of injuries and stuff like that, but I think he’s adapted really well. He’ll always take his role, whatever that may be, as seriously as possible and put 100 percent effort behind it,�

fifth-year senior and co-captain Joe Swenson said. “He’s not getting as many minutes as he wanted to because he’s getting off this injury, but he’s still the first guy in the locker room every day, getting guys going and helping the team in any way possible. “We definitely miss him, but at the same time it almost feels like he’s there because he’s the loudest guy on the sidelines.�

Barger has played soccer all his life. He grew up in Fallston, Md., where he earned four varsity letters and served as team captain for Loyola Blakefield, one of the best high school soccer programs in the country. While many high school athletes pursued their dreams of a professional career in soccer by playing for an academy team, Barger elected to play for a regular club team, so he would be able to play for his high school team as well. “I think it’s really cool to represent something bigger than you and yourself. On a [high school] team, you get to represent an entire school,� Barger said.

In college, Barger would do the same, once again representing something bigger than himself. The decision to come to Penn, however, was made primarily because of his future teammates, not the Ivy League reputation. “I chose Penn because of the guys on the team. When I visited, I looked up to guys like [2017 graduates] Matt [Poplawski] and Alec Neumann who had this blue collar work ethic in everything they did,�

Barger reminisced. “It was the only school where I truly felt like I was

at home and surrounded by players and coaches that would help me to become a better player, student, and person in general.�

While Poplawski and Neumann were the players that convinced Barger to come to Philadelphia, it has been Barger himself who sold the school to the next generation.

For example, sophomore defender Alex Touche attributes his decision to come to Penn to Barger. “He’s the type of guy you look at and you say, he’s a part of Penn men’s soccer,â€? Touche said. “He’s one of the main reasons why I chose to come here. Coming on my visit and seeing him, knowing that I’d be able to work with him for two years ‌ he’s the type of guy you want to be modeled around.â€?

Across all years on the team, every player paints the same picture of Barger. Swenson, one of Barger’s best friends, adds more color to the frame regarding Gavin’s personality. “I’d say Gavin is really outgoing as a leader, he really builds relationships with everyone. I think he does a good job of holding everyone accountable and he’s also good at talking to everyone on the team,�

Swenson said. “It doesn’t matter who you are, I think he has the same type of relationship with everyone on the team, where he’ll reach out to anyone, he’s not afraid to talk to anyone.�

At the end of Barger’s sophomore year, four of his eight classmates left the team. With the program undergoing a serious transformation, Barger’s attitude, leadership, and friendship helped stabilize what was already a difficult time for the

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Senior defender and captain Gavin Barger continues to be a key leader for Penn men’s soccer despite having a smaller role on the field this season due to a series of leg injuries.

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Junior co-captain Brandon Bartel remembers meeting Barger on a recruiting trip. At the time, Barger was a freshman at Penn, and Bartel was still a high school senior. “On my official visit, he really kind of went out of his way entirely to take me under his wing. I had my host who was walking me around, but he was the one who woke up at 6:30 a.m. to come pick me up, to walk me down to practice. He walked five blocks out of his way to come pick me up and take me down, and this was all at 6:30 a.m. Once I put that to his actual personality, that was the most Gavin moment that he’s ever had,� Bartel said.

Maybe Barger’s actions could be

seen as a ploy to convince a recruit to come to Penn, but if that’s the case, then he has been maintaining the ploy for every minute of the past three years. To his current teammates, he exudes care and empathy, no matter what level of experience they are. “Personally, Gavin has helped me out a lot,� freshman midfielder Isaac McGinnis said. “I was injured for a little bit, he kind of took me aside and helped me get through that a lot through his personal experiences, so that meant a lot having him there as a captain.�

There’s no doubt that team chemistry improves a team’s success on the field. If teammates care for each other, work for each other, and play

for each other, they will do better than a team of disconnected individuals. Gavin Barger’s passion for the sport, for his team, and for his school isn’t and will never be restrained to the sidelines. “During the summer when we had freshmen and recruits come here for captains practice. We had like almost twenty kids in the house and he didn’t want them living anywhere else so he went out, made sure we had blow-up mattresses, clean and ready for them to use.

And he sacrificed his own bed, just so he could have everyone as comfortable as possible, ready for practice, and be on campus already,�

Swenson said. “That’s just Gav.�

Field hockey brimming with confidence ahead of crucial weekend slate Quakers open Ivy play vs.

Harvard, host Temple OJ SINGH Contributing Reporter

Penn field hockey is back in action at home this weekend against

Ivy League foe Harvard and City Six competitor Temple.

Coming off of a 1-0 shutout of Cornell and a painful 2-1 loss to No. 6 Syracuse, No. 19 Penn (4-4) will face an uphill battle against No. 8 Harvard (6-1), who crushed Yale, 6-0, in its Ivy opener this past weekend. The day after playing Harvard,

the Quakers will look to get their fourth win in four years over Temple (2-7).

Despite last year’s lopsided 6-0 loss to Harvard, coach Colleen Fink is optimistic about the team’s chances this time around. She noted that on the way up to Harvard last season, the team learned they had lost

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With confidence brimming from a strong showing against Syracuse, and the ever-growing faith in the talent and potential of a young team, the 41st meeting between Penn and Harvard will definitely set the tone for the rest of Ivy play.

And despite Penn’s losing record against Temple, the Quakers expressed confidence that the experience gained from a tough schedule has given them an edge ahead of their clash with the Owls. Fink echoed her players ahead of their big weekend. “I think we are capable and are right there with the best and the brightest. We just need to keep on working and attacking, and we can beat any team any day.�

focus on clubs, so I took the year off,� Matos said.

Leadership positions in clubs were certainly a main focus of his time away from sprint football. Being a part of the marketing team for La Vida Magazine, Penn’s only Latinx-interest publication, allowed Matos, a Dominican immigrant, to explore his own identity. “[It] was pivotal to my Penn experience,� he said. “Being able to delve into the club and care about representation for Latinos and Latinx people on this campus was really important to me.�

Matos was heavily involved in Engineers Without Borders as well, serving as the president of its executive board at Penn and leading an international service trip to Guatemala. His time was spent at GBMs, interest meetings, and interviews instead of on the football field.

After taking a season off, Matos decided to rejoin the team, with his life off the field much more settled

than it was a year before. “I was able to reach the positions I wanted to within my clubs [and] was able to get my grades up,� he said. “It feels good to be able to play for another year.�

Matos’s return to sprint football has been well-received by the team.

Coach Bill Wagner noted his vast enthusiasm and natural talent. “He’s got so much energy,�

Wagner said. “He could be an allleague defensive end. He’s powerful, he’s strong, he’s athletic, he wants to win. Sometimes we have to control him, but he has a lot of spirit.�

From Matos’s perspective, rejoining the team has been an extremely positive experience as well. “It’s honestly been all love, like the culture always was when I first switched over from the big team,�

Matos said. “People really did welcome me with open arms.�

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Mirkin had scored three goals during the entirety of her Penn career before this season.

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their starting goalkeeper to an ACL tear, resulting in then-sophomore Ava Rosati’s first start for the Red and Blue. “This year, we have a totally different set of circumstances,� Fink said. “Going into the Syracuse game and leaving it, my mindset is that this team can play any team on any given day. I think we are very talented, we work incredibly hard, and if we tighten up simple execution, we will find more success.�

Her optimism is based on the solid performances of many of the players: the Quakers’ defense, rich in experience with the likes of returners Karen Seid, Paige Meily (2017 honorable All-Ivy selection), Kelsey Mendell, Reese Vogel and Katelyn Mark, has shown grit and determination against highly-ranked opposition.

Rosati has also become a sturdy mainstay in goal for Penn, making 41 saves and conceding 17 goals this season. Eight of the goals were conceded against No. 1 North Carolina, meaning that the Quakers have maintained an extremely tight-knit defense by giving up only nine goals in the other seven games played.

The offense has also rallied around each other as a team, with all players, old and new, delivering impressive performances to quickly diminish thoughts of any sort of “void� left by 2018 graduate Alexa Hoover, who is Penn field hockey’s all-time highest goal scorer. One of the new stars happens to be senior Rachel Mirkin, who has scored three goals and assisted on one this

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throughout his time at Penn.

The desire to balance out his commitments led Matos to join sprint football, which offered a culture more conducive to what he wanted from his time in college. “I loved the sort of balance the team had,� Matos said. “I had more time to focus on school and at the same time play football.�

His first season was a successful one, as the Quakers went undefeated and won the Collegiate Sprint Football League title. Matos played on both sides of the football as a right guard and defensive end and even scored a game-winning touchdown against Cornell. Despite these positives, his time on the team proved fleeting, as he left the team before the start of his junior season. “I had a bulging disk, my grades were slipping, and I also wanted to

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A look into the making of Penn’s slick new uniforms Josh LaRosa has been working on them for years WILL DiGRANDE Associate Sports Editor

Since the recent graduation of stars like Alek Torgersen and Justin Watson, Penn football looks a little different ingame. But even off the field, the Quakers are sporting a new look.

It’s been a few years in the making, but last month, the Red and Blue formally unveiled the team’s new Nike-made outfits, featuring updated colors and an all-white alternate helmet.

The old uniforms, worn by the team since the 2014 season, were due for an update — each team’s uniform generally lasts for three or four years before being re-designed and replaced.

“All of our uniforms are on a life cycle, so they were up for new uniforms this year, and it was our first opportunity since I’ve been here to influence the program in terms of their uniforms,” Director of Equipment Operations Josh LaRosa said.

The team celebrated the new uniforms on team photo day back in August with a promotional photo shoot in Center City. In addition to the sleek home navy blue and away white fans are used to seeing, the team will keep its alternate third gray uniforms also available for use.

The final product would not come together without all the preparation behind the scenes, though. The process is a lengthy one, planned far in advance by Penn’s equipment staff.

“We start thinking about it 18 months in advance,” LaRosa said. We try the month after a season ends to start thinking about what we’re gonna do, and uniforms usually have to be placed with Nike nine months in advance, so there was definitely a lot of planning.”

Not only do the equipment managers have to decide what changes to implement for the uniforms, but they also reach out to as many people in the program as possible to gather suggestions from all levels, from the coaching staff to the players.

Pleasing everyone is obviously difficult, but LaRosa makes sure to take as much into account as possible when thinking about what alterations to make.

“When you go through that process of designing uniforms and putting ideas onto paper, you do it knowing that a lot of people have different opinions, so you reach out to as many people in the department as possible to get feedback,” he said.

Also important to the success of the athletics programs is the support from alumni new and old, so the input they pro-

vide is also valuable to LaRosa and his colleagues.

“At a school like Penn, which has great tradition already, you definitely want to make sure those stakeholders are in the loop on what’s going on, even if you’re making small changes,” he added.

The football team isn’t the only Penn squad to be receiving an updated look this year.

Also donning new uniforms for the fall is sprint football, and LaRosa hinted at a few sports later in the year whose re-designed uniforms will be revealed in the coming months.

Similar to football, the sprint uniform upgrade also included color alterations and other minor modifications. For the winter and spring sports receiving equipment updates, fans will have to wait and see for what new changes Penn has in the works.

“We’ll definitely have some new uniforms for a couple of the winter sports; it’s an ongoing process for us,” LaRosa said. “For the sports [without new uniforms] this year, it will be next year or the year after, so even right now we’re thinking about that next batch of sports for next year.”

If you’ve seen Penn football take the field this season, you’ve already seen their fresh look in action. Off to a 2-0 start this season, the updated uniforms could be the team’s new lucky charm.

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It isn’t that uncommon to find Penn students who hold leadership positions in multiple clubs.

It is much more rare, however, to find one who has done that and been a part of a varsity sports team. Angelo Matos has done both – without even counting his sprint football career.

The story of how all of that happened is a complicated one, with many twists and turns along the way. In fact, it starts before Matos even began his first semester in college.

During a pre-freshman program, Matos met many incoming recruits for Penn football. After spending some time with them, Matos, a threeyear captain and letter-winner in high school, decided to walk-on to the team. However, a season of long practices and no playing time led him to look in a different direction.

“After a year, I realized it was too much of a time commitment for me given other things I wanted to do while I was in college,” Matos said.

Those “other things” included Engineers Without Borders and La Vida Magazine, clubs that have been extremely important to Matos

Senior running back has fueled Penn’s offense all season long ISAAC SPEAR Sports Reporter

If you think of a football offense as a car, then the running back is the engine that keeps it moving.

Senior Jake Klaus is certainly the driving force behind Penn sprint football’s offense, and he’s been doing it for years.

Ever since Klaus began playing football, he’s always been focused on winning. Coming into each and every season, he said his ultimate goal has been to earn a title. And yet, in what will be his final year

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of competitive football, he’s taking a slightly more laid-back approach. “[I’m] just coming out here, having more fun than usual,” Klaus said. “[I’m] less nervous for the games, trying to just enjoy it.”

This new mindset seems to already be paying dividends for the New Jersey native. His coaches are feeding him the ball and letting him run wild with it, and he has rewarded them with close to 300 yards on the ground in only two games.

In addition to his new way of thinking, Klaus is also motivated by the bitter taste of defeat that is SEE KLAUS PAGE 9

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Starting quarterback Eddie Jenkins will not play JUSTIN DECHIARIO Contributing Reporter

Consistency is key. But sometimes inconsistency works.

After dismantling Mansfield (02, 0-2 South) in the season opener, 54-21, with an offensive show of force, it was a dominant defense that led Penn to a 16-7 win over Cornell (1-1) in its home opener.

The question facing the Quakers (2-0, 1-0) in the third game of the young season is whether they can find consistency on both sides of the ball for an entire game. Their chance to answer this question comes this Friday at Franklin Field against Chestnut Hill (1-1, 1-0).

Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, that will be answered without junior quarterback Eddie Jenkins, who injured his left knee in the first quarter last week against Cornell.

The hole left by his absence is definitely going to be felt.

“He’s the team leader,” coach Bill Wagner said. “He’s the heart and soul of the offensive leadership.”

The home opener against Cornell started off slow for the offense as the Quakers didn’t get their first score until 10:10 in the second quarter on a three-yard rushing touchdown from senior running

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Due to starting quarterback Eddie Jenkins’ injury against Cornell, junior Reed Connor will be Penn sprint football’s signal-caller on Friday.

back Jake Klaus.

Jenkins is confident in the ability of his teammates to step up in his absence.

“We got all kinds of playmakers on offense,” Jenkins said. “[Backup quarterback] Reed [Connor] played great against Cornell. [He] came in a tough situation and played a great game. Whoever is at the helm will have the opportunity to do some great things for our offense.”

Defensively, the Quakers played well in both games, but against Cornell they were unbreakable.

After allowing 227 total yards and two touchdowns to Mansfield, Penn’s defense bounced back in a huge way. Against Cornell, Penn’s defense allowed only 108 total yards and one touchdown all game.

Cornell’s lone touchdown came at 12:22 in the second quarter as senior quarterback Connor Ostrander took it 38 yards to the house. After his touchdown, however, Cornell had 37 total yards for the rest of the game, which allowed the Quakers to escape a defensive battle.

The Quakers will look to dominate on both sides of the ball and find some consistency when Chestnut Hill visits on Friday.

Penn will have to look out for the duo of junior quarterback Michael Marino and senior wide receiver Reggie Robinson Jr. Marino threw for 211 yards and three touchdowns while Robinson Jr. had six receptions for 145 yards and two touchdowns in a high-scoring victory over Mansfield last week.

“Chestnut Hill is a great team,” Jenkins said. “And being a division game, it’s one of the biggest games we got all season.”

“They have some skilled kids who are fast and quick,” Wagner added. “The quarterback Marino can throw the ball. The defense is also very good. They got nine starters back. The game is gonna be won up front.”

As their matchup with Chestnut Hill looms, the Quakers will try to prove the next man up mentality can be a success.

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Over the last few years, Penn sprint football has been one of Penn’s more successful varsity programs. It also has one of the more — if not the most — unique recruiting processes.

When making the leap from high school to college, a lot of smaller players may not be confident in their ability to keep up with the larger varsity team. However, these players at Penn can continue to play their heart out in the game they love.

“It is a very special thing that we are able to find kids who think they will never play football again and come to campus and find out about sprint football and can continue their athletic career,” sophomore offensive lineman Jack Schaible said.

The sport doesn’t have a large following, and unless rising high school seniors have a previous connection with the team, they may not consider the possibility of playing football in college. Most players on the Penn team knew about it before coming to Penn and reached out to coach Bill Wagner before applying to the school.

It’s often necessary for students to reach out to Wagner themselves, because according to Wagner, Penn does not allow him to travel to visit potential

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According to Penn sprint football coach Bill Wagner, Penn does now allow him to travel to visit potential recruits at their high schools.

recruits at their high school.

Wagner is further restricted by the Ivy League’s rule against offering athletes scholarships.

Before coming to school, the students are allowed to come on campus to meet the coaches, watch a practice, and see the team on an official visit. Most of these athletes come into contact with the team either by word of mouth, the website Hudl, or other internet research on lightweight football. Once students get to school, students also have the chance to walk onto the team.

“At freshman picnic we have students come and see that sprint is a thing and they can write their names. They all want to get off to a good start, and sprint offers amenities such as mentoring programs, academic help, and a supportive community,” Wagner said.

The sprint team has the same opportunities as other varsity teams at Penn in terms of the academic help available

to them and study hours. The mentoring program is helpful for the freshmen to acclimate to campus and feel more comfortable managing their time.

Everyone looks out for one another to do the best they can to be a family and represent the school as student-athletes.

Penn’s games are often on Fridays — which is when high school football games are played — so the coaches would likely not be able to see the high school teams play even if they were allowed. Players enjoy the Friday night games because they can still have the weekend to do their work and catch up on sleep for the upcoming week.

“I would love to see anyone who does not make another team, any athlete to come and try out for the team,” Wagner said.

Even with its limited recruiting resources, Penn continues to contend at the top of CSFL year in and year out.

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