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UPSET OF A CENTURY Quakers knock off ‘Nova for first time since 1911 TOM NOWLAN Associate Sports Editor

VILLANOVA, Pa. — Do you believe in miracles?

Penn football defeated No. 4 Villanova, 24-13, on Thursday night, the program’s first victory over its crosstown rivals since 1911. The win not only marked the first of coach Ray Priore’s tenure; it was also the Quakers’ first-ever road win over a topfive opponent.

“The school paper said we needed a Hail Mary,” Priore said. “Well, God was on our side today.”

Penn (1-1) set the tone in the first half due in large part to the dominant play of wide receiver Justin Watson. The sophomore tallied five catches for 87 yards and both of the Red and Blue’s two touchdowns before leaving at halftime with a shoulder

injury.

The man throwing him the ball, junior Alek Torgersen, logged 14 completions for 171 yards on the night. Though it wasn’t Torgersen’s most sta-

The school paper said we needed a Hail Mary. Well, God was on our side today. ” - RAY PRIORE Penn football coach

tistically impressive game, his ability to manage the offense allowed the Quakers to dominate the time of possession — they held the ball for 39:48 of the

game’s 60 minutes.

“It’s all about the ball. Whoever has the ball wins,” Priore said. “We said, ‘We’ll control the ball early, and we’ll see what happens.’”

Sophomore Tre Solomon and junior Brian Schoenauer were a dynamic duo out of the backfield, fueling Penn’s offense throughout the game. Solomon got the bulk of his 51 yards in the first half — like Watson, he missed the second half — while Schoenauer chipped in the majority of his 61 after intermission.

“Obviously Justin and Tre are a big part of our offense,” Torgersen said. “Without them in the second half, we had some guys step in.”

Villanova, who had won 14 consecutive matchups with the Red and Blue since the two teams resumed their series in 1980, was playing without its SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

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With No. 4 Villanova driving to make it a one-score game, Penn linebacker Donald Panciello scooped up a fumble and returned it 94 yards for a touchdown, makitng the score 24-7 and giving the Red and Blue an insurmountable lead they would not relinquish.

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Mixed-race students struggle to find identity Students often dissatisfied with Penn cultural groups ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

Many students seem to effortlessly fit into cultural groups at Penn, but for some, it’s more complicated than simply choosing one.

For mixed-race students, finding racial or cultural groups to identify with can be more of a challenge. Being from a mixed cultural background comes with unique experiences that are more complex than simply combining the two — or more.

College sophomore Emily Marucci is Chinese, but was adopted into a white family at a very young age. She said people “are always confused [why] my last name is Italian. It’s too long to be Asian.”

“I feel like sometimes I’m expected to be in different circles than I am,” Marucci added.

“Racially, I’m supposed to be Asian-American, but I identify more as white. No one ever thinks that when they look at me.”

Wharton sophomore Deena Char also identifies with this frustration. With a mix of

Japanese, French and NativeAmerican backgrounds, she finds it insulting when people pigeonhole her into one identity.

“Just because I’m Asian, it doesn’t mean that I want to be in an Asian organization,” Char said.

One of the struggles mixedrace people face is formally identifying their ethnicities on demographic forms. Often they must fill in a bubble marked “other,” choose one identity over the other or occasionally have the option to choose a “multiracial” or “mixed” bubble.

“To lump us all into one ‘none of the above’ category just doesn’t feel right,” Wharton sophomore Avery Stephenson, who identifies as Filipino and black, said.

Penn students all have different cultural experiences that are not widely addressed by minority groups. Interacting with only one race can threaten efforts for discussion about race within the Penn community. Char says that she feels this polarization contributes to ignorance about other cultures.

“It feels weird to me that that ignorance exists because we’re at such a diverse school where we

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Many Penn students may have cultural experiences that are not widely addressed by specific minority groups.

can branch out and explore so many different cultures,” Char said. “Why come here and just stick with what you know?”

Some cultural groups fade into the background simply because others are more active and established on campus. The narrative that usually focuses on black and white cultures, for example, is fueled by the fact that many black groups tend to speak out about

relevant issues.

“I think the black community has just become more vocal, which is great,” Stephenson said.

“Other groups are still on their way to becoming that vocal.”

Char recalled an incident from last semester when she believed the Vietnamese Student Association wasn’t as vocal as it could have been. During Spring Fling, the group alleged that they

experienced a hate crime at a VSA event. Char suggested to the association’s president that they should hold a protest and make the Penn community aware of the discrimination that they had faced, but the president respectfully declined, she said. As a result, she believes the incident and the tensions in the community faded away without further thought.

But groups are developing on campus to address these issues.

“Having a community that can come together and speak about these issues leads to better visibility,” Stephenson said.

While groups for mixed-race minorities, like Check One, exist, students say these organizations are less well-known than others.

Stephenson said this year, she looks forward to being a part of groups like Check One. “Last year I didn’t even know about them and I really wish I had because I would love to have a community of people that understand the specific issues that I have,” Stephenson said.

Minorities experience issues unique to their identities that can’t be encompassed by any single racial affiliation. Having multiple ethnicities comes with its own set of challenges.

“Hopefully in time … each group will have equal representation,” Stephenson said, “because we all face very similar struggles, such as stereotypes.”

Char advises others not to feel pressured into fitting into one cultural identity.

“Being mixed-race makes you unique,” she said. “Own that uniqueness.”

Penn first Ivy school to join Healthier Campus Initiative Departments join together to promote health and wellness JEFFREY CAREYVA Deputy News Editor

Penn institutionalized the health frenzy on Sept. 21 by becoming the first Ivy League university to join the Healthier Campus Initiative, the collegiate branch of the Partnership for a Healthier America.

The PHA was founded in 2010 alongside First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign

to ensure national youth health and to fight the obesity crisis.

Thirty-seven other colleges and universities have already joined the Healthier Campus Initiative, including American University, George Washington University and the University of Arizona.

To participate in the Initiative, a university must commit to incorporating a set of objectives into daily university life for three years. The objectives are designed to make healthy food and nutrition and physical activity easy choices.

Objectives include offering a healthier food service, providing a subsidized or rental bicycle program and implementing a comprehensive and integrated wellness program on campus annually.

The Penn Business Services Division started working toward a healthier Penn Dining earlier this month by making nutritional information available online.

“What is exciting about this project is to see how many of the objectives have already been instituted at Penn, which

underscores how much work we have already done to promote health and wellness,” Vice President for Business Services Marie Witt wrote in an email.

Departments already coordinating to work toward the initiative’s objectives include Business Services, Penn Recreation and Student Health Service, among others, with plans to expand participation to students.

“We’re looking at this as an opportunity to continue to work on things that students want us to

work on and to make the healthy choice the easy choice,” said Ashlee Halbritte, health educator with Campus Health, SHS’s public health service.

The University has been working on joining the Healthier Campus Initiative since February 2015, but is still working out which objectives to tackle first.

“Business Services is pleased to be working with Student Health Service and its other campus partners on this important initiative,” Witt wrote. “It will focus attention on many of

the activities in which we are already engaged, such as trayless dining, healthy food options and bike share, and will provide a framework for enhancing services in other areas to support health and wellness across campus.”

“This initiative is really unique because it forces several departments across the campus to work together,” Halbritter said. “We want, and more than encourage, students to get involved as we move forward with this new initiative.”

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Penn Bioethics Journal launches society First Penn Bioethics Journal GBM is Wednesday ELENA WU-YAN Contributing Reporter

Amidst the interdisciplinary culture that permeates campus life, students now have another group to consider: the Penn Bioethics Society. The society, in the works since April, has launched and will be holding its inaugural general body meeting this Wednesday.

Founded by members of the Penn Bioethics Journal, the society will serve as an exploratory outlet for students of all academic disciplines. “There’s such a budding interest in bioethics here on campus, and people aren’t necessarily interested in writing but still want to have a community or place to network within bioethics,”

Di rector of P rog ra m m ing Susannah Rogers, a College sophomore, said.

Although the society stems from the journal, it will fill a different niche. “Last year, we kind of came to the realization that there were a lot of associate editors [on the journal] who weren’t committed to how much work it would take to make a journal but who still were really, really interested in bioethics,” said College senior Perry Goffner, who is vice president of the society and an associate editor of the PBJ. “It really seemed like it would be more appropriate to have two separate organizations — one that was focused on publishing a great quality publication and the other that would be focused on doing quality programming for undergrads,” said College senior Ruchita

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The board members of the newly established Penn Bioethics Society, Perry Goffner, Susannah Rogers, Ruchita Pendse and Jessica Davis, enjoy having philosophical discussions about bioethics on College Green.

Pendse, who is president of the society and editor-in-chief of

the PBJ. The society aims to use this

programming — which will range from public policy and clinical ethics decision-making to engineering and technology development — to expose its members to the interdisciplinary nature of bioethics. Board members plan to host events such as bioethics faculty panels and luncheons, networking sessions and undergraduate research spotlights.

The society’s board hopes to clarify the definition of bioethics itself and to emphasize the extent of its applicability to other disciplines across schools at Penn. “Bioethics is a field that addresses the ethical implications that arise from advances in science, medicine and technology,” Goffner said. “I think some people, especially at Penn sometimes, think bioethics might be confined to the clinical arena or just to medicine,

but bioethics has vast implications in the sciences [and] in the legal sphere. It’s a really wide and interesting field.”

Jessica Davis, a Nursing sophomore and the director of communications for the society, spoke to the relevance of bioethics in Nursing specifically. “I found that every single course that I’m taking somehow relates to [bioethics]. … Nurses are the ones who need to advocate for the patients and make sure that they’re getting all their rights, so that’s a very big ethical thing to make sure that we’re doing our part,” she said.

Though the society’s board has yet to meet its constituency, over 160 students from all four schools have signed up for the listserv.

“There’s really genuine interest from a lot of undergrads,” Pendse said.

CBS correspondent to headline Annenberg Lecture on Oct. 6 Nancy Cordes will discuss the 2016 elections LYNNA YE Contributing Reporter

The list of well-known public figures visiting Philadelphia this semester continues to grow with the announcement of the 2015 Annenberg Lecture.

On Oct. 6, the Annenberg School for Communication and the Annenberg Public Policy Center will host 1995 College

graduate Nancy Cordes, who will deliver this year’s lecture titled “Chasing the ‘Scooby’ Van and Tracking Trump to the Border: Covering the Wild Ride that is the 2016 Presidential Campaign.”

Cordes is a congressional correspondent for CBS News.

After graduating from Penn, Cordes attended Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and worked for ABC News and some of its affiliates before joining CBS

News. Cordes recently covered the second GOP debate and the pope’s visit to Washington, D.C. Seeking to find speakers who would appeal to both graduate and undergraduate students, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Annenberg School Dean Michael Delli Carpini selected Cordes as this year’s speaker.

“We thought that as students study politics, particularly presidential or congressional politics,

Dalai Lama cancels visit Dalai Lama was to be presented Liberty Medal EUNICE LIM Staff Reporter

As one religious leader makes his way through Philadelphia today, another has cancelled his upcoming visit. On Friday, the Dalai Lama cancelled his October visit to Philadelphia under doctor’s orders.

The 80-year-old Tibetan Buddhist leader had been slated to talk at La Salle University and Temple University and, most

importantly, to receive the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia on Oct. 26. However, doctors at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., advised the Dalai Lama to rest instead.

The Liberty Medal, established in 1988, is awarded to leaders who advance the cause of liberty around the world.

Past recipients include Malala Yousafzai, Hillary Clinton, Bono, Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter.

The Dalai Lama’s office is now making arrangements for

a representative to receive the honor in his place. The National Constitution Center has announced that free public tickets will be available on their site beginning Oct. 1st at 10 a.m.

His cancelled trip had also included stops in Colorado and Utah.

Chime Rigzin, one of the Dalai Lama’s secretaries, told the Associated Press that the health test results are fine and that the Dalai Lama will soon be returning to Dharamsala, India.

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JOHN PRENDERGAST ’80 is the editor of Penn’s awardwinning alumni magazine, The Pennsylvania Gazette. He was a writer and editor at Penn and Jefferson medical schools, got an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins, was managing editor of Civil Engineeering, and is the author of a novel, “Jump” DAVID BORGENICHT ’90 is the CEO and owner of Philadelphia book publisher Quirk Books, and co-author of the best-selling “Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook.” Quirk publishes 25 books a year, including international best-seller “Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.”

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they would find it insightful to hear from someone who has the same degree experience that they have, and who has applied what she’s learned — both in political science and the Annenberg School as well — in the outside world,” Jamieson said.

Annenberg Lectures of previous years have included Gwen Iffil, co-editor of Washington Week and PBS NewsHour ; Bill Moyers, former White House press secretary; and George P. Shultz, who has served as U.S.

secretary of labor, secretary of the treasury and secretary of state.

First established in 1992 as the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Distinguished Lecture in Communication, and recently merged with the Leonore Annenberg Lecture in Public Service and Global Understanding established in 2006, the current Annenberg Lecture seeks to honor the Annenbergs’ legacy and thank them for their contributions to Penn.

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Monday, September 28, at 6:00 PM, Penn Prof. David Grazian, “American Zoo: A Sociological Safari” In “American Zoo,” David Grazian, a Penn Professor of Sociology, takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders. A revealing portrayal of comic animals, delighted children, and feisty zookeepers, “American Zoo” is a remarkable close-up exploration of a classical cultural attraction.

Tuesday, September 29, at 6:00 PM, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, “Dr. Mütter’s Marvels” Award-winning writer Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz vividly chronicles how Mütter’s efforts helped establish Philadelphia as a global mecca for medical innovation—despite intense resistance from his numerous rivals. In the narrative spirit of “The Devil in the White City,” “Dr. Mütter’s Marvels” interweaves an eye-opening portrait of nineteenth-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the “P. T. Barnum of the surgery room.”

Wednesday, September 30, at 6:00 PM, Wharton Professor Maurice Schweitzer and Columbia Professor Adam Galinsky, “Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both” In “Friend & Foe,” researchers Schweitzer and Galinsky explain why this debate misses the mark. Rather than being hard wired to compete or cooperate, humans have evolved to do both. It is only by learning how to strike the right balance between these two forces that we can improve our long-term relationships and get more of what we want.

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OPINION A wholly political pope CITIZEN CAPOZZI | While Pope Francis’ political advocacy excites many Penn students, it alienates

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he arrival of Pope Francis in Philadelphia last weekend was a mixed blessing. While the pope’s arrival christened a classless Friday at Penn, the pomp surrounding his visit created a trinity of chaos, store closings and traffic.

Pope Francis caused a similar stir last week in Washington, D.C., where he became the first pontiff to address the U.S. Congress. In his speech there last Thursday, Francis called for an end to the death penalty, encouraged immigration reform, demanded action on climate change and criticized capitalism.

Pope Francis’ progressive tone has made him nationally popular, especially with young people. This popularity is especially apparent at Penn, where most students I’ve spoken to support the pope. College freshman Francesca Polizotto, a practicing Catholic, was pleased by the pope’s political stances. “A lot of his policies are rooted in Biblical studies, especially climate change, which is a moral issue,”

some Catholics and politicizes the papacy

she noted. College sophomore Gabrielle Jackson also seemed pleased with the pope’s actions, noting “he has a duty as a moral enforcer, and he definitely has a lot of influence. He made [Speaker of the House] Boehner cry after all!”

While many students are enjoying an intellectual baptism in

against fossil fuels. “If Francis cares for the poor, he should reverse his stance on fossil fuels,” Slayback argued. “His luddism on fossil fuels is really, really, really dangerous.”

Yet other students are more generally concerned about the pope’s increasingly partisan nature. “People suddenly don’t

Is it wise for Pope Francis to be throwing fuel on controversial political issues?”

John Boehner’s tears, others are concerned with Francis’ specific policy positions. Wharton senior and practicing Catholic Nicholas Zarra “disagrees with Pope Francis’ positions on climate change and financial inequality” and thinks it is “crucial for Catholics to understand the differences between the pope’s moral message and the efficacy of his suggested policy positions.” Former College student Zak Slayback is alarmed by Francis’ crusade

seem to care about the separation between church and state, which has long been an important ideal in this country,” College senior Melissa Beswick disapprovingly noted. “Francis crosses the line historically respected by pontiffs by actually advocating direct action in the United States,” Slayback agreed.

Others, like College freshman Kevin Myers, disagreed, arguing, “We as a society have already given up on the separa-

tion between church and state.

Religion is on our money and in our pledge of allegiance. Only if God isn’t on the money and in the pledge should the pope avoid political statements here.”

And so the debate commences! But that’s the real point. Like a regular politician, Pope Francis is starting partisan arguments and distracting from more fundamental questions about faith.

Is it wise for Pope Francis to be throwing fuel on controversial political issues?

Saint Augustine, a 5th century C.E. theologian, believed the Roman Catholic Church should only take stances on issues the Bible addresses. He wrote that, even in somewhat ambiguous cases, the Catholic Church “should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search of truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it. That would be not to battle for the teaching of Holy Scripture but for our own, wishing its teaching to conform to ours.”

In that spirit, Pope Francis should be especially careful about championing socialism.

In his speech to Congress, Pope Francis praised Dorothy Day, delighting American leftists like Bernie Sanders. Day, a controversial socialist activist, once said, “We need to overthrow not the government … but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.”

After praising Day, Pope Francis argued “the fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts … It goes on without saying that part of this great effort is the creation and distribution of wealth.” In a 2014 interview, Francis justified his anti-capitalist rhetoric with scripture, saying “I must say that communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is the center of the Gospel.” Indeed, but the Bible does not prescribe policy proposals to help the poor, and certainly doesn’t propose a socialist system.

LOUIS CAPOZZI In a country where religious belief and church attendance are declining, does Pope Francis want to start such partisan conversations? Regardless, the arguments have begun and will undoubtedly continue. To quote all the politicians who will politicize the Pope’s comments from the previous week, “God bless America.”

LOUIS CAPOZZI is a College senior from Mechanicsburg, Pa., studying classics and history. His email address is capozzil@sas.upenn.edu.

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ost of us students face the problem of constantly feeling that there is not enough time in the day to get everything done that we need to.

Items on people’s to-do list range from routine errands, emails and busywork to classes, homework, research and so on. On top of all of this, we are told to make adequate time for three meals a day, exercise and at least seven to eight hours of sleep a night. And then on top of that, most of us need to also spend time cultivating our relationships with people who make us happy such as family, friends and significant others. How in the world do we fit all of this into 16 or 17 hours of waking time each day? It seems that things have not changed so much since the mid-18th century, when Benjamin Franklin noted that “order” — or in other words, the principle of keeping each task

THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PROJECT | Exploring the never-ending time management problem in its particular part of the day — was throughout his life the most difficult of his 13 virtues to uphold.

I formed a daily schedule for myself this week, which focused on daily goals in terms of number of hours it

much fun to drag myself away when my self-imposed bedtime was drawing near, so I ended up just sleeping in later and doing fewer extra activities the following day to get my six hours in.

I am probably not the only

inclined to prioritize getting enough sleep than if it is a problem set that simply needs to be handed in. However, another student, who chose to remain anonymous, said that if anything, they would be more likely to settle for turning in

How in the world do we fit all of this into 16 or 17 hours of waking time each day?” would take to do them, rather than setting exact daily times.

For example, one rule I gave myself was that I had to work for at least six hours a day, even if that meant not going to an event I had been planning on. The hardest part was sticking to the sleep schedule I had set out for myself. Eleven p.m., I realized, was kind of early for someone whose friends mostly consist of college students. I was having too

one, however, who compromises on some activities I would like to do for the sake of others. Wharton senior Leah Davidson noted that she feels sleep is the easiest daily activity to cut back on when she needs to. She added that whether or not she chooses to cut back on sleep depends on the nature of what is due the next day — if it is a performance-based activity like an interview, she is more

perfunctory work for the sake of getting enough sleep, exercise and food.

The above comments and my own experience hint that it is unrealistic to expect that full-time students can possibly make time for everything in their daily schedule. Some Penn students have coped with this reality by figuring out a way of compromising some of their activities to achieve a sense of balance. This “smart

compromising,” as another student who will remain anonymous phrased it, is a more achievable and relatable method of organizing time for those with jam-packed schedules. If exercise is not my thing, for instance, perhaps I could go to the gym only when I really feel I need it, rather than on a daily basis. Or maybe I could go to that huge party I have been looking forward to for ages and submit an average homework, rather than a great one — that one homework will not matter much in the long run. If I absolutely have to pull that all-nighter every once in awhile, I can do it. I just should not make a habit of it. So it is good, generally, to make some kind of plan for how we will spend our day in a way that maximizes what we do in the time we have.

If finding the healthy balance of social, healthy and academic activities in our daily schedules means making the

GINA ELIA idea of compromising some of our to-do list less stigmatized, though, then I say let’s go for it. Here’s to being unashamed, rather than embarrassed, to minimize our effort on some to-do items in order to maximize our benefit from others.

Here’s to smart compromise.

GINA ELIA is a graduate student from Hingham, Mass. Her email address is ginaelia@sas.upenn.edu.

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For some, numbers don’t reflect true academic quality of colleges VIBHA KANNAN Staff Reporter

Penn may have dropped another spot in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, but the Penn community tends to believe that a good college is

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defined by more than just a number.

On Sept. 9, U.S. News & World Report rankings released their 2016 edition of Best Colleges, with Penn dropping to ninth place, following its drop to eighth from seventh last year.

These rankings use a rigid set of metrics that include undergraduate academic reputation, graduation rates, financial resources and SAT/ACT median scores.

“The top 15 institutions are so tightly clustered that very small changes in any metric may result in a change in rank,” Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy said in an email. He added that small changes in the top tier of colleges are to be expected every year.

Han Hanson, founder of Total College Advisory, agreed with MacCarthy. “When you’re in the top 10, you are great whether you are two or nine — Harvard does not have a substantial educational edge over Penn,” he

said.

Hanson added that many of the metrics used are not the best indication of a college’s academic quality. Although U.S. News dedicates 18 percent of its rankings to the average six-year graduation rate, Hanson said that using a four-year graduation rate would be a better indication of academic quality.

Although rankings identify many great schools, he said, new factors like study abroad and research opportunities should also be measured.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda has previously said that prospective and current students and their families should assess rankings given the context.

Penn’s drop in rankings has not fazed the majority of students. In an online Daily Pennsylvanian poll asking, “Does Penn falling in the U.S News and World Report top colleges rankings mean anything?”

69 percent of respondents answered no, while only 31 percent responded yes.

For DP Columnist and College junior Alec Ward, Penn’s drop in the U.S. News rankings was actually a source of relief.

“I would be a lot more worried to see us jump four steps up than one step down based on the metrics,” Ward said. “Rankings are all about institutionalization and prioritizing things that really don’t make the campus better.”

Undergraduate Assembly Director of Student Life Emily Hoeven, a College sophmore and DP columnist, said she did look at the U.S. News rankings when applying to colleges.

“People do pay attention to the rankings, so it’s a little bit disappointing to hear that Penn dropped, but I don’t feel like it affects me now that I’m here,” she said.

Hoeven added that rankings do not change her opinion about Penn. “Whatever the rankings are, I still think Penn is a great school,” she said. “Dropping from eighth to ninth isn’t going to convince me otherwise.”

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Penn seniors launch new late-night variety and talk show New show to feature music and topical comedy MOEKA NAKAMURA Contributing Reporter

While the city was eagerly waiting for the arrival of the Pope last week, students were making their mark on Penn history by launching a new monthly late-night variety and talk show.

“The Late Night” had its first live taping at the Platt Student Performing Arts House on Sept. 25. The first show followed a traditional late-night

format, featuring the day’s news, a monologue, comedy sketches, interviews and guest performances.

“The Late Night” is led by host Daniel Locker, a College senior, and co-host, Alexa Fecca, also a College senior, and features The Ravioli Trinity as the house band. The show included an interview with Undergraduate Assembly President Jane Meyer and performances by CityStep.

In her interview with Locker, Meyer discussed how despite being the president of the UA, she is similar to any other student

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Students held the first live taping of newly launched show “The Late Night” last Friday at the Platt Student Performing Arts House.

on campus. In a clip, Meyer confessed she faces inherent

risks and sacrifices in her position, similar to “colleagues”

President Barack Obama and Pope Francis.

Sketch and monologue topics included on- and off- campus themes and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Donald Trump.

“In Penn news, the University was rated No. 2 on the Wealth-X list of richest alumni … speaking of rich alumni, some are saying Donald’s name is nowhere to be found on campus,” Locker said.

“The University is ashamed of his alumni status.”

The show also featured interactive games and challenges.

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PILGRIMS FLOCK TO FRANCIS The pope preached family values in his Phila. visit DAN SPINELLI Senior Reporter

It felt like a cross between a carnival, concert and the end of a post-apocalyptic movie.

Over two event-filled days, Pope Francis crisscrossed Philadelphia giving speeches, kissing babies and celebrating Mass. Despite a traffic box blocking off most of the main thoroughfares in Center City and airport-style security measures, thousands of pilgrims thronged through the city. From Independence Mall to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, thousands of the faithful politely pushed and shoved for a chance to view Francis, the popular leader

of 1.2 billion Catholics.

While he focused primarily on environmental and economic issues when in Washington, D.C. and New York, he spoke more broadly about religious toleration, acceptance and the importance of the family in Philadelphia.

“Our common house can no longer tolerate sterile divisions,” he said in the homily at his Sunday mass on the Parkway. “The urgent challenge of protecting our home includes the effort to bring the entire human family together in the pursuit of a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change.”

His visit came as a culmination to the weeklong World Meeting of Families, a triennial series of conferences and speaker events

focused on the Catholic views on family and relationships.

Despite the potential for a focus on traditional Catholic ideals of heterosexual unions, the pope largely strayed from emphasizing conservative Church positions.

In a Saturday speech outside Independence Hall, he spoke very much at odds with modern conservative thought, offering a strong rebuke to nativist rhetoric about immigration.

“You should never be ashamed of your traditions,” Francis said to the largely Latino crowd outside the hall, in rejection of calls for assimilation.

In his first address in Philadelphia — a mass at the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul — Francis praised the

contributions of women and laypeople in the Church, singling out Philadelphia-born St. Katharine Drexel as an exemplar.

Father Thomas Whittingham, a 2006 Wharton graduate and the pastor of St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Chester, Pa., applauded the pope’s inclusive rhetoric.

“We need to keep young people [involved] because they’re passionate about social justice and serving the least among us,” Whittingham said in an interview later that day, characterizing Francis’ homily.

Penn students participated in the papal festivities by volu nt e er i ng with translation

and crowd control over the weekend, and attending his public events.

On Sunday morning, the Newman Center hosted a breakfast before walking down to the Parkway for the Mass. Somewhere between 500 and 800 students walked down, according to Penn Newman Vice President and College and Wharton senior Andrea Muglia — less than the 1,400 registered on Facebook, but still a sizable amount.

The students had no trouble getting in, Muglia said, but other

pilgrims didn’t have similar luck.

Due to immense overcrowding at security checkpoints in Center City, many people with tickets were stuck in line well into the start of Sunday mass, which began at 4 p.m. Security personnel also let in many general admission attendees earlier, which contributed to the overcrowding on the Parkway by the early afternoon. Events were more spread out across the city on Saturday — but with the mass being Sunday’s main event — nearly a million pilgrims rushed early to

the Parkway.

Some tired visitors made due with the long lines. In a queue extending multiple city blocks on 21st street, a group of singers from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Doylestown, Pa., began singing hymns, providing some impromptu entertainment for the tired faithful.

Despite some imposing security obstacles — including a series of National Guard vehicles stationed outside the Parkway — pilgrims reflected positively on the pope’s visit.

“You should never be ashamed of your traditions,”

-Pope Francis

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DPS not fazed by masses of papal pilgrims Public Safety officials kept eyes on Penn and University City LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY Staff Reporter

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Contrary to what one might assume from the high military presence in University City, Penn Emergency Operations Center managed the area’s influx of up to a million people this weekend for the papal visit.

The words “calm,” “tranquil” and “serene” might not be the first ones thatpop into one’s head when imagining an emergency operations center managing nearly a million pedestrians. The scene at the Division of Public Safety´s papal EOC, however, was just that on Sunday evening as Pope Francis made his way onto Benjamin Franklin Parkway to celebrate Mass.

Students likely noticed the high number of National Guardsmen stationed on and around campus.

Less noticeably, they all had a supervisor at the EOC — the National Guard provided support to DPS and Penn Police, deferring to their judgment and local knowledge at almost every turn.

Many members of DPS and Penn Police, including PennComm, stayed around campus for the weekend, bunking in the International House, the Sheraton Hotel and the Homewood Suites. Some administrative staff had air mattresses in their offices, allowing them to provide constant accessibility and accountability from the highest level.

“Francis has brought a good feeling to the city — everyone seems to be getting along,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

“We give a big thank you to the student body,” Rush added. “We worked closely with VPUL, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and coaches to get the message out that this was not the

weekend to be in the hospital for alcohol consumption.” Only eight students were hospitalized over the weekend as of 3 p.m. on Sunday, well below normal weekend numbers, according to DPS. At 3:15 p.m., the pope was making an impromptu stop on Saint John’s campus, delaying the time of his arrival at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

This change in plans was taken by all members of the EOC in stride, as the appropriate calls updating the officers on the streets were made.

Rush shared a story about the pope’s initial arrival at the Philadelphia airport, in which Francis had his Fiat pulled over so that he could bless a young man bound to a wheelchair with cerebral palsy. A Penn alumnus working for ABC’s Good Morning America reached out to Rush, requesting a venue to meet with the boy, his family and local officers. The meeting ended up happening in the DPS building thanks to the connection between Rush and the ABC employee.

Downstairs from the EOC, in DPS’ PennComm center, the scene could be described as livelier, but still entirely under control. At this point the staff was slightly weary from a long weekend of 12-hour shifts, but vigilance and communications were clearly not impacted at all. Every desk was filled with a person and a coffee, and every screen was being carefully watched.

Interdepartmental communication was a key theme of the weekend, with calls coming in from all across the city requesting assistance with transportation to and from hospitals. Three hospitals were within the DPS EOC coverage: the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. All three were receiving visits throughout the weekend. The radio chatter was almost constant, with updates on everything from unauthorized vehicles entering the

“When you’re down here, it’s like we don’t need to be ashamed of being Catholic anymore,” Whittingham said.

Outside of the Sunday public mass and the Saturday Independence Hall speech, the pope also visited the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, one of six jails in the city, to speak to inmates on Sunday morning. Earlier, he spoke with sexual abuse survivors and made an impromptu stop in the afternoon to St. Joseph’s University, whose Jesuit identity he shares.

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Car runs through papal barricade

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A male suspect ran through a police barricade set up for the pope's visit with his car.

Suspect tased when he allegedly described the use of the taser as “what appeared to be an apprograbbed an officer's uniform LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY Staff Reporter

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PennComm Officer Ommett Levine remained vigilant as Pope Francis celebrated the Mass in Philadelphia this past weekend.

no-drive zone to up-to-the-minute details on the pope’s location.

The EOC also featured a list of exceptions for the no-drive zone, such as a shuttle run by the Ronald McDonald House to transport patients and their family members to and from the area’s hospitals and the house. At one point, a HUP employee called in to request directions to the Walt Whitman Bridge. Veronica Anderson from Fire and Emergency Services gave specific

details on the best route to take as well as directions on how to navigate the barricades.

Moments such as these were high in energy, but it was clear that everyone involved knew their role and the team was consistently able to sync-up and resolve one situation after another.

Members of the EOC staff had a positive attitude throughout the evening, with cell phones being passed around sharing the latest viral moments from

the pope’s visit. One particular video of a baby dressed as the Pope was received with smiles all around.

The EOC is in session at other times, including during the Penn Relays and when any severe weather occurs in the area. There is a significantly scaleddown EOC during Spring Fling as well.

DPS staff were optimistic about the pope’s visit as great practice for when Philadelphia will play host to the Democratic National Convention in July 2016.

Around 9:42 p.m. on Saturday night, a car crashed through a police barricade at 3800 Chestnut Street. A Penn Police officer and two National Guardsmen managed to dive out of the way just before the moment of impact, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

Barricades have been set up along 38th Street as part of the efforts to close off a zone for Pope Francis’s visit this weekend.

The officers at the scene managed to stop the suspect’s vehicle, but he resisted when police tried to remove him from the vehicle, Rush said. One officer’s hand was injured during the incident.

At one point, the suspect began grabbing at an officer’s uniform in what appeared to be an attempt to pull the officer into the suspect’s vehicle.

At that point, the suspect was tased by a responding officer in an attempt to subdue him. Rush

priate use of force at the time.”

Rush added that this and any use of force will be subjected to further scrutiny and review.

In a video of the incident provided by College sophomore Arjun Malik, the man in the vehicle can be heard repeatedly shouting, “I know my rights, give me a warrant.” He is tased and pulled out of the vehicle at the 1:30 mark of the three-minute video.

After being tased, the suspect was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he was medically examined and found to be unharmed, Rush said. He was arrested for reckless endangerment of another person and will also be charged with resisting arrest. He will also be breathalyzed at the station, which could lead to further charges.

Rush said this was the first major incident that has occurred in relation to the Pope’s visit and corresponding road closures and barricades. “Overall, people have been extremely pleasant and cooperative,” Rush said.

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To bring about these changes, Van Pelt installed all new computers with solid-state drives, which sufficiently increased the amount of free storage space and improved network connection.

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senior national team ARIEL FIELDMAN Contributing Reporter

Being the coxswain on the USR Senior National Team is an accomplishment in itself, but few have managed to do it while still in college.

Penn senior Jake Mendelson achieved that this past summer, competing at the world championships in Aiguebelette, France, as a part of the men’s coxed pair.

After training at Philadelphia’s own Vesper boathouse and balancing workouts with two internships in true Penn fashion, Mendelson returns to Penn with experience on the world stage.

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On its next possession, Penn found itself in Villanova’s red zone once again, this time facing a fourth-and-short situation. Penn coach Ray Priore decided to go for it, yet the squad turned it over on downs.

But from the Quakers, the message was clear: We are here to win the game.

“I told the kids last Sunday night, ‘We win the toss, we’re taking the football,’” Priore said. “‘And any time the ball is between the 40s, we’re going for it on fourth.’”

After going up 14-0 off the strength of two Justin Watson touchdowns, Penn’s defense went to work, matching the offense’s aggression series for series. The Quakers simultaneously prevented almost any big plays from the Wildcats and forced two important turnovers, including a fumble that was returned 90 yards for a touchdown by linebacker Donald Panciello.

In total, Penn controlled the

The very day the collegiate rowing season ended, Mendelson was approached by potential prospects for the national team.

“It was humbling to be asked to compete on such a high level.

It’s always been my dream to make the senior national team, but I never thought I’d be able to do it during my collegiate career,” Mendelson said.

Going into trials, though they faced stiff competition from boats sent from the Olympic training center, Mendelson and his teammates were confident that they would come out on top.

“There was pressure to post a really fast time so it would be worth it to compete at worlds.

We had to hold ourselves to a higher standard at trials [for worlds],” Mendelson said. They

ball for almost 40 minutes, running the ball almost three times as much as it passed. Its passing game, meanwhile, was vertical and aggressive.

Make no mistake about it: The final score was 24-13, but, save for a brief run in the second half, Villanova never came close.

Yes, Villanova quarterback Zach Bednarczyk struggled at times, but that was hardly the only problem for the Wildcats.

They were dominated in all aspects of the game.

I will admit that I – along with just about any follower of the Red and Blue – didn’t see this coming. But how could I have?

When I entered the school as a freshman a little over two years ago, I expected to see Penn football play with the swagger of an Ivy champion, a program that has historically dominated its conference. And on Thursday night — for the first time in my time here — that’s exactly what I saw.

Of course, people will continue to rationalize this game

managed to earn their ticket to France and the right to face even tougher competition at worlds.

Rowing is a sport notorious for strenuous schedules and early mornings and preparation for worlds was no different.

Practices were twice a day, seven days a week.

“Our ultimate goal was to win, but at the very least bring back a medal,” said Mendelson, who kept meticulous record of his preparations by logging every meter he coxed this summer.

The stakes were even higher than usual this year. As a preOlympic year, the way to qualify for the Olympics was based around how a boat placed at this event. Though Mendelson’s event — the coxed pair — is not

as a fluke, parties involved certainly notwithstanding.

“Penn came in and played ... almost a perfect game,” Villanova coach Andy Talley said.

But quite frankly, that’s a lazy conclusion as well. It ignores the fact that on three separate occasions, Penn entered the Wildcats’ redzone and came away without scoring. For all of Penn’s offensive successes, the Quakers also left quite a few points on the field.

When it comes down to it, Penn didn’t pull off their biggest upset in recent memory because it was up against a battered opponent. And it didn’t win because it played a perfect game.

The Quakers pulled it off simply by playing with the attitude of a team that truly believed it could — and would — win.

No asterisk needed.

COLIN HENDERSON is a Wharton junior from Nazareth, Pa., and is a sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at henderson@thedp.com.

an Olympic event, the atmosphere throughout the American squad was even more intense than usual.

“Across all events, there was an extra level of pressure added to competition, because results determined whether they would row [at the 2016 Olympics in] Rio. At the same time, it was an incredible experience to be among Olympians.You see racing like you don’t see anywhere else,” Mendelson said.

“People were coming within seconds of achieving their life goals, things they had worked towards for eight or more years.

I got to come back to school, but these were people’s entire lives.”

In such a high-pressure environment, there were not only incredible experiences to be had,

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best player, senior quarterback John Robertson. The 2014 Walter Payton Award winner was ruled out indefinitely after suffering a knee injury last week against Delaware. Freshman Zach Bednarczyk — making his first career start in Robertson’s stead — contributed 185 passing yards, of which only 23 came in the first half.

Penn excelled on the defensive side of the ball, holding the Wildcats scoreless through the game’s first two quarters before allowing only two touchdowns — one of which came in garbage time — after the break.

Senior captain Tyler Drake led the squad with two forced fumbles and a sack, but the unit’s highlight was a 90-yard scoopand-score by junior linebacker Donald Panciello to seal the

but also lessons to be learned.

“A lot of what I learned is that not everything comes easy,” Mendelson said. “There’s not always perfect camaraderie in a boat, there’s going to be bad days of practice, you question what you’re doing and wonder if it’s worth it. ... You have to put the long term goal in focus.”

However, even with the intense preparation the team put in, there was ultimately disappointment and uncertainty for the future of the program at the Olympics. No boats on the men’s side qualified for the Games, a huge upset causing tensions to run high in France. Though the competition didn’t go exactly as hoped, Mendelson returned to Penn with more confidence and skill than before.

game late in the fourth quarter.

The Quakers got the scoring started on their first possession of the game, receiving the opening kickoff and driving 75 yards for the touchdown. Watson capped the drive with a pretty diving catch in the endzone, getting his feet down as he fell out of bounds.

The two teams exchanged possession for a handful of drives before Torgersen once again found Watson over the middle for a completion. The play looked to be only for a short gain, but Watson trucked several VIllanova defenders — and threw a nasty stiff arm — en route to a 36-yard touchdown to put the Quakers up 14-0.

Shortly after halftime, the Quakers made it 17-0 on a Jimmy Gammill field goal.

However, the Wildcats responded quickly with a one-yard score by Gary Underwood to

“As a coxswain, I fine-tuned my skills and learned a lot more.

I’ve always been really good motivationally, but I needed to further develop my technical skills, and working with the national team coaches and athletes — who were, honestly, better than me — accelerated my development as an athlete.”

What does this mean for the future of Penn heavyweight rowing? Mendelson, who is dealing with an entirely new coaching staff in the 2015-16 season, says he will use what he learned this summer to further the program.

“As a senior, I want to implement immediate, not just lasting impact on the team. Forget a rebuilding year, I want to win now.”

make it a 17-7 game and give Villanova some life.

After a pooch punt by Penn, the Wildcats got the ball back midway through the fourth quarter and looked poised to make it a one-score game. However, Javon White fumbled on the Penn 10-yard line with seven minutes remaining, and Panciello scooped up the loose ball and hustled untouched to the endzone, giving the Quakers a 24-7 edge.

“I saw a whole bunch of green in front of me and a whole lot of white to my left. I tried not to look back,” Panciello said. “I saw the endzone, and I knew my guys were blocking for me.”

Villanova finished off the scoring with a Bednarczyk-toUnderwood touchdown with less than two minutes remaining, but by then it was all but official: Penn had executed the upset of the century.

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After an up-and-down start to the season, Penn volleyball hit its stride on its first weekend of league play.

On Friday and Saturday of the weekend of the Pope’s visit to Philadelphia, the Red and Blue left town for New Jersey to face off against Princeton, who brought a four-game win streak into the match, and NJIT the following day.

Friday night’s match against Princeton (5-5, 0-1 Ivy) was the Quakers’ first Ivy League face-off of the season, and thanks to stellar performances from seniors Alexis Genske and Ronnie Bither, they dispatched the Tigers, 3-1. Genske recorded a double-double with 14 kills and 14 digs, while Bither contributed a staggering 44 of Penn’s 49 total assists in the match.

Genske had nothing but praise to give for Penn’s (7-6,

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During volleyball’s first Ivy League game of the 2015 season against Princeton, senior setter Ronnie Bither exploded from an offensive standpoint, racking up 44 of the Quakers’ 49 assists.

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mindset, she spoke of their success.

“We’ve taken a new approach of brea k ing down

games into mini-games. It gives us good focus,� Genske said. “During preseason we were a little bit unsteady, but we just changed our focus this weekend. We’re focusing really strongly on each part of the game and just being really aggressive.�

As the first match of the Ivy League season, the team encountered new str uggles compared to previous games this year. Freshman outside hitter Cour tney Quinn described the tension of the away match, saying, “the crowd was very hostile. They yelled lots of personal things. [The team] hadn’t faced that yet, but we handled it really well. “It fired us up.�

Hostile environments like those at Princeton (5-5, 0-1) can often be intimidating, especially for freshmen like Quinn, but she attributed her team’s success to their great chemistry. “Our seniors have been so awesome bringing us into the team, making us feel comfortable on and off the court,�

Quinn added. “Team chemistry

is something that’s going to take us a long way. The seniors have really helped us get into our groove.�

The Red and Blue stayed in that groove into the next match of their double-header weekend against NJIT. Penn swept the Highlanders (4-11) in emphatic fashion to take its winning streak to three straight as it finished its nonconference season with a .500 record, a three-game improvement from the team’s 2014 output.

For the coming weeks, the Quakers will be duking it out with bitter division rivals.

Genske expects close, hardfought matches, but a lso expects success, citing the team’s new aggressive mentality. “Hopeful and excited,� she said, describing her feelings about the upcoming Ancient Eight games. “We’re super stoked to be going into next weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard. “We know it’s going be a dogfight this year, but we feel ready now.�

Penn rookie making most of opportunity in backfield gain any yardage as multiple Franklin Pierce players made contact with him.

But he shocked everyone by fending off the defenders before reeling off another 20 yards into the end zone. With less than 10 minutes of collegiate play on the books, Max Jones had earned himself his first touchdown in elaborate fashion.

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Penn. But what everyone noticed that day was that the Red RB starts season strong and Blue had a new asset. “He surprised everybody in ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN attendance that day because of Senior Sports Reporter his talent,� coach Bill Wagner said. “It was a great run.�

Number 29 got the ball with Jones was one of the freshjust under seven minutes left in men on the team Wagner the first quarter of Penn sprint actively sought out. In high football’s home opener. With school, Jones was a tremendous the Quakers already up, 7-0, athlete in both track and footthe freshman running back ball. Thanks to his lithe stature, looked like he wasn’t going to the running back fell below the weight cutoff, thus qualifying for the Quakers’ sprint football squad. “He had an outstanding high school career,� Wagner said. “He was one of the fastest kids in the 100-meter [dash] up in the New England area, and he attended several elite training * Free admission before 1am with Penn ID * camps where he was one of the standouts in all the various Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays drills.�

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But after Jones and Klaus split series to begin the contest, an injury to Klaus opened up a chance for Jones to shine. “Jake turned his ankle pretty bad and had a high sprain, and Max stepped up and became the number one running back,�

Wagner said. “Obviously, [he] had a tremendous game against Franklin Pierce. For a freshman to do what he did in that first exposure to our league is incredible.�

In that first game, Jones racked up 125 yards rushing in the first half before finishing the game with 130. His second touchdown came at the end of a 65-yard run that opened the scoring in the second quarter.

Jones’ performance against the Ravens even earned him Collegiate Spr int Football League Offensive Player of the Week honors.

While Wagner and his staff certainly had high hopes for Jones and the rest of the freshman class, they have stepped up early and filled holes in the Red and Blue squad. Jones’ talent on the field and amiable personality off of it have allowed him to integrate well with the team. “He’s got great speed, has good vision, is very coachable,�

Wagner said. “And not only is [he] a good runner, but he can catch the ball and also block very well, which is important in our offense.�

Against Post, Jones’ skill was on display yet again, as he carried the ball 19 times for 48 yards in the Quakers’ 34-18 win. “He had a great game again,�

Wagner said. “He did a lot of blocking because we were throwing the ball a lot more, and then later in the game when we went to our running game he was able to pick up the yardage needed to take time off the clock.�

Through two games, Jones has shown off his talent and

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scores 17 seconds into OT DAVID FIGURELLI Contributing Reporter

It was a beautiful day for a field hockey game, but it was even better if you were a Penn fan.

After enduring a 1-0 loss at the hands of Cornell last year in Ithaca, the Quakers bounced back this year to win, 3-2, in exciting overtime fashion on Friday.

Kicking off its Ivy League slate against the Big Red (4-3, 0-1 Ivy) at Vagelos Field, Penn (6-1, 1-0) began its conference season strong. After pinning Cornell in its defensive zone for much of the first half, the Quakers were finally rewarded for their efforts with a goal from sophomore Alexa Hoover, who took a cross from the other side of the circle from classmate Rachel Huang and scored with 11 minutes left in the opening period.

But c om i ng out of

intermission, the Big Red stepped up their game. It was now the Red and Blue who found themselves pinned down in their defensive end. After surviving a wave of Cornell scoring opportunities from the corner which forced sophomore goalkeeper Liz Mata to make some big saves, the Quakers finally broke with six minutes remaining in the second half. Krysten Mayers took a shallow-angle shot that took a bounce off of Mata’s pad into the back of the net to tie the game.

The Big Red went on to score again just two minutes later, with Marisa Siergiej flipping the ball over Mata off another corner opportunity to put Cornell up, 2-1, with just four minutes remaining in the game.

Finally, Penn woke back up offensively, immediately putting the pressure back on the Big Red. After a few close opportunities, sophomore Gina Guccione scored an unassisted goal in front of the net to tie the game with less than two minutes left.

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Sophomore Alexa Hoover scored two of the Red and Blue’s three goals on Friday, including the game-winner against the Big Red in overtime.

After a few more regulation opportunities, the horn sounded with the game still knotted at two apiece, forcing the competition into overtime. But this game would not take long to settle itself.

Hoover got the ball at the beginning of the extra period, and she made quick work of her possession. The Collegeville, Pa., native ran straight to the goal, blowing by the Cornell defense

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with a dazzling array of moves before being fouled in the shooting circle just 17 seconds in, earning a penalty stroke.

With a chance to give the Quakers the win, Hoover flung the ball past Big Red keeper Kelly Johnson for her second goal of the day to clinch a game dominated by back-and-forth action, sending Cornell back to Ithaca with the bitter taste of a 3-2 overtime loss in their mouths.

“Obviously it was critical,” coach Colleen Fink said of the win. “You try to just approach every game like it’s the next game, but this one was meaningful, and the girls really wanted it.

“After last year’s decision against Cornell when we went up there and didn’t play our best, I think that this was very rewarding for them,” she added.

“Obviously being here at home, the fans and everyone were so supportive, and I think that definitely goes a long way.”

This game saw more of the same from Hoover, who has been

on a tear through seven games this season. She currently leads the nation with 17 goals as well as points per game at 5.29, and got high praise from Fink after the game.

“She’s just got phenomenal hand-eye coordination, and she works tirelessly,” she said. “When somebody is as gifted as she is, a lot of individuals just rely on those gifts, but she couples that with a work ethic and a competitive drive that I would put up against any player in the league.”

Hoover isn’t quick to pat herself on the back either. When asked about her dominance this year, she spoke more of her teammates.

“It all starts from the back field, they work it up and I try to do my best to cut to the open spaces,” she said. “It’s all working off each other, which is the most important part. It’s a team sport.”

The Quakers are back in action on Oct. 3 when they travel to take on Harvard.

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the absence of the Wildcats’ top offensive threat — voted the top player in the Football Championship Subdivision last year — had no effect on the outcome of the game.

I can hear the cynics crying out now.

“Penn’s so-called ‘Upset of the Century’ wouldn’t have happened against a fully healthy ‘Nova squad,” they might say. “It was a fluke, in no way a reflection of a major change in the program.”

“A big win that deserves to reside comfortably next to an

equally big asterisk.”

But this view completely ignores one of shocking result’s most essential facts: The Red and Blue didn’t only beat Villanova, they completely dominated them.

When Penn stepped onto the field against a team it had not beaten in 14 consecutive matchups, a team ranked in the top five in the country no less, it was the less physically talented team.

With or without Robertson, Villanova was visibly the superior group of athletes. But

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for the first time in the past couple seasons, the Quakers didn’t play down to their supposed limitations.

In the Red and Blue’s disappointing season-opening loss to Lehigh, they featured an offense largely predicated on lateral screen passes. But on their first drive on Thursday, they threw that playbook out the window and let junior quarterback Alek Toregersen air it out. The drive ended in seven points.

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Villanova’s star quarterback John Robertson didn’t play against Penn football on Thursday night. And it just didn’t matter.

That’s right. In the Quakers’ first victory against their Big 5 rival in over 100 years,

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