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Political student groups’ funding in jeopardy as grant nears end

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Fossil Free Penn to hold weekly sit-ins until U. divests

Penn endowment grows to $14.7 billion

Students say loss of funding will make hosting events more difficult

Activists say they are prepared to protest “until the end of time”

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Ahead of a presidential election year, some of Penn’s political groups are facing a hurdle in hosting events after a key source of funding was cut off.

A one-year grant from the Office of Student Affairs to the Penn Political Coalition is ending next year, which student groups say will lead to a lack of funding available that could make it more difficult for them to host future events.

The umbrella political organization, commonly referred to as PoCo, helps political groups cover some of the supplementary costs of speaker events. The organization’s membership includes Penn Democrats, College Republicans, and the Government and Politics Association. The fund PoCo uses, known as Synergy, will not receive funding for the 2019-2020 school year, Office of Student Affairs Executive Director Katie Bonner wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“The OSA provided a one time grant for the Synergy fund last year,” Bonner wrote.

“The OSA has made no commitment to provide funding for the Synergy fund this year (2019-2020) though we are working with the group to identify new funding sources.”

Historically, PoCo has received funding from sources other than the student conduct office. PoCo President and College junior Jaywon Kim said the group had received funding from several on-campus groups prior to its financial assistance from the OSA. “[PoCo] was actually founded through donations through Fox Leadership and

An university’s endowment is money donated to the institution that is typically invested to grow their incomes. The endowment rate represents the growth of the university’s investment gains.

The decrease in the endowment return rate compared to last year’s marks a trend across Penn’s peer institutions. Brown University’s return rate tops the list this year. However, the rate fell to 12.4% from

Fossil Free Penn will host weekly silent sit-ins every Friday at noon in College Hall, with the intent of pressuring the University to address the climate crisis “to the extent that science and justice demand,” according to the group’s Facebook page.

The first sit-in took place on Sept. 27 outside the office of Penn President Amy Gutmann, with about 40 students and faculty members in attendance. Attendees spoke about their relationships to the cause and drafted an email to key administrators, with a demand for a public town hall where students can engage with administrators on fossil fuel divestment and Penn’s plan to reduce carbon emissions.

FFP Actions Coordinator and College senior Jacob Hershman read aloud a prewritten email of their demands to Gutmann, Chairman of the Board of Trustees David Cohen, and Chief Investment Officer Peter Ammon. Hershman sent the email to the administrators, which contained a promise that the student activists were prepared to continue to show up and fight for divestment “until the end of time.”

After the email was sent, students sat in College Hall for hours, many working on their laptops or speaking quietly to each other to pass the time.

“We want everybody to be there with us,” FFP Coordinator and College sophomore Emma Glasser said. “Students, faculty, staff. We all have a right to a livable future, and that’s what we’re fighting for.”

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The 6.5% return for fiscal year 2019 was a drop from the 12.9% return for fiscal year 2018 AIDAN MAYER AHEARN Staff Reporter

Penn’s endowment earned a 6.5% investment return for the 2019 fiscal year — a drop from the 12.9% investment return from last year, the Penn Office of Investments announced Thursday.

Penn Labs launches website to help navigate dining halls, study spaces, and laundry rooms The new site includes features for finding facilities’ schedules SERENA ZHANG Staff Reporter ERICA XIN

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Penn Dining is quickly shifting from plastic to paper straws in response to the nationwide trend towards environmental sustainability.

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Penn Labs has launched a new website to let students “favorite” their preferred dining halls, look for new study spaces on and off campus, and even recommend food trucks to their friends.

The website, known as Penn Basics, includes features such as setting laundry timers and finding off-campus study spaces. It also shows data similar to the existing Penn Mobile app, another Penn Labs product, including weather, campus events, news, dining hall menus, and laundry room availability. Eventually, Penn Labs members hope to add more interactive features to allow students to rate dining halls, laundry rooms, study spaces, food trucks, and other facilities.

“Penn Basics is going to be a dashboard so that students can immediately understand what Penn has to offer,” said Penn Basics team leader and Wharton and Engineering senior Cameron Cabo. “You hear a lot of stuff from friends, whether that be a cool study space or a food truck to try, and Penn Basics will make it easier for everyone to get an idea of what they haven’t seen yet at Penn.”

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The new desktop website “Penn Basics” includes features such as setting laundry timers and recommending food trucks.

The student-run group, responsible for products like Penn Course Review and Penn Clubs, plans to launch Penn Basics some time after fall break, likely with a “soft launch” before then.

Cabo said the idea of Penn Basics was initially proposed two years ago by former Penn Labs Director Tiffany Chang, a 2019 Wharton graduate. Since then, Cabo and Engineer-

ing sophomore Peter Baile Chen have written over 16,000 lines of code for the project.

When asked what inspires them to continue coding, collecting data, and working on the project every day, Cabo and Chen spoke about the positive impact on the school and the exciting idea of seeing students use it to make their lives easier.

“Seeing people use it is extremely

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exciting,” Chen said of his hopes for the site.

Students said they look forward to using Penn Basics.

“I at least find Penn Mobile pretty useful for dining halls, laundry rooms, and looking at my schedule,” College freshman Emily Kweit said.

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Jogia, a Canadian-British actor, is best known for his role as Beck Oliver in Nickelodeon’s hit television show “Victorious.” His new book focuses on race and identity.

Jogia discussed his new book “Mixed Feelings” SHARON LUO Staff Reporter

Avan Jogia discussed his experience as a multiracial actor at the Penn Bookstore Friday evening.

Jogia, a Canadian-British actor known for his role as Beck Oliver in Nickelodeon’s TV show “Victorious,” read and discussed excerpts of “Mixed Feelings,” his new book that explores race and identity through poems and imagery. He also shared personal experiences and stories from multiracial friends and strangers he interviewed.

“I think that much is made about our nationality, our racial background, or the language we speak,” said Jogia, who is half Indian and half Irish. “Mixed Feelings” explores how multiracial people feel pressure to “pick a side” to conform to society, he added.

At the event, Jogia read the first

poem from his book and shared his experience interviewing the poem’s subject, a man named Mohammed Omar Atif.

“It was really interesting to talk to him about his experiences being mixed and how he would have to dilute his brownness — the thing that made him scary to people — in order to pass,” Jogia said. He added that “Mixed Feelings” aims to explore this issue of “the dilution that we do to integrate into this society.”

Jogia also spoke about how the question “Where are you really from?” can offend people of color.

“It’s like asking a woman if she’s pregnant. You could do that.

But if you’re wrong…,” he said as the audience laughed.

Jogia also touched on the issue of intercultural understanding, suggesting that people living in monoracial communities may have a hard time identifying with other cultures.

“It’s really important to see different faces as you grow up, as a

child developing your empathy,” he said.

College freshman Racquelle Moxey said she went to Jogia’s book talk to hear his perspective on multiculturalism.

“Penn is predominantly white, so it’s important to talk about diversity on campus,” Moxey said.

Nursing junior Ime Etokebe, a member of the Vietnamese Students’ Association, said she attended because she wanted to find solidarity in the story of another mixed-race person.

“I am a mixed person — halfNigerian, half-Vietnamese — pulled between cultures,” Etokebe said. “Sometimes [being mixed] makes you feel confused, like you have to prove yourself.”

As Penn attempts to become more ethnically diverse, with 51% of the admitted Class of 2023 selfidentifying as students of color, there could be an increase in intercultural dialogue and learning in the near future.

“That’s what college is for, too,” Jogia said. “A lot of people who lived in the same communities, they go to university, and now it’s like all these different people with all these different existences and backgrounds, and so, there’s a lot of learning to be done.”

Penn will launch a new cybersecurity boot camp in November targeted at professionals who already work in technology.

Beginning Nov. 12, students will attend classes on Penn’s campus three times a week during evenings and weekends, a 10-hour weekly commitment.

The program, hosted by the College of Liberal and Professional Studies and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, costs $12,000 for a 24-week session.

Boon Thau Loo, the Engineering School’s associate dean of master’s and professional programs, said the boot camp will give students a holistic understanding of computer operation systems and network traffic along with concrete skills to defend corporate networks from attacks. The program will also train students to develop automated systems that monitor and help secure networks. After completing the course, Loo said, students will be prepared for industry-standard certification tests and cybersecurity-related employment.

The cybersecurity boot camp will be an extension of a popular coding boot camp already offered by LPS. Rita McGlone, executive director of professional and organizational development at the School of Arts and Sciences, said over 200 students have graduated from the coding boot camp’s full-time, part-time, and online sessions since its launch in 2017. McGlone also said the coding boot camp is targeted both at people already working in technology industry and those without a technology background looking for a career change, adding that

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The cybersecurity program expects to enroll around 25 students for its first session in November.

70% of students hold a bachelor’s degree.

Loo said, however, that the cybersecurity boot camp has a slightly different target audience, expecting most attendees to already have a technology background.

“In this case, we may be looking at somebody who has been an IT administrator for a while, but they want to essentially do more high-end work, or their job demands them to learn cybersecurity,” Loo said.

The cybersecurity program expects to enroll around 25 students for its first session, McGlone added, and LPS plans to run different sessions consecutively. Over 100 people signed up to attend an open house for the cybersecurity boot camp, which was held on Sept. 26.

McGlone said LPS came up with the idea for the cybersecurity boot camp after conducting market research and noticing high demand for employees with cybersecurity skills.

“Since we really focus on adults and what their needs are, [we] do a lot of market research into what kinds of skills they need to really thrive in the workspace,” McGlone said. “And so we initially learned that there were lots of job openings in coding, but not enough people

to fill them, which is why we did coding. And now we are seeing a similar trend with cybersecurity.”

Like the coding boot camp, Penn will operate the cybersecurity boot camp in partnership with Trilogy Education Services, a company that runs coding boot camps with affiliate universities including Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern University.

McGlone said while Trilogy designed the initial curriculum for the cybersecurity boot camp, LPS and the Engineering School worked with Trilogy to adapt the curriculum. Loo added that Computer and Information Science professor James Weimer, who conducts research on medical technologies with a security perspective, helped adapt the Trilogy curriculum to Penn.

However, the course itself will be taught by instructors hired

by Penn and Trilogy rather than University professors.

“What attracted us to work with Trilogy is that they are very market-driven, but also very outcome-driven, and their programs are very high-end, very high-quality,” McGlone said.

“And we’ve had a lot of opportunities to have input into the curriculum.”

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Wharton Public Policy Initiative, the Annenberg School for Communication, and eventually the Netter Center,” said Kim. “The donations were meant to help support civic engagement and political discourse on campus.”

When these grants stopped providing money, OSA agreed to fund the group with a one time grant for the 2018-2019 school year, Bonner said. However, Bonner said PoCo’s trouble with acquiring funding may hurt student political groups.

“Of course not having money in Synergy impacts PoCo’s ability to administer funds for events hosted by their member organizations,” Bonner said. “We have been partners in trying to identify new resources and provide information for departments and centers who might be a good match.”

Penn Dems leaders say they are concerned the lack of money will harm their efforts to host fu-

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The membership of Penn Political Coalition includes Penn Democrats (pictured above), College Republicans, and the Government and Politics Association.

ture events.

Penn Dems Political Director and College Junior Owen Voutsinas-Klose said for as long as he can remember, PoCo provided funding to cover indirect event expenses such as food. He said, however this lack of immediately

available money could hurt attendance at future events.

“We received funding from PoCo for almost all of our events,” Voutsinas-Klose said.

“Without food, we see that our attendance wanes.”

While PoCo-funded groups

use funds to cover indirect expenses, Bonner said it was forbidden for the University to fund direct expenses, such as speaking fees.

“Events which are partisan in nature cannot be funded by University dollars,” she said.

“Because of this, political organizations may have a difficult time finding dollars through traditional campus funding sources which are available to other student groups.”

Not every political group will be impacted by this lack of funding. Penn College Republicans Communications Director and Wharton sophomore Corey Paredes said the organization had not historically sought funding from Penn Political Coalition in the past.

“College Republicans is proud to have a strong network of financial supporters who contribute to our programs,” Paredes wrote in an email to the DP. “We anticipate no impact to our organization from POCO’s dissolution.”

For the student groups that are affected, Kim hopes to have a resolution to the issue within the next several months.

“I am hoping [this is resolved] by the end of the semester,” she said. “Obviously a really important election year is coming up.”

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the same info with more, as long as the website is easy to navigate, I definitely think it could be useful.”

“I will definitely use it,” College and Engineering freshman Kevin Li said. “I’m quite forgetful in general, so having an organized way to keep track of everything sounds great.”

Chen and Cabo noted that Penn Basics will be continually updated as they determine what the students want and need out of the website. Chen said the Penn Labs team is even considering adding a toilet feature where students can vote on the best campus restrooms.

“What else can we do? What do students find useful? This is only the first go,” Cabo said.

“We will be very receptive to feedback and want students to fill out the feedback form to suggest new study spaces and features they want to see.”

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OPINION EDITORIAL

Dean Furda’s viral video shows us that it’s cool to care

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enn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda went viral for his impassioned screaming at a nationally televised Eagles game last weekend.

Furda’s enthusiasm stimulated a lot of conversation on and off Penn’s campus.

In addition to the mass quantity of memes circulating the internet, the video of Furda was featured on Stephen Colbert’s late-night show. But there is something beyond poking fun at Furda that we can glean from his wild zeal.

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Furda has demonstrated an undying passion for Philadelphia and Penn sports, and there is a lesson to be learned from his unapologetic excitement. Instead of laughing at Furda, Penn students should take a page from his book. We are often criticized for being jaded and apathetic. This is an opportunity for us to see that it’s cool to care about something. While football might not get your blood pumping, find the thing that makes you excited.

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Being passionate about something is important and gives us purpose in our everyday lives.”

Whether it’s dancing or doing volunteer work or auditing a class for fun, go for it and give it your all.

There are countless examples of Penn students’ indifference: the notoriously under-attended Huntsman Hall sit-in, as well as low turnout at sports games and the Spring Fling concerts. Channel Furda’s energy into something that you care about.

As we grow older, caring too much stops being cool. But we must reject that notion. Being passionate about something is important and gives us purpose in our everyday lives. Further, at Penn we are so focused on output that we forget to cherish the hard work we put into everything. If you spent 20 hours studying for an exam and did poorly, celebrate that you cared enough to spend 20 hours studying. If you prepared for

your interview with Boston Consulting Group, and didn’t get a second round, celebrate that you tried your best. And maybe, if we keep investing ourselves in the input, then we can start to accomplish something.

Apathy prevents us from achieving greatness. As cliché as it may sound, we have to put ourselves out there and go for the things we want at the risk of looking silly or overeager. Success looks different for everyone. But we all were accepted to Penn because we cared about something and had the drive to achieve great things. Laughing at Furda’s stunt at the Eagles game is a completely normal response. Still, we can’t forget the importance of raw passion. We all should have something in our lives that we care enough to scream at the top of our lungs about.

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he downtown. The BYO. The frat party. These and their variants are the social currency that we engage with at the “social Ivy.” Our “work hard, play hard” mentality permeates every aspect of our Penn experience. While Sundays and Mondays are reserved exclusively for the grind, the rest of the week tempts students into a precarious balancing act. White Claw Wednesdays with a problem set chaser. Thursday night downtown, Friday night frat party, and Saturday night mixer. If it’s a midterm week, well, guess it’s also a no-sleep week.

Going out on the weekends is a tradition at American universities. Particularly at Penn, these excursions are meant to be a respite from the crushing weight of classwork, exams, job searches, and extracurriculars. But at this university and other elite colleges, “going out” is more often an extension, not a respite, from the rampant competition and preprofessionalism that dominate this campus. At its best, going out lets students indulge in destructive behaviors that are ultimately dangerous for the mind and body.

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At its worst, it is a mindless pursuit for clout and social eminence powered by wealth and privilege.

In either case, Penn students need to do less of it.

It’s no secret to students here that binge drinking is awful for your health. Penn students have an unhealthy and well-documented relationship with alcohol and other drugs. While of course col-

The best solution to navigating this toxic culture is to limit your exposure to it.” lege is the first time that many students have the freedom to experiment with substances for the first time, the majority of Penn undergraduates drink to escape, not to have fun.

Penn students hold themselves to ridiculously high standards, and are willing to subject themselves to a crushing amount of work and stress to achieve their goals, which very often demand nothing less than perfection. Perfection

extremes is a wonderfully efficient way of squeezing every last drop of dopamine from the brain.

These behaviors, which should theoretically help one feel better, only serve to exacerbate their stress and misery.

While going out is supposed to allow for a release, at Penn, it is also a way of enhancing social standing. Especially during the formal rush period in the springtime, fraternities spend an

exorbitant amount of funds on axe-throwing retreats, dinners at Brazilian steakhouses, and cruises to New York City. Even during the rest of the year, Penn students pride themselves on the number of downtowns that they can cram into their Google calendar and the number of the days of the week that they can spend drinking or smoking at some bar or club. Penn students are said to do a mental calculus, where they seek to optimize their GPA, minimize their time spent studying, and maximize the time spent partying and otherwise increasing clout. What these calculations don’t take into account is sleep, rest, and other activities that are necessary to lead a healthy and happy lifestyle.

Penn’s social scene is in desperate need of an overhaul. Although frat parties, downtowns, and all the rest have the capacity to be enjoyable activities, Penn’s culture has a way of enticing people to drink beyond their limit and of making everything into a competition of social capital. Although it is not the most appealing option, the best solution to navigating this toxic culture is to limit your exposure to it. Philadelphia is a rich

JAMES MORRISON and vibrant city with countless alternatives to choose from, from shows to cultural sites. Moreover, it is far easier to genuinely get acquainted with Penn’s accomplished student population while your BAC is below .05. While there is nothing wrong with going clubbing or rolling frats every now and then, Penn students do it to an excessive degree. For the sake of their physical and mental well-being, Penn students need to exercise moderation more and go out less.

JAMES MORRISON is a College sophomore from Pipersville, P.A. studying English. His email address is jmorr2@sas.upenn.edu.

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orduroys went out of style, like, ten years ago,” a girl snickered to her friend behind me.

My legs, clad in gray corduroys, resisted every urge to turn around and serve a retort much more insulting than the slight against my pants. For me and many others, rent, food, and textbooks matter more than fashion. I have some nice things, many hand-me-downs, thrifted corduroys pants that I will continue to wear with a passion, and nothing even close to designerunless Free People counts. Penn fashion is highly polarizing, and instead of judging someone for what they choose to put on their body, we should practice accepting

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Not everyone can afford those Louis Vuitton lock necklaces. Not everyone wants to wear Common Projects sneakers. Beyond the question of personal taste is the issue of accessibility. Not everyone has access to the designer trends that float around Penn’s campus on a monthly basis. Every October when the Burberry scarves and Moncler jackets come out, I rifle through my drawer for the gray scarf my mother knit for me four years ago. Obviously the two don’t have the same material or sentimental value, and it’s unproductive to place them on a hierarchical scale based on frivolous stipulations of whether

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is exhausting, so there’s nothing more enjoyable than to get a little messy on the weekend, to surrender control to a shot of vodka or ten. Moderation is not in the vocabulary of the typical Penn student, who in the early morning hours inevitably finds themself not in bed but in a club downtown or in Van Pelt Library. The Penn lifestyle of lurching between these

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The cliquishness that accompanies the different bubbles of Penn students is only amplified by clothing choices.” money or memories are more important. What’s important is what makes people feel good about themselves. But at a school that prioritizes Supreme T-shirts over the ones thrifted from Second Mile, getting dressed in the morning can seem like a much bigger issue than it is. If the judgment associated with personal style was replaced with an air of acceptance, the morning routine would be a much happier experience.

The cliquishness that accompanies the different bubbles of Penn students is only amplified by clothing choices. Having gone to an arts high school with a strict dress code, I have lived through being stripped of individual choice when it comes to how you express yourself through clothing. I’m sure many of you can relate. As full-fledged adults in a world where dress codes no longer

exist, I figured I’d be done with the judgment associated with how I clothe my body when I came to Penn. But the conversation has just shifted from a teacher telling me my “shorts are too short” to peers remarking that my shoes “are knock-offs.” My question is, so what if my shoes are knock-offs?

It’s my feet that have to wear them.

Penn fashion has been polarizing to me since my first year, and it seems to only be getting more obvious. As people come into their own, clothing is an exciting way of making yourself feel like your truest self. Sometimes this includes designer pieces and sometimes this includes wearing your best friend’s pants because men’s pants fit you better. Personal expression is for the benefit of the person doing it, not to create opportunities for judgment from onlookers.

SOPHIA DUROSE Not everyone has the same taste in clothing, let alone the same accessibility. Some people don’t give a damn what they put on their body as long as they’re kept warm.

All of these are equally valid ways of moving through the world, so why do Penn students find it so necessary to lay judgment? You’re always going to need to clothe yourselves in public, and when people are shamed or blamed for not being with the times, the necessary act of getting dressed in the morning can become stressful. I like corduroy pants and I’m going to keep wearing them. If you don’t, SOPHIA DUROSE is a College junior from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email address is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu.

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The extent of Penn’s climate inaction is disturbing

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n just over a week from now, we will reach the one-year anniversary of the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s landmark special report on “Global Warming of 1.5°C.” Comprising the findings of 6,000 scientific studies, the report’s central exhortation is that humanity must do everything in its power to limit atmospheric warming to 1.5°C — requiring, the report reads, global mobilization at a scale that has “no historic precedent.”

Achieving this limit would mean following the most ambitious course of action set forth in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, necessitating a 45% reduction in global carbon emissions by 2030, and complete (that is, 100%) reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

Think about that last point for a moment. Net zero carbon emissions in 30 years. Net zero.

Think about what you’ve done so far today and try to imagine how you could have done it

If the Penn administration decides to fail us once more, it should expect to find students and faculty lining the walls of College Hall every Friday until the end of time.” without emitting carbon (for a start, no clothes).

What happens if warming reaches 2°C? Sea-level rise would affect 10 million people, the global population exposed to water stress would be 50% higher than at warming of 1.5°C, the world would witness the greatest refugee crisis in human history, and there would be $69 trillion in damage (over an unspecified period of time) — essentially, the end of civilization.

For reference on how we’re doing in reducing global emissions, The New York Times published an article two months after the report was released

entitled: “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate ‘Like a Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018.”

Where does Penn, a global leader and innovator, stand amidst this crisis?

Penn has never made a single public statement in response to the IPCC’s special report on “Global Warming of 1.5°C,” (nor in response to the United Nation’s morbid report on “The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture” from February 2019, or to last week’s report on “The State of the World’s Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”).

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The closest Penn came to making a public statement was refusing to review Fossil Free Penn’s latest divestment proposal — a decision the administration made 10 days after the IPCC report made headline news across the globe.

Our University will never proactively address the climate crisis of its accord. And so it is time that we — Penn students — show the University that it must change its habits and its investments whether it wants to or not.

Last Friday, in the wake of the Global Climate Strike, I helped Fossil Free Penn lead a group of 30 Penn students and faculty to the foyer of College Hall for a four-hour sit-in, demanding a climate town hall meeting with Penn President Amy Gutmann, Chairman of the Board of Trustees David Cohen, and Chief Investment

Officer Peter Ammon. Our demand stipulated that these three leaders not only attend the meeting, but also: (i) engage in an open conversat ion wit h t he Pen n community concer ning the University’s practice of investing its endowment in the fossil fuel industry; and (ii) explain how Penn plans to reduce its carbon emissions to the extent prescribed by the IPCC’s special report on “Global Warming of 1.5°C.” We know it will take more than a four-hour demonstration to achieve our goal, so we plan on returning to College Hall every Friday from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. until the administration agrees to our terms. We invite all interested student and faculty to join us.

Institutions like Penn need to step up and set the standard for climate action, and many have

already. Globally, $11 trillion in endowments, pension funds, and private trusts have committed to divest their portfolios from the fossil fuel industry.

Just last week, the University of California system pledged to divest its $13.4 billion endowment and $70 billion pension fund from coal, oil, and natural gas companies by the end of September.

Time is running out, and those of us who know what’s at stake know that there is nothing to lose in giving this fight all we’ve got. So, if the Penn administration decides to fail us once more, it should expect to find students and faculty lining the walls of College Hall every Friday until the end of time.

JACOB HERSHMAN is a College senior senior studying English and Philosophy. He is the President of Fossil Free Penn.

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under Class of 1920 Commons, said Bill Hess, the resident district manager for Bon Appétit Management Company, which oversees Penn’s food services. He said the transition will be complete by 2020.

Penn’s efforts to transition to paper straws comes in wake of Starbuck’s plans to use entirely paper straws by 2020. McDonald’s banned plastic straws in its UK and Ireland locations earlier this year but faced controversy because the paper straws were unable to be recycled due to their thickness.

Hess said when large companies try to replace plastic with paper straws, the main challenges arise from a lack of consistent supply of paper straws and the accompanying foundational shifts in the supply chain. At Penn, even in the dining locations that have introduced paper straws, plastic straws are still offered instead on some days depending on supply.

“When somebody like a Starbucks looks worldwide on going

plastic-free on their straws, that’s literally a couple billion straws that they have to convert from plastic to paper — an enterprise that size takes literally a couple years,” Hess said.

In addition, Hess said paper straws can be more difficult to use and might not sit favorably with

communications and external relations for Penn Business Services.

“One of the main reasons why Penn chose Bon Appétit as their service providers is because they’re one of the world leaders in sustainability and general concern for the entire food chain,” Lea-Kruger said.

The shift from plastic to paper sets a good example in instilling values of sustainability and environmental consciousness in the student body” - Alicia Lan, College sophomore customers, exacerbating the already lengthy process of conversion.

Penn, though, is ahead of the curve — Hess said Bon Appétit began the shift towards paper straws in April 2018. Far before this deadline, most of the conversion on campus has already happened, said Barbara Lea-Kruger, director of

Hess added that since the beginning of the 21st century, Bon Appétit has worked to support local agricultural companies, regulate seafood according to the Seafood Watch guide, and significantly reduce antibiotic use in farm animals. He cited examples of how the company led the drive for migrant

tomato harvesters and farm workers in Florida to be paid a fair wage in 2009.

Lea-Kruger added that Penn Dining gave free metal straws to all students living on campus at the start of the fall 2019 semester to further promote sustainability.

“We recognize that students don’t always eat in our dining facilities,” she said. “The metal straws are a way to ensure that they have sustainable straws when they go out in the community.”

Students have responded favorably to the changes.

“With Pret’s major consumer base consisting of Penn students, the shift from plastic to paper sets a good example in instilling values of sustainability and environmental consciousness in the student body,” College sophomore Alicia Lan said.

“Although paper straws are quite a bit harder to use, I think I speak for the majority of the student body when I say that sustainability needs to come to the top of the priority list for institutions like Penn,” Wharton freshman Fiona Ku added.

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The losses in investment return that many universities are seeing may be due to changes regarding how the largest universities manage their endowments, Bloomberg reported. The universities have been investing in hedge funds and private equity. Penn invested 29% of its endowment in hedge funds in 2018, according to Bloomberg. In the last year, however, hedge funds have faced poor returns due to factors such as the United States-China trade dispute.

This year, Yale University’s endowment earned a 5.7% investment return, a drop from 12.3% last year.

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The total value of Penn’s endowment is at $14.7 billion, according to the Penn Office of Investments website. This is an $873 million increase from last year, when the endowment was estimated at $13.8 billion. The website stated the growth in the endowment is due to investment returns, donations, spending distributions, and internal transfers.

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Class explores function of satire in politics and culture The class is taught by freelance writer Dwayne Booth SOFIA HELLER Staff Reporter

Political cartoonist and freelance writer Dwayne Booth, otherwise known as “Mr. Fish,” is teaching a class on satire this semester at the Annenberg School for Communication.

The course, “Sick and Satired: The Insanity of Humor and How It Keeps Us Sane,” focuses on how humor can be considered one of the most influential and useful forms of communication. Students in the class analyze political cartoons and videos to explore a satirist’s role in society, both politically and culturally.

“It’s not like a typical college class,” said College senior Nicole De Almeida, a student in the class. “I think partly that’s because of [Booth], who is super casual and a very approachable professor. He talks about things that are really relevant and he doesn’t only lecture, he likes to engage us and hear our opinion on things.”

Throughout the semester, Booth brings historical and contemporary examples of political cartoons as well as satire from literature and plays, he said.

“From satire, you can learn how critical thinking works and how exciting it can be to be brave enough to question authority,” Booth said.

Booth has worked as a cartoonist and freelance writer for over 20 years, publishing his work under both his own name and the pen name “Mr. Fish.”

He said Americans often trust satirists to explain the news more than the traditional media.

Booth said his lectures for each class are really just a framework for discussion and that he invites students to re-

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FFP, which organized at the Philadelphia climate strike earlier this month, credits Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg for their new direct action strategy, FFP Campaign Coordinator and College sophomore Maeve Masterson said. Fridays for Future is an international movement of school students who take time off from class in order to demand climate action and engage in demonstrations.

Glasser claimed Penn must be invested in fossil fuels because of the rejection of multiple divestment proposals from FFP. In past years, FFP has submitted two divestment proposals, one asking for full divestment from fossil fuels and the other on divestment from coal and tar sands companies.

“Both of those were rejected, the second one was refused to even be reviewed,” Masterson said. “Now we’re employing a more action-oriented tactic, rid-

It became a call for action that we need to drastically reduce our carbon emissions in order to avert climate catastrophe” - Katie Collier, Campaign Coordinator & College Sophomore ing on the wave of divestment movements from across the country.”

Every semester, group members have also attended Board of Trustees meetings to participate in silent sit-ins.

The University has established efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Penn Sustainability has set emissions goals for Penn through Climate Action Plans.

Penn’s Climate Action Plan 2.0, released in 2014, puts the University on track to have a zero net carbon footprint by 2042.

Campaign Coordinator and College sophomore Katie Collier said while the University’s efforts are admirable, adequate

steps are not being taken to reduce Penn’s carbon emissions to the extent that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report requires.

The IPCC Special Report, released in October 2018, details the impacts of global warming to a temperature of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and states that without urgent reduction in emissions, the planet will experience climate crisis to a catastrophic and irreversible degree by 2030.

“It became a call for action that we need to drastically reduce our carbon emissions in order to avert climate catastrophe,” Collier said.

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A self-portrait by Booth titled “Fish Face.” Booth has worked as a cartoonist and freelance writer for over 20 years.

spond in the moment to everything he says in the lecture.

“When it comes to satire, and when you’re looking at the history of satire, a lot of it is very inflammatory,” Booth said. “It’s about starting a conversation by inciting some sort of emotional reaction. So, if I’m showing them material and I’m trying to demonstrate the importance of that kind of material, I always want to be interrupted; I always want to be challenged. I’m trying to create an environment that is completely open to lively debate.”

De Almeida added that the class has shown her a new way to approach satire.

“People don’t normally take comedy seriously,” De Almeida said. “I think what we learn in this class is that humor is just as high stakes as anything else. It’s just the way that in-

formation is delivered is different which allows it to communicate things differently and sometimes communicate it even better.”

2019 College graduate Jacob Gursky, who graduated from Penn last spring with a major in Communication, said “Sick and Satired” was one of his favorite classes at Penn. He added that he considers Booth a mentor and remains in contact with him.

“School can be pretty insular. Sometimes it feels like, at a place like Penn, they have a very specific way they want you to think,” Gursky said. “I feel like it can become a space that isn’t very conducive to meaningful conversations. But in Mr. Fish’s class, you learn how to hold those conversations, how to question things, and the history of people who have questioned things.”

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The first sit-in took place on Sept. 27 outside the office of Penn President Amy Gutmann, with about 40 students and faculty members in attendance. The sit-ins will continue every Friday at noon in College Hall..

Poet Ahmad Almallah speaks at Penn Book Center event Almallah read from his new book “Bitter English” ZOEY WEISMAN Staff Reporter

Ahmad Almallah, a Palestinian-American poet and Penn Arabic language lecturer, read from his new book “Bitter English” at a Penn Book Center event on Sept. 26.

At the event, Almallah spoke about his experience as an immigrant and the struggle of adopting the English language as his own. He read several poems aloud from “Bitter English,” an autobiographical collection of poems he wrote over four years that was published earlier this month. The book depicts the challenges Almallah faced as a Palestinian immigrant to the United States,

finding himself caught between his native Arabic language and his adopted English language.

In between the poems, Arabic Literature Ph.D. student Esraa al-Shammari engaged in discussion with Almallah about the context behind the pieces and his experience writing them. Almallah also took questions from the audience at the end of the event, which was hosted by Penn’s Middle East Center.

Almallah began with a reading of the book’s opening poem, “Bitter English,” which centers on the tension and distance Almallah has with the English language.

“That I find this English tongue that I use day after day, boring in construction, even in poetry, cuts me,” Almallah read from the poem. He added that

this defamiliarization of the English language was an advantage to his poetry.

“The language is so uncomfortable to me, which is a good thing, for writing a poem,” Almallah said. “You don’t want to be too comfortable with writing your language.”

Almallah also read his poem “Jisr,” which discussed his experiences traveling in Palestine. Almallah explained that the Arabic word translates to “bridge,” but Palestinians understand it as the border control structure for crossing from Palestine to Jordan and vice versa.

He acknowledged the difficulty of writing about the experience of traveling in the West Bank.

“I’ve always wanted to write a poem about this experience, and I always fail,” he said. “Despite the harshness of the expe-

rience, it gives way to a lot of waiting and it gives way to a lot of reflection and looking outside the windows of vehicles.”

Almallah added that while his poetry depicts his experience as a Palestinian immigrant, he does not want to be confined to the stereotype of a Palestinian or Arab poet alone.

“I want to be represented for my poems,” he said.

Later, Almallah talked about his process for writing “Bitter English,” his first poetry collection. He said that as a tenured Arabic Language professor at Middlebury College, he was unable to find inspiration to write poetry. When his wife was offered a position as an Arabic Literature professor at Penn, he decided to leave his stable job at Middlebury and move to Philadelphia.

“When we came to Philly, and I had quit this job [at Middlebury], I came with this vague idea that I want to write and follow through on becoming a poet,” Almallah said. Five years later, after becoming a teaching fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center and an Arabic language instructor, Almallah published his first book.

When an attendee asked Almallah if he writes any poetry in Arabic, Almallah said he does a little bit but chose not to in “Bitter English.” As a scholar of Arabic literature, he felt too familiar with the poetry to effectively write his own, and instead he chose to cut ties with his native language.

“There were already made sounds that I was recreating in Arabic. I know meter very well and I was repeating myself,” he

said. “I exiled myself into English, into a language I am not that comfortable with.”

Al-Shammari said Almallah plays with Arabic poetic forms in his work.

“You can see how he’s employing these instruments for this heritage to a different language, different traditions, different audiences,” she said.

“It’s straightforward and simple, but amazingly simple.”

After completing “Bitter English,” however, Almallah said he noticed an improvement in his Arabic writing.

“Recently when I tried to write in Arabic, it felt that I was actually creating something more interesting in Arabic,” he said. “I am waiting for the opportunity to give it more time so I can see where it can go.”

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JACOB WESSELS Associate Sports Editor

It’s that time of year again.

On Friday, Penn volleyball traveled up to Princeton, N.J. to face the Tigers in their first Ivy League match of the season, and Princeton ultimately reigned victorious by a 3-0 score.

Last season against Princeton, Penn lost all six sets in the two games the teams faced each other, with none of the point spreads being particularly close. Penn has not won a set against the Tigers since 2016 and hasn’t won a match in four years.

Despite the recent history, not everyone on the Red and Blue were intimidated. “I was feeling really confident coming into the match,� freshman outside hitter Autumn Leak said. “Usually I’m kind of an antsy person, but coming into this game, I wasn’t nervous at all, I felt really confident.� “I was definitely a little nervous going in just being a freshman and all, and knowing it’s a great team we were about to play,� freshman Caroline Douglas said. “But I just looked to my teammates to calm me down and reassure me that I can do it and it’s just another team.�

The first set this year was closer than last season. Princeton scored the first two points of the game, but after a backand-fourth sequence, the Quakers were able to bring the score to 10-10. Sophomore opposite hitter Margaret Planek pushed Penn over the edge to lead, 1312, with her second ace of the evening, but the Tigers quickly regained supremacy. The largest lead to that point had been two points, but Princeton quickly pulled away to win the set, 20-25.

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Sophomore opposite hitter Margaret Planek led Penn volleyball in kills, blocks, and aces in Friday’s loss to open League competition.

The second set continued the theme, with Penn taking a late 18-15 lead into a Princeton timeout, before the Tigers rallied to win the set 26-24.

Penn’s success and failures in the set both came in part at the service line, where senior middle hitter Parker Jones, who is also a Daily Pennsylvanian staffer, held serve for six consecutive points during a Penn run. The Quakers finished with six service errors and five aces in the match.

The third set was less evenmatched, as Princeton took an early 7-2 lead, forcing Penn into an early timeout. The Quakers stayed behind for the rest of the set, making small runs only to be stunted by the Tigers. The set ended with a score of 25-18 in favor of Princeton to complete the Tigers’ three-set sweep.

Ultimately, Penn couldn’t find a way to stop Princeton’s attacking trio of senior Devon Peterkin, junior Clare Lenihan, and sophomore Elena Montgomery, who combined for 37

of the team’s 45 kills. Each of the three finished with double digit kills, while the Red and Blue did not have any players who reached that mark. “We definitely had to adjust our defense and block a lot based on what Princeton was hitting,� Douglas said. “I think they’re some of the best hitters I’ve played against.�

Among those who contributed the most points for Penn were Planek and Leak. Planek led the way with 14 points, while Leak contributed eight kills and a crucial block. “Tonight, which I’m sure will be the case for many nights in the future, we were looking to Autumn to get some of our big plays and our big kills,�

Douglas said. “She really handled having a big right side blocker on her, and finding the ground. I also think she passed really well.�

Next Friday, the Quakers will welcome Cornell and Columbia to the Palestra as they continue through this year’s season of Ivy play.

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Things didn’t always look so optimistic, though, especially in the beginning. Penn only put up six yards of offense in the entire first quarter compared to 92 from Lafayette. The Leopards marched down the field for a field goal on their opening drive, but a 3-0 lead was all they could manage through the first 15 minutes of play.

Sophomore cornerback Mohammed Diakite, a defensive power for the Quakers, left the game early with an apparent wrist injury and did not return, only adding to the Red and Blue’s early woes. “We started out slow today, but we were able to start picking it up and playing with a little bit of tempo,� Robinson said.

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goal early in the second, Penn finally answered midway through the quarter with Cragun’s first score from Robinson, but Lafayette stormed right back to reclaim the lead at 10-7.

With time winding down in the half, the Red and Blue controlled the speed of play well and put together a textbook five-minute drive with Robinson at the helm, heading into the locker room up by a 14-10 score.

If the teams received energized talks at halftime, the tempo of play during the third quarter gave no indication. A series of slow drives on both sides saw no scoring in the third, although Penn came the closest after sophomore wide receiver Rory Starkey, Jr. reeled in a 53-yard grab from Robinson for his first career catch. However, play would break open in the final quarter.

Penn kicked off the fourth with a rushing touchdown from Brooks, but Lafayette again responded with just over two minutes on the clock and converted a Philly Special-inspired two-point

conversion to cut the Quakers’ lead to three.

Although the ensuing Leopards onside kick failed, Brooks wasn’t content to simply stall the game out. A pair of massive runs, including a 31-yard burst for his second score of the game, gave Penn a double-digit lead once again. “It was great to see him break through,� coach Ray Priore said. “He was kind of frustrated in the first half, we weren’t able to really get many yards with the run, but we made good adjustments and moved from there.�

Another Lafayette touchdown as time expired made the score closer — to the delight of the few home fans who stayed until the end of the game — but could not close the gap as Penn secured its first win of the season.

But the Quakers have little time to sit back and rest on their laurels. This Friday the team will welcome Dartmouth to Franklin Field for the start of Ivy League play, and the Red and Blue will be out to avenge last year’s brutal 3714 defeat.

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Expectations were high for Penn women’s soccer as the team began Ivy League play this weekend against Harvard. However, on a hot and windy afternoon in Cambridge, Mass., the Red and Blue struggled to get anything going offensively and dropped their Ivy League opener, 1-0.

With strong winds blowing directly toward the Penn goal in the first half, the Quakers (5-3-1, 0-1 Ivy) struggled to move the ball into the Harvard half, as the Crimson (7-2, 1-0) dominated possessions and scoring chances. Harvard went into the halftime break outshooting Penn eight shots to one, including four attempts on goal. “The weather isn’t something that we have control of,� senior goalie Kitty Qu said. “The wind definitely affected the movement of the ball a little bit, but we really try to focus on ourselves and what we can control.� “Your goal kicks don’t go as far, your clearances too,� coach Nicole Van Dyke said. “I think you could tell [the wind affected us]. They were in our defensive third most of

ered the storm we would get some chances in the second,� Van Dyke said. “We had chances to win the game; that’s the reality. We probably had more high quality chances than them.�

This late flurry by the Quakers actually led to them outshooting Harvard in the second half while also racking up five corner kicks, but after the slow offensive start, this proved to be too little too late. “Unfortunately, we just didn’t have that final push,â€? Van Dyke said. “We needed a little extra something ‌ Even not playing our best we still had chances to win the game.â€?

Despite allowing the goal, Penn’s defense was the star of the show for the team, as Qu provided six saves and the back line prevented numerous other scoring chances, which kept the Quakers in the game. “One of our biggest strengths is obviously our defense. It has been the backbone of our identity for the last couple years now,� Qu said. “[By] sticking to our defensive principles, we believe that we are always in the game no matter what happens.�

While this early loss certainly puts a dent in the team’s hopes of defending last season’s Ivy League co-championship, the Red and Blue will have plenty of time to rebound — as evidenced last season when the team tied its first Ivy game against Harvard before winning five straight League contests.

The Quakers will have a chance to get right back out and avenge their defeat as they prepare to take on Cornell at home next Saturday.

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the half; you don’t want the wind to affect how you play, but I think it had a significant impact.�

Despite the disparity in opportunities, Penn’s defense minimized dangerous chances, packing the box to limit Harvard to mostly long-distance shots. “A lot of our defensive success comes from always being organized,� Qu said. “I think from a back line standpoint we tried to emphasize that a lot in this game.�

After dominating the Red and Blue for much of the first half, Harvard continued its barrage after the break, putting in four shots to the Quakers’ one in the first 25 minutes of the second half. While a breakthrough seemed inevitable, the Penn defense continued to hold after junior defender Chase Geffert cleared a Harvard shot off the line.

Finally, in the 72nd minute, a cross on a counterattack from Harvard’s junior forward Lauren Raimondo found its way to fellow forward Gabby DelPico, who calmly slotted her shot into the bottom-left corner for her fourth goal of the season.

After the goal, the Quakers increased their sense of urgency on offense and started to rack up scoring opportunities. During this stretch, senior forward Emily Sands put her first two shots on goal, which were two of Penn’s best scoring chances of the afternoon. Both shots, however, were handled by the Crimson’s senior goalie Kat Hess. “We have been playing very well coming into the second half, so we figured that after we weath-

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Red and Blue downed by West Virginia in shutout defeat The Quakers lost by the largest margin in Gill era MARIANA SIMOES Associate Sports Editor

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Wild, but not wonderful in West Virginia.

After allowing an early goal, Penn men’s soccer couldn’t bounce back and suffered its second consecutive loss, falling to West Virginia, 3-0.

The Mountaineers (6-2-1) wasted no time taking control of the game as they pressed the Quakers’ defense. After only nine minutes, West Virginia sophomore Tony Pineda headed the ball in the air, allowing freshman forward Rodrigo Robles Grajera to backheel it into the goal.

The Red and Blue tried to respond quickly. At the 13-minute mark, senior midfielder Brandon Bartel crossed the ball in the box to junior defender Alex Touche, whose shot was saved by

West Virginia goalkeeper Steven Tekesky.

While Penn struggled to transition from defense to attack and couldn’t manage to press its opponent, the Mountaineers continued to put pressure on the Quakers, putting up five shots in the first half. This midfield success Yet the Red and Blue came back to the second half eager to tie the game. Early on the half, the Quakers were dominant in the offensive side, with three consecutive corners in less than two minutes, all saved by the Mountaineers’ well-placed back line.

Penn’s best chance, however, came in the 62nd minute, when sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz shot from outside the box, but the strike eventually landed in the Tekesky’s hands.

From then on, Penn couldn’t keep up with West Virginia. Less than five minutes later, Grajera scored his second goal of the night following a corner. The result was consolidated with 10 minutes left in the game when West Virginia midfielder Andre Albino put a shot past Jacomen.

Being known for their strong defense, the three goals conceded

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West Virginia proved too much for sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz and the rest of Penn men’s soccer to handle on Saturday. The loss was the Red and Blue’s second in a row after falling to Lehigh on Tuesday.

by the Quakers ties the most they have allowed since Brian Gill took over as head coach last season. It was the biggest losing margin of Gill’s tenure.

Despite the imbalance of chances in the run of play, Penn did amass nine shots in the game to West Virginia’s 11. Sophomore goalkeeper Dane Jacomen fin-

ished with five saves, one more than Tekesky, his counterpart at the other end of the pitch.

Interestingly, Penn fared better earlier in the season against ranked Power Five opponents, including earning a draw against No. 24 Rutgers on Sept. 17.

The Red and Blue will try to recover next Saturday when they

host Cornell at Rhodes Field for the first Ivy League game of the season. Last year, Cornell defeated the Quakers in the second overtime period on the way to a fourth place finish in the conference.

The Quakers will look to regain their defensive sturdiness against the Big Red on Saturday.

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was a team effort, but obviously I’m pretty happy right now.”

“To win a big game [Saturday] was a bit emotionally taxing, and so it is very easy to have a deflated sense of urgency and deflated mentality going into the second game of the weekend,” Fink said. “It is very easy to have a little lapse, and I think this shows that they are going to maintain their mentality of resilience and grit and support of one another.”

With the team not starting the season the way it planned, it could have been easy for the team to be dejected.

“It is a true testament to the girls’ ability to just believe in themselves and to continue working hard, continue staying focused, and continuing to support one another through those trying times,” Fink said. “This team has been displaying a tremendous amount of character and I really couldn’t be more proud of them.”

Now, with a two-game win streak under their belt, the Quakers will take a trip to Massachusetts to face off against Harvard and Boston University next weekend.

Player of the Week: Karekin Brooks FOOTBALL | The junior rushed for over 200 yards JACKSON SATZ Associate Sports Editor

Karekin Brooks just keeps on rolling.

While Penn football worked its way into the win column with a 28-24 victory on Saturday after a season-opening loss to Delaware, the senior running back has been the model of consistency.

He totaled 158 yards on 28 carries against Delaware, and one additional Brooks carry might have made all the difference for the Quakers. Against Lafayette, senior quarterback Nick Robinson handed the ball to Brooks 29 times, and the back responded with 202 rushing yards and two touchdowns.

What makes Brooks’ performance at Lafayette even more impressive — aside from his becoming the first running back in Penn football history to eclipse the 200-yard mark three times in a career — is the time in which he did it.

After the first quarter, the Red and Blue had amassed a mere six yards of total offense. It wasn’t until the fourth quarter that Brooks found the end zone for the first time. Seven plays after a short punt by Lafayette gave the Quakers starting field position at their opponent’s 42-yard line, Brooks took a snap in the Wildcat formation and hit paydirt from two yards out to give the Red and Blue a 21-10 lead.

With 1:43 remaining and Penn holding onto a 21-18 advantage, Brooks put the game away when he scored from 31 yards out for

his second touchdown of the day.

Although he did most of his damage on the ground, Brooks has established himself as a valuable target in the Red and Blue passing game. He had three receptions against both Delaware and Lafayette, totaling 41 yards receiving.

High-volume, high-efficiency production is nothing new for Brooks, who led Penn in rushing during his sophomore and junior seasons with 840 and 898 yards, respectively. Even for the 2018 second team All-Ivy running back, though, 360 yards on the ground through two games is outlandish. He is currently averaging 6.3 yards per carry, and his mark of 180 rushing yards per game is good for the best in the Ivy League. Cornell’s senior running back Harold Coles is a distant second with 134 yards per game.

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EASTON, Pa. — It took the Quakers a little while to get going, but then they couldn’t be stopped.

After a tight one-point loss to Delaware last week, Penn football bounced back in a big way. Led by senior quarterback Nick Robinson, the Red and Blue put on a clinic against Lafayette, using a late surge to break away and claim a 28-24 victory that wasn’t as close as the score suggests.

“Last week we came out and we fought hard, but just came up a little short,” sophomore wide receiver Ryan Cragun said. “We were really emphasizing finishing all week, and I think we did a good job of that tonight.”

Penn (1-1) bombarded the Leopards (0-5) during their homecoming game with 570 yards of total offense, including a pair each of rushing and receiving touchdowns.

Cragun continued his hot start to the season from last week, racking up 128 yards of offense and two touchdowns from Robinson, his first scores in a Penn uniform. Senior running back Karekin Brooks was just as explosive, rushing for SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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Penn field hockey rebounds from slow start, defeats Cornell and Temple for first two wins

Sprint football thoroughly dismantles Post behind 50-point first half performance

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For the first time this season, Penn field hockey is in the win column.

Coming into this weekend, the Quakers were dangerously close to being on the wrong side of history. Their five consecutive losses to start the season were tied with the 2001 Penn team for the worst start in program history. However, the group ended its losing streak with a 5-2 win against Cornell to open Ivy League play. Penn then rode that momentum to a thrilling 2-1 win over Temple.

On Saturday afternoon, the Quakers (2-5, 1-0 Ivy) began their Ivy League season at home against Cornell (3-2, 0-1). Penn came into the game with only four goals scored throughout its first five games, but the team scored five in one game against the Big Red. Penn’s offensive breakout got started with a first quarter goal from senior forward Alexa Schneck, which was her first goal of the season.

With the game tied at one after the first quarter, the Big Red would take their first and only lead of the game at the start of the second quarter. However, the Red and Blue responded

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Sophomore forward Maddy Fagan scored three goals for Penn this weekend, including a game-winner in the team’s victory over

with four unanswered goals to regain and keep the lead. Freshman defender Elita Van Staden and sophomore forward Maddy Fagan both got their first two goals of the season during Penn’s four-goal stretch.

This offensive outburst couldn’t have come at a better time for a Penn team that has had a problem converting chances into goals.

“If you look back in the statistics from some of the past games that we were even walking away with a loss, we still were producing a lot of offense and a lot of offensive opportunities; we just weren’t capitalizing on every single one,” coach Colleen Fink said.

The defense also had a strong showing, allowing just six shots on goal with senior goalkeeper Ava Rosati tallying four saves.

It was a quick turnaround for the Quakers, as they traveled across town to face off against Temple (4-4) on Sunday. Un-

like the Cornell game, this contest was much tighter and was decided in the final minutes.

The Owls opened up the scoring in the first quarter, but that would be the only goal they would notch for the rest of the day. The Red and Blue went into the third quarter trailing, 1-0, but that didn’t hold for long as sophomore forward Madison Jiranek tied the game up.

Penn allowed only three shots on goal, an opponent’s lowest against the Quakers this season.

Penn’s defense kept Temple off the board until Fagan ultimately put the game away with the game-winning goal with 5:27 left on the clock in the fourth quarter. For the Red and Blue, that could be the goal that turns their season around.

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Bill Wagner is coaching his 50th and final season for Penn sprint football. It seems fitting, then, that his team scored 50 points in the first half on Saturday afternoon.

Riding a strong running game and a stifling defense, the Quakers dominated Post, 57-7, for their second straight win and their fourth straight win against the Eagles. The Red and Blue (2-1) entered the game having a 113-37 advantage over Post (0-3) in their last three contests, and this time marked no exception.

Penn took just 51 seconds to get on the board on a quarterback sneak from senior Eddie Jenkins.

After forcing a Post three and out on its first possession, the Quakers scored again as Jenkins found sophomore running back Laquan McKever for a 15-yard score.

On the ensuing possession, Penn forced a Post fumble, and McKever punched in another score to extend the Penn lead to 21-0.

McKever was able to find success early on thanks to a dominant offensive line and a dual-threat quarterback, and he finished the day with three total touchdowns.

“I think our offensive line does a really great job with pretty much protecting every type of run we do. We do inside zone and outside zone, and earlier today, specifically, I think the outside was definitely working well

for me,” McKever said.

In the second quarter, Penn continued to pile on points.

McKever scored on a one-yard run with 12:45 left in the half, while Jenkins added two more rushing touchdowns and sophomore running back Sam Mintz found paydirt on a 10-yard run.

Penn also forced a Post safety, and the Quakers entered the half with a 50-0 lead. This marked their second straight game with a halftime lead of at least 47 points.

McKever was impressed with the defense’s performance, and he pointed out that this week was not much different from last week’s dominant performance at Cornell.

“We have a great defense this year, and it showed up against Cornell as well. We didn’t let Cornell score until the fourth quarter, in which they only scored one touchdown. I definitely think our defense has been doing really well this year,” McKever said.

In the second half, Post was able to find more room to oper-

ate on offense. Constant back and forth between the Quakers and Eagles led to some exciting play. Overall, the teams tied in points in the second half, with one touchdown each.

Overall, the Quakers were dominant on both sides of the football, easily out gaining the Eagles both on the ground and in the air. Every facet of the game showed statistical dominance on the part of the Quakers.

On the defensive side of the ball, Penn proved to be equally impressive. The Red and Blue held the Eagles offense to just one touchdown — late in the fourth quarter with the game well in hand — and scored points of their own with a safety. Penn also had several takeaways granting the offense short fields that helped put the game out of reach early.

“I think that our offense has a lot of confidence,” McKever said.

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Sophomore running back Laquan McKever helped lead Penn sprint football to a 50-point victory in Connecticut on Saturday afternoon.

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