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Protesters block President Hackney’s house in 1992 to protest the Rodney King verdict and charges of racial harassment against university police.

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Speech by Larry Summers draws cheers and jeers from spectators HANNAH NOYES Staff Writer

Lawrence Summers’ lecture Monday night, which was closed to the press, drew mixed reviews from the Penn community.

“An audience gathered at Penn Law overwhelmingly enjoyed a thoughtful discussion and dialogue with Professor Lawrence Summers about the causes of — and policy decisions related to — the financial crisis, and the way forward today,” Steve Barnes, the associate dean for communications of Penn’s Law School said in a statement.

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he crowd grew by the hundreds, accumulating outside of Penn President Hackney’s campus

house, the protesters chanting for him to come out and meet them face to face. It was April 1992, and students had stormed down Walnut Street alongside

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is a chance to examine topics related to minorities that goes beyond our day-to-day coverage. It will appear every Tuesday.

Women Ivy presidents’ compensation lags Ivy League Presidential Salaries

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Take a look at how much presidents made in the Ivy League in the 2012 fiscal year Lee C. Bollinger $2,327,344

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Amy Gutmann $2,091,764 Richard Levin $1,652,543

Jim Yong Kim $917,625

Ruth Simmons $1,292,110

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Shirley M. Tilghman $935,326

Drew Gilpin Faust $899,734

David K. Skorton $865,331

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Telling the Story of Cairo FREDA ZHAO Contributing Writer

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Cairo Stories, a video and photographic installation by Judith Barry, opened to the public yesterday at Slought Foundation at 4017 Walnut Street.

Only three of the top 20-compensated private university presidents are women, according to a report by the Chronicle of Higher Education based on 2011 tax filings. But in the Ivy League, women are not so poorly represented.

At the sixth spot overall, Penn President Amy Gutmann was the highest-compensated female president on the list and second in the Ivy League, with a fiscal year 2012 salary of $2,091,764. The report does not account for fiscal year 2013 data, during which Gutmann’s salary rose to $2,820,540.

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Annual Safety Report has increased focus on sexual violence and its prevention The Division of Public Safety released the report Monday

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Philadelphia residents to call for an end to the racial discrimination that had plagued the country for centuries. Like countless

In line with changing legal standards, Penn’s 2014 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report has increased its emphasis on

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sexual violence compared to last year’s report.

The changes to the report, which the Division of Public Safety published online on Monday, follow last year’s passage of federal legislation — namely, the Violence Against Women Act and the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act —

which aimed to increase transparency and accountability in the reporting of sexual violence crimes at colleges and universities in the U.S. The purpose of the report, in part, is to inform the Penn community about crimes and fires on and around Penn’s properties during the previous calen-

dar year, in this case 2013.

The number of liquor law offenses fell from 247 to 225, although the number of arrests in 2013 dramatically increased by nearly 1,400 percent, from two in 2012 to 29 the following year.

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Esther Barazzone of Chatham University and S. Georgia Nugent of Kenyon College also made the top 20, holding the eighth and 20th spots, respectively.

Within the Ivy League, women currently lead three institutions: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust — a former Penn professor who also holds a 1971 masters degree and a 1975 Ph.D. from Penn — and Brown President Christina Hull Paxson join Gutmann on the list of female executives.

At the time covered by the most recently available tax data, four women led Ivy League institutions. Alongside Gutmann and Faust, Ruth Simmons — Brown’s first female president and the first black leader of an Ivy — headed Brown and Shirley Tilghman sat at the helm of Princeton.

The average compensation among female Ivy League presidents in 2012 — a still-hefty $1,304,734 — was $136,132 less

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 than the $1,440,866 average salary of their male counterparts.

Yet, both Gutmann and Simmons — who made $1,292,110 in 2012 — were part of the million dollar club, with Princeton’s Tilghman not far behind with a total compensation package of $935,326 that year. Tilghman finished her tenure with a salary just shy of a million dollars; for the 2013 fiscal year, her final year in office, Tilghman received $979,636 in compensation.

Harvard’s Faust was the lowest-compensated female Ivy president with an $899,734 package, though Cornell President David K. Skorton — who received a package of $865,950 in fiscal year 2012 — was the overall lowest-compensated Ivy president.

Both Gutmann and Tilghman led record-breaking fundraising efforts for their respective institutions. Princeton’s Aspire campaign concluded in June of 2012 after raising $1.88 billion for the university, and Penn’s Making

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History campaign closed in early 2013 after taking in $4.3 billion.

Several turnovers in Ivy leadership have transpired since fiscal year 2012. Yale’s Richard Levin — then the third highestcompensated among Ivy presidents with a $2,091,764 package — stepped down in 2013 and was replaced by Peter Salovey.

Paxson — who had a starting total compensation package of $394,721 — succeeded Simmons in 2012. Her starting compensation was about 30 percent that which her predecessor made in her final year as president.

Dartmouth’s Jim Yong Kim was replaced with Philip Hanlon in 2012 when he became president of the World Bank, and Tilghman’s shoes were filled by Christopher Eisgruber in 2013.

Neither Yale nor Dartmouth have had a female president to date.

Because of the lag in available tax forms, compensation packages for some members of the newest crop of Ivy League leaders is not yet available.

A new type of language immersion: Gregory College House is offering yoga classes in French ELLIE SCHROEDER Contributing Writer

Take your nose out of your French textbook and into a downward dog.

While many hope that learning a new language will provide fulfillment, their classroom experiences are often tainted by the stress that accompanies exams, papers and the looming prospect of final grades. Acquiring fluency and confidence often falls to the wayside as students strive to earn a certain grade. That’s why 2012 Ph.D. recipient Ian McConnon — a yoga instructor in training — and Ph.D. student and director of the French program in Gregory College House Fiona Moreno decided to create a place for students to step away from the classroom and learn a language in a completely different environment: the yoga studio.

McConnon is teaching a series of yoga classes conducted in French on Monday evenings from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and Tuesday evenings from 8 to 9:15 p.m. throughout the month of Sep-

tember. He practices and teaches yoga in the style of the guru Iyengar, a method that is particularly slow and meditative. The classes are available to Penn students of all language levels, even those who do not speak any French.

The Daily Pennsylvanian took a break on Monday evening to say namaste to this unique yoga experience.

As the three other students and I filed in, we greeted McConnon with a “bonjour” and laid out our mats to begin the class.

As someone who only knows a few basic phrases of French, I was expecting to be completely lost. However, although the vocabulary was unfamiliar, I was able to easily follow along with McConnon’s motions and simply enjoyed listening to his beautifully articulated French instructions. As the hour and a half passed, I became progressively more familiar with the French phrases, to the point where I began to remember the words that corresponded to each action.

By the end of the class, my

French vocabulary had increased by at least five words: if someone instructed me to plie my jambe and move my derriere de droit, I would gladly oblige.

McConnon and Moreno agree that my experience corresponds with their goal in creating the program: to allow students to relax and “passively absorb” the language without having to worry about memorizing terms or taking notes.

“The mind is in a stiller place,” McConnon said.

The tactile nature of the exercise also reinforces learning of vocabulary, since students perform an action while hearing the body parts and verbs spoken aloud, McConnon said.

After my experience, I would suggest that all students who are learning French, or are simply interested in language and would like to try learning in a completely relaxed environment, [to] embrace their inner yogi. Yoga just may be the je ne sais quoi missing from your language education here at Penn.

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An artist wants to unveil Cairo’s silenced voices — and her work has met Penn and West Philadelphia.

A new video and photographic installation exhibition entitled “... Cairo stories” by artist Judith Barry opened this Monday at the Slought, a gallery at 4017 Walnut Street that encourages the exchange of ideas and public dialogue about cultural and sociopolitical change in Philadelphia.

The exhibition presents a selection of photographs, transcribed passages and videos based on over 215 interviews with women from various socioeconomic backgrounds in Cairo collected over a decade.

Barry’s project is part of a longer series called “Not reconciled” — an ongoing series of “as told to” stories from a

variety of countries and cultures. The exhibition was formulated in collaboration with Penn’s departments of Cinema Studies, English and Fine Arts.

“It is the accretion of information and specificity of stories that are interesting,” Barry said of her work.

In 2003, Barry was invited by the Sharjah Art Foundation, Foundation Daniel Langlois, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and The American University in Cairo to formulate the series. Although the project was cancelled with the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it was ultimately completed in 2011 at the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution.

Local women in Cairo aided Barry by providing her with cultural and social context to help her interpret the interview stories.

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The Muslim Students Association kicked off the Islamic Discovery Series with the Islamic Cultural Food Lounge, offering participants a taste of food from different cultures popular with Muslim populations around the world.

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The Muslim Students Association sought to share both flavors and culture at their event on Monday.

At their Islamic Cultural Food Lounge event on Monday evening, the MSA offered students a taste of different Muslim cuisines.

Hoping to bring in as much diversity as possible, the MSA reached out to other cultural groups — including the Penn Pakistan Association, Penn African Students Association, Penn Bengali Students Association and PennWorld — to help host the event.

Attendees had an opportunity to interact and socialize with students from the different cultural groups, learn more about their practices and make new friends.

“Who doesn’t love food?

Through this event, we really wanted to get students to not only sample the different cuisines but, also learn more about the Muslim life and culture,” College sophomore and MSA board council member Irtiqa Fazili said.

This is just the first of several events in the MSA’s Islamic Discovery Series, during which they will host a variety of intercultural and interfaith events. Next, the MSA will host an Abrahamic Interfaith Dialogue, a Speed-Faithing event, a community service session with Volunteering with FeedPhilly, an Interfaith Sermon Slam, a Faculty Luncheon and a movie screening of “Enemy of the Reich.”

“It’s just really a good way to bring people together and socialize with students from different backgrounds,” College junior and PennWorld member Sarah Burns said.

All these events are geared toward promoting the Islamic religion and raising awareness about the Muslim community in general.

Moreover, the MSA hopes to further the understanding of Penn students when it comes to the Islamic religion. By launching the event series, they hope to connect both Muslim and non-Muslim students and encourage them to engage in

powerful dialogue.

MSA Vice President and Engineering senior Hanna Elmongy said that her experience in MSA so far has been nothing but welcoming.

“PMSA welcomed me like a family. When I first came in as a freshman, the upperclassmen treated me like a little sister,” Elmongy said. “When I had a hard time with classes, they would offer to tutor me. And even up to today, during our alumni banquet, the MSA seniors continue to drop by.”

The next event in the Islamic Discovery Series — an Abrahamic Interfaith Dialogue — will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 16 in Shotel Dubin Auditorium in Hillel. A full schedule of events can be found at the MSA’s website.

Cairo’s cultural distinctions in both economic and social spheres, Barry wanted to paint a robust portrait of Cairo that “throws the notion of Cairo into question.”

The Slought gallery specifically created a projection and audio system to allow pedestrians to experience the exhibition from outside the gallery as well — the video footage will be projected onto the window so that it is visible and audible from the sidewalk.

Executive Director of the Slought Foundation and Penn lecturer of History of Art and English Aaron Levy noted the “sensitivity of thought” and the research that Barry put into this exhibition. Levy said

that the project will take form through conversation, and its location in an area of academia and collaboration with academic departments will foster interest.

At the opening reception, Barry discussed her project with Columbia professor Alexander Alberro. Students from Penn attended the reception and shared their opinions on the exhibition.

“Her project is important in the way she offers a voice for what would typically be silenced by politics,” Penn History of Art Ph.D. student Iggy Cortez said.

The exhibition runs at Slought from Sept. 15 to Oct. 24, 2014.

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ne thing you can count on being asked in an interview for almost anything is what leadership means to you. Sometimes it’s qualified as “good leadership” but sometimes not. Sometimes your interviewers cut right to the chase and ask you to explain how you are a leader, and could you please provide an example of a situation in which you were a leader, and how did it turn out and why. And I presume the reason this seemingly definitional question about leadership is ubiquitous is that there is a truly infinite array of acceptable answers.

You might think that leadership must involve, you know, leading people, but not so.

Dwight Eisenhower said, “the supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity,” while Colin Powell asserted that, “leadership is solving problems.”

Tony Blair went so far as to say that leadership is “the art of saying no.” None of these descriptions of leadership seem to necessarily involve leading people.

What’s more, they are strikingly different for a set of statements about what is ostensibly the same concept.

My aim in pointing this out is not to make a point about linguistic sloppiness, but to ask what might really be going on here. We seem to have expanded the definition of leadership to account for countless other good qualities that seem to bear little relation to the act of getting other people to do things, and this points out something significant that we all know, but weasel our way out of admitting by deliberately misunderstanding the question.

The fact is, there’s nothing inherently good about leadership according to the narrow — I’d be inclined to say “real” — definition of the term. Influencing other people to do things is only

good insofar as we exert a positive influence on them.

Plenty of astoundingly skilled leaders have been terrible people. Cults, for example, almost always get off the ground thanks to a leader so astonishingly charismatic that he or she manages to convince large numbers of people to give up their former lives and follow blindly.

Our f ixation on leadership worries me because it implies that the be all end all of a successful life is to have the greatest possible influence over the greatest number of people.”

But this example is not typical, and the fact that evil people can be leaders too is not my primary reason for being disturbed by our distortion of the term “leadership.” The trouble with making leadership the umbrella term under which we lump many other admirable qualities is that it renders these qualities merely instrumental to the underlying goal of having power and influence.

My worry is that the fetishization of leadership encourages us to forget that there are plenty of qualities we ought to be striving for that are valuable entirely independent of the possibility that they might make us better leaders. Having integrity or courage or thoughtfulness or the ability to solve problems are important irrespective of the amount of influence they might buy you in society, but in a world where “leadership” is the quality we highlight on our resumes, those things fade into the back-

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e’re number one. Or, at least College Factual thinks so. Ask US News and World Report and they’ll tell you Penn’s number eight; ask them a year ago, and we’re seven.

Rankings shouldn’t matter, but as members of the Ivy League, we feel obligated to validate ourselves at every opportunity. It’s difficult to ignore a number ranking — where else can we find a concrete measure of how “good” we are? Our student body is insanely competitive, and we channel that combative streak towards other colleges. We want confirmation we’re the best, even though The Princeton Review might never realize it.

The real reason we pay attention to rankings, though, is because the Penn student body has an inferiority complex.

Maybe it comes from constantly assuring our grandparents that we don’t go to Penn State, but so many of us feel the need to justify Penn’s worth to ourselves. During NSO, after the standard, “Where are you from?,” “What are you studying?,” “Yeah, I didn’t get into the Quad, either,” intros, the next question was typically, “Where else were you choosing between?”

The resulting conversation was a comparison of Penn against the other Ivies — “You’ve got Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and then we’re a solid fourth, right guys?” — and verbal pats on the back — “I didn’t get into Stanford either, but hey, all’s well that ends well.” I’ve also walked into several conversations over the past three weeks about how “Penn’s prestige is definitely on the rise,” and, “In 20 years, we’ll be more popu-

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY ground.

Our fixation on leadership worries me because it implies that the be all end all of a successful life is to have the greatest possible influence over the greatest number of people. “Leadership” has become one of those words that our brains automatically categorize as a good thing, and our conflation of the terms “leadership” and “good leadership” makes us believe that influence itself is the goal, rather than just a good first step to effecting positive change in the world.

This cultivates a culture in which we all vie for positions of responsibility because it’s “good to be a leader,” regardless of whether or not we believe we’re the best person for the job. Now, the rejoinder may be made, “but that’s not what good leadership is,” and that would be right, but it’s still leadership.

Leadership in the leanest definition of the word is amoral, and the other qualities we like to say make people good leaders, such as integrity, are commendable whether they’re exhibited by someone influential or not.

We should all strive to act with integrity, determination and thoughtfulness because it makes us better people — not because it makes us “leaders.”

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY is a College senior from Millersville, Pa., studying philosophy. Her email address is wsophia@sas. upenn.edu. “Another Look” appears every Tuesday.

lar than Yale.”

These statements seem like a mix between ego boosts and self-deprecations. We remind ourselves we go to a fantastic school, but we put ourselves down for being one of “the lower Ivies,” as I overheard someone refer to Brown and Penn. We use Penn as an ego boost, but we’re not satisfied. Even in our school song, we call out “Fair Harvard” and “Old Yale.” Measuring ourselves against other schools just wastes time, though. It’s not productive, or interesting or even fun. Talking about rankings just fills the air with noise; it doesn’t accomplish anything, or do anything to boost Penn’s reputation.

We remind ourselves we go to a fantastic school, but we put ourselves down for being one of ‘the lower Ivies,’ as I overhead someone refer to Brown and Penn.”

If we really want to change the way the rest of the world perceives Penn, we could devote our energies to making Penn a more respected school.

Let’s give Amy Gutmann more to brag about instead of shortchanging ourselves out of habit.

Maybe what bothers me so much about concerns with Penn’s reputation is that they ignore so much of what defines our school. The overwhelming majority of us wanted to go to a “good” college, but there’s more to Penn than its prestige.

Roughly half of my class — including myself — applied

DANI BLUM Early Decision because we saw that uniqueness. Penn was more than a school in the top 10 or an Ivy — it was a place where we knew we’d feel at home. I couldn’t find another campus with the same life force as Penn, with the pulse of energy that comes from walking down lit-up Locust at night or that tug of pride we feel from being the social Ivy. Our school is so bustling and dynamic that we can’t condense it to a number. If we could, it wouldn’t be dear old Penn.

We spend so much time focused on what other people think about Penn that we don’t consider our own opinions.

The fact is, we still have choices. If we don’t love our school, we can transfer. But if we do — and I’m confident most of us are in this category — we need to stop trying to make it something it’s not. No, we don’t have the instant recognition of other Ivies. But we shouldn’t need that. We all went through the competitive admissions process — we know how lucky we are to wear the Red and Blue. We can prattle off arguments about Penn’s prestige to people back home, but we don’t need that here. Stop justifying Penn to Penn.

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ast Saturday, September 13th, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the landmark Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Drafted by none other than thenSenator Joe Biden, the law allocated significant new federal resources toward the investigation and prosecution of violence against women, harshened punishments for guilty parties and established the Office on Violence Against Women.

But as encouraging as VAWA’s success has been, this week we were solemnly reminded of just how prevalent domestic violence still is.

Back in February 2014, gossip website TMZ released video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice dragging his unconscious thenfiancee out of the elevator of a casino in Atlantic City. In

GUEST COLUMN BY PENN DEMS response, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Rice for a paltry two games.

Then, last Monday, TMZ released more elevator security camera footage, showing in graphic detail Ray Rice brutally punching Janay Rice in the face. This time, the league suspended Rice indefinitely, and the Ravens cut him. Commissioner Goodell then went on record swearing that the league had not seen the footage before that moment.

But the next day, an Associated Press report alleged that the league did have a copy of the tape, making Goodell either a liar or inexcusably negligent. Despite this, neither Goodell nor anyone affiliated with the league or the Ravens organization has been fired — sending women the message that, as long as the league keeps raking in money, their human dignity is expendable.

Sadly, though, the NFL is not the only organization that prioritizes its reputation and institutional power over the well-being of survivors of assault and violence.

Sexual assault is an epidemic on campuses all over the country. One in five women in college have been sexually assaulted, and universities — including Penn — have been far too willing to sweep it under the rug.

Too often, the pages of The Daily Pennsylvanian have been inked with stories of sexual assault here at Penn, and we see how little institutional support or prosecutorial zeal exist to bring the perpetrators of these assaults to justice.

According to a massive survey of colleges and universities across the country, only 51 percent of universities provide a hotline for rape survivors, more than 30 percent

provide no sexual assault training for their students, and most distressingly, more than 40 percent of schools have failed to conduct a single investigation into a sexual assault claim over the past five years. These facts are unacceptable.

Thankfully, a bipartisan group of senators led by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has introduced a bill adding more law enforcement oversight over how universities handle sexual assault claims. The bill will establish campus resource centers for students, mandate new training standards for campus employees and enforce greatly expanded transparency and accountability requirements.

This new bill is a no-brainer, and we support it enthusiastically. Put simply: in cases of violence and sexual assault, the internal chain of command — whether at universities or sports leagues — has failed

spectacularly.

We must speak out loudly and firmly on this topic, and we will stand proudly with survivors. Fortunately, we’re in good company. At Columbia, senior Emma Sulkowicz has pledged to carry her mattress wherever she goes on campus until her rapist is expelled or leaves the school. She has been greeted with overwhelming support, with students joining together to help Sulkowicz carry her mattress and other students bringing their own mattresses to a protest last Friday.

Movements like Columbia’s give us hope for real change on campuses nationwide.

It’s clear that the fox cannot be trusted to guard the henhouse, and these powerful leagues and institutions cannot be trusted to police themselves. We must realize that the institutional popularity of colleges and sports programs

is nowhere near as important as the lives and livelihoods of the innocent women, and men, they so readily sweep under the rug. Until then, an insidious culture that protects the image of influential organizations at whatever cost will continue to prevail.

Powerful institutions like universities and sports leagues have not adequately protected women from the horrors of assault and violence. So join with us in supporting meaningful reform of how we handle rape and abuse in this country — action now is nothing less than a moral imperative.

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others across the nation, the protest erupted after the brutal beating of a black man named Rodney King.

Hackney watched the crowd through the windows of his house with his chief of staff, Linda Wilson. Finally, he decided to walk outside.

“It looked threatening,” Wilson said in an interview this month. “All you could see was people. And Dr. Hackney just looked at them and said, ‘Well, I’m going to see what I can do.’”

Into the early hours of the next morning, Hackney listened to the frustrated students who had compiled a list of the many ways the University had made black students feel unwelcome. They urged Hackney to institute diversity training seminars for all Penn faculty members and police officers — what the students considered a small, but tangible step in the nationwide fight for racial tolerance.

Many Americans argue that racism is still a potent force in society and call for its eradication — a goal that history has shown is dishearteningly difficult to achieve. But for decades, Penn students have used the University as a starting point in the battle.

A legacy of protest

On the evening of Oct. 25, 1981, W.E.B. DuBois House receptionist Jackie Brown received at least eight threatening phone calls from someone who asked her if she “liked dead niggers.” Two days later, in a rally organized by Vice Provost for University Life Janis Somerville, an unprecedented 1,000 students, faculty members and administrators linked arms and formed a circle around DuBois, singing “We Shall Overcome.”

From the late 1960s through the 1980s, Penn served as a microcosm for the tumultuous race relations that engulfed the United States in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. But the calls for peace by administrators and students that followed each incident over the years weren’t enough to end the discrimination that black students had faced.

A national leader in the fight for racial justice, W.E.B. DuBois worked at Penn while conducting research for his 1899 study “The Philadelphia Negro” and became one of the school’s first black faculty members. In his honor, Penn renamed a residence hall in 1973 to W.E.B. DuBois House and began a living-learning program that taught and discussed African-American history. The building, once called Low Rise North, is Penn’s only predominantly black residence hall.

Since the inception of DuBois House, residents have been the targets of racially motivated death threats, testing Penn’s ability to respond to widespread panic and protests over racial confrontations.

In a statement from Hackney and 21 other Penn officials at the time of the threatening phone calls, the University condemned racial harassment and called for tolerance.

But a week later, The Daily Pennsylvanian received phone calls from someone threatening to kill the chair of the Undergraduate Assembly and the president of the Black Student League, who were both black students. The perpetrator was never discovered, and the administration did not take any further action to protect students from racial threats.

Black students launched one of their early protests over racial discrimination in 1979, after Kappa Sigma brothers wore Ku Klux Klan robes to a costume party. Campus tensions had already been high following an incident just a month earlier when Kappa Sigma brothers had accused the wrong black man — a Penn administrator — of stealing one of their bikes. They threatened the man, holding up a crutch as a weapon, before realizing the error.

In response to the incidents, about 75 black students marched to College Green and called for Penn to revoke Kappa Sigma’s recognition. The University met the demand in February of the following year, but the decision was reversed two and a half months later after outrage by Penn students who called it unfair retaliation.

Despite the setback and the perception that the University dragged its feet on addressing discrimination, the protesters have kept up the pressure.

“Students are still aware of larger inequities in society and they come from a tradition of resistance,” said Associate Vice Provost for Equity

and Access William Gipson, who served as the University Chaplain from 1996 to 2007. “Everything from the slave insurrections to the work of Dr. King is part of that tradition.”

Tensions flared up again in February 1985, when Wharton lecturer Murray Dolfman called five black students “ex-slaves” in class and asked them to recite the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments from memory. Students organized a sitin that interrupted Dolfman’s legal studies class and a 200-student occupation in Hackney’s office to protest “the administration’s lack of sensitivity to black students,” the DP reported at the time.

The University responded with a statement that stressed its commitment to a “strong and vital black presence at Penn.” Hackney demanded an apology from Dolfman, who was suspended for a semester, but critics were disappointed that the administration made no policy changes to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Provoking dialogue

The early 1990s saw a constant flow of racial harassment incidents at Penn, drawing even more criticism to the administration and stirring a national media frenzy.

The spark that lit the fire was just five words: “Shut up, you water buffalo.”

Then-freshman Eden Jacobowitz yelled the words out of his window in January 1993 to a group of rowdy, mostly black sorority sisters. Perceiving the statement as a racial slur, Penn charged Jacobowitz in the student judicial office for violating the University’s racial harassment policy.

Jacobowitz remained adamant that “water buffalo” referred to a Hebrew slang word and contained no racial underpinnings. Jacobowitz, a 1995 College graduate, could not be reached for comment for this article.

Shortly after what became known as the “Water Buffalo incident,” self-described “members of the black community” stole 14,000 copies of the DP to protest an allegedly racist columnist and the DP’s alleged lack of appropriate minority coverage. The administration was slow to act in response to the thefts, leading to vicious attacks against Hackney in the national media for his supposed preference toward minority students and his failure to protect free speech on campus.

“The language police are at work on the campuses of our better schools,” NBC news anchor John Chancellor broadcast at the time. “The culture of victimization is hunting for quarry. American English is in danger of losing its muscle and energy. That’s what these bozos are doing to us.”

The ordeal, which began shortly after President Bill Clinton nominated Hackney to head the National Endowment for the Humanities, led to intense dialogue on campus about the administration’s policies concerning race.

“I remember having lots of conversations around the issue,” Leo Greenberg, a 1996 College graduate who lived down the hall from Jacobowitz during the Water Buf-

falo incident, said in an interview this month. “But then, in less diverse circles, I’m not sure whether it prompted more discussion or whether it just prompted more animosity.”

Before long, the conversation spiraled into chaos as television reporters camped out on campus and dubbed Penn as the prime example of political correctness run amok.

The affair garnered interest from all corners of the country, including Clinton’s office.

“The White House was calling up and saying, ‘Can’t you put a lid on this thing? We don’t need

You couldn’t make it stop.

You couldn’t make it go away. It really took on a life of its own. ” - Linda Wilson Sheldon Hackney’s chief of staff

this now, we’re trying to get your confirmation through,’” Wilson, Hackney’s chief of staff, said. “No, you couldn’t put a lid on it. You couldn’t make it stop. You couldn’t make it go away. It really took on a life of its own.”

The sorority sisters began receiving anonymous postcards: “Water buffalo have brains. You do not. Niggers do not have brains,” one read. “What an insult to the water buffalo. You are a black ass nigger,” said another. Ultimately, the women dropped the case against Jacobowitz, believing media bias would make a fair hearing impossible.

With campus hostility in the back of his mind, Greenberg wrote a political science paper in his sophomore year outlining the extent of racial segregation on campus and presented it to the UA. In 1994, 80.9 percent of DuBois students were African American — the highest percentage of any ethnic group in a single dorm — even though Af-

rican Americans made up just 7 percent of the campus population.

They constituted only 1.8 percent of the Quadrangle, the largest dormitory on campus.

Greenberg proposed that the University institute randomized firstyear housing to address the segregation. What he didn’t know was that he had resurfaced a longstanding controversy that remains unsettled even today. From the time DuBois was formed, civil rights activists recognized that its living-learning program attracted an unrepresentative number of black students. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People even threatened to sue the University for promoting racial segregation.

“It just seemed sort of staggering that people were collecting homogeneously,” Greenberg said. “But then again, there’s two varying schools of thought ... it’s somewhat disenfranchising to minorities who have a valid interest to protect their identity.”

Even after the proliferation of organizations for minority students — like UMOJA and the Greenfield Intercultural Center — exactly half of DuBois residents self-identified as black in the fall of 2013, according to College House and Academic Services statistics. Black students still constitute only 7 percent of the Penn undergraduate population.

Coming to Penn for some black students is a “culture shock” that can make them feel unwelcome in spaces on campus with predominantly white students, said Wharton senior Nikki Hardison, political chair of UMOJA — the umbrella organization for black student groups.

“Sometimes there’s trepidation that we won’t be welcome into those spaces. That those spaces are non-minority spaces,” Hardison said. “You need to be able to have a place on campus where you can go and know that you will be understood and that you’re not being judged.”

‘The highest standard’

Since the turn of the millennium, the number of documented incidents of racial harassment at Penn has dropped, but students and administrators say that the fight to

end discrimination on campus — as well as around the country — is far from over.

“I think it behooves us being one of the major universities — major research universities — to pay attention to unconscious bias,” said Gipson, the associate vice provost, who has been the faculty master in DuBois since 2006. “Even though we think we’re open-minded, we use bias, this survival tool, to make quick judgments about the situations we might be in. And there’s nothing inherently wrong about that, except when you see the impact of that bias in the context of racial hierarchies in this country.”

But how to ensure that minority students feel comfortable on campus and how to diminish “unconscious bias” remain hotly disputed.

Periodic incidents of racial harassment continue to crop up, reminding students of the progress yet to be made.

In 2011, College of Liberal and Professional Studies student Christopher Abreu wrote an op-ed in the DP discouraging black students from attending Penn. He came to the conclusion, he wrote, when a group of drunk Penn students asked him where to find fried chicken and called him a “nigger.” The next day, 200 students, along with Penn Pres-

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“Each of us has a responsibility to cultivate mutual respect in both word and deed, every hour of the day and every day of the year,” Gutmann wrote in a published letter to the DP the following day. “Is this a

high standard? No. It is the highest standard, set because our community deserves nothing less.”

Protests, rallies and sit-ins continue to crop up every few years following racially charged incidents on campus and nationwide.

The hope, organizers of such events have said, is to tackle the national issues of racial discrimination by first working on them on a smaller scale at places like Penn.

“At Penn, you’re able to pull from a very diverse group of intellectual individuals who have a stake in making sure there is change, because it’s the world they’re ultimately inheriting,” said College senior Kyle Webster, president of Onyx, a senior honor society for black student leaders.

“So it’s almost like, ‘I’m going to face this problem tomorrow, so why not solve it today?’”

When a neighborhood watch coordinator shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, 200 students and Philadelphia residents marched from DuBois to LOVE Park, hoping that raising awareness could help prevent similar incidents.

But a similar incident came this summer, when Michael Brown, another unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Missouri.

This time, more than 120 students attended a town hall meeting in Irvine Auditorium to discuss how to combat racial discrimination at Penn, in Philadelphia and around the country. Students proposed the creation and distribution of pamphlets outlining rights for individuals approached by police officers and advocated for legislation to minimize use of excessive force. But, as the test of time has convinced many student leaders, it may be a while before progress is made.

“In my four years here, if I see one change, that would be almost a miracle,” said Wharton senior Justin Malone, president of the Black Student League. “But at the end of the day, you keep fighting because you realize that if you stop, other people may stop, and that’s just only going make the move toward progress that much slower.”

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A group of students protestors, who interrupted the proceedings to protest Summers and his views, had a decidedly different take on the event and his choice as speaker. They held up signs and asked the audience to join them in laughing at Summers.

“We were shocked that Penn had decided to recognize him through this prestigious event — he is definitely not a role model. We just wanted to make sure people were aware of the type of policies he was involved in, and that people knew that Larry Summers doesn’t represent everyone’s views at Penn,” Law student Jack Regenbogen

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Regenbogen also called Summers “a poster boy for the proliferation of sweatshops, and that his policies have been directly responsible for oppressive trade agreements.”

Protestors, like College senior Chloe Sigal, also objected to Summers’ statements made while he was president of Harvard University about women’s aptitude in math and science and policies he championed while in the Clinton Administration and as the Chief Economist of the World Bank.

“Summers has also made overtly misogynistic statements claiming that women are underrepresented in math and science because of innate deficiencies, contributed to the failure of the Kyoto protocol and pushed structural adjustment policies as Chief Economist of the World Bank that destabilized countries throughout the Global South,” Sigal said.

Taking a different path to solving Philadelphia’s social dilemmas New group ENGAGE is taking a research-based approach to social issues MICA TENENBAUM Contributing Writer

A new group is challenging the established role of studentrun service organizations at Penn.

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munity-level communication in the hopes of developing solutions to pertinent social issues in Philadelphia. On Monday at the Christian Association, the ENGAGE team gathered with prospective new members. Founders Dan Kurland and Neil Cholli, both College juniors, talked about the experiences that led them to create ENGAGE. When Kurland and Cholli began their organization they wanted to be different from

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ENGAGE stresses the importance of both the “think” and “action” parts of a think-andaction tank, and is currently generating project ideas based on research they have aggregated since their founding.

The organization has released a 70-page status report that details the research in each of the social categories that its members study. Kurland focuses on gun violence and Cholli on economic opportunity, while other team members are examining the controversy over Medicaid, immigrant entrepreneurship, poverty and financial literacy and minority voter participation.

“If you go to a homeless shelter, any person you’ll see will probably have faced many or all the issues we’ve talked about,” Cholli said.

He believes that it’s important to consider the ways that Philadelphia’s social problems overlap.

Kurland believes that their extensive research is necessary to build a foundation from which they can develop projects. They have studied statistics and had conversations with victims, community members, city counselors and established organizations in order to prepare for the “action” part of their think-andaction goals. Next Saturday, Kurland and a teammate will be setting up voting registration booths in areas where Hispanic populations may not have access to these services.

ENGAGE is eager for new members that are interested in a unique and diverse service opportunity. When asked what type of students they are looking to recruit as new members, Kurland replied that “the number one thing is a love and care for the Philadelphia community; a desire to help people.”

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report also included statistics on reported offenses of domestic and dating violence, as well as stalking, in accordance with new federal laws. Seven reports of domestic violence and four reports of dating violence were made in 2013. No reports for stalking were filed last year.

The “Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationship Violence and Stalking” section in this year’s report — two pages longer than last year’s “Rape and Sexual Violence” section — elaborated on support services and reporting procedures for victims of sexual violence.

In an added education section this year, the report highlighted Penn services, including DPS’s Special Services Department and the Penn Women’s Center, which can provide assistance to victims of sexual violence. It also noted that freshmen must partticipate in the Penn Alcohol Module and a mandatory session during New Student Orientation on consent, boundaries and healthy relationships.

The report also mentioned, as it did in previous years, that the Special Services Department will also assist victims of sexual violence through verbal and written counseling, and will help victims access health, legal and other services onand off-campus. Students can also seek help from Counseling and Psychological Services, the Penn Women’s Center and the Office of Student Conduct, the report explained.

The report also discussed reporting procedures for sexual violence. It acknowledges the sensitive nature of disclosing incidents of rape and sexual assault, but nevertheless encourages victims to contact the Special Services Department to report and seek assistance. Victims have the option to choose whether to report the incident fully and completely or file no report. If the victim chooses to pursue criminal options, the report points out, it is very important to preserve evidence.

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UA aims to address mental health vigilance, school spirit The Assembly discussed possible new initiatives at their Sunday meeting SONIA SIDHU Staff Writer

At their Sept. 14 meeting, the Undergraduate Assembly discussed a possible program to increase vigilance about mental health in College Houses.

Mental health dorm slips

The initiative, led by College sophomore and UA representative Ray Clark, allows hallmates to alert their Resident Advisor or Graduate Advisor of another hallmate’s mental health problem by filling out a paper slip or electronic form.

RAs or GAs would be encouraged to meet with the identified student and refer them to CAPS if needed.

More training from CAPS for RAs and GAs would also be required, Clark said. So far, the UA has met with CAPS Director Bill Alexander to discuss the project and informally received input from individual

RAs and GAs, Rodin Cares and Active Minds.

When the idea was originally presented, Clark mentioned that the slips would be available in public places and online. However, there was debate from various UA members about the security of physical slips.

College junior and UA representative Maddie Gee mentioned that online slips eliminate liability issues, increasing security and preserving anonymity for students. She added that online slips could facilitate use by people outside of a hall community.

In order to prevent abuse of the system, Engineering sophomore and UA representative Lukas Vacek suggested preventing the submission of more than one slip per hour. Clark also mentioned that the initiative would go along with a mental health awareness program.

“The goal is to increase communication and make sure that anyone and everyone who needs help gets help,” College junior and UA representative Jane Meyer said.

The dual degree program

The UA is also interested in finding more classes to “double count” for uncoordinated dualdegree programs, which lack the structure of coordinated dual-degree programs like the Huntsman Program.

The UA is currently researching which classes already double count, College sophomore and UA representative Eric Tepper said.

Tunmise Fawole, a College sophomore and UA representative, mentioned that the UA will also start meeting with the respective administrators of the popular uncoordinated dualdegree programs.

School spirit

The UA also discussed plans to increase school spirit.

Wharton sophomore and UA representative Graciela Arana said that she “noticed

that school spirit at Penn is not geared towards athletics.”

The UA met last week with Deputy Director of Athletics Alanna Shanahan and Penn Athletics Director of Marketing and New Media Joshua Craggs to discuss ways to increase student attendance at games.

The Penn Rewards application is an existing mobile app that allows students to gain points for attending athletic events and work towards a prize. Prizes include a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card, warm-up jersey and sports watch. Although the app is well designed, it is not as publicized as it could be, Arana said.

Another idea was to feature performing arts groups during halftime to encourage fans and friends of the groups to attend the athletic events. The UA is aiming to establish a schedule with a different group at every game.

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FOOTBALL “They’re like coaches on the field,� Priore said.

These upperclassmen have taken full responsibility for the secondary’s lackluster overall performance last year. “We all have a chip on our shoulder. Things didn’t really bounce our way last year,� Wilk said. “We have to look at ourselves and do something to change it.

Wilk believes that the extra year of relationship-building amongst the secondary will pay dividends in on-field results this season. “We’re one of the closer knit groups on the team. We’re always hanging out,� he said. “We kinda just expect to ball out every game.�

Priore also believes that the secondary will be able to successfully rebound from its subpar performance last year, based largely on the chemistry it has demonstrated thus far this preseason. “I think they really gel. We have the ability to play a lot of man-toman coverage,� Priore said.

With Penn’s somewhat unconventional base set of five defensive backs and only two linebackers, the coordination of action between members of the secondary is even more crucial. However, they should have the personnel to pull it off. “I can’t say enough about [junior defensive back] Kenny Thomas,� senior linebacker Dan Davis said. “He should be preseason first-team All-Ivy. He’s just a freak.�

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be lost in the conversation of the back seven, though, especially when they are anchored by Davis, a first-team All-Ivy performer last season and current team captain.

Davis is ready to take on a whole new set of responsibilities in his final season. “It takes just a different perspective on everything,� he said on the prospect of his upcoming senior season. “You want to kind of just do it and live in the moment.�

Davis has a strong — albeit raw — talent beside him in sophomore Donald Panciello, who spent some time as punter last season. “He’s a great player. He doesn’t have the perfect physique or any thing like that, but he’s an amazing athlete,� Davis said. “He’s sixfoot tall and can two-handed dunk, windmill dunk.�

Despite his relative inexperience, however, Panciello was selected Ivy League Rookie of the Week once last season (as a punter) and has consistently impressed with his considerable athleticism.

The linebackers will receive a significant test this weekend against Jacksonville, a team that put up big numbers on the ground in its most recent victory over San Diego.

It remains to be seen whether or not it is able to bounce back from its mediocre production last season, but Penn’s back seven certainly has the potential to carry Bagnoli to an Ivy title in his final season. “Our guys are focused, and they understand what needs to get done,� Priore said.

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Who is Penn’s top Ivy threat?

BY IAN WENIK AND HOLDEN MCGINNIS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Penn football is getting its season started this weekend on Saturday in a nonconference tilt against Jacksonville, but some of us are already looking ahead to Ivy play. Sports Editors Ian Wenik and Holden McGinnis debate which Ancient Eight rival poses the biggest threat to the Quakers this year.

Sports Editor Ian Wenik: This is an easy one. It’s Princeton. The Tigers dealt the death blow to the Quakers last year when they came back from a 16-0 deficit to win on Homecoming, 38-26, and they’re just as much of a threat this time around. Sure, defensive tackle Caraun Reid is in the NFL now, but Princeton returns players like two-time first-team All-Ivy selection Anthony Gaffney at corner and 2013 second-team All-Ivy selection Mike Zeuli at linebacker. Their defense won’t miss a beat.

Sports Editor Holden McGinnis: While we’re on the topic of experienced defenses, how about Harvard? Princeton came away with the win against Harvard, 51-48, in three overtimes, but the Crimson pose just as serious a threat. While Harvard graduated a number of All-Ivy players in one of its strongest senior classes in recent memory, they still return dynamic players up and down their roster.

Senior defensive lineman Zach Hodges will pose an even more serious threat to the afore-

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mentioned inexperienced offensive line of the Quakers. Meanwhile, the secondary is anchored by senior defensive back Norman Hayes, Harvard’s sole captain.

The Crimson still have a strong offense, led by senior quarterback Conner Hempel and junior running back Paul Stanton. Barring injury, they’ll pose serious issues for the Quakers in all phases of the game.

IW: I think that the Tigers have a thing or two to say about offensive firepower. Quinn Epperly is still Princeton’s quarterback, and who could forget his NCAA record-setting performance against Cornell, when he completed 29

passes in a row? Epperly fully deserved to be named Ivy Offensive Player of the Year last season. My only concern is that he’s lost his favorite target, wide receiver Roman Wilson, to graduation. Who will take his place? It might be one of the Tigers’ two main senior wideouts — Seth DeValve or Matt Costello.

Making matters easier for Epperly is that he has running back DiAndre Atwater in the backfield once again — Atwater averaged a solid 4.7 yards per carry last year.

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Ellen Vagelos Field has been a safe haven so far for Penn field hockey. The Quakers have won nine of their first 13 games at the Astroturf field that opened in 2013.

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of Penn’s most exciting sports.

The Quakers have gone 9-4 at home in the last two years following their time as one of many sports playing at Franklin Field.

And watching the Red and Blue this weekend, it is easy to see why they’ve been so successful in their new domicile.

While the field itself is wellbuilt and there is a solid scoreboard to accompany it, the team itself puts on a display each and every game.

Take Friday’s match against Fairfield for example. There weren’t many goals — six to be exact — and there were no last minute heroics.

But there was a fast-paced offense fueling the Red and Blue.

There were highlight reel saves by senior goalkeeper Allison Weisenfels to keep Penn ahead.

And there was freshman attack Alexa Hoover to add the exclamation point to the game.

A year after Jasmine Cole easily took home Ivy League Rookie of the Year before transferring to Rutgers, Hoover has stepped into her place with ease.

Hoover has provided six goals in just four games, including a hat trick in her first collegiate game.

“We’re definitely meshing really well together,” senior Emily Corcoran said about playing with Hoover. “We’re able to get plays going, hitting the open player, so she’s just an awesome addition to the team. She’s transitioned really well into the college game.”

It hasn’t just been Hoover’s ability to score. It has been the way she plays and moves through the field that makes her particularly exciting to watch.

“She’s dynamic,” coach Colleen Fink said. “She’s exciting to watch. People are going to come to the games to see her play.

She’s creative, she’s fast, she dances out on the field.”

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While Hitti provided much of the offense on Sunday, Corcoran, as Penn’s leading scorer returning from last season, showed off on Friday.

The senior captain has a rocket for a shot as she firmly displayed during her two-goal performance on Friday. Her five goals on the year put her on pace to beat last year’s 13goal effort.

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IVY THREATS Our editors debate which Ivy opponent will pose the biggest threat to Penn football. >> SEE PAGE 8

Red and Blue in back seventh heaven

FOOTBALL | Penn will rely on DBs and LBs for defensive spark

the results simply did not materialize.

In 2013, the Red and Blue gave up the fifth-most passing yards via the third-highest completion percentage in the Ivy League last season, and they still have the bad taste of a poor defensive performance against Cornell in their season finale in their mouths.

“Being fifth in anything is no good,” defensive coordinator and coach-in-waiting Ray Priore said.

Things are looking different this year, though, and Penn’s coaching staff has gone so far as to identify the back seven as one of the team’s biggest strengths.

“I think the strength of our defense is in our linebackers and secondary, our second and third level,” Priore said. “They have the most experience coming back … so expectations are high.”

The team’s secondary benefits from this experience, it features two fifth-year senior captains and All-Ivy defensive backs in Dan CAROLYN LIM/DP FILE PHOTO Wilk and Evan Jackson.

BY COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor

The number seven.

It’s known affectionately as “lucky number seven,” your best bet on any given dice roll.

In Ivy League football, seven may be even more ubiquitous. It’s both the value of a touchdown with the extra point and the number of games against other Ivy squads in any given season for a team.

In this upcoming season, though, Penn football may be even more reliant on the number than usual.

After a subpar defensive performance in 2013, the Quakers will look to their remarkably experienced and accomplished defensive back seven to spark a run towards an Ivy title in coach Al Bagnoli’s final season.

Of course, Penn had similar in- A senior captain this year, 2013 first-team All-Ivy linebacker Dan Davis will be relied upon heavily in multiple capacities throughout the season. On the field, he figures to tentions going into last season, but be a cornerstone for the Red and Blue’s defensive back seven, but he will also be tasked with providing leadership in Al Bagnoli’s last season as coach.

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Freshman XC runner Abby Hong finished amongst Penn’s lead pack in the women’s team’s complete domination of local competition at the Big 5 Invitational. Her performance may have taken the outside running community by surprise, but her team expects that there will be many more performances like this to come from the former high school national finalist.

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Attack, Attack, Attack

Penn field hockey started out the weekend in style with a 4-2 win over Fairfield. Highlighting the win were two of the team’s most potent attacks — senior Emily Corcoran and freshman Alexa Hoover. Each had two goals in the Quakers’ victory.

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Penn volleyball headed out west for matches against some of the top teams in country.

While the California trip on its own was important to the team’s eight Golden State natives, the Quakers’ top moment of the weekend was taking a set from No. 20 Duke.

To the Limit Penn women’s soccer needed every second of double overtime against St. Francis (Pa.) on Thursday night.

Though sophomore midfield Ana Chevtchenko scored from 25 yards out in the 60th minute to open the scoring, the Quakers would surrender an equalizer just 20 minutes later, leading to a 1-1 draw.

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Not to be outdone, Penn men’s XC followed the women’s squad with arguably an even more dominant performance at the Big 5 Invitational. Led by senior captain Conner Paez, seven Quakers crossed the finish line before the first competitor from an opposing team was able to do so.

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Though Penn men’s soccer came up short against No. 10 Washington to round out its West Coast road trip on Sunday, it wasn’t for lack of trying. Senior forward Duke Lacroix dribbled around the Huskies’ keeper after solid buildup to tie the match at 1-1 in the 41st minute, energizing the Red and Blue.

Oh My Darlington Over the offseason, junior runner Amy Darlington was named one of Penn XC’s captains. In her first race in this leadership position, she decided to run the best race of her collegiate career, finishing with the lead women’s pack and helping the Quakers demolish the competition at the Big 5 Invitational.

Senior captain Trina Ohms has taken on a leadership role for the Red and Blue this year and it is only fitting she got something in return. When Penn played at No. 1 Stanford on Saturday, Ohms was playing on the first court where she ever played volleyball.

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Junior attack Elizabeth Hitti was one of Penn’s top performers during Sunday’s 3-2 loss to Liberty, contributing to both goals. She got the scoring started eight minutes in before a nifty assist gave Alexa Hoover a goal six minutes later.

Heart and Sol

Over the weekend, Penn women’s tennis hosted the 18th Annual Cissie Leary Memorial Invitational at the Hamlin Tennis Center on campus. Senior Sol Eskenazi impressed, making it to the finals for the second straight year in the flight A singles bracket. She was not able to defend her crown, but her run bodes well for the rest of her final season.

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The Quakers had plenty of bright moments despite a transitionary year

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t can be a long trek to Ellen Vagelos Field.

You walk all the way to the eastern part of campus, walk past Franklin Field, past the train station, down the bridge and past Rhodes Field.

But after making the walk to the field, it is pretty easy to see why you went all that distance.

Since moving to Vagelos Field last year, field hockey has been one

There are no two ways about it: 2013 was a transition year for Penn cross country. Coach Steve Dolan himself would gladly admit it. The season saw a lot of ups and downs for two young squads that ultimately finished in unfortunately familiar territory: the bottom of the Ivy League.

However, it also provided some great moments for the program to build on moving into this year. Here are some of the best moments from the season: 1. A coming-out party SEE XC PAGE 9

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