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Trial over brawl in the Quad continues

A summer hire,

a family affair &

a lot of questions

One former student, Ivan Loginov, will avoid a full criminal trial KELLY HEINZERLING Deputy News Editor

Never Had A Chance Michael Blodgett is, just about as much as one could possibly be, a Penn guy. Having golfed for the Red and Blue from 2005 to 2009, he starred for the 2007 Ivy League champion squad, before following that up as the conference’s individual champion in 2008.

Even after his playing career was complete, he served as a volunteer graduate assistant

The controversial trial of Wharton sophomore Dante Benitez and College sophomore Ivan Loginov took a new turn on Sept. 18.

Both Benitez and Loginov are being charged for assaulting Wharton sophomore Max Arias, who suffered multiple fractures and a concussion from the altercation on April 8. The two men were subpoenaed to appear together for a hearing in Philadelphia’s Municipal Court Criminal Division at the Criminal Justice Center on Sept. 18, but left by noon that same day.

Benitez and his lawyer, James Funt, have alleged that Benitez and Loginov were acting to defend a female friend from potential sexual assault.

Their claims have ignited public interest into the hazy details of what happened that April night.

Moving forward, Benitez and Loginov will continue on different legal routes.

At the trial, Benitez’s legal team requested a continuance of further investigation, meaning that the trial would be rescheduled for a later date to permit for further examination of the facts of the case. A courthouse clerk who received the trial report said Benitez and his lawyer may have requested a continuance as new evidence might come to light during the new period of discovery.

Meanwhile, Loginov, who is a Russian citizen, requested a continuance pending program rather than going to a full criminal trial. A courthouse clerk who was present at the trial said Benitez was not eligible for participation in this program. He will have his next trial hearing on Dec. 12.

Loginov was approved for the Accelerated Rehabilitation Diversion program, which is available to first-time offenders at the authorization of the presiding district attorney.

Defendants participating in the ARD program must agree to comply with a set of conditions that allow them to avoid jail time by serving proba-

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The hire of Jason Calhoun as men’s golf coach raises doubts of potential nepotism, other misconduct COLE JACOBSON Senior Sports Reporter

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n June 26, Jason Calhoun, the husband of Penn’s Athletic Director, Dr. M. Grace Calhoun, was announced as the next head coach of the men’s golf program.

The Calhouns quickly addressed any questions of nepotism as soon as Jason’s latest destination was announced.

“If my wife was the Athletic Director at Villanova or Temple, I still would’ve wanted the Penn job. It’s a very prestigious role and it’s an honor to be an Ivy League coach for sure,” Jason told The Daily Pennsylvanian in late June.

“Jason emerged as the most qualified candidate in a comprehensive national search

that was led by the University’s men’s and women’s golf sport administrator, Assistant Athletic Director Jake Silverman,” Grace wrote in a statement in July. “Given my relationship with Jason, I had no involvement in the search.”

But doubts still lingered — Penn had just hired a new head coach who was married to the most powerful individual person within the University’s athletic department.

The DP embarked on a months-long investigation to determine if there had been any impropriety.

After dissecting over 20 years of the Calhouns’ work history — including a forced resignation involving a conflict of interest

and the ousting of a beloved Penn interim coach — the DP found more questions than answers.

University Event Observers met with student resistance The observers are meant to be a resource for students JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

The Penn administration has rolled out a series of new measures to tackle sexual assault and hazing on campus, many of which have been met with opposition from students.

At a meeting on Sept. 13 titled “We Are Penn: A Community Conversation,” hundreds of student representatives filled the stands of the Palestra to hear about the University’s new initiatives.

Members of the organizing bodies presented the newest University initiatives to combat hazing and sexual violence including event registration, Event Observers and the Anti-Violence Engagement Network.

“We understand that there may be a feeling that [the Event Observers] are out shutting out all the parties right now,” Executive Director of the Office of Student Affairs Katie Bonner said. “I would like to dispel that myth. That is not the case.”

Bonner said the Event Observers

are meant to be resources for students, but after a slew of party closures this semester, many students have voiced criticism of the EOs. Bonner also explained that from this semester on, all student organizations are required to register their social events with the Office of Alcohol and Other Drugs.

No matter where the event is held, student groups must register their events online at least 10 days before it is scheduled to take place.

The administration did not specify what size gathering constitutes a party.

Hosts of events with alcohol are required to follow a series of additional regulations.

These include hiring a University-approved bartender and a pair of security guards for the entirety of the event, which cost $25 per hour and $65 per hour, respectively. If an event lasts for 5 hours, the cost of registration comes up to $450.

“These are pretty high costs to expect people to pay,” College senior and Interfraternity Council President Bradley Freeman said. Freeman explained that among student groups, fraternities are more likely to be able to afford these costs be-

cause they collect dues. Earlier this week, IFC told all fraternity chapters that they will pay 50 percent of the costs needed for the bartender and security guards.

“For other groups that maybe don’t collect dues, that’s an unreasonable cost. It’s not fair, in my mind, that only people who can afford these new additional costs can host events,” he said.

Freeman also pointed out that during periods with a high frequency of events such as Spring Fling, the University might not be able to supply enough bartenders and security guards.

“If the University is now expecting the whole school to register events, they need to be ready to meet capacity, so that anyone who wants to register an event, can,” he said.

Under the new guidelines, hosts are also required to have sober hosts present and are not allowed to provide hard liquor for parties with more than 150 guests. If they do wish to stock hard liquor, they are only allowed to serve pre-approved mixed drinks, and not allowed to offer shots.

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1. All registration forms must be submitted 10 days prior to the event. (For both dry events and events with alcohol.)

Bartender $25/hr

2. Hosts have to pay for both a university-approved bartender and two security guards for events with alcohol

Security guard $32.50/hr

3. Hard liquor only allowed for parties with a pre-set guest list of 150 people or fewer.

4. No more than 2 types of hard liquor can be stocked at the bar, and they can only be served in single-serving mixed drinks that Penn approves. No shots.

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5. Each of-age guest is only allowed 4 mixed drinks.

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OPINION | The pressure to hook up

NEWS Fraternities miss the mark

NEWS Student petition goes viral

SPORTS | Field hockey’s greatest of all time

IFC publishes attendance rates of brothers to educational programs PAGE 3

Petition comes after University cracks down on unofficial events PAGE 9

“…hooking up is perpetuated throughout campus as a part of Penn life, and as a Penn student, you are physically stuck here.” PAGE 5

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Most Penn buildings lack gender-neutral restrooms Penn plans to make 100 restrooms gender-neutral GIOVANNA PAZ Staff Reporter

Just under 20 percent of nonresidential campus buildings contain at least one gender-neutral bathroom, but a recent push

by Facilities and Real Estate Services and the LGBT Center is looking to increase that number.

After FRES recently determined that more than 100 single-stall restrooms on campus met the criteria set by LGBT Center Director Erin Cross, the team got to work converting the bathrooms from single-gender to gender-neutral.

As of this past June, 37 of the approximately 200 nonresidential buildings maintained by FRES include at least one gen-

der-neutral bathroom, though some buildings may include up to 10.

FRES maintains 218 buildings on campus, including 18 buildings for student housing.

When counting the total number of gender-neutral bathrooms, FRES does not include bathrooms in college houses because those bathrooms are designated as gender-neutral depending on student preferences each year, according to a statement from the Office of the University Architect.

Still, some students have identified problems with genderneutral bathrooms currently on campus, noting that many are not conveniently located and some are not even accessible.

College sophomore Amber Auslander (who uses they/them pronouns) said that in Stiteler Hall, there is a bathroom desig-

nated for gender non-conforming students, but students must obtain access to the door code in order to unlock it.

“It had a code that you need to get in and the code was only recently given to Erin [Cross].

You just had to find out what it was by word of mouth,” Amber said.

Cross said the LGBT Center struggles to determine how to distribute the door code information. Some students who are not on the center’s listserv or don’t feel comfortable requesting the door code information are often unable to access the genderneutral bathrooms — especially burdensome for students who are not open about their gender and/or sexual identities.

Auslander said there are also problems with other bathrooms that are not in convenient locations for gender non-conforming

students, which they said leads them to “jump through three different hoops get to it.”

To address this issue, University Architect David Hollenberg said that Penn is planning to renovate bathrooms in academic buildings to be more inclusive of transgender and gender nonconforming students.

As of May, there were close to 91 gender-neutral restrooms in non-residential buildings on campus.

“The current push it to go beyond that,” Hollenberg said.

“And to create multi-stalled, gender neutral bathrooms.”

Penn’s peer schools have made increasing access to gender-neutral bathrooms a continuing priority. In June, Yale University sued the state of Connecticut over its state building code, which prohibits the school from making all single-occupant restrooms gender-neutral in the law school. Brown University, too, has made strides toward having bathrooms be “gender inclusive.”

On campus, the renovation of Hill College House was the first

GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOMS AT PENN Less than

20%

of nonresidential campus buildings contain a gender-neutral bathroom

That’s

37

of the approximately

200

nonresidential buildings maintained by FRES project that brought about multistalled, gender-neutral bathrooms for residential spaces.

In six weeks, Hollenberg said “feasibility studies” will hopefully be realized once a number of academic buildings express interest in installing gender-neutral bathrooms in their buildings.

Hollenberg hopes to hire an architect who specializes in

this field by the end of the semester to renovate single-stall bathrooms into multi-stall bathrooms.

“That is the next frontier,” Hollenberg said. “I’m excited about it. There’s a lot of interest in it and there’s a lot of support from Office of the Provost. They are eager for me to pull the trigger on this pilot study.”

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Only 19 percent of fraternities completed attendance requirement

Four fraternities sent no one to the Vagina Monologues MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

For the first time, the Interfraternity Council is publicly publishing fraternities’ attendance rates for various educational programs, including courses on sexual assault prevention and sexual health. Only five of Penn’s 27 fraternities fulfilled the requirements for all three events on sexual assault prevention that were mandated.

New member education is a type of IFC educational programming concerning sexual health and sexual assault, which all on-campus fraternities are expected to complete.

This year, chapters were required to send three new members to a sexual health education course hosted by Student Health Service, 10 to the Vagina Monologues and have 100 percent attendance for a Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault presentation.

Bradley Freeman, the president of IFC and College senior, said he decided to publish the attendance rates from last semester for “accountability and transparency.”

Only five fraternities fulfilled all three requirements. Nearly 30 percent did not have three member’s attend SHS’s “sex camp” on sexual health, and roughly 40 percent did not have full attendance at their MARS presentation. More than 50 percent did not have the requisite

number of members attend the Vagina Monologues.

Alpha Tau Omega President and Wharton senior Frederick Dunau did not respond to a request for comment. ATO was one of three chapters that had zero members attend SHS’s “sex camp.”

This was the first year that the Vagina Monologues was a mandatory event for fraternity members and the IFC purchased tickets for its attendees.

George Costidis, a member of Pi Kappa Alpha and College sophomore, said last year’s new member education helped to spark conversations about typically “taboo” topics.

“There are lots of obstacles that I don’t face as a man,” said Costidis. “Hearing other people’s stories about them really opened my eyes to how I can make sure to prevent those kinds of things from happening to other people.”

IFC excused Alpha Delta Phi from the Vagina Monologues requirement because of the fraternity’s small pledge class.

Zeta Beta Tau was one of four fraternities that had zero members at the Vagina Monologues. ZBT member and College and Wharton junior Matt Schiff did not respond to a request for comment.

Wharton senior Nico DeLuna, IFC Vice President of New Member Education and Recruitment, said that in prior years, MARS held two presentations and chapters were expected to send their

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members to either session. This year, MARS members presented at individual chapter houses.

“The fact that we changed [new member education] last year so you could schedule your own meetings at your own chapter house at your own convenience, there is no excuse for why the requirements should not be completed,” he said.

IFC excused Alpha Sigma Phi from the MARS requirement because the fraternity was under investigation and University sanctions prevented them from holding member-wide meetings.

President of Pi Lambda Phi and College junior Peter Carzis said in an email that his fraternity’s incomplete attendance at the MARS presentation was due to scheduling conflicts. He declined to comment on the fact that not one Pilam member attended the Vagina Monologues.

President of MARS and a College senior Zeeshan Mallick said that while his organization wants as many people to attend MARS’s presentations as possible, he understands that certain factors, such as a small pledge class, can lower attendance percentages.

DeLuna added that in calculating the attendance, there were issues of members not signing in or buying their own tickets, but that the IFC adjusted for discrepancies after talking to the chapter presidents.

President of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Wharton junior Joel Fon-

seca did not respond to a request for comment. SAE was one of 12 fraternities that had less than full attendance at the MARS presentation.

The IFC can fine chapters that do not fulfill the requirements. Carzis said in an email that Pilam paid a fine of $100 for sending no members to the Vagina Monologues. A chapter can also lose accreditation points, which allow them to remain chartered and stay on campus.

Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Eddie Banks-Crosson said encouraging attendance in the program is based more on incentives than penalties.

However, fraternities that skip mandatory events can face social sanctions, which can include limits to the number of parties they organize.

DeLuna said implementing social sanctions was difficult last year because scheduling the MARS presentations took longer than expected. He added that he didn’t personally know of any social sanctions that have been imposed as a result of fraternities skipping mandatory events.

“Honestly, there isn’t a ton that the IFC can do to chapters that don’t complete the requirements,” said DeLuna. “Which is one reason why we decided to publish the data this year… if the rest of the school can see who is taking this seriously and who isn’t, perhaps that will be the actual social incentive to complete the requirements.”

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Registered hosts can expect to receive visits from EOs to ensure that their events are adhering to University’s alcohol regulations.

According to the VPUL website, EOs are part-time staff of the AOD. They wander around campus on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights to check registered and unregistered events.

Associate Director of Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Malik Washington was also present at the meeting. He introduced PVP’s newest campus initiative, the Anti-Violence Engagement Network, a program that clubs can enroll in.

“We want to engage with you, and empower you, to say that you will not accept a culture of sexual assault on campus,” Washington said. “This series of steps will help

to formalize that.”

Student leaders at the event also discussed their participation as student representatives in a task force exploring campus social life – specifically the culture of hazing – last semester.

“We met with many student group to discuss and better understand what it means to be a Penn student and the rights and responsibilities that entails,” said Co-Chair of the University Honor Council and College senior Christopher D’Urso.

“It’s really important to recognize this: a lot of things have happened at different schools” Karu Kozuma, the associate vice provost for student affairs said, in reference to the recent hazing death of Penn State freshman, Timothy Piazza. “One of the deadliest ingredients for things that happen like that is thinking that it cannot happen here.”

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Dante Benitez alleges that he and Ivan Loginov acted to defend a female friend from potential sexual assault.

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tion for an agreed-upon period of time, which in Pennsylvania, cannot exceed two years. If they complete their sentence without violations, they may have the opportunity to expunge their record.

Defendants do not have to plead guilty to benefit from ARD. The specifics of Loginov’s program should be delineated by the presiding judge on Oct. 4.

The prosecutor also returned Loginov’s passport.

According to a courthouse clerk, the defendants also requested different processes of discovery, a pre-trial procedure where both parties can review evidence via interrogations, request for production of documents or request admissions and depositions.

The Commonwealth requested

a reciprocal discovery, which if granted, would allow them to review the evidence of the defense, just as the defense reviews theirs.

All pieces of discovery are due on Oct. 18 for the defendants.

Loginov’s attorney Brian McMonagle was one of Bill Cosby’s attorneys in the sexual assault case that was declared a mistrial this past June. Benitez’s attorney James Funt earned his J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law and worked as a trial attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia.

Benitez and Loginov initially faced first-degree felony counts of aggravated assault and burglary and a second-degree felony count of criminal trespassing into a structure. These charge were dismissed for lack of evidence at the preliminary hearing on Aug. 17. Both are on interim suspension and banned from campus.

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OPINION Behind the closed doors of a single CONVOS WITH CARLOS | The expectation doesn’t match the reality

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 72 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor MADELEINE LAMON News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor

It has been a month since I started living single at Penn. Sometimes it’s very hard to get out of this space. I take one big step outside my room, and I am surrounded by others who are living single too.

“Oh my god! You are so lucky that you got a single,” is the shocked response I receive from family and friends every time I disclose my rooming situation. These types of comments contribute to the glamorization of living by yourself and having lots of privacy. Jaws drop even more when I tell them that the price is the same for singles, doubles and triples.

Although it seems as if people in singles are having the best times, there are disadvantages that come with living alone. Yes, we may have the utmost level of privacy, but there are social and monetary implications that are not always accounted for, such as feelings of loneliness, fears of missing out and high room and board expenses.

Having a roommate in a double definitely helps you get out and into the social scene. Going out to events or simply eating at the dining halls together creates a basic level of friendship. At the end of the night, there is someone four feet away from you that has just gone through the same daily college grind.

Forgoing this friendship was the main argument presented by the people who questioned my decision to live in a single. At the time, I didn’t think of doing a cost-benefit analysis of the situation. Truthfully, I believed that I could do it all on my own.

Back in April, when every freshman was applying for housing, I ranked the Quad first. Then, I proceeded to select my room type — all singles. Everyone has their reasons for choosing the type of room they want to live in. This decision can dramatically change your first-year college experience.

After having suitemates during my time abroad in France and a summer roommate in a pre-college program, I was ready to live single in college. It is not necessarily that I had the infamous “bad roommate experience,” but I thought it would be a new, interesting lifestyle to do everything by myself and on my own time.

During my weekly hall meetings, I finally get the chance to interact with other people in my hall. It is

noticeable that many of the people who live in singles never attend.

Maybe they don’t want to become friends with us? Or, maybe it’s very hard for them to come out of the space they have been accustomed to by living in a single?

To be completely honest, there have been a few days when I haven’t wanted to get out of my room. And, I appreciate that I am by myself without anyone else with me. I am

For example, College freshman Carmen Duran believes, “With the tiny closet of a room that I live in, living in a single makes it easy to keep to yourself and exclude yourself from people. Even with a small room, I have also spent so much money for my own things, instead of splitting costs with a roommate.”

This is a sentiment that can be felt by most freshmen living in singles.

Cost is one of the major factors that I didn’t take into account. It’s much easier to split costs for things like a refrigerator or a coffee maker.

Suddenly, I am now thinking that the $700 I spent for myself could have been significantly reduced if I had a roommate.

It is important to acknowledge that everyone always has something they wish they could improve about their living situation, whether they are living in a single, double, triple or a suite. Not everyone will get along with their roommates, although some people do.

Being in a single is not the most

Being in a single is not the most luxurious experience in the world. There are many perks to having your own space, but the social drawbacks are much more impactful.” able to work on myself and reassess my priorities on what needs to get done, though this can sometimes take the whole day. On most days, I definitely would like to see another person being productive, and I believe that would motivate me to get up and do my work.

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS luxurious experience in the world.

There are many perks to having your own space, but the social drawbacks are much more impactful.

Ultimately, it comes down to the person on how they want to live their life and choose to make the best out of the situation they are in.

On one side, people who live in singles are lucky that they beat out the other freshmen who wanted to have that option. In contrast, it might not seem we are the lucky ones once the door closes from the other side, and we are all alone.

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS is a College freshman from Stamford, Conn., studying communication. His email address is cariasv@sas.upenn.edu.

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BRUTALLY HONEST | Why others’ words shouldn’t determine our major for us When I thought about college before my freshman year, I fantasized about the ability to choose almost all of my classes to my liking.

There was little else that excited me more than not having to take a predetermined set of classes that I must plow through in order to graduate.

College seemed like the perfect place to focus on exactly what I wanted to study.

To major in a topic I was passionate about, even with general education requirements on the fringes, meant I could completely mold my education. Why wouldn’t I seize the opportunity to choose courses that would make the next four years of my educational life as intellectually stimulating as possible?

Experiencing “major shaming” might have been one of them.

“Major shaming” — being made fun of because of your major — is exceedingly common. Just 20 years ago, having a college degree, regardless of your major, was enough to get your foot in the door. Nowadays, college degrees are about a dime a dozen. And so, many people use college majors as distinguishing factors between one person and the next.

You’ll often hear that STEM majors are more hardworking. Meanwhile, social science and humanities majors are often dismissed for pursuing “easier” areas of study. Both

ends of the spectrum have their fair shares of difficulties, though. STEM majors almost always have to tackle time-consuming, complex problem sets. Humanities and social science majors, on the other hand, write lengthy research papers and in-depth analyses of convoluted literary texts that the average person cannot understand.

Simply put, deeming one type of major as better than another is counterproductive if both types of majors require a great deal of work.

Even though the top five easiest classes, according to Penn Course Review, are humanities courses, most, if not all, of those courses are taught in a way that’s palatable to students who just want to dip their toes into that area of study or fulfill general education requirements, rather than fully immerse themselves in the topic.

The papers you write or the problem sets you complete for your classes are so far removed from the work you will do in the real world. In fact, only about 27 percent of college graduates have jobs that relate to their major. No, the world is not just one big classroom.

Why, then, do people choose nonSTEM or business-related majors if they may be looked down upon for it, by either their peers or potential employers? Two main reasons persist: genuine enjoyment and less damage to their GPA. Enjoyment first. To keep things pre-professional, when an interviewer asks you why you studied what you did, you’d be hard-pressed

over the summer? The relative enjoyment you derive from what you are learning is often tied to the quality of your work. Someone who does the bare minimum will evidently perform with less proficiency than someone who was motivated to take the time to perform that task.

If we continue to major shame on a larger scale, we’ll most likely study subjects we don’t care for and will perform poorly in our studies. If we don’t enjoy what we’re doing, it will be much harder for us to succeed in the long run.

If people are pursuing their passions regardless of what others might say, is there really any way to remedy or at least lessen “major shaming?” Understanding that it’s unavoidable from all fronts may be the first step. The second step would be to embrace your major, since you’ve probably thought about what your major will be with care.

Remember that all of these assumptions about one major versus another are essentially baseless.

Why? Because college is just the beginning of your adult life. You’ll have

Simply put, deeming one type of major as better than another is counterproductive if both types of majors require a great deal of work.” to find a convincing reason if you really disliked your major. Analogously, it’s hard for a food critic to describe an awful dining experience positively. Likewise, interviewers can see right through your facade of falsified enjoyment.

Do your eyes light up when you talk about what you studied for four years? Did you love that area of study so much that you did research on it

ALEX SILBERZWEIG your whole life ahead of you once you graduate. I often have a hard time reminding myself of this.

I have not committed to a major yet. I’m not sure where my interests “don’t” lie. This is making my decision more difficult. Yes, there are certain areas of study that I’ve eliminated (because you can’t love everything, right?), but I want to get something meaningful out of my major. More than anything else, I want to make this choice based on my preferences and my abilities, not exclusively from the words of others.

It’s my choice to make.

ALEX SILBERZWEIG is a College sophomore from New York, studying mathematics and economics. Her email address is alexsil@sas.upenn. edu. “Brutally Honest” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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The staggering pressure to hook up THE OBJECTIVIST | An insight into Penn’s hookup culture from someone with no experience My biggest fear coming to Penn was not the academic rigor, or the hyper-competitive pre-professionalism, or whether I’d make friends. It was Penn’s hookup culture.

Imagine that you have never gone out to see a movie before. Maybe it’s because you felt too overwhelmed with all the studying you had to do that you didn’t make time for it, or maybe you just weren’t interested in seeing that particular movie.

Regardless of the reason, you suddenly find yourself in this new place where seemingly everyone has seen a ton of movies, and your social status is ostensibly determined by which and how many movies you’ve seen. Pressure and fear of missing out — FOMO — consume you to the point where you feel that if you don’t go see a movie soon, you will be socially behind or worse — people will think there’s something wrong with you.

Though this analogy is quite hyperbolic, it communicates the essence of what it’s like to come to Penn with no hookup experience whatsoever. And that’s a problem, because there shouldn’t be a stigma against not engaging in those activi-

ties.

Rewind: the “hookup culture” is not completely unfamiliar. I didn’t live under a rock nor in some rural, ultra-socially conservative place where the only sexual education is abstinence training — although, in retrospect, my high school’s sex education was pretty subpar. Hookup culture was a thing, but being my overly neurotic self, I actively chose not to participate because I irrationally convinced myself some chain of events would occur where I’d somehow get arrested and/or get chlamydia and die (thanks, “Mean Girls”).

My reasons for not previously engaging in the hookup culture are a little extreme, but there are many reasons people choose not to participate. That’s actually the one thing I liked about high school: the message that it was fine, if not more responsible, to avoid “those” parties and instead participate in more “PG” activities.

But the message at Penn is the reverse, in that it is encouraged as a part of the social adjustment into college — a rite of passage even — to, if not actually hook up with

someone, put yourself in a position or situation where hookups are more likely. And it’s not like you can remove yourself from this hookup culture; hooking up is perpetuated throughout campus as a part of Penn life, and as a Penn student, you are physically stuck here.

Case and point: during NSO, freshmen get bombarded with in-

suggested that freshman girls should show up to their party with the sole purpose of hooking up with their members. If this isn’t pressure to enter the hookup culture at Penn, I don’t know what is.

Though it’s OK to have maybe a few nights in the dorm studying or bingeing on Netflix, doing that every night is seen as missing out or

… it’s not like you can remove yourself from this hookup culture; hooking up is perpetuated throughout campus as a part of Penn life, and as a Penn student, you are physically stuck here.” vites to frat parties. Facebook invites are seemingly endless. A perfect example of this is a sexist email sent by the off-campus group, OZ, during last year’s NSO, where they

antisocial. While I’m not advocating that students shouldn’t engage in such activities — parties can be super fun and students shouldn’t be shamed for their hookup choices

either — this pressure to engage in this culture is too pervasive and needs to stop.

Perhaps the worst consequence of this message to participate in and inability to remove oneself from this hookup culture is the production of the isolating and FOMO-inducing notion that “everybody’s doing it.”

This notion is completely false, and there is a huge difference between people’s skewed expectations of college hookups and reality.

In her study “Is Hooking Up Bad For Young Women?” New York University sociology professor Paula England found that after surveying 14,000 straight students at 19 universities, college seniors have hooked up with an average of eight people over four years, while 24 percent of students never hooked up. The repercussion of buying into this spurious notion is even more pressure to engage in the hookup culture, which could lead to people making the wrong decisions for them.

I love Penn, and I’m so happy to be here, but Penn is also an incredibly stressful place. The pressure to succeed academically, extracur-

JACQUELYN SUSSMAN ricularly and socially is intense, and often the correct course of action is to immerse yourself in this intensity in order to reach your goals. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to take a step back and critically evaluate the surrounding environment, even if that means going against the status quo. In the end, if I don’t want to “see a certain movie,” I shouldn’t have to, and people will just have to accept that.

JACQUELYN SUSSMAN is a College freshman from Westport, Conn.

Her email address is jasuss@sas. upenn.edu. “The Objectivist” usually appears every other Wednesday.

The false dichotomy between ‘work’ and ‘play’ PHONE HOME | What the recent petition on event monitoring gets wrong about real life The change.org petition that famously (or perhaps infamously) made the rounds on Facebook Sunday night — entitled “The Ability to Have a Social Life at Penn” — has 2,380 supporters at the time I write this.

Other Penn students have addressed this petition’s myriad flaws elsewhere on the Internet, more eloquently and in more detail than I can — but here’s a quick (incomplete) rundown. Its very existence shows just how distanced 2,380 Penn students are from the fact that people besides themselves (adults, fami-

lies and fellow students alike) live in West Philadelphia. With a certain amount of condescension, it implies that if we have fond memories of Van Pelt, we’re not doing college correctly. And perhaps worst of all: It namedrops Penn’s ongoing mental health crisis in a blatant attempt to be topical, but it utterly fails to see that, for a significant percentage of the campus population, Penn’s “work hard, play hard” culture — a culture controlled by and perpetuated by Greek life — actually exacerbates anxiety and depression.

If none of those points make sense to you, then maybe the circles in which you move are too homogenous. Branch out, and then try again to understand why so many students have come out so strongly against the petition — understand that your definition of “a social life” isn’t universal, and that some people feel more unsafe at large, anonymous frat parties than you might feel walking down Chestnut at 2 a.m. on a weeknight.

All this has been said before, and it is valid. Here, though, I’d like to address the root of the en-

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titlement that’s been on full display over the past few days. The petition’s entire argument is fundamentally based on the assumption that “work” (weekdays, difficult professors, academic rigor) is something entirely distinct from “play” (weekends, fun, friends, “real life”).

In short, if we spend most of our week with our noses to the grindstone, then we “deserve” to a chance to let loose afterwards.

Had it bothered to consider how the wider Penn population enjoys their weekends, it would have been a fair point.

But this feeling — that because the work we do is so in-

couldn’t wait to get smashed out of their heads each weekend.

How little most people are believed in, and how much [life] asks of so many people for so little in return.”

This distinction we make between “work” and “play” is an artificial one, and it’s one that’s become increasingly pronounced over the past century, as jobs have become more and more specialized (and thus more and more routine). For someone whose job is ancient, has no set hours and has seen no degree of specialization — for someone such as Rebanks — ”work” and “play” need not be completely separate, dia-

The petition at issue is poorly-argued and out of touch, but the idea that we are entitled to this kind of social life didn’t start with those who wrote and supported its message.”

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metrically opposed concepts. We in modern Western society like to place activities in one category or the other (answering emails is “work,” hiking is “play”), but for Rebanks, this dichotomy is mostly false. It’s all (good and bad, tedious and fun) part of life.

Though some of us certainly have one foot in the professional world already, nobody’s quite there yet. We’re still insulated

(if only by a year or two) from the world in which jobs really can be so boring that we need to differentiate “work” and “play” so clearly — after all, “work hard, play hard” persists as a motto. But it’s also important to acknowledge that joy and fulfillment can and should be found in the free, relatively unstructured mess that is academia, while we have the chance.

The petition at issue is poorly argued and out of touch, but the idea that we are entitled to this kind of social life didn’t start with those who wrote and supported its message. It’s systemic, and it won’t be fixed unless we realize that the sad distinction between “work” and “play” doesn’t quite exist in college, and that we shouldn’t buy into it.

While this petition doesn’t argue anything of substance, it certainly reveals something about the self-centered, misguided set of notions held by all too many students at Penn.

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SHS test used to detect depression casts wide net The test has been in common use since 2009 ALEX RABIN Staff Reporter

Any Penn student who walks through the door of Student Health Service for an appointment must complete a depression screening test when they check in, even if their medical concern is just the common cold.

The screening, known as the PHQ-2, is unmemorable for many students but has a long history at the University. After the 2009 recommendation by the United States Preventative Services Task Force that all primary care facilities with resources screen adults for depression, SHS began to bolster its resources. In 2013, SHS finally

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But many students are surprised by that the initial depression screening is so short, consisting of only two questions.

The questions are: “In the past two weeks, have you been bothered by any of the following problems: feeling down, depressed, irritable or hopeless?” and “Have you had problems with little interest in doing things?” Executive Director of SHS Giang Nguyen said.

If a student scores positively on the first screening by answering yes to at least one question, they are directed to complete the 9-question PHQ-9 survey. In some cases, the high score of the student prompts SHS to recommend individuals to Counseling and Psychological Services.

The test might be brief, but it is effective, experts said. Michael Thase, professor of psychiatry and director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment and Research Program at the Perelman School of Medicine, said that those who have depression test positive with a high rate of reliability — “way over 90 percent.”

Nguyen said that the test often casts a wider net to ensure student concerns are addressed.

“Someone might say yes [to a question on the screening] but they’re just having a bad week — their dog died and they’re having a reaction to that, or they’re answering it that way because they pulled three all-nighters in a row and they’re just tired,” he said.

Penn’s mental health resources have become a focal point on campus in the past few weeks following the death by suicide of College senior Nicholas Moya. Moya was the 14th student to die by suicide since February 2013.

Some students believe the twoquestion screening by SHS could be improved.

Engineering sophomore Natalie Munson suggested that because of the straightforward nature of the

survey, SHS should consider distributing it to Penn students online instead of requiring its completion in person before an appointment.

“They could send out quarterly checkups … a more extensive questionnaire than just two questions,” she said. “That way, students would feel less pressured to be answering in front of someone.

That way, they’re in their home, and if they think ‘hey, maybe this is a good choice for me,’ they could answer it.”

While Nguyen understood this concern, he said SHS wants students to complete the screening with resources in the same building.

“I understand that,” he said.

“You’re being asked something very personal. Our hope is that the first time you’re asked the questions, it’s potentially a little surprising and uncomfortable, but as people start to go to the doctor’s office more often, they will start to see this is normal.”

Thase, the psychiatry professor, supported the expansion of the screening in the way Munson suggested.

“That’s a great idea,” he said.

“There should be access to screeners in the dorms — whatever the Penn personal account on the Web is should have access to screeners.”

He predicts screening methods such as this will become commonplace across college campuses nationwide in the near future.

“As a member of the faculty and a supervisor of medical students and trainees here, we’re all concerned with problems with student suicide,” Thase said.

“When people take their life, half the time it’s done on impulse,” he said. “ To have any large meaningful impact through recognizing and treating depression — which is a major cause of suicide — then I think broadening the screening and making it even more accessible, more available, earlier is really a good idea.”

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2,300 students petition Young Scholars Program recent event closures changes credit policy The petition, started by College senior Cami Potter, was titled ‘The Ability to Have a Social Life at Penn’ JAMES MEADOWS AND REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter and Senior News Editor

A recent surge in party shutdowns has spurred student unrest across campus and sparked a debate over the merits of the University’s crackdown on unregistered social events.

The rash of event closures stem from recommendations made by the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, which proposed policies in the name of preventing sexual harassment and violence, substance abuse and other student conduct violations. The task force formed last year after a campus uproar over a sexist party invitation sent by off-campus organization OZ in September 2016.

OZ, like other off-campus organizations, acts like an unofficial fraternity.

Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum issued a lengthy statement on Wednesday in response to a series of questions from The Daily Pennsylvanian on the uptick in party closures.

“For more than 20 years, some, but not all, student groups have been required to register their social events,” she said. “We learned that students living off campus may not have fully understood that they, too, are subject to University policies and city, state, and federal laws in their residences.”

Cade did not respond to multiple specific questions about the extent of the party closures and the involvement of Penn Police officers alongside event observers.

A petition condemning the crackdown on unregistered events, titled “The Ability to Have a Social Life at Penn,” was posted around 2 p.m. on Sept. 17 and had already garnered more than 2,300 signatures by Wednesday evening.

The author of the petition, College senior Cami Potter, a writer for 34th Street, chastised the University for its recent crackdown on student parties.

“Rather than spend money and time on creating a task force to combat skyrocketing depression rates from academic and financial pressures, Penn has decided to create a task force that debilitates

one of the very things that keeps its students sane: their lives outside of school,” Potter wrote. (The University has actually had two different iterations of such a task force.

Titled the “Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare,” it was formed in 2014, and reconvened in 2016.)

Various students recounted low-key social affairs being broken up by Penn Police officers in bulletproof vests.

College senior Jacob Pardo said he and around 10 friends were chatting around a fire pit in their backyard when police officers broke up the gathering saying that they were not allowed to have “three nonresidents on the property after hours.”

Potter was also at a small party that Penn Police shut down.

“They showed up to somebody’s house on a Friday night wearing bulletproof vests, as if we pose an immediate threat by playing very low music and having a nice group discussion — I find that offensive,” she said.

At an Undergraduate Assembly meeting on Sunday, Sept. 17, members said the task force’s recommendations are not the cause of the spurt in party shutdowns.

“They are not directly responsible for these closures.

The task force is over,” said UA President and College senior Michelle Xu, a former member of the task force.

The Division of Public Safety declined to answer questions about the uptick in event closures, instead delaying comment to Thursday, Sept. 21 when a DP reporter is scheduled to meet with Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush.

Other students at the UA meeting raised examples of police shutting down philanthropy events, birthday parties and small movie nights.

A common theme among the stories was the presence of campus event observers alongside Penn Police, which deviates from past protocol.

Some students speculated that Penn Police have started relying on event observers to circumvent regular protocol,

preventing officers from entering events without cause.

They said that event observers function as lookouts who can tell the officers if illegal activity, such as underage drinking, is occurring.

Concerned students hoped the UA would be able to provide some concrete answers as to what precedent has allowed Penn Police to shut down these parties — especially those off campus and outside Penn’s jurisdiction — but the UA members themselves were unsure.

“We need to find out if this is a Penn policy issue or DPS protocol issue,” Xu said.

“We’ll be meeting with [The Division of the Vice Provost for University Life] and DPS in the coming weeks to find out.”

The event closures also troubled Penn’s chapter of College Republicans, who condemned the administrative policies in a statement Wednesday as “an onerous encroachment upon student liberties.”

“Republicans, in general, strongly value the respect of constitutional rights for all Americans, whether it be on a college campus or elsewhere,” College Republicans President and Wharton senior Sean Egan said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“The more we learned about what was going on with the implementation of this policy, [the more] we felt it was our duty to speak out.”

Greek leaders said they commend students for making their voices heard to the administration, but hope it leads to dialogue rather than protest.

“The way that this is happening is going to require a dialogue to get it right,” Interfraternity Council President and College senior Bradley Freeman said. “It sounds like there are events that are being shut down that maybe don’t merit being shut down, which sucks, but I’m confident that the student body working with the administration [will] find a happy medium that allows students to have fun the way they want to have fun.”

Panhellenic Council President and College senior Caroline Ohlson echoed this sentiment, writing in a statement that she hopes students sharing their opinions will lead to “honest and productive dialogue between students and administration.”

Penn no longer granting credit for program courses RAHUL CHOPRA Staff Reporter

Penn has changed its credit policy for students who took Penn courses in high school without clearly notifying students, leaving many unable to claim academic credit for courses that they thought they would.

Penn’s Young Scholars Program allows Philadelphia-area high school juniors and seniors to enroll in one or two College of Liberal and Professional Studies courses at Penn.

Traditionally, the courses that accepted students had taken through the Young Scholars Program would count as credit towards graduation. However, last spring the College changed its credit policy so that only undergraduates courses can count for credit.

College freshman Emily McCann, who was in the Young Scholars Program, said the University didn’t notify her of

this upcoming change when she was taking LPS courses in high school.

“I’m a freshman, and I was taking classes while in high school. The only reason I took a second class second semester, was so that I could have the additional credits,” she said.

McCann said she felt that Penn didn’t properly communicate this change while to her she was taking LPS courses.

“It was said out loud to me that this program was very beneficial because when you come to Penn you get those credits, so that’s what I assumed” she said.

Omaya Torres, a College freshman who was also in the Young Scholars Program last year, agreed that Penn should have told them sooner that their courses wouldn’t count for credit and that the University should have told students before they enrolled in additional courses.

McCann said the University sent her an email containing a revised version of the Young Scholars handbook, but did not explicitly specify what policy

changes had been made.

“The way they did it was really convoluted” she said.

Lauren More, the director of high school programming for LPS, admitted that she isn’t sure why the new credit policy was implemented.

“I do not know why it was implemented, or exactly when” More said.

However, More added that the Young Scholars Program is meant as an introduction to the college experience and that the courses can still be used for placement purposes and for credit at some other institutions.

“I think it is a tremendous experience to earn a college transcript, regardless of how they are used in the future,” More said.

McCann said she feels frustrated that she did the exact same courses as other Penn students, but didn’t receive any credit.

“I sat next to sophomores, juniors and seniors and I did the same work as them, I don’t understand why they would get the credit and I wouldn’t,” she said.

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College freshman Emily McCann, who was in the Young Scholars Program, said the University didn’t notify her of this upcoming change when she was taking LPS courses in high school.

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Anyone that has followed Penn field hockey these last four seasons has undoubtedly heard of Alexa Hoover, but the senior class, embarking on its last hurrah, extends beyond the star scorer.

The final year is bittersweet for senior Quakers, a fact known by midfielder Gina Guccione, forward Rachel Huang, back Jasmine Li and goalkeeper Liz Mata.

The seniors hope to lead the team to success, as Ivy League play begins Saturday at home against Cornell.

Prior to Ivy competition, the Quakers fell short to Iowa 2-3, after having a 2-1 lead earlier in the game.

“I was really focused on managing our defense and staying organized in terms of our setup…We knew that their forwards were very active and we

had to be very diligent in that,” Mata explained.

However, the team is no longer dwelling on that outing, as attention has since turned to conference play.

“Going to Cornell, we still have the very same mindset of keeping our heads down and doing work this week so we can prepare as much as possible, but also knowing that Ivy League is a bit more important,” Mata said.

The team knows that Cornell’s game is an important starting point for long term goals.

“We really want to win an Ivy League championship this year.

So when we face Cornell on Saturday, that is the very beginning,” Huang said. “So, I think there will be a different atmosphere, a different energy.”

As the team moves forward, coach Colleen Fink had insightful and reflective comments about the senior class.

“Starting with Gina, I think she is really starting to turn it on right now. We have really been challenging the offense to play outside themselves a little

more.”

Guccione is a significant piece of the offensive game plan for the Quakers. But, her influence seems to extend beyond the field.

“Off the field, she [Gina] is so integral to this team’s success.

She kind of keeps things light…

She brings her personality to practice.”

Fink had praiseworthy comments for Li as well.

“Her level of commitment is very high to this team; I think that sets her apart.”

She discussed how Li has challenged her as a coach, because of their contrasts. Li does not allow emotion to impact her play, while Fink’s coaching is rooted in emotion.

“My relationship with Jasmine has made me a better coach.”

As for Huang, “Teams definitely look at her on film and are concerned and have to make adjustments,” Fink said. “Rachel may be one of the kindest kids I have ever interacted with.

She has an energy and positivity with her that is unparalleled.”

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Though star forward Alexa Hoover gets most of the headlines, Penn’s entire senior class — including forward Rachel Huang — will play crucial roles ad leaders and playmakers for the Red and Blue.

The Quaker seniors hope to finish their careers with a splash, and Fink seems confident in their abilities as leaders and playmakers to guide Penn to success.

“Being a leader, being an up-

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said, speaking for her current junior and senior class.

Continuing to 2016, the Quakers looked ready to take the Ivy League throne. Penn entered the season as the previous Ancient Eight runner-up and the Tigers appeared beatable. But things didn’t go Penn’s way that year, either. An overtime loss to Harvard hurt, but not nearly as much as an outright loss to Yale. Then there was the season finale, a harsh 6-1 loss to Princeton.

“I think we were all mad, still, that the game was not what we wanted it to be,” Fink said. “And playing in a state of frustration is a bad place to be. That’s what ended up burning us. In contrast, Princeton was fighting for their lives.”

Perhaps the biggest shock of the 2016 season, however, was Harvard’s overthrowing of Princeton as the conference champion.

The Crimson took down the Tigers and every other confer-

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Penn coach Colleen Fink has had several opportunities to topple Princeton — 2013 and 2015 being the two closest chances. Last year, Harvard went undefeated in league play to topple the Tiger dynasty.

ence opponent en route to an Ivy League title. It was the first time since 2004 that Princeton did not

head into the NCAA Tournament as conference champions.

But in 2017, the Quakers are

focused on the game immediately ahead of them.

“We have to take every game

perclassman, really means being a role model to the underclassmen,” Li said. “Showing them what attitude we want to have going to the games, what kind of atmosphere we want, especially

with the Ivy games coming up, and just really setting the tone for the whole team.”

If Li’s remarks are any indication, Fink’s kind words about her seniors are well-placed.

one game at a time... With us not having a conference tournament, that is it,” Fink said. “In the past I think we’ve built up games or downplayed games,” she added, noting that overlooking certain games has led to some unexpected losing efforts.

Despite a 2-4 record the Quakers have shown promise, having gone down to the wire with four top-20 teams, with three of those games having been decided by one goal. The offense is beginning to heat up — it’s scored seven goals in its last three games after two goals in its first three. Meanwhile, the defensive play has been consistent.

Above all, the stunning results of 2016 are more the story of an improving Ivy League than a tale of Princeton’s demise. Three of the Ancient Eight are currently in the NCAA’s top-20 in field hockey RPI, which rates teams based on record and strength of schedule.

Fink recognizes the league’s skill and sees it as an upper ech-

elon division within the NCAA. “I see the Ivy League as the second or third-best field hockey conference in the country,” the coach said. “I think that’s something, as a conference, we need to pride ourselves in. When I first got in the conference, it was Princeton and everybody else. Nobody had a chance. I don’t think Princeton’s gotten worse, I think the League has gotten better.”

There is no telling how many of its seven Ivy League games Penn will win, but with the team’s yearly motto being to “win the day,” it seems highly unlikely the Quakers overlook any contest as they have proven vulnerable to doing in the past.

“Right now, we’re focused on Cornell,” Fink said. “We have to approach them like they’re the best team in the conference.”

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with the team in 2010, and when he worked for the College Golf Fellowship from 2012 to 2016, he often attended the Quakers’ tournaments and practices to build relationships with the team’s active players.

So it was no surprise that when former Penn head coach Bob Heintz resigned in January to take a vacant assistant job at ACC power Duke, Penn’s administration looked to Blodgett to fill that interim role for the 2017 season.

Only featuring two seniors, his young team had some ups and downs on the course, but Penn’s second-place finish at the Yale Invitational in April was its highest result in any team tournament in a full two years, and its eventual fifthplace finish at the Ivy League Championships was two spots better than the team finished in Heintz’s last season.

Beyond the pure results, though, Blodgett made an even greater impact in changing the cultural dynamic of the program.

“He did a phenomenal job coaching. On the culture side I think he really stressed the team getting along, really hanging out and bonding, and we’ll implement that moving forward,” said an active Penn golfer who wished to remain anonymous.

“He knew exactly what he was doing and he was a great mentor to all of us. We achieved a solid amount of our goals for the season.”

The Penn team learned at the conclusion of the regular season that Blodgett wouldn’t be returning — and not only were returning players universally devastated, but they were also equally surprised.

“We had grown really close to him, and he’s such great mentor and even a friend, and even though we were together for such a short period of time, I think we all felt like he had done so much for us, both on a golf level and on a personal level,” a different Penn golfer said.

“When he told us that he wasn’t gonna get asked back, we were all sad.”

The situation surrounding Penn’s decision not to ask him back is now under dispute.

It wouldn’t have mattered how well Penn fared in Blodgett’s lone season. Even if the Quakers had won the Ivy League Championship, the athletic department had determined that after the season, it would seek a candidate who fit job qualifications written by Calhoun when she entered office three years ago.

“From our first conversation, we talked about that it was an interim post only,” Calhoun told the DP in August. “Regardless of what the team would’ve done, he didn’t meet the minimum qualifications. There was always the understanding that we were filling the interim spot, and then we’d go to a national search because of his lack of credentials.”

Blodgett said he was told by Calhoun that he would not be considered for the full-time job in late March, a full month before those Ivy Championships got underway.

“I didn’t know [entering the season] whether or not I would have the opportunity to be the next coach. There was a point in the season where I started telling people close to me that I was operating — that I had a strong desire to be the next golf coach,” Blodgett said. “I was told at the end of March that I was not gonna be a part of the job search. I was told I didn’t have the minimum qualifications, and I was also told that Jason was gonna be a candidate.”

That story is in direct contrast to the Athletic Director’s version of events, where she told Blodgett before he took the job in February that he would only serve in an interim capacity.

Calhoun later clarified in a follow-up meeting with a DP editor that there could have been some confusion regarding the terms and conditions laid out to Blodgett.

“There was a sport administrator involved,” she said. “I wasn’t in every conversation with Michael, but I regret if there was a lack of clarity.”

Regardless of Blodgett’s performance as interim coach, the listed job qualifications would have directly excluded him. Calhoun put a very targeted detail

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on the list of preferred qualifications: being a PGA Class A Professional. “[In all sports] we certainly set our bar high in saying that someone should have either Division I head coaching experience, or at least high-level assistant coaching experience,” she told the DP in August. “I think with the specifics of golf, we did say that PGA certification was at least highly recommended.”

But being a PGA Class A Professional isn’t directly related to playing or coaching success: all it entails is being a Head Professional — one who gives lessons

Dartmouth when he was hired as the head men’s golf coach in 2001. Grace had no affiliation with Dartmouth until she became an Associate AD at the school in 2002, telling the DP the opportunity to build a family motivated her move.

The Calhouns left Dartmouth three years later, when she was offered the same position at Indiana, which became Grace’s only school where Jason didn’t simultaneously work with her.

At a big-market athletics school, there would be more scrutiny on the athletic department by the central administration, more pressure to win and

"if the PGA certification is what drives being a good college coach, then I ... certainly had no right to win an Ivy League championship" - Rob Powelson

and supervises instruction — at a PGA-recognized golf course.

“Most college golf coaches do not have that classification. If you went through your top 100 schools in men’s and women’s golf, you might not even find ten that are considered Class A Professionals,” Golfweek Magazine writer and college golf expert Lance Ringler said.

Jason has been a Class A Professional since becoming the Head Professional at Hanover Country Club in 2004.

“We could talk about the best college golf coaches in the country, and I bet none of them are Class A Professionals,” Ringler said. “In fact, if you somehow went on the NCAA Job Market, I doubt that you would even see any of those college golf jobs even require you to be a Class A Professional: it’s not something that’s usually part of the process.”

In her conversation with the DP, Calhoun said Blodgett would have been permitted to apply, but because he lacked the Class A designation, he would not have been hired.

One former Penn men’s golf coach had strong words to say about that.

“If the PGA certification is what drives being a good college coach, then I ... certainly had no right to win an Ivy League championship,” Rob Powelson, who coached Blodgett when he played for Penn, said.

Blodgett was most frustrated with Calhoun never asking him about the performance of the team or consulting players or assistant coaches about his on and off-course efforts.

“What makes me most disappointed is that I had built great relationships with players of the team,” said Blodgett, who said he would be open to coaching at Penn again later in his career. “More than anything, I would’ve loved to see them succeed moving forward.”

Penn men’s golf sport administrator Jake Silverman, Penn men’s golf sport board co-chair Mark Junewicz, Bob Heintz, and four individual Penn men’s golf alumni whose careers overlapped with Blodgett all declined interview requests.

“If [Penn players] say to you that they liked the guy, and they recommended to the athletic department that they hire him, that’s just something that Grace can’t ignore,” said an early 2000s Ivy League golfer who wanted his name and school to remain anonymous. “Or if she can, that deserves to be published.”

A Glance At The Past This is not the first time Jason and Grace have shared an employer.

Penn is the fourth university where the couple has worked together over the past twenty years, joining Saint Francis (PA), Dartmouth and Loyola (IL). And though most of their time working together has produced little drama, one stop before Penn did see conflict.

The two didn’t know each other when they both began working at Saint Francis — Jason was hired as the women’s golf head coach in 1994, and Grace came on as an Assistant AD in 1997 before the two ended up marrying a year later.

Jason was the first to arrive at

a greater number of qualified applicants seeking positions.

As such, Jason never coached at Indiana, instead working as a Head Professional at several local courses.

After six years working at Indiana, Grace took over her first Athletic Director position at Loyola in 2011, and the situation there quickly attracted scrutiny.

When Grace arrived at Loyola, the women’s golf head coach was Jennifer Feldott Hall, who was entering her eighth season at the school. As Grace became involved with Loyola, so too did Jason, who accompanied Grace to Chicago and joined the Loyola team as a volunteer assistant.

“Obviously he didn’t just stumble upon Loyola,” former Loyola golfer Alex Meyers said.

“Grace definitely got the foot in the door there.”

In spring 2012, the year after Feldott Hall coached the team to a third-place finish in the Horizon League, she and Grace Calhoun mutually agreed to part ways. Loyola issued no press release on the longtime coach’s resignation.

Feldott Hall was one of 11 head coaches out of Loyola’s 13 varsity teams to leave the school during Grace’s three-year tenure.

“Our previous coach was kind of stuck in her old ways, so I think they both thought it was best for her to part ways with Loyola because she wasn’t on board with the direction Loyola was going,” Meyers said. “I know there was a lot of turnover in her first year as an AD just because she had a lot of new people she wanted to bring in.”

Having already gotten to know the active players well, Jason was named the interim coach after Feldott Hall’s departure. And after leading that 2011-12 team to a second-place finish at the Horizon League Championships, the promotion became official — Loyola named Jason Calhoun its fulltime coach in summer 2012, marking the first time he was hired as a coach where his wife had already been employed as an athletic administrator.

Meyers said the players were hopeful Jason would take over as coach after Feldott Hall resigned. “We had already built a relationship, and we were really excited when learning he would take over,” she said.

The search process that culminated in Jason’s promotion was, according to Loyola’s athletic department, handled by then-Senior Associate AD Carolyn O’Connell. O’Connell and Feldott Hall both declined interview requests for this story.

In the middle of Jason’s second season at Loyola, the team was hit with a bombshell announcement: Loyola would not be retaining Jason after that season. Meyers said the school cited a conflict of interest as their reason. (Grace Calhoun did not deny this characterization when asked about it by the DP.) “Everyone was pretty bummed after that,” she said.

“They didn’t really fill us in much, but somewhere within Loyola, whether it be athletics or just the school or something, they were no longer okay with having Grace and Jason under the same facility.”

Loyola’s then-President, Michael Garanzini, and Loyola’s then-Senior Vice President, Ellen Kane Munro, declined interview requests.

Jason’s resignation was never announced via a press release.

There are other examples of familial relationships in sports, some of which have proven to be successful, but few — if any — include a husband/wife combination as coach and athletic director.

“I was trying to think of other examples where there might have been an administrator and then a coach in golf [that were married],” Ringler said. “It’s definitely something rare.”

Another way in which the Calhouns have no precedent is the duration of their stays at schools.

Penn will be Jason’s sixth stop as a varsity head coach in the past two decades. Though such a circuitous career path might be plausible in highrevenue sports like football or basketball, it isn’t too common in golf.

“I’d say if you grabbed 50 head coaches and looked at their resumes, most of them probably haven’t been at more than two stops,” Ringler said. “You don’t see a lot of golf coaches that have been at three, four, five places.”

Only time will tell if Penn will merely be another of the Calhouns’ pit stops, or if University City will finally be where Jason, Grace and the school administration around them will finally feel comfortable with a longterm arrangement. But if Jason truly desired the Penn job as much as he claimed to, it would be a strong first step to helping that dream of a stable coaching spot turn into a reality.

“The Job I Would’ve Wanted” “You know, as it relates to golf coaching jobs, if all the Big 5 coaching jobs were open right now, Penn would be the one I want,” Jason said in late June.

But if this desire wasn’t facilitated by the fact that Grace was already working in University City, it’s unclear what that motivation was.

It wasn’t the quality of the team. Based on Golfweek’s team computer rankings, Penn’s average national rank over the past two seasons is 237.5, the third-best out of Philadelphia schools behind Drexel (204) and Temple (228).

“Penn, La Salle, Temple you know, all those jobs in that area, you’re probably going to have most likely some sort of connection to the area or the school

desirable — perhaps partially, but not fully, because of Grace’s presence.

“Penn in general has this long history, and his wife works there. He’s invested in Penn, and to coach a men’s team versus a women’s team is a new challenge, and on top of that Penn just has better funding, it has better competition,” 2017 La Salle graduate and walk-on golfer Kendra Heyer added.

Independent of the jump in prestige, Jason still blindsided the Explorers’ program by leaving after his debut season. Tasked as the man to build something out of nothing when hired in January 2016, Jason worked to compile enough recruits to field an eventually competitive team and, more importantly, build a culture that led the players to enjoy the sport until that title contention came.

But in an instant, the man responsible for starting the program was gone, forcing his team of almost entirely rising sophomores to adjust to the loss of the only college coach they knew.

“The way he talked about La Salle and the way he talked about building our program, he made it sound like he was there for the long haul,” Heyer said.

“Yes, we were upset … but we couldn’t be happier for him; it was a great opportunity and you couldn’t really turn that down.”

As shocking as the announcement was for the athletes, though, the Calhouns’ relationship gave La Salle athletic administrators a bit of an inkling ahead of time.

“Grace called me as a courtesy to say that they were having a job opening and that he was going to be an applicant, so when I heard that, I was certain that he would be leaving us,” La Salle Athletic Director Bill Bradshaw said. “Even before she called me, when we saw that [Penn job] open, we were — when she called me, I was certain why.”

Breaking It Down: The Coach’s Quality By all accounts, Jason has been almost unanimously beloved by his former athletes.

“One of his strongest assets besides his technical skills is that he knows how to talk to players on a course, which from the many coaches I had at Loyola, I think that’s something a lot of people lack,” Meyers said. “Even after he was gone, he just left his mark on the program.”

Starting a team from scratch, Jason saw some difficulties at

"This one hopefully is our last and final move.... we’re looking to hunker down and become part of a community" - Jason Calhoun

or the athletic department or something in order to want that job,” Ringler said.

There is one clear distinction that does separate Penn from its local rivals — its status as an Ivy League school. Being able to work with athletes of the highest academic caliber adds a different wrinkle to a coach’s day-to-day operations, one that Jason cited as that separating factor.

But according to others less directly involved, the prestige of coaching in the Ivy League, which Ringler estimated pays around $30,000 to $40,000 annually, isn’t all that Jason hyped it up to be.

“Finding an Ivy League golf coach is not a hot market; it’s a job that doesn’t pay particularly well,” the early 2000s Ivy League golfer said. “The bigger job would be the Head Professional job at [a nearby country club].”

Still, Jason’s newest role is a step up from his most recent one. In the 2016-17 school year, Jason served as the head coach for the first-ever La Salle women’s golf team, leading a squad of almost entirely freshmen that he recruited. Though Jason enjoyed his time there by all accounts, even those at La Salle were willing to admit that there was certainly reason for the Penn men’s job to be more

La Salle, but he laid the groundwork for a squad with serious potential to improve in the coming years.

Playing in its inaugural season last spring, La Salle took last place at the MAAC Championships, but that was by no fault of Jason. The Explorers consisted of entirely freshmen aside from Heyer and junior transfer Mariam Colon.

Jason knew the program would struggle to put up elite results initially. But what he could control was creating a culture where his players loved the sport and each other no matter what the scorecards said.

“Almost every tournament I played in, one of the girls on another team would say, ‘You guys look like you have so much fun, I would love to be on a team like that,’” Heyer said.

The best indicator of how Jason’s tenure at Penn will go — because of its status as a men’s team at a fellow Ivy school — is Dartmouth. Four different Dartmouth golfers who played under Jason all declined interview requests for this story, but at least based on pure results, Jason enjoyed some degree of success.

His peak with the Big Green came in his debut season, as Dartmouth took third place in the Ivy League in 2001-02, before finishing in the bottom half of the league in each of the next

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three seasons. (Only two of the past 34 seasons have seen one of the Ivy League’s four northernmost schools — Brown, Cornell, Harvard and Dartmouth — win the conference title, and Dartmouth itself hasn’t won since 1983.)

In the twelve seasons since Jason left Dartmouth, its thirdplace finish has only been matched or topped three times.

“The bottom line is no one comes to Hanover, N.H. for a golf career,” the early 2000s Ivy League golfer said. “The deck is really against Dartmouth from a weather and geographic standpoint; Dartmouth’s weather just isn’t conducive to great golf regardless of coach.”

Regardless of the circumstances surrounding his hire, Penn’s active players can look forward to a man with a proven track record.

Looking Ahead Independent of whatever questions might arise about how Blodgett’s situation was handled, Penn men’s golf is looking forward to its new era.

All first impressions of Jason upon his new players appear to be strongly positive. The members of the team might be resentful that Blodgett got the short end of the stick, but they also have a genuine sense of optimism that the program will continue to improve under Jason’s reign.

“I’m sure there’s like a little skepticism in the back of people’s minds, but all of that has been sort of overshadowed by the fact that [Jason]’s a great candidate and has quite a history coaching,” the active Penn golfer said. “And we really do feel like he’ll be a strong coach, so any of those qualms have been sort of overstepped.”

Based on the small sample size of Penn’s fall season, all signs point toward a resurgent Red and Blue team. Returning all of its top four scorers from last year’s Ivy Championships, Penn finished in third place out of 15 teams at the Colgate Alex Lagowitz Memorial tournament in its first tournament of the fall, leading to a widespread belief that Jason’s program is on the brink of a breakthrough as it seeks its first conference title in three years.

“I think he’s gonna really kind of re-energize our program, and a lot of what we were saying was about tradition, and how he wants us, the team right now at Penn, to kind of start that,” junior Josh Goldenberg said in July. “The tradition so that 10, 20 years from now, people will say, ‘Wow, that team kind of started it, look at all they accomplished.’”

As good as the statistical results might be, though, they were also good at Loyola, and the Calhouns only lasted two years together there.

“Of course there are gonna be conflicts,” Ringler said. “If you have a relation that is your boss — I’m assuming he probably doesn’t report to her directly, but of course there could be conflicts.”

If all goes as planned, the Calhouns’ intention is to become a Penn family for years to come.

“This one hopefully is our last and final move. We’ve got kids that are headed into high school, so we’re looking to hunker down and become part of a community,” Jason said.

“Hopefully we’re gonna both be here for a long time, and hopefully we can create a great atmosphere for our family and our girls, and stay here for as long as we want.”

No matter how successful Jason’s time at Penn may be, those unanswered questions about how it began will always remain.

“We all know what probably happened: his wife is an AD there and she’s got a husband who’s very qualified,” Ringler said. “We’ll just never know how it went down.”

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Honor. Courage. Commitment.

These are the ideals reflected in the Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and when Penn field hockey’s starting keeper Liz Mata leaves Ellen Vagelos Field for the last time, she will not only have lived up to these values on the field, but she will also continue to live up to them wherever life takes her.

The senior enters her final season of Ivy League play this weekend when the Quakers (24) take on their first Ancient Eight opponent, Cornell (5-1).

Let’s go back to 2014, Mata’s freshman year.

At the time, the Red and Blue had to overcome a fair bit of adversity in selecting a goalie for that season; then-incoming senior Carly Sokach had decided to depart from the program, leaving the spot up in the air.

Mata herself dealt with challenges during the preseason that kept her out of goal as well, as she was struck in the side of the head with a ball, fracturing her orbital bone just three days into training.

Mata’s injury, along with Sokach’s departure, forced Penn field hockey to turn to thensenior Allison Weisenfels, who originally played as a forward, to take over the starting goalie position. Though Mata only recorded one start during her freshman year, she draws significance from the lessons she learned that season. “I couldn’t necessarily play, but I [was] gonna work as hard as possible to get my skills up to that collegiate level,� the Severna Park native recalled. “If anything, it gave me the foundation to know put in the work on the front end to get the results on the

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Senior goalkeeper Liz Mata is entering her third season as starter in goal. Mata will become a naval officer after graduation.

back end.�

Mata clearly drew inspiration from Weisenfels stepping up and changing positions. “She came in as a forward and played goalie. That’s the absolute sacrifice, in terms of coming back to the team,� Mata said. “Working with her and playing with her showed me that you’re not doing this for yourself; you’re doing the hard work for the value of the team.�

Flash forward to 2017.

Mata is now in her third consecutive season as primary starter for the Red and Blue. She has posted awe-inspiring performances since her freshman season, highlighted by five career shutouts and a career-high 14save performance against Delaware last season.

As to what makes Mata so good? It is really best explained by coach Colleen Fink. “Liz asks a lot of questions; she really wants to understand the game, understand what the defense in front of her is doing,� the eighth-season coach of the Red and Blue said. “I think it puts her in a position to understand what the tactics are from a team standpoint, and not just being a ‘save-maker.’�

For Mata, she finds that over-

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The end of Mata’s field hockey career and her time at Penn will lead straight into a new chapter in her life. Following graduation, Mata will be commissioned as a naval officer, after completing her program with the NROTC while at Penn.

It’s a prophecy that seemed fitted to her from the start. Her father was in the Navy for 20 years, and she even grew up near a naval academy in D.C..

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For many college freshmen, the first few weeks of the school year are a time for adjustment. It takes some time for them to get used to their new life away from home.

But not for the freshmen on Penn field hockey.

Even though they are barely a month into their collegiate careers, the team’s newest members are already making a noticeable impact.

Out of a class of seven, three rookies in particular have made their presence known in nonconference play. First, there is right back Reese Vogel. The Houston, Texas native has started all six games thus far, and has only sat for 10 out of 420 minutes, helping to anchor a defense that has only allowed 1.83 goals per game despite a tough opening slate. “I think she’s the best example of a kid that’s not playing like a freshman. I mean she’s incredibly poised, but she’s incredibly tough,� coach Colleen Fink said. “She plays the physical side of the game really well, and when you’re facing teams like we face, you need somebody like that who’s not going to shy away from that style of play, and she’s just embraced it.�

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has played a crucial role off the bench. Despite not starting a game yet, she has appeared in all six games and has been on the field for more than half of the action. Fink sees her role on the team as a sparkplug, providing a critical boost in the middle of the field. “Erin Kelly is coming off the bench, but she’s great off the bench,� Fink said. “She’s like fired up and ready to go, she loves to play. She too asks a lot of questions, she wants to get better every day at practice, she wants to do it right, she wants to do it well.

The third freshman, attacker Erin Quinn, has split time between starting at left wing and coming off the bench. While she has already had an impact, with several shots on goal, Fink believes there is far more potential there. “When you ask just for a kid who, in high school, relied on her athleticism and ability to just get free, to eliminate, to attack space, those were all of her strengths,� Fink said. “And then when you put her in this type of environment, where we’re asking her to do other things that she’s never been asked to do, especially defensively, it takes a bit longer I think for them to kinda evolve into that.�

The credit for the quick transition doesn’t just go to the freshman. Over the summer and early on in the preseason, the more experienced members of the team made a point

to go out of their way to make the new players feel welcome and comfortable with their new team. “In May, we contacted the freshmen, and we wanted to FaceTime or Skype with each of them, to let them know how the team works, our team dynamic, what we expect out of them, if they had any questions, including them before the summer starts, so that way during the whole summer, they know what they’re working for,� senior captain Alexa Hoover said.

And that plan worked to perfection. The rookies came into the season already very familiar with the program and their teammates, which gave them one less thing to worry about. “I never felt that level of uncertainty or any kind of insecurity coming on to the field just because they made it so clear that no matter what year you are, you’re going to make and we want you to feel like you can contribute in any way,�

Kelly said. “Since such a big part of the game playing on the field is trusting your teammates, so it was nice to go into it knowing them and feeling comfortable with them,� Vogel added.

Even though they’re just a few games into their career, Vogel, Kelly and Quinn have already become vital players to the team. But with almost the entirety of their careers in front of them, they have plenty left to prove.

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ey player of all time, she is one of the greatest athletes in Penn’s decorated history.

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Those records and her impact certainly haven’t gone unnoticed. “I think Alexa has been very much a part of the whole program’s transformation over the last five years,� coach Colleen Fink said, “I think she’ll be remembered for all of the records she set but also her tenacity, her incredible work ethic, and her love of the game.�

The truly great players lack a sense of satisfaction. No matter their successes, improving and getting better are the only things on their minds.

Hoover is no exception. “This year, I’m trying to focus

on the little things (to improve), making every skill as best as I can, not rushing things, taking the time to get the perfect skill down,� she said.

Her head coach echoed those statements. “We’re challenging her on both sides of the field and nitpicking her game a little bit,�

Fink added. “We’ve asked her to work on things defensively and to push herself past where she thought she could be pushed.�

Although there is a lot of talk about her own personal records and how to improve her game, Hoover was quick to point out that one of her top goals this year is her team’s success. “First and foremost, we want to win an Ivy League Championship,� she remarked. “We also want an NCAA tournament berth because we really believe that we can make the tourna-

ment and do well.�

When asked about how she wants to be remembered, Hoover responded how any truly great athlete would. “I want people to remember how intense I was when I played,� she said. “People always tell me ‘you play in practice the same as you play in the game,’ and that is what I want to be remembered for.�

Records are meant to be broken. Maybe someone will eventually come along and eclipse all of Hoover’s staggering records (highly unlikely).

I recommend you go down to Ellen Vagelos field and watch Hoover play this season. I know I will. Because once she’s gone, you’ll never get to see her greatness, or anything close to it, again.

Because she is the greatest.

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them to pass it then we can zero in and focus on the passing game.

If we can establish the run game, that will open up opportunities for Justin in the pass game.�

Ultimately, the matchup will likely be a back-and-forth affair, as it was for the first thirty minutes last season. However, this time around Penn will look to make the big stops and connect on key plays. “They get what we give them,�

Priore said. “So ball containment, controlling the football on offense will be important. And I think the last two years [a key] has been third downs. They’ve

converted big third downs both two years ago and last year.�

As to whether there will be anything extra at stake this weekend, Watson isn’t looking too much into that narrative. “We treat every game like we want to win it,� the captain stated. “Our goal every season is 10-0 and that starts with being 1-0 every week. We hate to lose and that’s what makes a great team.�

Unlike the last two years, Penn is 1-0 after week one. On Saturday, the Quakers will look to keep their goal of perfection alive in hostile territory.

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ing to be in the NFL soon and it’s definitely an advantage being able to go against J-Wat every day and it prepares us for him.�

Priore, however, will not be basing the gameplan around limiting Pelletier. “I think in our game this weekend, like any game, I think we got to stop a couple things.

One is we have to establish the run game and on defense we have to stop the run,� Priore explained. “If we stop them and force

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See, the good ol’ lad, young Willie Bear, Junior Comma Sports Editor, the pride of Nashville, Tennes-

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Penn sprint football beat Caldwell, a team playing its firstever CSFL game, by a score of 696. The heavyweights’ performance against a similarly unqualified DII squad should have been equally convincing, and it wasn’t. That

teaches us something.

And now the Red and Blue must tangle with a Lehigh squad that beat Penn each of the last two seasons, when the Quakers were talented enough to call themselves Ivy League champions.

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A new hierarchy in the Ancient Eight has left the Red and Blue hungry all the same.

After 11 straight Ivy League championships and 21 in 22 years, Princeton field hockey lost control of its crown last season. Despite the Quakers’ two runner-up finishes in the last four years, it was Harvard who ultimately came away with the title in 2016.

Prior to 2016, the Tigers (1-4) were heavy favorites to win the league year-in, year-out. In recent years, the Quakers twice challenged Princeton on the last day of the regular season with the championship on the line but came up short both times.

In 2013, Penn, with a superior record, hosted the Tigers with the trophy up for grabs, but it would not be Penn’s day as the team conceded three goals before the 20-minute mark. Princeton, then led by Olympian Michelle Cesan, would take home the Ivy League title with a 5-1 victory.

Penn coach Colleen Fink saw motivational value in the bittersweet experience of playing in, but ultimately losing, what was the de facto Ivy League championship game.

“Just the fact that we were in the position [to win a title] was the motivation. That we went into that game with a chance at winning a share of the league was something we hadn’t done in a long time,” Fink said. “Now I want to play Princeton at the end of the year, with the hope that that is the Ivy League championship game. That was the first year that that game was meaningful.”

Fast-forward to 2015, when the Quakers again hosted the Tigers at Ellen Vagelos Field. Both captains at the time, Elizabeth Hitti (ENG’16) and Elise Tilton (C’17) had played in the 2013 season finale and were hungry for an Ivy League title. Then-sophomore Alexa Hoover was putting together her legendary 27-goal, 63-point 2015 season.

Surely, the Quakers were not going to be routed again.

And they were not routed, not at all.

The Quakers were able to produce chances and wound up tying the game with just under five minutes in regulation, despite playing catch-up for most of that game. Overtime was not so kind, as the Red and Blue conceded just minutes into the sudden-death period.

“That was the first really big game they were in,” Fink

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ery rarely do you get to see greatness unfold before your own eyes.

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She is the greatest women’s field hockey player in Penn history.

Ever.

And it really isn’t close.

Hoover has shattered every possible goals and points record in the book — by a mile. She was the Red and Blue’s first All-American in field hockey since 2003 and only the 11th in program history. She is on pace to finish third all-time in as-

sists, which is unfathomable considering that none of her goal-scoring predecessors were ever close to accomplishing that feat.

“It is the coolest feeling to be able to have that many records to my name,” Hoover said. “To be able to make that much of an impact to our team and our school in general. It is just an amazing feeling.”

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During its back-to-back Ivy League title campaigns, Penn football had an answer for nearly every opponent in its path. But the Quakers couldn’t solve the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.

On Saturday, the two squads will face off again with redemption on the line for the Red and Blue against the defending Patriot League champions.

In both 2015 and 2016, the Quakers opened their season against Lehigh, and both times they were overmatched by the Mountain Hawks’ high-powered offense.

Those uncharacteristic letdowns by the Penn defense could have been attributed to Lehigh having two games under their belts whereas Penn was just beginning its campaign.

“It’s better that we’ve got a

game under our belt now,” junior defensive back Sam Philippi noted. “They’ve still played more games than us but that’s not an excuse for us, we’re just trying to focus what we do.”

This season, with a win over Ohio Dominican already in hand, the Quakers hope to come roaring out of the gate in Bethlehem on Saturday.

“It gives us that little sense of maturity,” coach Ray Priore explained. “We got all that rust off [by] playing the game: situations, timing in the pocket, things that you can’t simulate during a practice scenario.”

One player who should especially benefit from having a start behind him this weekend is senior quarterback Will Fischer-Colbrie.

The first-year starter had a solid finish after a shaky start in his debut last week. He threw for 198 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.

Per the gameplan, Fischer-Colbrie sat out the first drive of the second quarter to let sophomore Nick Robinson get a few reps in.

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“I thought it gave Will an opportunity to gain a little composure, watch the game from the sidelines and really see the speed of what was happening,” Priore said.

Senior receiver Justin Watson noticed that Fischer-Colbrie has adjusted well to his new role.

“He’s coming in with a lot of confidence this week,” Watson said. “It was great to see him come on in the second half and we’re just going to keep building on that this week.”

A big part of that confidence surely stems from knowing that he has Watson to throw the ball to.

But Watson will not be the only All-American wideout on the field this weekend. Lehigh sports an accomplished playmaker of its own in senior wide receiver Troy Pelletier.

“Their guy is really talented,” Priore added. “Justin is really talented. Now it’s who can make the most of the opportunities when they get them on the field.”

Last season Pelletier made the most of every opportunity

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