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Philadelphia Police and Penn Police officers stand outside a house where a death was reported on Sunday night.

Police investigated a suspicious death in a house on the 4000 block of Sansom Street late Sunday night.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush, who was at the scene, deferred comment to a later time when more details are known.

As of press time, it is unknown whether the person who died is affiliated with the University.

The incident was reported at 10:46 p.m.

Officers from Penn Police and Philadelphia Police responded to the call, and Sansom Street was blocked off.

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Marching against a culture of objectification

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More than 50 Penn affiliates walked in the March to End Rape Culture

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“Sluts are like unicorns: They are both imaginary concepts.”

“My clothes are not my consent.”

“Only yes means yes.”

The participants of Saturday’s March to End Rape Culture carried signs speaking out against sexual violence and objectification.

More than 500 Philadelphians, 50 Penn students

among them, gathered at Love Park to protest rape culture. The Philadelphia march, formerly known as the SlutWalk, started in Toronto in 2011 as a response to police comment that women should avoid dressing like “sluts” to avoid unwanted sexual attention. It has since spread to cities around the U.S. and the world.

March organizer Christie Eastburn defined rape culture as street harassment, transphobia, homophobia, slutshaming and victim-blaming.

Participants in the march want to see an eradication of the pervasive cultural practice of excusing rape based on a woman’s appearance or attire.

One out of five women in

America has been the victim of attempted or completed rape, according to the march’s webpage, and more are effected by the practices of rape culture. On college campuses the number is even higher, with one in four women the victim of sexual assault during her academic career.

College freshman Maya Arthur attended the March with a group of students from ASAP, a club on campus dedicated to raising awareness about sexual violence.

She was inspired to go to the March because of the Emma Sulkowicz case at Columbia University. Sulkowicz vowed to carry her mattress around SEE MARCH PAGE 7

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I get to Sugar Philly at around 2 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. Dan Tang, the truck’s 28-year-old head chef and a co-owner, greets me even before he turns around, his uncanny awareness of his surroundings immediately evident. When he finally does turn around, I’m greeted with a cordial smile and a “hop on in.”

My first impression of the inside of the truck is how small it is. The space is almost claustrophobic for one person, and nearly unworkable with two — think of a high-rise kitchenette stuffed inside a Hill double.

And yet Tang seems to move around it with ease, constantly juggling people’s orders, piping the endless stream of macarons the truck seems to hold and, on top of it all, maintaining steady conversation. His blue button-down and red shorts are stained with icing — the apron he’s wearing is apparently just for show — and his shoe is untied, but he hardly seems to notice.

“I was a poli-sci major at Temple,” he begins. “Baking and cooking was really just a hobby. It’s honestly because of a random series of events that I started doing this.”

Random or not, it has paid off. Sugar Philly is now a destination not just on campus, but in Philadelphia.

The truck’s following is only growing, with constant rankings and new macaron flavors and desserts coming out. On Sept. 11, Sugar Philly was featured by Yahoo! Travel as one of the top places in Philadel-

Despite the fact that Penn’s endowment is a mere 26 percent of its Crimson counterpart, there are advantages to a smaller endowment — it allows for niche investments and growth potential that would not be possible with larger sums.

With returns of 17.5 percent for the fiscal year ending on June 30, Penn’s endowment increased to its highest value to date of $9.6 billion, a $1.8 billion increase from the previous year’s valuation of $7.7 billion.

But although Penn’s endowment is greater than the Gross Domestic Products of Tajikistan, Haiti, Fiji and 45 other nations, according to the International Monetary Fund, it falls short in comparison to Harvard and Yale universities, which boast the two largest endowments in higher education at their hefty, recently-announced valuations of $36.4 and $23.9 billion, respectively.

The University’s endowment is typically the fifth largest in the Ivy League, behind Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia universities.

Chief Investment Officer Peter Ammon has experience in both spheres, having come to Penn at the beginning of fiscal year 2014 from Yale’s investment office, where he worked under renowned university investment manager David Swensen.

“The endowment’s size provides the necessary scale for Penn to build a world class investment organization,” Ammon said. “At the same time, we are still nimble enough to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities that might not make sense for significantly larger pools of capital.”

Indeed, the 2014 fiscal year saw attractive returns produced by a variety of asset classes.

In fact, the University’s annual return is one of the strongest in recent years,

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For most Penn students, especially those not on a dining plan, food trucks are a staple of campus life. Weekdays at noon, lines can stretch up to more than 30 people just to get a good gyro or a fruit smoothie.

But what does a regular day for a food truck look like, beyond the few moments of interaction with them that we witness for our lunch break? Who are the people behind the Plexiglas windows?

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phia to visit. “Of all the trucks on Penn’s campus, I think it’s safe to say we’re the ones who’ve gotten the most national recognition,” Tang said.

The majority of Sugar Philly’s customers, though, are still from the Penn community. Tang seems to know this community well. He often greets customers who come up to the truck by name and even knows some of their orders without asking. He jokes with one when she says she just came with her friend and isn’t ordering any this time, taunting her with the special flavors of the day, which, just because she isn’t buying any, he isn’t going to make again.

Engineering sophomore Lauren Leung frequents Sugar Philly enough that she has become one of Tang’s regulars. “I was a social media-crazed freshman, always on the lookout for potential Instagram opportunities, when I found Sugar Philly. There was a time during my freshman year when I went to the truck every day,” she said in an email.

“I’ve toned down a bit now, but I still visit the truck at least twice a week,” she said. “I had never really liked macarons and remembered them as being stale, bland and totally not worth the hype. At Sugar Philly, the flavors were true to name and the ingredients tasted fresh and buttery. They were nothing like the desserts I had expected, and I was totally hooked.”

At the time Tang started Sugar Philly, his only cooking experience had come from a study abroad trip that he took to Rome during college. “I know this sounds so cliche, but I honestly probably would not have started Sugar Philly if it were not for that trip. I discovered my passion for cooking there.”

Just a few months later, Tang and his business partners purchased the truck and completed all the necessary paperwork from the city. They opened for business on Jan. 20, 2010.

“We started that day outside the Penn Bookstore, which is like totally illegal,” Tang laughs.

They moved to their current location at 38th and Sansom streets a few months later. Despite a location slightly off of Penn’s beaten

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path, Sugar Philly’s macarons are so popular that — not including any wholesale or catering requests they take — they go through upwards of 700 a day.

But the business wasn’t always as successful as it is now.

After graduating from Temple University in 2008, Tang moved to New York, hoping to become a consultant. “I worked there for about a year, but that part of me that loved to be in the kitchen wasn’t fulfilled,” he said.

Tang looks around, half bemused and half grateful for the opportunity he embraced. That opportunity came knocking less than a year after he moved to New York, when in May 2009, John Suh, a friend of Tang’s from college and a 2008 Drexel graduate, called and asked Tang if he wanted to help start a food truck back in Philadelphia. “I was hesitant at first,” Tang said. Eventually he agreed, but not without some trepidation.

“The night before, I was so nervous. I messed up like 99 creme brulees,” Tang said. “I was just terrified that people wouldn’t like the food. I’m still terrified of that, honestly. Even with what we’ve accomplished, I still don’t feel like I’ve made it.”

“I was 23 and being recognized

by Business Week, the Food Network, ‘Live with Kelly and Mi-

chael.’ There are chefs who have been in the kitchen as long as I had been alive and had never gotten recognition for it. In that sense, I was really, really lucky,” Tang says.

At first it seemed like their unique approach to gourmet desserts was paying off, until Tang looked at the balance sheet.

Experiments with macarons, now their trademark sweet, weren’t always well-received.

“We released the Milk and Honey flavor, which was a huge success,” he said. It’s not hard to see why the flavor appealed so much to Penn students. The shell is a combination of crunchy and chewy, and the inside is a light, sweet cream with just a hint of salt. “Then I tried to do more traditional flavors — like the really aromatic ones you see in Paris, and I thought everything was going great, until I looked at our numbers and our sales were actually going down,” he says.

“It was one of the more arrogant times of my life,” Tang admits. He shrugs and shifts uncomfortably, clearly remembering the sobering moment. But, as he seems to do with everything, he’s taken it in stride. “It forced me to really get to know my audience,” he says.

Now, Sugar Philly has new macaron flavors almost daily, with varieties ranging from Banana and Walnut to Froot Loop. On tap the

day of my visit are Milk and Honey, Tiramisu, Chocolate Ganache, Peanut Caramel Apple, Green Tea and Black Sesame Raspberry.

Tang seems determined not to fall into the trap of stagnant flavors again. “I almost never go more than two weeks without creating a new flavor,” he says. “I honestly don’t know how I do it.”

“At this point, I think we have upwards of 300 flavors that we’ve done, but I never write any of them down. I’m terrified of getting stuck again,” Tang admits.

Since I’ve been here, he’s hardly gone more than two or three minutes before another customer arrives with a new order.

Even with their flavors, Sugar Philly shows an incredible amount of innovative culinary genius — and Tang seems determined to maintain that image. “In each of our flavors, it’s important to me that they don’t just taste good, but that they feel right,” he said.

But a cookie is a cookie, right?

Wrong.

“You know how when you eat a strawberry, and you get that nice, crisp, fresh feeling? It took me forever to replicate that feeling in a strawberry macaron, but I wouldn’t release it until I did,” he says.

These days, Tang has largely stepped away from the day-today baking, though he can still be found in the truck during the day.

“It was really tough to walk away from that aspect of the business, but I kind of realized that this

wasn’t going anywhere if I didn’t,” Tang said.

Instead, he is focusing more of his efforts on the business side of things, like finalizing permits for a new truck in a to-be-determined second location.

After I’ve been at the truck for a few hours, Tang’s other business partner, 2003 College graduate Franklin Shen, shows up unexpectedly. He and Tang greet each other with the kind of banter that only exists between 14-year-old boys and old friends.

But after a few minutes, the conversation shifts. In between the steady stream of customers, they discuss permits, licensing and new business purchases. They both show a keen sense of pragmatic idealism that makes them as much businessmen as bakers.

Sugar Philly is currently expanding beyond their first location, and they’ve added two additional employees beyond the three original owners.

Twenty-year-old Angela DiCaprio takes over for Tang around 5 p.m., after I’ve already been tucked in my corner of the truck for three hours. But this isn’t the start of DiCaprio’s work day.

“Every morning I get here at 7:30 and go to our off-site kitchen to start baking the day’s macaron shells,” she explains. “I’m usually there for a few hours, and then I take a break and then come back in the afternoon to finish up the day and close the truck,” she says.

DiCaprio graduated last year

from the Art Institute of Philadelphia with a degree in baking and is now enrolled at the Community College of Philadelphia, where she is studying business.

“The plan,” she says with conviction, pulling her shoulders back and looking up as she speaks, “is to open my own bakery someday.”

DiCaprio is petite, with strikingly large eyes and sandy-brown hair cropped short. There’s something about her that seems incredibly young, but there’s also a toughness to her that makes me believe her bakery will come to fruition.

DiCaprio has been with Sugar Philly for more than a year, and her responsibilities have grown over that time. She is now the point-person for catering orders.

“I remember, during my interview with him before I’d even gotten the job, he said to me ‘We don’t make failures; we make mistakes’ — and I’ll never forget that,” she says.

It’s exactly that kind of optimism and ingenuity to which both Tang and DiCaprio credit Sugar Philly’s success.

“Working in a truck certainly presents its challenges. We always joke that it’s climate controlled in here — whatever it is outside is exactly the temperature it is in here,” Tang says.

“But it also has its advantages,” he goes on to explain. “It’s a lot less pretentious, a lot more innovative and it forces you to overcome a lot of different hurdles, which creates some interesting challenges — the good kind,” Tang says.

DiCaprio agrees, citing a woman who comes by the truck not long after she takes over who is surprised to see DiCaprio piping macarons. “People are shocked when they realize how fresh everything is. They don’t realize how much we’ve been able to overcome in a truck,” she says.

By the end of the day, Tang seems utterly exhausted, but a smile is still plastered on his face.

He concludes his time with me with some simple advice: “What you think of the world today is not what it is, and chasing after money isn’t everything. Sometimes you get a really cool opportunity and you just have to take it, and trust that the rest will come.”

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A 2010 graduate of the $60,000-per-year Wharton School has developed a way to teach business essentials for free.

Jeff Raider, co-founder of Warby Parker, along with partner Andy Katz-Mayfield, launched H’University, pronounced “Hooniversity,” last year. The program’s purpose is “to teach college students valuable skills they

wouldn’t learn in class and prepare them for the challenges and opportunities of the real world,” according to its website.

“What you learn in class should align to your first step outside of college,” founding employee at Harry’s, Erik Kimel said.

H’University is an extension of Raider’s company, Harry’s , an innovative direct-to-consumer men’s grooming brand with a social mission.

With the slogan of “get inspired, get hired,” H’University provides weekly webinars taught by business experts, as well as connections to high profile in-

ternships and job interviews.

H’University was piloted this spring in New York City, with a 62.48 percent acceptance rate and a 98 percent satisfaction rating .

In hopes of complementing the classroom education of a group of selected college students, H’University offers weekly, hourlong “webinars” taught by people experienced in the business world.

This fall, the faculty includes Gary Vaynerchuk of VaynerMedia, David Chang of Momofuku, Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker, Lauren Bush of FEED Projects, Adam Braun of Pencils for Promise, Eva Chen of Lucky Magazine

and Adam Grant, author of “Give and Take.”

Also offered is an optional oncampus challenge designed to apply the skills learned by participating in H’University, along with opportunities to interview for internships during both the school year and the semester. These opportunities include a network of hiring partners, such as Warby Parker, Foursquare, Gin Lane, and Michael Kors .

The time commitment is designed to be malleable to the schedule of the individual. Commitment can be as little as one hour per week, as the on-campus

challenge is optional. The webinars, after being live-streamed onto the H’University website, are also archived in “H’omeroom,” an online portal where students can watch them whenever convenient .

Each of the challenges has three winners, all of whom are awarded with one-on-one interviews at their three favorite hiring partners. Five second-place winners are also chosen and offered an interview with their first choice in hiring partner. Finally, ten third-place winners are awarded an interview with an H’University hiring partner.

Most enticing of all the attributes of H’University, however, is that it is free .

“We believe that companies should do more to benefit the community,” Kimel said. “As part of our social mission to help people prepare for personal and professional success, we felt it was important to create opportunities for college students to get exposed and connected to workplaces like ours.”

“There really is no better way of gaining insight into the field of entrepreneurship,” H’University alumnus Jacob Epstein said in a H’University brochure.

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SO MANY ACTIVITIES | The value of the humanities is being diminished by failed and misguided advocacy in its favor

e all fall upon occasions where we need to create awkward 300-word biographies of ourselves for public consumption. The formula for successfully doing so is relatively straightforward: school, major, hometown, grade, some extracurriculars and a funny interest or two so we don’t seem too uptight. For as long as I can remember, I’ve put down that I am an “avid reader” as one of my biodata, a description that was only strictly true until about eighth grade and that I fulfill nominally today with the occasional political biography over the summer.

The world of humanities educators has struggled recently with people like me, students who — although theoretically having the necessary interest and aptitude — seem to have no time for casual exploration of the humanities and are loath to pursue a perceived professional dead end formally. There have been so many articles in mag-

azines, school newspapers and papers of record detailing this decline that it would be reductive to hyperlink just a selection. The public response by education leaders, naturally, has been an extensive attempt to convince our generation of students not to extend our estrangement from the humanities into a full-blown divorce.

overtures to see why they have failed to gain any traction.

First comes the “fight fire with fire” approach of offering the prospect of entrance to an equally alluring lure of professionalism: law school.

The argument goes that studying Hume or Dostoyevsky will build the kind of structured thinking that will shine

The next bucket of cases [for the humanities] centers around vague, almost meaningless benefits, such as ‘learning how to learn’ and ‘learning for its own sake.”

The collection of arguments employed for this purpose, however, has been horribly misguided and dramatically out of tune with what most students are looking for. This unofficial PR campaign has failed to produce any significant results.

Let’s run through some of the most prevalent themes in these

through in a law school application — or at least get you through that first-year contracts class. The narrow assumption that students would flock to the humanities as long as they had a safe professional “exit plan,” and that law school represents some kind of catch-all escape route for these students, rings hollow.

Furthermore, due to the mechanistic nature of law school admissions, this appeal, even if successful, would more likely send students to the easiest dregs of Penn Course Review than to complex engagement with literary themes.

The next bucket of cases centers around vague, almost meaningless benefits, such as “learning how to learn” and “learning for its own sake.”

The latter advantage is particularly dubious; roller coasters are ridden for their own sake, the experience to be quickly forgotten once the seat belt is unbuckled. In the current environment, would a student really embark on a course of study whose benefits leave him as soon as he obtains a diploma, just for its own sake?

Even weightier promises of understanding the Great Conversation, what it means to be good or the meaning of life seem perversely out of scope. Imagine if running clubs catered to college-age students by advertising longterm artery benefits more vocally than pitching endorphins

or a sense of achievement. The biggest stereotypical knock against the humanities lies in the perception of its inutility in “real life,” and the allure of large intellectual breakthroughs (maybe, eventually) fails to combat that image.

A much more effective tack would be to pitch the upside of the humanities as social and immediate rather than intrapersonal and far off. People are willing to engage in so-called nonfunctional activity if they can clearly foresee some related payoff; there’s a reason Pottruck is filled with bench pressers even though the number of situations where one actually needs to get 250 pounds off his chest in “real” life is miniscule. Similarly, we should frame the humanities as mental exercise, as Lumosity on steroids, as enhancers for our personalities and communication that make our thought clearer, our decisions quicker and our comebacks wittier.

By pulling forward the future benefits of the humanities to the present day, we offer a

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don’t think I’ve ever cried more than I did during the week of International Student Orientation. I think it’s safe to say that anyone who’s coming to Penn is leaving so much behind, but as an international student, I felt like I was leaving much more than a typical domestic freshman. My family, my home, my culture are all in Lebanon, seven time zones away now.

No family member came with me when I came to Penn for the first time this summer.

A 16-hour flight later, I made it to the airport and managed to commute to Penn without being greeted by a university staff member when I landed.

Lucky for me, I wasn’t one of the international students who has never traveled before. The fear was familiar, to a certain extent.

I moved in on Aug. 21, one of the later move-in days.

I think that’s why orientation felt so rushed and overwhelming. Meeting other international students meant we could bond over what we were going through: the homesickness, the culture shock and the time difference. It just all ended so fast: Soon enough, events from ISO overlapped with NSO, and then ISO was over. I wasn’t ready for NSO when it happened. I would have preferred getting to know more international students before taking on the rest of the Class of 2018. In between getting over the jet lag, settling into this unfamiliar campus and city and meeting so many people, I just wanted to go back to my room.

My room — that wasn’t much fun either. Of course, it was a shrine to Lebanon

and overflowing with pictures from home. More than I would have liked, I’d end up crying whenever I stared at these pictures for too long. Obviously, it wasn’t healthy to stay in my room for too long, but where

try where racially identifying myself was very uncommon.

Even if this wasn’t the case, I’m not Asian, Latino, black, LGBT or any other minority.

Where do people like me go?

It was hard adjusting to

After two weeks [at Penn], I was set on going home. I had decided that Penn wasn’t worth it. I didn’t want to be Americanized. I wanted to stay true to my identity. I wanted to go back home to Lebanon.” was I supposed to go once NSO was over? I keep hearing suggestions to find a safe space at Penn at the cultural centers, but none of them felt like a place I could belong to.

In fact, I come from a coun-

Penn. After two weeks, I was set on going home. I had decided that Penn wasn’t worth it. I didn’t want to be Americanized. I wanted to stay true to my identity. I wanted to go back home to Lebanon. All

of the upperclassmen I knew kept trying to convince me not to. I just wouldn’t listen to them. I think advice — serious life-changing advice — always sounds more convincing from an adult. There was no one here at Penn for me to do that, so it took my advisor from home, my EducationUSA advisor at AMIDEAST Lebanon, for me to give Penn a chance.

Three weeks into the semester I learned I wasn’t the only one who was having a hard time fitting in. The Assembly of International Students hosted “Around the World in 80 Cuisines,” an open discussion where international freshmen like me shared their experiences so far. It was heartwarming to hear their stories, their experiences with confusing Fahrenheit and Celsius, being asked

silly questions and even struggling with finding good food from home. I felt empowered at that event, as if I had connected with everyone in that room on a different level. It was therapeutic almost, and hopefully it was the first sign of how things will gradually get better.

Right now, I’m giving my dream school a second chance, even though the lack of resources available for international students like me has been disappointing. Hopefully, more events like AIS’s last one are coming my way.

Here’s to keeping an open mind and asking Penn to hit me with its best shot.

GHINWA MOUJAES is a College freshman from Lebanon. Her email address is moujaesg@sas. upenn.edu.

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The three day conference was one of 16 around the world

BY PATRICIA JIA Contributing Writer

Just two weeks after Penn Apps, another hackathon took over campus.

On Friday, Pakathon, a Pak istan- or iented hackathon, began its secondannual startup weekend w ith tea ms i n 16 cities across North America and Pakistan. During the threeday conference, groups of students worked to create technological solutions to problems in Pakistan.

Pakathon is unique not only because of its specific global connection to Pakistan, but also because of its

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‘Pakathon’ comes to campus focus on creating innovative solutions to address a need in society. On Sunday, teams presented their business proposals, marketing strategies and projected costs and revenues for their ideas.

“Hackathons are focused o n t e c h n i c a l c r e at i o n , whereas this, it’s making sure they have sustainable impact,” Pakathon mentor and 2014 Engineering graduate Ibrahim Ayub said.

This focus on impact and implementation makes Pakathon more than a three-day event. In each city, judges will select a local winner to compete against the other 15 finalists. Final prizes include cash and a mentorship program, which would bring experienced entrepreneurs to help the team execute their idea.

The judges at Philadelphia’s Pakathon included Saqib Nasir, a business systems analyst at Vanguard, Sheharyar Gulraiz, a senior systems analyst at United Healthcare, and Negesh Potdar, a graduate student at Drexel University. In critiquing the presentations, they focused on the social issue being solved, the business plan and the feasibility of the proposed solution.

Potdar specified that he was looking for market analysis — how an idea improves existing solutions or suggests the need for a unique solution.

The winning team addressed the high mortality rate of people with oral cancer in Pakistan. Perelman School of Medicine researcher Amber Tariq,

fourth year Penn Dental student Mariam Naeem and 2013 College graduate Umar Sheikh were particularly interested in Karachi, where 36,000 people die every year from the disease. If detected early, the survival rate increases from 30 percent to 90 percent.

“We were brainstorming ideas that have a very significant need that wasn’t being addressed currently,” Tariq said. “There is a form of tobacco that is chewed a lot in Pakistan that is a high risk factor for oral cancer.”

Their solution is PakPay ya, a mobile vehicle health unit that travels to underdeveloped areas in Karachi. The van brings equipment as well as medical and dental students to perform a screening process, in which

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they use iPads to take pictures of suspicious lesions.

These images are shared with a doctor who can immediately biopsy the lesions, and if they are identified as cancerous, the patient will be referred to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital.

Besides preventing oral cancer, the project aims to use the screening process as a tool to gather more accurate data on prevalence and incidence rates. During the 15 to 20 minutes spent with each patient, PakPayya will also show an educational video on the negative effects of chewing tobacco or smoking and the symptoms of oral cancer.

The team will present against the other 15 finalist teams in Boston on Oct. 11.

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The Phila. based start-up makes high quality and affordable sunglasses

BY RUIHONG LIU Contributing Writer

Three young men are linking sunglasses and cancer research.

Launched in February 2014, Barring Eyewear is a Philadelphia-based company founded by three students aspiring to create high-quality and affordable sunglasses. The co-founders of the company, inspired by their mutual love for sunglasses and concern for cancer research, built Barring Eyewear to raise fundings for cancer research.

Wharton junior Eric Fiore, College of Liberal and Professional Studies student Joseph Hwang and 2008 Villanova graduate Frank Tucci are the core forces behind the company.

“There are two basic goals of our company: reduce the cost of

high-price sunglasses in the monopolized sunglasses industry and raise funding for cancer research,” Hwang, the company’s chief designer, said. “Transparency, fair price[s] and do[ing] the right thing are the main ideas that govern the company.”

Besides their social mission, the company distinguishes itself from competitors on other factors.

“Our frames are made of the best materials, and we reduced the cost of the sunglasses through directly negotiating with the manufacturing chain,” Hwang said. “We also provide life-time guarantee[s] for our products with a small amount of additional cost.”

Another important part of the company’s identity is being native to Philadelphia. The inspiration behind each pair of sunglasses originates from Philadelphia landmarks.

“For example, one pair of our

glasses is named ‘Rouge,’ the French word for red, a tribute to the City of Brotherly Love,” Hwang said. Even the name Barring Eyewear is a dedication to a street close by Penn’s campus — Baring Street, just north of Powelton Avenue.

Despite their financial limitations as a startup, Hwang expressed confidence in the future of the company.

“After we raise enough capital, I’ll quit school and work full-time for the company,” he said.

Barring is currently working on a brand ambassador program that will help spread the brand name to different student groups. The company already has branches at Drexel University, Michigan State University and Villanova University.

The co-founders are in the process of recruiting two more partners who specialize in technology and supply chain market-

ing. The company is also pursuing bigger platforms by looking for distribution in department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Macy’s and is seeking investment from venture capitalists. The co-founders are also hoping to build their own factory in University City.

To complement its business goals, Barring Eyewear has a detailed plan for its social mission.

The team aims to increase donations to cancer research from $1 per pair to a larger percentage of revenues as the company develops. The co-founders also envision cooperation with the American Cancer Society. “[The] American Cancer Society is watching us now, and they will form partnership with us after we reach a certain production scale,” Hwang said. “Ultimately, we hope to conduct our own independent cancer research study that will direct funds more effectively to those in need.”

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A new kind of Skimmerfest Attendance increased by more than 50 percent at this year’s revamped Skimmerfest on Saturday.

Organized by the Class Boards, the Social Planning and Events Committee and Penn Athletics, Skimmerfest took place after the first home football game of the season, against Villanova. It featured a live performance by Shwayze, as well as other attractions such as laser tag, a photobooth and other carnival activities.

“We took a gamble in trying this concept,“ said College senior Allison Bart, Vice President of Internal Affairs on the 2015 Class Board. Bart was also on the executive committee that planned Skimmerfest. “We wanted to sort of make it this post-game celebration with Penn Athletics — we changed everything about it this

year,” she said.

While in previous years Skimmerfest was a walk-through event located at College Green , this year the College Board and SPEC attempted to create more of a festival-like and cohesive event.

Headlined by rapper Shwayze, this was the first year that Skimmerfest was held in Penn Park. In previous years, the event was held before rather than after the football opener.

Extra funding for the event was provided by Penn Athletics, and despite Skimmerfest’s larger scale, the funding of other school events will not be affected.

“We wanted to think about how to boost attendance,” Bart said. Many of the changes made between this year and last were in order to further engage the Penn community in the event. Having a more recognizable headliner and reorganizing the structure of the event seems to have paid off. Turnout at Skimmerfest in-

creased, rising from 2,000 students last year to roughly 3,500 students this year, according to Bart.

“We were pleasantly surprised by how many people came,” said junior and SEAS chair Chloé le Comte, who had done much of the planning for Skimmerfest over the summer. She partially attributed the high turnout to Shwayze’s presence.

The higher turnout, however, led to some drawbacks that left student opinions on Skimmerfest mixed. Some students were disappointed by the fact that the free T-shirts disappeared within ten minutes and by the lines that stretched across the park, making it difficult to get some of the advertised free food.

“It’s a really good concept, but the lines are very long,” College freshman Arnav Shah.

“All the events are individually really fun, but [Skimmerfest] feels disjointed,” College fresh-

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man Michael Samuelson agreed.

But despite the drawbacks, Skimmerfest was a fun evening and the atmosphere was upbeat.

“People had a good time and we’re all really happy about it,” Bart said.

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New club calls for divestment from fossil fuels

BY JOYCE VARMA Contributing Writer

Students are rallying to reinvest Penn’s endowment.

The divestment club Fossil Free Penn had their first meeting of the year on Sept. 25, in Harrison College House.The club demands that the University freeze new investments in fossil fuels, divest their current investments and reinvest their money in sustainable companies or projects.

“Penn’s endowment, which is $9.6 billion, is partially invested in the fossil fuel industry,” club coordinator and sophomore Peter Thacher said.. “The fossil fuel industry is responsible for a tremendous amount of harm, presently and in the future because of climate change.”

The club feels that their goals are reasonable, because universities such as Stanford University

have recently divested from fossil fuel investments as well.

“We’re not asking Penn to do anything drastic, like reinvest all their money or things like that, so I think that it’s definitely [goals] that are achievable,” club member and College sophomore Sophia Elliot said.

Club coordinator and Engineering and Wharton sophomore Thomas Lee said that Penn should consider ethics when investing money.

“We shouldn’t be hypocritical and contradicting what we’re learning ethically in the classrooms and what we’re doing with the money that supports our classrooms,” he said. “In this position of privilege, I have a moral responsibility to care and do something about it.”

One of the issues that the club faces is that Penn’s investments are not made completely public, and many of the investments are in commingled funds so the club does not know the specific companies that are invested in.

“Transparency is something that we are still thinking about as a campaign,” Thacher said.

“Whether we will need to ask for [Penn] to publicize all of their investments right now in the fossil fuel industry to get them to divest is something we are still figuring out right now.”

The beginning of the club was announced at the People’s Climate March. Fossil Free Penn is

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“Hopefully Penn will see that what we’re asking them to do is not going to undermine their economic endeavors,” Elliot said.

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VOLLEYBALL Princeton and Dayton were too much for Penn

SPRINT FB | The Red and Blue took down the Big Red

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VS. CORNELL

One weekend. Two challenging opponents. And a pair of tough losses for Penn volleyball.

After suffering a brutal loss in straight sets to Princeton in Friday night’s Ivy League opener, Penn came into Sunday’s nonconference battle with Dayton looking to regain its footing before its upcoming Ivy bout with Columbia.

Penn managed to fight back to win a set at the Palestra, but still fell 25-13, 23-25, 25-15, 25-18, to the Flyers (13-4), who took advantage of the Quakers’ (3-9) inconsistent play.

The Red and Blue once again got off to a decent start and found themselves down by just a single point at 11-10 in the first set, but Dayton reeled off a 14-3 run to take the first set of the match.

The second set started in similar fashion, with the two teams effectively trading points. With the score tied at 13, Penn went on a 7-3 run to take command of the set. However, Dayton fought back and evened it up at 22 apiece, prompting Penn coach Kerry Carr to call timeout. A kill from junior middle blocker Michellie McDonald-O’Brien out of the break put the Quakers back ahead, and they wrapped up a 25-23 set victory moments later on a kill from freshman outside hitter Aimee Stephenson.

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Junior setter Ronnie Bither was one of the lone bright spots over the weekend for the Quakers, as the team was unable to win against Princeton or Dayton.

After the intermission, the Quakers came out looking to build on their newfound momentum, but the Flyers quickly turned things around by winning the first three points of the third set. After Penn battled to within two points, Dayton put things away and took the set, 25-15.

“They regrouped terrifically well,” Carr said of Dayton’s performance after the second set.

“Probably due to their coach Tom Horsmon. They came out in the third set on a high note, after we had just beat them down.”

The Red and Blue claimed an early lead in the fourth set, but Dayton proved to be too much for the Quakers to handle. After fighting back to 20-16, Penn was unable to continue their rally and ultimately fell, 25-18, in the set, as the Flyers put the finishing touches on their victory.

Once again, the Quakers’ undoing would be their ineffec-

tiveness above the net, as they were out-blocked and out-killed by wide margins. The second set featured a reversal of those trends, as Penn put the pieces together; yet they were unable to continue their success into the final two sets.

Penn has been losing control of close sets due to long opposing runs all season, and it has been a focus for Carr and the team in practice.

“We play ‘stop the run’ in practice, and make sure they know ways to get first-ball kills, right away,” Carr said. “And how to not get in a rally situation — that falls to the team with the momentum.”

Penn will have a few days of practice to try to right the ship.

The Quakers will next play on Friday at 5 p.m., when they try to even up their Ivy League record in a battle at the Palestra with the Lions.

For the second straight week, Penn sprint football started out slowly, allowing an opening-drive touchdown.

However, on Friday against Cornell, they responded a whole lot quicker and with a whole lot more firepower than last week en route to a 36-19 victory.

It took the offense some time to get in rhythm. But with four seconds left in the first quarter, senior running back Mike Beamish broke out a long 50-yard run. After junior running back Charles Cato finished the job by punching the ball into the end zone to cut the Cornell lead to two, there was no looking back.

“Every game it takes me a little bit to get used to the defensive fronts and schemes,” Beamish said.

But once he got a handle of the Big Red defense, he busted out for 149 rushing yards, bringing him to third on Penn’s all-time rushing list.

Three minutes after Penn (2-0) scored, a tipped pass led to an interception for the Red and Blue. And just like that, Penn was on the march again.

Sophomore quarterback Mike McCurdy delivered the go-ahead score on a 34-yard floater to sophomore wide receiver Mario del Cueto, who came down with the ball by making a spectacular diving catch, putting the Quakers up, 13-8.

Penn’s defense responded in kind with a goal line stand, barely holding off Cornell (11). On Cornell’s next drive, the sophomore defensive back Robert Diorio picked up the ball off a Big Red fumble and ran 38 yards for the score with 4:43 left in the second to take a 19-11 lead.

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In a game decided by big plays, sophomore quarterback Mike McCurdy had one of his own: a crucial 34-yard touchdown pass to give the Quakers the lead.

Despite finishing off the play, Diorio refused to take all the glory for his big touchdown.

“We work on scoop and scores every day in practice and it finally paid off,” he said.

“But credit goes to whoever forced that fumble.”

The Quakers kept the pressure up in the second half, stopping a Cornell fourth-down try five minutes into the third.

And again, as was the story all night for Red and Blue, the offense utilized the momentum of a big defensive play.

This time, McCurdy’s passing game set up Beamish’s first score of the night to put Penn up 18 with nine minutes to play.

While Cornell would eventually find a hole in the Penn defense with a touchdown halfway through the fourth quarter, the Quakers quickly responded and closed the door with another huge play. McCurdy connected with junior wide receiver Jack Epstein for a 56-yard hook up, setting up one last touchdown run for Beamish.

After the game, coach Bill Wagner and the players focused on Penn’s resiliency after early adversity. Junior offensive lineman Donnie Kneisel pointed out that “the game had a similar feel to last week,” when the Quakers trailed Mansfield early only to pull off a win at home.

The Red and Blue are already looking forward to their matchup with Navy on Oct. 4, a squad that defeated Penn, 3414, last season.

“It will be a tough game,” Wagner said. “You have to beat one of the service academies to win this league, and Navy is on the schedule first.”

Beamish, on the other hand, was a little more excited.

“There’s nothing anyone on this team wants more than to beat Army and Navy,” he said.

“And I think we got a shot, we’re gonna do this.”

Maybe it’s not quite a guarantee, but Beamish and the Quakers surely look hungry and optimistic heading into next Saturday’s game at Franklin Field.

Red and Blue strong vs. ’Nova XC | The Quakers followed up their Big 5 dominance at Haverford

BY COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor Bring on the big dogs.

Over the weekend, Penn cross country got its shot at perennial local powerhouse Villanova, and the Red and Blue did not disappoint.

After a dominant performance at the nearby Big 5 Invitational, the Quakers put up similarly impressive results against tougher local competition at Haverford’s Main Line Invitational on Thursday.

This increased competition was largely the result of Villanova’s increased presence at Haverford.

Unsurprisingly, the Wildcats were the only runners who were able to put up any resistance against the Quakers. However, they were not able to stop Penn’s impressive season-opening run.

The meet was not officially team scored. However, if it were, both of Penn’s squads would have edged the Wildcats (20-35 for the women and 35-40 for the men).

Though the meet began on what was a rainy Thursday afternoon, the Quakers did not let the elements affect them in the slightest.

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game on top of the kids that are done for the year that are affecting depth,” Ambrose said. “So in the second half, when you get tired, you can’t make those changes.”

In the offensive third of the field, the Red and Blue looked equally youthful, at times playing three freshmen up front. Penn struggled to create opportunities, getting off just

“[The women] started things off with a bang,” coach Steve Dolan said.

The women were led by junior Elyssa Gensib, whose time of 17:03 in the three-mile race was good for second overall.

She was followed across the finish line only a few seconds later by emerging freshman sensation Abby Hong.

The rest of the Quakers’ topfive finishers were not far behind, filling out the fourth, fifth and sixth overall spots.

Dolan was extremely impressed with the women’s strong exhibition of team running.

“They ran an extremely smart race,” he said. “It was fun to see them kind of feed off each other.”

Sophomore Cleo Whiting and junior captain Amy Darlington did not compete.

Whiting continues to recover from an injury sustained over the summer, and hopes to compete later this season. Meanwhile, Darlington is very much fit — as evidenced by her performance in the Big 5 Invitational — but did not race due to a minor illness.

The men followed the women, and despite an increasingly muddy and slippery course, they were able to produce similar — if somewhat less dominant — results.

Junior Thomas Awad was the men’s top finisher, coming in at

third place overall. However, according to Dolan, fans can expect even more from him moving forward as he puts more focus on maxing out in the season’s bigger races.

The Quakers’ star was followed by a tightly-packed group of teammates who finished between sixth and 11th overall. The following group was led by sophomore Brendan Shearn, an underclassman who is emerging as one of Penn’s most impressive runners.

“We had 11 guys in the first 21,” Dolan said. “It was more than just the top. We had a number of guys running well and pushing each other.”

Dolan admitted that a few key runners were from Villanova’s squads, but it didn’t diminish his excitement over his team’s performance.

He attributes his team’s strong start to a combination of increased experience and more effective offseason training.

“Last year, it took us through the season … but this year we’re starting with a better point of fitness,” Dolan said.

Next weekend, the Quakers will split up to run at the Paul Short and Notre Dame Invitationals, and if they continue these kind of performances, they will be one of the big dogs themselves before too long.

three shots on the night.

The loss snapped several streaks for the Quakers. It was their first loss at home in Ivy League play since 2010, and it was also their worst loss against a conference opponent since a 4-1 defeat against Princeton on Nov. 6, 2004. Notably, the home team had emerged victorious from the previous six matchups between Penn and Harvard, and the winner of this game has continued on to win the Ivy title in five of the last seven

years.

If history is any indication, the Crimson seem well-positioned to contend for a second consecutive conference championship. Meanwhile, the Quakers will need to regroup quickly in order to compete with the Ancient Eight’s best.

“We got beaten. That’s the standard — they won it last year,” Ambrose said. “They’re a good team. If we want to be there, we’ve got a lot of work to do.”

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AT A GLANCE Star of the game: Villanova quarterback John Robertson Robertson was dealing with injuries to his non-throwing hand and his hip yet he still looked dominant on Saturday.

He threw for four touchdowns and went 15-for-21 before being pulled at halftime due to Villanova’s large 34-point lead.

Play of the game: Earnest Pettway’s 36-yard TD catch Penn didn’t give itself much of a chance to win Saturday’s game as Villanova scored soon after the opening kickoff.

After Robertson led the Wildcats into opposing territory, he found a wide-open man downfield in senior tight end Earnest Pettway, whose touchdown put Nova up for good. Pettway’s TD was one of four touchdowns on the day of more than 30 yards.

Pettway would finish with two catches for 46 yards.

Longest pass: Villanova Jr. QB John Robertson to Sr. WR Kevin Gulyas quarter YARDS Second 2nd and 6 from the Villanova 34.

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Longest run: Penn Sr. RB Kyle Wilcox Second Quarter 2nd and 10 from the Penn 33 for a YARDS touchdown .

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perstar quarterback John Robertson — playing with a cast on his broken non-throwing hand and an injured hip — threw four touchdown passes in the first half, which earned him the rest of the day off.

The ultimate humiliation may have come on a 54-yard touchdown run by running back Gary Underwood up the middle to make the score 21-0 with 3:32 to go in the first quarter. Underwood turned Penn cornerback Kevin Ijoma around entirely, leaving him grasping at air and showing three packed sections of students just how far behind the Quakers are from their neighbors.

“I remember the games [against Penn] when we were fighting for our lives,” Villanova coach Andy Talley said. “So there are gonna be years when we’re gonna be rebuilding and years when they’re rebuilding, and this is one of those years. And so it looks a little lopsided.

“But this is a game I would like to see continue, because Penn has the same problem [we do]: Who are they gonna play out of league?”

What kind of impression, though, does such a big loss give to the Penn students in attendance — many of which were freshmen receiving their first exposure to sports on campus?

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culminating in a 35-yard touchdown pass to senior tight end Earnest Pettway.

Penn looked like it would respond right away as it took quarterback Alek Torgersen two quick passes to bring Penn all the way to the edge of Villanova’s red zone. But the sophomore QB undid his good work in one play, throwing an interception.

“Obviously it was a big play,” Bagnoli said. “If you could have answered, maybe we could have got a little more confidence. We might gotten a little more emotion … but we didn’t.” ’Nova was able to take the ball from the one-yard line after the pick and drive 99 yards in 13 plays. Robertson was

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“It was one of those [games] we just have to put in our rearview mirror and move on.”

— On 34-point loss to No. 6 Villanova

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THE RECORD

The Quakers are surely far better than Saturday’s score indicates, and should be in contention for the Ivy title. But the students that left early might not know that fact — or care.

Penn will travel up to Dartmouth next week for its Ivy opener — the same Big Green team that took the Quakers to four overtimes last year. And Dartmouth has a solid dual-threat QB of its own in Dalyn Williams.

“Hopefully we can use this as a learning mechanism and kind of move forward, but things don’t get tremendously easier,” coach Al Bagnoli said. “As I told everybody, now you get to take a seven-hour bus ride to Dartmouth, and a week after, you get to go to [No. 16]Fordham.”

Yet Penn will possibly have to face Williams and co. without senior linebacker Dan Davis and junior safety Trent Dennington. Both suffered concussions during the game.

When Drago was brutalizing Apollo in the ring, Duke desperately yelled for Rocky to “throw in the damn towel.”

He waited until it was too late, but Penn’s athletic department shouldn’t.

Throw in the towel. Don’t play Villanova anymore.

IAN WENIK is a College senior from Millburn, N.J., and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at wenik@thedp.com.

more methodical on the drive, leading his team down before throwing a TD to senior Poppy Livers . Just a few plays later, junior running back Gary Underwood took off for a 54-yard rushing touchdown, making it a 21-0 blowout.

Yet it got worse in the second quarter.

After another Penn punt, Robertson threw for a 66-yard TD to wide receiver Kevin Gulyas , who had over 100 yards receiving in the first half, and Penn was behind by a shocking 34-0.

“He’s always been tremendously elusive,” Bagnoli said of Robertson. “He’s a kid that can win games with his feet. Now I think he can win games pretty readily with his arm.”

Penn got a score back quickly, as senior running back Kyle

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Total yards given up by Penn’s defense. Villanova had scored more than 40 points in each of its two games going into Saturday and its offense did not disappoint, gaining 417 yards and scoring 41 points before halftime.

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Villanova football had a lot to celebrate on Saturday as the Wildcats steamrolled the Red and Blue, 41-7, at Franklin Field, Penn’s biggest margin of defeat since 1991.

Wilcox broke off a 67-yard run for Penn’s first score. But Villanova just wouldn’t stop.

Junior linebacker Don Cherry sacked Torgersen and forced a fumble on Penn’s next drive, recovering it in Penn territory.

From there, ’Nova scored another TD, as Underwood ran 14 yards for his second score and a 41-7 halftime lead.

The Wildcats pulled most of their starters in the second half, but the damage was already done. Villanova pulled together 417 yards of total offense in the first half while Penn had just 132, with 67 of them coming on one play.

Each team would turn the ball over twice in the second half, as neither squad moved the ball particularly well in the final 30 minutes.

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lanova’s one-yard line in the final quarter but sophomore wide receiver Adam Strouss was stuffed on a fourth-down run. That was the closest either squad came to scoring in the second half as Villanova ran out the clock on the Red and Blue.

“It was one of those [games] we just have to put in our rearview mirror and move on,” Bagnoli said.

“It’s pretty frustrating, but you can’t hang your head like that,” Wilcox added. “We’re really lucky that we even get to go out there and play. That’s the attitude that the players on the sideline try to keep but obviously it’s hard.”

The Red and Blue will look to turn it around next week when they head to Hanover and face Dartmouth, a team they beat in four overtimes last season.

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by Penn sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen.

Torgersen has thrown two picks in each of his first two games as the Quakers’ starting QB.

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STATISTICS PENN First Downs 12 Rushing Yards 93 Passing Yards 180 Attempts 30 — Completions 18 — Interceptions 2 Total Yards 273 Sacked-Yds Lost 2-5 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 Penalties-Yards 7-55 Punts-Yards 7-298 — Avg. per punt 42.6 3rd-Down Conv. 3-14 4th-Down Conv. 1-4 Red Zone Scores 0-1 Time of Poss.

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the back end, making five saves.

The Red and Blue began the match well, with Iqbal scoring off a penalty corner in the 11th minute.

The Crimson tied the score 16 minutes later, but Corcoran would beat Harvard goalkeeper Issy Davies just before the end of the first half to put Penn in front for good. Corcoran, one of the squad’s senior captains, is now second in the Ancient Eight in goals with eight and is first in the conference with 19 points.

In the second half, the Quakers were able to once again convert NAME HERE/DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER on a penalty corner, something that had mostly eluded them earlier in Senior captain Alex Iqbal had one of the best offensive performances of her career, scoring three goals to help lead Penn past Harvard. the season. After a timeout from the Iqbal scored her goals off a trio of penalty corners as fellow-seniors MaryRose Croddick and Emily Corcoran assisted on each goal.

Crimson, the Red and Blue came out firing.

“We’ve been working on those corners a lot,” coach Colleen Fink said. “We came out of the Harvard timeout ready to go and scored on those two corners.”

The ball went from Croddick to Corcoran to Iqbal, who finished off two consecutive goals in less than one minute, displaying Penn’s newfound prowess on the set play.

Iqbal now has four goals on the year and is third on the Quakers with 11 points after she added three points last season.

Meanwhile, Weisenfels now has 32 saves on the year, allowing fewer than two goals per game.

While the team didn’t think the win was its most comprehensive on the year, it certainly fit in well with the team’s mantra of ‘true grit.’

“It was a really good game but was also boring at times,” Fink said.

“I kept telling the girls sometimes a win isn’t pretty.”

The Quakers have a matchup with Dartmouth awaiting them next weekend in Hanover. The Big Green are also in the middle of the Ivy pack with a 1-1 record, losing to nationally ranked Princeton before defeating Brown.

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BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor There are blowouts … and then there is Penn football’s home opening defeat to Villanova.

The Wildcats, the No. 6 ranked squad in FCS football, took just over two minutes to score and didn’t let up for the rest of the game, winning 41-7.

The 34-point loss was the biggest loss Penn had suffered since the year before Bagnoli took over, when then-coach Gary Steele’s squad lost by 45 points to Holy Cross. It was Penn’s worst home loss to an FCS opponent since falling to Cornell, 52-13, in 1979.

“That was my biggest concern: When they get on a roll, they are very difficult to contain,” Bagnoli said.

“They got on a roll, and we really had no answers.”

The news got worse for the Red and Blue as senior captain and star linebacker Dan Davis suffered a concussion.

Junior defensive back Trent Dennington left the game with a concussion, as well.

For the first half, redshirt junior quarterback John Robertson led the charge for Villanova, throwing four touchdowns and completing 15-of-21 passes for 230 yards while adding over 50 yards on the ground. He was pulled at halftime with Villanova already up by 34 points.

It took him just six plays to bring the Wildcats 75 yards on their first drive, SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

Iqbal leads Quakers past Harvard FIELD HOCKEY Senior Iqbal’s hat trick gives Penn first Ivy win

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor

VS. HARVARD For Penn field hockey, it isn’t all about winning pretty.

The Red and Blue played a Saturday matinee against Harvard at Ellen Vagelos Field and took down the Crimson for Penn’s first Ivy victory, 4-1.

It was the senior class leading the way for the Quakers (4-3, 1-1 Ivy) this weekend, as midfielder Alex Iqbal provided a hat trick while Emily Corcoran added a goal on attack along with an assist on each of Iqbal’s goals.

Senior defender MaryRose Croddick also assisted on each of Iqbal’s goals, while senior goalkeeper Allison Weisenfels held the Crimson (5-2, 1-1) on SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 9

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Freshman wide receiver Justin Watson was Penn football’s leading receiver on Saturday, but on this play, he felt the crunch that Villanova put on the Quakers all game, as Penn lost, 41-7. The 34-point margin of defeat was Penn’s worst loss since Al Bagnoli took over as head coach in 1992 and its worst home loss to an FCS opponent since 1979.

f you were in attendance at Franklin Field on Saturday, you probably knew exactly how Penn football’s game against No. 6 Villanova was going to end up.

Okay, so James Brown wasn’t leading the Quakers onto the field to the tune of “Living in America,” but this was a mismatch of “Rocky IV” proportions.

Willing or not, the Red and Blue basically played the role of Apollo Creed to the Wildcats’ Ivan Drago — a shorter, slower throwback to simpler times … hopelessly out of their element nowadays.

Proponents of the Penn-Villanova series point to its history — an origin that dates back to 1905 — and the civic pride element that comes with two Big 5 schools duking it out on the football field instead of a basketball court.

But one look at the stats from Saturday’s 41-7 blowout brings to light a tired old cliché about history: Those who don’t learn from it are doomed to make the same mistakes.

Last year, Villanova held the Quakers to 20 rushing yards on 30 carries in a 35-6 demolition.

In fact, Penn has lost its last 14 games to the Wildcats, which begs a question: What did the Penn athletic department think was going to happen when it put this game on the schedule?

Saturday’s results may have been worse than anyone on the Quakers’ coaching staff could have imagined. Villanova put up 567 yards of total offense. SuSEE WENIK PAGE 9

Crimson star is too much for Penn W. SOCCER | The younger Quakers fell to Harvard on Saturday

BY KENNY KASPER Senior Staff Writer

VS. HARVARD A young and depleted Penn women’s soccer team held off Harvard and the defending Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Midge Purce for the first 54 minutes and 46 seconds of play Friday night.

But it wouldn’t last.

Behind two unassisted goals from Purce, the Crimson downed the Quakers, 3-0, in the season’s conference opener, and the Red and Blue suffered their first loss to an Ivy foe at home since Oct. 8, 2010.

Penn (3-2-2, 0-1 Ivy) came out of the gate with some jitters and struggled to control the ball early.

For many Quakers, it was the first Ivy League match of their young careers, competing against the defending Ancient Eight champions, no less.

“When you get into battles like that, youth and inexperience show,” coach Darren Ambrose said.

But the Quakers seemed to settle as the first half wore on and narrowly missed an opportunity to take a 1-0 lead when Harvard defender Alika Keene cleared the ball off the

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blew past three Quakers and an attempted clearance ricocheted off the foot of Purce over Penn goalkeeper Kalijah Terilli and into the back of the net in the 55th minute.

The Crimson (6-2, 1-0) added to their lead in the 70th minute when senior midfielder Meg CasscellsHamby laced a cross from the left side that Harvard’s Emily Mosbacher expertly headed into the goal to boost the Crimson’s lead to 2-0.

Just three minutes and 11 seconds later, Purce struck again, stealing the ball away from a Penn defender in the goal box and drilling a shot cleanly through a seam for her second goal of the night.

“It’s hard when there’s one player who has a lot of speed … because if you get one missed bounce, then that player’s gone,” senior midfielder Kaitlyn Moore said.

The collapse of the Penn defense in the second half can largely be attributed to the squad’s inexperience and lack of depth in the backline and midfield. Injuries to upperclassmen Tahirih Nesmith, Paige Lombard and others have left the Quakers with few reserves and many chinks in the armor, particularly for a squad perennially known for its defensive HENRY LIN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER prowess. Adding to their troubles, The Red and Blue defensive back line, led by junior back Caroline Dwyer, was not able to stop the offensive junior outside back Shannon Henjuggernaut that is the Harvard Crimson on Saturday, surrendering three goals in a losing effort. nessy suffered an injury in the second half against the Crimson. line after a Penn corner kick. break free with the ball, but physical defense temporarily kept Purce con“We’re just taking too many Throughout the first half, Purce play from the returning Ivy League tained. other injuries in the course of the — who led the Ancient Eight in Defensive Player of the Year CaroThe tide turned sharply in the SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 8 goals a year ago — threatened to line Dwyer and the rest of the Penn second half, however, when Purce

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