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Men’s tennis hosted the Penn Invitational this weekend to some strong results, finishing first. Senior Jeremy Court helped lead the win, going 3-0 in singles while contributing to three wins in doubles.

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Powell-ing Around At the Quechee Club Invitational hosted by Dartmouth, Penn men’s golf finished sixth overall.

The most impressive part of the weekend came from senior Austin Powell, who shot four-under-par to finish first among 61 athletes.

Tip of the Hat Trick Entering Saturday’s match for Penn field hockey, senior midfield Alex Iqbal had just one goal on the season. However, Iqbal was the Quakers’ top offensive threat vs. Harvard, scoring three goals in Penn’s 4-1 defeat of the Crimson.

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Penn sprint football is off to its first 2-0 start since 2011 after a 36-19 win over Cornell.

The Quakers’ home opener featured plenty of big plays as senior running back Mike Beamish moved into third all-time on Penn’s rushing list. Next up for Penn is Navy, a team that handed them a loss last season.

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Both Penn men’s and women’s cross country headed to the Main Line last week and each had strong results, finishing with better team scores than local rival Villanova. Junior Elyssa Gensib finished second overall on the women’s side, as her squad took 2nd through 6th place.

Diorio on Defense >>>

One of the highlights of sprint football’s win over Cornell was a big defensive touchdown by sophomore Rob Diorio. Playing defensive back, Diorio recovered a fumble and brought it back for a touchdown, extending Penn’s lead before halftime.

67-yards of Fun

There weren’t many highlights for Penn football on Saturday against Villanova but senior running back Kyle Wilcox was one of them. With the Quakers down 34-0 in the early second quarter, Wilcox broke off a 67-yard TD run, giving Penn its only score of the game.

Corner(s) Pocketed

Penn field hockey had struggled on penalty corners for much of the season but that all changed on Saturday against Harvard. On three separate plays, three seniors — MaryRose Croddick, Emily Corcoran and Alex Iqbal — hooked up for goals in a 4-1 win.

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Awad as Always

If we asked you which men’s cross country athlete finished in the top three of last week’s invitational, who would you guess? Junior Thomas Awad of course. Awad finished in third while three other Penn runners finished in the top eight.

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It was quite the weekend for Corcoran. Not only did she assist on all of Iqbal’s goals on Saturday, she also added one strike of her own to give Penn the lead in the first half. On top of that, Corcoran scored two goals against Lafayette on Wednesday to lead Penn to victory.

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Cause of death is still undetermined, pending police investigation SARAH SMITH Senior Writer

Over 40 students gathered in Houston Hall for a support meeting led by Penn administrators Monday afternoon following the sudden death of College student Amanda Hu the night before.

“It’s a sad season here,” University Chaplain Charles Howard said. “It’s important to pull together.”

Hu, who was taking a voluntary leave of absence from the University, died in AMANDA HU her second-story bedroom College student on the 4000 block of Sansom Street late Sunday night. As SEE HU PAGE 5

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After the Chinese government announced that only Bejing-vetted candidates will be allowed to run in Hong Kong’s 2017 elections, protests have broken out in the city.

For the vast majority of the Penn community, the tumult is playing out across TVs and computer screens. But a few Penn students, and at least one recent grad, are witnessing the massive protests firsthand.

Engineering junior Trey Miller didn’t know he’d be getting a front seat to history when he first planned to study at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology this semester, but he joined the

thousands of demonstrators in central Hong Kong on Monday night.

“I went originally to observe and show my support for the Hong Kong people. But once I got there, I was drawn by the energy of the people and ended up right in the middle of the protest outside the Central Government headquarters,” he said via email.

Miller said he was shocked by the civility of the protestors when he showed up that evening.

“The people at the protest were very welcoming. Within 30 minutes, I had received free food, water, goggles and a facemask,”

CVS tobacco sale ban has minimal effects on Penn Local businesses are unsure whether the change has affected sales TINA CHOU Staff Writer

While CVS has decided that its stores will no longer sell tobacco products in order to promote health and wellness, Penn students and staff will most likely be unaffected by the change.

Over 70 percent of Penn students won’t be affected by this shift because they have “never used” cigarettes, while only 10.6 percent of students said

they smoked within the last 30 days, according to the National College Health Assessment survey.

But even for those who do smoke, the change — which went into effect in early September — will be minimal.

“I can understand that at Penn’s campus, not everyone is affected because there’s a Wawa every two blocks,” College senior Michael Griego, a frequent smoker, said.

At first the change was “really nice” for Griego because CVS sold the cigarettes at a

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For Penn Law adjunct professor Ken Trujillo, the most important change that needs to come to Philadelphia is education reform.

“We need to take ownership of our schools,” Trujillo said, referring to the fact that the state government controls large aspects of the Philadelphia School District.

“It’s not just a political issue, it’s about our next generations. Education is the difference maker in people’s lives.”

Improving the city’s education system is part of the reason why Trujillo decided he wants to be the next mayor of Philadelphia.

On Sept. 17 , Trujillo, a 1986 Penn Law alumnus, announced his candidacy for the city’s top position. Trujillo is the only Penn alumnus currently in the race; the other declared candidates are former District Attorney Lynne Abraham and former Executive

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Director of Philadelphia’s Redevelopment Authority Terry Gillen . Currently a partner at the law firm Schnader, Harrison Segal & Lewis, Trujillo previously served as City Solicitor of Philadelphia, where he represented the city in legal matters .

Trujillo said he chose to run for mayor because he wanted to move the city forward. “The people know that career politicians and bureaucrats will not change the status quo any time soon,” he said. “However, SEE MAYOR PAGE 2

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NYCEDC president talks infastructure

A New York City-based organization that is developing the world’s tallest observation wheel on Staten Island has Penn students on its radar.

President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation Kyle Kimball addressed a packed room of Penn students, including many from real estate clubs, on Monday evening to explain the purpose of the NYCEDC and its numerous job opportunities for soon-to-be graduates.

An organization dedicated to strengthening the economic situation of various neighborhoods in New York City through developing infrastructure, the NYCEDC works in roughly three lines of business: construction asset management, large-scale real estate development and consulting.

Although classified as a corporation, NYCEDC works for the city and reports to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Working

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Marijuana decriminalization: also a racial issue Q&A | The DP talked to former narcotics cop Clemmie Harris about pot HUIZHONG WU Staff Writer

Former narcotics cop Clemmie Harris sees Philadelphia’s upcoming decriminalization of marijuana as an important step toward reevaluating the role of marijuana in society.

Harris, who left the drug task force in New York to pursue drug reform policy at the state level as a senior aide to Governor David Paterson, now teaches students about politics, race and history as a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Africana Studies.

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Harris to talk about Philadelphia’s recent move to decriminalize marijuana and the racial issues associated with it — in Philadelphia, it has been widely reported that 83 percent of the arrests made for marijuana possession were of blacks and Latinos.

The Daily Pennsylvanian: What implication does Philadelphia’s decriminalization of marijuana have for drug policy in general?

Clemmie Harris: It has significant implications on drug policy because at the end of the day, drug policy really, at that particular level, serves what I call the types of quality-of-life issues that plague communities throughout urban and suburban America.

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na had historically been used as a way [to stop] a suspect for perceived actions or criminality of a greater nature, and [in] many of those cases, given the types of communities and the socioeconomic background of those communities ... the targets of such enforcement were often African American, Latino or other men of color who were from other struggling communities, largely throughout the nation.

DP: How do we explain the higher numbers of blacks and Latinos getting arrested?

CH: Part of that has to do with a type of profile of a culture of black and brown individuals, ... there is a preconceived notion that in black and brown communities you will find high consumption of marijuana. Certainly, some of this is triggered by images within pop culture — there are any number of hip hop videos that sensationalize the use of marijuana — but there is also a broader cultural ethos that perceives use of marijuana not only [as] non-threatening, but in many cases they perceive it to be therapeutic.

DP: What is this image of blacks and Latinos?

CH: The prototypical image certainly is one of the young African American, Latino, urban population from poor communities that are in fact not only engaged in consumption of marijuana but may in fact be lower level dealers as well. Now there is

an important distinction here, that overwhelmingly the individuals are not the producers, in many cases ... the producers of marijuana were not black, they were not Latino — they were white.

DP: When did marijuana become a public safety issue?

CH: It started to be seen as a public safety issue during the late 19th century when members of Congress were beginning to talk about the effects of drug consumption on mainstream Americans.

[They thought] Mexicans were responsible for the marijuana problem, members of the Asian community ... were responsible for the heroin problem and AfricanAmerican consumption of cocaine would make them highly lascivious, they would be more prone to raping white women and any man seeking to protect his home would find them impervious to a .38 caliber bullet. All of this racial imagery happening in the 19th century ultimately provided what was a real soft shoe landing for the broader issue, which was the fact that significant amounts of middle white America were engaging in narcotic consumption.

So the boogeyman, if it were, was not being placed on the most obvious consumers, it was being transferred to racialized groups that was deemed responsible for the deterioration of American society.

DP: How much discretion does a police officer have in making an arrest for possession of marijuana?

CH: Police have a significant amount of discretion, but the question here is really based off of what is the legal foundation of an arrest.

Legal foundations can be based off of as little as reasonable suspicion. Reasonable suspicion can be triggered by the smell of marijuana, [it can] be triggered by a marijuana cigarette. If an officer can articulate what he or she reasonably believed to have been a form of drug contraband, then he or she has the power to effectuate an arrest.

If you stop someone with a low level of marijuana, you may decide to use your discretion and give them a break, but that break is not free. That break may mean if that officer needs info on something else that’s going on, if a break is extended, it doesn’t mean you’re free and clear — it means that you in a very strange way, end up working for the officer in terms of providing information.

DP: When you were an officer, did you ever encounter instances where you saw these stereotypes coming into play?

CH: The vast majority of the police officers I’ve worked with are very good people. They are very hardworking [and] they are people who are extremely fair. This is not necessarily a cultural issue with regards to individuals. This is structural.

Another thing I would say is,

rarely did I come across someone who was a prototypical racist. We operate within the culture of colorblindness. Colorblindness is the refusal to engage in obvious forms of racial practices while allowing the structural disparities, the disparities that have come out of structural racism, to continue to move forward. As a society we have sort of adopted a colorblind notion.

DP: Is American then moving away from viewing marijuana as a public safety issue?

CH: I think there’s a movement toward the middle from the [conservatives] on the issue of marijuana and what that means is that there’s now more of an opportunity to have a discussion on the role of marijuana in American society. That does not necessarily situate marijuana as a safety issue, and I think that has very important implications on our society in general because of the ways in which marijuana had been so heavily racialized.

I do think the broader move to decriminalize these low degrees of marijuana forces society to think about what are more substantive ways of addressing this issue.

Editor’s Note: This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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my career is about taking risks and using innovations. I am not afraid to try new things.”

In addition to improving the city’s education system, Trujillo wants to make the city safer, as many Philadelphians are still concerned about crime everyday.

“Many people don’t feel safe, we need to do innovative things and use tech to enforce laws more effectively,” Trujillo said. One change he would hope to make as mayor would be to require police officers to wear video cameras that would record real-time situations, “enhanc[ing] the trust between the police and the people, and also mak[ing] it more effective to deal with crime.”

Trujillo also wants to provide more support to small businesses.

He mentioned the recently passed bill that created a Philadelphia Land Bank — which would turn vacant properties into sites for qualified small businesses — as an example of legislation he would seek to pass as mayor. “I am a small businessman myself, and we need to make it easier to do business in Philadelphia, including high-tech businesses and startups,” Trujillo said.

Kenneth Willman, chief legal officer of Russell Investments and a floor mate of Trujillo’s when they were both at Penn Law, is delighted to see him running in the mayoral race.

Trujillo was a “connector” between students at Penn Law, drawing them together for events and activities, Willman said.

He added that life with Trujillo at Penn Law was a “work hard, play hard” lifestyle, a slogan familiar to Penn students even now. In their free time, he said, “we would go hang out in Center City, or watch ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ in a lounge. Sometimes we watched a football game.”

Marc S. Berman, an attorney at Berman Law Office who was in the same Penn Law class as Trujillo, also praised his entrance into the mayoral race.

“Ken is a terrific man,” he said.

“He’s got the right qualifications, and he is sophisticated enough to know the important issues. He has also been involved in Philadelphia politics long enough to know what the constituents need.”

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discount in order to get them off the shelves more quickly. But with CVS no longer selling cigarettes, it is only a minor inconvenience for Griego, as he will just go to Wawa instead.

School of Dental Medicine student Iman Yazdanbod, also a frequent smoker, changed his routine as a result of CVS’ new policy. Instead of buying cigarettes at CVS, he now makes his purchases from the Fresh Grocer and at a small newspaper stand by the dental school.

While CVS’ decision has changed the cigarette economy on campus, local businesses are so far unsure whether the new policy has impacted their own cigarette sales.

A customer service employee at Fresh Grocer said that she noticed an increase in cigarette sales after the display moved to a more visible area behind and above the customer service counter. However, the display was moved a couple months ago, and the employee was unaware of CVS’ tobacco ban and unsure that it was a contributing factor to the sales increase.

At the Wawa at 36th and Chestnut streets, a manager said that she has not noticed dramatic changes in tobacco sales since CVS stopped selling cigarettes and that cigarette sales have always been very high.

The 7-Eleven at 34th and Market streets is attracting former CVS customers with larger tobacco advertisements, Student Health Service Health Educator Ashlee Halbritter said. Halbritter noticed that the signs were even larger than those for soda. However, she said that CVS’ ban sets a good precedent, as it is a “big win for public health.”

Removing tobacco products from CVS’ shelves eliminates the choice of buying cigarettes for customers in the store, Halbritter said. In that way, it’s similar to removing cookies from your house when you’re on a diet: If there are no cookies at home, you won’t be tempted to eat them, she said.

It turns the “healthy choice” into the “easy choice,” Halbritter said.

“By eliminating cigarettes and tobacco products from sale in our stores, we can make a difference

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in the health of all Americans,” CVS CEO Larry Merlo said in a press release.

The space behind the CVS counter is now empty of its usual array of cigarette cartons except for “The Last Pack,” which is offered for free. The Last Pack looks like a pack of cigarettes, but instead contains coupons and information to help smokers quit. CVS pharmacists also provide advice on how to stop smoking.

However, even though Griego has thought about quitting smoking multiple times, he said that CVS’ policy did not have a psychological effect on him.

“I know for me it’s not like when I smoke that I don’t realize that it’s unhealthy. I’m very conscious that it’s unhealthy,” Griego said.

Yazdanbod shared the same perspective and said that while he hopes to quit smoking, CVS’ ban on tobacco products does not make a difference on his habit.

However, he said that CVS’ new policy was setting an appropriate standard. Griego also supported the ban due to the irony of a pharmaceutical company selling cigarettes in addition to health products.

“It kind of makes sense to be honest,” Yazdanbod said. “At the end of the day, CVS is known to be a drug store. Smoking doesn’t really fit there.”

Penn graduate to launch sale of reusable, smashable coffee cup early next year Smash Cup raised over $120,000 from its Kickstarter campaign ALEXIS BLOCK Contributing Writer

Penn’s coffee-loving student body need no longer worry about carrying bulky reusable mugs, thanks to an alumnus’ collapsible cup startup.

Smash Cup, a New Yorkbased company co-founded by 2002 Engineering and Wharton graduate Ben Melinger, will launch its product in February of 2015. The startup will produce silicon cups which can fit in pockets or small bags. When the contents of the cup have been consumed, users can simply smash the empty mug against a wall and it collapses as easily as an egg cracks, Melinger said.

The company’s founders, inspired by the amount of paper waste accumulated in cof-

fee shops, sought to develop a more portable line of eco-friendly, reusable cups.

Melinger designed the product with a computer-aided design system, to which he was first introduced while at Penn.

“Originally [Smash Cup] started as a small side project when I was playing around with other CAD products.

It was kind of a hobby,” Melinger said. “We wanted to create a beautiful product that we would be proud of.”

Melinger was first introduced to 3-D CAD — computer-aided design — in an introductory mechanical engineering class at Penn. After graduating, he took a job in the consulting industry and eventually reengaged with computer-based product design.

Soon after production began, Smash Cup’s co-founders discovered that there were similar collapsible cups on the market, but none that were suitable for coffee — and none were completely leak proof. Smash Cup sought to fill those gaps.

“Our product is silicon rather than metal so it is certainly an improvement of others on the market,” Melinger said.

Melinger and his two cofounders wanted to attract a primarily urban population with the product — Smash Cup is designed to appeal to the sensibility of someone who loves drinking coffee but doesn’t have room to store larger, reusable cups.

Initially, Smash Cup was dated to launch in early October. Feedback from the Kick-

starter campaign led Melinger to delay production so that he could implement a microwave safe plastic.

Although the company has not yet generated revenue, it has developed a strong online presence at www.smash-cup. com and raised over $120,000 in funding from over 4,000 backers through its Kickstarter campaign.

At this point, Melinger does not yet have a clear plan of where he intends to promote or sell Smash Cup. In the future, he hopes that Smash Cup will be customized in red and blue to be marketed to Penn students and sold in the bookstore.

“When we go to universities, Penn will definitely be at the top of our list,” Melinger said.

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t’s become part of my wake-up routine. Shut off the alarm, roll over, check the weather.

Scroll through Facebook, make sure I didn’t miss any texts from last night and then finally — the part that makes the impending 10 a.m. lecture bearable — check Yik Yak. The app, an anonymous gossip forum that lets users post 200-character messages accessible to anyone in a one-and-a-half mile radius, has been the source of recent controversy. Last week, Atlanta police arrested a University of Georgia student who posted a Yak threatening to blow up a campus building. Days later, students at Colgate held sit-in protests inspired by racist Yik Yak posts. A Vermont college president put his foot down on Wednesday and banned access to the app, saying he’d received too many complaints about cyberbullying.

It’s easy to see why Yik Yak causes problems. Grant any group of kids carte blanche to post anonymously and you’re bound to raise a few issues. An unfortunate chunk of posts on the Penn Yik Yak are flat-out mean, from targeting specific people to making general snarky comments like, “those fourinch heels go great with that Jansport backpack for your 8

a.m.” These Yaks appeal to the worst in us — we should be above middle school pettiness. Colleges that ban Yik Yak don’t eradicate meanspirited ideas, they just take away one of its forums. We should be actively striving to address the motivation behind mean posts, but we

Yik Yak forces us to face the aspects of Penn we’d rather ignore.” shouldn’t curtail free speech.

But that’s only one side of Yik Yak. The majority of posts are a collection of random thoughts, from “Wawa is bae” to “Holla if you can’t understand your TA’s accent.” They allow us to bond over common elements of our daily lives at Penn — and in a school of 10,000, it’s refreshing to confirm that other people share your opinions and experiences. Plus, some of the Yaks are genuinely laugh-out-loud funny (my personal favorite: “College: Where condoms are free, but printing your homework isn’t.”)

More importantly, though, Yik Yak also forces us to face the aspects of Penn

we’d rather ignore. Maybe we have to be anonymous to feel comfortable calling attention to the lesser-discussed elements of Penn’s campus.

Yaks like “Penn is the school for smart kids who constantly need to counter their intelligence with binge drinking,” and, “Everyone on campus is a functioning alcoholic and it’s a beautiful thing” call attention to elements of Penn we accept without question.

It’s sad that we have to be anonymous to admit our imperfections, but I’m glad a forum like Yik Yak exists.

We spend so much time tailoring our other social media outlets to portray unrealistic versions of ourselves — is anyone ever as put-together as they seem on Facebook?

— that it’s nice to say what’s actually on our minds. Yik Yak lets us break the mold of the flawless Penn student.

On a campus where you’re constantly trying to live up to your LinkedIn profile, Yik Yak can be a welcome escape.

Yik Yak also has the potential to be a force for social change — maybe not on a huge scale, but at least at an informal level. It’s encouraging to see a Yak like “Contrary to popular belief, the best way to get to know females is to treat them like actual people” make it into

M DANI BLUM Penn’s hottest posts.

Yes, most Yaks are a lot more depressing, but they showcase a part of Penn that needs to be addressed, not silenced. There are as many posts about midterm stress as there are about people feeling marginalized by their race.

The way to combat these issues is to create a campuswide dialogue. Yik Yak allows us to start the conversation by demonstrating how prejudice fits into daily life at Penn. The app creates an opportunity we might not have otherwise.

Yik Yak can be a powerful tool if we use it correctly.

Let’s not ruin the app by giving into our worst impulses. I think that’s worth an upvote.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Tuesday.

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y fellow columnist, Katiera Sordjan, made a great point last week about how encouraging body positivity among women isn’t progress if it’s still focused on appealing to men. I’d like to take her point and go a little further.

I think the movement to universalize beauty — buoyed along by mantras such as “everyone is beautiful,” and “beauty is on the inside,” commercialized by Dove’s Real Beauty campaign and illustrated with thousands of Tumblr photos of uplifting quotes in curly font written across a sunset — is one of the most misguided attempts to fix a social ill a group of wellmeaning individuals has ever dreamt up.

Let’s start with the fact that universalizing beauty is a lie, and it’s not a lie that’s fooling anyone. Not everyone is beautiful. Beauty is a relative term. As such, for some to gain the label “beautiful,” others must lose it. Beauty, like cleverness and athleticism, is a spectrum, and there’s nothing wrong with appreciating particular beauty in

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY And that brings me to the proof that we have failed in our attempt to redefine the term “beautiful” — the fact that it’s exclusive to women. You don’t see men reassured that they are beautiful even if they don’t know it. It’s ridiculous to even imagine.

If this movement really were successfully making beautiful mean “smart” or “compassionate” or “competent,” men would want in on it too. But it’s not.

Rather, it’s doing an excellent job of distracting us from the harmful fact that beauty is the most valuable attribute a woman can have, while men are admired for other characteristics and skills before they are judged for their appearance.

And this might not be so bad if, in terms of things to be valued

Universalizing beauty is a lie, and it’s not a lie that’s fooling anyone. Not everyone is beautiful. Beauty is a relative term. As such, for some to gain the label ‘beautiful,’ others must lose it.” others. If everyone is beautiful, the term is meaningless.

This is fairly obvious , which is why when we say “everyone is beautiful,” that’s not really what we mean. What we’re going for is something more along the lines of “everyone deserves to be valued,” and if we can agree that everyone is beautiful, it’s not such a problem that we value people on the basis of beauty.

And that’s what is so wildly off the mark about this movement. Rather than fixing a problem, it tries to convince us that the problem is not there. Rather than calling beauty what it is — a shallow criterion of worth — it imbues it with new and special powers.

Not only can beauty now exist entirely undetected by its possessor — “you don’t know you’re beautiful” — but it also has the power of invisibility — “inner beauty.”

Rather than stripping beauty of its unwarranted value-giving power, the mainstream body positivity movement has maintained beauty’s position as the primary currency of value for women — but it’s kicked it up a notch.

Not only is beauty the best thing a woman can have on the outside, but also the best thing she can have on the inside, too.

for, beauty is one of the worst.

For one, it’s not something that can be earned. A woman is born pretty or she’s not, so “beautiful” says nothing about her personality, values or competencies. Further, beauty fades with time. Unlike the pursuit of knowledge or professional success, beauty is a downhill march for the majority of our adult lives. People are largely powerless to change their looks, which is why disproportionately applying beauty standards to women is disempowering.

The intent behind the movement to tell every woman she is beautiful is good, but it isn’t working and we don’t need it.

The problem is not the fact that some people are better looking than others.

The problem is that we live in a world where the idea of saying a woman isn’t beautiful is so unthinkable that we’ve tried to redefine beauty itself. The only thing that needs to be redefined is its place on our list of priorities.

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY is a College senior from Millersville, Pa., studying philosophy. Her email address is wsophia@sas.upenn.edu.

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beautiful” still promotes the idea that beauty is the ultimate determinant of value for women

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wo weeks ago, a group of young men and women savagely beat a gay couple in Center City. The attack, which left one of the gay men hospitalized, reportedly began with the group calling out homophobic slurs. Three suspects have now been charged, and while we don’t know all of the details yet, one thing is clear: This was violence motivated by hate.

But no one will be charged with a hate crime.

Here at Penn, it’s easy to see a thriving LGBT community and think that we’ve won the battle for equality. But if you look beyond campus, even just to the city around us, it’s clear that we still have a long way to go.

Pennsylvania is one of just 14 states with hate crime laws

GUEST COLUMN BY PENN DEMOCRATS that do not include protections for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Hate crime protection increases the severity of charges for violence motivated by malicious intent, and these laws protect the people in our community who are the most vulnerable.

It is inexcusable that the LGBT community is not protected.

Pennsylvania did include protections for violence motivated by gender and sexual orientation beginning in 2002, but in 2008 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down these provisions on a technicality. It’s time to get this vital law back on the books.

Only 18 states prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and Pennsylvania is not one of them. This means that here in our own state,

there’s nothing to stop an employer from firing an employee based solely on their sexual identity.

There are bills in the State House and Senate to end this discrimination, bills that even Governor Corbett supports, but they are not yet law. We have to push our state legislators to pass these bills and ensure that employers can’t discriminate based on whom their employees love or which gender they identify with.

Fortunately, we’ve made strides on the national level — a majority of the population favors same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and Congress repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

But here in Pennsylvania we still have a long way to go.

Even though a federal dis-

trict court finally brought marriage equality to Pennsylvania in May, we have a governor who compares same-sex marriage to incest and a state legislature that refuses to protect its citizens. Until that changes, we’re relegating an entire segment of our population to second-class citizenship.

But it’s going to take more than new politicians to fix deeper social problems. It’s going to take a culture shift led by proud activists. It’s going to take our generation’s support, time and effort, or we won’t see any real change. And we have to see change, because this is an issue that affects our generation disproportionately.

In the workplace, only five percent of LGBT workers age 18 to 24 are “out” about their sexual and gender identity, compared to 32 percent

of those age 35 to 44, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Because they’re younger and less established in the office, many in our generation likely feel pressured to remain closeted, hiding a part of their identity from their coworkers and peers.

And just getting into that workplace is more difficult for young LGBT activists. A recent Equal Rights Center study sent two resumes to 100 companies — “Michelle” was less qualified and listed either environmental or women’s rights activism, while “Jennifer” was more qualified and listed her LGBT activism.

Even though Jennifer was more qualified, Michelle was invited to interview more frequently.

The LGBT applicant was 23 percent less likely to receive a call-back. This kind of discrim-

ination is deep-seated and can’t just be fixed with legislation.

We all must take an individual stand against these unacceptable biases.

The bottom line is this: No one should be denied the most basic protections solely because of outdated hate and prejudice.

On election day, it’s up to us to make sure our lawmakers share our values and our commitment to social justice and equal rights for every member of our community. Staying silent is not an option.

PENN DEMS is a studentrun political organization dedicated to promoting progressive political values on and off campus through dialogue and action. They can be reached at info@penndems.org.

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Improving a directory of Penn groups SONIA SIDHU Staff Writer

You may no longer have to rush to return a lockout key.

The Undergraduate Assembly is working towards increasing the number of hours a student can keep a lockout key. At their Sept.

28 meeting, the UA discussed changing the lockout key policy and the structure of Groups Online @ Penn, a database of student groups.

Lockout Key Currently, when students forget their key in their room, they can get a lockout key from their College House office for one hour, or they are charged a fine of $25.

HU

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of Monday afternoon, the cause of death was pending investigation, Philadelphia Medical Examiner spokesperson Jeff Moran said. He deferred further comment to the Philadelphia Police.

So far, Philadelphia Police have declined to comment on a cause of death and are still investigating the incident. However, there is no sign of foul play, University spokesperson Steve MacCarthy said in a statement Monday morning.

The police report said that there were two letters left on Hu’s desk, one to her family and one to her mental health doctor at Penn. The letters “appeared to be suicide notes,” according to the police report.

Most of Monday’s support meeting focused on resources for students grieving Hu’s death.

University staff members from Counseling and Psychological Services, Student Intervention Services and the Office of Stu-

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he said. “There were first aid stations scattered throughout and people insisting I take a towel to wipe sweat as they misted us with cold water.”

Wharton junior Vera Kirillov was also at the Central Hong Kong protest on Monday. She too was taken by the politeness and calmness of the large crowd.

“With so many thousands of mostly young people gathered, I assumed it might be a little more chaotic, but the fact that so many people were all combining for the same cause and helping each other out by bringing provisions was a powerful thing to see,” she said via email.

Kirillov also took a facemask, though it was simply a precautionary measure that neither she nor Miller needed that evening, as riot police were not present.

As the media has widely reported, though, the site of the protests was not always as peaceful.

Anjali Tsui, a 2013 College graduate and former Daily Pennsylvanian editor, works as a producer for CNN International in her native Hong Kong. She has been on the scene since protests began earlier this month. Tsui witnessed the violence on Sunday evening as police used pepper spray and tear gas on the crowds.

“Hong Kong is generally known as a really peaceful statecity. So even the protestors were really surprised that the police deployed to control the crowd,” she said.

However, she too witnessed the peaceful scene on Monday evening. While coordinating an interview with CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour and one of the movement’s leaders, Tsui saw a backdrop of thousands of protestors, holding their phones out and singing in unison. According to Miller, this was meant to be “symbolic as a sea of light against the darkness of brutality.”

The magnitude of the scene was captivating for Tsui.

“As a journalist it’s my duty to remain objective when covering the protests. I need to respect both sides, especially when we are recording,” she said. “But I couldn’t help but feel moved by the thousands of people at the site. It was pretty spectacular to see just regular Hong Kong people — young, old, rich, poor — in the hopes that their demands for democracy would be heard by

UA Representative and College junior Robyn Saad met with the Residential Services Advisory Board and discussed extending the time of the lockout key.

Initially, the UA wanted to extend the time to 24 hours so that students do not feel as rushed.

However, after RSAB advised that 24 hours may be too long, Saad is now advocating for six hours.

The project is still in its early stages and the UA general body was split over the decision to extend the time. UA Representative and College freshman Rahima Jamal said that she uses lockout keys occasionally and that extending the time would make her more likely to forget to return the

key.

UA Representative and College sophomore Kat McKay advocated for extending the time, adding that students may have extenuating circumstances that prevent them from returning the key within the hour.

Groups Online @ Penn UA Representative and College sophomore Marc Petrine updated the UA about a project to increase student group publicity via Groups Online @ Penn. For certain organizations, students can sign up for listservs and figure out who board members are by viewing the Group Online profile. Students can also fill out a profile so that the program can suggest groups based on their in-

terests.

Currently, Groups Online is not being used as well as it could be, Petrine said. He commented that not all groups are on the interface or use it to interact with students. He hopes that the tool can serve as a comprehensive list of the clubs on campus and help students, especially freshmen, navigate the clubs at Penn.

Petrine met with Associate Director of Activities Rodney Robinson from the Office of Student Affairs and commented that Robinson was receptive to the idea of changing the model.

Going forward, the UA hopes to revamp Groups Online but is currently unsure what the next step will be.

dent Affairs, encouraged students to reach out to them or to one another to help deal with their grief.

Sharon Smith, the director of Student Intervention Services, said all students should have received emails from their schools about the death. But as students were filing out, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie SwainCade McCoullum motioned for students to stop and said that not all students received an email notice. Hu’s home school, the College of Arts and Sciences, has not sent an all-school email, although the Wharton School and the School of Nursing had sent emails to their undergraduate students by early afternoon.

The decision to host a memorial on campus will be left up to Hu’s family and friends.

Hu, 20, grew up in the suburbs of Charlotte, N.C., and had been involved in Penn Model Congress, Penn for Youth Debate and Penn Science Across Ages.

In a 2012 article naming her one

of 10 “Seniors of the Year,” Hu told The Charlotte Observer that she was interested in developing cancer cures by thinking of the disease as a “puzzle.” At Penn, Hu worked in a biochemistry lab.

“Every time scientists come up with a novel idea or fact, [the puzzle] changes,” she said to the Observer. “I think because cancer is a disease that is able

to adapt, we have to constantly think of ways to attack it.”

If Hu’s death is ruled a suicide, it will be Penn’s sixth student suicide since August 2013.

Last semester’s round of student deaths led Penn President Amy Gutmann to form a mental health task force, which will present its ideas to students in the coming weeks. The task force’s final report is expected in early 2015.

the international community.”

And the cries for democracy are being heard around the world.

Though Hong Kong is more than 8,000 miles away from Philadelphia, the conflict reverberates through campus for Penn students from the region. College sophomore Natalie Au feels close to the events taking place so far away.

“I wish I could be there with my friends and the other students right now to join the movement,” she said. “But all I can do here is hope for everybody’s safety and wait anxiously to see Beijing’s response.”

Au added that she is trying to organize events on campus “to offer a platform for students to ask questions and discuss the biggest unrest going on in [Hong Kong] in decades.”

Protest leaders will be deciding their next step on Oct. 1, China’s National Day. Regardless of what the outcome will be, Tsui agreed with Au about the magnitude of the events currently taking place.

“This is definitely the most chaotic scene that Hong Kong has seen, at least in decades,” she said.

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NYCEDC works to reinvigorate neighborhoods of New York City that have fallen behind in economic development in recent

years. Kimball said that NYCEDC tries to consider “how to link people with places” and really figure out the economic situation of a neighborhood. It is important to think intentionally and consider resiliency in New York City, especially after the economic crisis of the past decade and the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, Kimball said.

In addition to the Staten Island observation wheel — which Kimball described as a giant Ferris wheel — recent NYCEDC projects include the new Luna Park on

Coney Island, the Applied Sciences NYC engineering college and the beautiful Harlem River Park.

Applied Sciences NYC was a major project started by NYCEDC in order to meet the increasing demand for engineers within the city’s expanding businesses.

During the event, Kimball stressed that before joining NYCEDC, he “never felt like he really cared about his work.”

He encouraged attendees that no matter where their career paths led, they should care about what they do.

United By Blue brings coffee and apparel to Walnut Street For every product sold, UBB will remove one pound of trash from local waterways SOPHIA WITTE Staff Writer

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travels to New York, Washington and elsewhere to develop professional contacts at magazines, newspapers, publishing houses, broadcast networks and online media. The winner receives unparalleled access to a growing network of Penn alumni in various media who can assist in the student’s professional development.

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Thanks to a new store coming to campus, the next jacket you buy might help clean Philadelphia waterways.

United By Blue, an ecofriendly coffee shop and apparel store, will open next week on Walnut Street between 34th and 36th streets. In addition to selling outdoor apparel, UBB will give people a new place to go enjoy organic coffee, tea and food.

UBB will be filling the space vacated by Artisserie Chocolate Cafe in August of 2013.

Plans for UBB’s opening in University City began this summer. According to UBB spokesperson Jen Singley, the store is

trying to open its doors as soon as possible next week.

UBB started in 2010 as a company that exclusively sold T-shirts made of organic cotton.

The business has grown to offer various types of apparel that are sold wholesale to over 300 stores across the country.

The company only has one other flagship store and coffeehouse so far. Opened last September, the first UBB store is also located in Philadelphia on 2nd Street in Old City.

“It’s nice to now be coming to a place with a lot of students and innovative thinkers who are progressive in the way they buy and the things they consume,” Singley said.

UBB runs its stores based on a “one for one mission” — for each product sold, the company removes one pound of trash from oceans and waterways through local cleanups.

This past Saturday, UBB hosted a cleanup at the Delaware River where they removed 6,220 pounds of trash in less than three hours. The company leads local cleanups the first Tuesday of each month. Across the country, UBB also partners with the companies that sell its apparel to host these cleanups.

“We want to connect each sale to a concrete, measurable impact on the environment,” Singley said.

With the environment at the forefront of its philosophy, this business “supports Penn’s goals in sustainability,” said Ed Datz, the executive director of real estate at Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services.

“We think this retailer is an extension of the types of ‘green’ businesses we have already set up on or near campus, such as HipCityVeg and Sweetgreen,” Datz said.

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From mental blocks to exhaustion, Erin Foley talks reducing greek life stress BRIGITTE DESNOES Contributing Writer

Professional campus speaker Erin Foley emphasized that happiness should be a “manner of traveling,” playing on the words of author Margaret Lee Runbeck.

On Monday evening, nearly 100 sorority girls gathered to listen to Foley present a talk entitled, “The Triple S: Self Recovery, Stress Reduction and Strength Building” in an event in Bodek Hall hosted by the Penn Panhellenic Council.

A day after the death of College junior Amanda Hu, the event began with a moment of silence.

Foley outlined three key problems — mental blocks, workload and exhaustion from avoiding issues — that, especially in an environment like Penn’s, can create and aggravate stress.

In discussing mental blocks, she addressed what she called “reptile brain,” the part of the brain which is the source of constant thoughts perpetuating a negative self-image. She urged students to both recognize

the patterns of these negative thoughts and to question them.

Foley opened up about the difficulties that affected her own college years.

“My college experience was not the best four years of my life,” Foley said. After suffering from anxiety for many years – specifically, from her understated perfectionism, she said — Foley finally addressed her issues and at the same time discovered her love of helping others conquer their problems.

Foley left her job as a pro-

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In addition, she emphasized the importance of pursuing goals for the sake of oneself and not for others. She defined strengths as when passions and interests meet talents, and explained that “what we focus on grows” — the opportunities that people pursue will lead to many more in turn.

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This week at Penn in 1997, 50 physicians fought for the right to test an experimental and potentially lethal AIDS vaccine on themselves at the National Institutes of Health.

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Senior Jeremy Court got his final campaign for Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis off to a strong start at last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Penn Invitational. The 2012 second-team All-Ivy selection won all three of his singles matches, defeating opponents from St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Yale in straight sets and taking down a Penn State player in three sets.

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Last weekend, the Quakers dominated the third annual Penn Invitational, capturing 29

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Fellow newcomer Josh Pompan, a Salinas, Calif. native, turned heads with a perfect 4-0 singles performance over the course of the tournament. Pompan won three of those matches

in straight sets, with only St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Freddy Ruiz Acevado pushing him to a third set tiebreaker on Friday.

Overall, the Red and Blue went 10-7 against their Ancient Eight opponents, which is especially heartening given the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2-5 performance against League foes in the 2014 spring season.

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there is any coach in the Ancient Eight who can take a group from the brink of disaster to the promised land, it is Bagnoli.

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through a similarly forgettable 33-point loss at the hands of No. 4 New Hampshire.

So when you look at the big picture, Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss to Villanova isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the end of the world, but it sure should be the end of a one-sided rivalry that has frustrated Penn for the last 15-plus years.

But the 41-7 loss isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the end for the Red and Blue. Bagnoli and his crew will regroup. He and his staďŹ&#x20AC; will work with each player to identify and correct the mistakes of the last two weeks. Ultimately, the team should be better for it.

If the Quakers can just remember what gave the team conďŹ dence going into the season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; before the losses and before the numerous Villanova touchdowns â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they can compete with anyone in the Ancient Eight.

At the end of the day, if Penn can avoid dwelling on a bad loss, it might just ďŹ nd itself in the win column next week when the games start counting.

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THE BUZZ: IVY ROUNDUP

Yale football upsets FBS opponent Army in overtime

BY STEVEN TYDINGS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ While Penn football struggled against Villanova, the other seven Ivy League squads were in action with varying degrees of success. Let’s look at the rest of the Ancient Eight.

Yale shocks Army in overtime, 49-43 — Well, raise your hand if you saw this one coming. No one raising their hands?

Good. This was a shocker. Yale became the first Ivy team since 1986 to beat an FBS opponent as Army came to the Yale Bowl to renew an old rivalry thanks to the Yale Bowl turning 100 this year. The Elis ralied from a 14-point deficit early in the second half to hang with the Black Knights before exchanging touchdowns in the late fourth quarter.

An Army missed field goal ended regulation and the Black Knights missed another one on their first drive in OT. From there, senior running back Tyler Varga, who rushed for 186 yards, scored his fifth touchdown to clinch Yale’s first win over Army since 1955. The Elis will play their first Ivy game on Saturday against Cornell.

Harvard defeats Brown, 2214 — The Crimson were with-

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work is done before the ball is hit,” she said. “It’s about reading the play, reading the set and the pass from the other side, before the ball is hit.”

As a freshman, Friedler is facing the same struggle that nearly all Division I athletes go through —transitioning from being a star in high school to playing on a team packed from top to bottom with former high school standouts. But Carr has been more than pleased with Friedler’s early showing.

“Emmy is probably one of the most coachable players I’ve had at the libero position,” Carr said after Friedler’s 13-dig performance against Dayton.

“She comes in willing to listen

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wins in both. Dating back to October 2 of last season against Drexel, Penn has won three consecutive matches against Philadelphia schools. In addition, the Quakers are 21-4-0 all-time against the Hawks, the last meeting a 5-1 win for the Quakers in 2011. Penn has won its last eight outings against Saint Joe’s, the last loss coming in 1995, and over the past eight meetings, Penn has outscored the Hawks, 29-4.

Penn’s substitutes: Penn has shown that it has considerable depth in its lineup. Freshman midfielder Austin Kuhn and sophomore midfielder Levi Levenfiche, for example, will surely remember each of their debuts as each scored in the second half to propel Penn to a 2-0 win over University City neighbor Drexel at Rhodes Field back on Sept. 5. Coach Rudy Fuller will surely be looking to continue utilizing his bench on the road to future wins.

Three Down A hot St. Joe’s: The Hawks have gotten off to very hot start this season, standing at 5-13 overall. Their .722 winning percentage marks the program’s best start through the opening nine matches of a season since 1993. In their last seven matches, the Hawks have gone 4-0-3, which is the program’s longest span without losing a match in 41 years. Also, the five wins in 2014 tie the most in a season during the five years of head coach Don D’Ambra’s tenure.

Bobby Edwards: Freshman goalkeeper Bobby Edwards has been outstanding for the Hawks this season. Last week, Edwards made nine saves and posted two clean sheets in a 1-0-1 stretch to be named the Atlantic 10

out starting senior quarterback Connor Hempel due to injury and were forced to go with junior QB Scott Hosch. However, the junior proved himself on Saturday evening, leading the Crimson from behind in the fourth quarter to win its first conference game of the year.

Hosch went 24-for-34 passing the ball, throwing for a touchdown and running for one later in the game. Paul Stanton ran for 120 yards on 12 carries while junior receiver Andrew Fischer made 12 receptions for 115 yards. The Crimson head to Georgetown next week while Brown will look to regroup against Rhode Island.

Princeton demolishes Davidson, 56-17 — This was the Princeton football we’ve come to expect after last year. The Tigers returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown and never looked back. Senior quarterback Quinn Epperly ran for four touchdowns and was 15-for-18 passing, pacing a Princeton offense that simply could not be contained. Epperly accounted for 294 yards combined between passing and running, while Princeton’s offense accumulated more than 400 yards in total.

After a disappointing loss to San Diego last week, this win gives the Tigers momentum

going into their first Ivy game next week against Columbia.

No. 4 New Hampshire takes down Dartmouth, 52-19 — This one was ugly, to say the least. The Big Green stood little chance against such a highly ranked opponent on the road and it showed after a close first quarter. Junior quarterback Dalyn Williams threw for two touchdowns but was limited to just 108 yards passing. Dartmouth will now face Penn in each squad’s first Ivy game.

Cornell falls to Bucknell, 20-7 — The Big Red have scored just 19 points on the season and Saturday against the Bison was not a shining offensive performance. Freshman quarterback Jake Jatis threw for a touchdown but also had two interceptions and just 102 yards throwing the ball. The Big Red will continue to march past the Jeff Mathews era next week against Yale.

Columbia smacked down by No. 24 Albany, 42-7 — Have no fear Penn fans: there was an Ivy team with a worse loss on Saturday. Columbia scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter but by then, the Lions had already given up 35 points and were well on their way to defeat. They will ride a 13-game losing streak dating back to 2012 when they come home to

and get better with every game ... I’m starting to see her take more of a leadership role with the passing and the defense, and people are starting to trust her.”

If assuming a leadership role so early in her collegiate career hasn’t been a problem, what has been Friedler’s biggest adjustment? According to Penn’s new defensive anchor, it’s the schedule.

“Only having a couple games a week, and really focusing on those teams all week, and getting the scouting reports so early, it’s different from high school, where you’d have four or five or six matches a week,” she said. “It’s a really big adjustment, to spend a full week of practice prepping for one team.”

As for the expectations,

Friedler views Shepherd’s legacy as a blessing, not a curse.

“I had seen her play a couple times, she was awesome. She had set such a standard for defense on this team, and for going all out, and so it was really cool to step into that culture of going hard on defense every day. [That culture] was already present from her, so it was really cool to be able to help fill that role.”

Friedler says that her main personal goal for her first campaign is to get more comfortable with her teammates.

However, if her performance through the first dozen games is any indication, Friedler has already commanded the respect of her fellow Quakers, and Penn may have once again struck gold at the libero position.

Conference Co-Rookie of the Week and Philadelphia Soccer Six Rookie of the Week. This is the third Soccer Six honor of the freshman’s collegiate career thus far. Edwards owns a 3-0-3 record to go along with a Soccer Six-leading 0.32 goalsagainst average and .917 save percentage. The rookie currently ranks fifth nationally in GAA and seventh in save percentage.

Nonconference/non-city play: After the match against Saint Joseph’s on Tuesday, the Quakers are looking at the start

of Ivy League play, with seven of their last nine regular season games scheduled against conference rivals. So far, the team has struggled against its nonconference and non-Philadelphia opponents. Admittedly, most of these teams have been highly ranked. The Quakers, however, will look to use the lessons learned against these highly competitive and highly ranked teams when they shift their efforts to their Ivy opponents beginning on Oct. 4 against Cornell.

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With an FBS opponent — the Army Black Knights — visiting the Yale Bowl for its 100th anniversary, Yale senior running back Tyler Varga had one of the best games of his career, rushing for five touchdowns, including the game-winner in overtime.

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Men’s tennis hosted the Penn Invitational this weekend to some strong results, finishing first. Senior Jeremy Court helped lead the win, going 3-0 in singles while contributing to three wins in doubles.

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At the Quechee Club Invitational hosted by Dartmouth, Penn men’s golf finished sixth overall.

The most impressive part of the weekend came from senior Austin Powell, who shot four-under-par to finish first among 61 athletes.

Tip of the Hat Trick Entering Saturday’s match for Penn field hockey, senior midfield Alex Iqbal had just one goal on the season. However, Iqbal was the Quakers’ top offensive threat vs. Harvard, scoring three goals in Penn’s 4-1 defeat of the Crimson.

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Penn sprint football is off to its first 2-0 start since 2011 after a 36-19 win over Cornell.

The Quakers’ home opener featured plenty of big plays as senior running back Mike Beamish moved into third all-time on Penn’s rushing list. Next up for Penn is Navy, a team that handed them a loss last season.

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One of the highlights of sprint football’s win over Cornell was a big defensive touchdown by sophomore Rob Diorio. Playing defensive back, Diorio recovered a fumble and brought it back for a touchdown, extending Penn’s lead before halftime.

67-yards of Fun

There weren’t many highlights for Penn football on Saturday against Villanova but senior running back Kyle Wilcox was one of them. With the Quakers down 34-0 in the early second quarter, Wilcox broke off a 67-yard TD run, giving Penn its only score of the game.

Corner(s) Pocketed

Penn field hockey had struggled on penalty corners for much of the season but that all changed on Saturday against Harvard. On three separate plays, three seniors — MaryRose Croddick, Emily Corcoran and Alex Iqbal — hooked up for goals in a 4-1 win.

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Awad as Always If we asked you which men’s cross country athlete finished in the top three of last week’s invitational, who would you guess? Junior Thomas Awad of course. Awad finished in third while three other Penn runners finished in the top eight.

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It was quite the weekend for Corcoran. Not only did she assist on all of Iqbal’s goals on Saturday, she also added one strike of her own to give Penn the lead in the first half. On top of that, Corcoran scored two goals against Lafayette on Wednesday to lead Penn to victory.

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Penn strikes gold at libero, once again VOLLEYBALL Friedler fills in Shepherd’s big shoes

BY TOMMY ROTHMAN Contributing Writer Over the summer, the libero jersey — and the keys to Penn volleyball’s defense — was turned over from one of the nation’s best defensive specialists to a freshman from a small town just outside of Chicago.

Emmy Friedler, one of coach Kerry Carr’s prized recruits, has filled in admirably for the recently graduated All-Ivy libero Dani Shepherd in her first month with the Quakers.

Friedler leads the team by a wide margin with 140 digs through 37 sets of play. The freshman also ranks third in assists with 14 and aces with five. She is quick to dive on the floor to keep a ball alive, and equally quick to pop up

and play out the rest of the point.

“That’s why I recruited her,” Carr said. “Her willingness to just throw her body everywhere inspires people.”

Friedler’s apparent disregard for her own safety might make a casual observer cringe when she dives to save a would-be kill, but pain is the last thing on her mind when the ball is coming her way.

“It’s just kind of like second nature to me,” she said.

“When I was younger, it was kind of hard to train that, but now that I’m older and I’ve been playing for so long, and I’ve even learned to dive in ways so it doesn’t hurt so much ... it’s just natural for me now.”

But the key to success at her position, Friedler asserts, comes well before the ball is smashed her way.

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The Quakers may have lost a key defensive presense in the graduated Dani Shepherd, but freshman libero Emmy Friedler has filled in admirably.

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t was obvious on Saturday at Franklin Field that Penn football shouldn’t be playing Villanova. That much is clear.

Based on Penn’s preliminary schedules for the next few years, it appears that the rivalry will come to its logical conclusion after next season’s matchup, with Villanova coming off the schedule and Central Connecticut State joining the ranks of opponents in 2016.

But instead of asking what should be done about Penn’s rivalry with Villanova after Saturday’s result, it is more appropriate to focus on the rest of 2014 and what the 41-7 drubbing at the hands of the Wildcats means for the Red and Blue moving forward.

For a young team, confidence can be everything — and confidence may be tough to come by after two straight losses, one by 34 points. It won’t help that the Quakers have to make a seven-hour bus trip to Dartmouth before facing a team that basically missed out on an Ivy title last season because of a missed field goal or two.

Adding insult to injury is the fact that senior captain and linebacker Dan Davis is questionable at best for the game against the Big Green since he suffered a concussion against Villanova.

So is all hope lost for the Red and Blue? If you look at history, certainly not. It was just two years ago that Penn started out 0-2 and looked hapless against John Robertson and Villanova before a light clicked on in the team’s collective head when it traveled up to Dartmouth.

No, this 2014 squad isn’t that same 2012 team. To paraphrase former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino, Billy Ragone is not walking through that door. Brandon Copeland is not walking through that door. Nor are any number of the countless players who played big roles in that championship turnaround.

But in all the turnover between two years ago and now, there is still one true constant: coach Al Bagnoli.

Bagnoli isn’t a cure-all. He can’t go out and replace Davis. He can’t cover Dartmouth’s big-play receivers or personally contain Big Green quarterback Dalyn Williams. But if

Coming off of a 6-2 loss to No. 7 Penn State last Wednesday, the Quakers (3-4) will face crosstown rival Saint Joseph’s today at 7 p.m. at Rhodes Field. If Penn can top the Hawks, who are entering the match with a 5-1-3 record after a scoreless tie with NJIT on Saturday, the Red and Blue will secure the “Philadelphia Soccer Six” championship outright.

Three Up Duke Lacroix and Alec Neumann: Senior forward Duke Lacroix and sophomore forward Alec Neumann enter the game

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against St. Joe’s leading the Quakers in points with 10 apiece, a total tied for second in the Ivy League. Lacroix enters the match riding a four-game point streak — tying his career-long.

Lacroix’s 55 points earns him a rank of sixth all-time by a Penn player. Neumann has points in his last three matches, also tying a career-long point streak. He has also proven to be very consistent for Penn, with 24 points in 25 appearances — an average of 0.96.

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