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La Casa Latina director will retire after a decade at Penn He announced his retirement on Sept. 20 CELIA KRETH Staff Reporter

Johnny Irizarry, who has been director of the La Casa Latina cultural center for the past decade, is retiring in April.

Irizarry started working at La Casa about 11 years ago, after spending several years as a community organizer in Philadelphia. In addition to his work with La Casa, Irizarry teaches an Academically Based Community Service course under the Latin American and Latino Studies Department. He will

continue teaching at Penn after stepping down from his post as director. “I sincerely feel that the success of La Casa Latina is due to Penn’s amazing students and yes, the people at La Casa Latina across the years that have supported them,” Irizarry wrote in an email to The Daily Penn-

sylvanian. Irizarry declined an interview because he said he did not “feel comfortable with interviews of any kind.” Students who know Irizarry called him “el abuelito” — Spanish for “the grandfather” — for La Casa, College sophomore Diego Caceres said. Losing Irizarry will be like

“losing a piece of [La Casa’s] heart because he’s given so much of his own life,” College senior Lisa Romero said. She has worked with Irizarry as internal affairs chair of the Latinx Coalition. Romero said Irizarry’s care SEE LA CASA PAGE 3

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Penn Spectrum Weekend centers on intersectionality Alumni, students gathered over three days for the conference JONAH CHARLTON Staff Reporter

Over the past three days, the University hosted Penn Spectrum Weekend, where hundreds of alumni and students gathered on campus to celebrate and reflect on diversity and intersectionality. Penn Spectrum Weekend is a triannual conference, first held in 2010, that focuses on cultural identity and intersectional issues faced by the black, Latinx, Native, Asian, LGBTQ+, Muslim, and first-generation, low-income communities at Penn and in the United States. The programming incorporated how current events and the Trump administration policies impact these communities. On Oct. 5, Penn President Amy Gutmann gave the opening remarks and said the Penn community is at its best when it is at its most diverse, urging the community to “stand up and speak out on our values to make a positive difference in the world.” The weekend’s main session, titled “Civil Rights in the Populist Era,” featured a panel including Pennsylvania state

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The conference was held in Huntsman Hall, with over 150 students attending.

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(Left to right) Marc Lo, Camille Charles, and Laronda Thompson discuss cultural identity and intersectional issues faced by the black, Latinx, Native, Asian, LGBTQ+, Muslim, and first-generation, low-income communities.

representative and 2004 School of Social Policy & Practice graduate Movita Johnson-Harrell. The panel discussion, moderated by Perry World House’s Deputy Director LaShawn Jefferson, centered on the

current civil rights climate and policies created by the current administration from workplace discrimination of LGBTQ+ people to gun violence and the lack of action to prevent mass shootings and murders. The “inter-

connected nature of these vices,” Jefferson said, was a core theme of the panel and the weekend as a whole. “We’re all here in this comSEE SPECTRUM PAGE 8

PennDesign offically renamed Stuart Weitzman School of Design A bust of Weitzman was also unveiled at the event GORDON HO Staff Reporter

Penn Design was officially renamed the Stuart Weitzman School of Design on Thursday night, with Penn President Amy Gutma n n a nd Weitzma n attending the naming ceremony outside Meyerson Hall. T he ceremony took place a m id cont roversy su r rounding the University’s decision to rename the school after current design graduate students sharply criticized the renaming.

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Provost Wendell Prichett, President Amy Gutmann, and Stuart Weitzman unveiled the design school’s name, featuring Weitzman’s bust.

St udents had cr it ique d Weit z m a n , a fa sh ion ic on a nd 1963 W h a r ton g r a duate, because h is profession as a designer is not related to any academic program offered at Penn. They also said they were frustrated over the lack of transparency and student input throughout the process. During the event, Gutmann spoke about the importance of Weitzman’s contr ibution and emphasized that the designer would maintain a constant presence at the school in the future. While alumni at the ceremony SEE WEITZMAN PAGE 8

Penn Med researcher studies dangers of vaping Frank Leone researches tobacco dependency HAWTHORNE RIPLEY Senior Reporter

Pulmonary researchers at Penn Medicine are investigating the health complications of vaping in an effort to tamp down the growing number of hospitalizations for lung-related injuries in recent months. The national outbreak has focused attention on the potential dangers of vaping and has even prompted policy responses from

schools and the federal government. Frank Leone, a leading pulmonologist at Penn Med, said vaping does not break addictive habits and is not a healthy alternative to cigarettes, based on his patient work and ongoing research on tobacco dependence. Leone, who is the director of Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program, conducts research on vaping that involves clinical trials with patients, identifying targets for pharmacotherapy, and implementation work a im ing to challenge assumptions made by doctors and patients about

dependence. “You’re not really transitioning away from the smoking behavior,” he said. “Smoke is the vehicle for nicotine. You’ve changed the vehicle, but you’re still delivering nicotine to the brain, and all the connections that led you to smoke in the first place are still alive and well.” Based on his research with tobacco dependence, Leone said users cannot simply quit vaping after learning about health complications. “Nicotine won’t let that decision sit easy in your soul,” he said.

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“Instead of charging exorbitant prices for faculty, alumni, students, and other community members, the Penn Athletics administration ought to have kept the old system in place.” PAGE 4

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Leone said the idea that electronic cigarette aerosol is healthier than smoke has always been an assumption based on the “mental shortcut” that since cigarettes are toxic, a “vapor” alternative will be safer. Instead of “vapor,” Leone uses the word “aerosol” to clarify that vapes do not contain water vapor, but rather a complex mix of several dangerous chemicals. “The lung doesn’t really care that you’re not exposing it to smoke anymore if what you’re exposing it to is also toxic, and there SEE VAPING PAGE 3

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Black Ivy League Conference stresses need for diversity in recruitment Speakers talked about the importance of diversity in businesses NINA WEI Staff Reporter

At the Black Ivy League Business Conference last weekend, speakers talked about the power of diversity in corporate business and the power of resilience. The conference, which took place in Huntsman Hall, was attended by about 150 students across Ivy League schools. The annual conference, which is hosted by Black Wharton Undergraduate Association, began in 2016 and aims to connect minority students with elite professionals in the fields of finance and consulting, according to the conference’s program. This year’s conference focused on “the power of you” and featured speakers who are mostly Penn graduates working in corporate businesses and other young Ivy League graduates in tech and business industries. The keynote speaker, Mandell Crawley, who is the head of Private Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley, began his speech by giving a brief introduction to the company and answering questions about the need for embracing diversity across elite corporate firms. Morgan Stanley is working to bring “more diverse, talented people into [its] programs” and that the current generation is the “answer to the diversity problem,” Crawley said. “Adversity does not discriminate. If it comes and knocks at your door, you’ve got to have the ability to overcome it,” he said. “You can say life is unfair, but in the end you have to have a substantial amount of resilience because of the reality we face being black and brown in this society.” Following the morning keynote, the conference broke into three small panel discussions led by young graduates from the Ivy League universities who worked at large companies such as Morgan Stanley, Bain & Co., and Facebook. The graduates talked about what it was like working at each company and answered questions from the students. The afternoon events focused on networking opportunities such as a lunch, a career fair, and more panels from “Young and Black” in Corporate, Finance, and Tech speakers. Wharton sophomore Zahra Barrow, the co-chair of Special Events of the conference and a member of Black Wharton Undergraduate Association, said it was important for students to have opportunities like the conference to network. “It is important to build collaborative skills,” she said. “One of our goals of the conference is to show students how to find mentors, show them how other peers and professionals have done it, and how they could build a community wherever they go.”

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Penn program lets students analyze election polling data Poli Sci prof. John Lapinski founded the program ISABELLA GLASSMAN Staff Reporter

A Penn program gives students the chance to work directly with election polling data ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies, run through Penn’s Political Science department, chooses student fellows each semester to work with faculty on projects related to political outcomes research. Known as PORES, the program was founded by Political Science professor John Lapinski, who is also director of the Elections Unit at NBC News. Capitalizing on Lapinski’s connection, some PORES fellows in past years have had the opportunity to visit NBC News

on election night, making predictions and crunching data at the decision desk. Current fellows hope to have opportunities to do so as well in the 2020 primaries and elections. College sophomore Grayson Peters said he began working as a PORES fellow last spring, working with Lapinski to analyze presidential primary data from the past five election cycles. He hopes to continue his work as the presidential primary elections begin this spring. “I think that the opportunity to work with researchers who are not only at the top of their field privately at a research institution, but are also employed by a major news corporation is an opportunity that’s unparalleled at any other university in the country,” Peters said. “There’s no school in the country right now that is in a similar

position where they can bring their students with them to really contribute and they have the skills to do it,” Lapinski said. Having highly involved professors can also lead to challenges, including changes to course scheduling due to political events. While Lapinski’s “Applied Data Science” course is usually offered in the spring semester, this year it is offered in the fall because Lapinski and his colleagues will be working closely with NBC News next spring to cover the presidential primaries. PORES Director of Operations Andrew Arenge said the only change this brings is that it requires students to look ahead and plan their courses accordingly. Lapinski said he founded PORES to create an interdisciplinary option for students SEE PORES PAGE 3

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Skimmerfest headlines courtship. and zack villere The event took place on Shoemaker Green KEELY DOUGLAS Staff Reporter

Students enjoyed free food and a concert at Skimmerfest, an annual event celebrating the first home football game of the season on Oct. 4. A joint effort from the Social Planning and Events Committee, the Class Boards, and Penn Athletics, Skimmerfest took place on Shoemaker Green and featured three musical acts as well as games and giveaways. Unlike previous years, the Skimmerfest committee, made up of students from SPEC and the Class Boards, chose to feature two headline artists — courtship. and zack villere — instead of one. courtship., a duo from Los Angeles, is “very summery, pop, [with] an upbeat kind of vibe,” said College junior Helen Zhang, who is the Skimmerfest committee head and SPEC secretary. “Skimmerfest is usually in September so it would typically still be usually summery and warm, so we wanted to find an artist that was sunny, [with] happy pop music.” zack villere, a bedroom pop artist, was the second headliner. Skimmerfest committee talent director and College senior Chris Mountanos explained that the committee initially approached courtship. but found afterwards that they had surplus budget, allowing them to hire an additional performer. Mountanos, who is also the vice president of SPEC, added that the committee hoped the diversity in their music styles would bring more students to the event. “With an additional artist for the concert, we can appeal to a wider audience because were are

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A joint effort from the Social Planning and Events Committee, the Class Boards, and Penn Athletics, Skimmerfest took place on Shoemaker Green and featured three musical acts as well as games and giveaways. Students at Skimmerfest ate at the different food trucks present, including Mister Softee’s.

pulling from three very different genres,” Zhang said. “You might not be into the bedroom pop, but you might be into courtship.” “I kind of feel like there is a thing for everyone at Skimmerfest this year,” she added. Following in the tradition of previous Skimmerfests, the event also featured a student opening act from rap artist NiSPLASH. To find the student opener, Mountanos said, the committee sent out an application form to students across campus asking them to submit clips of their music. Mounta-

nos said the committee was already familiar with many student bands from Spring Fling’s daytime performances and other events. “NiSPLASH is one of the artists that we knew about who usually gets a pretty big audience,” Mountanous said, adding that this was a significant factor in their decision. The event also featured giveaways and food trucks, as well as games like corn hole, inflatable axe throwing, and air hockey. At the beginning of the event,

students clustered around the food trucks, particularly Nina’s Waffles, Mister Softee, and the Tot Cart. Several students waiting to enter said they were walking by and decided to join and get free food even though they did not know in advance that an event was happening. “I have some friends who were going,” College junior Whitney Barrett said, “I checked the email I didn’t know I received and decided to come.” By the time zack villere began his set at 5 p.m., more

Penn professor discusses Penn’s historical connections to slavery Prof. Kathleen Brown spoke about U. ties to slavery KATIE BUSCH Staff Reporter

History professor Kathleen Brown discussed her research on the history of slavery at Penn and the United States at a Philomathean Society event on Oct. 3. During the talk, Brown discussed the work done by the Penn & Slavery Project to reveal Penn’s historical connections to slavery, arguing that the most significant ties were through the School of Medicine. She also highlighted some of her research on the connection between gender and slavery in North America. The event was part of the Philomathean Society’s Professor Tea program, which gives Penn faculty informal opportunities to share their ideas with the public. The Penn & Slavery Project is a student research group that started investigating the University’s ties to slavery in 2017. The students discovered that over 75 former Penn trustees owned slaves, a professor was compensated by the University for work done by his enslaved person on campus, and Penn led fundraising expeditions that solicited donations from prominent slave owners and traders. Their research led the University to form a working group to address Penn’s ties to slavery, reversing the University’s 2016 denial that Penn was directly involved in slavery. After reviewing this research, Brown turned to focus on the Medical School’s connections to slavery. “What people who are in the undergraduate program in the Arts and Sciences don’t realize is that the College was a pretty tiny and insignificant part of Penn until the 20th century,” Brown said. “The vast bulk of the students and the wealth of the university was the medical school until

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History professor Kathleen Brown discussed the work done by the Penn & Slavery Project to reveal Penn’s historical connections to slavery.

about the mid-19th century.” During their investigations, Brown said, Penn & Slavery Project members found that a significant portion of early medical students were southerners who benefited from slavery and, once they earned their degrees, went on to practice “plantation medicine,” or the work of keeping slaves just healthy enough to be productive laborers. Many early Medical School professors were also proponents of “race science,” the theory that there is a biological difference between races that justified slavery. Brown cited the example of Samuel Morton, an 1820 Medical School graduate who used the skulls of enslaved people to argue that there were inherent differences between the brains of black and white people. The Penn Museum still holds Morton’s cranium collection today. Racial biases in medicine persist today, she said. People are often told they are at risk

for certain complications because of their race “regardless of their individual habits,” she added. “They’re being told that because of race that they have better or worse chances of carrying pregnancy to term, that they’re more likely to have c-sections,” Brown said. “There are all kinds of things that have come out of [race science] that still haunt people to the present day.” In the future, the Penn & Slavery Project plans to release an augmented reality tour that will allow people to explore Penn’s ties to slavery in different areas of campus. People will be able to scan codes outside pa r ticula r buildings with their phones and see short videos about the University’s connections to slavery. Possible stops include the Medical School and the Quad, which contains a statue of slavery advocate George Whitefield and halls named after slave holders. Brown said she hopes the tour will be

ready for public release in the coming spring. Engineer ing sophomore Ariana Kyimpopkin, an archivist for the Philomathean Society, said she was particularly interested to learn about the tour. “There’s a lot of talk about digital humanities and how you can bring technology into the humanities and specifically history,” Kyimpopkin said. “That seems, to me, like a perfect example of something you can do to combine your history knowledge and someone’s technical expertise.” College sophomore Mariah Van Sciver, an attendee who is currently enrolled in one of Brown’s classes, said she enjoyed learning about tangible work that Penn & Slavery Project student researchers are doing. “It’s nice to hear from people who are doing the work and to see a functional way that students can enact change,” she said.

people had filled Shoemaker Green until there were more than 100 students there. A cluster of about 20 students stood at the edge of the stage to watch the performance, while the rest formed small groups at the picnic tables and along the wall by the entrance. “It’s weird. I don’t know who I’m talking to,” Villere said, addressing the small crowd in front of him. “You’re right here, but there’s all this empty space out there with some people, and I don’t know if I’m talking to them. I guess not.”

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are lots of mechanisms of potential lung injury and toxicity that were never really considered when these products were first introduced,” Leone said. Leone said the rapid spread of vape-related health complications have followed a trajectory similar to any “infectious epidemic,” where the vague symptoms could easily have been mistaken for other issues like pneumonia prior to widespread recognition. Other factors in the current outbreak could be vape usage rising in leaps and bounds among young people over the past few years, as well as evolution in the physical attributes of aerosol in vapes such as their chemical makeup, Leone said. Some Penn students said ecigarettes have followed their age group from high school to college, where Juuls remain a pervasive element of social life. “I think vaping is pretty common among Penn students, and I feel like the younger they are the more likely they are to vape,” Engineering sophomore Rachel Pellegrino said. “I definitely think it’s safer than cigarettes, but I don’t think that makes it safe at all,” Pellegrino said. I n Sept emb er, C a mpus Health hosted half a dozen undergraduate student focus groups on vaping, with the

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for everyone at La Casa shows, as he even takes special care of the house plants. Sociology Ph.D. student Angie Ocampo said she admired him for bringing “a perspective of a broader community” because of his extensive “experience working elsewhere in Philadelphia.” When Ocampo wrote a paper on undocumented students in college, she said Irizarry helped connect her with sources. 2019 Master of Public Administration graduate Danny Pérez, a 2016 College graduate, has known Irizarry since his time as an undergraduate student.

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enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences to immerse themselves in data without being engineers. “There’s a talented group of Penn undergraduates that made decisions when they were 16 years old that decided not to go into a school of engineering but still have lots of interests in the data sciences,” Lapinski said. “We thought we needed some other way to bring students back into that world that was not through the School of Engineering.” In addition to the fellowship, PORES offers a m inor in Su r vey Resea rch a nd Dat a Analytics. The minor was introduced in 2016 and includes courses in American politics, survey research, and statistical computing in R. According to the PORES website, it is “one of the fastest-growing minors on campus.” W hile the POR ES program focuses primarily on social sciences, it teaches skills that can be generalized to other areas. Political Science professor Matthew Levendunsky said the minor gives students skills in statistical programming, surveying, and drawing conclusions from data that can then be applied to other fields like business and marketing. “Because of our academic interests we tend to focus more on political work related to polling, elections, [or] campaign analytics,” Levendunsky said. “But it’s the same skills that might take you to different types of data.”

goal of learning about student perception of Juuls and other vapes, according to the Campus Health website. The focus groups did not require volunteers to have personal experience with vaping. The focus groups aimed to “gather information about students’ understanding and perception of vaping and vape products,” according to the website. Campus Health did not respond to multiple requests for comment on an update about the focus groups. W ha r ton jun ior K r isten McLaughlin said she sees more people Juuling on Penn’s campus than any other type of vaping. According to a 2018 Forbes article, Juul was on track to generate an estimated $1 billion in sales, which was up more than 300% from the year before. Leone said while patients at Penn have been treated for vaping-related health complications, none have been students of the University. Leone added that Pen n students who are having unexplained respiratory symptoms — a cough that does not go away, shortness of breath running up steps, or unexplained wheezing — should visit Student Health Service to evaluate whether vaping is the cause. “Nobody is going to force them to stop vaping if they don’t want to, but they should also have all the information available,” Leone said.

He said Irizarry is always able to find a solution and “bring a smile” to everyone’s faces. He described the director as “super self-aware of everything.” When College senior Cinthia Ibarra first met Irizarry while visiting Penn as a senior in high school, she said his inviting nature stuck out to her. After she enrolled at Penn, Ibarra worked closely with Irizarry as chair of external affairs for the Latinx Coalition. Ibarra said he is “an amazing individual [who’s] rare to find,” and that she did not know “if everyone truly understands just how much of his life Johnny puts into the community on campus.”

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Access to squash courts must remain free for students MONDAY OCTOBER 7, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 44 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor ALICE HEYEH Print Director BEN ZHAO Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor MANLU LIU News Editor MAX COHEN News Editor DEENA ELUL Assignments Editor DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor

he newly renovated Ringe Squash Courts, set to open on Nov. 9, will now charge fees, a measure that will effectively prohibit some squash enthusiasts from making use of the new facilities. In order to continue to work towards a community that provides equal opportunities for all students and endeavors to better engage with the Philadelphia community, Penn must reverse this decision and open up the renovated squash courts without fees, as they have operated for years. Donors contributed over $15 million in funding for the renovations that created these state-of-the-art squash courts. Some benefactors, however, believed that their support would contribute to facilities operating under the same payment policy as before. Instead, West Philadelphia community members, alumni, faculty, and even students are now required to pay hourly fees to use the court. The magnitude of these fees will depend on whether they are using them at “peak” or “offpeak” hours. Previously, the courts were free for students, while non-students could use the courts for a few hundred dollars annually. Squash, a sport that is inextricably associated with private schools, country clubs, and elite social circles, used to be entirely accessible to Penn students, even those who may not have had access to the sport previously. This

new payment system strengthens the frequent criticism of classism against the University in its relationships with students and the greater Philadelphia community. This concern is not unfounded — almost a fifth of all Penn students come from households in the top 1% of income in the United States, and only 3% of students come from the

Previously, the courts were free for students, while non-students could use the courts for a few hundred dollars annually.”

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bottom 20%. Enforcing fees at the Ringe Squash Courts is classist and does not represent the purported values of Penn as an institution striving towards egalitarianism.

While some students at Penn may have years of experience with squash, others likely have not had the opportunity to play until coming to Penn. Squash courts that are open to the public are rare, and many schools, particu-

larly public schools from which many Penn students hail, often do not have them either. Ringe could be a unique space of equal access, benefiting students who are newly able to access the sport and benefiting the squash community by opening up an underappreciated and uncommon sport to new players and communities. Instead of charging exorbitant prices for faculty, alumni, students, and other community members, the Penn Athletics administration ought to have kept the old system in place. Penn has acquiesced somewhat and lowered costs for students, but the magnitude of the fees is not the issue: 1979 College and Wharton graduate Bruce Marks compared paying for these facilities to paying to go to the library. It is still free to study in Van Pelt or Fisher Fine Arts — as the donors who contributed to their construction intended — and for Penn to truly continue to work towards becoming an institution of equals, regardless of wealth and privilege, the same principle must apply.

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t 6:45 in the morning, while r ushing to get back to Penn’s campus in time to shower, change, read the required Spenserian stanzas before my British poetry class, and get to work by 9 a.m., the last thing I expected to feel was at ease. Hopping into an Uber, the driver immediately greeted me with a smile and a question, “How’re you feeling?” This unexpectedly intimate opening to conversation was exactly what I needed in the moment — the reassurance that I was being seen. Uber drivers have absolutely no obligation to provide this to their customers, yet how many times have you had a friendly or pleasant

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conversation with one? Many Uber drivers work a full-time job and drive students like us around in the time before or after working another job. It is a job worthy of respect just like any other, so we need to stop treating them like assistants, and more like people with lives, histories, and bills to pay. How many times has a friend told you they got into an Uber insanely drunk, been disruptive or rude, or even gotten sick in the back of a car? Not only are Uber drivers responsible for their own car maintenance and insurance, but many drivers have recently gone on strike to denounce their low wages and lack of benefits. Seeing as the

I was startled that I had never considered how draining her job must be, let alone the other aspects of her life that require care and attention. Being a mom seems difficult enough without working two jobs. But when one of those jobs requires the shuttling of drunk college students to and from parties in the early hours of the morning, I can’t fathom the amount of patience she must have. That’s why we need to be more cognizant of how we treat people who some might automatically assume are just a service. A simple “thank you” at the end of a ride might seem unnecessary considering you paid for the ride, but that doesn’t mean it’s not appreciated by the person who gave it to you. I’m a firm believer in the idea that everyone deserves praise for working hard. Navigating the difficult streets of Philadelphia’s rush hour seems pretty dang hard to me. Penn students don’t like to walk, and I’ve had many Uber drivers regale tales about crazy nights, trying to find their drunken Penn student to get them safely home. But that’s the key — these people, who aren’t supported by their company

SOPHIA DUROSE and often go out of their way to make rides comfortable for us, get us to and from locations safely. That’s worth an extra dose of respect, an extra “thank you so much,” and some extra consideration next time you think you might puke in someone’s backseat. Penn students are lucky to have this service available, so let’s respect those who help us out. SOPHIA DUROSE is a College junior from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email address is sdurose@sas. upenn.edu.

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company they work for already creates barriers to a lucrative working environment, we need to be conscientious consumers of the service they provide and stop being obnoxious. “What do you do with the extra cash you make driving Uber?” a guy asked the woman driving our shared Uber after she said she worked full time as a local security guard. She looked in the rearview mirror and calmly said, “Sir, I have two kids in college and a double mortgage to pay. It’s not extra money. It’s just money.” She went on to explain that she works doubles on the weekends — clocking out of her day job at 5 pm and immediately turning on her Uber app, patrolling the streets in a different capacity for another six or seven hours. “I’m exhausted by the end of the day. But then I have to wake up and do it all over again. When you’re a mom, you don’t have a choice.” But when you’re a Penn student, chances are, you do have a choice. You can choose to be respectful to the hard-working people who often listen to our drunken charades.

y mom g raduate d from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. Her love for Penn is the reason why I had Penn sweatshirts before I could walk, why she would drag us to TEDxPenn every year, and why getting into Penn was one of the most exciting moments of my life. When I decided to attend Penn, my mom was ecstatic. The excitement and pride she felt because I was going to attend her alma mater are best represented by the high school graduation pictures of me wearing her vintage Penn sweatshirt. To this day, her weirdly sea-green, slightly stained Penn sweatshirt, in the XXL size popular during the late 80s, remains one of my favorites. But upon arriving at Penn, I was met with a much different reality. I quickly learned that telling people, “Oh yeah, this sweatshirt belonged to my mom when she went here,” was not a good conversation starter. Rather than initiating a discussion about why Penn ever sold that color sweatshirt in the first place, it revealed to everyone around me that

HERE’S THE TEA | We need legacy admissions I was a legacy student. Suddenly, my family’s joy over me attending the same school as my mom wasn’t seen as a strength. It marked me as someone who made it into Penn the easy way. So, instead of embracing my Penn heritage, I hid it. But we need legacy admissions. Top universities and colleges like Penn consider legacy status because they understand the important role legacy plays in contributing to their brands. Like it or not, colleges are run like businesses: the goal is to be the most prestigious, a title bestowed on those with the best students, the largest endowment, and the highest rankings. So yes, a student with a prestigious family name is particularly desirable not only because of the clout associated with their name, but also because of their potential philanthropy and the establishment of the Penn legacy within their family. By accepting these students, Penn reinforces a narrative of prestige all within the context of a Penn education. In short, go to Penn and you too will gain wealth and prestige.

That said, legacy is just as closely tied with a school’s spirit and community as it is with its prestige. It is the families with three generations of Penn alumni who show up for football games, pose for pictures in front of the LOVE statue with their children, donate money to express their gratitude for a Penn education, and ultimately hope to send their own kids to Penn after them. That may be you in 30 years. While I myself might not carry a particularly prestigious last name or have donated a new library, I still burst with pride over attending the same school as my mom. It is this pride that drives my mom back to Penn every year with her freshman year roommates to see Penn Masala shows and throw toast at Homecoming games. And it is that same pride which Penn needs for its brand: the type of pride that drives its successful alumni to come back and reinvest in their school. If you’re a non-legacy student reading this column, you might be angry. Of course, this girl can talk about legacies being relevant; she may not

even be a student at Penn without her legacy status. This is the crux of the negativity regarding legacy students on campus. But this sentiment extends beyond Penn’s campus. Speaking at Penn, Malcolm Gladwell joked that Penn did let in “slow” students because they let in legacy students. His comment may have been just a lame attempt to solicit a laugh from the crowd, but for those of us who are legacy students, it was a joke at our expense. Whether or not you believe legacy should be considered in admissions, it will maintain a firm presence on Penn’s campus. Legacy is part of the fabric at elite institutions. For all of us already at Penn, we are creating our own legacy right now, one that will be passed on to our families, regardless of whether you’re a first-generation student, or the fifth generation to attend Penn. No more hiding for me. I’m the one in the sea-green Penn sweatshirt. Yes, I am a legacy student. Yes, my mom attended Penn. And yes, in the future, if my kids have the opportunity to attend Penn as well, I will send them off with as great a

AGATHA ADVINCULA sense of achievement as my mom did. If you want to label me lesser because my legacy may have contributed to my acceptance, so be it. But in 15 years, don’t hang a Penn pennant in your kid’s room, don’t buy them a Penn sweatshirt, and definitely don’t tell them to apply to Penn. AGATHA ADVINCULA is a College sophomore from Brooklyn, N.Y. studying Health and Societies. Her email address is agathaa@sas. upenn.edu.

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or all of the cr iticism Penn gets, our campus is undeniably nice. As I’m sure many of you knew when applying, Penn is a rare kind of university, located both in the heart of a major American city and with the luxury of a campus that usually does a pretty good job isolating its students from the millions of people living around us. It’s easy to look down Locust Walk, say “the trees look pretty!” and walk away. For many students, that would be a good approximation of the thought we give to our collective campus home during our years here.

But our growing 300-acre campus came from years of strife and cultural rifts between our school and city. As Penn students, we must confront our shared past and use it to inform our present actions to attempt to cultivate a healthier relationship with our neighboring communities. Penn did not start on 34th Street. Only in 1872 did Penn actually move to West Philadelphia, where the campus remained small for decades. But this changed rapidly. Taking advantage of ‘50s era government “urban renewal” programs, Penn convinced officials

to raze a whole neighborhood, (called “Black Bottom”) forcing over 5,000 mostly black residents out of their homes. Like much of America, the Penn of today was built on the grounds of people removed by force. By replacing lines of local small businesses with a block of book storage, Penn threw much of the economy and life of an entire neighborhood to the curb. This change was a catalyst for the sour

When we focus on the possibilities of a job in New York or Silicon Valley, it can be easy to overlook where we are right now.” taste Penn has left in the mouths of many Philadelphians, and it makes us the modern-day torch bearers of our school’s quasi-colonial past. To Penn’s credit, the University has tried to improve their relationship with the city. Previous Penn President and native Philadelphian Judith Rodin created the West Philadelphia Initiative with programs such as clean-ups and neighborhood i m p r ove m e nt s. Penn is the largest private employer in the city, and Penn’s doctors will treat any patient that comes in the door. Penn's efforts, however, have fallen short. Penn remains a visible bubble of wealth in the poorest big city in America. According to The New York Times, 58% of Penn students come from families in the top 10% of national income, while the Pew Charitable MELANIE HILMAN Trusts finds that

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nearly 26% of Philadelphians are below the poverty line. This economic divide is only exacerbated by Penn’s refusal to pay Payments in Lieu of Taxes. Many Philadelphians (understandably) do not see Penn as a reflection of their city, but as a community for people not like them, on their land. But what can we do? In short, get off of this campus and go work for the community! In doing research for this column, I found that Penn does not release numbers of how many students are involved in community service. But if past Daily Pennsylvanian articles are any indication, Penn students are not involved much off campus. This is depressing because our involvement in our Philadelphia community is critical in shifting the narrative in a new direction. Without students showing they care about their neighbors, the people of Philadelphia have no reason to believe we've grown from our tainted past. This could be a reflection of our pre-professional culture. When we focus on the possibilities of a job in New York or Silicon Valley, it can be easy to overlook where we are right now. It is easy to see how ECON 101 could help a career in business, more difficult to see the value of helping a middle school student with their algebra during midterm season. But by tutoring that student, you not only cultivate patience and a different outlook on life, you

ALFREDO PRATICÒ also give that student a positive impression of Penn. Maybe they pass their test. Maybe they apply to Penn their senior year. Maybe they become a freshman and write this column to convince you to see your neighbors differently and to share your time with them. As Penn students, we must break the old narrative with a new story. While we are the products of a University which forever changed a neighborhood, we are also modern-day carriers of Ben Franklin’s idea for a university which enriches and serves its community. If you feel passionate about being of service to the West and greater Philadelphia community, look to Penn resources such as Civic House and the Netter Center. Volunteer at a local community organization or take an Academically Based Community Service Course. Learn more about and listen to the people you interact with. Remember your individual role in this tapestry, and attempt to present a new, caring, and honest Penn. ALFREDO PRATICÒ is a College freshman from Philadelphia, PA. His email address is pratico@sas. upenn.edu.

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A Penn professor spoke about how anti-drinking ads reduce binge drinking among college students in a talk on Thursday. C om mu n ic a t ion p r ofe s sor Emily Falk presented her findings from her research group, which discovered that focusing on the unnerving information in anti-smoking and binge drinking ads led subjects to significantly decrease their smoking and drinking habits. The event was the first Center for Neuroscience & Society Public Talk of the 2019-2020 academ ic yea r. Through this lecture series, the center aims to highlight

specific issues in neuroscience and their social implications. This year, the public talks will focus on neuroscience research performed by Penn students and faculty. Annenberg School for Communication lecturer Em ile Bruneau was originally scheduled to deliver Thursday’s lecture but had to withdraw due to unforeseen circumstances. Falk spoke instead, describing several studies that tracked brain activity as participants watched health messaging ads in a functional MRI study. One of the studies Falk presented tracked the drinking habits of a group of 57 Penn students after they watched antibinge drinking public service announcements, she said. Some of the participants were told to think about the health dangers

of drinking while watching the ads, while others were told to think about the flaws in the ads. A control group was told to analyze the ads neutrally. Falk said her research group found that the group who thought about the health dangers of drinking reported having fewer drinks than the control group in the weeks following the study. Those who thought about flaws in the ads, however, rated the ads more critically and tended to report drinking more in the weeks following the study. The Public Talk Series is now in its eighth year. Center for Neuroscience & Society Program Manager Sue Yue Chen said that while she handles the administrative work of the lecture series, Director Martha Farah chooses the speakers for

each school year and sends invitations during the summer. Chen said the public talks are geared towards a wide audience, even people without a background in neuroscience. “We try to make the theme every year really interesting to people, especially to people who might not be neuroscientists,” Chen said. She added that members of the center work with each speaker beforehand to make their lectures more “approachable and accessible” to non-scientists. College junior Julci Areza, an undergraduate fellow at the Center for Neuroscience & Society, said she found Falk’s lecture accessible and enjoyable even though she does not have an intensive background in human neuroscience. Areza noted that while she usually

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greeted the renaming and asso ciat ion w it h Weit z m a n, cur rent design students expressed opposition. The ceremony took place T hu rsday a fter noon in the open space in front of Meyerson Hall, which will now be known as the Stuart Weitzman Plaza, Gutmann announced. “This shared space will be a true homage to the transformative power of design,” G u t m a n n s a id . “ It w i l l embody Stua r t’s connection with the Weitzma n School while enriching our campus for the entire Penn community. This is a ver y central part of our campus.” Penn tr ustees approved a resolution marking the transfor mation of the School of Design in February, Gutmann said.

“ Wit h h is ext raord i na r y support of Penn and his ongoing, deep engagement with our University, the author of that transformation is Stuart Weitzma n,” Gutma n n sa id. “The new signage will prominently display the Weitzman School’s proud new na me. And in the months and years to come, we know Stuart will be a frequent visitor to Penn and to the Weitzman School. But in between visits, we still want a version of Stuart with us.” At the ceremony, Gutmann revealed a bust of Weitzman. In a speech, Weitzman said design is a fabulous element to incor porate into people’s l ives, b e cause desig n i mproves people’s imagination — no m at t er wh ich f ield people enter. “ It w i l l enc ou r a ge you to ta ke adva ntages of r isks rather tha n shy from them,

and those r isks actually a re what moves t he world forward,” Weitzman said. A lu m n i a nd st udent s at the ceremony disagreed with each other with regards to the school’s new name. W h i le t he na me cha nge is p osit ive, t he e ducat ion offered and the enhanced opportunities that students will get from the school are more important, said Jeffrey Fine, a 1978 School of Design graduate and a current member of the Board of Overseers at the School of Design. Fine Arts graduate student David Joh nson sa id rena ming the school to the Stua r t Weitzman School of Design is con f usi ng. Joh nson sa id Weitzman is associated with fa sh ion d e sig n , but t her e a re no fash ion design pro grams offered at the graduate school. City Planning and

Landscape graduate student Ca r i K rol sa id t he school should have done a better job at being tra nspa rent dur ing the renaming process. Jill Sablosky, 1979 School of D e s ig n g r a d u a t e a n d a cu r r ent memb er of t he Alumni Board of the School of Design, sa id t he money Weitzman donated can provide scholarships for current and future students. Weitzman is impor tant to Pen n in ma ny rega rds, Sablosky sa id, because of h is prolific career in shoe design. “Shoes are very important for all of us. All of us in the civilized world wea r shoes because we walk on concrete a nd h a rd s cap e,” Sa blosk y said. “Without good shoes we are in trouble. If we were to live out on the grass or on the dirt, we’d be fine. So creating all the shoes is our foundation as a two-legged creature.”

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munity together and supporting one another and we all care about these issues deeply whether we’re apart of that community or not,” said Elise Betz, who is the executive director of Alumni Relations. “This is always a place, a safe space [alumni] can come back to and we will continue to work on these issues as the Penn community.” The event was organized by Alumni Relations as well as Marvin Rocha, director of Penn Spectrum programs, and PSW co-chairs 1991 Wharton graduate Eric Apple, 1993 Wharton and College graduate Mireya Kam, and 2018 College graduate and 2019 SP2 graduate Nayab Khan. They chose topics based on “what was talked about last time and what’s going on now,” Apple said. The various breakout sessions focused on the #MeToo movement, masculinity, fairness in college admissions, and Penn’s role in gentrification in West Philadelphia. Attendees were able to connect with other alumni and students on the first day of the conference through social networking events at Penn’s various cultural centers. On Oct. 5, the evening program included an address from Provost Wendell Pritchett and speeches from various

alumni, including 2018 College graduate David Thai. Thai first spoke alone on the stage, and was later joined by family, friends, and mentors as he mentioned his support system as a first-generation, low-income student. “I wanted to showcase my experiences being first-generation, being low income,” Thai said. “I wanted students from underrepresented, marginalized backgrounds to know that they are not alone and there are alumni of Penn who have been and are still growing through it.” “I want them to recognize that loneliness, that ostracization doesn’t always have to be permanent,” he added. PSW concluded with an award brunch on Oct. 6 that honored Kusum Soin, the founding member of the PanAsian American Community House who retired after more than 18 years working with Penn students. Soin won the Cora Ingrum Impact Award for her contribution to Penn. Event organizers said they hope attendees take the ideas discussed at the conference into their lives outside of Penn’s immediate community. “Diversity is an essential part of the Penn education and experience,” Kam said. “This is a great way to promote it and to encourage the discussions and changing of ideas on diversity.”

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Penn was without wide receiver Ryan Cragun, who led the team in receiving by a wide margin after two games. Missing his explosiveness hurt, and the offense felt onedimensional and stagnant. Dartmouth was ready for the barrage of screens and runs Penn tried, and the offense didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deviate from that plan until late in the fourth quarter. Outside of the final three minutes, the Penn offense wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just losing, it was passive. Missed opportunities plagued the offense. One play in particular stands out. In the first quarter, just after Dartmouthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first score, Penn ran an identical play. A play-action wheel route left Brooks wide open on the sideline with nothing but daylight in front of him. Robinson missed the throw, leading Brooks out of bounds for an incomplete pass. A completed pass there would have been an almost certain touchdown. The telltale stat: Through 57 minutes of football, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense had scored one touchdown â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for both teams. The brighter spot, although similarly unexciting, was the defense.

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on offense has clearly given him a knack for finding the ball, as he has come up with an interception in all four of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games so far, including a crucial one against Chestnut Hill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just kind of been running to the ball â&#x20AC;Ś the picks have just been coming naturally,â&#x20AC;? said Trybus, who had previously played defensive back in high school. Later in the second quarter, Penn failed to convert on a thirdand-18, but they were saved by an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Chestnut Hill, which allowed Jenkins to find sophomore wide receiver Brendan McCaffrey on a six-yard touchdown pass. The penalty was emblematic of a chippy, hard-fought game, during which both teams played with intensity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chestnut Hill wanted to play

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That unit failed to grab a turnover, but did hold the Big Green offense to just 21 points. Until the backbreaking 8:24 minute drive in the fourth quarter, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense kept the offense in the game. Priore likes to pick one or two plays to boil the game down to. His analysis is often right in that a handful of big plays decide most football games, but the unspoken secret is that the smaller plays â&#x20AC;&#x201D; routine third downs, open receivers down field, missed blocks here

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a mental game, but they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t handle the talk or walk the walk, so we gave it to them,â&#x20AC;? said McCaffrey, who had two touchdown grabs on the afternoon. After McCaffreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second score of the second quarter, the Quakers led 28-20. In the third quarter, Chestnut Hill mounted an impressive drive and threatened to tie the game, but a pair of Penn freshmen made key defensive plays in the red zone. Linebacker Caleb Pierce sacked Marino to set up a third-and-goal from the Penn 22-yard line, and fellow freshman linebacker Davis Buchanan intercepted him in the end zone to prevent the Griffins from coming back. Pierce and Buchanan should be a force for Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front-seven for years to come. In the fourth quarter, the Quakers iced the game when touchdown machine Jenkins sprinted past multiple Chestnut Hill de-

fenders on his way to a 36-yard score to put the Red and Blue up 35-26 with 2:19 remaining. After another takeaway by the defense on the ensuing possession, McKever broke free for a 46-yard score to cushion the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had to beat Chestnut Hill, and now we are still on pace to be able to compete in the championship game,â&#x20AC;? McKever said. At 3-1, Penn has all the weapons necessary to appear in the CSFL Championship Game on Nov. 8 at Franklin Field, which would be a fitting end to coach Bill Wagnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50th and final season at the helm. After their upcoming bye, the Quakers will look to continue their success in a critical matchup against Navy (4-0) in Annapolis, Md. This showdown could play a big role in determining who takes the field in the championship game.

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Player of the Week: Sophomore running back Laquan McKever

Quakers tied their season high with four goals scored

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came out firing in the second half, scoring 23 seconds into the period to tie the game at one apiece. In the 47th minute, a foul on senior forward Emma Loving gave the Big Red an opportunity they would not squander. Cornell midfielder Evanthia Spyredes took the penalty kick and put the ball past Qu for a 2-1 lead. But Penn still had plenty of time to recover. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a lot of belief. When they scored those two goals, we knew we were going to get it back,â&#x20AC;? junior midfielder Breukelen Woodard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had this confidence because we were there for each other.â&#x20AC;? This back and forth affair would continue into the 52nd minute. Woodard countered for the Quakers, as a string of passes led her to score the equalizing goal. From there, Penn would not let up. Starting at the 73:45 mark, the Red and Blue scored two goals within a minute, doubling their lead to make the score 4-2. The fourth goal, scored by sophomore forward Mia Shenk and as-

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game at 21-14. After playing a crucial role in giving the Quakers the lead, McKever put the game away for good late, rattling off a 46-yard touchdown run to put the Red and Blue up by three possessions late in the fourth quarter. McKever would finish with a career high 238 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Quakers to their 42-32 victory. McKeverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rushing total against Chestnut Hill was good for seventh best in program history and the most by a Quaker since 2010. After getting just four carries for 49 yards as a freshman last season, McKever has replaced Jake Klaus, who graduated after last season, to become a major component of sprint footballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s explosive of-

sisted by Lawton, put the icing on the cake, giving Lawton both a goal and an assist for the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought the assist was more crucial,â&#x20AC;? Lawton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just love seeing across the box, and I just hit the ball and hope [my teammates] knock it in.â&#x20AC;? The Quakers understood that they desperately needed a win, and they delivered. They also know how important this victory is moving forward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we needed this win, and I think it is only going to propel us going forward,â&#x20AC;? Woodard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We learned how to play for each other, and this is just the beginning.â&#x20AC;? Next weekend, Penn will travel to New York City to take on another Ivy League foe in Columbia, where the group will look to keep its momentum going. Most importantly, the Quakers are focusing on implementing their team motto moving forward, as explained by Qu. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One percent better, 100 percent together.â&#x20AC;?

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and Adam’s State, concluding the race with a score of 177 and an average time of 20:40. Senior Maddie Villalba reached the finish line first for the Quakers, coming in 12th overall with a final time of 20:09.9. Senior Nia Akins and freshman Ariana Gardizy followed closely, respectively coming in 27th and 33rd overall. Junior Melissa Tanaka (53rd)

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Bair and Gerbino were a potent combination for the Big Green, with the former producing 81 total yards and two touchdowns before bowing out with an injury, while the latter contributed 119 yards passing, 79 yards rushing, and two scores. For the Quakers, Brooks proved to be the main source of offense, with 91 yards on the ground, 31 yards receiving, and two touch-

and freshman Lizzy Bader (67th) rounded out the five best scorers for the women’s team, who defeated No. 27 Princeton in their impressive afternoon. In both the men’s and women’s open races, for which over one thousand runners competed in total, the Quakers put up quality performances. Four Penn athletes in the men’s race — Aaron Groff, Daniel Cohen, Mitchell Poynter and James Lee — cracked the top 25, and a trio of freshmen runners

— Jared Cooper, Anton Idhammar and Michael Keehan — all placed between 31st and 42nd overall. In the women’s race, the freshmen also shined, with Delia Russo and Nikhila Obbineni coming in 21st and 26th, respectively. The next meet for both the men’s and women’s teams is on the morning of Oct. 18 at the Penn State National Open, and the Quakers are determined to perform well again as the stakes of their season gradually increase.

downs, continuing his torrid start to the season. Noticeably absent for the Quakers was leading receiver Ryan Cragun. The sophomore came into the game with 273 yards through two games but was sidelined for this matchup, and the Red and Blue passing attack was stunted as a result, generating 209 yards but no scores. According to Priore, Cragun’s absence was due to a hit sustained in last week’s game, and he looks forward to reinforcements at the

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“We delve pretty deeply into analytics,” Priore said. “We study ourselves and our opponents. We’re sort of by the book in terms of when we go for it with our opportunities.” Any hope of a Penn comeback was squashed in the final quarter though, when Dartmouth marched the ball downfield on a drive that lasted over eight minutes and resulted in a Gerbino touchdown, pushing the Dartmouth lead to 21 points. In response, the Quakers drove down the field and added their first points of the half with a Brooks touchdown. But despite the onside kick, the 28-15 score proved too much to overcome with just 2:15 left.

The only thing pretty about that was the uniforms. In their home and Ivy League opener, Penn football failed to muster much offense against Dartmouth before losing, 28-15. The Quakers (1-2, 0-1 Ivy) were wearing their new red throwbacks to honor the 1970s, and that was about the only thing worth looking at as a Penn fan for much of the game. The Red and Blue went down early when a blown assignment allowed Dartmouth running back Zack Bair to score on a play-action pass — his first of two touchdowns. A Penn fumble a few possessions later became a Dartmouth defensive touchdown. Meanwhile, the Penn offense struggled. The opening possession started out promisingly enough; senior quarterback Nick Robinson and running back Karekin Brooks alternated chunk gains — four plays gained the Quakers 48 yards. That was the only sustained momentum the offense had all game. The drive stalled there leading to a missed field goal. Penn had one play of over 15 yards before the game was out of reach: Brooks’ 43-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. Beyond that, Dartmouth (30, 1-0) seemed content to bend and not break on the way to a comfortable victory. “[The Big Green] are a penetrating defensive front, and they push the pile,” coach Ray Priore said. “The screen game was one of our plans going into the game.” Game plan or not, Penn’s inability to gain chunk yardage left many drives dead on arrival. With about two minutes remaining in the game, the Penn offense woke back up. After Dartmouth scored its fourth touchdown with just under four minutes to play, Penn drove the length of the field — 75 yards — in just 1:42 of game time. The Quakers still needed two touchdowns in two minutes to win the game, and briefly it looked almost plausible. An onside kick got the ball back in Robinson’s hands, but the drive stalled after two sacks forced a fourth and 23.

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The 125th anniversary celebration of Franklin Field brought out fans, alumni, and plenty of first-half touchdowns. But unfortunately for the Quakers, those touchdowns were not distributed evenly, as Penn fell to Dartmouth, 2815, in the Ivy League opener.

To start the game, Dartmouth (30, 1-0 Ivy) and Penn (1-2, 0-1) traded scoreless drives, alluding to a defensive battle that would not manifest in the opening half. On the Big Green’s second play of their second possession, senior quarterback Jared Gerbino found sophomore Zack Bair running uncovered out of the backfield and delivered him a perfect ball for a 57-yard touchdown. Dartmouth was then able to add to its lead via its defense, which caused a Penn fumble in the backfield that led to an easy scoop and score for linebacker Jack Traynor. However, the Quakers would respond in haste with help from senior Karekin Brooks. The star running back once again put the Penn offense on his

back, turning a fourth and 2 into a 43yard touchdown that cut the Big Green lead to 14-7. Unfortunately for Penn, the Dartmouth offense proved unrelenting, driving down the field and finishing with Bair’s second score of the half, a 17-yard run that ballooned the score to 21-7 at halftime. The scoring pace slowed significantly in the third quarter, as neither team was able to generate points, with both squads failing to convert on key fourth downs. Fourth down attempts were a staple of Penn’s offense in this game, with three conversions on five tries. According to coach Ray Priore, that decisionmaking process all boils down to the numbers.

Quakers outlast Chestnut Hill behind impressive run game

Cross country has strong showing in Lehigh’s Paul Short Invitational

Laquan McKever rushed for 238 yards and two scores

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In the sprint football world, nothing is certain except death, taxes, and Eddie Jenkins finding the end zone. Behind an impressive offensive line and a defense that made plays when it needed to, Penn sprint football came away with a 42-32 win against Chestnut Hill at Franklin Field on Saturday afternoon. The Quakers (3-1) dominated for 349 yards on the ground, while the Griffins (2-2) came up empty handed in a key Collegiate Sprint Football League matchup between two Philadelphia teams. After allowing a Chestnut Hill touchdown on the first drive of the game, the Red and Blue responded quickly. They made their way down the field easily, and senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins punched the ball in from the three-yard line to cap off a five-play, 51-yard drive. On a windy day, both teams missed their first extra point. Chestnut Hill’s next drive culminated in a touchdown pass from quarterback Michael Marino, who

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Senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins threw for 117 yards and added 85 more on the ground in his four touchdown game on Saturday.

beat the Penn defense on a deep throw. As a result of their kicking woes, the Griffins attempted a twopoint conversion and converted on a screen pass to take an eight-point lead. Not to be outdone, the Quakers found the end zone again when sophomore running back Laquan McKever scored on a two-yard run. Jenkins proceeded to sneak the football in yet again on the twopoint conversion to tie the game up at 14. McKever continued his torrid pace with 238 rushing yards and

countless broken tackles, but he gave all the praise to the big men up front after another impressive win. “The offensive line is still doing an insane job, and they open up insanely amazing holes for me to run through,” McKever said. “I would say they’re helping me look good, and I help them look good.” Another player to keep an eye on is junior defensive back Joshua Trybus, who made the transition to defense after playing receiver during his first two seasons. His time SEE SPRINT FB PAGE 9

It was yet another day of allaround success for the Quakers as the men’s and women’s cross country teams took a short trip to Bethlehem, Pa. to compete in Lehigh’s Paul Short Invitational. Both teams had come off strong performances at Boston College and Haverford, in which they outran many strong regional competitors. They were determined to repeat their prior successes at the Paul Short Invitational, and luckily for the Red and Blue, they did not disappoint. The men’s team, competing against several nationally ranked teams at the meet, came in second out of 44 total teams — just behind Utah State — in the College Gold 8K race. They posted a score of 144 and an average time of 23:59 at Paul Short, outperforming No. 23 Iona and No. 29 Villanova in a surprising upset. Junior Anthony Russo continued his dominance for the Quakers and finished 11th overall with a final time of 23:40.9 to lead the team. Senior Will Daly and junior Ryan Renken also cracked the top 25 for Penn, finishing 19th and 23rd overall, re-

spectively, and seniors Andrew Hally and Colin Daly rounded out the Quakers’ top 5, coming in 43rd and 56th respectively. “We know that there [are] bigger meets towards the end of the season, so we’re definitely aiming our training towards those meets — the Ivy League championships and the regional championships — to help us qualify for nationals,” Russo said. “To come out here in an early season race like this that we’re using as more of a building block toward the bigger races at the end of the season, it’s really good that we beat some good teams.” The cross country team sees itself as stepping up the intensity of each competition in or-

der to finish strong and go into the postseason with maximum momentum. This is all a part of the strategy of the team, who put this level of effort into each and every mile of the run. “Today we wanted to give it more of an effort. We wanted to stay tough for those middle miles because 8k is almost 5 miles. It’s a long race,” Russo said. “For miles 2-4 we wanted to stay tough and stay on the gas to prepare us for those later races at the end of the season.” The women’s team competed just as impressively in the women’s College Gold 6K. They finished third of 38 total teams, behind just Queen’s University SEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE 11

WILLIAM SNOW

Junior Anthony Russo paced the Red and Blue and finished 11th overall at the Paul Short Invitational with a final time of 23:40.9.

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