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Kavanaugh in S.C. could change admission policies It may spell end of affirmative action, experts say SETH SCHUSTER Staff Reporter

As more federal investigations launch to look into the role race plays in admissions policies, many say Penn and other academic institutions are facing an uncertain future with regard to their admissions practices. With Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s recent confirmation to the Supreme Court, the threat to university admissions policies could be even more imminent.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda has maintained that regardless of the threats of a Department of Justice investigation or of a loss of federal funding, Penn will remain steadfast in its current admissions policies until the law dictates otherwise. He added that Penn does not discriminate against any racial, religious, or ethnic group of applicants in the admissions process.

“I think the basic tenant here needs to be that we’re going to follow the law,” Furda said at the time. “And until the law changes, we’re going to do what we feel has been legal, ethical, and in the educational benefit of all of our students.”

But the change, Furda said, could be quite soon. He said he believes the U.S. Supreme Court

will soon arrive at a decision against affirmative action policies. Furda said within two years, admissions officers across the country may be facing a very different admissions process.

“If you just play out the normal course of what the docket will look like, it could be within the two-year period that this decision is actually made,” Furda said. “I think a lot of people sitting in my seat are already thinking about what the world will look like if the Supreme Court, unlike the decisions that have been made up to this point, says race cannot be used in the admissions process.”

Penn Law professor Kermit Roosevelt, who studies constitutional law, said that he expects the laws to change and that affirmative action’s fate was sealed with Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination — and now confirmation — to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“If you have Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court replacing Kennedy, then yeah, I do think [Harvard will lose],” Roosevelt said. “Not because Harvard was doing anything wrong under current law, but because the Supreme Court is going to change its interpretation.”

Yale University will be the next collegiate institution to face federal investigation for allegedly discriminating against AsianAmerican applicants through its race-conscious admissions poli-

cies. The announcement of the investigation came almost a week before the ruling that the lawsuit alleging that Harvard University discriminates against Asian American applicants must proceed to trial.

The investigation into Yale’s admissions policies was based on a complaint filed in 2016 by a group of Asian-American organizations led by the Asian American Coalition for Education.

Similar to Harvard, it was alleged that Yale, Brown University, and Dartmouth College illegally discriminated against Asian-American applicants by holding them to a higher standard than students of other races and using an illegal quota to limit the number of admitted Asian-American students.

The Trump administration has cited this issue as critical, but Kavanaugh, too, has hinted where he stands on the issue. In fact, civil rights advocates have said Kavanaugh could be the Supreme Court’s conservative vote that curtails affirmative action in college admissions.

While Kavanaugh has recruited minority clerks and has condemned racism, he is known for building arguments against affirmative action, reported The Wall Street Journal. Many point to Kavanaugh’s description of a government program for Native SEE YALE PAGE 3

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How to register to vote in Pa. before Oct. 9 deadline Groups are making voting simpler for students AVNI KATARIA Staff Reporter

The deadline to register to vote in the midterm elections in Pennsylvania is this Tuesday. Student groups and local organizations are working hard to help Penn students register.

Mold is growing in the Quad, making freshmen sick and forcing them to relocate Eleven students were temporarily relocated JULIA KLAYMAN Staff Reporter

A high number of residents in the lower Quad have experienced serious mold issues, forcing students to temporarily relocate and prompting some health concerns.

Before Fall Break, Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services identified water damage and mold in the Quad in 22 student rooms, in one hallway, and in one faculty apartment, wrote Faramarz Vakilizadeh, executive director of Operations and Maintenance at FRES, in an email statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Eleven students had to be temporarily relocated to other rooms on campus or to nearby hotels due to reported mold issues this semester, wrote Executive Director for Business Services Douglas Berger, who oversees Residential Services, in an emailed statement. All students were able to return to their dorms by 5 p.m. on Oct. 7.

Over Fall Break, an annual

For students, two of the most popular and convenient ways to register are by mail and online.

For both methods, the deadline to register is Oct. 9.

Campus groups have taken an active role in promoting voter turnout among students in preparation for the midterm eleections, which will take place on Nov. 6.

Groups across the ideological spectrum have convened to host

events to facilitate voter registration, providing voter registration forms and offering to mail them on behalf of students.

Groups have also invited notable speakers to encourage students to vote. On Sept. 25 for example, former Vice President Joe Biden attended a student-run voter registration event held in Houston Hall.

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Wharton receives largest single gift in its history Marc and Carolyn Rowan donated $50 million RACHAEL RUHLAND Staff Reporter

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Many residents affected by the mold in Ware College House have avoided spending time in their room out of fear of coughing and other symptoms associated with mold exposure, students said. .

Health and Safety inspection was conducted, and approximately 100 student rooms “required some remediation because minor evidence of moisture, mildew and mold was found,” Business Services spokesperson Barbara

Lea-Kruger wrote in an email to the DP. Six rooms, housing approximately 10 students, will require “additional remediation and monitoring,” and those students have been relocated to hotels

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until Thursday night while the rooms are being repaired, the emailed statement read.

Many of the students who have experienced high rates of SEE MOLD PAGE 2

The Wharton School received a gift of $50 million from 1984 Wharton graduate Marc J. Rowan and Carolyn Rowan — the largest single contribution in the school’s history.

The donation will fund “groundbreaking research and exceptional teaching” by establishing the Rowan Distinguished Professors and Rowan Fellows programs, Wharton announced Tuesday. The donors also designated $12 million to fund the Penn Wharton Budget Model, the researchbased initiative started to help launch Wharton to the forefront of public policy innovation.

The donation surpasses the Huntsman family’s gift of $40

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million in 1998, which up until now has been the largest Wharton had ever received.

Rowan, who also received his Wharton MBA in 1985, is a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC, an established alternative investment managing firm with total assets of $270 billion under management as of August 2018. He now serves as chair of Wharton’s Board of Overseers, a Penn Trustee, and cochair of Wharton’s More Than Ever fundraising campaign.

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After ceiling collapse, freshmen return to mold Quad residents forced out of room for second time SETH SCHUSTER Staff Reporter

Engineering freshman Gabriel Frydman and College freshman Connor Hsu were only in their Quad dorm room for six days before they were forced to relocate for the second time in the same month. This time, their dorm room was filled with mold.

On Sept. 28, Frydman and Hsu moved from their dorm in Coxe in Ware College House to Harrison College House after they found mold growth in their dorm.

On Sept. 12, just 16 days earlier, the roommates were forced out after their ceiling caved in, causing plaster and drywall to cover all of their belongings.

They were relocated to Sansom Place East and lived there until Sept. 22 while the hole in their

ceiling was repaired.

Executive Director for Business Services Douglas Berger said because the Quad is a historic building, it poses particular challenges in the hot and humid weather conditions that Philadelphia has recently experienced.

Many of these affected students have been temporarily relocated to other dorms or nearby hotels. “[We] had this mold thing, and it just got worse and worse until Thursday or Wednesday, when it was terrible,” Frydman said, a few days after the situation became unbearable. “The area next to where [the ceiling] fell, that whole wall was just covered in mold.”

The students said they were contacted on Sept. 28 by Ware’s building manager, Marc-Anthony Serrano, who informed them that a mold abatement contractor had visited their room, and that a masonry contrac-

tor would come on Monday to repair the brick on the outside of their room, where the leak causing the mold was allegedly located.

That same day, the pair was relocated to a high rise apartment. They were able to return to their dorm room on Oct. 7.

By Oct. 2, the students had been contacted by Special Project Coordinator Jeremy Estrada, who informed them that he, along with Serrano, would be assessing and coordinating the repairs to the room. On Oct. 6, the students had not heard any update on when they would be able to return to their dorms, but were told the following day they would be able to.

The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to Serrano for comment, who forwarded the request to Kruger, who forwarded it to Wunder. Wunder did not respond to request for comment from Facilities and Real Estate Services.

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mold growth are in Ware College House hallway E.F. Smith, and the inspection concluded that most of the problem dorm rooms are in the lower Quad.

Wharton and Engineering freshman and E.F. Smith 3rd floor resident Akash Jain reported black mold forming in the common room and bathroom in the hall, in addition to dorm rooms.

College freshman and E.F. Smith 3rd floor resident Samantha Pancoe also said she found black mold spreading out from her room through the entire hallway. She added that the bathroom mold formed overnight and began dripping yellow liquid after the mold appeared in the dorm rooms.

“When we got to school [during move-in], we were like, ‘Our rooms are really weirdly moist,’ and then you’d get into bed and your bed would just be wet,” said Pancoe, who added that the mold got progressively worse over time.

Jain said he and other hallmates began to feel sick because of the mold. Students in the hall were coughing more inside their rooms, so he said they avoided the indoors as much as possible.

Student Health Services Executive Director Giang T. Nguyen said there have been recent cases of students experiencing medical symptoms because of their exposure to the mold.

“We haven’t had a huge number of people coming to Student

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On Sept. 28, Frydman and Hsu moved from Coxe in Ware College House to Harrison College House after they found mold in their dorm. This was just 16 days after their ceiling caved in.

The donation comes as part of the More Than Ever campaign, a subset of the University’s Power of Penn campaign – the most ambitious campaign in Penn’s history, with the goal of raising $4.1

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM Health because of it,” Nguyen said. “I know we have had some.”

Nguyen explained that exposure to mold can trigger an allergic response in some patients, causing symptoms like itchy eyes or throat, scaly skin, and coughing. He was unable, however, to comment on individual cases.

All cases of mold have been confined to the Quad, which Berger described as a historic building that presents particular challenges in humid weather conditions. He and Vakilizadeh also attributed the “uptick in the number of reported mold cases this year” to an especially hot and wet summer in Philadelphia.

For Wharton freshman and 3rd floor resident of Coxe in Ware Niva Patel, the mold in her room was so severe that she and her roommate, Wharton freshman Eliza Thaler, were relocated to single dorms in the Quad for almost two weeks. Coxe was also the location of a ceiling collapse earlier this month.

“We thought it was unsafe and every time we walked into the room, you couldn’t stop coughing because the air was really bad and so it was definitely causing us health issues,” Patel said. “There was green and dark colored stuff all over our white walls which is pretty noticeable, and then we just realized that it kept spreading.”

Like other students, Patel filed a mold complaint immediately and maintenance arrived a few days later. Patel and Thaler, however, were not given tempo-

rary rooms until two days later, so Patel slept in a friend’s dorm for two nights.

“When room maintenance reaches a level where a re-assignment is necessary, we take a number of steps to support the affected students, such [as] providing ongoing communications as to the status of the room repairs and working with College Houses and Academic Services to address additional needs (academic, social, etc.),” wrote Berger in the email.

Though given an alternative room, Patel said she was never given any timeline or estimation of how long she would be living in the temporary location. Patel said her roommate was kicked out of her temporary room about four days before their original dorm was ready, so Patel and her roommate stayed in Patel’s temporary single for the final four nights of their relocation.

“It was just a lot of major problems that were inconvenient to deal with our first few weeks at Penn,” Patel said.

Built in 1895, the Quad was last renovated in 1999 with the addition of air-conditioning, historic restoration, landscaping in the courtyards, and the replacement of every bathroom. The University announced recently, however, that they’ve begun searching for an architect to plan for the renovation of the Quad. It will be the next dorm to undergo a major renovation. The start and finish date has yet to be announced, but Penn has estimated construction to be underway in five to seven years.

billion in the next four years.

Prior to the donation, Wharton’s campaign goal stood at $850 million, but the Rowan family contribution has pushed the goal to $1 billion, according to a Wharton press release.

Part of the contribution will support the Penn Wharton Budget Model, which

emerged as a valuable player for many economists and journalists when Congress rolled out the new tax bill last year. The model’s tax policy study, published in December 2017, concluded that while the tax cut would increase GDP, the national debt would also rise. Its analysis was covered by many media organizations, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico.

Another portion of the funding will be used to attract and retain world-renowned faculty through the establishment of the Rowan Distinguished Professors and Rowan Fellows programs.

Under the new Rowan Distinguished Professors program, Wharton will recruit three new faculty members, each of whom will be recognized as global leaders in their respective fields. The 10 departments in Wharton may make recommendations for those they deem appropriate for these positions. Additionally, faculty may nominate their peers to be Rowan Fellows, which are five-year terms intended to recognize and support distinguished faculty currently in Wharton.

“Their investment in Penn’s future will strengthen our intellectual resources, provide our students with life-changing mentors, and mobilize our knowledge for the advancement of society,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann in a press release.

In the press release, Rowan cited his personal experiences with Wharton faculty as responsible for his success and expressed his desire to help Wharton continue to provide students with those opportunities.

“As top Wharton researchers advance and shape their fields, they transform the lives of their students, preparing them to make a difference in the business world and beyond,” he said.

Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett said it is Rowan’s dedication to enhancing life at Wharton, at the University, and in the world that distinguishes his gift from previous donations.

“Yes, he is a donor and supporter of the school, but he’s a partner in helping us achieve our goal,” said Garrett in an exclusive interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. “His investment goes beyond the school.”

While Rowan’s gift marks the largest single donation ever given to Wharton, the gift of $225 million from 1940 Wharton graduate Raymond Perelman to Penn Medicine in 2011 is still the biggest ever given to the University.

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Although Pennsylvania’s deadline to register in person, online, or by mail is Oct. 9, other states have later dates. The deadline to register in person or online in New York is Oct. 12 and in California is Oct. 22. The deadline to register in person or by mail in New Jersey is Oct. 16, and the state does not have online registration.

Penn Democrats Political Director and College junior Gabrielle Fink and Boote both noted that while assisting students, they had noticed several common misconceptions surrounding voting.

“A lot of people don’t know whether they can be registered

in two states,” Boote said. “The answer is yes — they can be registered in two states as long as you only vote in one.”

Fink said another concern for students was whether to vote remotely as a resident of their home state or from Pennsylvania. In these situations, Fink said Penn Democrats spoke to the student to help them decide where to vote from.

“We would have a conversation about which elections are happening in which areas, which ones are more of a toss up, which could go either way and help them figure out where their vote will matter most,” Fink said.

Registering to vote by mail is simple, and many voter registration efforts run by groups on campus have used this option when canvassing.

Government and Politics Association President and College junior Hayley Boote said there have been many efforts taken to encourage students to register.

At events, groups tend to use the mail system. Boote said GPA has been providing voter registration forms at every event they have hosted so far this year. After filling the form out, students can mail it to the address provided on the form or bring it to any GPA event where GPA members will take charge of mailing the form.

The form can also be downloaded at home from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission website.

“There’s a form, a one page form that anyone can fill out, it asks you basic information — your address, your name, your social security number, or if you don’t have one, your driver’s license number,” Boote said. “It takes five minutes.”

According to non-partisan voter registration organization HeadCount, it typically takes 5 to 7 weeks for voter registration cards to be sent in the email.

The voter registration must be postmarked by Oct. 9 to be elligible in Pennsylvania.

Students registering to vote online can fill out a government form. The application will then be reviewed by the student’s local county election office, which will send a voter registration card in the mail.

There are several non-traditional ways to register online as well that makes the process simpler.

Rock The Vote President Carolyn DeWitt said it’s working with the Pennsylvania state government to make the process more streamlined for students using a specialized online tool. After registration, Rock The Vote sends customized reminders and directs them to resources.

“You’ll be directed to a sample ballot lookup tool. It’ll show you what’s going to be on your ballot,

there will be links to candidate webpages and their social media, directions to voter guides, you will be able to look up where your polling place is,” DeWitt added.

When We All Vote has been working to improve access to registration materials for students, said When We All Vote Communications Director Stephanie Young.

The organization has been leading a text message campaign supported by public figures such as Michelle Obama. Young said students registering simply have to text “WeAllVote” to 97779 and they will be sent all information necessary for the voting process.

The deadline is also Oct. 9 to register online in Pennsylvania.

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ist that he sees no contradiction in encouraging diversity of judicial nominees while opposing affirmative action.

“Diversity is a permissible goal but a state must use race-neutral criteria when available,” Kavanaugh wrote.

During the confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh dodged questions on affirmative action, saying that

it would be “improper” to express his views on “cases or issues that might come before [him].”

Roosevelt said affirmative action policies and discrimination are often conflated, such as in the Harvard case and ongoing investigations. However, the two issues, he said, are in fact mutually exclusive.

“There’s no connection between the discrimination of Asians and

affirmative action, those are totally separate — you could have one without the other,” Roosevelt said.

“The reason that this case is being brought is that people try to connect them in the public mind, but there is absolutely no connection between them.”

At Penn, the Asian Pacific Student Coalition — the umbrella organization for the 23 Asian constit-

uent groups on campus — upholds the merits of affirmative action admissions policies and believes race is an important factor of consideration in college admissions.

“While affirmative action has been said to disadvantage certain communities of privileged and high-achieving Asian-American applicants, it has helped many marginalized and underrepresent-

ed API students, including Southeast Asian students,” wrote Chair of APSC and College and Wharton senior Soomin Shin, on behalf of the organization.

Shin added that affirmative action as a whole is used to promote diversity on campus and is not a tool specifically used to discriminate against certain applicants, including Asian-American students.

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Hawaiians in 1999, when he wrote in a newspaper column that “in the eyes of government, we are just one race.” In 2003, Kavanaugh — who was then an associate counsel to former President George W. Bush — also wrote in an email to a Wall Street Journal journal-

Penn unveils plans for major Quad renovation in 5-7 years The renovations will begin in five to seven years GORDON HO Staff Reporter

The Quad will undergo a renovation as part of the University’s plan to overhaul major buildings on campus, Executive Director for Business Services Doug Berger said.

Berger said Penn is currently searching for an architect to lead the renovation, which will likely take place in five to seven years.

He added they have not pinpointed an exact start date for construction, but the design for the renovation will be completed by the time New

College House West opens.

The opening of NCHW in the fall of 2021 has become a pivotal point in the conversation surrounding student housing. The University announced last week it would require all sophomores to live in college houses beginning with the Class of 2024, when NCHW will be open and ready to house the additional students.The decision has prompted questions and backlash among various communities, especially within Greek life.

Renovations for dorms undergo cycles, the last of which started in 1999 with the Quad renovation and ended in 2017 with Hill College House. The upcoming Quad renovation signals the start of a new

cycle of dorm renovations, none of which will be completed by the time NCHW opens in 2021, when sophomores will be required to live on campus.

Construction will take place during the summers, which is typical for dorm renovations, so students will not be disturbed by the work.

The last Quad renovation lasted for four summers and ended in 2002, combining four college houses into three. The renovation included the addition of air-conditioning, historic restoration, landscaping in the courtyards, and the replacement of every bathroom, including toilets and showers.

While the high rise renovation

followed the Quad renovation in the last cycle in 2002, Berger said Penn has not made any plans to renovate the high rises any time soon. The last renovation to the high rises started in 2002 and ended in 2010.

“We haven’t even gone that far in thinking about when the next time we’ll get to the high rises [is],” Berger said.

In the last cycle, the University renovated Du Bois College House, King’s Court English House, and Gregory College House. New College House was built and Hill was renovated in this last cycle.

Berger said that Hill’s renovation marks the end of the last cycle, which is why the Quad will be next

in line.

The renovation is part of Penn Connects, a development plan for Penn’s campus that was launched in 2006 and that is now on its third iteration.

Every 25 years or so, most buildings on campus will undergo renovation, Berger said, so the Quad renovation did not require outside approval of any additional funding. The construction of New College House West, on the other hand, was announced as a new project and therefore requires separate funding.

The $163 million NCHW project was announced by Penn President Amy Gutmann in November 2017 but has yet to be formally ap-

proved by the Board of the Trustees. The Trustees will vote next month, Berger said.

Still, Berger and Director of Communications and External Relations Barbara Lea-Kruger said they could not yet estimate how much it will cost to renovate the Quad.

In addition to major renovations, Penn will restore and maintain specific parts of other buildings and dorms on campus. For example, every seven years, every building is repainted, including student rooms and hallways. Penn also replaces lounge furniture. Berger said the school replaced some furniture in Rodin this year, which will be repainted soon.

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As an American, the Kavanaugh hearings are personal ALIFIMOFF’S ALLEY | Watching the biggest news story of the year from abroad

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hen the news of the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh first broke, I took a deep breath, flicked on my electric kettle to make myself a cup of tea, skimmed the article, and resolved to stop thinking about it.

Now, I’m abroad and everyone in my 9:30 a.m. French class is scowling, sipping their paper cups of instant coffee (the French have yet to discover the joys of regular old filter coffee), and swapping complaints about the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing.

Cecile, our teacher, who has a pixie cut and an inimitable air of Parisian blaseness, frowns and says, “Can’t you just have a coup?”

This is, of course, a joke.

But it’s not entirely unserious.

In the last 230 years, since the storming of the Bastille, the French have weathered five republics, two empires, and a Bourbon restoration. They tend not to get emotionally attached to their current form of government, at least not in the way we do, with all this teeth gnashing, Constitution-thumping, and invoking the names of the Founders from on high.

In so many intimate ways, I

dents and Supreme Court cases and solemn Oval Office addresses to the public?

France isn’t attached to its government. Long, turbulent political history has given the French proof enough that their national identity rests far outside of the current configura-

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But in America, our politics are personal. Our political

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Weighed on crooked scales of justice, one alleged attempted rape balances quite nicely with two Yale degrees. ” believe in the myth of America.

And that myth enshrines our values in the government laid out in the Constitution. How do we tell the story of ourselves without telling a story of presi-

views are tied to how our visions of America and American patriotism lets nothing go down easy.

When men like Brett Kavanaugh or Donald Trump are admit-

behavior, when they tell us that sexual assault accusations do not exclude a man from being a justice on the highest court in our nation because it happened so long ago, when they resign from doing their elected duty by hiring an outside prosecutor and refusing to responsibly and respectfully question the witnesses themselves, what they are really saying is that this whole process has no place in the narrative about American morality.

Women, with their bodies and their traumas and their alleged personhood, have long stood outside of American political life. Why should they not continue to stand there and let the men, as they have done for so long in the history of this country, decide what is important

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and what is not? What men do to women, Senate Republicans would have us believe, is not important. Weighed on their crooked scales of justice, one alleged attempted rape balances quite nicely with two Yale degrees.

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ted into the inner sanctum of the government, when they occupy the exalted positions that we tell ourselves belong to the very best and most moral among us, it strikes at the very heart of our national identity as Americans.

When the Senate Republicans make excuses for Kavanaugh’s

nearly two years ago, so much of American politics, once my favorite pastime, has filled me with rage.

For a while, I raged out loud.

Maybe I liked being so angry.

Maybe my rage was performative — a callback to times when women actually had things to worry about, like corsets or not being able to open their own lines of credit. Here in the 21st century, I told myself, the patriarchy isn’t actively oppressing so much as benignly rotting. Sure, the guy in the White House gropes women with impunity, but he hasn’t grabbed

What men do to women, Senate Republicans would have us believe, is not important.” your pussy, so like, stop taking it so personally?

So I smothered my rage. I was the poster child of understanding. I was so tired of being a nasty woman.

But what I realized as the Weinstein allegations first broke, as the Kavanaugh news became something that I could not ignore if I tried, is that my rage has little to do with me.

So many of my friends, my acquaintances, so many of the woman I look up to, respect, and hope to be like some day — even the girls I only know from

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Instagram and passing glimpses in the halls — have stories just like Dr. Blasey Ford.

And they carry these stories with them. They carry the weight of their trauma, of the stories pressed to the back of their minds. Sometimes they tell their stories publicly, and in carefully worded articles and Facebook posts, and sometimes it’s the type of thing you learn in private, half-whispers in the dark.

The politics of the current moment are personal. More than that, they’re intimate, invasively so.

To pretend to be blase, dispassionate, and a little more French about this whole thing would give quarter to the long standing idea that women’s feelings about their bodies, the truths about their own violations, and their assertions of their political rights are in fact, not valid expressions of civil participation. It would affirm that women’s pain is something embarrassing, hysterical, and best kept private, while men’s pain carries with it pomp and gravitas.

We are the stories we tell about ourselves. With Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court, the story of America will be that it, once again, does not care about women.

BEN CLAAR is a College senior from Scarsdale, N.Y. His email is bclaar@sas.upenn.edu.

The story will be that the country that I was born in, the country that I love, does not care about the pain of my friends, nor the pain of the women that I admire.

So I won’t set down my rage.

Not if I care about women, not if I believe them.

This burden is heavy, but no one should have to carry it alone.

REBECCA ALIFIMOFF is a College sophomore from Fort Wayne, Ind. studying history. Her email address is ralif@sas.upenn.edu.

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Step aside Joe — Biden is not the best choice for President SPENCER’S SPACE | It’s time for a rising Democrat with less baggage to take the reins

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oe Biden is an extremely popular Penn figure. He’s a Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor, whatever that means. Every few weeks he is on campus giving inspirational talks with world leaders and offering his valued opinion on the state of current politics. Whenever he’s on Locust Walk, he’s flocked by hundreds of students all wanting to get a quick glimpse or a selfie with the former Vice President.

Therefore, I may be in the minority in thinking that, as according to reports, Biden running for the presidency in 2020 would be a monumental disaster for the Democratic Party and likely result in Donald Trump being re-elected to a second term in office. Look, I like Joe as much as the next guy, but he’s simply not what this country needs rights now — he is a man who hasn’t realized his moment has passed.

First and foremost is the issue of age. If elected, he would be oldest person to ever ascend

rated at 70, and rumors that he developed dementia towards the end of his tenure in office have circled for years. Democrats should be trying to show as much contrast to Trump, who’s currently 72, in their nominee as possible. Running somebody young, vibrant, and new would be doing just that. There’s also no shortage of people up for the job, from Sen. Cory Booker (DN.J.) to Sen. Kamala Harris (DCalif.).

But age is not the only problem with a Biden candidacy.

His record in Congress would also be profoundly scrutinized, especially his role in the Anita Hill hearings, for which he has been extensively criticized for refusing to present witnesses that could have corroborated Hill’s testimony of Clarence Thompson’s sexual harassment, and failing to defend her from sexist attacks from his own colleagues. Thompson would later be confirmed to the Supreme Court, where he is rated as one of the most conservative jus-

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to the presidency, a little over a month shy of 78 on inauguration day. Reagan was inaugu-

tices on the bench. In light of Bret Kavanaugh’s confirmation and the wider #MeToo move-

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ment, this political baggage could be disqualifying, especially for women.

Many of Biden’s other policy initiatives in the Senate also clearly do not fit with the Democratic Party’s zeitgeist. Remember the 1994 Crime Bill that Hillary was incessantly attacked for by the leftist, Bernie Sanders wing of the party? Biden actually authored it. The bill, officially named the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, focused largely on punitive measures, not rehabilitative, resulting in an increase of mass incarceration. Although the United States only makes up 4.4 percent of the world’s population, we house 22 percent of its prisoners. Many of those incarcerated were nonviolent drug offenders, for which the bill demanded harsher sentences. Liberals today are thankfully much

more focused on criminal justice reform, and Biden’s history undeniably makes him a flawed champion of this cause.

sidered one of the frontrunners, before a plagiarized speech derailed his campaign. He tried his luck again in 2008 but couldn’t

I like Joe as much as the next guy, but he’s simply not what this country needs rights now — he is a man who hasn’t realized his moment has passed.”

There are of course other legitimate reasons for Biden to opt out of running in 2020, a large one being that it would be his third attempt at the nation’s highest office after two failures. He ran once in 1988, where he was originally con-

garner much traction, getting less than 1 percent in the Iowa caucus before dropping out.

It seems as though outside his home state of Delaware, his electability is far from a guarantee.

Lastly, Biden is prone to mak-

ing gaffes. While campaigning in 2012, he told a predominately African-American audience that if Mitt Romney were elected, he would “put y’all back in chains.” In 2006, during a CSPAN series, he tried to relate to an Indian-American supporter by saying, “You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” Obviously, Trump has proven that verbal blunders like this are no longer disqualifying to much of the American electorate, but Democrats should run somebody who can showcase how different they are from the current occupant of the White House, and having a candidate who can stick to the script will prove valuable.

Whether he runs or not in the end is obviously up to Joe himself. His decades of public service has earned him that right. But I genuinely think that our country would be better off if the Democratic Party elders step aside and allow a new generation of leaders to rise.

And, of course, if Joe isn’t in the White House, we‘ll be lucky to see even more of him here at Penn.

S P E N C E R S WA N S O N i s a College sophomore from London, studying philosophy, politics, and economics. His email address is sswanson@sas.upenn.edu.

From Beijing to Philadelphia, gentrification follows me across the globe LILIAN’S LANE | Things fall apart — erasing culture to make room for skyscrapers

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s a kid, I had always wondered why a bright red “拆” had been painted on the dilapidated apartment complex right next to my dad’s office building. I knew what the character meant — to tear or break down — but there the building stood, month after month.

Each time my dad brought me to work, I would stare at the ugly character as we drove by, contemplating how difficult it was for the government to simply tear down a building and why it was allowed to remain for so long.

When I finally decided to ask my father about the bright red character, the apartment complex had been feebly standing for over a year. His answer to my question was simple: The people who lived in it just didn’t want to move out.

Sounds reasonable, I thought, accepting his answer reluctantly. Therefore, when my dad brought me to his office one December day in fourth grade

thought again — until I moved to Philadelphia.

Over the past few decades, Beijing has been rapidly transforming. What follows such large-scale development is the inevitable displacement of people. What was known as “Lao Bei Jing,” or “Old Beijing,” has slowly but surely seen gradual destruction. The government effort to tear down buildings within the Second Ring — an area equivalent to University City in Philadelphia — is only one manifestation of such efforts, and the building next to my dad’s office only one of its endless victims. Many who had resided in Beijing for countless generations have been displaced to the outskirts of the city so that larger construction projects for office buildings and malls can take place in an optimal location. Oftentimes, families are reluctant to move, not only due to sentimentality (multiple generations, some since the eras of the dynasties, had inhabited the same houses), but also because

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and the building was no longer there, I had simply assumed that the residents finally agreed to leave and never gave it much

they expect the price of land around Second Ring to skyrocket in the coming years.

But government orders leave

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them little choice. The monetary compensation families receive for immediate displacement is meager, and usually they can barely afford 500 square feet apartments with such displacement funds, forcing them to seek cheaper housing toward the outskirts of the city.

So who fills the demographics in such optimal locations?

The answer is “外地人” — foreigners who, like my own parents, ventured to Beijing during their youths in search of better jobs and business opportunities.

Yet their coming had slowly eroded the original culture and flavor of Beijing, shifting the community dynamic. The “Old Beijing” collapsed along with antique city walls and hundredyear-old residences, replaced by skyscrapers and malls that stood majestically yet indifferently in the midst of their downfall.

It was only after my arrival at the University of Pennsylvania

that I recognized the parallel between my home city and one that I am about to call home for the next four years. My precon-

rounding lands in West Philadelphia, The Landscape Development of 1977 disrupted numerous long-standing com-

The ‘Old Beijing’ collapsed along with antique city walls and hundred-year residences, replaced by skyscrapers and malls that stood majestically yet indifferently in the midst of their downfall.” ception of Philadelphia before my arrival consisted solely of bustling music, art and culture — the silent encroachment of University City and the parallels it holds to Beijing’s situation had eluded my attention.

After Penn’s purchase of sur-

munities. According to Penn historian Eric Schneider, the ensuing “[c]hange in the homicide rate was startling; a modest 3.4 homicides per 100,000 in 1960 became 26.3 in 1970 and 31.9 in 1980 as the underground economy replaced the world of legiti-

mate work.” Just like in Beijing, housing prices have risen dramatically, driving up property taxes and forcing people incapable of paying to resettle.

Over the years, Penn has tried to address this issue through the Netter Center — an outreach organization intended to provide community service to West Philadelphia and beyond.

However, Penn’s almost desperate eagerness to propel this program begs the question of the University’s intention — is Penn eagerly advertising community outreach programs out of true altruism, or solely out of guilt over the damage that it has irreversibly caused on the community?

Regardless, as a university student and member of society who has both directly and indirectly contributed to the issue of gentrification, I find it imperative to at least try to impact my surroundings. West Philadelphians have been displaced to grant many students all around the world a more comprehensive “Penn Experience.” The damage we have inflicted may be irreversible, but it is only right that we use our Penn education to start making amends.

LILIAN ZHANG is a College freshman from Beijing studying the biological basis of behavior and Hispanic studies. Her email address is lilzhang@sas.upenn. edu.

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Kathleen Hall Jamieson has become a pretty big deal in national politics lately.

Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Penn, Jamieson has been a prominent figure on campus and in academia for some time.

Since the release of her groundbreaking new book, though, Jamieson has been profiled in the New Yorker, interviewed on CNN, and emerged as a leading scholar on whether Russian cyberattacks contributed to the election of Donald Trump.

Even as The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with her after a long day of meetings with members of the State Department and foreign journalists, Jamieson was notified that Hillary Clinton has just praised her new book.

Jamieson is the author of “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know,” an influential new book that provides the most in-depth look yet at what Jamieson calls Russian “subterfuge” in the 2016 presidential election.

“First, I wouldn’t call it Russian meddling— that’s a benign term and I don’t think anything they did was benign,” Jamieson said.

For her, it’s a vital distinction.

When the press uses words such as “meddling” and “interfering,” it can downplay the significance of what occurred, Jamieson said.

“I want to call this cyberattack.

We were attacked by the Russians,” Jamieson said.

Jamieson stated the hacking of emails from Hillary Clinton, her campaign chairman, and the Democratic National Committee were attempts to discredit Clinton and frame her as untrustworthy to

undecided voters.

“They attacked the private email and private content of candidates and a political party essentially, and then released it into our media system,” Jamieson said.

The main areas of the attack, according to Jamieson, center on Russian hackers spreading misinformation and influencing voters.

“They came into our social media structures and pretended they were other people, pretended they were like us, and used those identities to spread fear and anger and prejudice in ways that were consistent with Donald Trump’s objectives,” Jamieson said.

In addition, Jamieson added that the Russian hackers attempted to mobilize the same voters Trump was trying to mobilize and demobilize the same voters he was trying to demobilize. Further, the Russians attempted to shift voters Trump could not win to vote for the third-party candidate Jill Stein.

Without the Russian cyberattack, would the 1968 Wharton graduate be occupying the White House today?

“The evidence in the book suggests he probably would not,” Jamieson said. “It doesn’t say he certainly would not; it says he probably would not be president.”

It is still unclear whether the Russian subterfuge actually swayed votes. Jamieson said it’s hard to know for sure, as Facebook hasn’t provided data detailing what demographics were affected by misinformation, such as fake pages and fake people meant to stir up anger and prejudice in key voting groups that were skeptical of Clinton.

“We do know that they had enough content to do that: 126 million people were reached by Facebook content alone,” Jamieson said. “We know that they were aligned with the messages of Trump, we know that their messages were persuasive on these topics; the social media platforms need to tell us whether those demographics

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Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of a popular book on Russian influence in the 2016 election, is the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

were actually reached.”

But according to WHYY political columnist and Penn writer-inresidence Dick Polman, the question of whether the cyberattack influenced votes is immaterial.

“It’s almost irrelevant in some ways whether the interference changed the election or not,” Polman said. “What matters is the actions, the assault on the presidential election process.”

Polman nevertheless added that given the tightness of the election, it is certainly plausible that Russian influence could turn less than 80,000 votes in three key swing for Donald Trump.

“I think what happened in the last election, and other have said this, was the biggest assault on American sovereignty since 9/11,” Polman said. “3,000 people didn’t die, but because of technology, we are now in an era where invasions and assaults can be bloodless but in some ways have more ramifications.”

Russian subterfuge took shape in the form of targeted ads, fake Facebook pages, and in some cases, fabricated people, in order to “strategically align itself with the messages” of Trump, Jamieson said.

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can be rooted out, Jamieson said, and Penn students have a large role to play. Jamieson is the co-founder of FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center that strives to “reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics,” according to its website.

Jamieson said that FactCheck. org coordinates with Facebook and assists the company in flagging viral sources that are false. She called on students to alert the program to misleading or suspect information.

“You’re on campus, throw it to us!” Jamieson said. “You’ve got your peers who are working for me downstairs— let’s get it checked.”

When dealing with political information on Facebook, Jamieson recommends three steps. First, be suspicious and check out the information if you are doubtful of its accuracy. Secondly, make sure it is worthy of being shared before sharing. And lastly, take a deep breath before acting on any content that appeals to anger, prejudice or fear.

“There’s some genuinely ugly content that the trolls put out,” Jamieson said. “You don’t want to be a conveyor of that if you want the public sphere to have a level of interaction that is beneficial in the decision making process.”

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SFS launches new financial aid category ‘Highly-aided’ students will receive more benefits GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

Student Financial Services has rolled out new terminology to describe a specific selection of students on financial aid. Students qualifying as “highly-aided” will be eligible to receive four new benefits outlined by SFS last week.

There are approximately 950 highly-aided students currently attending Penn. Before introducing the term “highly-aided” to students and administrators, SFS identified this population as “high-need.” Benefits for high-need students included free meal programs over holiday breaks and grant fundings for those enrolled in the Penn Student Insurance Plan.

Many first-generation, lowincome students, however, did not

know whether they qualified as high-need, in part because SFS did not publicly disclose the specific qualifications for a high-need student.

“It wasn’t necessarily as if students knew they were high-need,” said Paul Richards, the communications director for the Division of Finance. “It hadn’t been formally declared in the first place.”

While administrators previously said there was no specific threshold to determine a high-need student, Richards said that highly-aided students are now defined as someone with a family income of $65,500 or less, typical family assets, and a parent contribution of $4,500 or less.

Previously, Richards explained, high-need students were notified about specific programs to which they had access, but were not explicitly given a full listing of all the benefits for which they were eligible.

Richards said the change in ter-

minology, along with a new website outlining qualifications and benefits, is intended to reduce confusion and lead eligible students to helpful programs. He added that highly-aided students are now explicitly notified of their status and directed to benefits through Penn InTouch.

College senior Lyndsi Burcham said that the new terminology puts a greater focus on a student’s financial aid package rather than the students themselves. Burcham is the advocacy chair for Penn First, a student organization for FGLI students. “‘High-need’ — it feels a little derogatory,” Burcham said. “Highneed is the same as needy or vulnerable.”

Both Richards and Burcham noted the large role of student leaders in the development of the new programs for highly-aided students.

These programs include eligibility for up to $4,000 of summer funding for rising juniors and se-

niors, laptops for incoming students, two new financial aid counselors for highly-aided students, and a waiver of expected summer savings contributions for incoming freshmen and sophomores.

The summer savings contributions, which in the past were applied to students of all grade levels, are an expectation on students for them to contribute portions of their summer earnings to the University. Burcham noted that the new waiver resembles ‘startup grants’ offered to certain students at Harvard University and Yale University.

She added, however, that the program still requires parents to contribute funds to their child’s cost of attendance over the summer — a cost, which she said, FGLI students often end up paying themselves.

“I’ve had plenty of friends at Penn who have paid their parents’ contribution because their parents can’t do it or they won’t do it,” Burcham said.

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Duckworth-led initiative receives $2 mil. donation The org. is expanding into medical insurance research ALEX GRAVES Director of Web Development

Penn’s top behavioral scientists are getting closer to discovering how to make lasting positive change in people’s lives.

In September, the Behavior Change for Good Initiative received a $2 million donation from 1983 Wharton graduate Marc J. Leder. Executive Director Dena Gromet said the leaders of BCFG are thrilled about the donation.

The initiative, which was started two years ago by well known professors Angela Duckworth and Katherine Milkman, aims to learn how behavioral science can teach people to be healthier, better educated, and more responsible with their finances.

The donation has already made

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The Behavior Change for Good Initiative was founded two years ago and aims to learn how behavioral science can teach people to be healthier, better educated, and more responsible with their finances.

a direct impact on BCFG. Recently, the organization started work on a new program related to medical insurance.

“We wouldn’t have been able to make that move forward with-

out this generous donation,” said Milkman, who is BCFG’s director of Savings and Health. “It makes all of our work possible,” she added.

Much of the work that BCFG

is doing has implications both within the lives of its study participants and within the greater scientific community.

Second-year doctorate student Joowon Klusowski, who works

within the health arm of BCFG, said “the scale of the research is something that not a lot of people have attempted to do.”

One of the experiments currently run by BCFG is StepUp, a workout program that uses different incentive structures and communicates with participants via text, with the goal of increasing its gym attendance. StepUp has over 30,000 participants nationwide.

“This is, to my knowledge, in our field, the biggest field experiment ever run,” said second-year doctorate student Erika Kirgios, who has worked closely with the StepUp program.

Kyla Haimovitz, a postdoctoral researcher who works on BCFG’s education projects, emphasized the scientific significance of the initiative. By successfully operating at the scale it does, BCFG is helping to remove the cost and

logistical barriers often present in real-world research projects.

“It’s important as researchers to have systems to make it easy to do these things so more people will do them, since there’s such a huge cost to it,” she said.

The donation that the program received will allow them to continue to make an impact on the scientific community, Gromet said. BCFG is currently getting ready to analyze its first wave of studies, which is being funded in part by the donation.

“It’s this iterative process,” she said of the studies. “There’s a continued refinement and knowledge that’s gained from each program that you do.”

This first wave of studies “will give us the first insight into with these studies, done at scale, what actually moves the needle on enduring behavior change,” Gromet said.

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Quakers scored the winning TD with 1:19 left TEIA ROSS Sports Reporter

If this game was a roller coaster ride, its up-and-down nature would deem it too unsafe to ride.

Bouncing back after a loss against Dartmouth, Penn football got up on Sacred Heart quickly,

then went down just as quickly, but finally pulled out a 31-27 win to preserve the team’s undefeated record in non-conference play.

The game was delayed nearly 30 minutes as the stadium waited for precautionary emergency medical services to arrive. Nevertheless, once the game started, the Quakers (3-1, 0-1 Ivy) needed less than five minutes to put a score up on the board. After forcing the Pioneers (3-2, 1-0 NEC) to punt on their first possession, Penn’s offense wasted no time getting to work.

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Former men’s basketball coach Allen pleads guilty to bribery

Red and Blue top Columbia to take control of first place

Allen accepted bribes to help get a student admitted

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Former Penn men’s basketball star and coach Jerome Allen pleaded guilty to bribery in a federal district court on Friday.

Allen had been implicated in an indictment of Philip Esformes, a Miami, Fla. businessman who allegedly defrauded the federal government of $1 billion dollars in a Medicaid money laundering scheme. Esformes used some of that money — allegedly more than $74,000 — to bribe Allen, then-head coach of Penn men’s basketball, to list his son, Morris Esformes, as a recruited player in order to help Morris get into Penn.

Morris was accepted to Penn in 2015 as a member of Allen’s final recruiting class before Allen was replaced by current coach Steve Donahue.

Esformes never played or appeared on the men’s basketball team’s roster. He is now a Wharton senior.

Allen announced his guilty plea in a statement issued by his attorney, Ronald Sullivan.

Allen admits to accepting $18,000 in bribes, significantly less than the full amount alleged in the Esformes indictment.

As part of the plea deal, Allen will repay the $18,000 on top of a $200,000 fine to the federal government. The Boston Herald reported that the Boston Celtics, Allen’s current

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Former men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen announced his guilty plea this past Friday in a statement issued through his lawyer.

employer, are expected to suspend the assistant coach for a period of approximately two weeks.

Three days after Allen was implicated, Penn Athletics hired outside legal counsel to investigate the allegations.

That investigation has yet to announce any findings.

According to Christian Dennie, a sports law attorney familiar with NCAA rules, the bribery is unprecedented in college athletics. Typically, money flows in the other direction as a school or its boosters will pay recruited student-athletes to play for their school. While the NCAA typically investigated alleged recruiting violations, it has not announced an investigation into Penn or Allen. The unprecedented nature of the

scandal means it is unknown what the potential ramifications could be for Penn men’s basketball or Penn Athletics as a whole.

It also remains possible that despite the bribes Allen accepted, he and the team did not violate any NCAA rules.

“I failed on many levels. Primarily, I had a failure of character. I did not live up to the high standards I set for myself, or were expected of me in the position that I held. I am sorry. I let down my family, my friends, my alma mater, and my Celtics family. Even more important, I was not true to my faith. I let down my God,” Allen said in a statement.

“I apologize to all impacted by my failure of character. I am deeply and profoundly sorry.”

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A strong but scoreless first half, an early goal in the second, and a shutout victory — in other words, just another day at the office for Penn women’s soccer.

The Quakers put on a display of defensive dominance and restricted a potent Columbia offense to only four shots on goal in a 1-0 victory. Once again, junior goalkeeper Kitty Qu delivered a consistent performance and continued to break her own record — she now has 17 career solo shutouts, the most in school history, and a record she established earlier this season.

During the first half, both the Red and Blue (8-1-1, 2-0-1 Ivy) and the Lions (5-5-1, 2-10 Ivy) had a hard time passing through midfield and keeping possession of the ball. Nonetheless, the home team still got a great chance in the 33rd minute, when junior forward Emma Loving infiltrated Columbia’s defensive line and hit a longdistance shot, which hammered off the crossbar.

In the second half, Penn came back stronger, controlling the ball and pressuring the Lions’ midfield, especially thanks to senior forward Sasha

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Junior midfielder Emily Sands has come through in the clutch all season as all five of her goals have been game-winners.

Stephens and junior defender Laura Hamilton. In the 51st minute, junior midfielder Emily Sands got a rebound off of a header from senior midfielder Allie Trzaska after a free kick taken by Stephens, and buried it in the top half of the goal.

Sands has been a crucial piece of the improved offense this season, leading the team with five goals — each a game winner. Likewise, Trzaska has been a key facilitator for the Quakers, leading the team and the Ivy League with six assists.

After another shutout victory, Penn’s goals against average sits at 0.3, the third-best average in the country. The Quakers have seven shutouts in nine games, and have not allowed a goal in nearly a month.

Penn also takes the lead in the Ivy League with seven points, while Columbia remains second with six.

The Quakers will now go on a three-games road trip, starting in Bethlehem, Pa., where they take on Lehigh (3-8) on Monday.

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Sophomore quarterback Ryan Glover calmly marched the Quakers down the field with a series of sharp passes. Once in the red zone, junior running back Karekin Brooks took care of the rest, hopping over a Sacred Heart block to waltz into the end zone for a 12-yard score.

Penn appeared to break free in the second quarter, starting with a 51yard field goal by senior kicker Jack Soslow, which was good enough to tie his career best and push Penn’s lead to double digits at 10-0.

The Quakers played strong defense through the rest of the second quarter, allowing the Pioneers to get into Penn territory but never letting them score.

Glover would then throw his first touchdown of the day to senior wide receiver Christian Pearson, who had been hampered by injuries to start the season. The 23-yard grab would make the score 17-0 in favor of the Quakers.

“Early in the game they were giving us a five-man box, and we really felt that we could run,” coach Ray Priore said. “Then they started crashing inside the box, and we were able to find Christian out there to make some big plays which was really great to see.”

The first half ended with the large

stature of 6’3” junior defensive lineman Taheeb Sonekan blocking a Pioneer field goal attempt.

Sacred Heart’s fans then quieted down even more at the beginning of the third quarter when junior running back Abe Willows scored with a three-yard rushing touchdown, his first time in the end zone this season.

With the Quakers up 24-0, Willows’ points seemed to put the final nail in the coffin for Sacred Heart.

But the home team would soon flip the momentum of the game.

The Pioneers gained 216 yards in the third quarter alone, and with three touchdowns, nearly evened the score to 24-21.

“We got that first touchdown in the second half, and our kids just pulled back a little bit,” Priore said.

“We let off the accelerator and obviously the snowball effect happened.”

Sacred Heart wasn’t finished yet, as Pioneer defensive linebacker Aaron Donaldson returned a Glover fumble to the end zone to put the home side up 27-24. The Quakers blocked the ensuing extra point attempt to keep the lead at three.

Junior defensive back Conor O’Brien gave the Quakers a shot at redemption with 5:55 left in the game, when he picked off a Sacred Heart’s pass at midfield. But ultimately, the Quakers came away from the drive empty-handed after failing to convert on fourth down.

Luckily for the Red and Blue, they got another chance with 3:13 remaining to either tie or go for the win.

“We knew we just had to put points on the board,” Glover said.

“We knew the game was becoming closer and closer, and their offense really had momentum.”

On the Quakers’ last possession of the game, Brooks slashed his way through the Sacred Heart defense for a much-needed 41 yards. His efforts put Penn well within Soslow’s range, although a field goal would not be needed in the end.

Glover found Pearson on a precise corner route to score the final touchdown of the game. Soslow then put the pigskin through the posts for the point after to finalize the score at 31-27.

The Pioneers would have one final possession, but Penn’s defense would not give up the lead for a second time.

“It’s grit, resiliency. When the water comes back on, you have to push it back,” Priore said.

Despite a weaker showing in the latter half of the game that nearly culminated in a monumental collapse, the Red and Blue found a way to win.

Penn will resume Ivy play on Franklin Field next Saturday against 2017 Ivy League runner-up Columbia.

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Penn volleyball falls in straight sets to Harvard, Dartmouth Quakers are the only winless team left in Ivy play DUSTIN GHANNADI Contributing Reporter

Penn women’s volleyball has had a tough start to conference play.

The Quakers went on the road this week in search of their first Ivy win of the season. But after losing in straight sets to both Harvard and Dartmouth, Penn (3-13, 0-5 Ivy) is now the only remaining winless team in the Ivy League.

Friday night’s match against the Crimson (7-7, 2-3) illustrated promise for a talented Quaker team, but miscommunication and mistakes proved costly.

Quick play dominated the first set, with both teams constantly answering each other’s kills.

Although there was solid play from both sides, the first set was plagued with errors. Penn lost nine points due to errors in the opener while the Crimson missed four serves of their own. Later in the set, Harvard went on a 7-1 run and the Quakers never answered, dropping the frame 25-19.

The second set echoed the first as lead changes came early and often. Junior opposite hitter Madison Goldstein stood out for the Quakers with some incredibly powerful spikes, some of which were deflected to the referees’ table. As the set progressed, Harvard’s offense fell into a rhythm, taking a 21-16 lead. There seemed

to be hope for the Quakers when they closed the gap to two points, but they ultimately fell 25-21.

Set three was fast-paced as well, with the score going back and forth throughout. Each team took turns leading, as there were five ties in the first 14 points. The Quakers showed promise early on, taking a 9-7 lead. Harvard then went on consecutive late runs, going up 15-12 and 21-17.

These proved to be decisive, as the Crimson ultimately took the set 25-19.

On Saturday, the Quakers took on Dartmouth (6-9, 2-3) in Hanover, N.H. The first set was characterized by quick runs. Dartmouth gained a 3-0 lead, but the Quakers bounced back, tying the game at three. The

Red and Blue had a promising mid-set run, going up 10-7 before Dartmouth struck back. The rest of the set was a back and forth, with nine ties in a 10 point stretch.

The Big Green, however, went on a late run to win the set 25-23.

Set two was more of a chase for the Quakers, as Dartmouth jumped out to a 4-1 lead. The Big Green held this advantage for the majority of the set, leading by as much as five to go up 16-11. However, the Quakers fought back, tying the game at 18, and kept on pushing to take a 22-21 lead.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, the lead slipped away, as the Big Green took the last four points of the set to win 25-22.

The third set was another close one, with multiple lead changes.

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Sophomore outside hitter Raven Sulaimon was instrumental in the early going, helping the Quakers jump out to a 5-0 advantage. However, Dartmouth slowly chipped away, coming back to tie the set at 12. The Big Green continued on runs to go up 20-17 and 23-19.

The Quakers never erased these

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Although both of the games were close, the Quakers need to improve communication and eliminate mistakes on the floor to be successful in a competitive, talent-heavy Ivy league. The Quakers will face Columbia and Cornell this weekend at the Palestra.

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Scoring woes continue as Quakers lose to Columbia M. SOCCER

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Despite some success early in the season, coach Brian Gill and the rest of Penn men’s soccer have struggled to produce results the past few weeks.

though Penn started to level the playing field with multiple quality chances.

Senior goalkeeper Max Polkinhorne put on a clinic in net with an eight-save shutout, helping secure a decent result for his side.

Penn’s momentum came to a halt on Sunday, however, when the team struggled against the Eagles (4-0-0). A team that earned votes in the top 25, American was by no means an easy matchup. Penn went on to lose that match in disappointing fashion, 4-0.

Fuller does not believe that Sunday showed his squad playing to its potential, noting that the turnaround between games led to a tired performance from his squad.

“We didn’t have the legs to do what we wanted to do,” he said.

Also in need of remediation is his team’s scoring woes. Through two matches — the first two since former star Duke Lacroix finished his four-year tenure — Penn has not yet scored and has been out-

shot, 39-12. But according to Fuller, fixing that should not be a problem.

“It’s very easy: We have to be sharper on the ball.” Fuller said.

“We have to do a better job of perfecting our passes and getting numbers forward on the attack.”

The Quakers will travel to Florida this week for a pair of matches, starting with Florida International on Friday. Practice for the Quakers will be as important as ever this week, as the new starters look to develop a rapport with one another and develop relationships that will potentially transfer to the field at game time.

“It’s early in the year,” Fuller noted. “We have a lot of new guys playing, both first year players and returners. We have a lot of guys that haven’t seen a lot of time in the past entrusted with important roles.

“It’s a lot of new connections and new relationships that need to form and those take time.”

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It is by no means uncommon for a weekend doubleheader to feature clear high- and low-water marks.

Only this weekend for Penn men’s soccer, the high point found them threatening to summit the pinnacle of the collegiate landscape, and the low point featured a team that was almost unrecognizable its previous showing.

In the team’s toughest back-toback matchups of the season, Penn ultimately could not string together two strong performances in a row. After impressively drawing against seventh-ranked Washington on Friday, the Quakers faltered in their matinee performance on Sunday against American.

Coming out of the summer, there was no doubt that the beginning of the season was going to be a challenge for the Red and Blue (0-1-1). Their fully-renovated roster welcomed seven new full-time starters — freshmen and upperclassmen alike — and coach Rudy Fuller has never been one to shy away from a tough non-conference schedule.

“It was a difficult task for the guys. To go the full 110 minutes on Friday night and then have to travel down to DC and play a good American team, it was a tough task and we knew that going in.”

Fuller said. “We knew it was going to be a challenge, and it just proved too much for us.”

The season started on Friday with a hotly-contested match against Washington (2-0-2). After 90 minutes of play mostly controlled by the Huskies, the two teams were both still scoreless.

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Schneck earns DP Player of the Week after two-goal game FIELD HOCKEY | Junior midfielder scored the winner WILL DiGRANDE Associate Sports Editor

Dartmouth just doesn’t have an answer to Alexa Schneck.

The junior midfielder kept up her hot streak for Penn field hockey, finding the back of the goal twice and adding an assist in Saturday’s 3-2 overtime victory against the Big Green. The junior fired off a season-high six shots against the Big Green, five of which were on goal.

After not scoring in the team’s first six games, Schneck has been in top form recently.

This weekend brought Schneck to a team-high six goals on the season, including five in the

last three games.

Schneck has come up especially clutch against Dartmouth; this game resulted in her second overtime winner against the New Hampshire school. In total, Schneck has tallied four goals in her three matchups against the Big Green.

The Reading, Pa. native played a part in all three of the Red and Blue’s goals on Saturday. In the last minute of the first half, she found sophomore forward Erin Quinn in front of the goal with a cross for the game’s opening score.

With the game tied 1-1 in the second half, Scheck confidently smashed home a penalty stroke to put the Quakers back in front, but she wasn’t done there. In fact, she saved her best for last.

In the fourth minute of double-overtime and with the game deadlocked at 2-2, Schneck took a feed off a corner from senior forward Sofia Palacios and fired it into the goal for the game-winner. The score ensured a good-spirited bus ride back, but more importantly got the Quakers back in winning form right when they needed it most. With the heart of Ivy play coming up. the Quakers now have a winning record in the conference, and are very much in the thick of the title competition.

Peaking at the right time for the Red and Blue, Schneck’s performance earned her DP Sports Player of the Week and brings momentum to the team as they travel to Lafayette on Monday.

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One win. One loss. That was the record for both Penn field hockey and Dartmouth in Ivy

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For the fourth straight year, the Quakers took down the Big Green, this time in double overtime by the score of 3-2.

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