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The adjustment could affect student financial aid packages JENNA WANG Staff Reporter

The University announced a change to the nationwide Free Application for Federal Student Aid application — and Penn students applying for financial aid will be affected.

In an email sent on Oct. 4, the Office of Student Registration and Financial Services notified Penn undergraduates that FAFSA would be available three months earlier than in previous years.

Students can now start their application for the 2017-18 school year, though the deadline for the application will remain the same, on April 15. Applicants will only be able to use tax returns from 2015 for their FAFSA, SRFS Director of Communications Karen Hamilton said in an email statement.

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rom the Compass to Van Pelt Library, campus on Tuesday was a frenzy of student groups urging students to register on the last day before the Oct. 11 voter registration deadline.

Volunteers, ranging from nonpartisan groups such as Penn Leads the Vote to issue advocates like NextGen Climate, flooded Locust Walk with flyers, tables and ballot applications. That’s to say nothing of the nearly eight-foot-tall painted posters of women, with “vote” plastered across their foreheads, placed

by members of the collective, We Are Watching.

The group staffed a table outside Van Pelt throughout the morning and afternoon, handing out voter registration sheets alongside volunteers from NextGen Climate, a political advocacy group that is focused on climate change issues and opposed to Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“Though we are not endorsing any

While it may be entertaining to stand around listening to these preachers scream about the Bible, some of their words are incredibly hurtful.”

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Wharton prof. criticizes ‘hypercompetitive’ atmosphere at Penn

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Adam Grant penned a New York Times op-ed ALLY JOHNSON Staff Reporter

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Wharton professor Adam Grant claims that Penn has a more hypercompetitive culture than peer institutions including Harvard and UNC.

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Forced grading curves create a “toxic” atmosphere in classrooms, according to Wharton’s youngest-tenured and highest-rated professor.

In the Sept. 10 edition of The New York Times, professor Adam

Grant wrote an op-ed arguing forced curves — those that require students to compete against each other for a limited number of good grades — should be abolished because they create a “hypercompetitive” culture.

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Vagina Monologues wants to involve community The chapter received 15 submissions from students REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter

This year, the V-Day University of Pennsylvania College Campaign , known best for its annual production of the Vagina Monologues, has collected personal stories from Penn students. After announcing its call for submissions in early October, the group received close to 15 stories.

Currently, the producer of the 2017 production of the Vagina Monologues, College senior Olivia Graham, said she’s unsure how the stories will be incorporated into the production, since they can’t alter the script. The Vagina Monologues’ official script has always been released

by V-Day International. Because campus chapters of the nonprofit organization only apply for permission to perform the play, they can’t make changes.

The V-Day Campaign stages the Vagina Monologues in February every year to raise funds for its local beneficiary Women Orga n ized Aga inst Rape.

Originally written by Eve Ensler in 1996, the play spotlights the issues of women’s sexuality, gender-based violence and the stigmas attached to these experiences. Through the global nonprofit organization V-Day international, the play has now been performed on more than a thousand college campuses in 140 different countries.

The executive board of the group is still discussing what they will do with the stories, though Graham said the group is determined to use them to make their initiatives more community based. The goal, Graham said, is to ensure that the 2017 Vagina Monologues is co-produced by its participants.

“Our movement is made for the community,” Graham said.

“It should be built around and defined by [the community’s] experiences — particularly those individuals who don’t receive the attention and credit they deserve.”

With that in mind, the V-Day Campaign group was especially pleased to see that the stories they received from students were diverse both in form and theme.

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Penn’s chapter of the V-Day Campaign hopes to join other colleges across the country in being more inclusive of non-cisgender women in this year’s production.

“We want to expand what we help the community to talk about [with the Vagina Monologues],

especially since the script was written over 20 years ago when the landscape of social justice

was very different,” Graham said.

In recent years, the Vagina

Monologues has come under criticism for excluding non-cisgender women — or women who may not have vaginas. In 2015, Mount Holyoke College cancelled a staging of the Vagina Monologues because it offered a “narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman.” Ensler responded to the decision, writing in Time Magazine that she “never defined a woman as a person with a vagina.” Since then, campus chapters of V-Day have taken active steps to make the campaign more inclusive to non-cisgender audiences. In February this year, Washington University used part of the money they raised through the Vagina Monologues to assist the St. Louis Metro Trans Umbrella Group.

Penn’s V-Day Campaign is hoping to make similar efforts.

“The definition of womanhood and of gender is so unbelievably fluid. This year, we want to make it very clear that this space is safe for anyone regardless of their gender identity,” Graham said.

“I want people to go see the Vagina Monologues and be able to see themselves in it.”

October events at Penn celebrate LGBTQ History Month Events include movie screenings and lectures REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter

This month, events on campus will celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer identities and history, and raise awareness about current social justice issues affecting these groups.

October has been designated LGBTQ History Month since 1994.

“LGBTQ History Month is important to commemorate because it gives us an occasion to remember our history and celebrate our identities,” Nursing senior and Chair of Lambda Alliance Ian Jeong said. “It’s a time of joy and love but also a remembrance of our painful past and painful present.”

In honor of the month-long celebration, organizations around campus are hosting the following

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is a lack of belongingness and social support.

“I don’t think there’s anything inherently bad about competition,” he said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. “When I start to worry about competition is when it’s created artificially — in a way that doesn’t match how the world is structured.”

Grant also said that forced curves are not necessary to distinguish between students when faculty members “write tests that really reflect the core knowledge that they’re expected to teach in their courses.”

events: Pronoun stickers at the LGBT Center Throughout October, anyone from Penn’s community can go by the LGBT Center to pick up a pronoun sticker. These stickers are the Center’s way of commemorating National Coming Out Day, held nationwide on October 11.

National Coming Out Day was founded in 1988 to emphasize that the personal choice of coming out as LGBTQ is an important form of political activism.

“You don’t have to be protesting to make change,” Jeong said.

“Living your truth openly is a radical act, and it reminds everyone that you are here and that you have a right to be here.”

documentaries that highlight aspects of LGBTQ history.

On Saturday, Oct. 15, at 8:30 p.m., Gregory is screening “The Celluloid Closet,” a 1995 documentary that explores how LGBTQ people are portrayed in American cinema. The film was nominated for four Emmy awards in 1996 and received the Freedom of Expression Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.

On Oct. 22, at 8:30 p.m., check out the screening of “How to Survive a Plague,” a 2012 documentary on the early years of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America.

On Oct. 29, at 6 p.m., catch the screening of “Paris is Burning,” a 1990 documentary about drag queens and transgender women in 1980s New York City.

LGBTQ+ history documentary series at Gregory College House This October, Gregory College House is screening three

Lecture on queerness in the Middle East and LGBT politics under neoliberal Islamic regimes

He said data suggests these curves undermine students’ intrinsic motivation to learn and discourage collaboration.

Executive Director of the Weingarten Learning Resources Center Myrna Cohen said that collaboration is beneficial because it encourages active learning.

“Active learners learn at a higher, more sophisticated level, and collaboration provides opportunities for active learning,” she said. “Students that study together are more likely to learn more — remember more — than students studying in isolation.”

Grant said that hypercompetitive culture is a more prevalent issue at elite schools and is

especially problematic at Penn.

“I’ve been at five universities — this is by far the worst I have ever seen it. The way it is at Penn is far, far, far more damaging than at Harvard [University], or [University of] Michigan, or [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill].”

Grant was an undergraduate student at Harvard, a graduate student and an adjunct assistant professor at Michigan, a visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield and an assistant professor at UNC before he came to Penn.

Of these schools, he thinks Penn is exceptionally pre-professional.

“Penn is more

On Tuesday, Oct. 18, Dr. Evren Savci from San Francisco State University will be on campus to discuss queerness, religion and politics in the Middle East.

Savci, who is assistant professor of women and gender studies and Middle East and Islamic studies at SFSU, will be joined by Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, visiting assistant professor of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore College.

The event, which is organized by the Middle East Center and co-sponsored by the Association of Queer International Students and the LGBT Center, will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the LGBT Center.

Diversity lecture series Drop by the Penn Bookstore second-floor conference room on Friday, Oct. 28 to attend a lecture organized by the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs to

commemorate LGBTQ month.

The lecture, which will address how to create safer spaces in

professional settings, is free for all to attend. It starts at 12 p.m. and ends at 1:30 p.m.

pre-professional than any elite institution that I’ve had exposure to, and the pressure kicks in earlier to make sure your grades are perfect and to have a great internship,” he said.

“When I was at Harvard, I literally did not know what internships were — and not only did I not get one the summer after junior year, I didn’t know people who had them either for the most part,” he added. “The fact that we have freshmen who are getting internships, to me, is absolutely absurd.”

Grant said his goals in writing the New York Times piece were threefold. He hoped institutions would set policies to forbid forced grading curves and professors would abandon them. He also hoped to suggest changes beyond abandoning forced curves.

“It’s not enough just to take away the curve — we also need to think about building the kind of community in the classroom that enables students to help each other,” he said.

In his op-ed, Grant explained how he changed grading policies in his class so that students would be rewarded for collaborating during their exam preparation. After implementing these policies, he saw an increase both in teamwork and in average exam scores.

Cohen praised the class structure described in Grant’s article as “a model of course design.”

“It’s a great example of an instructor being very creative within a course to develop a culture of collaboration and students reaching out to one another,” she added.

Grant said he was “encouraged” by the feedback he has received on the op-ed. University presidents and deans told him they have convened discussions about this issue at their institutions.

Regarding possible changes in policy at Penn, Grant said, “I have heard from a number of people who are in positions of influence to do something about this, and I know it’s an active

topic of discussion.”

Mered it h Stone, sen ior associate director of communications for the Undergraduate Division of the Wharton School of Business, wrote in a statement to the DP that grading method decisions are at the discretion of individual undergraduate course instructors at Wharton and at Penn.

“Any effort to devise a policy constraining this discretion would be subject to faculty vote, and there is no consensus view on grading among our faculty,” she wrote. “The Undergraduate Division does not have the authority to create policies that would require or forbid a particular grading method or determine the level of collaboration appropriate for a given class. The Division does, however, encourage faculty members to consider the pros and cons of various grading methods and advocates for a collaborative and supportive academic environment at Wharton.”

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October has been designated LGBTQ History Month since 1994 and celebrates all identities, queer history and activism.

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‘YOUR BODY, YOUR BALLOT’ On Tuesday, posters of women with phrases like “GRAB TRUMP BY THE BALLOT” lined campus near College Green. Protesters from the “We Are Watching” collective made the signs to oppose the Republican nominee.

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Sachs family donates $15 million to support the arts at Penn

The donation will fund the Sachs Arts Innovation Hub JENNA WANG Staff Reporter

Penn announced Tuesday a $15 million donation for the creation of the Sachs Arts Innovation Program.

The gift came from 1967 Wharton graduate Keith L. Sachs and 1969 College graduate Katherine Sachs, who have a long track record in donating to the arts at Penn. This latest donation represents the single largest donation across the arts in the school’s

history, according to a press release from Penn News.

The donation will go towards building the Sachs Arts Innovation Hub, which will be located in the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, as well as supporting a range of arts-related projects and programs across the University.

The Sachs have previously donated to the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Department of History of Art in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Fine Arts in the School of Design. Keith Sachs cited a need to integrate overall support for the arts across Penn as the main driver

behind his and his wife’s donation.

“Those departments that we supported were all anxious to have us increase our giving to one or the other of them,” he said. “We decided that we would really like to do something that was more overarching and all-encompassing than just to continue to support individual departments or organizations.”

The Sachs said it took them around a year and a half from the genesis of the idea of the donation to the announcement on Tuesday in order to fully develop the program.

However, the couple has been working much longer to bring

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awareness and appreciation for art into the community. Keith Sachs, the former CEO of Saxco International, sits on the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees, while Katherine Sachs is a member of the University’s Design Review Committee and the ICA Board of Overseers.

“Trying to weave the arts into the fabric of the University as a whole, trying to raise the visibility of the importance of arts in our lives, has been something I’ve been working on for almost 20 years,” Katherine Sachs said.

According to the University press release, the Sachs Program

will seek to expand “sustainable curricular innovation in the arts across the University, including grants to develop courses, workshops, master classes and other learning opportunities.”

“Art is really complex thought.

Art expands the imagination,” Katherine Sachs said. “And if you think about how art affects leadership, you would want someone’s imagination to be greater or for them to be very aware of other people’s perspectives. A great leader would have a great understanding of people from different cultures.

And the more you understand that, absolutely the better leader you can

be.”

The program’s long term vision also aspires to impact the United States’ position in the world on “a very broad basis,” Keith Sachs added, as well as bring Penn into the fold of national innovation.

“What we have, what we see everyday, are companies that outsource,” he said. “What the United States potentially has going for it is our ability to innovate. My hope would be that this [program’s] creativity would eventually have an impact on the whole country’s well-being. If Penn could be at the forefront of that, I think that would be terrific.”

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OPINION Suggestions wanted SMALL TALK | Why movements today must be able to criticize themselves

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In June, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York signed into law an executive order that created a blacklist of entities that have boycotted or divested from Israel (commonly associated with the boycott, divest and sanction, or “BDS,” movement), banning them from receiving taxpayer funding. In an opinion piece that Cuomo wrote for the Washington Post, he claims that the policy is justified due to the fact that BDS is “an insidious economic attack that is exclusively anti-Israel.”

Many others have pushed the notion that BDS is an anti-Semitic movement and because of this, it is extremely difficult to have a productive dialogue about how the United States should support Israel. I personally do not have an opinion on the matter, but dismissing anybody who believes in divesting from Israel as anti-Semitic and then passing legislation to economically hurt people with those positions is simply antithetical to freedom of expression. It is inarguable that many BDS supporters hate

Jews and are anti-Zionist, but you don’t have to be hateful of Jews or even of Israel to disapprove of its actions and not want the U.S. to continue funding Israel.

This is symptomatic of a larger problem in the world today: We can’t accept criticism. As soon as someone presents issues he or she may have with a given facet of modern society, there is usually an instant feedback attempting to delegitimize these complaints. This has created a “hater” complex where opposing viewpoints are chalked up as bigotry, and criticisms that could potentially make the world better are either ignored — or at worst silenced.

While the Israel example may seem to be more of a conservative issue (the Republican platform specifically labels the BDS movement as anti-Semitic), let me prove that lack of being open to criticism is an issue on both sides of the aisle.

Last year, an opinion piece in The Wesleyan Argus made a fair criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement, say-

ing that it succumbs at times to extremists within the movement who have espoused an anti-police rhetoric that does their cause no justice. Many students, however, immediately began to destroy copies

silencing diversity of opinion the students at Wesleyan failed to adequately promote any justice they were seeking.

An activist group’s success is measured in whether or not it can cause the change it seeks

This is why we must be able to accept measured and logical criticism from outside sources, as they often can contain valuable insight for improving a cause.”

of the newspaper, accused the writer of racism and demanded a revocation of funds for the Argus — which was eventually passed. Eventually, the Argus’ funds were halved in a resolution passed by the Wesleyan Student Assembly.

My colleague Alec Ward wrote an excellent column last year, explaining that by

in society, which is almost exclusively done by converting a majority of people to sympathize with the cause.

By rejecting any criticism and labeling the column as racist, Black Lives Matter did itself a disservice by making it harder to connect with those who are on the fence about the movement and whose support the

movement needs most.

There are two types of criticism. One type attempts solely to anger its subject through hatred and mocking of the subject with no intention of making the situation any better for anyone involved. This kind of criticism helps no one, but it is very different from the concept of being critical in order to improve or benefit a system that suffers from flaws.

When a member of a movement like Black Lives Matter or a member of the Israeli government critiques his or her institution, it means that he or she is looking to find ways to make it function better. Understandably, though, it’s difficult to separate oneself from the situation and become impartial. This is why we must be able to accept measured and logical criticism from outside sources, as they often can contain valuable insight for improving a cause. These analyses are not always clear to those most associated with the cause.

I am sure that Cuomo and the students of Wesleyan respectively deeply care about

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Israel and the Black Lives Matter movement, but when they reject intellectual debate as bigotry they are not entertaining the notion that there may be valid solutions to their problems in those critiques.

Even if the criticisms aren’t useful, those who silence opposing viewpoints — no matter how offensive or hateful they may be — are just as intolerant as the people whose ideas they condemn.

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK is a College junior studying economics, from New York.

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Harrassment is not protest GUEST COLUMN BY THALIA MONTEIRO PARR | Please help protect our community from hate speech Last Monday, Oct. 3, I was viciously harassed on Penn Campus because of my gender identity and sexual orientation. My assaulter was “Evangelista,” one of the Christian preachers who was with Pastor Aden outside of Van Pelt Library. I have filed a harassment claim with the Penn Police, and I strongly encourage other students who have been harassed by these preachers to do the same. The Penn Police may be able to help protect us from this hate speech, but unless more people come forward, they can’t do anything.

What could they do? According to the detective I worked with at the Penn Police department, a harassment claim could result in the district attorney issuing a stay-away order, also called a restraining order. This could effectively ban the offender from our campus, since stay-away orders often require the

perpetrator to stay 500 feet away the victim’s home, place of employment and school at all times. But even if your harassment claim isn’t accepted, the police will keep it on record (strengthening future cases), and your harasser will be informed of your complaint via a ceaseand-desist letter. If Aden et al. start getting enough of these, it may convince them to tone down their hate speech.

Let me make something clear: I am not an opponent of free speech. To be sure, Pastor Aden and his associates have the right to speak their minds on Locust Walk, a public space. But there is a big difference between preaching to a crowd and directly attacking individuals — which is exactly what they have done to me and others. “Evangelista” is not allowed to get in my face and scream, “God gave you a penis!” “Don’t cut it off!” and other ob-

scenities for minutes on end. This is harassment.

It is harassment according to Penn’s code of conduct; it is harassment according to the law in the state of Pennsylvania; and harassment is not protected by

present that they wouldn’t be raped if they didn’t dress like whores. He was also at a recent All Access concert, where he told my roommate to “Put on some real clothes, faggot.” When Aden et al. last left our

While it may be entertaining to stand around listening to these preachers scream about the Bible, some of their words are incredibly hurtful.” the First Amendment.

Please also realize that Pastor Aden, the apparent leader of the group, has harassed people in our community before, both on and off campus. Friends of mine who participated in the March to End Rape Culture told me he was there yelling at the women

campus, they promised, “We’ll be back.” I say we take action before that happens.

Unfortunately, my case is unlikely to move forward because the detective was unable to find the real name and address of the woman who harassed me.

On the other hand, the po-

lice do know the name and address of Pastor Aden.

College sophomore Zahraa Mohammed, who was harassed by Aden on that same day, plans to file a complaint, but there is no guarantee anything will come of that either. So please, if you have been harassed by Aden, “Evangelista” or “JK,” take the time to file a police report with the Penn Police department. The more claims against them, the stronger each one will be.

Even if you haven’t been harassed, you can still help. If you see “Evangelista” or “JK” on our campus, call the Penn Police and let them know there is a harassment complaint against them. This will allow the police to interview them to get their names and addresses. In addition, if you see them preaching, don’t just stand there and watch. Challenge them, make noise to drown them out and video tape them.

While it may be entertaining to stand around listening to these preachers scream about the Bible, some of their words are incredibly hurtful. I personally feel less safe on campus as long as their crimes are tolerated. I don’t know how long it will be before I can walk past Van Pelt again without worrying if I will have to confront hate speech, and I walk by there almost every day. I’m sure I’m not the only person in our community who feels this way after Monday’s events, and I think we’d all breathe a sigh of relief if someone — anyone — can get Aden and his associates off our campus.

THALIA MONTEIRO PARR is a first-year Ph.D. candidates in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World program at Penn. She studies ancient foodways and is interested in bringing archaeological research to bear on modern social and political issues.

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Penn awarded grant for new science and tech center The center will focus on mechanobiology MADELEINE LAMON Staff Reporter

Penn was just awarded a $24 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a science and technology center. The virtual center will concentrate on engineering mechanobiology, an emerging field of science that focuses on how mechanics influence biological development.

The center will be led by two co-directors: Medical School and Engineering professor Yale Goldman and Engineering professor Vivek Shenoy. They and other members of Penn’s faculty will collaborate with colleagues from Washington University in St. Louis, Alabama State University, Boston University, Bryn Mawr College, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland.

The center will have an administrative hub at Penn, but will rely on faculty and

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option of filling out and finishing FAFSA earlier, without having to wait for 2016 tax returns.

However, SRFS stressed that “completing the process later in the year will in no way negatively impact your eligibility at Penn.”

For some students, the changes to FAFSA could be tricky. The government awards financial aid based on demonstrated need, which is calculated from factors like how much a student’s parents earn in the last year, shown through annual tax returns. Students whose parents’ income varies greatly year to year, like College freshman Daniel Gonzalez, may have trouble securing adequate financial aid if they aren’t allowed to use their most recent 2016 tax returns.

researchers from various partner institutions.

It will host three main integrated research streams within the field of mechanobiology: examining forces at the molecular, cellular and organismal level. Associate faculty members at each level work cooperatively to further knowledge in the field as a whole.

“The real goal of the center is to tie these different levels together and to not only obtain this foundation to understand the basic biology, but to use this biology to build novel devices,” said E. Michael Ostap, a professor of physiology and director of the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute.

Researchers hope to use the knowledge gleaned from their integrated research in order to create practical products.

Some believe that they could eventually create pesticides that function by responding to mechanical vibrations, or even organs-on-chips, which allow for drug testing under very specified conditions.

“I was talking to a financial aid advisor, and she told me that you can’t use 2016 data,” Gonzalez said. “My dad hasn’t held the same job for longer than a year, and my mom, not longer than two years.

So not being able to show that ‘Oh hey, my mom got a new job’ is kind of worrisome.”

Gonzalez, a first-generation college student, added that many first-generation students like him tend to face similar family income circumstances.

“The issue for our community is that for a lot of us, our financial situation is changing constantly, year to year, and a difference of a few hundred dollars makes the biggest impact on our financial aid statement,” said College sophomore Lyndsi Burcham, secretary of Penn First, a student organization catered towards firstgeneration students. “Not being

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Mechanobiology is an emerging field that examines the effect of mechanics on biological development of living systems. Penn was awarded a multi-million dollar grant to pursue this field of study.

“If you can understand how nature has solved the problem of sensing mechanics in different systems then you can engineer and design new

able to substantially represent our true financial situation, that’s a disadvantage to us, because we may be in more need than we’re able to reflect on FAFSA.” When the change was announced, Burcham said, many students in Penn First were “really frustrated” and had “a lot of misconceptions [about] what was going to happen.”

Burcham said the group has reached out to Hamilton at SRFS to get answers to some of the questions members raised.

“This was a huge change, and this wasn’t really something [Penn was] prepared for, so now they’re kind of facing a backlash from it,” Burcham said. “They know that students have been upset by it, and they are really sorry about that.

Since meeting with Karen I feel much more assured that they are going to do things that will benefit

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systems to introduce new technologies, new controllers for existing systems,” said Robert Mauck, a Medical School professor.

not only the Penn First community, but all students at Penn.”

To alleviate the information gap between the year-by-year tax returns in FAFSA, Penn offers its own financial aid supplement that allows students to state if their household income situation has changed significantly outside what their official returns indicate.

Hamilton said the SRFS will also review 2016 tax returns if students request it for Penn’s financial aid packages.

However, federal aid and school-given financial aid are separate spheres, and some students remain worried about the amount of federal aid they will receive in the upcoming academic year.

“When it comes down to it, FAFSA decides federal aid,” Burcham said. “And if that’s where most of our aid is coming from, we can’t afford to lose it.”

The center is also heavily focused on education and outreach within the field.

“Graduate students are the main focus of the educational

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candidates, we have a few voter registration forms,” said College senior Syra Ortiz-Blanes, one of the group’s co-founders. “We are against Donald Trump for his misogyny.”

In front of the Penn Colonial Center, volunteers from Penn Leads the Vote, a nonpartisan voter mobilization group run out of the Fox Leadership Center, said they registered close to 400 members of the Penn community since the beginning of the semester, including close to 100 on Tuesday.

“There was definitely a last second rush,” said College junior Daniel Lilling, one of the PLTV staffing the table. “People finally came around.”

Pennsylvania has one of the

program,” said Rebecca Wells, a Medical School professor and the director of the center’s educational program. “But we’ve really felt that if we want to create a community of integrated mechanobiologists, then we need to include post docs, who are already in our labs, we need to include undergraduates, and we need to include the faculty themselves.”

Currently, possible plans include programs for high school teachers and summer boot camps and online courses for students. Wells said the undergraduate programs are aimed at attracting people to the graduate programs.

As the center attracts and connects more researchers in the field, the leaders are hopeful that the wealth of academic knowledge will prompt new ideas.

“The outcomes of this are hopefully products that change our world based on a better and improved fundamental understanding of mechanobiology,” Mauck said.

earliest voter registration deadlines in the country, along with 13 other states who demand voters register 30 days before Election Day. The Clinton campaign has worked to register voters since at least New Student Orientation, when incoming freshmen were greeted with queries from volunteers asking them to switch their voter registration to Pennsylvania, a perennial swing state.

On their Facebook page, Penn for Hillary posted, “We all know how high the stakes in this election are - we can elect a horrifying bigot with no knowledge of anything necessary to be president, or we can elect the most qualified person to run for the presidency.”

Staff Reporter Carl-Emmanuel Fulghieri contributed reporting.

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was rewarded for his loyalty to the game he loved. In a decision that would not be formally announced until the culmination of his senior season, Fuller was offered his first coaching job as an assistant under Tabatznik for the Hoyas. “I told him he couldn’t tell anybody, but I’m not sure if he followed through on that,� Tabatznik said. “It was quite an interesting meeting after the season when I brought the team together and told them that Rudy would be our new assistant.�

As if being hired as an assistant before graduating is not rare enough, this was also at a time when soccer as an American sport was still finding its footing. Fuller acknowledged the unique opportunity that he was presented. “I was incredibly fortunate to get the opportunity to coach under Keith after I graduated,� Fuller said. “Keith has had a tremendous amount of success at all levels, so obviously that was a tremendous influence on me as a coach.�

However peculiar the hire

might have seemed to an outsider, Tabatznik insists that offering the job to Fuller was something he felt immensely confident with. “When he was a player, he would always be interested in the reasoning behind all the decisions I made,� Tabatznik said. “Some of the time those decisions would be something going against Rudy. He showed a great maturity in seeing the tactics of the game. When you hire someone, you usually are just hoping they’ll be good. With Rudy it was a no-brainer that he’d be a success.�

at Penn, my office was right across from Rudy’s so I got to know him really well,� Pososki said. “The first thing that caught my eye was definitely the way he dealt with his guys as people. It’s easy to look at them as players, but he would really invest in getting to know them as people.�

Oftentimes, the lessons that Fuller teaches on the field are about more than soccer. Former Penn forward and Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Duke Lacroix remembers how Fuller extended his soccer philosophy into life lessons. “His big message that he constantly reinforced throughout my four years was to not be ‘short of the line,’ essentially to not sell yourself short on the field,� Lacroix said. “That message was meant directly to be about our work in practice but also applies to life in general. You have to put in the work to get the result you want in anything.�

Senior midfielder Matt Poplawski also recalls a notable example of Fuller impressing a wise message on the team. “Coach Fuller’s message to

A Father Figure Fuller has many traits as a coach that make him unique.

The most notable and integral characteristic in Fuller’s unique coaching style is the close-knit relationships he develops with his players.

Current assistant coach Pete Pososki, who worked as an assistant for the women’s soccer team from 2005 to 2010, attests to the importance Fuller puts into creating bonds with his players. “When I started working here

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Poplawski said. “It’s something that I definitely cast on my life outside of soccer as well.�

In addition to being a trusted figure on the field, players feel incredibly comfortable talking to Fuller about off-the-field issues as well. “I feel comfortable coming to coach about anything,� senior forward Alec Neumann said. “Whether it’s academics, personal life, or my future, I’ve talked to Rudy about it all. He’s much more than a coach, he’s a mentor.�

The bonds forged between Fuller and his players have another, more evident byproduct — the performance on the field.

The way that Fuller coaches his team makes the players desperate to earn a win not just for themselves, but for Fuller. “Above anything else, the relationship a coach has with his players is important,� Tabatznik said. “There’s no better way for a player to want to play their best than to know the coach behind him supports him 100 percent.�

Pososki agrees with Tabatznik, identifying Fuller’s player-management skills as what allows him to take the Quakers to greater heights. “Rudy’s X’s and O’s are great,

everyone can see that whenever the team steps out on the field,�

Pososki said. “What people don’t see is all the behind the scenes managing that he does. It’s next level. His care for all our guys puts him in a position of real respect. The players want to go out there and perform for him.�

Lacroix, Neumann and Poplawski all cited the same example of a game where they really felt Fuller’s influence on their play. Three years ago, the final game of the season loomed with the Ivy League title still up for grabs. In a game the Quakers had to win, Fuller made sure his players were prepared for the pressure-cooker environment they were about to walk into. “I’m pretty sure it’s still on video somewhere, but Coach Fuller gave one of the best pregame talks I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to,�

Poplawski said. “We came out flying that game. I think we scored two goals in the first 15 minutes and went on to win the game and the Ivy League championship.� “What he told us before that game still remains with me today,� Neumann added. “He reminded us to just go out there and leave our mark, win or lose.� “We just came out from the start firing,� Lacroix said. “Everything went our way that game.

Even though we only won by a couple goals, it wasn’t really that close. We all felt it. It was the culmination of all the hard work we had put in and all the lessons that Rudy had been stressing all year long.�

Perhaps the most telltale anecdote that sums up Fuller’s close-knit relationships with his players is a story that, as Lacroix puts it, he’s “never seen before� and “blew him away.� “I know a player who was sick one night before an early-morning lift,� Lacroix said. “He was really struggling and ended up being admitted into the infirmary that night. Wouldn’t you know it, Coach Fuller was in that infirmary at 3 a.m. to check up on the guy.�

One thing is for certain — Fuller has worked for all the respect and plaudits he has garnered throughout his years at Penn. Whether working tirelessly to improve himself as a player and coach or caring for his players on and off the field, his impact extends far beyond the touchline at Rhodes Field. “The impact that he leaves on his players is something that lasts well after their four years at Penn,� Tabatznik said. “Rudy is special because he sees the soccer field for what it is — a place for important lessons to be taught.�

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second goal really gave the team the confidence we needed to put away two more goals in the second half.�

Klingelhofer, recovering from a concussion, played only her second game of the year Tuesday night. “I was super nervous leading up to it, and I am happy how the team performed tonight,� Klingelhofer said. “It was great to be back, the team has been so welcoming and helpful with my return.�

The game on Tuesday night marked Penn’s fourth four-goal victory of the 2016 campaign. “On paper, obviously Delaware State is not the strongest team,�

Van Dyke said. “But, it was nice to regroup and put some goals in the back of the net.�

The Hornets were coming off a loss to LIU Brooklyn on Saturday and are 3-8-0 on the season. “We are realistic and know that there is a greater challenge facing us going to Dartmouth,� Van Dyke said. “But we were able to work on a few things tonight which was great.�

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in Hannover on Saturday night. The Big Green are 6-5 this season, and 4-3 at home. “Ivy games are definitely more challenging, and a little higher speed,� Van Dyke said. “For us, dropping a game to Columbia when we were obviously the better team is somewhat defeating, but we are in a good position, and we are focused on Dartmouth on Saturday.�

Although Delaware State does not have the record that a Dartmouth or Columbia has, the Red and Blue still had an impressive offensive showing on Tuesday night, outshooting the Hornets, 25-1. “We know that if we stay focused, bring that energy, and have the correct mindset leading into every game, good things will happen,�

Van Dyke said. “We didn’t do that against Columbia, and we paid the hard price. “Going into Dartmouth, we are going to have to get a quick start like we did tonight and be ready and mentally prepared to play against them.�

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Red and Blue rookies carve out roles off the bench VOLLEYBALL | Players

ready to jump in any time

KATIE BONTJE Contributing Reporter

With such a large team, Penn volleyball coach Kerry Carr made clear from day one that she does not guarantee time on the court, but can guarantee time on the bench.

Carr has a team whose strength comes from each player’s ability to come into the game at any moment, a skill that is necessary with such a deep roster of 23 girls. This is why sophomore Julia Tulloh and freshmen Ariana Wiltjer and Zoe Macartney’s “team-first” mentality and fierce work ethic are so critical to their individual and collective success as a team.

“Julia, Ariana and Zoe are three girls who epitomize what the whole chemistry of the team is like,” Carr said.

After coming in as a walk-on her freshman year, Tulloh’s incredible work ethic and positive attitude made her a unique asset to the team from day one. Her own enthusiasm — potentially electric — contributes to what she considers the team’s ultimate strength.

“Everyone is always ready to go in, and everyone’s confident that whoever goes in off the bench with make a difference and change the energy on the court,” the sophomore said.

“What’s so special about Julia is that she finds her way onto the court and contributes,” Carr added. “It was fun to see her develop a serve that was an ace serve that we needed at times.”

Tulloh said her goals for the season include continuing to push her teammates in practice, improving her serve and to play strong defense to make her teammates better. She emphasized that, coming off of two losses against Columbia

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Freshman Zoe Macartney has made a name for herself on the court, contributing timely kills whenever her team calls on her.

and Cornell, the team “needs to let go of [its] frustrations.”

“Both Columbia and Cornell were close games,” Tulloh explained. “We just need to finish when we have the chance.”

Standing at 6-foot-5, with a powerful swing and a knack for blocking shots, Wiltjer is also a force to be reckoned with.

Wiltjer, like Macartney, is not a starter; she provides steadfast support of her teammates while on the bench. She emphasized that having such a large team helps her mentally prepare for games.

“The energy in the locker room is so electric that by the time we step onto the court we are so hyped.

We are all warm and ready to go,”

Wiltjer said.

Putting the team before one’s self is a universal philosophy for this team. Particularly with a team as large as Penn’s, it’s almost difficult for singular figures to stand too far out.

“On the court during practice, we all hold each other accountable, watching and helping each other out,” Wiltjer said. “Although there is competition for spots on our team, we all support and encourage each other no matter what.”

Wiltjer’s personal goals mainly consist of getting healthy and strong, having come off of three concussions, the most recent of which was in November 2015. With a matchup against 11-3 Yale looming, she and her teammates continue to push each other in practice.

“If the intensity isn’t there we tell each other that we need to step it up and increase the energy on the court,” Wiltjer said. “We’re all stepping it up for this weekend because

we all know that every match is important, and every practice is an opportunity to get better.”

Macartney, the second tallest girl on the team next to Wiltjer at 6-foot3, is also no small force both on the bench and on the court. However, despite her individual skills and stature, the team always comes first for Macartney. One of her favorite parts of their bench is their unique cheer squad called “The Bobs.”

“I love them honestly,” Macartney said. “They are always cheering.

We have cheers for each person, and three different calls that the refs make. When I’m on the court, and if I get a point and I hear my cheer, I know my team has my back.“ Throughout the season, Macartney personally wants to grow as a player and as a teammate.

“I look forward to growing with other freshmen by learning how everyone plays together on the court so that in years to come we will be an incredibly strong class.”

Woods shines in first season back on the gridiron with Quakers SPRINT FB | Junior hadn’t noteworthy 13 times. This second-

played sport in six years

JOSH STONBERG Contributing Reporter

Penn sprint football wrapped up its fourth consecutive win to start the season this past weekend to head into an bye week still undefeated.

Of the multitude of players who have raised their game this season, junior defensive back Tracey Woods has stood out as one of the most improved players on the roster.

If Woods seems like a new face, it’s because he is only in his first year with the Quakers. In fact, he hadn’t played football at all for the last six years.

Through four games, Woods has four pass breakups and one interception to go along with 10.5 total tackles. Looking at the how the defense has done this year as a whole also shows Woods’ importance to the team.

Penn’s defense has allowed only four passing touchdowns through its first four games, while picking off the opposing quarterback a

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more than two weeks of the official swim season have passed.

Although I’ve technically held the title of captain since last May, I’m still figuring it all out. Most days, I have more questions than answers.

The day-to-day interactions on most sports teams at Penn don’t leave room for mid-season performance reviews or exit interviews.

As Pottruck continued talking about the role of a captain, a nagging question formed in the back of my head. Was I doing enough as captain? Or worse yet, was I doing too much?

That’s when Pottruck imparted his most valuable piece of advice to his audience of

ary is not just opportunistic though — they have proven capable of shutting down the opposing team’s passing attack each week by only allowing 5.5 yards per passing play.

For contrast, Penn’s offense has averaged 10.1 yards per passing play this season.

Though it may seem like a surprise that one of the team’s top players played his last football game before this season six years ago, Woods’ childhood experience with the sport and dedication to relearning the game this offseason paved the way for the his successful season thus far.

Woods’ football career began when he was just in elementary school, but by the time he reached high school, he began to develop interests in other sports, joining the cross country and bowling teams for St. Augustine High School in New Orleans. Though he was no longer playing organized football, his love for the sport never dwindled. Woods admitted that quitting football was a regrettable decision.

“In hindsight, it wasn’t the best choice,” he said, “because every every year I didn’t play I just missed

twenty-something jocks.

“Not everyone is the “follow me” kind of leader — vocal, outspoken, high energy kind of person that rallies everyone with a lot of rah-rah kind of cheerful stuff and gets everyone to follow them up the hill,” he said. “Sometimes leadership is much more quiet.

“Leadership is a lot about listening.”

According to co-keynote speaker Mike Useem, the executive director of Wharton’s center for leadership and change management, Pottruck was tapped for the CEO position at Charles Schwab because of his background in marketing. Put another way, “he had his ear to the ground.”

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being on the field, and it’s not really something you can just recreate in a pickup game.”

Joining the sprint football team this year allowed Woods to finally get the feeling back that he had lacked since before high school.

Picking up a sport after a sixyear layoff is not an easy task. To further complicate matters, Woods was also making the transition from wide receiver to cornerback. The difference between focusing on the quarterback, as he had learned as a wide receiver, and staying with his man as a cornerback was hard at first, and Woods will be the first to tell you that during the spring, he struggled at practice.

“I was used to playing receiver and having the ball thrown at me,” he said. “So now I’m here at practice paying attention to the quarterback rather than the guy I’m supposed to be covering and just blowing coverage in every rep.”

Over the summer he studied defensive footwork and technique, learning how to read a receiver’s hips, how to play both man and zone coverage and bait the quarterback into a risky pass. When it came time for preseason practices

in August, Woods was a whole new player, ready to take on the daunting task of a starting cornerback role.

Woods has been around successful football teams before. As a senior in high school, his school’s team featured current LSU superstar Leonard Fournette, who led the team to an 8-1 regular season.

Though Woods was not a member of the team, he still felt the energy such a successful season was able to bring to the school, and for Penn sprint football that same type of energy is currently there.

“This whole year the coaching staff has been saying this is a special team,” he said, “and now it’s time for us to finish it.”

With a 4-0 record, big wins over Navy and Army, and only three games left on the schedule, this could be the year they do secure the title, on the back of Woods and the defense’s strong play.

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After quitting football midway through high school, junior defensive back Tracey Woods is shining in his first year with Penn sprint football.

leader out of touch with his or her followers is little more than a passionate, if misguided, rhetor.

Walking out of the Kozloff Room on Sunday night, I made myself a promise. There are still 19 weeks left before my collegiate swimming career comes to a close.

In those remaining weeks, I want to be a better listener.

While I can’t claim the same wisdom 46 years of life outside University City has brought Pottruck, I can cling tightly to that one piece of invaluable advice.

I can just shut up and listen.

LAINE HIGGINS is a College senior from Wayzata, Minn., and is a senior sports reporter of The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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ive MLS draft picks. Four NCAA Tournament berths. Three Ivy League titles. Two Ivy League Players of the Year.

One coach.

In his 19th season as the head coach of Penn men’s soccer, Rudy Fuller’s love for the game has morphed into a successful and impactful tenure as the program’s leader, with Fuller serving not only as a coach but also a mentor for each of his athletes.

A Student of the Game Ever since he started playing the game at a young age, Fuller knew he wanted his life to revolve around soccer.

“I grew up in Bowie, Maryland, and for whatever reason soccer was a big sport in that town,” Fuller said. “Coming through middle school and into high school, there was a really strong pull to soccer.

Whenever I had free time after school, I would go with my friends to ‘the wall,’ which was literally just a brick wall that we would kick the ball off of to each other. That’s about the age I caught the bug.”

Fuller’s youth coaches played an important role in the development of his soccer skills, and, more importantly, his interest in the game. Coaches like Graham Ramsay (youth club team coach), Keith Tucker and Curtis Lande (Olympic development coaches) and George Kallas (high school coach) all substantially influenced his views on the game.

One of the biggest influences that Fuller attributes his development as a player and a coach to is Keith Tabatznik, who coached Fuller beginning at age 14 through an Olympic development program and continued to coach him at Georgetown.

“Keith is a big part of who I’ve become as a coach,” Fuller said. “I try to get our team to play a possession-oriented attacking game, and that’s certainly something that I learned under coaches like Keith.”

Tabatznik agrees that the style he implanted as Georgetown coach had a significant influence on Fuller’s coaching philosophy. He even went further, suggesting that he and Fuller share many of the same recruiting trends.

“Rudy developed his own style, but there’s no

doubt his time at Georgetown helped mold that style,” Tabatznik said. “I think there are a lot of similarities to be drawn in everything from the type of game we play to the type of players we recruit.”

While Tabatznik was directly teaching Fuller a soccer philosophy, something a bit more nuanced was happening behind the scenes. The ideals that Fuller coaches not only emulate that of the Georgetown team he played for, but also that of his own playing style and abilities.

“I certainly wasn’t a guy who was scoring 20 goals a season,” Fuller said. “I wasn’t blessed with the physical gifts of being 6-foot-4 or an athletic specimen. My career as a player was based in doing the little things that helped teams win games, doing the dirty work so to speak. I take a lot of pride in the personality of our team here at Penn; I try to encourage that kind of mentality in all the guys the second they step on the field for the first time.”

Tabatznik echoed Fuller that what he lacked in physicality, he made up for with his soccer intelligence and attitude.

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While an undergraduate in the Wharton school in the late 1960s, Pottruck wrestled and played football, earning MVP honors in both sports during his senior year and being named captain of the wrestling team. After Penn, Pottruck guided Charles Schwab from an anonymous discount trading company to a global industry leader during two decades with the firm.

When Pottruck came to campus on Sunday evening to lead a seminar for a room full of current and former Penn captains as part of the Athletic Department’s pilot Leadership Academy program, “legendary’ was how he was

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hazard a guess to say that for most captains at Penn, practice meant more than mere presence and commitment to their craft ran deep long before they were voted to be leaders in name.

During his senior year at Penn, Pottruck saw being a captain of the wrestling team as synonymous with being “a role model of commitment, a role model of confidence, a role model of perseverance.”

“I got that, and I tried to live up to that responsibility,” he said. “I didn’t know what else I was supposed to do really.”

There’s no handbook for how to be an effective captain. Sure, there are more books on leadership than there is time to read them. But knowing how to define your role given the unique makeup of personalities on your team can’t be deduced from the pages of some hardcover book.

As I write this column, a little

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What it means to be a captain described by Senior Associate Athletic Director Roger Reina.

Pottruck’s message was not one of hubris, though.

“What I’ve learned more than anything is that almost no success comes from individual effort,” he said in his opening remarks. “Your ability to not only contribute to the team but to help lead the team even if you’re not the official leader is an immensely important skill.”

The most obvious leaders in an athletic context are the captains of each team. They shake the hands of their opponents before the coin toss, they wear armbands over their jerseys on game day, they are often the first players to be interviewed

by Daily Pennsylvanian sports reporters.

Accepting a captaincy means that practice is about more than just showing up and going through the motions and commitment to the sport extends far beyond the 20hour weekly practice time limit determined by the Ivy League. I’d

blessed with the athletic abilities of some other guys, but he made up for it with his incredible soccer IQ,” Tabatznik said. “He had to use his brain to be successful at the Division I level.”

One story in particular stuck out in Tabatznik’s mind that exemplified Fuller’s dedication to excellence on the field.

“I remember when Rudy was a senior in 1990, we had just finished up a game at Providence where we had come from behind twice to win the game 4-3,” Tabatznik said. “Everyone was celebrating on the bus, when all of a sudden Rudy gets up and starts chewing everyone out, saying things like ‘Why are we celebrating tying this piece of crap team?’ He apparently had forgotten the score and thought we had tied instead of won the game. It just goes to show how invested he was. He wouldn’t have been satisfied with a tie and wanted the players to hold themselves to a higher standard. Of course, we did actually win that game, so we never let him hear the end of it.”

Following his junior year at Georgetown, Fuller

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In sports, it is good to have a short memory.

So far this season, Penn women’s soccer has shown that’s exactly what they have, downing non-conference opponent Delaware State on Tuesday night, 4-0, following a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Columbia over the weekend.

“The one thing about this team is that, no matter what, they don’t like to lose,” Penn coach Nicole Van Dyke said after the game. “Last time we walked away and didn’t get the result we wanted, we went out the next game and played extremely well.”

After a tough 1-0 loss to Harvard on Sept. 24, the Quakers

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A second-minute goal from Emma Loving helped kickstart Penn women’s soccer’s offense as they cruised in Tuesday’s 4-0 win.

(7-3-1) turned in a dominating 5-0 victory at Cornell the following weekend.

A large part of their success in these types of games have been early scoring. Against Cornell on Sept. 30, the Red and Blue scored four times in the opening half. On Tuesday night,

they scored twice in the first 45 minutes, with the first goal by freshman forward Emma Loving coming in the first two minutes, her team-leading sixth on the season.

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