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orgive Penn football coach Ray Priore if he doesn’t want to address the elephant in the room.

“I’ll be quite honest with you, I really don’t give much thought to it,” the second-year head coach said. “For us, it’s just putting the ball down and playing another game.”

But no matter how much the Quakers try to downplay it, the overarching storyline at Franklin Field on Saturday will be one thing: The Return.

This weekend, Penn football will tackle its Ivy League home opener against Columbia, bringing forth the secondever showdown between Priore and his former boss, Al Bagnoli.

For Bagnoli, who led the Penn program to nine Ivy titles from 1992 to 2014 while Priore served as his defensive coordinator, Saturday will mark his first time serving as the opposing coach on the sidelines of Franklin Field since he retired at the end of 2014. Since February 2015, he has helmed the Lions after making the decision to quickly unretire.

“To be honest, there is no distraction with our kids,” Priore said.

“They’re thinking about each day individually, and as the game comes this weekend, we’ll think about just that.”

Bagnoli, for his part, declined comment on his upcoming return, saying he didn’t want to shift the focus away from his team.

The ice was already broken last season, when Priore’s squad spoiled Columbia’s 2015 Homecoming with a 42-7 blowout. Out-gaining the Lions, 417-199, Penn gave Priore the early bragging rights in a coaching matchup previously thought to be inconceivable.

“You know Coach [Bagnoli] and I have a long history, and we have ultimate respect for each other. Everyone made more of it than it was,” Priore said. “We went in as friends, came out friends, and still are friends.”

Indeed, the relationship between Priore and Bagnoli goes back for decades — but one thing that’s lasted almost as long has been SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

Penn employee blasts Trump in Twitter tirade

Preacher who drew campus backlash arrested in Ga.

Brother Ross Jackson was arrested for elbowing a Univ. of Ga. student

The staffer criticized Trump’s business ventures

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REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter

Brother Ross Jackson, one of the preachers who has appeared in recent weeks in front of College Hall spreading anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, was arrested Tuesday after elbowing a student at the University of Georgia.

Jackson hit the student during a verbal confrontation in which the two individuals stood eye-to-eye, standing about an inch apart, according to The Red & Black, the student newspaper at the University of Georgia.

The student who was hit at the University of Georgia, Keaton Law, said it was his “personal mission” to remove the preachers from campus, the newspaper reported.

Law screamed at Jackson and eventually received an elbow to the face, which prompted police to escort Jackson off the campus. Jackson’s wife and two children joined him in protesting, but after he was escorted away by the police, the wife and two children collected their signs and began to walk away towards the student center parking lot.

“I said ‘I’m going to drown them out. I’m going to talk over them,’” Law said in an interview with The Red & Black. “Eventually it just became too much for him and he elbowed

Kelly Writers House Assistant Director for Development Arielle Brousse never expected that she would become a spokesperson against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

On Sept. 26, after the first presidential debate, Brousse fired off 14 tweets about her family’s experience in Atlantic City, N.J., during

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Arielle Brousse, a Kelly Writers House employee, saw her tweets about Donald Trump’s exploitative business practices go viral.

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Trump’s construction boom there.

“Donald Trump’s systematic monopolization of trade, mismanagement of funds, and destruction of community is personal to me,” she tweeted.

Trump’s business ventures in Atlantic City contributed to a casinoindustry bubble that has left many in Brousse’s hometown of Smithville, N.J. unemployed and in debt. Just three days ago, the Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, where Brousse’s mother worked as a waitress for SEE TRUMP PAGE 3

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Meet the man behind Penn’s social media accounts Matt Griffin has overseen Penn’s accounts since 2012 DAVID MURRELL Staff Reporter

It was midnight on Jan. 5, the night before the Common App was due, and high schoolers were freaking out on Twitter.

There was some confusion — was the application due at midnight for everyone? Or did West Coasters have three more hours to hit submit?

Matt Griffin was sitting at home when he noticed the students dropping Penn’s name.

He logged into the Penn Twitter account, and confirmed that the West Coast did indeed have three more hours.

Then he began tweeting encouragement to those procrastinating seniors, at one point even quoting Drake: “I know when that hotline bling, that can only mean one thing.

The supplement is due.”

Griffin, senior manager of New Media Communications at Penn, takes great pleasure in these spontaneous moments.

As director of the University’s entire social media presence, he is able to reach an immense number of people, from prospective students to current students to alumni.

“Would those students have finished their applications anyway? Probably,” Griffin said. “But it was a nice bit of interaction.”

College freshman Elena Hoffman was one of the students tweeting at the account.

She heard from some friends that Penn was replying to their tweets, so she too jumped into the fray.

She thought she was probably communicating with an admissions officer, and was somewhat worried that the admissions committee might link her Twitter account to her application and see this less professional side of her.

But then she saw the tweets quoting Hamilton, Pitbull and Taylor Swift. “I was thinking, wait, this makes me feel less

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eight years, became the latest in Trump’s failed casinos. The Taj closed its doors permanently on Monday, costing nearly 3,000 people their jobs.

“Trump orchestrated his own mini version of the housing bubble in my hometown,” tweeted Brousse, who graduated from the College in 2007. “It’s insulting. It’s gaslighting. To watch a man destroy you, and to hear him tell other people how good and powerful it makes him.”

Brousse wrote these tweets to express the feeling of bewilderment she felt while watching Trump on television. She had not hashtagged them or directed them to any other account. When she woke up the next morning however, those tweets had over a thousand retweets and likes.

Overnight, her story had gone viral.

Within the next 24 hours, Brousse was contacted by various news outlets to elaborate on her story. The Monday after the

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me in the face and it pushed me.”

Law plans topress charges.

In early September, Jackson and other Christian preachers came to Penn’s campus and designated LGBTQ students, Catholics, Jews and Muslims as all bound for hell.

During the two times they visited campus, the preachers drew more than a hundred counter-protesters wielding signs and pride flags and playing Kanye West’s album “The Life of Pablo.”

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nervous about Penn, maybe this is what the community is like,” Hoffman said. “It’s the Ivy League, obviously it’s very prestigious, but it doesn’t mean they can’t have fun on the side.”

Griffin, who graduated from Bucknell University in 2002 and previously worked in marketing at a publishing company and a local music school, has overseen Penn’s many social media pages since 2012. He’s purchased Snapchat filters for Hey Day and Commencement, and he’s had his tweets favorited

by Lin-Manuel Miranda and the official True Blood Twitter page. He’s posted articles highlighting the latest research from Penn faculty. In the last two weeks alone, his various posts have reached over eleven million people.

When Griffin first began, Penn’s social media accounts had only a fraction of the reach they do today. The Facebook page, which now totals more than 175,000 followers, has grown 800 percent under his watch.

The technology has been increasing at an equally exponential rate. “When I first started this, it was status updates and photos,” Griffin said.

Now there are Vines, Snapchats, Periscopes, a whole host of other social media channels that either didn’t exist or were unknown when Griffin was hired.

“Four and a half years doesn’t really seem like a long time, but in the world of communications, it’s a lifetime,” Associate Vice President for University Communications Phyllis Holtzman said.

Despite the explosive growth across all of Penn’s social channels, Griffin finds himself more interested in the numbers beyond likes and follows.

He knows that on Instagram, photos of buildings do better than those of people, though people get more comments. He knows that the best time to post a photo is after 3 p.m. And he knows that alumni make up the majority of followers on both

Facebook and Twitter.

“If there’s one through-line through my career, it’s the numbers behind the stuff,” Griffin said.

Griffin uses all of this data to craft the best possible content.

He exercises exclusive control over Penn’s different accounts, posting material that originates from the University Communications office, as well as from Admissions, Athletics, Alumni Relations and many other departments.

“He works in collaboration with content producers across the University to showcase the best of Penn on our social channels,” Holtzman said.

Engineering junior Lucy Wu has followed the Penn Instagram account since her senior year of high school. To this day, she likes most of the photos Griffin posts. “I enjoy seeing all of the pictures of Penn,” she said. “It really makes me appreciate the Penn campus a lot more.”

In a school as decentralized and large as Penn, it can be difficult for Griffin to craft a coherent University-wide message, a challenge shared by fellow social media guru Stefan Frank, director of social media at Wharton.

When he began his job in 2013, there were hundreds of different Wharton accounts across multiple cha n nels.

Frank, who has a full-time staff of four employees and four photography interns, has worked to consolidate as many as possible.

“There’s a bit of a movement on the part of the administration on down to create one Wharton, one voice,” he said.

Whar ton is also in the process of strengthening its enterprise social media presence — the school is implementing new Customer Relationship Management software which will, according to Frank, “enhance the student and alumni experience by providing them with the most relevant and valuable content.”

Griffin, who is the only member of the University

tweets were released, she published a first-person essay on Vox.com. That same day, she was contacted by the Hillary Clinton campaign to introduce Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) at a rally in Philadelphia. Following that, on Oct. 6, Brousse wrote another article for The Washington Post, this time delving deeper into Trump’s involvement in Atlantic City and how he was able to profit even while the community reeled from his bankrupted casinos and defaulted payments.

Brousse, who has worked on development and fundraising at the Kelly Writers House since 2009, said she is still “baffled” as to how or why her tweets received so much attention. Until two weeks ago, she used her Twitter account primarily to take notes during conferences or livetweet movies she was watching.

Responses to her tweets and articles have been “overwhelmingly positive,” she said.

Given the testy nature of this election, it is no surprise that Brousse has also received numerous attacks on her character,

approaches. One student threw a condom at Jackson. Another displayed gay pornography on his computer in front of the preacher.

LGBT Center Senior Associate Director Erin Cross and others handed out lip balm and cookies to pull students away from the extremist Christian preachers. Thalia Monteiro Parr, a first-year Ph.D candidate in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World program, said in a Daily Pennsylvanian opinion column that she filed a harassment complaint with Penn Police against one of the preachers, Evangelista, who came to

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Matt Griffin serves as senior manager of New Media Communications, where he has guided prospective Penn students during application season through social media accounts like Twitter.

Communications office working entirely on social media, is more concerned with how to maintain his broad reach across the different channels. The landscape is made only more volatile by the fact that he loses a quarter of his student audience every year.

“What you do and how you personally interact with social media is far different than the student in your class four years ago would interact with social media,” he said.

Griffin is also forced to confront changing algorithms within the social networks themselves, which can sometimes slice his audience by more than half.

“Big changes aren’t announced,” he said. “You’ll just suddenly notice, ‘Hey we’re

riding high at around 10,000 reach per post’ and then the next day all of a sudden it’s 2,000.’”

But Griffin is not daunted by this task.

“I think of it very much like a game,” he said. “This move happened, what’s my countermove?”

In the case of Facebook, this has meant posting more videos and live-streams, as the platform has slowly shifted away from news. These decisions are made strategically, and only after consulting hard data.

Occasionally people tweet at Griffin assuming he’s just an intern. He chafes at this suggestion. He believes his job can’t be done by any twenty-something who uses social media.

“If your car breaks down, you don’t take it to someone who

her looks and her Jewish faith.

Over the internet, people have told Brousse that her family is “stupid” and that they would have been unemployed if not for Trump.

Perhaps the most bewildering experience, Brousse said, happened after the Kaine rally, where she introduced herself as the daughter of immigrants.

Conservative news website Breitbart News took this to mean that Brousse was Mexican-American even though she is not.

“To be a person with an opinion in this world means somebody else is going to disagree with you,” she said.

But the negative online commenters were a minority — most people responded by saying that they, or someone they knew had worked in the Trump casinos for decades and lost everything when these businesses went bankrupt.

The comments were heartening, but also made Brousse self-conscious as to whether she held the authority to be a spokesperson for communities exploited

by Trump’s business ventures.

She has not lived in Atlantic City since 2003, nor was she or her family directly affected by the recent closure of the Taj Mahal.

Nonetheless, Brousse grew up in a community where almost everyone she knew had a friend or a family member working for Trump. Stories of exploitation at the hands of the real estate mogul were pervasive.

Ultimately, what prompted Brousse to write the articles for news outlets was her mother’s encouragement.

During an election that seems unprecedented in its polarization, Brousse said personal narratives can be the building blocks for a common ground.

Despite her personal experiences, Brousse recognizes that the people backing Trump are doing so because they feel “absolutely disenfranchised.” She said she hopes her story and others can make it clear to Trump supporters that while they may be looking for a savior in this election, Donald Trump is not that person.

Recent news reports have scrutinized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s real estate projects in Atlantic City, N.J.

campus with Jackson.

“While it may be entertaining to stand around listening to these preachers scream about the Bible, some of their words are incredibly hurtful,” she wrote. “I personally feel less safe on campus as long as their crimes are tolerated.

In an interview with the DP after the preachers’ first appearance, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said, “The students are enjoying debating with these guys. We would prefer they don’t engage with them because all it does is give them a pulpit. They get off on it.”

Brother Jackson, one of the preachers who had appeared on Penn’s campus spreading anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, was arrested after elbowing a student at the University of Georgia.

can drive a car,” Griffin said.

“You take it to someone who can fix a car.”

“If I get defensive at all, it’s just that I would like people to know that it is a real thing and it does take real thought, and it’s not tossed off,” he said.

But if Griffin admits to occasionally craving some respect, he is unequivocal in stating that he does not need public recognition for his work. He’s happy to serve as the University’s allpowerful mouthpiece behind the scenes.

Just like he did that night in January, when a prospective student asked him who was running the Penn account.

“That depends who’s asking,” Griffin’s reply began.

“Just kidding. It’s Ben Franklin.”

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OPINION Discussions over disgust and diatribe GUEST COLUMN BY STEVEN SUN

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As a student once active in minority politics at Penn, I often encountered discussions of micro-aggressions and privilege. Before I share my exact thoughts, I must acknowledge that many forms of unjustified privilege exist, and that many institutions continue to perpetuate them. We should have meaningful discourse about its role in our lives, and how we can reduce the impact that circumstances outside of our control have, while maximizing the impact of our efforts and achievements.

Acknowledging this, I fear that we are beginning to mistake the genuine empathy and opportunities for discussion that words such as microaggression and privilege were originally intended for, and instead using them to justify hatred.

In my experience, nothing embodies this change from empathy to hatred more than the shift in definition of “micro-aggression.”

Originally coined by professor Chester Pierce, the word was used “to describe insults and dismissals he regularly witnessed non-

black Americans inflict on African Americans.” Since then, I believe “micro-aggression” is more aptly described as “everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership,” but which “are different from overt, deliberate acts of bigotry … because the people perpetrating microaggressions intend no offense and are unaware that they are causing harm.”

For me, however, that intent makes all the difference. This was made viscerally clear to me when I once was asked the question “Are you Chinese?” by a Caucasian acquaintance, and was later reprimanded by another friend for allowing such a question to pass unchecked. To her, it was clear that the question was a micro-aggression, and that the acquaintance in question should have been informed that my specific ethnic background was no business of theirs. To me, however, it was simply a question, fundamentally lacking any kind of “denigration” or “aggression.”

It demonstrated interest in who I was and led to a fascinating

opinion on the impact of culture on personal experience that I would have otherwise never heard.

It frightens me that it has recently become fashionable among a large number of my minority group peers to actively reduce the number of interactions they have with Cau-

of their privileges.

I fear that that my minority peers are becoming precisely what they have so constantly decried: people who judge others on what they had no control over. A cisgender, heterosexual white male born into generations of wealth had no more control over his birth than a

I fear that my minority peers are becoming precisely what they have so constantly decried: people who judge others on what they had no control over.” casians, because they cannot stand the thought of interacting meaningfully with someone who benefits in any way from “the heteronormative cisgender white capitalist patriarchy” for fear of encountering a microaggression. Doubly so if they are not “woke,” and have not vehemently apologized for a lack of understanding because

transgender, asexual female of color born into poverty. He should not have to apologize for it more than she.

Here, I acknowledge that the privileged have certainly not been forthcoming in coming to learn about the experiences of the unprivileged either. I have no trouble calling out the fact that some institutions, notably

many fraternities and sororities, are condoned forms of selfsegregation that promote ignorance of genuinely different experience. The nature of privilege is that it is very often blind to itself and self-perpetuating.

These facts, however, neither excuse nor allow minority groups to reject genuine opportunities to inform others of their experiences. Nor does it permit minorities to actively avoid informing those who they deem are “the unwoken,” and then suddenly cry foul when they believe the unwoken have committed an offense of which they were never informed. Doing so is almost certainly detrimental to everyone’s cause, as it perpetuates the fear among those with privilege that attempting to “check their privilege” is a political correctness minefield waiting to pounce, rather than an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of diverse experience.

Indeed, I find it disturbing that instead of actively informing and engaging their more privileged peers in discussions on the full range of human experience, we — as minority

organizations — have chosen more than once to create communities of isolation, where hatred of the ambiguous majority who oppresses us is allowed to fester without ever even actively meeting the oppressors. This becomes especially clear in the Catch-22 of recent efforts to cultivate discussion on the importance of diversity, where attendants’ thoughts on diversity are remarkably developed, but those who fail to see its value continue to remain apathetic and absent. Rather than true opportunities for diverse thought, these events become services to preach to an almost entirely converted choir.

There is undoubtedly comfort in finding a community that can genuinely understand the injustice of your circumstances.

But I hope we begin, as minority groups, to more actively engage those that perpetuate them, rather than simply seethe against them from the safety of our enclaves.

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A handsome Asian man pushed an oversized cardboard box on wheels into the elevator and squeezed in behind it on the side opposite myself. There was a moment — as he came in — when we looked at each other. Then he looked down at the empty box as if to make sure it didn’t roll through the floor and I stared at the steel panel in front of me and wondered if I should check my cell phone for text messages that weren’t there or check my email on the Wi-Fi I didn’t have.

I would have done both — and haven’t we all? — but I decided to fight the impulse and look for something to start a friendly little conversation.

“Ah, you’re just moving in,” I said, with a nod at the empty box. It was lame, of course, but he smiled back and agreed. We exchanged a few words of polite chitchat about his last-minute move, and he got off the

elevator — I can’t remember which floor.

I would not recognize him if I saw him again.

There was no networking value to the interaction, and nobody was trying to build a friendship.

But we’d had a warm and human exchange, and I was able to dispel the icky feeling I get when I’m one of two people in an elevator studiously trying to ignore the other.

Now, if you actually do have a text message to send to a friend or an email to scan on your way to class, I’m not saying it’s wrong to use your elevator time to complete the task. I’ve done it myself during wildly busy weeks without regret. And I’m not suggesting that we start bothering people who are, themselves, trying to seize spare moments.

I’m writing about something different, here. There is no time lost when you say “hello” to your neigh-

bor in the elevator. There is no time lost to a smile or a nod when you pass a distant acquaintance on the way to class. It costs very little — if you have arrived early anyway — to chat with the person next to you

while our fast-paced lives certainly influence culture, they do not preclude the possibility of choosing to face the world with a friendly eye and a ready smile.

Thinking back through three years at

We ignore each other for cultural reasons as often as practical ones.”

before lecture.

And yet I’ve found myself avoiding all three of these things — and seen or heard of others doing the same — even before the semester hits that two-thirdsof-the-way-through point where the campus starts sleepwalking on cortisol.

We ignore each other for cultural reasons as often as practical ones. And

Penn, much of my failure to be friendly was rooted in an irrational fear that the other person wouldn’t smile back. It wasn’t really that I was too busy to say hello, it was just that I was afraid to — afraid of it being awkward somehow.

And, of course, sometimes it was. But over time I learned that most people, like the young man I met

in the elevator, are ready to be every bit as friendly as you are. All that’s necessary to start changing culture is for somebody to break the ice.

There’s an oft-quoted story about a lonely man who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1970s. He left a note on his bureau that said, “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.”

Apparently, nobody smiled.

Was this literally responsible for the man’s choice to jump? Of course not.

But the story makes memorable the truth that even the most uncostly kindness can mean a great deal if it’s given for free.

Most of us are at Penn largely because we embraced the struggle to do more and do better than everybody else. Our “competitive, achievement-oriented culture” is not likely to change and neither are

JEREMIAH KEENAN our 70-hour work weeks.

But while we work that part-time job, study late to beat the curve and juggle three extracurriculars on the side, it’s worthwhile remembering to be friendly whenever possible. Even if that means — as it has for me once or twice — just giving a neighbor a tired “that time of the semester” smile in the elevator.

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College senior from China, studying mathematics and classical studies. His email address is jkeenan@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn seeks to build off Del. St. win at Dartmouth W. SOCCER | Early starts

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Dartmouth (6-5, 0-3 Ivy) 7 p.m.

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If you’re going to a Penn women’s soccer game this year, don’t expect a high-scoring affair. The defense just won’t allow it.

A strong back end has been crucial in the Quakers’ success thus far this season, and it will surely play a big factor in this weekend’s key conference matchup against Dartmouth (6-5-0, 0-3-0 Ivy).

Coming off their sixth shutout of the season against Delaware State on Tuesday, the Red and Blue (7-3-1, 1-2-0) have compiled some impressive defensive stats so far.

The squad is outscoring their opponents, 25-7, outshooting opponents, 156-74, and have only allowed more than one goal in just one game this season — the first of the year against

Maryland. The defense has also helped out on the score sheet, accounting for four goals and three assists.

While some of this is certainly due to the offensive surge this year, the defense has certainly done more than their fair share. In both preventing goals and stimulating offensive attacks, the defensive unit has proven successful this season.

I think [the defense] has been really important,” Penn coach Nicole Van Dyke said. “It’s something that we built last season, it was kind of the foundation of just who we are. ... We’re aggressive, we’re really organized, we’re disciplined and I think we have a defending mentality that we’ve got to get the ball back as soon as we can because we want to keep the ball and we want to be in possession of it, just to limit the opposition’s opportunities.”

The progress from last season is certainly paying dividends this year, as several key pieces in this year’s unit got significant playing time last year. The Quakers retained three starting defenders from last year in captain Paige Lombard and now-sophomores Romie Boyd and Cami Nwokedi, as well as several

seniors with plenty of experience in the program in Riann Winget and Tahirh Nesmith. While a few new pieces have been added this year, the core remains the same, which has certainly contributed to the unit’s overall success.

“I mean, it’s obvious that the more you play with people, the better chemistry you have, the more you know what their strengths are, what your strengths are, what their tendencies are,” Lombard said. “I think that just with time that only becomes clearer and clearer, you kind of get that second sense where you know what they’re going to do, so it always helps.”

Even more than just helping out the returning players, the continuity at the back line has provided Van Dyke with a unit that she knows she can trust.

“I think that whenever you have consistency and you add on top of that experience, I think they gain

experiences from every game,” she said. “The leadership’s there, one of them is our captain. It’s nice that they’re older and we have a lot of returners who have played in the system. Consistency always helps.”

Despite the success so far, there is always room for improvement, and Van Dyke wants to see her team work on a few key aspects this weekend.

“I think we’ve done a really good job of not conceding a goal in a run of play, but we also need improvement when it comes to set pieces,” she said. “The games now are so tight and so challenging that you have to be super focused and super organized, and that’s an area of improvement we know we need to work on.”

On Saturday, the Quakers will travel up to Hanover to face a Dartmouth team that finds themselves in a rut. The Big Green started off their season well enough in

non-conference play, but the squad has lost three straight conference games in which they have been shut out despite outshooting opponents, 26-23. With the Dartmouth offense struggling, this game presents yet another opportunity for the Penn

defense to put together a solid effort.

The common adage goes that the best defense is a good offense, but the Quakers have done well to prove the reverse is just as true, and they look to continue to do so this weekend.

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This weekend, for the first of four times, Penn Athletics will be hosting a fan fest before a sporting event. On Saturday at 1 PM, before Penn football kicks off against Columbia at 3 PM, Shoemaker Green will play host to students, alumni and fans as the Quakers try to build hype around former Penn coach Al Bagnoli’s return to Franklin Field. The event will be co-sponsored by the Daily Pennsylvanian.

In addition to Saturday’s game, there are fan fests planned for the Penn-Harvard football game as well as the Villanova and Princeton basketball games.

The basketball fan fests will take place inside Hutchinson Gymnasium.

On Saturday, there will be inflatables, a Philly phancave and a DJ to keep fans entertained.

A photo booth will be on hand as well, in addition to a series of vendors that will be selling food and drinks. This also includes alcoholic beverages, which will be available to students over the age of 21 in a set-up located on the green just next to David Rittenhouse Laboratory.

“We decided to start small and hopefully show some successes and be able to grow it over time. … The thought is to have multigenerational events,” Penn athletic director Grace Calhoun said. “So hopefully we’ll have a strong student turnout, but we’re also encouraging alums to attend.”

Although the purpose of the event is to celebrate around the current Penn squad, there will be history on display as well.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Quakers’ Rose

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Saturday’s Fan Fest will be the first of four held by Penn Athletics this year, with Saturday’s events being held on Shoemaker Green.

Bowl appearance — where the Red and Blue were defeated by Oregon, 14-0, on Jan. 1, 1916.

To commemorate that game, the Rose Bowl trophy will be displayed next to Penn’s Heisman Trophy and fans will have the chance to take a photo with the two awards.

Those concerned about having to make the trek down to Franklin Field needn’t worry. Penn Athletics will have a shuttle running between Allegro and Shoemaker Green — working to eliminate any excuse students have to not come down.

“Pride is really high at Penn,” Calhoun said. “I think people are really thrilled to be here, they value the experience, they know it’s a world-class university. But the sense of spirit has been very low.”

The effort to drive students to this event is the result of research

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done over the course of the last year by Penn Athletics. As the department has undergone a brand refresh, it has also tapped into the student body to look at the relationship of the sports teams to the Penn community at large.

“We want to do our part to create a sense of spirit,” she added. “We’ve always felt strongly that college athletics presents opportunities for shared experiences and we know that through shared experiences, you have a better chance of higher spirit.”

While Saturday’s festivities represent a trial balloon, they are an important one. As Penn Athletics continues to test the waters and work to bridge the gap between sports and the rest of campus, events such as this will serve as effective signposts an just how successful those efforts continue to be.

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the Quakers’ perennial dominance over their New York counterparts. Penn (2-2, 1-0 Ivy) has topped Columbia in 19 consecutive matchups, and the Quakers will be heavily favored to extend that streak.

But with that said, there’s no denying the strides that Columbia (1-3, 0-1) has made in Bagnoli’s brief tenure. After going winless in both 2013 and 2014, Columbia won twice in 2015 — including an upset at Yale that snapped an 18-game Ivy League losing streak — and has already taken a non-conference win over Wagner for the second straight year.

This season, led by a experienced linebacker corps featuring the Ancient Eight’s first and fourth-leading tacklers in seniors Gianmarco Rea and Christian Conway, the Lions have limited opponents to 22.8 points per game and 4.9 yards per play, both second in the conference.

“They’re definitely a stout defense, and that shows up on film,” said wide receiver Justin Watson, who was limited to a season-low 26 receiving yards last year at Columbia. “Any given Saturday anything can happen, so we’re coming out

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a three-set loss in the Ivy standings. That makes every contest from here on out that much more important for the Quakers.

“Every match in the Ivy League is like a championship,” she said.

“It is not what we didn’t do this past weekend, but what [they] will do this upcoming weekend,” she added.

The team was able to hold these two dominant teams in the first two sets of the match, but fell in the third. However, Carr states that with more consistency through this third set, they will ultimately be able to defeat their

preparing like it’s a playoff game.”

The Lions haven’t had quite as much success on the other side of the ball, but one advantage they do have is a sense of mystery, as both senior Florida transfer Skyler Mornhinwheg and junior Anders Hill have seen time behind center.

“The kid that’s been playing a little more recently [Hill] is a pretty good athlete, 6-foot-4 and not afraid to run the ball, so he’s definitely one of their playmakers on offense,” senior linebacker Donald Panciello said. “We take every opponent seriously no matter who it is. …

The people that can hurt us the most are ourselves.”

Fortunately for Penn, the team’s self-inflicted wounds have been minimal over the last two weeks, as the squad has surged up to 44th place in the STATS.com FCS rankings.

And if the Quakers’ trajectory is anything similar to that of the 2015 squad — the one that won its final six games — Columbia and the rest of the league could be in some serious trouble.

“It took us a couple games to get going last year, and it was the same this year, but we still have plenty of room for improvement,” Panciello said. “I think we’ve still yet to see four great quarters of Penn football, and hopefully that’s coming this week.”

ALYKHAN LALANI | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Justin Watson was limited to just 29 yards when Penn football played Columbia last year. He’ll look to break out when the Lions visit Saturday.

opponents. The team remains at 2-3 in the Ivy League and looks to strengthen their record against Brown (4-11, 2-3) and Yale (11-3, 4-1). “[The team] is coming back into the gym with a sense of urgency and passion,” junior captain Sydney Morton agreed.

In recent years, the Elis have consistently found themselves near the top of the Ancient Eight.

Lately, however, there’s been a decrease in separation between the top of the Ivy League and the rest of the conference.Since Morton has been here at Penn, the team has never beaten Yale. However, she believes that “this fuels us and makes us play better.”

Morton stresses the idea that

although these are competitive Ivy matches, they still approach it like any other match and are looking to win each and every set.

The team is currently 6-2 at home in the Palestra, so continuing Ivy play with a home court advantage this weekend is definitely a positive for the girls.

“We have great fans that are cheering us on all the time which is really helpful,” Morton said.

That will definitely be a motivating factor in these competitive matchups. But as important as this weekend is in the context of the Ivy standings, to Carr and her squad, it’s also about something a lot more important, and that’s what will be represented with Dig Pink! this weekend.

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An impressive feat indeed, but even more impressive when considering that they do it all without a coach, unlike many of the other large institutions that they compete against.

Through five games, the team has cruised to a 3-1-1 record with its sole 1-0 loss coming early in the season to Saint Joe’s. In the same time, the Dolphinos have racked up 17 goals and conceded a measly two.

Despite the strong results, problems with getting matches on the schedule have made it so that the team’s upcoming match against Temple could make or break the season — a distinctly unfamiliar predicament for the Dolphinos. Fewer scheduled games limit the team’s opportunities to qualify for postseason play.

In previous years, the Dolphinos have averaged nine or more games. This year they were only able to find seven outings.

Roth went so far as to refer to their precarious position as “blasphemy.� “The mindset since we lost that St. Joe’s game is that we need to win the rest of our

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Penn men’s club soccer might just be the quietest dynasty on campus.

Year after year, they find themselves dominating their division and making waves in the regional tournament. The talent pool is deep, but what may be even more responsible for the team’s success is its camaraderie. “We have a lot of pride in being teammates,� junior captain Eli Roth said, “and that is probably why we are so successful on a year-to-year basis.�

Including results from this season, the self-proclaimed Dolphinos (a nickname originating from the dolphin.upenn URL on their website) have won or drawn 80 percent of their matches since the 2012

games,� said graduate captain Steve Rybicki. “We have to play as if, if we don’t win, we won’t advance.�

In order to safely secure its spot in Regionals, the team is not just looking for just a victory but more of a certifiable drubbing of Temple on Friday night, something the players have proven themselves apt to do.

The aforementioned 17 goals have been scored in three games, in the season opener against Drexel B, against LaSalle and most recently against Philadelphia University.

A strong new class of players has allowed the team to shift from the four-at-the-back formation that they had traditionally played to a more attacking-oriented formation with three defenders, something that has certainly paid dividends.

A win over Temple is essential for the Dolphinos in their upcoming game, where attendees might bear witness to what the team advertises as a “sometimes mesmerizing, often fast paced, and always rowdy style of play.�

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This Friday, the Red and Blue (8-3, 2-1 Ivy) will host rival Columbia (6-5, 1-2), before traveling to face off against Delaware in a nonconference bout on Sunday.

This weekend’s matchup presents a substantial challenge for Penn, who is tied for third in the Ivy League standings. The Quakers and the Lions have evenly split their twenty meetings, but the last four times the two have faced off, Columbia has come out on top in overtime. “They have been a formidable opponent of ours,� Penn coach Colleen Fink said. “But I do feel as though we have continued to gain momentum.�

Junior midfielder Gina Guccione echoed her coach’s sentiment. “The last couple of games against Columbia have been tough,� the Fairfield, NJ. native said. “Going into this Friday we want to stay tough and keep working.�

What makes the Lions such a nuisance for the Quakers? Fink pointed out the tactical challenges that Penn will face. “Columbia plays a really disruptive style,� Fink said. “They force their opponents to not really develop into any sort of rhythm.�

Still, the Quakers will go into Friday’s matchup with confidence, coming off two successive shutouts against Dartmouth and Temple.

Against the Big Green, the team scraped its way to a double-overtime victory off a lone goal from freshman Alexa Schneck. Schneck, who comes from Reading, Pennsylvania, scored the first of four Penn goals that weekend.

As impressive as the offensive play has been for Penn, Fink saved plenty of credit for a defensive unit that is bearing fruit from a concerted effort to improve. “Over the course of the last two years, we’ve talked a lot about defensive mentality,� the seventh-year coach said. “We kept on stressing the importance of limited entry balls, and limiting scoring opportunities [for the opposition]. The result of that is happening for this current team.�

As strong as the Quakers have been, they have also been battletested. Last weekend’s win over

Dartmouth marked the fourth game for Penn that has at least reached overtime, with the Red and Blue recording wins in three of those matches. Based on their history against the Lions, the Quakers seem ready to play past 70 minutes again.

Guccione reflected on the upside to having experience in overtime play. “We know what to expect, we know how tired we can get, and we just need to stay positive, and not give up until the final whistle goes off,� the midfielder said. “We’re gonna get tired, but if we stay focused, then we’ll be successful.�

To Fink, the key for her team will be their ability to stay in rhythm. In a game where the opponent will disrupt the flow of play, she will look for a strong relationship between her midfielders and her forwards to overcome an uneven pace. “Even if we’re forced to play a choppier style of game, it’s about trying to find our rhythm within that choppiness,� Fink said.

Her players seem ready to respond, as Guccione once again mirrored her coach’s thoughts. “I think we’re all excited for Friday,� she said. “We want to play our style of play and try to score early and not give up.�

In a season of tests, no test seems grander for Penn than the one against an old rival. Gina Guccione and her teammates will look to rise to the occasion and snap a four-game winless streak, whether it takes 70 minutes or more.

Red and Blue set for NCAA’s best at Wisconsin Invitational

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So far this season, Penn men’s club soccer has conceded only two goals while scoring 17 — not much of a departure from the norm for a program that has won or drawn 80 percent of its matches since 2012-13.

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This Friday marks one of the most important meets in the Penn cross country season as both the men’s and women’s teams travel to Madison for the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational.

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face again this weekend, affording the Quakers great confidence. “Having one race behind us helps a lot in terms of confidence,� senior Ashley Montgomery said. “But also in terms of knowing that when you step on the line, it’s not a question of whether you can run a full 6K today, but rather how well you can run today.�

The men’s bracket will be home to 20 of the top 30 teams in the country according to USTFCCCA polls, including the 25th-ranked Quakers, the only nationally ranked team in the Ivy League.

Led by senior Nick Tuck, Penn will look to rise even further up those rankings with wins over No. 8 Iona and No. 6 Georgetown, two of the teams that finished ahead of the Red and Blue last meet.

Adding to the field of worthy opponents are top-ranked Northern Arizona, as well as Ivy rivals Columbia and Princeton. “This meet is just a lot deeper than the meet at Paul Short,� Tuck said. “This time around, every team is a good team, and everyone belongs in this meet.�

The women’s bracket is equally stacked, featuring seven of the nation’s top 10 teams including top-ranked Providence.

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Senior Ashley Montgomery (left) will lead Penn cross country as they compete with the nation’s elite teams at the Wisconsin Invitational.

Even within such a vaunted field, the Penn women, ranked 26th, are a very dangerous team led by Montgomery, whose time of 20:12 was good for second overall at the Paul Short Run. Penn will need every bit of her speed to defeat a 17th-ranked Yale squad. The Bulldogs finished first at the same event despite their best runner clocking in three seconds behind Montgomery.

However, the Penn star senior is not at all intimidated by the field.

Instead, she firmly believes that her team is focused and prepared for what lies ahead in Wisconsin, attributing this readiness predominantly to the work of the coaching staff. “Our workouts have been tailored to race simulations. We’ve focused a lot on mental strategies, and I think that that’s made a huge difference in our confidence,�

Montgomery said.

Coach Steve Dolan is excited for this hard work to come to fruition for his athletes, and he recognizes the importance that a race of this caliber holds in preparing his squad for the ultimate goal. “It’s very much a simulation of what nationals will be like if we qualify,� Dolan said. “It’s like running the nationals in the middle of the season in terms of the quality of the field.�

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about how they’ve shaped their respective programs over the last two years.

Both men dismiss that the history they share matters much this weekend. It should, though. Bagnoli left an incredible legacy when he departed University City. But by the end of his run in Philadelphia, it felt like Bagnoli had lost a little bit of his touch. In a conversation we had on the upcoming contest, the

sports editor at the Columbia Spectator conceded that same view had taken hold in some corners of New York as well.

Yet Ray Priore has managed to turn a 29-year tenure into a breath of fresh air. He won’t openly say it, but in his quiet insistence that Penn had simply forgotten how to take care of the little things necessary to win, he has shown how rapidly the Quakers could succeed with the right man at the helm.

So feel free to use this weekend to reflect on the historic success of

Penn football. But once the game is underway, we’ll get a chance to see just why Penn is better off with things they are the way now.

Patience is a virtue, and Ray Priore waiting 28 years was the best thing that could have happened to the Quakers. We’ll see that in action this Saturday.

NICK BUCHTA is a College senior from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at buchta@thedp.com.

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It’s easy to get lost on the way to Hanover, but, after the painful circumstances of their last contest, Penn men’s soccer will be laser-focused on returning to the right path.

Dartmouth, the Ivy League champion last season, awaits the Quakers’ arrival on Saturday for

their first matchup since they defeated Penn 1-0 in Philadelphia in 2015.

Their game last year, like the Red and Blue’s most recent outing, ended with a Penn loss in the final stages of the match. Then-sophomore Matt Danilack headed the ball into the top right corner to seal victory with just two minutes remaining in regulation.

Penn (3-2-5, 1-1 Ivy) will try to avenge that loss and simultaneously exorcize its demons after their stunning double-overtime defeat to Columbia over the weekend. The Lions emerged victorious with just 14 seconds left on the clock, as Penn sophomore goalkeeper Etan Mabourakh was penalized for attempting a diving save that tripped

up Columbia midfielder Danny Laranetto. The play resulted in a penalty kick which freshman John Denis calmly converted as Mabourakh dove the wrong way.

Given their play throughout the match, the Quakers would have been happy to escape with their sixth draw of the season. They were thoroughly outplayed by Columbia’s forwards and the revamped Red and Blue offense could only muster two shots on goal against the Lions’ six.

Stagnation in the opponent’s half has not, however, been the norm for Penn this season. They possess the highest shot per game total in the Ancient Eight at 14 and they have, along with Brown, taken 59 corners, good for second most in the

conference.

On an individual level, senior captain Alec Neumann leads the conference in goals with seven despite missing a game due to an accumulation of yellow cards.

Restoring their high-octane ways will prove to be challenging against the vaunted Dartmouth defense. The Big Green (3-2-5, 1-0-1) have relied heavily on their back line the past two years.

Last season, led by the stellar play of Ivy League Defensive Player and first team All-Ivy goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland, Dartmouth recorded a stellar 0.66 goals against average and rode their lockdown defense to a league championship.

Despite Cleveland’s graduation,

junior Wyatt Omsberg has picked up where he left off after earning First Team All-Ivy honors as a sophomore defender. The team has allowed a conference-low nine goals so far and sports an Ivy-leading average of 0.81 goals allowed.

Where the Big Green’s problems lie and where Penn can take advantage is on the other side of the field.

Dartmouth has fielded the Ivy League’s most inept offense, with the team mustering a dismal shotson-target percentage of .085 and 11 goals, a number higher only than the total of perennial doormat Yale, who have also played in two fewer games this season.

Their main offensive weapons are sophomores Noah Paravinci and Justin Donawa who, despite

receiving little playing time last season, have been thrust into starting roles.

Red and Blue junior Sam Wancowicz, the leader of Penn’s defense, will focus on ramping up the activity against Dartmouth’s inexperienced forwards.

“Upping the intensity level and staying on top of the opponent’s passes [is the key against Dartmouth],” Wancowicz commented.

“We’re really looking to get at them in transition. If we can get some turnovers and attack them quickly, we can catch them on the counterattack.”

Even though they will be in the middle of nowhere, the Quakers will know where to go when their cleats touch the field.

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nother big weekend approaches for Penn volleyball at the Palestra as they look to produce on the court against Ivy rivals Brown and Yale. But it isn’t the oncourt performance alone that will matter this weekend.

The team is also hosting its annual Dig Pink! charity event during Breast Cancer Awareness month in hopes to raise money for the Side-Out Foundation and the Abramson Cancer Center & Rena Rowan Breast Center. Over the weekend, in addition to raising money and promoting awareness, teams will wear pink instead of their usual colors.

For Penn coach Kerry Carr, this weekend is meaningful on a very personal level. In September 2008, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and was forced to leave midway through the season to undergo urgent surgery. “[Dig Pink! is] not only raising money for cancer research,” she said, “but also for creating awareness for people to get checked early and often.”

By teaming up with these foundations and using their matches to donate to this cause, the Quakers (7-10, 2-3 Ivy) hope to promote awareness of the growing epidemic of breast cancer across the country.

Out on the court, Carr sees a lot of potential for her team. Although they dropped a pair of tough five-set matches last weekend to Cornell and Columbia, she strongly believes that the girls were able to grow from the experience.

“The losses were bittersweet because we did so many good things,” Carr said. “We improved so much in so many areas. Courtney Quinn broke her own career [kills] record and added a lot to her toolbox this past weekend.”

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Penn is better with Priore NICK BUCHTA

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he most interesting thing about this weekend’s Penn-Columbia football game is going to be the memories. Lord knows it won’t be the game itself.

But as former Quakers coach Al Bagnoli makes his return to University City, it bears reflecting on what’s changed in the since Ray Priore took over Penn football.

Bagnoli’s last game at Franklin Field felt a lot like a microcosm of his final two years as a whole: heavily hyped, initially exciting but ultimately a letdown.

2013’s opening contests included a late win over Lafayette and a four-overtime thriller against Dartmouth as the Quakers sought a fourth Ivy title in five year. Early success turned into a 4-6 campaign that culminated in a 2-8 showing in 2014. Not all that different from the game against Harvard at Franklin Field on Nov. 15 that final year.

Emotions were high and Penn played better than any other time that season, taking a 24-17 lead into the fourth quarter. But the final quarter ended up being a total letdown as the Crimson scored 17 unanswered for the 34-24 win.

Bagnoli quickly transitioned into an advisory role within Penn Athletics that left no one satisfied. Athletic Director Grace Calhoun seemed unsure how to use the former coach and Bagnoli himself seemed bored by retirement.

Then came the bombshell.

In February 2015, the news broke that Bagnoli had accepted the head coaching position at Columbia. Instead of watching from the stands as his longtime assistant took over the reins, Al Bagnoli and Ray Priore would both be on the sidelines again — as rivals.

The former colleagues’ first meeting wasn’t even close.

To be fair, Bagnoli inherited a program in shambles. No one expected a really competitive game. Ray Priore will never admit that, though. It’s just a game like any other, with the added chance of getting to see an old friend.

This weekend feels a little different as Bagnoli makes his first homecoming. But still, this game shouldn’t even be close.

Last weekend, Columbia managed to edge out Wagner in a 15-13 barnburner. It was the most points the Lions had scored all season. And they didn’t score a single touchdown.

Five field goals. Including two 19-yarders.

Twice, Bagnoli had the ball on the one and decided to settle for the field goal. It’s good to know there’s still some consistency in life. Death, taxes and Al Bagnoli being more conservative than a totalitarian dictator.

Conversely, Priore went for it on fourth down four times last weekend. The Quakers converted on all of them. For a guy who’s been around for 29 years, Priore keeps things a lot more interesting than they were, especially in the final years of Bagnoli’s reign.

Let’s not forget what happened in 2015, either. A 2-8 campaign for Bagnoli, an Ivy title for Priore. For those keeping score at home, that’s 11 rings for Priore to Bagnoli’s nine.

I don’t expect this weekend’s game to be close. I don’t even expect it to be interesting. But that doesn’t mean it’s unimportant.

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