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Angela Duckworth to teach course on ‘grit’ next spring The course will be called “Grit Lab: Fostering Passion and Perseverance” GRANT BIANCO Senior Reporter

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He also worked closely with several student organizations, including the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the Penn Association for Gender Equity, and the Penn Period Project.

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Renowned Psychology professor Angela Duckworth will teach a new undergraduate course next spring focused on achieving long-term goals.

The course, titled, “Grit Lab: Fostering Passion and Perseverance,” will be open to 64 students from all four schools, according to the syllabus, which has not been finalized yet. The class will be divided into two halves, focused on “developing a passion” and “developing Angela Duckworth perseverance.” As part of the course, students will conduct structured “experiments” outside of class, maintain a weekly journal, and work with teams to create instructional videos teaching high school students about grit and perseverance.

“I hope students, at the end of the course, know themselves better, and are farther down the path of something they love,” Duckworth said. “I want to help students get down their path a little faster than I did.”

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In the coming weeks, the UA will start its initiative CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

Within the next few weeks, the Undergraduate Assembly will launch a pilot program to distribute thousands of free menstrual

products in buildings across Penn’s campus. The move comes after students criticized the lack of accessible tampons and pads on campus, particularly in comparison to peer institutions that promoted initiatives that offered free menstrual products.

The UA will place 2,500 tampons and 2,4000 pads in restrooms in

popular locations, such as Huntsman Hall and Van Pelt Library, College and Wharton sophomore Nikhil Gupta said. Gupta, who is the UA communications director, has led the project since fall 2018.

Gupta said he secured funding for the menstrual products after meeting with Student Health Service and administrators in the office of the

UA calls for Wax’s firing and staff diversity training Penn Law denounced Wax for her immigration views CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

The Undergraduate Assembly unanimously passed a resolution calling on the University of Pennsylvania to fire controversial Penn Law professor Amy Wax for violating University policy.

In addition to calling on the Penn Board of Trustees to terminate Amy Wax’s tenured status and any other affiliations with the University, the resolution also demands that Penn require annual sensitivity training for all employees. After passing on Oct. 6 by a vote of 27-0, the UA is now preparing to send the resolution to Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett next week.

The UA began reaching out to graduate student organizations this past weekend to co-sign the resolution, UA President and College senior Natasha Menon said. She hopes the graduate student organizations will respond and be added to the resolution as co-signers by Oct. 22. The resolution will be formally submitted to University administrators following the UA meeting that day, Menon said.

Wax was denounced by Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger this summer after

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Academic Administrators. The group highlighted Section II.E.16. Procedure Governing Sanctions Taken Against Members of the Faculty, which states that faculty are barred from engaging in “discrimination on the basis of irrelevant characteristics.”

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Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services rolled out a new program this week that brings brief counseling sessions to students.

The initiative, called “Let’s Talk,” first began at Cornell under the direction of former CAPS Executive Director Gregory Eells, who died on Sept. 9.

The Let’s Talk model was one of the initiatives that Eells planned to bring to Penn, Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé said. After delays due to Eell’s death, the program is being rolled out in his honor.

In the program, a CAPS counselor comes to several locations that students frequent for a few hours each day from Monday to Thursday. The counselor, staff psychologist Yacob Tekie, has been offering sessions at the LGBT Center, the ARCH building, Van Pelt Library, the Greenfield Intercultural Center, and the Graduate Student

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The UA alleges Wax’s comments violate Penn’s Handbook for Faculty and Academic Administrators. The group highlighted a section which bars faculty from engaging in “discrimination on the basis of irrelevant characteristics.”

her comments at a conservative conference in July 2019. Wax argued that cultural distance nationalism, a view that the United States would be “better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites,” deserved more discussion.

In August 2017, Wax called AngloProtestant cultural norms superior, and in March 2018, she claimed she

had never seen a black Penn Law student graduate in the top quarter of their class. After students and alumni created a petition against Wax for her insensitive remarks, Ruger barred her from teaching mandatory first-year law courses.

The UA alleges that Wax’s comments violate a principle of the University’s Handbook for Faculty and

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Penn grad, Gregg Semenza, wins Nobel Prize for Physiology The winning study was on how cells consume oxygen MANLU LIU Senior Reporter

On Christmas Eve in the 1990s, Gregg Semenza and his colleague Josef Prchal hunched over a manuscript, debating with each other on the phone.

Semenza was in Baltimore and Prchal was in Birmingham, Ala. The two had been working late in their labs making final edits to the research paper they hoped to resubmit to a journal. He and Semenza “[changed] the manuscript 50 times,” Prchal said, but the two scientists were not yet satisfied.

“Our families were calling us, [asking] ‘How come you are not at home?’” Prchal said.

It was this drive and dedication that Semenza, who graduated from Penn’s M.D./Ph.D. program in 1984, brought to his research over the past 30 years.

On Monday, Semenza was one of three scientists awarded the

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability,” the Nobel Assembly announced.

The human body responds to low oxygen levels by increasing a hormone called erythropoietin, or EPO, which leads to increased production of red blood cells, according to the Nobel Committee press release. Semenza found that specific DNA segments located on the EPO gene curtail the increased production of red blood cells in low oxygen conditions.

He later characterized the protein that regulates the EPO gene

— a protein he called hypoxiainducible factor complex or HIF. Semenza’s lab was the first to purify HIF, which turned out to be integral to the understanding of how cells process oxygen. He completed this research while at Johns Hopkins University, where he is currently director of the Vascular Program at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering.

“He’s a very rigorous scientist,” said Prchal, a professor at the University of Utah, who has remained Semenza’s collaborator for the past three decades.

“He’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever met.”

Semenza grew up in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was inspired to study biology after meeting a high school teacher, Rose Nelson, who has since died. He said that because Nelson had a Ph.D. and did postdoctoral research, she introduced the students to how exciting research was.

Nelson taught Semenza in two classes — freshman biology and Advanced Placement Biology —

and he specifically remembered enjoying the fetal pig dissection the class did in AP Biology.

When Semenza was accepted into Harvard University in 1974, he wanted to be a genetics researcher. However, he became interested in medical genetics and eventually decided to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. at Penn. His dual-degree training taught him a different mode of thinking than other scientists, Prchal said.

“If you do science, you’re very focused on one thing,” he added.

“If you understand the diseases, you can understand science, [and] you can make many more inroads.”

Semenza said he saw his role as “bridging the lab and the clinical.”

“The discoveries are being translated to the clinic,” he said.

“That’s the real prize.”

In his Ph.D. research at Penn, he studied a hereditary disease called thalassemia, which occurs when red blood cells do not produce enough of the proteins that make up hemoglobin, the major

oxygen transporter in blood. This was the beginning of Semenza’s research related to oxygen.

One notable discovery that Semenza is particularly proud of is that the HIF-1 protein disappears in high oxygen environments.

“We would take the cells and put them in low oxygen and induce HIF-1,” he said. “And then we would put them back in high oxygen and we did that for one minute, five minutes, or 10 minutes. We showed that within five minutes, most of the HIF-1α was gone.”

He also found that it turned out that five minutes was the amount of time it took for the oxygen to diffuse through medium into the cells — meaning that HIF1α was destroyed immediately upon exposure to oxygen.

The Nobel Prize Committee secretary informs recipients that they won the prize an hour before the public announcement.

The secretary first called Semenza at 3:53 a.m. in Baltimore. Semenza was fast asleep but picked up when the secretary called the

second time. After he heard the news, he and his wife “kind of looked at each other,” he said.

“We were going in a daze.”

Semenza did not expect to win the prize, but he “knew what day it was” — the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was slated to be announced on Monday.

He will be receiving the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 10, where he will give a Nobel lecture on his discoveries. Semenza’s lab is currently researching the role HIF-1 plays in cancers and is working on a collaborative project involving researching the cellular mechanisms that allow Tibetans to survive in low oxygen climates.

The key to the Nobel Prize for Semenza was not anything extraordinary.

“Pure luck. Better lucky than good,” he said. “Another part of it is to really be just kind of focused on what you’re trying to do — evaluate your failed experiments as well as your successful experiments.”

Course inventory lists more than 300 sustainability-related classes The document includes an alphabetical listing by school EASON ZHAO Staff Reporter

Penn Sustainability has released an updated version of its course inventory, a 26page document that lists more than 300 sustainability-related courses offered across dozens of departments.

The document includes an alphabetical listing by school and department of courses that include a sustainability component. The inventory is designed to expand “the awareness and availability of information about sustainability courses at Penn,” according to the document’s introduction. Courses range from “Evolutionary Ecology” to “Urban Fiscal Policy” and “Environmental Law.” The document also highlights courses that were developed as part of the Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum program, which helps professors include environmental themes in classes by providing them with undergraduate research assistants to help update their existing courses.

To decide which courses to include in the catalogue, Penn used the Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rat-

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ucts was split evenly between GAPSA and VPUL, Gupta said.

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ing System, Sustainability Analyst Madeline Schuh said.

This rating system, also known as STARS, is a self-reporting framework managed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

“They have criteria that help catalog courses that focus on sustainability or related to sustainability,” Schuh said, adding that STARS is a commonly accepted rating framework and is considered “the higher-education-sustainability industry standard.”

Schuh said for the 2019 catalogue, Penn Sustainability contacted the course coordinators in each of Penn’s departments and asked them to update their listings of courses that met the criteria.

Penn Sustainability sent the course inventory to as many course coordinators as possible to help increase exposure of the document to students, Schuh said. However, it is unclear how many students actually use this resource. Anthropology professor Mark Lycett, who teaches a class on Political Ecology, said he was unaware of the existence of the catalog and had not heard any students mentioning that they used it to find his course.

“I wasn’t aware that this resource exists,” Lycett said, “but it seems like a good idea.”

While Lycett was not notified or consulted when his course was added to the catalog, his class is indeed centered on how human beings act on the environment.

“Issues related to sustainability, development, the theorization of those terms, and the implementation of the history of those terms are really central to the mission of the course,” Lycett said. “It is crucially important for anyone living in this society at this moment to have a sense of the role of their life in the production of the environment and the ways in which that those environments impact them and the future.”

Jane Dmochowski, a senior lecturer in Earth and Environmental Science, teaches several courses that are included in this year’s catalog, including “Introduction to Chemistry,” “Oceanography,” and “Introduction to Remote Sensing.” She said the course inventory can help students interested in the environment gain an interdisciplinary understanding of the issue, engaging with sustainability from the perspectives of different academic fields.

“Anything, whether it’s society, economics, or the sciences, doesn’t relate to sustainability unless you start to show the overlaps and how things affect one another,” Dmochowski

said.

In 2014, Penn introduced its Climate Action Plan 2.0, which set goals for the University to increase environmentally focused academic opportunities,

make buildings more sustainable, and reduce solid waste.

A 2019 report said since 2014, 103 new sustainability focused courses have been added to the curriculum as part of the Cli-

mate Action Plan 2.0, a 220% increase. Despite this, Penn has been criticized for employing only one standing faculty member studying climate science, professor Irina Marinov.

he said. The baskets will also have a graphic with a feedback form for students to share their thoughts on the project or to express interest in volunteering to help.

Gupta declined to provide more specifics about the timing of the project.

After collecting data from

the pilot project, Gupta said he hopes to have enough positive feedback to encourage Penn’s administration to take on the responsibility of restocking the tampon and pad baskets themselves.

“Just as toilet paper is stocked in the bathrooms, hopefully we would be able to get menstrual products in

the bathroom as well,” Gupta said.

The UA also increased the number of tampon disposal containers on campus last year. The project was spearheaded by College junior Armaun Rouhi, who was a UA associate member at the time. As of January, Rouhi said women’s restrooms in 1920 Commons, Houston Hall, Fisher Fine Arts

Library, and the ARCH building all have tampon disposal containers.

Rouhi also said in January that his goal was to implement these containers in all women’s restrooms on campus by the end of the fall semester. But since Rouhi’s resignation as a UA associate member in September,

the future of the project remains uncertain.

Rouhi did not respond to a request for comment on the future of the project. UA President and College senior Natasha Menon said she does not believe any current UA members have picked up Rouhi’s project and continued its work.

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“These workshops should cover topics including, but not limited to, respect for students’ diverse backgrounds, professionalism when interacting with students, and bias combating,” the resolution stated.

Menon said the purpose of the second provision was to show that this is “not about one person, but about a culture.” The next step will be to bring the resolution to the UA Steering meeting on Oct. 22 for a vote to show “greater student body support for the resolution,” as well as reaching out to graduate student groups to cosign, she said. UA Steering meetings consist of the UA and representatives from 41 large student organizations.

After the UA garners more support from student groups, Menon said the resolution will be emailed to Penn administration. If the UA receives a negative response from University administration, Menon said the UA will not be deterred, and they will work with graduate student organizations to continue pushing for Wax’s termination.

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sociated with someone who has made such hateful and marginalizing statements,” Menon said.

The resolution was co-signed by several cultural groups, including the Asian Pacific Student Coalition; the Assembly of International Students; Lambda Alliance; Latinx Coalition; Penn Association for Gender Equity; Programs for Religious, Interfaith, and Spiritual Matters; UMOJA; and the United Minorities Council.

It was authored by Menon; the UA Dining, Housing, and Transit Committee Director and College and Wharton senior Maria Curry; UA representative and College senior Elena Hoffman; and UA Communications Director and College and Wharton sophomore Nikhil Gupta.

Wax did not respond to request for comment on the resolution.

In the second provision, the UA urged Penn to “implement mandatory sensitivity training workshops” for all faculty and staff.

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For the “Let’s Talk” initiative, counseling sessions will be held at the LGBT Center, the ARCH building, Van Pelt Library, the Greenfield Intercultural Center, and the Graduate Student Center.

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Duckworth has gained substantial fame in recent years after writing a New York Times bestselling book on how grit, or the tendency to keep putting effort towards long-term goals, can contribute to success.

Duckworth was also awarded the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant in 2013 and was recently named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania.

Duckworth said the goal of the class is to help students find and engage with their passion. The main part of the course will involve students picking a new skill and reflecting as they pursue and develop it further. Students will also hear lectures from Duckworth on subjects like “interest identification,” “goal hierarchies,” and “strategic mindset,” as well as guest presentations from Penn alumni.

In addition to the unorthodox material, the course fea-

tures a number of other elements students may find novel: The class will be exclusively pass-fail, will not feature traditional exams, and will be graded on “demonstrated engagement.” Additionally, students will not be allowed to use laptops or other technology in class.

“Scientific evidence shows you generally learn less when you use a laptop than when you don’t,” Duckworth said. “I feel very strongly about that.”

While the course has no prerequisites and is open to applications from students from all four undergraduate schools, getting into the class will be tough. According to the syllabus, admission will be determined by a mixture of application and lottery. All interested students will have to fill out an online application featuring questions such as “Since coming to Penn, how have you changed?” and “What do you enjoy doing outside of class?”

However, applicants will be

selected from the pool using a lottery system, unlike the deliberate selection of students in Adam Grant’s class.

“I didn’t want to create an experience for Penn undergraduates that had an unintended consequence of being rejected,” Duckworth said of her decision to use a lottery system. “If you don’t get into my class, it’s basically because you were unlucky, not because you weren’t good enough.”

Duckworth, however, said she hopes the class includes a diversity of experiences.

“I’m looking to get students from all four years,” Duckworth said. “I’m looking to also to have some representation from all four schools.”

While the class will initially be offered this spring, Duckworth said it may be offered in the future depending on how well the inaugural class goes.

“It’s an experiment in itself,” Duckworth said. “I’ll see what to do after I run the experiment.”

Center. Tekie plans to be at these locations for about 20 hours each week.

The goal of the program is to “meet students where they are,” Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé said.

The first day of the service began on Oct. 1, and Tekie said about five students have used the sessions so far. He added that all of these students were from marginalized groups traditionally less likely to seek counseling, as CAPS expected.

A Let’s Talk consultation takes approximately 20 to 30 minutes, Tekie added. Students will not be asked to complete an extensive questionnaire as they would on a drop-in visit at CAPS, said CAPS Associate Director of Outreach and Prevention Services Batsirai Bvunzawabaya.

The Let’s Talk model has been adopted by nearly 100 universities and colleges nationwide, according to a Cornell webpage. An

article on the efficacy of the Let’s Talk service read that the Let’s Talk model is designed to target students who are otherwise unlikely to seek counseling. The study cited racial minorities and international students as less likely to seek psychological help.

The program comes as the Undergraduate Assembly has been pushing for an “embed system” to provide CAPS services in undergraduate schools. A CAPS clinician has been stationed at Huntsman Hall for Wharton students since November 2018.

The Let’s Talk program at Cornell employs 12 counselors, each at a different location from Mondays to Fridays. Dubé said Penn’s program will expand based on student demand.

Tekie specializes in working with marginalized, international, and immigrant students, according to his biography on the CAPS website.

He earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Tennessee — Knoxville, and his biography cites his dedicated to social justice advocacy and human rights.

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Let Penn students take sector courses pass/fail

he week before fall break saw the drop period come to a close, although the option to change a graded class to pass/fail will be open until the ninth week of the semester. One thing that was surely on the minds of students debating whether to stay in their classes was the need to fulfill general education requirements in order to graduate.

Penn currently requires that all College students take classes for a grade to fulfill the seven sector requirements.

These requirements are a critical part of the University’s efforts to promote interdisciplinary learning and a liberal arts education. But the system as designed prevents students from fully engaging in their intellectual curiosity and favors those who choose to take notoriously easy classes instead. Penn should allow students to take courses pass/fail in order to fulfill the sector requirements to encourage risk-taking and exploration.

Many sector-fulfilling courses will fall outside a student’s chosen area of focus, and might be particularly challenging for this reason. The stated purpose of the University’s pass/fail option is “to permit [students] to elect courses from unfamiliar disciplines.”

This is a perfect fit for sector requirements — when exploring new disci-

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plines, especially those outside of a student’s comfort zone, it is a waste of the valuable opportunity for learning provided by Penn that so many students take easy, safe classes in order to protect their GPA, and, by extension, scholarships, job opportunities, and graduate school prospects.

These easy, safe classes are common across most universities, and many Penn students will learn which classes they are from upperclassmen nearly as soon as they arrive on campus. This leads to certain classes with this reputation becoming filled with students who are not invested in learning, but simply looking to graduate without ruining their GPA. If students could choose classes that actually interested them, rather than just those with a reputation of easy grading, then the educational environment would be radically different. Rather than hurting the students who actually want to be in the class, by forcing them to learn alongside unengaged, uninterested classmates, and the students who are missing out on a chance to learn something that interests them, Penn could foster a healthier learning environment for everyone.

Some may be concerned that allowing students to fulfill sectors with pass/ fail courses could lead to diminished

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motivation for students or decreased rigor in Penn’s liberal arts education.

This fear is misplaced — it’s far better to create a system in which students will have intrinsic motivation to learn for the sake of education, rather than because they want to get a good grade.

Those concerned about rigor should consider the fact that if Penn can foster a learning community that promotes learning for its own sake, that will ensure students hold themselves to a high standard, and remove the need for external rigor that can be avoided

by taking easy classes and putting in a minimum level of effort.

Ultimately, allowing students to fulfill sector requirements with courses taken pass/fail would not only encourage an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity, it would make Penn a university that places value on learning and exploration. The ability to take academic risks will enrich Penn students’ education, and Penn can achieve this goal simply by allowing students to take difficult classes to fulfill sector requirements without risking a harmful grade.

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he built-in advantage of being a child of someone who attended an Ivy League University is not something I have. Nor is the built in advantage of being the child of someone who has a college degree.

That doesn’t make me any less capable of school spirit. It does, however, make my family less capable of donating to my college, and thus, makes me a less profitable investment for the university. The idea that legacy admissions at universities are necessary because places like Penn are run like a business is predicated on the problematic assumption that elite education should be run like a business. This promotes the idea that subsidizing the wealth of legacy families is acceptable and admissible, even though this practice inculcates difficult-to-remove barriers for upward mobility for people who are not as fortunate or privileged.

To be clear, I directly benefit from a financial aid package, because Penn’s financial aid policy meets 100 percent of demonstrated need.

Federal grants, a work-study I take full advantage of, and a longstanding family donation allow me to attend this school. I am more appreciative of this financial aid package than words can express because it is allowing me to receive an education I value above most anything else. That does not, however, mean our higher education system is not a broken system that posits education as a commodity not everyone has access to.

The argument that legacy

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admissions shows a “respect for tradition” supports the idea that tradition is inherently aristocratic, and fundamentally disrespects education as an equalizing entity. The maximization of revenue is the university’s primary goal, and the admission of legacy students is a way of ensuring reciprocal donations. On a Penn website for alumni, under the subhead “What else can I do to improve my child’s chances of being admitted?” is the answer, “Legacies who apply to Penn Early Decision receive thorough consideration in the application process.” This is reinforced by the statistic that 25 percent of early decision admits for Class of 2022 are legacies.

The argument that legacy admissions are necessary because it guarantees creating a population of qualified workers who will give back to their university is deeply rooted in the harmful notion that making money is hierarchically more important than learning. Not only do I have a fundamentally disparate valuing perspective, but the practical applications of estimating donations over actual education stunts class mobility

MIT doesn’t take into account legacy status, and they’re doing pretty well. So why do we?” and reinforces discrimination, passing it off as “tradition.” Meanwhile, this country’s traditions are rooted in prejudice. If 4,264 out of 10,176 Penn undergraduates are white in 2019, imagine this percentage just twenty years ago. And then tell me legacy preferences don’t reinforce this country’s discriminatory traditions.

This “legacy of giving” is tied to

as motivated, just as ambitious, and just as passionate about learning as any other student. I’m not disparaging their success or their intelligence.

It is the system that is faulty, and it is the people who are already disadvantaged who pay. The locus of fault in this situation doesn’t fall on the shoulders of legacy students.

A prioritization of legacy admissions makes it even more difficult for people of color, first generation, and low-income students to gain admission to prestigious universities, but that doesn’t make the circumstances of a legacy’s life any more in their control than the circumstances of mine. It is an SUKHMANI KAUR awareness of their privilege that I families who donate. But if parents ask for; an awareness of the broken make tax-deductible donations, system that preserves their privilege they should not receive anything that I ask for. in return for said donation, much Legacy admissions does one less the admission of their child thing correctly— eliminate the to an elite university. I know that idea that elite education operates on there’s plenty of legacy students at the principle of meritocracy. If the Penn who are just as qualified, just price of tuition weren’t enough of an

SOPHIA DUROSE indicator, legacy admissions prove that elite education is a system created for the rich, and reinforced by the children of the rich. If you’re happy to attend the school your grandfather went to, far be it for me to rain on your parade. I’m aware that if I have kids in the future who apply and are accepted to Penn, they will be legacies. And I hope they have pride in attending a prestigious school just as I have pride in attending one.

I think it’s important for every student to be aware of the hypocrisy associated with schools that claim they are tools for equalization and social mobility, when it fact, they are self-sufficient conveyor belts of subsidized privilege. MIT doesn’t take into account legacy status, and they’re doing pretty well. So why do we?

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College junior from Orlando, Fla. studying English.

Her email address is sdurose@sas. upenn.edu.

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n her colu m n “ I’m a legacy student, and I’m not a sha me d ,” Agat ha Advincula tried to show her pride in her legacy status and in her continued family connection to Penn. Avincula quickly faced backlash from readers for not “checking her privilege” in the article. In a Facebook comment section that reads like that of controversial social media influencer, people began deviating away from Advincula’s argument on legacy admissions and instead attacked her as a person. Particularly vicious comments called her “pretentious,” a “fraud,” and worst of all, not being worthy of admission to this institution. As uncivil as they were, these comments didn’t actually make the effort to engage with Advincula’s argument. Rather, they smeared her reputation and questioned her right to be at Penn,

GUEST COLUMN BY OLIVER STERN all in an effort to delegitimize the person behind the article and avoid a conversation that could’ve resulted in a more nuanced dialogue.

These ad hominem attacks have become all too common in discourse both on Penn’s campus and across the country. With social media encouraging increased polarization and driving us into pervasive and pernicious echo chambers, the conversations no longer challenge the ways in which we perceive or understand the world around us. We have conditioned ourselves to open our hearts and minds to perspectives that we agree with and construct walls of forced ignorance to protect ourselves from the dangers of opposing opinions and points of view.

Seeking only opinions with which we agree deprives us of crucial opportunities to expand our intellectual depth and understanding. Even more

perniciously, this manner of thinking causes us to segregate ourselves into communities ruled not by logic, but by group-think mentality.

Penn students must also be wary of the long-term negative consequences of becoming comfortable with publicly eviscerating individuals on the basis of their beliefs. Penn’s status as a world-class research institution relies on a student body that is willing to inquire into controversial ideas in order to seek the ultimate truth. But in shaming, ridiculing, and tearing a person’s reputation to shreds, we lose a fundamental aspect of campus vibrancy: intellectual diversity. Just as diversity of race, religion, sex, and socioeconomic status do much to expand our understanding of the

This manner of thinking causes us to segregate ourselves into communities ruled not by logic, but by group-think mentality.” world, opinions, as varied as the student body, enable us all to see a new perspective outside our own.

But that treasured goal of campus pedagogy is impossible when students are shamed for speaking their thoughts. When students are no longer willing to publicly share their beliefs, the free marketplace of ideas crumbles and an autocracy of dictated thought stands in its place.

This is not a call for individuals to stop challenging each other’s views. On the contrary, a successful campus and democracy rely on

healthy public debate. As a community, we must ensure that our discourse is grounded in challenging the perspectives of others and our own rather than cheaply personal shots. So, while this article may cause controversy, I can only hope that it sparks a discourse that is meaningful and representative of the academic mission of this University.

OLIVER STERN is a College freshman studying Political Science and International Relations. His email is ostern@sas.upenn.edu

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hroughout high school I worked ha rd to take A P cou r ses, pa r t icipate in extracurriculars, and do well on my SAT/ACT exams. I spent several Saturdays taking practice exams and fine-tuning my college entrance essay because I was committed to getting into a great school. When I opened my acceptance letter from Penn, it was one of the best days of my life.

As a first-generation, lowincome student from New York, I knew absolutely nothing about legacies or legacy students.

Therefore, it was frustrating to learn that because someone’s parents went to Penn, their application would get a special look from the admissions office.

The idea of legacy admissions creates an unfair advantage for those students, based on no academic, athletic, or extracurricular

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The deserving college applicants who may get their seat at Penn taken by a legacy student are the victims.” merit. In turn, it creates a disadvantage for well-deserving minority students, who may be pushed out because of favoritism towards legacy students.

Yes, alumni bring in money to Penn. Yes, donations are valuable to Penn. Yes, universities, including Penn, operate like businesses.

But we should not be okay with that.

We, as the Penn community, should not be okay with the idea of the potential “prestige” that comes with legacy students being a factor in the application process. It is not fair to assume

that another student’s status as a legacy student will have a profound impact on non-legacy students and automatically translate to future wealth and prestige.

I understand the financial impact that donations have on Penn’s campus. It is hard to miss with the constant construction of new buildings and renovations of old buildings. Donations are what fuel this University; however, donations should not buy a student's seat at Penn.

Alumni should not only be donating to Penn because it might secure their child a spot. If that is the case, Penn should do a better

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job at enhancing the student experience to encourage future alumni to donate because they love Penn and enjoyed their time here. Donations should not be incentivized by favoritism in the admissions process.

To clarify, I am in no way saying that legacy students do not deserve to be here, or do not belong. I understand why some legacy students may feel uncomfortable with sharing their status because of the negative stigma that comes with it. I, myself, am guilty of once scrunching my nose up at legacy students who talk about both their parents going to Penn, and for that, I am sorry.

However, as a first-generation student, it came as a slap in the face to learn of the narrative of legacy students feeling victimized by their legacy status. I do not know what it feels like to have a parent who is a Penn alum, but I think it is fair to assume that not only was the college application process easier than mine, but

also that the college experience now is much easier — not only because of the financial benefit, but also because of the ability to turn to someone who has attended college before and who can provide guidance.

It is hard for me to wrap my head around or feel sorry for the legacy students who see themselves as victims. When I had my first interaction with a legacy student, I didn't feel upset that they were accepted, or upset that their parents went to Penn; instead, I felt jealous. Jealous that they grew up in a household where their parents not only went to college, but went to Penn.

Jealous that I wasn't afforded that same environment. Legacy students are not victims of their situation.

The hundreds of FGLI students on Penn’s campus who have to struggle through their Free Application for Federal Student Aid applications, with parents who never went to college and might not be native

English speakers, are the victims. The thousands of high school students across the country who are going through the college application process alone are the victims. The deserving college applicants who may get their seat at Penn taken by a legacy student are the victims.

To my fellow FGLI students reading this, continue to work hard to change your family’s narrative, and I’ll continue to do the same.

To the legacy students reading this, you do not have to be ashamed of your legacy status, but please recognize that you came from a place of privilege and reflect on the impact that status has on your peers. Please do not frame yourself as the victim when it comes to legacy admissions.

TYIRA BUNCHE is a College junior from New York, N.Y. studying Criminology and Economic Policy.

Her email address is tbunche@sas. upenn.edu.

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A road draw means the Quakers are still undefeated in the Ivy League, but they might have felt they deserved more.

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in New York, Penn men’s soccer battled to a 1-1 draw with Columbia. Both the Quakers (4-3-2, 1-0-1 Ivy) and the Lions (3-4-3, 1-0-1) were coming off thrilling 3-2 away wins against Cornell and Brown, respectively. However, this game against Columbia at Rhodes Field was nothing of the sort, as both teams scored in a wild opening but offered nothing much on offense for the rest of the contest.

The Lions, who had the ball for kickoff, scored on their first possession of the game. A teasing, low cross down the left channel found forward Avi Eller, whose closerange flick was denied by Penn sophomore goalkeeper Dane Jacomen. However, the rebound fell to Columbia freshman midfielder Uri Zeitz, who smashed the ball into the net to give the Lions the lead after just 38 seconds.

“It’s always tough to concede that early, a minute into the game,” junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia said about the team’s early lapse in concentration. “It was one mistake

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the lead with two consecutive goals.

At the end of the third, Fagan helped tie up the game, scoring again to bring the game to 3-3 going into the last quarter. After a couple of failed conversions from both sides in the fourth quarter, the two teams entered overtime play.

Ward scored her second collegiate goal and second of the day — off an assist from senior forward Alexa Schneck — to end the game, 4-3.

“Going into overtime, we kind of

that led to [the goal], but we were able to bounce back and respond pretty well.”

Even after conceding the early goal, the Red and Blue kept their composure and gradually took hold of the game. In the 11th minute, junior midfielder Amado Lozano sliced a pinpoint through-ball to junior forward Jake Kohlbrenner deep in the Columbia half.

Turning past his defender, Kohlbrenner then played Bhangdia through down the left flank, who calmly slotted home the shot to equalize the score for the Quakers.

This was Bhangdia’s sixth goal of the season, as he continues to stay atop the Ivy League goal charts.

“I attribute a lot of [my success] to my teammates,” Bhangdia said.

“Jake and I have developed really good chemistry playing together.

Having conversations off the field really helps our performance on it, and continuing to build these relationships is something we’ve talked a lot about over the season.”

After an early exchange of goals, the pace of the game slowed down as both teams looked to shore up their defense. The Lions tried to build from the back against a patient Penn backline, while the Quakers looked to lift the ball up to Kohlbrenner whenever they had the chance.

Columbia had the lion’s share of chances in the first half, tallying seven shots compared to Penn’s three, most coming courtesy of the creative Zeitz. The rookie thrived in between Penn’s lines of defense and had two opportunities to score before the end of the half, includ-

ing a well-taken side volley from the edge of the box. However, Jacomen stopped both efforts to ensure the scoreline remained unchanged heading into the break.

The second half was somewhat uneventful as both the Quakers and the Lions searched for that elusive second goal. Throughout the half, Penn’s defense shut Zeitz down, as well as midfielder John Denis, another of the Lions’ creative outlets who leads his team with five goals and three assists for the season.

The Red and Blue also stepped up offensively in the half, notch-

ing six shots compared to Columbia’s three, yet none of them really troubled the Lions. With seconds to go, a headed clearance by senior defender Casey Barone found sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz for a counter-attacking opportunity. Fending off two Lions near the edge of the box with some nifty footwork, Stitz laid the ball to Kohlbrenner on the right, but his shot was deflected out for a corner.

That corner was not taken in time, and the referee sent the game to overtime.

The Quakers, with the ball to start first overtime, tried to force

things deep in Columbia territory from the get-go. However, despite dominating possession in the period and gaining a couple of set piece opportunities, they were unable to carve out any clear-cut chances against a stout Lions defense, and only managed a single, off-target shot. The second overtime period also went by with no offensive excitement, and the Quakers had to settle for a draw.

While the group had several missed opportunities and couldn’t come out with a statement win, Bhangdia is nonetheless pleased with his team’s showing.

“We don’t want to get too down about this result, to get a point on the road against a very good Columbia side, but we’re looking forward [to our next game],” Bhangdia said.

Next up for the Red and Blue, who are tied for second in the conference with Columbia, is a Tuesday night matchup at UMBC. That game will provide the Quakers with a chance to recalibrate amidst the Ivy League frenzy, before they return to Rhodes Field on Saturday to host Dartmouth with an undefeated conference record on the line.

had been feeling the entire game that we were the better team, and we were getting a lot of opportunities," Ward said. "But they were always coming back and getting the next goal, so we were pretty confident that we were going to be able to finish the job."

While the high intensity matchup with Dartmouth left the Red and Blue fatigued, they stayed focused on finishing off the weekend on a high note.

“There’s no doubt that we were tired. Dartmouth was really good, it was very back and forth, and going into overtime is tiring," Ward said.

"But I think having an overtime

victory can really propel a team forward, because it gives you a lot of momentum and confidence going into the next game."

The Red and Blue had a much less eventful first half against the Dragons.

While the game was also back-andforth — with both teams putting up a fair number of shots on goal — neither side scored by halftime.

The Quakers then hit the reset button and came back with guns blazing in the second half.

“We talked a lot about how to get better quality circle entries. We talked a lot about how to capitalize

on the fact that we had been on our attacking end, I think for the majority of the first half," coach Colleen Fink said. "But we just weren’t able to get the quality shots off."

While the Dragons (3-9) were able to gain a quick 1-0 second-half lead off of a penalty conversion, yet another Fagan shot hit the back of the net to tie the game at 1-1 before the fourth quarter. From there, neither side was able to score, sending the second Red and Blue game of the weekend into overtime.

After Penn earned a free shot shortly into overtime, freshman defender Elita Van Staden was subbed into the game to take the shot.

“[Van Staden] is quite strong on the penalty stroke as you saw," Fink said. "She was on the sidelines, but we have a ton of confidence in her ability to score on that, so putting her in was pretty much a no brainer."

Van Staden's goal ended the game at 2-1 to give the Quakers their second win of the weekend. The goal was also the freshman’s second successful penalty stroke this season.

The two overtime wins required a great deal of tenacity from the Red and Blue, who have had a fairly tumultuous season so far.

“I think they displayed a lot of resilience. Fall break can be a tricky time. You feel like you should be

having this restful, luxurious, spa retreat, and it’s not. You have a lot of work, you still have to train very hard, so I think they just displayed a ton of resilience during that period of time,” Fink said. “The season’s had its ups and downs and we’ve had some frustrating moments, and the fact that they’re capable of rising above the frustration and being able to stay together and capitalize off the resilience that they've built through the season has been critical.”

Next week, the Quakers will look to extend their winning streak to four games when they face off against Columbia (5-6, 1-2) in New York on Friday.

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Junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia scored his sixth goal of the season in Penn men’s soccer’s 1-1 draw against Columbia on Sunday. Bhangdia has scored over half of the team’s goals this season, and his current total is half of the Red and Blue’s teamwide total of 12 during last season.

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The senior running back now has seven touchdowns and 629 yards rushing through four games — 234 yards more than Harvard’s Devin Darrington, who has the League’s second-highest rushing yardage total. He is on pace to rush for 1,570 yards, which would break Jim Finn’s record for the most rushing yards in a season in Penn history. Brooks’ 25 rushing touchdowns and 2,473 rushing yards are the sixth highest totals in Penn football’s 143-year history.

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This marks the third time this season that the Georgia native has totaled more than 150 yards rushing,

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Penn women’s soccer falls late at Columbia for second Ivy League loss The Red and Blue had just two shots on goal in defeat JACKSON SATZ Associate Sports Editor

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The Pioneers responded with a field goal of their own, but on the ensuing drive, Robinson found Brooks on a 17-yard touchdown pass. It was Brooks’ first career reception touchdown.

“I definitely didn’t think about it until after the play,” Brooks said. “I knew they would try to tackle me low and I wouldn’t be able to run him over so I went over.”

Once again, Sacred Heart was able to respond. With 39 seconds left in the half, Marchi connected with sophomore wide receiver Naseim Brantley on a 29-yard completion, making the score 24-10 at halftime.

The second half began with

three straight punts before a fumbled snap in the end zone recovered by the Pioneers resulted in a Sacred Heart touchdown. All of a sudden, the Quakers were only up by one score.

“Sacred Heart is a good team, and all it took was that missnap to change the momentum of the game,” coach Ray Priore said. “They rumbled back, but we settled ourselves and finished the way we wanted.”

Heading into the fourth quarter the score remained the same until Robinson found Starkey on a 36-yard completion to set up a Starkey touchdown catch a few plays later. Immediately, the Pioneers were able to respond. Marchi found freshman Tyrese Chambers on a slant route who then took it 74 yards to the house, but the Quakers

marched down the field again on a 13-play, 75-yard drive to set up Brooks’ fourth touchdown.

Before Sacred Heart could have a chance at a comeback, Marchi was intercepted by senior defensive back Sam Philippi in the end zone, sealing the victory for the Red and Blue.

“When you come from an inside lineman on a post route running away from you to make the interception, that was an effort-and-a-half,” Priore said.

For Penn, Robinson finished the game 21-for-43 for 267 yards and two touchdowns while Starkey had a breakout game, catching eight passes for 129 yards and a touchdown.

The Quakers will return to League play next week when they take on Columbia in New York.

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After splitting its first two Ivy League matchups of the year with a loss at Harvard and a win against Cornell, Penn women’s soccer traveled to New York for a Saturday afternoon contest with Columbia.

Despite having built momentum with a resounding attacking performance against the Big Red in which they scored four goals, the Quakers faltered against the Lions, losing 1-0 for their second League defeat of the season. The one-goal margin of victory has become characteristic of matchups between Penn (6-4-1, 1-2 Ivy) and Columbia (8-3-1, 2-1), whose last eight games dating back to 2012 have featured no more than one goal.

Saturday’s meeting was not an especially offensive affair, with the two teams combining for just 10 shots on target. Even

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Leng to a 25-20 win.

Sophomore opposite hitter Margaret Planek contributed significantly to the Penn effort once again, scoring the winning point in the second set and helping the Quakers secure the win in the third.

On Saturday, Penn was unable to pick up a second win on the weekend, suffering a loss to Yale (8-6, 4-1).

The Quakers came out of the gate ready to play. With 12 combined kills from junior outside hitter Parker Jones and Leak, the Red and Blue seemed poised to win a thrilling first set that saw five lead changes.

However, Yale found its groove late, going on a 10-4 run to close the set and win 25-18.

so, Columbia was responsible for eight of those 10, and the Red and Blue struggled to create any sustained pressure in the Lions’ defensive third. Their two shots on goal came at opposite ends of the game in the first and 83rd minutes.

Although senior goalkeeper Kitty Qu recorded seven saves, a mark good enough for her second-best of 2019, Columbia needed to find the back of the net just once to put the Red and Blue away. For most of the game, though, Penn was able to keep the hosts off the scoreboard.

In the 23rd minute, Columbia threatened when a through ball found freshman forward Ally Clark, but Qu was alert to the play and averted danger. The game was scoreless going into halftime, but it didn’t take the Lions long after the break to earn their first clear-cut chance of the day. A 51st-minute backpost cross found junior Jordyn Geller in prime scoring position, but Qu did just enough to force Geller to send her shot over the crossbar.

The Quakers’ luck ran out late, though, when Columbia finally managed to break through in the 75th minute. The Lions’

After going behind 10-6 in the second set, the Red and Blue were never able to get back in the set, falling behind two sets to zero by a score of 25-21. This early deficit forced the Quakers to try to start a comeback.

In the third set, Yale started off strong again, and the Red and Blue tried their best to keep up. Penn managed to tie the game, 10-10, with a service ace from freshman defensive specialist Caroline Douglas, but Yale still managed to have the upper hand, winning the set by a score of 25-20.

“Yale exposed a lot of our weaknesses that we didn’t know we had,” said junior outside hitter Parker Jones, who is also a DP staffer. “[We’re focusing on] getting back to the gym and working hard on covering those short balls and start

sophomore midfielder Jessica Schildkraut took a free kick near midfield that found no one in the Red and Blue 18-yard box before bouncing to junior midfielder Gracie Wall, whose header beat Qu with what would be the game’s deciding goal.

In response, Penn increased its urgency for the game’s final quarter of an hour. In the 83rd minute, freshman forward Ella Wright got on the end of a cross from junior forward Paige Howard, but she was unable to finish, as freshman goalkeeper Liz Matei made the stop for Columbia.

Mere minutes later, senior forward Emily Sands flicked a long ball from junior midfielder Breukelen Woodard into the path of freshman midfielder Sizzy Lawton. Lawton went down after a tackle from behind, but no foul was called and Columbia held on to secure its second League win of the year.

The Quakers will look to rebound in their return to Rhodes Field on Oct. 19 against Dartmouth. The Big Green, despite already having collected eight wins in 2019, are in search of their first League win of the year after an 0-3 start that included losses to Yale, Princeton, and Ancient Eight-leading Brown.

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Although the Quakers lost, the team still took away some positives from the match.

“We did a really good job of terminating this match. We took some killer swings,” Jones said. “I feel like we’re really gritty; we have the ability to bounce back really quickly after messing up.”

This weekend demonstrated the team’s efforts and determination, and their solidarity allowed them to continue playing hard.

“We have a really good sense of unity on the team, so I think that really held us together,” Jones said.

Next weekend, the Quakers will play in two away matches against Dartmouth and Harvard with hopes of adding to their Ivy League victory total.

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Red and Blue defeat Sacred Heart with impressive offensive display CHARLIE MA Sports Reporter

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Karekin Brooks carried the load once again.

In the Quakers’ 38-24 victory over

Sacred Heart on Saturday afternoon at Franklin Field, the senior running back rushed for 178 yards on 28 attempts, accounting for a total of four touchdowns on the day — three rushing and one receiving — to match his season total entering the game.

Despite Penn (2-2) pulling away with an early 17-0 lead in the first half, the game was a back-and-forth battle by the time the game clock hit zero as the Pioneers (3-3) were able to pick it up on both sides of the ball in the second half.

Offensively, it was all the Red and

Blue in the first half. On the first drive of the game, senior quarterback Nick Robinson found sophomore wide receiver Rory Starkey on a 42-yard completion. A few plays later, Robinson connected with sophomore wide receiver Ryan Cragun for a 37-yard completion.

Brooks would score his first touchdown two plays later on a one-yard run, capping off an eight-play, 75-yard drive.

After a defensive stop, the Quakers’ next drive began with 42-yard run by junior quarterback Ryan Glover on a trick play. However, the drive stalled at

Penn volleyball picks up first Ivy League victory in weekend split Both of the matches were decided in straight sets HELEN LY Contributing Reporter

Penn volleyball’s first Ivy League win of the season highlighted the team’s fall break weekend at the Palestra.

The Quakers had two home matches on Friday and Saturday against Brown and Yale, respectively. The Red and Blue successfully swept the Bears before dropping a tough match to the Bulldogs.

The match against Brown (9-6, 1-4 Ivy) ended in victory for the Quakers (8-6, 1-4), who won in three consecutive sets.

It was a tight match, especially in Penn’s 29-27 first set win, but in the end, the Quakers were able to secure their first Ivy League victory of the year. “[The] past few games have been a little rough, but we were so confident coming into this match, and before we even stepped on the court, I had complete faith that we were going to beat this team,” freshman outside hitter Autumn Leak said. “Our team has obvi-

the Sacred Heart 35-yard line, and the Quakers elected to punt, pinning the Pioneers at their own 11-yard line.

The Red and Blue forced a three-andout on the ensuing drive, and after a shanked 15-yard punt by the Pioneers, the Quakers were in scoring position again at the Sacred Heart 35-yard line.

Eight plays later, Brooks found the end zone for his second touchdown of the day.

Two plays into the next Sacred Heart drive, senior quarterback Logan Marchi was intercepted by sophomore Adam

Conyer, who returned the pick all the way to the Pioneers’ two-yard line.

However, an unsportsmanlike conduct call on the Quakers brought them back to the 17-yard line. The Red and Blue would be able to regain those yards, but the drive would ultimately stall as Penn was unable to convert a fourth and goal from the one.

After another Sacred Heart punt, the Quakers marched the ball 60 yards down the field to set up a field goal by SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 7

Field hockey picks up two dramatic OT wins in sweep of Dartmouth and Drexel

ously risen to the occasion, so I’m super proud of them.”

In the first set, the Quakers rode an 11-6 run keyed by three kills from Leak to go ahead, 18-13. Despite Brown’s comeback effort tying the score at 22 all, Penn was able to pull away late.

The next two sets were much easier for the Red and Blue, as they raced out to a 7-0 lead in the second set on their way to a 25-18 win. In the final set, the Quakers rode four kills from junior middle hitter Caroline SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 7

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Freshman midfielder Meghan Ward was pivotal in Penn field hockey’s victory against Dartmouth, scoring a pair of goals, including a game-winner. Ward also scored her first collegiate goal in Saturday’s overtime win.

Pair of freshmen scored game-winners for Penn JESS MIXON Associate Sports Editor

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Freshman outside hitter Autumn Leak had three kills in Penn volleyball’s 11-6 run in the first set of its victory against Brown on Friday night. Leak finished the match with a total of 15 kills and two blocks.

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Penn field hockey probably wouldn’t describe its fall break as restful. However, it was victorious.

This weekend, the Red and Blue added two overtime wins to their record, taking down Dartmouth at home on Saturday and Drexel on the road on Sunday.

Coming off of a split weekend in Boston where the Quakers (5-6, 2-1 Ivy) lost to Harvard, they entered the weekend looking to notch another win against Dartmouth (3-8, 0-3).

They did just that in a back-andforth affair.

On Saturday, both teams came out with high energy. While the

first quarter saw no scoring, the Big Green capitalized on a penalty to gain an initial lead. Shortly after, sophomore forward Maddy Fagan intercepted a pass from the corner and passed to freshman midfielder Meghan Ward for her first collegiate goal to equalize the game entering halftime.

Fagan stepped up again when play resumed, this time putting the ball in the back of the net to give the Red and Blue a 2-1 lead. Dartmouth countered with two strong offensive plays in the third quarter, retaking SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 6

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