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DAZED Part I: Three Penn sprint football players deal with the effects of playing through brain injuries in the 2017 season WILLIAM SNOW Senior Sports Reporter

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t was just a normal midseason practice. No full contact allowed, per school rules, so the players hit dummies to practice their tackling.

It was just a normal hit as well. A player dove toward a dummy, like he had countless times before. But he fell awkwardly, hitting the ground head-first. He got up, dazed, and moved on with the drill.

It’s normal to play through injuries on Penn sprint football, that player — and many of his teammates — said. He continued on to finish the week of practice, and he played a full game that weekend against Chestnut Hill. The Quakers triumphed in a 20-7 contest.

But at the end of the game, Kevin Lajeunesse couldn’t tell his athletic trainers and medical staff what month it was.

Lajeunesse had suffered a concussion earlier that week and played on, exacerbating its symptoms and leaving him in a state of unforeseen impairment. He was deemed ineligible to play for the rest of the season,

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and he limped through his classes for the rest of the semester.

For Lajeunesse, and at least two of his teammates during the 2017 season, playing through concussions forced them to suffer serious consequences. Not only did they have to walk away from the sport they loved all their lives, but they also had to consider whether they could even continue on at school.

What follows is an account of the journeys of Lajeunesse, Matt Gorman, and Connor Ashton as they faced the dark potential consequences of playing sprint football for Penn, struggled to recover from their injuries, and came to terms with life after college athletics.

As they looked back on their time playing for sprint football, however, none had regrets about how they spent their time or about the decisions they made. They all said they would do it all again.

“I Paid For It Dearly” When Lajeunesse got up dazed, he didn’t know he would be feeling the effects one year later. But as he

sat down to chat with a coffee in his trembling hand and special lightreducing sunglasses hooked over his Penn Athletics shirt, he was just glad the worst was behind him.

In the weeks following his con-

cussion. “But I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t seen stars before,” he noted.

Previously, the symptoms had gone away. Most concussion symptoms clear within two or three weeks, but he was diagnosed with Post-

"I took my chemistry final exam ... and after I finished the final, I went home and laid in bed for three days."

- Kevin Lajeunesse cussion, he had a hard time sleeping, and he suffered from raging headaches and extreme sensitivity to light. He struggled to keep up with classes, having suffered the injury not even halfway through the semester.

This was his first diagnosed con-

Concussion Syndrome, meaning his symptoms could last for much longer.

Everyday life became more difficult for him, especially when he needed to exert cognitive energy.

“I strongly considered the possibility [of taking a leave of absence]

given how I was finishing out my first semester,” Lajeunesse said. “I took my chemistry final exam because I was locked into that class that semester, and after I finished the final, I went home and laid in bed for three days.”

Resting over winter break didn’t alleviate his symptoms. He still suffered from the headaches, ocular migraines, poor balance, and more.

Nonetheless, he chose to return to campus rather than take a medical leave of absence.

Lajeunesse, a College junior, studies neuroscience as a BBB major. (“It’s painfully ironic,” he quipped.)

The following semester, however, he knocked out general requirements as he waited for his brain injury to heal. He got through by attending lectures with his eyes closed, by strategically scheduling classes with breaks to rest in between, and by listening to audiobooks instead of reading.

Even still, he said, “I felt like I was trying to win a boxing match

with an arm tied behind my back.”

He made it through the semester, took summer classes to get back on track, and says he even feels good enough for a full course load this fall.

But he still wakes up in the middle of the night with the tingly feeling of needles sticking in his face. His doctors can’t explain the phenomenon.

For periods during the day, he feels dazed, and he still has a tremor in his hand. He has recently made a slow return to basic exercise, but has had to give up his long-time hobbies of skiing and weightlifting for good.

A year on, he wonders what might have been different if he hadn’t played on after getting up dazed.

“I can’t help but wonder, if I had … stopped after that day I got dinged in practice instead of playing through it. Would I have been able to recover in a week or two as most people do, instead of suffering for a year? That’s something I have to live SEE CONCUSSIONS PAGE 2

Office of the Provost now requires faculty bias training

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Amid ongoing efforts for greater inclusion, the Office of the Provost now requires all faculty members involved in faculty searches across schools to undergo unconscious bias training.

Requirement went into effect this semester, but the decision was made in March 2017 as part of the President and Provost’s Faculty Inclusion Report, Executive Director of Faculty Affairs Lubna Mian said.

While the Office of the Provost

has offered centralized unconscious bias training intended for hiring committees since 2006, the training will now be required for faculty members on hiring committees.

Penn Dental professor Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, who headed the Senate Committee for Faculty Development, Diversity, and Equity, made the initial recommendation in May 2012 that faculty involved in hiring take bias training.

“We thought that was a good place to start,” Jordan-Sciutto said.

“I think that this will go a long way to making an inclusive environment which will only further enhance all the scholarship and education that occurs here.”

Bias training has long been an issue of interest among graduate school faculty. In April 2017, more than 80 faculty members signed a letter in support of expanding programming for reducing bias and encouraging fellow faculty members to attend a training. The majority of the signers were from the Perelman School of Medicine.

Chair of the Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Group Dan Kessler, who signed the letter, said the release of the letter occurred around the same time conversations about bias were happening within Biomedical SEE BIAS TRAINING PAGE 3

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Three years ago, Moumena Saradar left Syria with her family to establish a new life as a refugee in Philadelphia. Now, through a program in the Penn Museum, Saradar spends a portion of her days teaching others about the culture of her homeland.

Launched last spring, the Global Guides program employs guides from Iraq and Syria to offer tours of the museum’s new Middle East Gallery. Feedback

from museum visitors indicate that the program is impacting their connection to the exhibit and Middle Eastern culture.

To find immigrants and refugees to participate in the program, the museum works with two local resettlement agencies.

According to the museum’s website, the institution currently boasts four global guides — three from Iraq and one from Syria.

Kevin Schott, the museum’s education programs manager, trains new global guides. Schott said he was particularly excited by the program’s initial impact, noting that it encourages people to look beyond an artifact’s historic significance and garner ap-

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Saradar, who works as an interpreter when not leading tours, said she was particularly attached to the jewelry on the Queen Puabi sculpture in the gallery.

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“I shook mine off, and I paid for it dearly.”

“It Got Worse Before It Got Better” In the face of severe brain injuries of their own, College sophomore Connor Ashton and Engineering sophomore Matt Gorman decided they needed to take time off from school.

Their concussions came just a week apart — in games on Oct. 20 and 27, respectively. Ashton can’t remember exactly what happened, but recalls feeling worse throughout the first half of the game against Post. He pulled himself from the game at halftime, and the trainers diagnosed him with a concussion.

Gorman played through his. After a nasty hit left him dazed, he declined to seek medical treatment and played the rest of the season.

For his outstanding performances, he was named the Collegiate Sprint Football League’s Co-Newcomer of the Year.

“All my career, I’ve been playing through injuries like nothing,” Gorman said. “I tore my ACL in junior year of high school, and I played five games on it. I’ve gotten countless concussions that I’ve played through. It was always, ‘Can I keep going? Can I play through it?’”

Usually, Gorman said, his concussions would improve by the end of the season, but this time they got worse. “That’s when I realized I was gonna have to take some time off school.”

By Gorman’s estimation, this was roughly his eighth to 10th concussion. The effects were catching up with him. He consulted with doctors and administrators at Penn and decided to take a medical leave of absence.

Ashton did the same. This was his fifth diagnosed concussion — he admitted there were probably a couple more — and he could feel the weight of all of them catch up to him. Five was enough: he announced his retirement from the sport, and a subsequent leave of absence after the semester.

“I probably could have pushed to get to six, as some people do, but at that point I didn’t want to chance it,” Ashton said.

During their spring semesters off,

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College sophomore Connor Ashton took himself out of the game when he felt concussed. But he still feels its effects one year later.

their conditions did not improve.

Gorman developed a lazy eye and suffered intense headaches and focus issues. Ashton felt fatigued, had continuous headaches, and was sensitive to light.

“It got worse before it got better,” Ashton said.

Gorman’s symptoms started to clear around six months after the

In the latter case, team captain Owen Thomas’ brain was studied by the Concussion Legacy Foundation at Boston University, and he was deemed to have suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy — a long-term disease incurred by repeated subconcussive blows to the head over a player’s career.

Kyle Ambrogi’s death in 2005 was never examined for brain damage, but contemporary reports of his condition indicate he could have suffered a similar fate.

As a result, protecting players has been a priority for Penn in recent years. The school and the Ivy League have both made strides to make the game safer, including eliminating full-contact practices in-season and, as of this year, wearing a protective outer shell around players’ helmets during practice year-round.

Although preventative measures were not enough to protect Lajeunesse, Gorman, or Ashton, all three spoke highly of Penn’s medical staff in working on their recovery.

In the spring of this year, the semester after he suffered his head injury, Lajeunesse began experiencing “crushing anxiety.” He had never dealt with mental health issues before, but he had panic attacks that

I’ve gotten countless concussions that I’ve played through.”

- Matt Gorman injury. Ashton’s improved over the course of the summer.

All three of the sprint football players who suffered diagnosed concussions still feel the physical effects today. But at the very least, they’re still alive and improving every week.

“They Didn’t Want Me To Be The Next Football Tragedy” Head injuries have played part in a dark past at Penn.

Two Penn football players died by suicide within five years of each other in 2005 and 2010.

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left him unable to leave his room.

His doctor prescribed him medication, and he saw psychologists at Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Lajeunesse said he no longer suffers from that aspect of his injury.

“Penn has been phenomenal from a mental health perspective,” Lajeunesse said. “They didn’t want me to be the next football tragedy.”

One man he also praised throughout it all was his coach, Bill Wagner. “[He] never rushed me back to play, and he’s been extremely understanding throughout this process.”

Penn Athletics declined to make Wagner available for comment for this story. The sprint football team’s athletic trainers were also made unavailable for comment.

All three ex-players spoke of the difficulties of losing a huge portion of their identities by walking away from football. It was a painful decision to make, they said. Lajeunesse ultimately decided to stay on the team as a manager — the team was his family, he said.

All three also said they wouldn’t change much if they were to do it over again.

“We Know The Risks. I Knew The Risks” Ask any football player why they love the game, and there are a few answers one can immediately expect. Above all for Lajeunesse, Gorman, and Ashton, the game gave them a family and taught them discipline.

For them, any potential costs of playing pale in comparison to the game’s benefits — especially when they consider that being recruited for the sport might have gotten them into a school like Penn in the first place.

“Football has basically been my life,” Gorman said. “Probably one of the reasons I got into Penn was that I was good at football. … I maybe didn’t have the best grades to get in, but I got in.”

Playing the game had considerable consequences for the trio, but none was unaware of such a possibility. Even Lajeunesse, who feels the effects a year later, regrets little of his college career.

“It’s not something me or my teammates are oblivious to. We’re student-athletes at an Ivy League university. We’re aware of the risks we’re taking,” the junior said. “I’m pretty conflicted. I love the life experiences it’s given me, but it’s come at

a pretty steep cost.” play that left him unconscious for “That’s the price you pay for the several seconds and unable to tell euphoria that it brings,” Gorman where he was after getting up. After echoed. the game, he had to make a trip to “We know the risks. I knew the the hospital to determine whether risks,” Gorman continued. “I heard the stories, internalized them, and continued to play.

Without football, my life would be a hollow shell of what it is now. … It is a fraternity of warriors who share the same mindset and will to compete. For me, it - Connor Ashton is no different than enlisting into the military knowing the ultimate price. As long he was safe enough to go home, acas the consequences are fully under- cording to multiple players on the stood. I see no problem in it.” team. At publishing time, it is unGorman’s views reflect the stark clear whether he will play again in contrast between people playing the his final season. sport and those seeking to adminisSuch injuries come with the terter or supervise it. Penn and the Ivy ritory, Lajeunesse, Gorman, and League have been striving to make Ashton previously said. And it’s progress preventing head injuries something they will continue to for the better part of a decade now. wrestle with.

I probably could have pushed to get to six... but at that point, I didn’t want to chance it.”

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Sophomore Matt Gorman always played through injuries — including a concussion in 2017. His suffering is the price of playing the game, he said.

The Quakers’ training staff says it has worked relentlessly to increase education on head injuries and to encourage self-reporting for diagnosis and treatment.

But head injuries inevitably continue to occur as a part of the sport.

On Oct. 12 this year, in a game at West Point, senior linebacker James Juliano took a hit during a freak

Editor’s note: This story is the first of a two-part series on brain injuries and Penn sprint football.

Part I follows the stories of three players who suffered brain injuries in fall 2017 and have struggled to deal with the consequences. Part II, a look at the team’s culture of dealing with brain injuries, will be released in the coming weeks.

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MSA hosts annual Islamic Discovery Series The series featured a guest speaker, Yasmin Mogahed DANIEL WANG Contributing Reporter

This week’s annual Islamic Discovery Series held by Penn Muslim Students Association culminated in a lecture from guest speaker Yasmin Mogahed, a renowned author and speaker in the Muslim community.

The theme this year was dubbed “The Question of ‘Why’”: Islamic Intentions and Interpretations, as an expansion of Penn’s “Year of Why.” It seeks to encourage inner reflection — questioning intentions and why people do what they do – as well as increasing awareness of Muslim culture and practices.

This year’s Islamic Discovery Series is part of MSA’s continued efforts to spread awareness of Islam and mutual understanding in the current political climate.

“The biggest thing that we try to get out of IDS is the idea that there is a lot of fear surrounding things you don’t know,” College senior and MSA President Zahraa Mohammed said. “In order to

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Graduate Studies in response to student concern.

“There was definitely a preexisting concern about these issues, and a series of events on campus and off campus,” Kessler said. “The ongoing more focused discussions among the leaders of the graduate groups really prompted us to make a more public statement.”

Shortly after the 2017 letter, the Perelman School of Medicine’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity offered eight “Everyday Bias Workshops” held by consulting firm Cook Ross, which 103 faculty and staff members attended. Perelman also held an implicit bias teach-in which organized round table discussions with Penn faculty around

overcome that fear, you have to get to know the people behind it. Then you’ll see a lot of similarities and a lot of understanding start to grow out of that.”

Over 100 students from universities around Philadelphia came to hear Mogahed’s lecture.

Mogahed focused on mental health and how it plays into spirituality and religion.

“In Eastern philosophies … your spiritual health is supposed to be your mental health. Those are two entirely different things, and one impacts the other; they are not one and the same,” Mohammed said.

The speaker introduced new ways for Penn students to look at mental health, to see that there is a spiritual realm to it, and to learn how to cater to your heart in a way that wasn’t really advocated for before and not researched about, Mohammed added.

The four biggest aspects of Mogahed’s spiritual first aid kit, the central message of her talk, were prayer, invocation, connecting hearts to the Quran, and the emotional wellbeing of healing.

“If a person doesn’t pray, it’s like

a person who doesn’t breathe,” said Mogahed, likening prayer to oxygen, or taking prescribed medication when one is sick. She also discussed the necessity as well as ease of practicing spirituality while living a worldly life.

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence,” Mogahed said. Using the example of a rearview mirror, she emphasized the importance of learning self-compassion and being able to forgive yourself for not being perfect.

While it is important to learn lessons from the past, it is crucial to prevent fixating on it, she said – staring only at the rear-view mirror while driving will inevitably lead to a crash.

2018 Wharton graduate Meriem Djelmami-Hani had previously attended a conference where she heard Mogahed speak and decided she had to hear Mogahed speak again. This time, Djelmami-Hani said she liked “how [Mogahed] said whatever you focus on grows.”

“If you focus on positive aspects of your life, you will continue to see those positive things and you’ll be able to grow more readily,” Djelmami-Hani said. “In the same

bias.

While students and faculty say training for the hiring committees is an important first step, many say there is still more to be done to reduce bias.

Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D. candidate Sydney Campbell said she and other student leaders from groups such as Penn Graduate Women in Science and Engineering and the Biomedical Student Society spoke with program chairs about requiring bias training for all faculty.

“There’s not a lot of centralized offices or mechanisms that can mandate things across the University,” Campbell said.

“It’s just the beginning of addressing this issue,” Kessler said. “I would like to see these efforts gradually move towards the point where all faculty receive the training.”

Mian said while she does not foresee training as a future requirement for all faculty, she does see continued interest through other events that happen on campus.

“These kinds of organic efforts are likely more effective for stimulating discussion around this body of work,” Mian said. “While training is valuable, the effort of reducing gender and racial bias in all institutions and interactions is shared.”

The Office of the Provost’s trainings, which will take place in October, will be run by New-York-based Perception Institute. The Institute is the same research-collaborative that conducted employee trainings for Starbucks after the coffee chain came under national scrutiny following the arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks.

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The Cultural Lounge brought in food, dress, and music from

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way, if you focus on the negatives and tend to have a pessimistic mentality, you will be more likely to head in that path as well.”

Toward the end of her lecture, Mogahed sparked a lively discussion with engaging input from the audience. Attendees asked thought-provoking questions, including how to get mental health treatment amid the pushback and stigma in the Muslim community against it. Mogahed advised those in need to seek out help while trusting in God at the same time, and to allow God to be the one guiding them through the actual therapy.

“I thought she was incredibly knowledgeable about different topics in Islam that people are struggling with, and that I am personally struggling with,” College senior Methany Eltigani said. “She had a really good way of relating complex topics to really simple examples, and that was very helpful in making us understand it.”

Mogahed utilized the two analogies of a journey and the body throughout her talk, riffing on the notion of needing guidance and a GPS, as well as feeding the spiritual body what it needs.

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udge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation has put his alma mater, Yale University, in a precarious place.

Ordinarily, the addition of a Supreme Court Justice to the pantheon of successful alumni would be cause for celebration.

But Kavanaugh’s nomination was opposed by the majority of the country.

The Yale community has been grappling with how to approach alumni that may legitimize or sell the prestige of the university in the face of objections to character. As a result of widespread student activism, Yale has been called “the epicenter of the Kavanaugh resistance.”

In the wake of this self-examination, it is vital that Penn, as a university and as a community, examines those that it puts on a pedestal.

The recent testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has rightly recalled the 1991 testimony of Anita Hill during Justice Clarence Thomas’s confirmation process. When Hill spoke at Irvine Auditorium this week, she called the Kavanaugh hearings a “tragedy” and “a disservice to the American public.”

As we continue to discuss Dr. Ford’s Congressional hearing, it is worthwhile to remember former Vice President and Penn professor Joe Biden’s conduct during Hill’s hearing 27 years ago.

Appointed in 2017 as Penn’s inaugural Presidential Professor of Practice, Biden is a now a frequent and beloved visitor to campus, as well as an increas-

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ingly central part of the University’s brand. As the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee

While overseeing these proceedings, Biden failed to speak up and criticize his colleagues’

Ignoring the shortcomings of Penn icons to preserve the pristine image of their character is dishonest and beneath us.” in 1991, he oversaw hearings where senators asked Hill a series of inappropriate questions.

At one point, Sen. Howell Heflin from Alabama asked Hill if she were a “scorned woman,” implying that her decision to testify before Congress was part of a revenge scheme.

behavior. Biden also did not call on any witnesses who could corroborate Hill’s testimony. While he has since admitted that he owes Hill an apology, she claims that he has never actually done so. In an interview with Elle, Hill said it has become a running joke in her family that any

unexpected visitor ringing their doorbell could be Biden coming to apologize. Biden’s more recent support for the It’s On Us campaign to end sexual assault is commendable, but should not erase his inaction during the Hill testimony.

The former VP is not the only Penn figure whose shortcomings ought to be re-examined.

In recent years, Ben Franklin, arguably the most notable person in Penn’s history, has become a topic of moral debate.

Last spring, Penn professor Jonathan Zimmerman sparked controversy when he suggested that the inscription on the Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall be amended to read “OWNER OF SLAVES.” 1997 College and Wharton

graduate Elon Musk’s recent legal battles with the SEC offers another example. Between attacking journalists and accusing one of the divers who rescued the trapped Thai soccer team of being a pedophile, Musk has also carried himself bizarrely in the public sphere.

While he does not have a strong official presence on campus, Musk has served as something of a patron saint of successful entrepreneurship and bold innovation to many at Penn. In 2007, the Wharton alumni magazine praised Musk for his business acumen and humanitarian interests in space exploration and clean energy.

With President Donald Trump, Penn faces a challenge of how to address his status as an alumni. The administration has been quiet on this front, but the question at hand will not fade after he departs from the Oval Office; in fact, it will become all the more important. Penn finally has a president to count among its alumni, and must decide how it will present his legacy to the generations of Quakers to come.

Ignoring the shortcomings of Penn icons to preserve the pristine image of their character is dishonest and beneath us. As more Quakers continue to make their marks in the world, let us be clear-eyed in evaluating their merits. Acknowledging the fallibility of Penn’s stars, instead of turning a blind eye to the choices of the past, allows us to learn from their mistakes and teaches students to think critically about their own choices.

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n September, the United States economy added approximately 134,000 jobs, dropping the unemployment rate to 3.7 percent. And, as would be expected, Donald Trump has been quick to take credit. If you were to listen only to President Trump, you would think that this positive economic trend is due primarily to his administration’s policies. This is false.

The unemployment rate didn’t start dropping on or after Jan. 20, 2017.

The unemployment rate has been steadily dropping for the past eight years. That is an indisputable fact. That, however, is something Donald Trump is unwilling to acknowledge. After all, throughout the campaign he lambasted the state of the economy under President Obama. And now that he is presiding over the

Now, if a Democrat took office while the economy was growing due to his or her predecessor’s policies, would he or she find a way to take some credit for it?

Probably.

Would the Democrat, faced by data from their own Bureau of Labor Statistics showing the recovery starting with their predecessor, call it fake news and brand the media “the enemy of the people” for daring to confront them with the inconvenience of facts? Of course not.

The fact that Donald Trump does precisely this helps explain the passion of the majority of Americans who oppose him. And while Trump’s war on facts is unprecedented, it represents a trend that remains very much alive in today’s Republican Party.

This war on facts and reality is most intensely fought on the economy and science.

If the Founders could see the unhealthy degree of ignorance and hostility the modern Republican Party has shown toward scientific progress, they would be flabbergasted.” strengthening economy, he is pretending that he is responsible for it.

The idea that tax cuts for the wealthy will stimulate the economy by trickling down to the rest

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In February 2015, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) held up a snowball as proof that climate change is a hoax.

of society gained steam in the Reagan era and was made into a driving economic goal for the Republican Party. Though repeated tax cuts for the wealthy have failed to produce the results its proponents promised, the idea has refused to die. If anything, it has become orthodoxy among Republican leaders today. And perhaps most maddeningly of all, no matter how many facts you show Republican leaders about the true effects of such tax cuts, they will summarily dismiss the truth as “liberal bias.”

On the science front, things are looking even worse. Built on decades of scientific progress and breakthroughs, there is global consensus on the presence and threat of climate change. And the prognosis looks, to put it mildly, grim. If sweeping action isn’t taken by the government — and the global community as a whole — in the near future, we will see catastrophic changes to our planet in our lifetime.

But the Republican Party isn’t in a political battle with Democrats about how to best address this issue. They are denying climate change altogether! To some

Republicans, the presence of snowfall in the winter is proof that climate change is a liberal hoax. To others, the Bible not mentioning climate change is proof that it is not real.

What is going on here? Are Republican leaders allergic to facts? Or have they simply decided to reject reality when it collides with their predetermined ideological dogma?

The war on facts as Republican doctrine is a rather new phenomenon.

When Richard Nixon was president, smog in the cities was a major issue facing the nation.

So what did he do? He acknowledged the problem and created the Environmental Protection Agency to address any and all issues facing the environment.

In fact, up until a few decades ago, academics had a more balanced ideological split. Then came the war on facts and reality, and academics and college-educated Americans became increasingly alienated by the modern Republican Party.

This acrimonious relationship with truth spells trouble for our future. The Founding Fathers

were children of the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, and accordingly felt that wisdom and the progress of the human race were essential to the health of the Republic.

To them, people untethered to facts and knowledge were a threat to a self-governed people. The cure? Education and scientific progress.

The Founders were highly educated men who marveled at the progress of science and the human mind in their lifetime — and its future potential. After all, Benjamin Franklin, the founder of the University of Pennsylvania, was himself an accomplished scientist and champion of higher education.

If you put the Founding Fathers in a room and explained the breadth of scientific progress made since their time and the science behind climate change, they would undoubtedly accept it.

Why won’t the Republicans?

If the Founders could see the unhealthy degree of ignorance and hostility the modern Republican Party has shown toward scientific progress, they would be flabbergasted. The anti-intellectualism present in our current discourse represents the very same threat to self-governance that the Founders feared could end the Republic.

When you vote this November, choose country over party. It’s what the Founders would have wanted.

MICHAEL A . KESHMIRI is a College senior from Stockholm, Sweden studying political science. His email address is mkesh@sas.upenn.edu.

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When promoting a worthy cause becomes just another marketing ploy THE OXFORD C’MON | The tricky line between exploitation and advocacy

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t the risk of being a stereotype, I will admit that my diet consists of mainly bagels. So imagine my delight when Panera Bread announced that its Pink Ribbon Bagels would return to select stores in 2018. As explained by Panera’s website, a portion of the proceeds from this bagel’s sales are donated to “help fight against Breast Cancer.”

Considering breast cancer has profoundly affected my life, the amount of organizations and companies that advertise “pink ribbon” anything during the month of October sometimes seems overwhelming. I have always viewed this kind of advocacy as a beautiful display of solidarity and acknowledgement.

That is, until just recently when my mother, a survivor herself, called me the other day about what she deemed an

her skin and her memories, she asked me, “When does honoring turn into something selfservicing?” And thus, from a business perspective, when does a “good cause” turn into an overused marketing ploy, and thus, a less righteous one in a consumer’s mind?

She explained to me that the bakery where she works is selling pink ribbon cookies as a limited time offer for October, and that a girl at work remarked that it was kind of exploitative to use something as traumatic as breast cancer to turn a profit. My mom explained to me in fragments how this stirred up a complicated feeling deep in her stomach that took awhile to find its way to her mouth, and even longer for her to formulate into words.

The unease that this comment caused her was mirrored in my own questioning of the balancing scale of business

Slapping a pink ribbon on the front of your store window and claiming it’s for breast cancer awareness is a shallow, self-servicing appropriation of true struggle.” enlightening discussion at her job. Even though she knows first-hand how the scar tissue of cancer is permanent on both

motivation and impact. I started thinking how small it would make someone like my mother feel to see her struggle dis-

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tilled into pink ribbon stickers stamped on store-fronts, with no true honoring of the experience necessitating the advertising. Thus, her cancer is turned into a marketing scheme to entice people similarly affected.

The cookies at my mom’s store are slightly different from Panera Bread’s bagels in a business sense, but not necessarily a principled one. Panera, boasting over 1900 facilities across the United States, can very much afford to donate some of its profits to a worthy cause.

The small, locally-owned bakery where my mom works only has one store-front, and thus,

even if it were to donate some of its proceeds to research, it proportionally wouldn’t make a large impact.

Morally, however, I wonder if both stores are doing the same thing — playing on and preying on people’s histories, jerking them from a past experience with cancer into the present-day and very human impulse to “help” even when you’re helpless. You can’t tell me Panera doesn’t know there are thousands of girls out there just like me who will buy a Pink Ribbon bagel in a heartbeat because they’ve witnessed the effects of this disease. I am

not chemotherapy, and I am virtually useless when it comes to physically healing someone.

But I can buy a bagel.

At what point does this form of advertising become exploitative? At what point are there so many companies doing the exact same thing that people become numb to, and even unaware of, the true cause they’re supposedly supporting?

I’m not saying every company ever should just stop promoting limited edition deals regarding breast cancer awareness, and I’m certainly not saying that the donations should stop pouring in. But I

am saying that donation ploys advertising how great a company is, and not how great the cause they’re supporting is, is the distinction we as consumers need to make. Maybe that makes me naive when it comes to business, but not to people.

The trauma that accompanies an ordeal like cancer should never be a tool that others manipulate to make money.

Using pink ribbons to advertise a donation plan for research is not a manipulation of people’s stories, but rather a (hopefully) lucrative arrangement for both parties. Slapping a pink ribbon on the front of your store window and claiming it’s for breast cancer awareness is a shallow, self-servicing appropriation of true struggle.

If a company’s advocacy for awareness is a facade that really just advocates for itself, then the veneer of championing that cause is more demeaning than never using it at all.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College sophomore from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu.

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t’s mid-October, and for students, fall at Penn has settled into its comfortable routine — the constant stream of midterms, extracurricular responsibilities, and the balance of work and life. However, there’s one dark chapter in fall semester of junior year that I wasn’t mentally prepared for, and that’s on-campus recruiting — the dreaded OCR. Even as someone who says they’re “casually” recruiting, it’s hard for me and many people to not get swept up in the job- and internship-hunting madness. Students who aren’t remotely interested in consulting or financial services often feel pressured to attempt recruiting, and that pressure permeates throughout the student body. Some of my friends who don’t know what consulting is

school, and then private equity,” or something along those lines.

That being said, the goals of OCR, in many ways, promote a very shortsighted view of success. “If only I can get this one prestigious job, then I’ll be successful” leads to narrowminded ways of thinking that can lead students into life paths that they may not have wanted in the first place. Instead of asking what kind of jobs they want now, maybe students would be better off asking what kind of lives they want to live in the next five, 10, or 20 years, and see if that banking job they are trying for aligns with their personal life missions, or if it’s simply a way to procrastinate figuring out more suitable career paths.

Furthermore, the pressures of OCR and landing these in-

The pressures of OCR and landing these internships and jobs have created an incredibly toxic environment for upperclassmen who are right in the thick of it.” and don’t find it appealing at all still find themselves at BCG info sessions, wondering how they got there.

The thing is, there’s an inextricable link between Penn’s high-achieving environment and the allure of OCR. In many ways, OCR represents the next elite, sensible step after Penn — with many of these jobs boasting extremely low acceptance rates. For Penn students, this is like a heightened version of the Ivy League admissions process. Especially for students who are unsure of their career paths post-graduation, OCR provides a timeline that makes sense — for example, the popular and infamous investment banking route leads students to “two years of IB, business

ternships and jobs have created an incredibly toxic environment for upperclassmen who are right in the thick of it. For students interested in certain industries like banking, recruiting is starting earlier and earlier, beginning in the spring of sophomore year, and not even in the fall of junior year.

It can often feel like everyone around you is employed when you may still be job-hunting. In many ways, OCR is a huge contributor to mental health issues at Penn, as students are literally pitted against each other for a handful of jobs.

OCR is a process that affects everyone differently, in varying levels of extremity. While some can handle the stress, others are affected more deep-

JESSICA LI ly, sometimes equating getting a certain job with self-worth.

Getting rejected from a job can feel strangely and terribly personal, and adds to a heightened sense of failure, especially among friends who may already have jobs. We need better transparency about the selectiveness of some of these jobs, and more acceptance of counseling and therapy in the face of these needs.

Others will say OCR is inherently a privilege. Indeed, the fact that we have many of these incredible companies at our disposal every fall is not a fact that we should take lightly.

However, what is not a privilege is the problematic culture that surrounds OCR and the pressures students face as a result from it.

On-campus recruiting isn’t going away any time soon, but there are ways we can attempt to facilitate a better culture around it. Critically thinking about why you want to on-campus recruit for certain industries (instead of falling into the trap that you “should do it because everyone else is” and falling into a path that you hate), understanding that jobs are transient and simply one facet of life, and promoting better methods of coping with rejection are just a few ways students can change the way they see OCR. Only together can we create a better environment for all students when it comes to those three dreaded letters.

JESSICA LI is a College junior from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu.

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Alumni couple donates undergraduate research fund Their fund will promote research done by students NAJMA DAYIB Contributing Reporter

Penn’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration received a research fund to support further undergraduate research at Penn.

1982 College graduate Suzanne Turner and her husband 1982 College and 1985 Penn Law graduate David E. Schulman created the Turner Schulman Endowed Research Fund to promote research done by students.

“We have a deep allegiance to the school and this particular opportunity really interested us,” Turner said. “I’m a civil liberties lawyer, and David is a son of an immigrant, and this is where our different pasts really align.”

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“I’m from a long-term Penn family. My daughter just graduated and she is a fourth-generation Penn student,” Turner added.

The center, which is the first of its kind here at Penn, addresses the intersection between race, ethnicity, and immigration. Created last year, the center is housed in the new Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, and it supports research at Penn.

“This is a brand new initiative

for Penn and for the School of Arts and Sciences,” said Michael Jones-Correa, who is the founder and director of the Center and one of Penn’s President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Jones-Correa is entering his third year at Penn, as the Center he formed is entering its second.

“The idea was to organize something that served as a bridge across the social sciences,” Jones-Correa said.

The center hosts Post-Doctoral Fellows yearly. Roberto F. Carlos is the center’s first and current fellow. Carlos’s research, which focuses on the role children play in shaping their parent’s politics, is supported by the Center.

“It gives me the opportunity to take a pretty solid research agenda and really hit the ground running,” Carlos said. “The Center and Michael’s goal is to try and

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give scholars who work on race, ethnicity or immigration a platform to be able to do that in a pretty welcoming environment.”

Because of the focus on the intersection between race, ethnicity, and immigration that the Center has, the Center has tapped into many departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, including the Africana Studies department. The Center supports workshops that these affiliates hold.

“[The Center] basically covers one of the most important intersecting phenomena of our kind about race, ethnicity, and citizenship,” said Michael Hanchard, a professor of Africana Studies and one of the Center’s affiliates.

Applications to receive a research grant from the Center for both undergraduates and graduates opened this past Tuesday, and with a new fund, the research opportunities aren’t limited.

Graduate student Kimberly Cardenas is interested in applying for a research grant from the Center, as she studies Latino Politics, specifically issues of gender and sexuality, thinking about ways LGBT Latinos are politically active and applying that to identity in American politics.

“It’ll be an amazing opportunity to apply for funding from them and get funds to do field work such as traveling to collect

data, interviewing folks, and going to archives,” Cardenas said.

“I think right now we’re seeing a lot of public discussion on race, given President Trump and the rise of similar presidents in other countries in Latin America.

I think these discussions are gonna be really important in the next coming years, as well as given that the country is changing demographically,” Cardenas added.

Recently, Penn has seen major donations to its schools, such as the $50 million donation to the Wharton School this year, as well as donations to fund research, and to its centers, such as the $5 million donation to the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease back in March.

“I think the center will really serve to compliment the student body and open doors for research opportunities for undergrads,” Cardenas concludes.

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U. expands the Common Press’ reach on campus In May, Penn hired its first full-time studio manager SIMONA VIGODNER Contributing Reporter

Beneath the silent first floor of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, Penn students might be surprised to find a room filled with bustling printing presses and a hand press dating from approximately 1850 — the very kind Benjamin Franklin would have used in the late 18th century.

The Common Press is Penn’s official letterpress and book arts studio. In May this year, it welcomed its first full-time studio manager, Mary Tasillo, as part of several new initiatives to expand the Press’ reach on campus.

In fall of 2017, the Common Press moved locations from the Morgan Fine Arts Building to

cently formalized, consisting of six faculty members from Penn Libraries, Kelly Writers House, and Penn Design. The board is responsible for overseeing the development of the Press, which is available for any student to use for their own projects.

The Common Press was founded in 2006 in honor of the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birthday. Now, as more resources are being invested into the Press, it is particularly exciting to be able to direct its future, Tasillo said.

To make the facility more accessible, Tasillo’s team is offering free workshops for students both in letterpress printing and in bookmaking. The first workshops began in September, and Tasillo said more workshops will be offered in the near future.

The three-hour workshops

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Mary Tasillo and her team offer free workshops, which began in September for students both in letterpress printing and in bookmaking.

the lower level of the Fisher Fine Arts Library for a cleaner and more accessible space that could hold more equipment.

An official advisory board for the Common Press was also re-

teach students how to set type and how to use and clean the presses. This then gives them the qualification to return during scheduled studio times to work on independent projects.

Tasillo emphasized that these independent projects are not limited to students studying design or writing. “It’s a vehicle for thinking through ideas.

These ideas could be about science. They could be about business,” she said. “The idea is that the Press can serve anyone and that it’s a tool.”

Tasillo also said that student groups can use the press to work on their extracurricular activities, citing the example of handprinting voter encouragement posters.

College sophomore Alyson del Pino is one of the students who can frequently be found at the Common Press. A graduate of the New World School of the Arts, an arts-focused high school in Miami, del Pino began working at the Common Press through Kelly Writers House in her fall semester of freshman year, and said she has loved it since.

“When you hold something that has been printed this way, even if you have never seen the press or printed before, you can intuit how it happened,” del Pino said. “These letters were pressed into the paper, and I think that’s really cool — you get a mini history of the thing that you are holding.”

This semester, as part of the history class called Cultures of the Book, del Pino also made a visit to the Common Press.

“Visiting with the class was enlightening as a person who works there because sort of witnessing everyone’s reactions and how they interpreted Mary’s information,” del Pino said. “It was a really cool experience to see how it can be something really mind-blowing.”

David Comberg, a senior lecturer in the Fine Arts Department and one of the co-founders of the Common Press, also regularly incorporates visits to the Press into his class curricula. Last semester, students in his Design Practicum course worked with the Common Press

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In fall of 2017, the Common Press moved locations from the Morgan Fine Arts Building to the lower level of the Fisher Fine Arts Library for a cleaner and more accessible space that could hold more equipment.

to design a keepsake for the retirement of former Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Carton Rogers.

Comberg, who is also a member of the Common Press advisory board, said being exposed to printing techniques is not just an important skill, but also provides important exposure to the history of typography.

“I’ve always been interested in materializing things to make it more effective for teaching and [more] satisfying for students,” he said. “Also, it’s just

really fun. Working in the Press is really social, you work very close to other people, get your hands dirty.”

Comberg will be teaching a course utilizing the Common Press in spring 2019 in collaboration with the English, Writing, History, and Fine Arts departments that honors Walt Whitman’s 200th anniversary and will celebrate Whitman’s work as a book maker and printer in addition to his accomplishments as a poet and activist.

College senior Jason Barr

had his first experience with the Common Press through Comberg’s course and said it was an interesting introduction to different kinds of printing. He went on to do an internship at a museum in Philadelphia focusing specifically on silk screen printing, and made the decision to take another printing class this semester.

“I had no idea what the Common Press was until I got into it,” he said. “It showed me something that I didn’t know was a possibility before.”

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Professor discusses impacts of porn at Penn event One of Rothman’s studies from 2013 found that one-third of teenagers in the sample had consumed pornography to learn about sex.

Based on a 2010 study by Ana Bridges, about 88 percent of pornography depicts some sort of physical aggression, with women being the targets of this aggression 94 percent of the time and men being the aggressors 70 percent of the time.

This statistic is what Rothman said is “one of the things that gets people really concerned” when younger audiences consume pornography, and why many people ask, “Is porn dangerous? Is porn causing sexual violence?”

Rothman, however, noted that there is “very little debate in the sexology community” on how it is difficult to make caus-

represented in porn consumers.

She emphasized, however, that pornography is a complicated issue, noting that there can be positive and negative effects associated with porn in different situations.

2018 Nursing graduate and attendee Katherine Ierardi said that “sexual health and porn go together, and it’s really important to put out education as well as just acceptance.”

The Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse in Relationships, where the event was held, is an academic hub for researching societal changes that might affect violence against women and girls. The event was hosted in partnership with Penn Women’s Center, Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, and Penn Violence Prevention.

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One of Emily Rothman’s studies from 2013 found that one-third of teenagers in the sample had consumed pornography to learn about sex.

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Emily Rothman, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, examined the influences of pornography in a talk for the Penn community.

While Rothman discussed common concerns associated with watching pornographic videos, she contended that it is hard to make causal conclusions about pornography consumption based on the studies that have already been performed.

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She said that although there are several harmful trends, such as sexual violence, correlated with pornography consumption, sexology experts do not have evidence that these correlations are causal.

Rothman noted that there have been some studies showing that pornography can have positive effects on the viewer.

Adolescents in an additional study “report feeling better about their bodies,” as pornography was found to be “associated with increased self esteem,” Rothman added.

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Penn Med launches CPR training for Philadelphians They will focus on training in low-income areas SHRIYA BEESAM Contributing Reporter

Learning CPR has the potential to become a game changer in improving Philadelphia’s public health — or so Benjamin Abella of Penn Medicine believes.

Partnering with other Penn employees, Abella created the Philadelphia Mobile CPR Project, a group that travels throughout the city to educate Philadelphians, particularly those who live in low income sections of the city, to perform CPR and to master other first-aid skills. Recently, the team initiated a part-

nership with Amtrak and SEPTA and hosted public classes at 30th Street Station this week.

The group members aim to dispel myths associated with CPR care and to improve the survival rates for those who suffer from sudden cardiac arrest or any other fatal heart conditions.

Abella cited his research at the Center for Resuscitation Science in Penn’s department of emergency science as his main impetus for establishing the project. He said his tenure in the center provided him with first-hand exposure to a disparity in first-aid education which exists across socioeconomic classes.

“Our team has focused on

cardiac arrest for over a decade here at Penn,” he explained.

“CPR education is often done in schools, which means you have to be educated, or places of employment, meaning you have to be employed. So, education often falls down on racial and socioeconomic lines.”

Originally created in 2016, the team now has daily bookings to introduce interested groups to first aid free of charge. It also hosts events that are open to the public.

“There’s a lot of misconception when it comes to CPR or performing CPR on other people, to the point where it’s really affecting survival rates of people going into cardiac arrest,” Nabil Abdulhay, the group’s

project coordinator, said. “The whole point of this project is to really emphasize that it’s easy to do CPR, it’s safe to do CPR, and you’re able to do it as a bystander.”

Mobile CPR Project started in Hartford, Conn. and has since expanded to Philadelphia when experts at Penn Medicine’s Center for Resuscitation Science and the Department of Emergency Medicine launched the Philadelphia Mobile CPR Project. According to Penn Medicine, cardiac arrest kills more than 1,000 Philadelphia residents each year, yet the numbers of bystanders who performed CPR in Philadelphia is half of the national average.

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Biology prof. designs ‘floating’ backpack The backpack is meant to reduce physical stress ASHLEY AHN Contributing Reporter

A lighter “floating” backpack has become a reality, thanks to Penn professor Lawrence Rome.

To reduce stress on backs, necks, knees, and ankles, Rome created HoverGlide, the world’s first “floating” backpack. Using patented Suspended Load Technology, HoverGlide reduces up to 86 percent of impact forces on users while walking or running.

Rome said first impressions of the HoverGlide are often “That’s fake!” or “Is it magic?” due to the weightless appearance of the backpack.

“It looked like it was some type of visual effect,” College freshman Hope Cho agreed.

So how does it work?

The suspension system suspends the load from the backpack frame using elastic bungee cords, reducing its vertical movement and, therefore, reduces dragging down the user. The double-frame system features a fixed frame that goes on users’ backs and a moving frame incorporating the bag which slides across the fixed frame.

In developing HoverGlide, Rome found that he had to use his knowledge as a Biology professor in conjunction with his acquired knowledge as a researcher.

As an expert in the function of fish muscle in swimming, Rome said, “I knew nothing about human locomotion from a research perspective.”

Teaching biology at Penn gave him a more general knowledge of biology that he used to create suspended-load backpacks.

“You teach a broader swath of subjects than you might focus on in your research...I know from teaching that when you walk, the hip goes up about three inches on every step,” Rome said.

His knowledge of vertical hip movement causing a loaded backpack to accelerate with each step and impose great force on the user was the beginning of Suspended Load Technology.

Rome created HoverGlide particularly for military and first responders to alleviate strain and prevent injury during physical exertion.

Rome started designing backpacks for the U.S. military since 2002, initially designing a backpack that could generate energy

from the movement of the wearer. This invention targeted the difficulty of U.S. Special Forces powering electronic equipment on extended expeditions because batteries were heavy to carry.

In creating Suspended Load Technology, Rome realized the potential to make a backpack that feels lighter.

Wharton and College junior Hope Lu, Rome’s former student, worked with HoverGlide, focusing on different frames for people of smaller size and women, advertising, and social media.

When first trying on the pack, Lu said, “It did take a little bit of getting used to, because the pack is moving around, and you are not used that kind of motion.”

While the backpack is currently on sale for the public, Lu said it may not be currently affordable for the everyday user.

“If the early adopters are really impressed by it and show they are behind this product and its worth the price, it could become a bigger thing, but it’s definitely a little bit uncertain right now since it is a pretty high price point for the average consumer,” Lu said.

However, the Kickstarter

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brides receive golden gifts on their wedding day.”

According to Penn Museum data, post-survey tours have reflected positive reactions to the program.

Following Global Guides tours, 83 percent of visitors indicated they were interested in continuing to learn about Middle Eastern culture and 74 percent noted that they visited the museums specifically for the guided tour.

Ellen Owens, the museum’s director of learning programs and one of the pioneers of the program, characterized the venture as an opportunity to educate Philadelphians about immigrants and refugees who are new to the city.

“The pinnacle of achievement is actually [when] someone has an experience in your museum,” Owens explained. “[And] then their behavior has changed because of it.”

Owens noted that survey responses demonstrated this accomplishment, such as visitors’ increased likelihood of seeking out experiences related to Middle Eastern culture or supporting refu-

Campaign for HoverGlide reached their funding goal of $75,000 in about four hours on Sept. 18, 2018, according to the Kickstarter website, showing some promise for the commercialized packs.

HoverGlide comes in four different packs: The Trekker, Tactical, Hiker, and Commuter. The Trekker is the largest model for multi-day hikes and holds up to 55 liters. The Tactical is ideal for training, first responders, soldiers, and any high physical exertion, holding up to 30 liters.

The Hiker is meant for casual day hikes, and the Commuter is for daily commuting like for the office or school.

Cho said that Penn students may not find HoverGlide useful.

“I think in college, generally, not many people have heavy loads.”

Other usages Rome has seen are golf club bags, baby carriers, and photograph equipment bags.

“Once it gets out, people dream up of all sorts of ways to use them,” Rome said.

locations in the city that generate large population traffic, which they hope will increase the scope of their project.

gee-related causes.

This effort is particularly relevant in Philadelphia, which has seen a swelling of its immigrant population in recent years. In 2016, more than 232,000 city residents were born abroad — a 69 percent increase since 2000, the Pew Charitable Trust’s Philadelphia Research Initiative reported.

Penn students have also become involved with the Philadelphia refugee community through the Penn Undergraduates for Refugee Empowerment organization. College senior Torinn Fennelly, who serves as the club’s Director of Advocacy and Awareness, echoed the importance of this program. “It’s important for any group of people to be in control of their own story,” she said.

Schott said that the program will expand to add guides for the upcoming Mexico and Central America exhibit, as well as the Africa exhibit that is slated to open next year.

Owens and Schott added that they have plans to speak about the results of the program at the Mid-Atlantic Museum and the Pennsylvania State Museum conferences.

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Army outscored Quakers 21-0 in the second half JACOB WESSELS Contributing Reporter

He’s back. But it didn’t matter much.

In the return of reigning first team All-Collegiate Sprint Football League quarterback Eddie Jenkins, Penn sprint football traveled to West Point, N.Y. looking to get back on track by avenging last season’s 10-0 loss in the CSFL championship game. In the end, however, it would be a game dominated by defense — and in the second half, Jenkins’ counterpart, Army senior Keegan West — as the Quakers dropped their second game in a row, 28-6, in a matchup that felt much closer than the final score indicated.

Despite the two high-powered

quarterbacks, much of the first half was defined by the defenses.

At the end of the first quarter, both defenses kept the game scoreless — despite good starting field position due to shaky punting by both teams, turnovers, and penalties.

This stretch of frustrating play was exemplified just as it seemed the Quakers (2-2, 1-1 South) may have broken through. With just over three minutes to go in the first quarter, a strip sack by senior defensive lineman Angelo Matos was recovered by senior defensive lineman Sam Smallzman and returned 55 yards for what seemed to be a touchdown until the refs called the play back for a penalty. With the Quakers’ offense on the field, Jenkins failed to take advantage of the good field position, fumbling the ball back over to the Black Knights (4-0, 1-0 North) just three plays later.

Army seemed to finally find their offensive groove late in the first by getting the ball to junior running back Jake Gigliotti, who

wiggled out of multiple tackles on a 35-yard screen pass to set his team up with a first and goal. That set the stage for the first of West’s four touchdown passes one play later on a fade to senior wide receiver Clayton Carter.

Jenkins and the Quakers were quick to respond, as on their very next drive the quarterback lofted a pass over the middle to senior wide receiver Aiden Kelly.

Army defensive back Ryan Leach jumped the route, but barely missed the interception, giving Kelly nothing but turf in front of him. The 64-yard catch-and-run would be the only points Penn would score after a missed extra point. The score meant Penn headed to halftime only down 7-6.

Heading into the third quarter, it seemed as if Penn may have caught the break they needed to get back in the game. In a half marked by feisty and intense defensive play, a series of personal foul penalties led to the ejection of three Black Knights players including Gigliotti late in the sec-

ond. However when Gigliotti left the field, West and the rest of the Army offense picked up the slack.

Towards the end of the third quarter West hit junior receiver Tom Williamson in the end zone on a 17-yard fade to make the score 14-6. On the very next possession, after a 12-play drive, West once again connected with Williamson on a nearly identical play for a nine-yard score.

Another West touchdown late in the fourth quarter gave the Black Knights 21 unanswered points in the second half, and ended any hope of a Penn comeback. West finished with 38 completions for 374 yards and four touchdowns.

While the trip to Army may not have gone the way the Red and Blue had hoped for, they can take solace in knowing that their championship hopes are still alive thanks to the CSFL’s divisional structure and Chestnut Hill’s loss to Cornell on Saturday. Penn needs to win out and get help in the form of a Chestnut Hill loss to Navy to reach the title game.

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The return of junior quarterback Eddie Jenkins from injury was not enough to propel Penn sprint football to a victory against Army.

Sulaimon’s career-high 17 kills earn her DP Sports Player of the Week

Sophomore outside hitter Raven Sulaimon hit .305 WILL DiGRANDE Associate Sports Editor

Behind every great performance is a strong leader.

Penn women’s volleyball had an explosive weekend that featured two marquee wins against Columbia and Cornell, with sophomore outside hitter Raven Sulaimon leading the path to victory for the Quakers.

Sulaimon combined for 29 kills and four blocks over both games — the first and second wins in Ivy play all season for the Quakers. Her

17 kills against the Big Red tied her career-high set earlier this season against Georgetown.

Sulaimon’s efforts this weekend marked the 10th and 11th times the sophomore had double-digit kills this season, and they came at crucial times. She helped spark the initial charge against Columbia, and her 12 kills and excellent play all game helped Penn to a 3-0 home sweep of the Lions.

Cornell took the opening set of its match, but Sulaimon helped inspire the team to dig deep and force a comeback. Her final kill set up match point, and an ensuing Cornell error handed the win to Penn.

The Houston, Texas native has

been a welcome addition to the team since she made her start last year, and her 128 total kills in Ivy play last season ranked second-highest on the team.

This season, Sulaimon already has 73 kills through seven matches against the Ancient Eight, so she is on track to smash last year’s mark.

Even more impressive is that she leads the team with 188 kills total, and she still has time to increase that count.

Despite volleyball’s tough season, Sulaimon has consistently starred for the Quakers. Penn fans should be excited to see what this week’s DP Sports Player of the Week will bring to the team in the coming years.

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with 3 points in a row and securing a 7-point lead at 19-12.

As Cornell began to catch up, it looked like the Big Red had a solid chance at surpassing Penn

in a game that, moments earlier, felt comfortable for the Quakers.

However, in a nail-biting finish, Penn defeated Cornell in the set 25-23, which gave them the win for the match.

“These women are resilient beyond belief ... to watch their com-

mitment and to see how much they support one another, I’m in awe,” Braddak said.

The Quakers hope to build on their first two Ivy wins next weekend against defending Ivy League champion Princeton.

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Late interception seals win in low-scoring defensive battle DANNY CHIARODIT Associate Sports Editor

Mohammed Diakite Cornerback

It wasn’t pretty, but the Quakers got the job done.

In a game that was dominated by the defenses, it was sophomore quarterback Ryan Glover’s four-yard touchdown run that made the difference in Penn football’s 13-10 victory over Columbia.

Penn’s defense was stout all game, giving up just 282 total yards. The 10 points that the group did give up came with the Lions (3-2, 0-2) starting within the Penn 30-yard line on two separate occasions.

The Red and Blue (4-1, 1-1) got on the board quickly, as senior kicker Jack Soslow converted a chip shot field goal halfway through the first quarter. However, this drive foreshadowed a major problem that would hamper the Quakers throughout the game: scoring

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touchdowns in the red zone. “[Winning] is especially hard when you have opportunities that you let slip away,” coach Ray Priore said. “I think it was at least two, maybe three, first downs inside their 10-yard line with penalties and things that really took us out of range and compromised our opportunities. I think we ended up getting two field goals, instead of two touchdowns. Very easily I felt that in the first half, we should SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

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Penn women’s soccer came out on top.

On Saturday, the Quakers traveled to Dartmouth as both teams put their blemish-free Ivy League records on the line. The Red and Blue were victorious, winning 1-0 in a hard-fought nail-biter that came down to the final few minutes.

Penn (10-1-1, 3-0-1 Ivy) entered the contest in the midst of an eight-game stretch without a loss, and the team continued that momentum early on against Dartmouth (7-4-2, 2-1-1). In the first half, the Quakers outshot the Big Green 6-4, sparked by a shot on goal from sophomore defender Katharine Larson in the sixth minute. However, neither team was able to break through, and the score was tied 0-0 at halftime.

The rhythm of the game changed dramatically at the start of the second half, as the Quakers quickly gained a 1-0 advantage off a header from junior defender Megan Lloyd. The goal was the first of Lloyd’s career and gave

the Red and Blue a lead they would not give up.

Penn was able to withstand a flurry of ten Dartmouth shots in the second half to maintain its slim advantage. When the game entered crunch time, junior goalkeeper Kitty Qu delivered with key saves in the 87th and 88th minutes to clinch the Quakers’ third Ivy League win of the season.

Qu’s performance stood out on a day of many great ones, as she recorded her eighth shutout of the season and the 18th of her career. The team has now kept its opponents scoreless in 10 out of 12 games this year, only three short of the program record SEE SOCCER PAGE 11

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Junior center back Megan Lloyd socred her first career goal by getting on the end of a corner kick late in the second half, providing all of the offense the Quakers needed to beat Dartmouth.

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The drought is over, and for Penn volleyball, it’s cause for celebration.

The Quakers secured their first and second Ivy League victories of coach Iain Braddak’s tenure at the Palestra this weekend, beating Columbia 3-0 and Cornell 3-1. The pair of wins ended an eight-game losing streak.

Penn (5-13, 2-5 Ivy) dominated the Lions (9-8, 3-4) throughout the match, in the three-set sweep. Aside from scoring the first two points in the match, which ended in a score of 25-16, Columbia didn’t lead again until the third and final set.

“We had some conversations early on in the week and really set our priorities straight. We certainly had to do this systematically with a really deliberate and intentional approach,” Braddak said. “Things clicked.

It was amazing to watch.”

The second set mirrored the first, as Penn’s confidence on the court took over. Junior libero captain Caroline Furrer brought the Quakers to a comfortable eight point lead following three consecutive aces and a productive fourth serve, eventually leading the team to a 25-15

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Senior setter Grace James helped the Red and Blue break an eightgame losing streak by accumulating 74 assists across the two games.

victory.

In the third, Columbia gave the Quakers a run for their money in a much tighter set, as the Lions took one-point leads multiple times. The Quakers struggled to pull away, until a critical kill by sophomore outside hitter Parker Jones, who is also a Daily Pennsylvanian staffer, pushed the Quakers ahead for good.

Braddak, who served as Columbia’s assistant coach last season, said that coaching against his previous team helped inform his players against them.

Heading into the second match, Penn’s offensive efforts continued to prove successful — having led in kills in the first match by 17, the Quakers did so again in the second by five, in no small part due to the performance of sophomore outside hitter Raven Sulaimon, with 12 kills during the Columbia match and 17 kills in the match against Cornell (8-8, 4-3), which tied a career best.

“What’s interesting and important to remember with volleyball is that it’s a team sport.

For Raven to have those kills, she is working her tail off, her teammates are pushing her, and people like [senior setter] Grace James are putting up really solid sets,” Braddak said. “[Our success] is because of the team.”

Against Cornell, the Quakers lost their first set in a close game, ending in a score of 2523.

However, Penn defeated the Big Red in the next three sets, bringing them a second win for the weekend. In the second set, Jones led the team in getting five points in a row early, pushing them ahead. The Quakers maintained their slim lead throughout the set, which ended in a score of 25-22.

The fourth and final set in the match was a close one, despite the Red and Blue starting off SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

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