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Sexual assault stays rampant after four years

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The survey was administered to 33 universities MAX COHEN Senior Reporter

The 2019 Association of American Universities survey results show little change from 2015 in the number of students who say they experienced unwanted sexual contact on Penn’s campus.

Despite University efforts to combat a culture of sexual assault, including its creation of the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community in 2016, changes in almost every category took place within a margin of 2 percentage points.

President Amy Gutmann announced the results of the 2019 nationwide college sexual assault survey, called

Penn launches third climate action plan The plan focuses on student outreach programs CHIH-NING KUO Staff Reporter

Penn released its latest Climate and Sustainability Action Plan 3.0 on Tuesday, highlighting its five-year goals to promote sustainability on campus.

This is Penn’s third Climate Action Plan, following an initial five-year plan in 2009 and 2014’s Climate Action Plan 2.0. The new plan, which sets goals from 2019 to 2024, addresses issues such as increasing academic study of environmental issues, reducing carbon emissions and waste, and promoting sustainable behaviors among members of the Penn community.

Upon release, the Climate Action Plan 3.0 received considerable backlash from Fossil Free Penn, which argued the plan does not go far enough.

College senior Jacob Hershman, actions coordinator for Fossil Free Penn, said 15 members stood outside the plan’s unveiling with signs saying “Not enough” and “You’re investing in false fuels.” When members of Fossil

Free Penn approached Penn President Amy Gutmann to inquire about her investment in fossil fuels, Hershman said they were ignored.

The plan is organized around seven goals developed

by Penn’s Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee, which is made up of faculty, students, and staff who advise the president on sustainability issues.

University Architect Mark Kocent said one major change from previous versions of the plan is that “sustainability” was added to the title, moving away from an exclusive focus on climate change.

“The previous versions were just called the ‘Climate Action Plan,’” Kocent said.

“This one intentionally was called the ‘Climate and Sustainability Action Plan.’ Many of the things it encompasses are really focused on trying to encourage sustainable behaviors from the campus population as well as outreach in the academic component.”

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the Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct, to the Penn community Tuesday.

At Penn, in 2019, 25.9% of undergraduate women reported having experienced unwanted sexual contact since entering college, a decline from 27.2% in 2015. Among undergraduate men, 7.3% reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact since entering college, an increase from 5.5% in 2015. Undergraduate students who are transgender, genderqueer, and nonbinary experienced unwanted sexual contact since entering college at a rate of 21.5%, an increase from 19%.

Graduate women experienced unwanted sexual contact since entering college at a rate of 7.5%, an increase from 6.5% in 2015. Graduate

men experienced unwanted sexual contact since entering college at a rate of 2.7%, an increase from 2.1% in 2015.

The response rate in 2019 was significantly higher than it was in 2015. Gutmann wrote that 10,306 of Penn’s undergraduate, graduate, and professional students took part in the survey, representing 42.8% of the total student population. In 2015, the response rate was 26.9%.

For each category, the report indicated that there was no “statistically significant change” from the numbers reported four years ago.

The survey was sponsored by the AAU and was administered to 33 universities in the spring of 2019 in an effort to gather data on sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct.

After months struggling to fill UA seats, a second special election hopes to bring change Nearly all five seats have been vacant for months CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

For the past six months, nearly all five of the Undergraduate Assembly seats reserved for Engineering students have remained empty after two separate elections were left without any candidates on the ballot. Student government leaders are now trying to garner more interest in the position by increasing outreach efforts ahead of another special election.

During the UA’s general election in April, zero students formally declared their candidacy for the position. Only one seat was filled after a write-in candidate won.

In September, the Nominations and Elections Committee held a special election to fill the other four seats. Even then, no one ran for the positions. The last time all of the seats were filled was in February 2019, before one of the Engineering representatives resigned.

Student government leaders say Engineering students’ intense workload and the NEC’s lack of marketing may have contributed to the disinterest. UA Vice President and College senior Brian Goldstein said the UA has struggled in

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past years to maintain consistent Engineering representation, citing a vacancy that prompted a special election in spring 2018.

Now, the NEC says it is stepping up outreach efforts to attract candidates for a second special election next week.

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Engineering representative, was elected in April after running a successful write-in campaign. He said the special election could have been marketed better, noting that he did not see any discussion about it on social media.

Engineering sophomore Erik Mucollari said the intense academic commitment would make it difficult to serve on the UA. “You’re taking a bunch of classes,” Mucollari said. “With what free time you do have, you either want to contribute to some sort of activity or extracurricular that will probably want to boost your standing with finding a job afterward.”

Engineering students do not frequently talk about the UA, Mucollari said, and he was unaware that there would even be a special election next week.

Goldstein said the lack of Engineering representation may be an issue because of the school’s environment, where students prioritize Engineering clubs over school-wide student government.

NEC Chair and College senior Olivia Crocker said she has already seen more interest in the position compared to last month’s special election. The NEC took a “much more aggressive approach,” and reached out to various Engineering clubs to encourage their members to run for the UA, Crocker said.

She said the NEC is aware of multiple students that intend to run, but she does not yet know the specific number of declared candidates. Students must turn in their candidate packets to the NEC to formally declare their candidacies on Thursday.

The voting period for the upcoming Engineering special election will open Monday, Oct. 21 at midnight and close on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 5 p.m.

After new policy, Tri Delta considers selling house Sophomores will soon be required to live on campus ASHLEY AHN Senior Reporter

After concerns that they will not be able to fill rooms because of a new housing policy requiring sophomores to live on campus starting in 2021, Penn’s Delta Delta Delta chapter is considering breaking the lease on their house to search for a smaller house.

Since administrators announced in September 2018 that all sophomores will have to live on campus, Penn has affirmed that on-campus housing will not include Greek housing. The new policy has prompted backlash from the Greek life community and has stoked fear that chapter houses will not be filled.

Tri Delta Vice President of Administration and Wharton senior Rachel Abbe said the sorority will face a “huge issue with capacity” once the new policy takes effect in fall 2021, as it is tradition for sophomores to fill the house. Tri Delta President and College senior Kabele Cook said Tri Delta has likely been living in the same house on 40th and Spruce streets since the 1960s.

Tri Delta has the largest sorority house at Penn with a capacity of about 34 people, Cook said, making it even more difficult for the group

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40% by 2024 and ultimately become carbon neutral by 2042.

The “Outreach and Engagement” goal plans to create programs that get Penn students and leadership more involved in sustainability.

On “Academics,” the plan calls for increasing cross-disciplinary environmental research, creating a “campus-as-lab” program for applied sustainability learning, improving opportunities for sustainability education at Penn, and

to fill the house without sophomores. The majority of the rooms are shared triples and doubles.

Because most upperclassmen prefer to live in a single, Abbe said upperclassmen typically do not want to live in the house. Many of the sorority’s juniors also study abroad, Cook said.

The Tri Delta house is not owned by the national organization. The sorority rents the location from a landlord that is not affiliated with Penn. Abbe said their chapter has “consistently” tried to purchase the house from the landlord without any positive results. “[The landlord] is not willing to sell, so consistently our rent has gone up and we’re now at the point that girls are paying at the high end of rent on campus,” Abbe said.

“Because the landlord is not affiliated with the University, he is not in touch with new housing rule which is why we are not very optimistic about the possibility of renegotiating the lease.”

Tri Delta is looking at a smaller house on Spruce Street with eight bedrooms compared to their current 20-room house, she said.

“It’s only eight bedrooms so we’re not crazy about it,” Abbe said.

“We’d be going from 20 to eight, a bit too big of a leap, but we’re definitely open to new opportunities, because our current situation is not

sustainable at all.”

“I have not been advised of the information you have presented regarding Tri Delta,” Associate Vice Provost for University Life Tamara King wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “Because I cannot confirm the accuracy of that information, I will not be commenting on it.”

She added that “OFSL has been working with chapters on a personal basis regarding their unique housing situation and impact to their homes.”

“Traditionally, Greek houses at Penn have been occupied largely by sophomores, so the system will need to evolve to be more attractive for juniors and seniors. That might look differently house by house, chapter by chapter,” Monica Yant Kinney, Vice Provost for University Life Chief Communications Officer, wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Abbe said it would be more ideal if Penn owned their house, because then the University, who is responsible for implementing the new housing policy, can work with the sorority to build a more sustainable housing plan.

The loss of the house may also be an issue ahead of rush. Abbe said one of the main selling points for Tri Delta is the large house.

“It’s really a shame because

from my experience, being able to move into the house with most of your pledge class was really a great bonding experience and allowed everyone to break out of freshman year predetermined friend groups and really bond with a wider group that really only living all together can give you,” Cook said.

Zeta Tau Alpha and Kappa Alpha Theta leaders said their groups plan to keep their houses, despite the new housing policy.

Theta President and College senior Julia Coquard wrote in an email to the DP that Theta is not looking to move into a smaller house.

“Our house currently only holds 20 spots so it is significantly smaller than the Tri Delta house,” she wrote.

The house is owned by Penn, which makes rent negotiations would be easier, Coquard added.

Zeta has signed a lease on their house for another three years, Wharton senior and Zeta President Elizabeth Vinton wrote in an email to the DP. They are “confident that it will continue to be an ideal place for our women to call home,” she wrote.

The new Tri Delta officers, who will be elected by mid-November, will decide if they sell their house, Cook said.

When the new housing policy was announced in September 2018, then-IFC Vice President Brian Schmitt wrote a guest column in the DP, in which he argued that the decision to bar sophomores from chapter houses would bring “enormous harm to Greek life” and called on Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett to allow Greek life to count for oncampus housing.

developing a Civic Sustainability Fellowship program to give Penn students internships with local environmental agencies.

The “Physical Environment” goal calls for using sustainable practices in campus design and water management. This ties into “Waste Minimization and Recycling,” which involves tracking waste and evaluating infrastructure to decrease the amount of garbage Penn sends to landfills.

For the “Purchasing” goal, Penn Sustainability plans to shift to buying sustainable food prod-

ucts and office equipment, as well as encouraging purchase of low-emission vehicles. The plan also includes a specific goal for “Transportation,” which involves adding four new electric charging stations and making campus more accessible for bicyclists and pedestrians.

The seven broad goals of this year’s plan match those of the 2014 Climate Action Plan 2.0, which have seen steady progress, according to a Penn Sustainability report. While Penn offered 170 courses related to sustain-

ability in 2014, today there are more than 400 sustainabilityrelated courses. Between 2014 and 2019, Penn has also reduced building-related carbon emissions by 14.8% and increased waste diversion to 28%. As of 2019, 48% of staff now commute sustainably through carpooling, biking, or public transit.

Hershman said the new plan is “cursory,” “vague,” and “doesn’t improve upon anything set out in 2014.” He said many of Penn’s 400 sustainability courses are not really related to sustainability

and criticized the University for sending waste to incinerators in disadvantaged communities.

“The basis of our campaigns has always been Penn is not doing enough, and thus requires a group like Fossil Free Penn to keep pushing for higher standards,” Hershman said. “An institution like Penn that has an endowment of $14.7 billion not only has a symbolic and moral responsibility to make these changes, it also has the financial capital to do so and it’s not doing it.”

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Penn Law students protest prof. Amy Wax

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Students carried posters showcasing inflammatory statements made by Wax that they believe marginalize many students at Penn.

Wax has been known to make controversial remarks ASHLEY AHN Senior Reporter

More than 50 students in all black clothing protested against controversial Penn Law School professor Amy Wax’s continued tenure and employment.

At 8 a.m. Monday, protesters began marching from the Starbucks located at 34th and Walnut streets toward the Sansom street entrance of the Penn Law School building. The protest then continued in front of the Law School building until 9 a.m., when classes began for law students.

Students carried posters showcasing inflammatory statements made by Wax that they believe marginalize many students at Penn. Some posters read: “America is better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites — A Penn Law professor.”

The protest was planned on the same day as Parents and Partners Day, an annual event where law

students’ parents and partners are invited on campus to experience a day in the life of a first-year law student.

In July 2019, Wax argued for an immigration policy favoring immigrants from Western countries over non-Western countries at the inaugural National Conservatism Conference. Thousands have since signed a petition released by the Latinx Law Students Association on July 18 calling on Penn Law to denounce Wax’s statements and relieve her of all teaching duties, “as they serve to further her platform and lend her legitimacy.”

Wax’s comments prompted Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger to release an official statement on July 23 stating that Wax’s remarks were at odds with Penn’s values and policies, and he pledged to work with students to “heal” from the experience.

“At best, the reported remarks espouse a bigoted theory of white cultural and ethnic supremacy; at worst, they are racist,” Ruger

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Protesters said Wax’s continued employment at Penn Law “harms” students, and they hope the protest will spark the University to take further action against Wax. The protest not only urges the University to discontinue Wax’s employment but also gives attention to the “greater culture of racism and homophobia and xenophobia within Penn Law and the University,” said Sharon George, a second-year Penn Law student and president of the South Asian Law Students Association.

Penn Law affinity groups, such as the South Asian Law Students Association, the Black Law Students Association, the Muslim Law Students Association, the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, the Latinx Law Students Association, and Lambda Law, organized the protest with the help of the National Lawyers Guild, a group that promotes human rights.

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by Penn Law inflicts “immense

damage” for students, said Maddi Gray, second-year Penn Law student and co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild chapter at Penn.

“We’re hoping that today people will join our call to fire her just to create a more inclusive space at the Law School that actually rectifies the harm that is being done,” Gray said.

First-year Penn Law student Zach Marino, who is a member of APALSA and Lambda Law, added that the administration has been “very slow to take action” and hopes the protest’s visibility will encourage the administration to fire Wax. On the steps of the Penn Law School building, second-year Penn Law student Aseem Chipalkatti, who serves as SALSA’s Distinguished Speakers and Conference chair, said the administration’s past actions against Wax make him “absolutely” hopeful Wax’s tenure will be removed. Chipalkatti cited Wax’s removal from teaching a mandatory first-year class in 2018 as a positive sign the University will continue “in its previous pattern of listening to its students and taking appropriate action.”

In spring 2018, students and alumni responded with outrage to a video of Wax in which she says she has never seen a black Penn Law student graduate in the top quarter of their class. Days after the backlash, Ruger announced that Wax would no longer be allowed to teach a mandatory first-year course.

George said Wax’s words not only impact specific minority groups but all students at Penn.

“It’s easy when you’re in graduate school to have these type of comments swept under the rug and we wanted to show the University that her words and the University’s lack of actions has an effect on the majority of its student body both students of color, gay students, and white students, and it’s not just an issue for one marginalized group,” George said.

Flu clinic offers free vaccines for Penn students Vaccines will be offered until Friday AMJAD HAMZA Staff Reporter

For the second year in a row, Penn’s annual flu clinic is providing free vaccines to students, faculty, and staff in preparation for flu season.

Student Health Service and Campus Health are holding the flu clinic this week from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday. Students that visit Bodek Lounge in Houston Hall with their PennCard are likely to be in and out in five minutes, according to the flu shot FAQ sheet.

Last year’s flu clinic vaccinated a record 10,000 students, faculty, and staff, a substantial increase from the 2017 tally of 6,400 people. Director of Campus Health Ashlee Halbritter said that jump in vaccinations was largely because the flu vaccine was free for all Penn students for the first time last year.

Previously, the flu shot was only free for faculty, staff and students on the Penn Student Insurance Plan. Other students had to pay $25 out of pocket and then seek reimbursement through their own insurance plans.

“The change that we made last year made a difference, and as a result we decided to continue,” SHS Executive Director Giang Nguyen said of the decision to offer free flu shots this year.

Campus Health and SHS plan to continue this policy in future years, Halbritter said.

For students, the lack of cost makes a difference — Wharton junior Jake Kohlbrenner said he plans to get a flu shot on Thursday but is “not quite sure” whether he would get the shot if he had

to pay.

Halbritter said the flu clinic is also trying to increase turnout by tapping into the competitive spirit of Penn students. For the first time, she said, the flu clinic is part of the College Cup. The clinic also passes on attendance data from each day to Penn’s schools and college houses so they can see which groups are leading.

The main method of raising awareness for the clinic, Halbritter said, remains emails to students from the administration and student government.

Second-year Law student Sarah Byrne said she learned about the clinic because she received multiple emails.

“I just saw signs for it around and some posters up,” Wharton and Engineering freshman Will Jansen said.

Both Byrne and Jansen praised the flu clinic’s efficiency.

Jansen described it as a “welloiled machine.”

“I think they do a really good job of moving people through,” Byrne said.

After eliminating cost and efficiency barriers, Nguyen said, SHS is now grappling with how to reach students who feel they do not need the flu shot. Halbritter said SHS also has to deal with concerns that taking the flu shot can cause the flu, which is the first topic addressed in the flu shot FAQ: “The flu vaccine is inactive and is therefore not infectious.”

This year’s flu clinic will be one of Nguyen’s last health events at Penn before he departs in November to lead Harvard University Health Services.

“If people want to say goodbye they should come out and get vaccinated,” Halbritter joked.

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It’s not enough to be “troubled.” Penn must step up to address sexual assault.

he Association of American Universities released the results of the 2019 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct on Tuesday.

In 2019, 25.9% of female undergraduate students and 7.3% of male undergraduates reported that they experienced unwanted sexual contact since entering college at Penn, a rate that has not changed in a statistically significant way since the last time the survey was conducted in 2015.

Penn administrators can give no excuse for their failure to protect the several thousand students that are assaulted every year on this campus.

Instead of offering up a mea culpa and a concrete plan of action, they said they were “troubled” by the findings of the survey, presenting no strategy to address these issues. Penn President Amy Gutmann must commit to addressing these issues with specific steps, quantifiable goals, and serious collaboration with stakeholders and student groups.

Over the last four years, Penn has taken some steps to address the prevalence of sexual assault on campus. That said, the “Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community” was widely criticized for worrying more about illicit drinking than Penn’s culture of predation and

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violence. This initiative is a far cry from the “radical change on campus among administrators and students” that the Penn Association for Gender Equity called for in response to the recently released data.

Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett, and the host of other administrators who are responsible for the well-being of the Penn community must explain what exactly is going to change and what steps they will take to protect its students. If they don’t, the Penn community will be

ual Assault Prevention, and Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault.

Another good place for the University to start could be to impose stricter punishments on fraternities that fail to attend allegedly mandatory anti-violence training programs.

The University could also reform its policies that do not protect students who report misconduct or assault from retribution.

The sad reality is that Penn is not alone in this situation. In fact, the rate at which female undergraduates were assaulted at Penn is the median among all colleges that participated in the survey. The fact that the problem exists at other schools is no excuse, though, for Penn’s inability to solve the problem on its own campus.

JULIA SCHORR The administration must immediately outline a plan of action to address forced to suffer through another the epidemic that is sexual assault on four years of inaction and failure, Penn’s campus. Administrators must and if the survey continues in 2023, take responsibility for the fact that the results will belie the same dis- Penn’s efforts thus far have failed to mal statistics. show concrete results. The entire Penn If Penn’s administration can- community, like Gutmann and Pritchnot come up with a new, effective ett, are troubled by the results of the plan to tackle this admittedly dif- survey. In an email to the community ficult and complex issue, it may be in 2015, when the original survey time for them to step aside and give was released, Gutmann similarly someone else a shot. found the results “deeply troubling.”

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pon reading Agatha Advincula’s column about legacy admissions, my first instinct was anger. As the son of immigrants, I grew up with the idea that merit and hard work are the things that should be valued most. When my parents came to this country, they didn’t have money, they didn’t

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have connections, and they certainly didn’t have Ivy League educations. Their success was predicated on their guts and determination alone. To see those principles so fluidly and easily dismissed made me angry on an innate level.

I vehemently disagree with the principles presented in the article. I believe that legacy ad-

missions is a practice founded on discriminatory grounds, that it continues to perpetuate generational inequalities, and that meritocracy is something to be valued and prized. To me, legacy is symbolic of all of the worst aspects of elite institutions. Additionally, I know that authors should not be averse to criticism. The act of writing itself is an invitation for criticism on some level. But there is a fundamental difference between disagreeing with someone and believing that they are undeserving of basic respect.

Many people on social media don’t seem to understand this distinction.

The comments weren’t hard to find. These include comments like, “I’m not saying that no legacy students deserve to attend prestigious schools, I’m just saying that you definitely don’t,” which received hundreds of likes, not from random strangers on the internet, but from Penn students and alumni. These are people that

Agatha has to face on a day-today basis. Did those comments attempt to analyze or critique her article? No. Did those comments add anything to the conversation? No. Take a minute, if you will, and put yourself in her position. You’ve made a mistake.

Now, hundreds of your peers and people that you admire are essentially telling you that you don’t belong here. Your ideas are stupid. Your life experiences are sheltered and invalid. As distant as it may be, think about what it feels like to be on the receiving end of that. Are you picking up a pen and writing anything soon? When you meet new people, are you wondering if, behind a fake smile, they’re ridiculing you? Are you going to be forever known as “that person” who authored “that article”?

These days, witch-hunting is more accessible than ever. Just click the “like” button, easy as that. Click it, laugh, and go about the rest of our day. In a

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’m an aspiring poet, and I am perfectly aware the life ahead of me is not swathed in gold-encrusted toilets and luxury spa trips based on my poetry abilities alone. Poetry is canonically the profession of the starving artist.

If you don’t believe me, read any Bernadette Mayer poem. Because I am an aspiring poet, I know how important local support can be for ensuring the survival of an artist.

Not only does supporting a local artist enact the opportunity for impact they are trying to construct through their art, but on a logistical

level, the revenue and promotion your presence and support brings can solidify the artist’s ability to continue producing. This is why I urge Penn students to support local artists and go to local art events.

Not only will this benefit local artists, but local art and events are a great and enriching way to spend a few hours away from homework and studying outside of the Penn bubble.

Artists need support in order to continue to produce. But supporting artists is a mutually beneficial experience. I like jazz music, so by going to jazz musicians’ jam sessions, I can help ensure jam sessions keep happening. Penn offers so much to its students, but supporting local artists is one way to support the Philadelphia community in a way that the institution of Penn does not.

South Street may seem like a different world to Penn students who have yet to venture past the Schuylkill River, but it’s a beautiful part of the city that’s always boasting local art. Last year, I wanted to interview the owner of Eye’s

Gallery on 4th and South streets for a Spanish project, and when I actually went to the gallery, I was blown away by the tri-level bazaar offering Indian and Latin American folk art. If not for my Spanish project, I probably never would have entered the gallery. But that made me realize that my exploration of art shouldn’t be predicated on a class assignment, and neither should yours.

In a recent visit to the Tattooed Mom, I bought a witchy zine from upstairs, where the creators of the zine told me about the South Street

Art Mart. I regularly listen to local musicians play at Chris’s Jazz Cafe on 14th and Sansom streets. All of these things rip my attention away from the internal drama and stress of Penn and work, focusing my attention on art and artists I appreciate.

This attitude of support should extend to our fellow Penn artists as well. Go to the plays that Penn students work so hard to produce, attend the Zine Raves at the Kelly Writers House that the zine librarians spend hours planning and preparing for, read The Daily

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few hours, you’ve forgotten that you’ve even done it. The only person who is still thinking about it by then is the human being at the receiving end.

But what does that willingness to agree so quickly, to bandwagon, say about us as a community? Are we a community that, despite how much we may disagree, will at least show a classmate basic respect for putting their thoughts out onto a public forum? Or are we a community that will destroy and belittle someone over a mistake? Penn students complain that we don’t get the power to shape Penn as we would like to see it. That we don’t get a vote. Well, this is one of those few, precious times when we really do have a vote. We have a chance to democratically choose the values we represent.

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ALEX YANG is an Engineering sophomore studying computer science. His email address is ayang015@seas.upenn.edu.

Pennsylvanian! Art isn’t a hobby, or the stress-relieving side passion for busy Wharton students (though Wharton students might find refuge in art as well). Art is just as valuable a use of someone’s time as any other passion or study, and by supporting local art and local artists — local including even as close as Annenberg — we are reaffirming this central principle.

I’m not saying everyone needs to drop the money to buy my book on Amazon, though I would greatly appreciate that if you have the funds. But it costs nothing to attend a cafe and listen to the musicians play from their heart. It costs nothing for me to take a sticker from the South Street Art Mart and put it on my phone, promoting their event without spending a penny. It costs nothing to consider how your presence can positively impact someone else’s passion and profession.

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

Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn. edu.

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Legacy students, we have a responsibility GUEST COLUMN BY SABRINA OCHOA My parents met at Penn in 1987, during Quaker Days. Both were underprepared Cuban kids from single-parent households.

My dad was a low-income student, the first in his family to apply to college.

Growing up, I didn’t hear about how much my parents loved Penn. In fact, I didn’t hear much about Penn, particularly its status as an elite institution, at all. My parents instead conveyed the difficulties they faced as firstgeneration students navigating inaccessible college resources, unfamiliar job and internship processes, as well as obstacles missing from the lives of their peers. My dad jokes about the time someone invited him to go on a ski trip — a pipe dream for someone working 20 hours a week to afford a plane ticket back home.

As I began to understand concepts like privilege and genera-

cile applying to my parents’ alma mater with my growing knowledge of how wealth disparities are perpetuated in a society with increasingly limited social mobility? Still, my parents wanted me to make informed choices and took me on college tours, including to Penn. I loved the campus and the city of Philadelphia. Now at Penn as a legacy, I try to fulfill my responsibility to contribute to a more equitable admissions system by volunteering to help local high school students with college applications through the Netter Center. With all the resources Penn provides for community engagement, I challenge other legacy students to do something similar.

I haven’t been singled-out, judged, or personally criticized as a legacy student. Barring those whose parents bought a new building, few of us here have gotten into Penn “the easy

The drive to create some sort of legacy, though often expressed in unusual ways, stems from a common desire to remember and be remembered.” tional wealth, I seriously questioned whether I should apply to Penn. How was I going to recon-

way.” I’m proud of the hard work I did to get into Penn, and am compelled to continue to work

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hard in my classes, in Penn’s feminist spaces, and in the community. I focus on making the most of the resources this elite institution provides and on proving that I am a good candidate to fulfill the main purpose of higher education as dictated by Benjamin Franklin in founding Penn: service to society.

Being a legacy student means we have an edge in the admissions process to get to Penn’s resources and opportunities. As a legacy student, what are you doing to pay it forward? To support your first-generation low-income peers? To make higher education accessible to low-income high school students? We don’t have the right to exist, benefiting from an unjust system, without thinking about our privilege.

Penn is part of the higher education system gatekeeping diminishing opportunities and wealth in the world; legacy and non-legacy students participate in a microcosm of that — competing for clubs, internships, job offers. We need to acknowledge this reality and not fall for classist arguments that imply that people with resources are doing the rest of the world favors.

People with privilege have to acknowledge the zero-sum, competitive nature of these systems, decide their level of participation and, more importantly, contribute to build a better system and uplift others in the process.

I’m thankful for the perspective my parents have given me as FGLI students at an elite in-

stitution; it reminds me that my experiences, as a person whose parents went to Penn, can be very different from my peers’.

But in terms of “embracing Penn heritage,” what your parent(s) did at Penn means nothing — heritage is built through contributions we make to Penn while we are here; legacy is the improved community we leave behind.

Addressing legacy students’ privilege isn’t labeling them “lesser.” If you’re taking this address as an insult, you need to reflect on why that is. I don’t mind jokes at the expense of legacy students — I’ve joked that I would help a friend in a hard class by adding to the “legacy curve” with my low grade. Many students deal with

imposter syndrome at Penn, and it’s important to address.

But dealing with it in a selfvictimizing manner that paints your privileges in a long-suffering light is problematic, and doesn’t actually help with those negative feelings.

Legacy students, don’t hide your legacy status. Instead, acknowledge the privilege you hold in a faux-meritocratic system, speak out against it, and support others who share their struggles with the system. We need to keep having conversations around legacy admissions and how legacy students come to campus with generational knowledge and distinct advantages.

In terms of school spirit and community, my parents don’t fit the bill of football game-going, LOVE statue-Instagramming, money-donating alumni who groom their kids for Penn.

I don’t think I will either. While everyone has different college experiences, Penn pride should primarily drive its alumni to use the opportunities and resources they gain while here to make a difference in their communities.

Legacy students, focus on making the most of your Penn education and dedicate your human capital to improving the world — none of us should prioritize creating Red and Blue dynasties.

SABRINA OCHOA is a College junior from Boynton Beach, Fla. studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Penn students have a responsibility to pursue sustainable careers GUEST COLUMN BY ELLIOT BONES

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s Penn students, our contr ibutions to clim a t e c h ange can’t be offset just by recycling and changing light bulbs. As students, we should do what we can to limit our carbon emissions — whether it’s composting or using public transportation — but these decisions are only holding actions when compared to the much bigger opportunity for curbing emissions: our careers.

We need to follow a career path that actively propels an aggressive societal response to climate change.

Before I begin this call to action, I must acknowledge my privileges. I am a straight, white male, which means that I do not have to navigate a career market that is aligned against me. I am from a middle-class family, which means that I have less financial pressure factoring into my career decision than many students. I am American, which means that I have benefited from and contributed to the most environmentally destructive society in human history. I cannot change these facts, but I can acknowledge them as I think

about what my role will be in the world.

Every student and faculty member at Penn is among the world’s most egregious greenhouse gas emitters just by our association with this university.

Not only do Penn’s utilities and operations emit over 300,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, but its investment office invests hundreds of millions of dollars directly into fossil fuel companies. Regardless of our efforts to be more sustainable, our presence at Penn during this time in human history makes our lifestyles unsustainable. Even the most environmentally conscious student has incurred an emissions debt payable only by making an environmentally conscious career choice.

This doesn’t mean that we should bike to our Exxon internship. This means that we need to find jobs that fight the current system of exploiting both nature and other humans. This doesn’t mean that we should make sure that our Goldman Sachs team recycles. This means that we need to select careers that actively participate in the revolution

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of human society into one that justly adapts to the ongoing climate crisis, while mitigating its future impacts. This doesn’t mean that we should choose philanthropic positions at leading financial and fossil fuel institutions. This means that we need to choose positions that fight

against these planet-destroying companies.

Some of you may be wondering why you can’t just pursue a lucrative career and then be a philanthropist. You might be thinking, “Somebody’s going to take the job if I don’t” or “I can make a change from the inside.”

We could debate whether the amount of money you could donate would have more of an impact than the benign work that you could have been doing, or how philanthropists use their wealth to undercut democracy, but we don’t have time. We don’t have time to take jobs that are destroying the environment and our society even if someone else will take them. As the innovators and leaders that we claim to be at Penn, we need to take a step away from the escalating cataclysm of climate change and towards the necessary work of societal adaptation and mitigation.

Maybe you’re thinking that if everyone’s career addresses the environment there would be a shortage of jobs. However, there are so many roles to be played in the societal overhaul that the climate crisis warrants, that there will always be a market for innovative thinkers and dedicated workers. I am not suggesting that everyone go and plant a tree. I am suggesting that everyone commit themselves to build a just and sustainable society, whether that’s through becoming

a teacher, civil rights lawyer, therapist, an environmental engineer, a regenerative farmer, or any of the many jobs that are essential to creating a society founded on justice and sustainability.

Maybe sustainability isn’t your passion. The systematic overhaul that is required to avoid the worst-case scenarios of climate change will require creative environmental, social, and financial solutions. Your career can be productive in a sustainable society without being directly related to environmental science.

As Penn students and faculty members, we are among the world’s most elite carbon emitters. We are in significant emissions debt to the rest of the planet. The only way for us to pay this debt is to ensure that our future careers aid in the equitable transition of our society into one that is sustainable and livable for all.

ELLIOT BONES is a junior from Columbia, Mo. studying Sociology and Urban Education. His email is ebones@sas.upenn.edu.

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t Penn, we often forget about life in Philadelph ia out side of campus. Between academics, clubs, Greek life, and internships, our calendars are filled with

countless activities, all within the isolated Penn ecosystem. Although many student groups prioritize social impact both within the city and across the world, for most, Locust Walk continues to be the epicenter of student life.

Of course, campus is where students live and work and sleep and eat, so why wouldn’t the focus of a Penn student’s four years be Penn itself? The doors of Huntsman Hall may seem like a door to a world disconnected from Philadelphia. But they aren’t.

The security guards standing at the front desk are Philadelphians; they have families and lives and passions all within this great city.

Stopping by Bento to pick up lunch, it’s easy to grab your sushi without a

second thought as to where it came from or who prepared it, yet the chefs are Philadelphians too. Bathrooms, dining halls, and libraries are cleaned every single day, yet we seldom consider the long hours put into these laborious tasks. Our lives are made easier by thousands of employees here at Penn — employees whose work commonly goes both unnoticed and unrecognized, employees who are members of both the Philadelphia community and the Penn community, just like us. So why do we treat them as anything less than family?

Indeed, the staff at Penn are just as essential to the success of the community as a whole, yet so often we neglect this, rarely offering more than a cold thank you

or a passing nod. Yes, we all have extremely busy lives to attend to, but so do they, and oftentimes, their efforts and importance are ignored, forgetting to treat people like people.

As Penn students, it is our duty to vouch for those shorthanded by the University. We must reflect on the position of opportunity we are afforded both by attending a school of Penn’s caliber and, for some of us, by being raised within economic comforts. In doing this, we must also examine how starkly this contrasts with the situation in which so many of the faces we see day in and day out find themselves in. The failure to accept the staff here at Penn as part of our family and community is unacceptable and cannot

continue. As a university, we must advocate for our entire community.

We are extremely privileged to be afforded opportunities scarce elsewhere, but so often we overlook the power this privilege offers us to make tangible impact in our community. Instead of using our platform to actively facilitate change within the community, we simply sit on it.

Administration and students alike must recognize the importance of facilitating strong, close relationships with the Penn staff.

Advocacy from the student body can go far, and acknowledging the issue is the first step. Penn’s staff is just as much a part of the Penn family as you or I, and our family is being mistreated, so I urge you,

fight for your community.

Next time you walk into Huntsman or Hill College House or College Hall, acknowledge those who are a part of the community, consider the injustices they are facing, or at the very least, ask them about their day. When push comes to shove, we all share Locust Walk, and we all share Philadelphia — deans, students, and chefs alike.

If you are going to stay insulated within the Penn bubble, don’t pick and choose your alliances, fight for all of Penn.

MCCARRON KINCHELOE is a College freshman from Staunton, Va. studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics. His email is mkinch@sas. upenn.edu

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LSAT goes all digital with tablet testing Penn students say they prefer paper and pencil JASON YAN Staff Reporter

Thinking of taking the Law School Admission Test to apply to law school? Forget your No. 2 pencil — as of late September, the LSAT is now only administered digitally on a tablet and with a stylus.

While the move was greeted by admissions experts, Penn students interested in going to law school said they favored the familiar, oldfashioned paper and pencil format.

The LSAT was administered digitally for the first time on Sept.

21 to all students taking the test.

This new change to the LSAT was first announced by the Law School Admission Council in October 2018. The digital format was experimented with during the June LSAT exam, where half of the students taking the test were given the exam digitally through a tablet.

In a survey administered by Kaplan, nearly 80% of the J.D. programs’ admission officers said they thought the change was a good idea.

Jeff Thomas, Kaplan Test Prep’s executive director of Admissions Programs, said the digital shift is the biggest change to the LSAT in over 25 years.

“The Law School Admission Council had been researching ways to improve the test-taking experience for several years,” Thomas said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. “This particular [change] had been in the planning for at least five years.“ Penn Career Services Associate Director Mia Carpiniello said the impact of the change would vary depending on the individual students.

“Because the contents of the test are the same, I don’t think it is going to have a big impact,” Carpiniello added. “In this day and age, the students that I work with

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Jeff Thomas, Kaplan Test Prep’s executive director of Admissions Programs, said the digital shift is the biggest change to the LSAT in over 25 years. Starting Sept. 21, all exams were administered digitally.

at Penn and the alumni who are preparing for the LSAT are ‘techsavvy’ so they don’t seem to be too concerned about taking the test on a tablet.”

Every student taking the LSAT after September will be given a tablet and a stylus instead of a test booklet.

Thomas said this is largely a format change, as the test contents remain unchanged.

“The type of questions that students will see will be the same.

The length and the scoring will also be the same,” Thomas added.

The change will lead to a more consistent testing experience and a more flexible testing schedule, experts said, as the number of LSATs offered in 2019 will increase.

Thomas said one of the biggest challenges to the administration of the LSAT is the timing, which was traditionally monitored by the proctor in front of the room.

“The difference between receiving 34 minutes and 30 seconds and 35 minutes can be another point or two on the exam,” Thomas added.

“And every point on the exam puts students ahead of thousands of other applicants to law school.”

With this new change, timing will be done digitally and students can be assured that every testtaker will be given the exact same amount of time.

Now, test-takers have the ability to highlight text in multiple colors and underline text using the stylus.

“These are things that students can’t do in the pen-and-pencil format,” Thomas said.

College junior Amanpreet Singh said the new digital format can be “tricky” for some students.

“While you can highlight and underline on the tablet, you can’t write on the margin, so a lot of your notes will be disassociated from the actual information,” said Singh, a 34th Street staffer.

Singh also said the impact of the new test format remains unclear, as September of this year is the first time that all students are required to take the test digitally.

“I think that everyone will have different opinions on [the new

testing format],” Singh added.

College junior Minna Zheng said she would prefer to take the LSAT with paper and pencils.

“It would be best if they [could] give an option, especially for students that are more comfortable taking a paper test,” Zheng said.

“It’s just uncomfortable for me to look into a screen for three hours straight.”

Thomas said students should spend time learning the new format with the new digital familiarization tool developed by the Law School Admission Council and plan ahead for taking the LSAT. “It’s like learning how to play a sport or an instrument. You can’t cram for it,” Thomas added.

Zheng said most of the tests that she has taken so far were with paper and pencils, so the digital format would take some time to get used to.

“With any test there are new challenges, and this is one of those that you have to get used to,” Singh said.

Disney CEO Robert Iger visits Penn for Authors@ Wharton speaker series Iger dicussed his history at the company ISA SKIBELI Staff Reporter

Robert Iger, chair and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, visited Penn Tuesday evening to discuss his long history at the company and the work he has done to become the head of Disney.

Hundreds gathered in the Annenberg Center auditorium to hear Iger speak in conversation with Wharton professor Adam Grant as part of the Authors@Wharton speaker series. Iger’s new book, “The Ride of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company,” reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list.

Iger spoke about his role at Disney which involves generating creative content,

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utilizing the latest technologies in filmmaking, and promoting the expansion of the company into new markets. During his time at Disney, Iger has overseen the acquisition of Pixar, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox, as well as the launch of the first Disney theme park and resort in mainland China, the Shanghai Disney Resort, in 2016.

“We own a lot of storytelling entities,” Iger said.

“Technology is enabling the storyteller to tell the story to more than just themselves and their families.”

Iger said he started off in the entertainment industry as a weatherman, though his initial dream was to be a television anchor.

When asked how he got from that point to his position as Disney CEO, Iger said he did it “through a combination of working hard and never being fearful of the next opportunity that came [his] way.”

“I essentially worked my way up from job to job to job,” Iger said. “I’ve lost track of how many.”

Iger worked at ABC Sports for 13 years and later became the president of ABC Entertainment. Before assuming his current role, Iger joined the Disney senior management team in 1996, according to the company’s website. During Iger’s tenure, The Walt Disney Company has been named one of the “Most Reputable Companies” in America and the world by Forbes Magazine, one of the “World’s Most Respected Companies” by Barron’s, and one of the “Best Places to Launch a Career” by Businessweek Magazine.

When Grant asked him if he had ever experienced a failure that limited his career, Iger said failure was something that he did not let hold him back.

“I never feared failure, but interestingly enough my first boss at ABC told me that I was not promotable,” Iger said. “I was 23 at the time. I’ve always been realistic about my talent and my intelligence, but I’ve never been a self-doubter.”

Iger also spoke about Disney’s efforts to promote diversity, both in terms of characters on screen and people working behind the camera.

“We have done a lot of work in that regard and made a lot of progress, particularly when it comes to women directors,” he said. “About 40% of our movies over the next 12 to 18 months are directed by women.”

Iger said he believes Disney has done a “very good job” with diversity on camera, but said that “there is much more work to be done in the executive ranks and the creative ranks.”

“I think he’s really humble and is a lot funnier than I expected for someone who is running one of the biggest companies in the world,” Wharton senior Allison McGurk said.

“I liked how he spoke about empowering Disney’s acquisitions, encouraging them to be more creative, and giving them what is necessary to succeed rather than trying to make more money for Disney.”

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Penn graduate discusses new book on sanctuary and asylum PROVOST’S LECTURE ON DIVERSITY

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Speaker Linda Rabben is a professor of anthroplogy at the University of Maryland and an activist who has worked on immigration and refugee issues with human rights organizations such as Amnesty International.

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Linda Rabben, 1974 College graduate, spoke at Penn about her new book on sanctuary and asylum and shared stories of migrants she met at the United States-Mexico border on Tuesday evening.

The event took the form of a conversation between Rabben and Penn Law School and School of Social Policy and Practice professor Fernando Chang-Muy. It was the first of the Latin American and Latino St ud ies Exter na l Spea ker series, in which Penn professors can apply for grants to host scholars whose work intersects with Latin America and Latinx studies.

Rabben’s book, titled “Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social Political History,” traces the history of sanctuary and analyzes asylum policies in the United States and Europe. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland and an activist who has worked

on immigration and refugee issues with human rights organizations such as Amnesty International.

Rabb en sa id she once translated for a Brazilian asylum-seeker whose son contracted a high fever during his stay in one of the detention centers. She recalled how she saw border patrol guards emptying water gallons left for those crossing the desert from Mexico to Arizona.

“It seems to me that the de facto policy of the United States government is ‘if people are not going to come in through ports of entry, where they have very little chance of getting asylum, well, they can just die in the desert,’” she said.

Rabben said grassroots institutions help fill in the gaps that current laws overlook or ignore, and highlighted the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, which advocates for immigrant justice and extends help to undocumented immigrants who have already lived in the United States for several years.

College junior Caitlin Muldowney, who attended the event,

said she was struck by Rabben’s story about undocumented immigrants who would ask their neighbors to fill out foster parent applications in case they were deported.

“I think looking at how during the Holocaust, families would take Jewish children to protect them, and how we’re repeating that today, it’s kind of like how we always learn history so we don’t repeat our same mistakes,” Muldowney said. “But we are.”

During the following Q&A session, Chang-Muy said Rabben’s research adds another dimension to studying policy and law, as her stories draw the conversation back to the people affected by these policies.

“Our laws have not always expressed a spirit of welcome.

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t,” Rabben said. “But the institution of sanctuary and the strong motivation that ordinary people of goodwill have to give refuge to strangers, I believe, will survive as long as we do. I think it’s in our DNA to help people that are in trouble without asking too many questions.”

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Penn began to create its vision of environmental sustainability in 2007 after becoming the first Ivy League signatory to the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment. Penn is now introducing its Climate and Sustainability Action Plan 3.0.

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2 UTILITIES & OPERATIONS ACCOMPLISHMENT • 30% net reduction of building-related emissions in FY19 when compared to FY14 GOAL • Reduce Penn’s building-related carbon emissions by 40% by 2024, using 2009 as the baseline year

3 PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCOMPLISHMENT • 25+ LEED designated buildings on campus GOAL • Update campus design and management standards and integrate occupant health and wellness into Penn’s building standards

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Quakers ranked for first time since 2016 Penn is ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic region JOEY PIATT Sports Reporter

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Junior Anthony Russo had been running cross country and track at Penn for two years already when he was joined by his sister, freshman Delia Russo. The pair have gotten off to a strong start early this season, especially at Lehigh’s Paul Short Invitational.

The pair ran for Colts Neck “My sister started running cross country her sophomore year of High School in New Jersey JACOB KARLOVSKY Sports Reporter

Is it possible for two siblings to be equally good at the same sport and play for the same team? The Russo siblings on Penn’s cross country team have an answer to that.

Junior Anthony Russo has excelled representing the Quakers at every recent meet, coming in at 11th overall at Lehigh’s Paul Short Invitational last week. His younger sister, freshman Delia Russo, has also impressed recently, finishing 21st overall in the women’s open race at the same invitational.

But how did this shared success begin? The siblings began their careers at Colts Neck High School in New Jersey, eventually making it all the way to the state’s Meet of Champions.

high school, and I was a little bit later, starting my junior year. So we’re both relatively new to cross country,” Anthony said. “We both were [already] doing well in track, a spring sport in high school, so we figured doing [cross country] in the fall and year-round would help our track seasons a lot. Once we actually did the sport, we pretty much fell in love with it.”

Ever since then, the relationship between both sibling athletes has been incredibly supportive. They both continuously hope for the other to succeed, helping out in the process through mutual ideas and strategies.

“We’ll compare our times, so [our relationship] is competitive in that nature, but more so supportive,” Delia said. “If I’m ever having trouble with anything, I could always talk to [Anthony], since I feel like he has more experience.”

“Anytime I see [Delia] have a

good workout or race well, it definitely motivates me to race well or vice versa,” Anthony said. “Or anytime she has a question about something with training or with a race, we feed ideas off each other.

Competition helps both of us.”

Moreover, Anthony’s presence as a star on the cross country team at Penn has helped Delia’s transition from high school to running on the college level. She didn’t have to worry about joining the Quakers, as her brother would reassure her of the great dynamic of the team.

“I didn’t really have to think about things that other freshmen probably had to think about and stress about coming in, so it was good to have him just to have a smoother transition,” she said.

“From what [Anthony] described, I knew it would be a good fit for me.”

What’s even more surprising is how it turned out to be somewhat of a coincidence that both

athletes ended up at Penn. But it also turned out to be very convenient for their biggest fans — their parents — and ultimately the best choice for the two.

“Honestly, [Anthony] wasn’t really a factor in [deciding to go to Penn]. I wanted to go to Penn since my freshman year of high school, and once he got in, it pushed me to work even harder,” Delia said. “[Our parents] are definitely happy about it, because it makes everything so much easier for them, such as traveling to different meets. It’s nice because they can see both of us at once instead of having to choose which meet to go to.”

Both siblings strive to get better every day as they prepare for increasingly tougher meets throughout the fall season. In addition to their coaches, teammates, and friends, the siblings have each other as a resource to improve and lead the Red and Blue to future success.

For the first time since 2016, the only year Red and Blue have previously qualified for the NCAA Championships in program history, Penn women’s cross country is nationally ranked.

The Quakers are ranked No. 23 in the most recent National Coaches Poll, an improvement from their initial season rank of No. 28. The Red and Blue are also ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic regional rankings.

This ranking comes following an effort by Penn at the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh where the team placed third out of thirty-eight teams with 173 points. The Red and Blue have also had strong performances at the Fordham Fiasco (fourth out of 11 teams), the Coast to Coast Battle in Beantown (ninth out of 22 teams), and the Main Line Invitational (third out of six teams).

With such a strong start to the season, this year’s Quakers have shown that they are different from teams of recent years.

“I think we always tend to have a pretty close group of girls, but this year seemed especially close. I also think that at some point early in the fall [there] just was a really solid pack of girls running together at faster paces in workouts,” senior captain Maddie Villalba said.

This year more than ever, the Red and Blue have successfully paired unity with growth as the athletes push each other to achieve new personal and team goals. In a sport where team-to-team comparison can be difficult, this formula has been imperative to the Quakers’ early-season success.

“In cross country, there’s not really [anything] like a win-loss record during the season that gives you the sense as to who the best team is,” coach Steve Dolan said.

“That leads us to [an approach] where we try to focus on our team trying to be the best that we can be.”

In addition to their established team identity, the Red and Blue have attributed their early-season success to several underclassmen who have shined at each race.

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Penn women’s cross country is ranked for the first time in three years, coming in at No. 23 nationally and No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic.

For Penn’s runners, A natural athlete, junior Ryan Renken there is no offseason has found his passion in cross country Cross country, indoor, and outdoor track go year-round JACOB WESSELS Associate Sports Editor

It’s not a sport, it’s a lifestyle.

For Penn track’s distance runners, the old sports adage of “there is no offseason” could not ring more true, as

their commitment to the program lasts nearly the entire school year. For these athletes, the season starts in the fall with cross country, continues into the winter season with indoor track, and finally ends in the spring with outdoor track.

“It makes it more of a lifestyle,” senior Will Daly said.

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Penn’s cross country runners often compete during all three sports seasons, racing indoors in the winter and outdoors in the spring.

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Renken grew up playing a diverse array of sports EMILY CONDON Sports Reporter

Ryan Renken’s athletic career started with dabbling in different sports. Most notably, he played competitive soccer growing up, which he believed would be his high school and college sport. This was all changed, however, when he found his love for running.

Now, the junior is a decorated runner for Penn’s cross country, and he’s hoping to exercise his passion for the sport throughout the rest of his life.

Renken describes his eclectic early athletic life.

“I played, like, every sport growing up, from soccer to basketball to baseball to swimming. I was a very active kid, so when I got to high school and started running it was just kind of natural to me,” Renken said.

Following his sister and cousin, Renken joined his high school’s cross country team, a group that ended up performing very well not only in Claremont, Calif.,

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Besides running for Penn cross country and track, junior Ryan Renken is also a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and is concentrating in Finance and Real Estate at Wharton.

where Ryan grew up, but also throughout the state. In 2016, his high school’s team ranked first in the California Interstate Federation and became Division 2 cross country state champions.

“So far, most of my favorite memories [in cross country] come from team accomplishments,” Renken said. “In high school, when our team won the state championship, that was a lot of fun, and probably

the most notable [memory from my career] so far.”

When it was time to start looking at colleges during the fall of his senior year, Renken knew he wanted to run for a cross country team in college.

After several visits to schools to get to know their programs and teams, Renken decided to become a Quaker and never looked back.

“I ended up liking Penn, the campus, and

the team a lot, and that’s what encouraged me to come here,” Renken said. “When you spend three to four hours a day with the same people, it’s important to be in a group that you connect with and jive well with … and when I was visiting here, I got the feeling that this team is a family, and that’s why I chose Penn.”

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semester where they are more of a student than an athlete.”

“One season builds on the next. It’s really a year-round commitment in trying to be the best you can be and develop yourself,” coach Steve Dolan said. “A lot of the success we are having this fall in cross country is directly related to the success and development we had on the track last spring.”

With the seasons stacked nearly back-to-back, the team gets little time between competitive seasons.

“Cross country goes until right before Thanksgiving, so some years we will have between Thanksgiving and winter break when we won’t race but will continue to practice and get some time off around finals,” junior Ryan Renken

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said. “Once we get back from winter break, which is a week earlier than most students for our training camp, then pretty much for all of spring semester we’re racing. [We race] indoors until the end of February, then a week interim period, and then we start outdoors.”

Even over the summer, a lot of work is required to make sure the team doesn’t fall behind heading into the cross country season.

“The summer is seen as a training block where we get a program for different training that progresses throughout the summer,” Renken said.

“Cross country is a little bit harder because you start in the summer,” senior Andrew Hally said. “So your training for cross country is completely indicated by the work you put in over the summer when you are alone.”

Despite the combined nature

of the two sports, the team sees an important distinction between track and cross country.

“On the surface they may seem pretty similar, but schedule-wise, cross country races every two weeks and track is a bit more frequent,” Hally said.

“Splitting it up makes it feel like two separate sports.” “[In] cross country you’re running 8K or 10K, so the workouts and running distances tend to be a little bit higher,” Daly said. “Track is nice because even though everyone is still training together, you start to get into your more individualized distances.”

While other athletes have time during their offseason to participate in other extracurricular activities or take classes that they wouldn’t be able to take in season, the cross country team’s commitment to competing year-round often interferes with these opportunities.

“When you commit to being a cross country runner, you give up the chances that other student-athletes have like studying abroad,” Renken said. “You lose the opportunity to join certain clubs, or take certain trips and visit friends.

When we’re competing almost every weekend, you lose some opportunities.”

While the time commitment might occasionally be a burden, the team recognizes that it also fosters a sense of teamwork and community that is far stronger than other extracurricular groups.

“It’s kind of unique when you have this many people who put so much time and effort into one extracurricular, so you find that it creates an environment in which everyone can strive and trust one another and use one another to improve,” Renken said.

“I think we have a very close

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“I think it makes our entire team closer, including track and field, men and women. I feel like we have the closest men’s and women’s teams on campus as a result.”

In short, the runners gladly sacrifice other opportunities to maintain this strong connection as a group.

“If you were to ask anyone

if they would rather have one season and an offseason or go year-round, I think most people on this team would say year-round,” senior Colin Daly said.

Renken echoed Daly’s sentiment.

“If I had to do it over again, I’d do it the same way.”

With the cross country season now entering full swing, this team is just getting its year started.

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Penn Athletics announces plan to build new indoor track facility The move is an extension of events, and seating room for fans.

Once completed, the Center the Game Onward Campaign will be the only collegiate indoor BIANCA SERBIN Associate Sports Editor

As part of Penn Athletics’ Game Onward Campaign, Penn launched the Penn Track & Field and Cross Country Campaign for Excellence on Wednesday. This initiative seeks to raise $44 million and has been spearheaded by a gift from Wharton and Penn track and field alumni David and Jane Ott. The Jane and David Ott Center for Track & Field, which is set to be built by 2022, will be the focal point of the campaign. Fully constructed, the facility will be 63,000 square feet and will include a six-lane, 200-meter banked track, an eight-lane sprint track, areas designated for field

facility of its kind in the greater Philadelphia area.

“The Campaign for Excellence truly signals the start of a new era for track & field at Penn that builds on a legacy of achievement by our athletes dating back to the late 19th century,” Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote in a Penn Athletics statement. “Penn has won three dozen Heptagonal team championships and has had eight individual national champions. Thirty-three Penn athletes have medaled at the Olympics, with 16 winning gold.

We are profoundly grateful to David and Jane Ott for their extraordinary commitment to Penn Athletics and for this foundational gift, which we anticipate will inspire others to participate in the Campaign. The Ott Center prom-

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David and Jane Ott graduated from Wharton in 1985 and 1987, respectively.

“We met while on the track & field team at Penn, and attribute much of the good fortune we have had since to the qualities we developed and the lessons we learned during practices and competitions,” the pair wrote.

“We hope our gift will further enable Penn student-athletes to have the same rewarding experiences as we did.”

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Penn Athletics launched the Penn Track & Field and Cross Country Campaign for Excellence on Wednesday, including blueprints for the Jane and David Ott Center for Track & Field to be built by 2022.

Jane Ott stressed that the campaign and the Center will promote development for Penn’s athletes.

“Track & Field is the greatest sport in the world, with a global presence, broad-based participation, and an inspirational level of diversity among athletes,” she wrote. “Men and women frequently compete on

the same stage, in front of the same crowds. Dave and I are honored to use this sport as a platform to provide the opportunity for Penn student-athletes to continue to develop their athletic, interpersonal, and leadership skills.”

Penn track coach Steve Dolan is enthusiastic about the Center’s future impact.

“It will immeasurably enhance Penn’s intercollegiate track & field program by providing a modern venue for yearround training and meets,” he wrote. “What’s more, the Ott Center will serve as the yearround home for the cross-country and track & field teams, and an indoor warm-up area for the Penn Relays.”

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berth at the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis increasingly possible. While the Red and Blue are excited about their early success, however, they are making sure not to get ahead of themselves.

“I think we’re all really excited about it. We don’t want to let it get to our heads or anything so we’re not too focused on just rankings,” Villalba said. “We know we need to put the work in behind [the ranking] to maintain it. And I think it really puts a fire underneath us to prove that that’s real and that’s who we are and that we can actually do better than that.”

Despite their increased success from last year to this year,

the Quakers’ goals have not changed. “[Our goal is to] keep building together and use each other during races so we can finish higher than we are used to at [the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships], do really well there, then place high at regionals, so we can qualify for nationals,” junior Melissa Tanaka said. “We really want to qualify for nationals; that’s the end goal for sure.”

It remains to be seen whether this team can replicate the success of the 2016 Penn squad.

Yet, there is clearly something unique about this Red and Blue team, which plans on giving everything it has to get to Indianapolis this year.

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mores, have really stepped up and have had a big impact,” Villalba said.

Among these key underclassmen is sophomore Ariana Gardizy, who has emerged as a consistent top-three runner for Penn. The Quakers believe that pairing the strong performances of underclassmen such as Gardizy with the veteran leadership provided by seniors like Villalba will help them as they look to continue their success moving forward.

The increased excitement surrounding the group as a result of its new national ranking has made the goal of a team

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Penn faces Navy in crucial road contest SPRINT FB | Navy is the only unbeaten CSFL side left ISAAC SPEAR Sports Reporter

By the start of the weekend, we will know one of the favorites to advance to the Collegiate Sprint Football League title game.

On Friday, Penn sprint football will make the trip to Annapolis, Md. to face Navy in a game that could very well decide which team represents the South Division in the CSFL championship.

The Quakers (3-1, 1-0 South) are coming off their first divisional game, a 42-32 victory over Chestnut Hill, and are fueled by a potent running game that is the driving force behind the top offense in the League. The Red and Blue currently lead the CSFL with just under 45 points and more than 445 yards per game.

Navy (4-0, 2-0) has not put up such gaudy numbers on offense, but the Midshipmen remain the only undefeated team

in League play behind a stout defense that has yet to allow more than 17 points in a single game.

The combination of sophomore running back Laquan McKever and senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins has made the Quakers the most dangerous rushing attack in the CSFL. The pair has amassed a total of 895 yards on the ground and 17 rushing touchdowns, with Jenkins accounting for 11 on his own.

All of this bodes extremely well going into a game against a team whose weak spot on defense is the defensive line.

Navy senior linebacker David Postma is second in the League with 36 total tackles, but this could be due to the inability of the defensive line in front of him to stuff the run.

“The reason [Postma] has all the tackles he has this year is because their front four is a little weaker than they have been in the past, and he just sits back and makes tackles,” Penn senior center Matthew Hermann said.

While Navy may be the fifthbest rushing defense, allowing

just under 83 yards per game on the ground, it’s what they’ve put on film that tells the true story.

“Teams have been able to run the ball fairly well against them, and we are the No. 1 rushing offense in the League by a fair margin,” Hermann said.

Hermann is the centerpiece of an offensive line that has time and time again sprung Jenkins and McKever for huge gains on the ground. The front five for the Quakers has been bullying opposing defensive lines all season, especially in goal-to-go situations where they tend to run Jenkins right up the middle.

For Hermann, the strategy for the offense will be pretty simple on Friday.

“We’re just going to go out there and try to have our front five beat their front five,” he said.

Winning the battle in the trenches is easier said than done, especially considering the magnitude of the game. The winner will likely go on to represent the South in the CSFL

title game, as every other team in the division has already suffered at least one divisional loss.

Despite the added pressure of championship implications, the Quakers are accustomed to the big stage.

“Playing Navy, it’s not too tough to get excited for that one,” Jenkins said. “We know every year that to get to the championship we have to go through Navy.”

Added motivation could come from a disappointing loss against the Midshipmen a year ago that ended the Quakers’ season.

The Red and Blue also fell to Chestnut Hill a year ago, so they’re hoping to carry the momentum from a victory in one revenge game right into the next. For Jenkins, however, the approach to this game remains more or less the same.

“Every year we know this is a must-win game, and this year is no different,” Jenkins said.

After the dust settles, the Quakers are hoping that they’ll be the team in prime position to secure a berth in the CSFL championship.

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Senior center Matthew Hermann and the rest of Penn sprint football will travel to Annapolis, Md. to play Navy in a game with Collegiate Sprint Football League title implications, as the victor will likely win the League’s South Division and a berth in the championship game.

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Junior Ryan Renken may have gotten his start playing a number of other sports, but he has found his passion in running cross country for Penn.

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ken made a name for himself as a substantial contributor to the team. He placed in the top five for Penn runners in multiple races, and in the 2017 Ivy League Heptagonal Championships he finished 57th.

Then, during his 2018 indoor track season, he placed sixth in the mile in the Penn 8-Team Select and competed in the Indoor Heps in the 1000-meters.

After his freshman season, Renken had four placements in the top 10 in competition. Going into his sophomore year, he didn’t compete in indoor track competitions, but he ran in two events for cross country, placing in both. One of those, the Haverford Main Line Invitational, saw Renken finish 15th, running four miles in 20:21.00.

As this season gets into full swing, Renken is mostly focused on staying healthy.

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“For me in this season, it’s important to stay injuryfree,” Renken said. “I’ve had a couple of injuries that have sidetracked the past couple of years. And I think for the team at large, this is the best we’ve been health-wise, so it’s fun to see everyone at practice and running.”

As far as life outside of cross country, Renken is involved in the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Through this organization, he serves as an ambassador for his team for different resources in an effort to improve student-athlete welfare on campus.

Renken studies finance and real estate at the Wharton School and hopes to work in the real estate sector, possibly in equity investing or debts. And of course, he plans on staying active by running for leisure or even potentially training for marathons or half marathons.

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Quakers head to Columbia in search of first Ivy League win of the year

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Still, the accolades are undoubtedly impressive, even though Priore isn’t surprised by the player Brooks has become. “He is a hard, hard worker,�

Priore said. “He is the first one in that weight room and the last one to leave the training room. His preparation, both mentally and physically, is there. So you could really see him, from his freshman and sophomore year, take those steps and grow and grow and grow.�

Although Brooks is the offensive star, he is by no means alone on that side of the ball, as senior quarterback Nick Robinson threw for 267 yards and two touchdowns last weekend. Most impressively, he hasn’t thrown an interception since the season opener. If he can continue that level of play against the Lions, the Columbia defense will be hard pressed to get the Penn offense off the field. “[Robinson’s] been balling out.

He knows the game really well, he’s a great leader on the field, and he’s tough,� Brooks said. “He’ll do whatever it takes to go out there and get the win. He’ll put his body on the line for the rest of the team, which means even more coming from the quarterback.�

The less glamorous side of the ball will be equally important this

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Penn men’s soccer slips up on the road in tight 1-0 loss to UMBC Rookie Nick Christoffersen the Quakers in total, 5-3, both teams put two shots on goal. made his first start in goal Both the Red and Blue and DUSTIN GHANNADI Sports Reporter

goals.”

The second half was much more tactical for both sides.

Starting with a quick corner in the 47th minute, the Quakers steadily threatened the UMBC goal. However, UMBC was quick to react, putting themselves in scoring position two minutes later only to be caught offside.

The Retrievers’ breakthrough came in the 57th minute. With the only shot by either team in the second half, UMBC senior Colin Weyant placed the ball into the bottom-right corner from well outside the 18-yard box, just out of Christoffersen’s reach.

For the rest of the half, the Quakers desperately attempted

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Defensive, but not boring in the slightest.

Penn men’s soccer traveled to Baltimore to take on UMBC on Tuesday night. Coming off of a tie with Columbia in double overtime, the Red and Blue (4-4-2, 1-0-1 Ivy) were hungry for a win, but they were outlasted by the Retrievers, 1-0.

The game was characterized mostly by defensive play, with both sides struggling to get going offensively. Although UMBC (5-6-1) outshot

the Retrievers started strong in the first half. Penn nearly found the back of the net in the 12th minute, with a strong attempt by sophomore forward Matt Leigh. UMBC responded quickly, launching two shots that were both blocked by the Penn fullbacks. Leigh once again nearly found the goal in the 21st minute, with a shot that was barely wide of the mark.

After both teams had stretches of maintaining possession, the Red and Blue had their closest opportunity to score.

Sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz nearly scored on a well-

timed header, which was kept out by an equally impressive save. The Retrievers nearly responded two minutes later, but Penn freshman Nick Christoffersen notched his lone save of the game. Penn’s physicality and aggressiveness was apparent in the first half, with the team committing 10 fouls.

“One thing that we need to focus on is consistency throughout the game,” Stitz said. “I think we created some good chances in the first half, but then in the second half, we lost a bit of the momentum that we had. We just need to put together a full 90 minutes, and I think that if we do that, we will be in a better position to win more games and score more

to jumpstart their offense. Although Penn created a couple of goal-scoring opportunities, including two corner kicks, the visitors were unable to threaten the UMBC keeper in any significant way.

Although the match ended in defeat, there is much to look forward to for the Quakers. With three players earning their first start — Christoffersen in goal, sophomore Brendan Hanrahan at fullback, and Leigh at forward — the Red and Blue demonstrated their up-and-coming talent.

“When we get on the board first, we have a pattern of winning games,” Stitz said. “When we get that early lead, it gives the rest of our team confidence

to say ‘Hey, we can win this game.’ It gives us more belief.

But we’ve also proven that we can come back from deficits, like when we played Columbia coming back from a one-nil deficit.”

Tuesday’s game equalized the Red and Blue’s record against the Retrievers, bringing the all-time tally to 2-2-1.

Penn will resume Ivy League play this Saturday when it takes on a Dartmouth (4-5-1, 1-1-0 Ivy) team that is winless on the road. Last year’s game ended with a commanding 3-1 victory for the Big Green, but this time around the Quakers will look to maintain their solid defense from Tuesday while jumpstarting their attack.

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