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Behind the counter with Troy Chef Troy Harris is a key fixture at Hillel dinners JACK CAHN Senior Reporter

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Troy Harris was 15 years old when his best friend was shot dead.

He was at a house party in the heart of West Philadelphia, not all too far from Penn’s fraternity row. Energy pulsed through his veins as music raged. “Everybody was dancing, doing things you shouldn’t be doing with the lights down low … drinking, smoking, illegal drugs,” Troy said. When his friend stole a pair of the host’s glasses, he knew trouble was coming.

Soon enough, Troy heard the deafening rattle of nearby gunfire. As he ran up to his friend’s body, his friend looked him in the eyes, took three short breaths and died.

Now, 26 years later, most of Troy’s friends are dead or in jail. Despite his circumstances, Troy has made it to the Ivy League, where he

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With her annual salary, Amy Gutmann could pay for 51 years of Penn tuition.

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Amy Gutmann

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Gutmann second highest paid pres. in the Ivy League

made more than Gutmann in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014, with a total of $4,641,420, according to the most recently filed tax data.

CAROLINE SIMON Deputy News Editor The third highest-paid president was Harvard President Drew Gilpin Penn President Amy Gutmann Faust, whose salary was reported as made over three times more than six $1,112,149. The presidents of Yale, of the other Ivy League presidents last Dartmouth, Princeton, Cornell and year.

Brown each made less than a milGutmann’s salary, which jumped lion dollars, and Dartmouth president 21 percent from last year to a total of Philip Hanlon’s salary of $695,568 $3,426,106, is the second highest of was the lowest of the group. the presidents in the Ivy League. Only Bollinger, who was also the highColumbia president Lee C. Bollinger est-paid Ivy League president in the

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previous fiscal year, received a 99 percent increase in his compensation, widening the gap between his and Gutmann’s salary by nearly a million dollars. But the gap between Gutmann’s salary and the next lowest — last year, Yale’s Richard Levin, this year, Harvard’s Faust — is five times larger this fiscal year than the last one.

The salaries of Penn’s president and other administrators are determined by the Board of Trustees, with the aid of a third-party consultant.

Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen

explained that comparative data from peer institutions — like the salaries of other Ivy League presidents — is considered in determining compensation.

“The Compensation Committee uses a variety of data in setting compensation, including market data on salaries paid at peer institutions, particularly Ivy League and other prestigious private teaching and research universities of comparable academic stature, complexity and size,” Cohen said in an email.

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Penn senior runs for state legislative seat in native state of Florida

We need to stop competing over how much work we have, and start taking breaks more.”

Nicolas Garcia is running in District 41

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PERFORMING PAST EXPECTATIONS

For College senior Nicolas Garcia, post-graduation plans may involve swapping Locust Walk for the corridors of the Florida State Capitol.

The Florida native launched his bid for a seat in the state’s House of Representatives on Oct. 14.

Garcia, a political science major,

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College senior Nicolas Garcia launched his bid for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives last week.

is running as a Democrat in central Florida’s 41st District, which includes his hometown of Haines City.

Although within driving distance of both Orlando and Tampa, large parts of the area remain rural. The district took a large hit during the 2008 recession, and communities like Haines City are still struggling economically.

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Electric car team brings tech to the racetrack The team hopes to design a car under 400 pounds SANIKA PURANIK Contributing Reporter

Creating legitimate, fully-functioning electric vehicles right here on campus, the Penn Electric Racing team is an opportunity to be involved in an elaborate engineering project

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that connects design, creativity and cutting-edge technology.

The club’s mission revolves around building a real-life electric race car that the team takes to competition. In fact, this past year, Penn Electric Racing won the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Formula SAE competition in an international field of over 100 teams.

“I see Electric as a small company,”

said Engineering senior Manfred Reiche, who heads the team. “It’s like a start-up company. You can get out of the experience whatever you want to get out of it.”

Penn Electric Racing offers different opportunities for team members in the form of divisions. “We have a business division of about 15, including sponsorship, publicity and securing parts,” Reiche said. “We

have about 15 on electrical, so the electrical engineers who oversee everything, and then the bulk majority are on mechanical which is broken down by parts and other smaller aspects of the car.”

The team has seen a regeneration of sorts in recent years.

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has been a beloved cafeteria cook at Penn Hillel’s Falk Dining Commons since 2000. Last year, his picture appeared in newspapers and websites across the country — and it wasn’t a mug shot. Troy was profiled for launching a campaign called Grassroots to revive his neighborhood and get young people off the streets. But his journey from the streets of Philadelphia to the dining halls of the Ivy League was anything but easy. ** Troy’s early years were defined by the tumultuous home in which he was raised.

Coming home to see his alcoholic stepfather beat his mother was too painful for Troy, so he escaped the chaos of home for the streets of West Philadelphia. “I wanted to be away from the problem, but I ran with the problem,” Troy said, shaking his head and cringing. “I was in criminal activity, like stolen car, aggravated assault, young knucklehead getting into things, being a follower.

We ran the streets all night.”

Troy was first sent to a juvenile corrections facility — the Youth Study Center at 18th and Vine streets — at the age of 15 for not going to school and for stealing a car. Until he was 18, Troy was locked up on and off in the St. Francis Correctional Facility in Bucks County, Pa. Every time he was released, all he had to do was look on the corner and see “people making easy money,” and it didn’t take him long to return to crime.

“I was doing negativity, getting in a lot of mischief, getting in trouble but not getting charged with crimes — poisoning my community with the madness,” he said.

For Troy, things changed when he had his first child at the age of 19 with his then-girlfriend and now-wife Debbie Harris. He stopped running the streets and got his first job as a janitor at West Chester Arms Nursing Home in West Chester, Pa. “I took real pride in the job, because I knew I could take care of my family,” Troy said.

But a year later, he lost his job when he couldn’t get to the nursing home in time during a storm, and he went back to his old ways.

“I seen my son growing, and

I seen him looking at me,” Troy said. “He was young, and he didn’t know what was going on, but he knew that daddy wasn’t home when he was supposed to be, and you know, things was different. It was living inferior. It wasn’t happy.

It was getting up and watching your back and thinking, ‘Who is going to hurt me or my family?’”

Troy stayed away from home most nights in fear that he would be followed home. “When you’re out there doing the negativity, your best friends could be your worst enemies,” he said. The number one piece of advice Harris’ dad used to give him, he said, was to be self-sufficient. The message rang clearly for Troy after his dad died in a car crash on what Troy said was the hardest day of his life.

Troy second chance at a job came in 2000, when his friend Elijah Wingate, who served food at Hillel, got him a job “working kosher” at Penn. He grabbed onto it and never let go. ** The way Troy tells the story, working at Hillel changed his life.

“From where I come from, I’d never seen that many people … be that nice. The Jewish community, they really embraced me,” he said.

“They’re like a family.”

Fifteen years since starting at Penn, Troy is a fixture at Hillel.

Every day, hundreds of students greet him with a smile as he serves them his famous stir-fry or prepares a custom wrap. Students passing by ask him about his family, and he in turn asks about their siblings, many of whom he has served over the course of his career.

“He’s always smiling,” said College senior Benjamin Bolnick.

“He knows everyone by name. He makes coming into the dining hall a joy. I consider him a friend, even though I’m a student and he works here.”

His coworkers agree. “Troy is a fun lovable guy,” said Lonnidell Pratt, a fellow cook at Hillel. “He makes sure we laugh. We get the job done. He cares about you, asks you how your day is going.”

Marty Bates, who has worked with Troy for the past nine years, said that “Fast Hand Harris” — a name he’s received for his speedy food preparation — is also one of the most hardworking people she knows. Before he starts his

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Hillel cook Troy Harris prepares dinner for hundreds of Penn students, many of whom he has built strong friendships with over the years.

seven-hour shift at Hillel at 1 p.m., Troy cleans Penn houses, moves furniture and works other odd jobs to make ends meet. During the summers, he works for a local roofing company.

But for Troy, the biggest change that came with working at Penn wasn’t the hours or the type of work — it was the people. At Penn, he said, he has a community of hundreds of students and staffers who care about his well-being and encourage him to pursue his ambitions.

“I’ve never seen a whole community that sticks together,” Troy said. “Everyone’s willing to help everyone. Where I was raised everyone is to themselves.”

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community really hit home for him in 2005, when his house burned down in a fire and his family was forced to temporarily move into a Red Cross facility.

Word spread through Hillel that Troy was in need of help — and within days, he had the seeds of a fundraiser that lead him to buy new furniture and clothing.

“They did a fundraiser right here, and they got my family back on track,” he said. “Got us TV, a refrigerator. I had nothing.”

Troy has never forgotten their support. A couple of years later, when he came up with an idea to help his coworkers, he turned to students for help. ** It was the fall of 2012 and the Student Labor Action Project was holding a dining staff appreciation reception. Among the speakers was Troy Harris, who told students about the working conditions at Hillel. Despite over a decade of working at Penn, Hillel employees were paid just $11.50/hour by Bon Appétit, the contractor operating the dining hall. They were not offered affordable health care options, had no paid sick leave and were told to ‘go work at McDonalds if you’re unhappy’ if they ever asked for a raise.

Despite these conditions, few members of Penn’s dining community were willing to risk their jobs to fight for better working conditions — after all, as at-will

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employees, they could be fired without just cause. But Troy was fearless. Former SLAP organizer and College graduate Eliana Machefsky said that Troy often walked from his home in South Philadelphia to Penn’s campus to meet with the SLAP team and organize their approach to addressing these issues.

From their collaboration, the “Justice on the Menu” campaign was formed. The initiative fought for a union, higher wages and guaranteed paid sick leave for Hillel workers. Troy mobilized the Hillel community and SLAP activists, and organized a march down Locust Walk to protest. And he won. Hillel was unionized.

Eliana says she’ll never forget the day the renegotiated contract was read aloud and voted on by the Hillel staff.

“They read out this clause that was called the Dignity Clause, which said that it was a requirement of the management to treat all employees with dignity and respect,” she said. “And that was so special because what the staff said they wanted more than anything was to be proud of the place they worked.”

Other dining halls on Penn’s campus followed Troy’s lead and asked for renegotiated contracts.

But Troy’s mission to give back to his community was only getting started.

** Troy smiled at his friend, coworker and business partner, Kareem Wallace, as they rode up the elevator to their lawyer’s office in a skyscraper in Center City.

It was the fall of 2014, and Troy and Kareem were about to receive some of the best news of their life: Their business, Grassroots, was officially incorporated. Their dream of opening a food truck to employ teenagers from their community was becoming a reality.

They owed the success in part to their lawyer, Ted Siegel, the father of Gregory Siegel, 2015 College graduate, who Troy says believed in him when few others did.

“I said, ‘Look Mom, I made it!’” Troy said. “And me and Kareem laughed real hard. Ted said, ‘Shake hands, you are really a business.’”

Since the incorporation, the duo has raised more than $42,000 to help fund their dream of opening a food truck. But Troy says that he hopes Grassroots will be much more than a business — he wants the organization to be a vehicle for change.

Grassroots started as an idea: Troy and Kareem wanted teenagers to have an alternative to crime, so they proposed starting a business to employ at-risk youths.

They partnered with Consult for America, a student-run consulting group that works pro bono to help small local businesses in West Philadelphia.

Led by then-Wharton junior and CFA co-founder Samaira Sirajee, the CFA team conducted a market analysis and food tasting to determine how, where and what should be served.

The next step was to raise money, and this time, Eliana joined up with Troy once again to lead the charge. She helped Troy and Kareem launch a Crowdtilt page where they raised most of their funds. With the money in hand, the pair bought a food truck and the necessary insurance to start their business.

Troy is grateful for the support he has received. “I want to thank my partner Kareem Wallace for believing in my vision ... and all the donors who made this dream possible,” he said.

Grassroots still has to get its truck wrapped, necessary licenses and permits and a commons area for preparing its food before Troy and Kareem can go out on their own.

Troy’s family is hopeful that the truck will be a success. “I think he’s doing good. I’m hoping and praying that he can fulfill his dreams and make a better life for our family,” Troy’s wife Debbie said, her grandson laughing on her lap. “Troy’s a great guy. He’s caring, and lovable and a very good papa.”

Even if Grassroots does succeed, Harris says he’ll never forget how he got to where he is. “I went through all the bitterness and emotional strain,” he said, sighing.

“If I do make it it’d be more of a relief.”

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Breaking down course expenses across disciplines STEM and humanities face similar textbook costs SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

Penn calculates tuition for undergraduates across its four schools to be $66,800 — but student saving tricks show that textbook costs, at least, are not so cut and dry.

Total cost of a class is a blurred concept because of the varying sum of money that students end up spending on books and supplies. For example, the Student Registration and Financial Services Office estimates books to cost $1,250 per year, but this may not be the case for all students every year. Considering the differences in required textbooks for STEM courses as compared to humanities courses, it’s hard to put a universal price on each year of a Penn course load.

Though it may be surprising to some, Penn’s STEM classes

seem to be just as affordable as those in any other discipline.

Some engineering students believe that during their first few years at Penn, costs spent on textbooks for classes may have been cheaper for them than for humanities students. For engineering classes, specific textbooks — often hardcover and costing upwards of $200 — are required for problem sets.

The actual information presented in the readings can be gained from other sources such as cheaper textbooks, and classmates can share PDFs or pictures of the problem sets instead. The more generic textbooks used in earlier courses such as Zumdahl’s “Chemical Principles” or Giancoli’s “Physics” can be found online for cheaper costs.

For example, courses such as Computer and Information Science 110, 120, 240 and 160 use online publicly available PDFs as textbooks or cheap textbooks that can be bought

subject material becomes more esoteric.

When it comes to software use, the Computing and Educational Technology PC lab is helpful for access. The lab has various software needed for classes, and the virtual PC lab allows students to remotely access lab computers from home using personal computers.

For humanities courses, specific textbooks become more necessary because they are being read for the specific information they present. However, because of the wide variety of humanities courses, the cost of reading materials depends on the class. While for some classes most readings may be article PDFs posted on Canvas, for others such as higher-level history courses, students may have GUYRANDY JEAN-GILLES | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR to purchase six or seven books Although the estimated cost of tuition is universal across Penn’s schools, and $50-60 article coursepacks. the actual cost varies depending on the materials required by professors.

Similarly, many Whar ton classes like Finance 101 can online. However, students admit be harder to find online in the be expensive because they rethat their class materials may higher-level courses once the quire students to purchase

High schoolers take a PEEP at campus life Program brings underrepresented students to Penn DAVID AKST Contributing Reporter

On Sunday, Oct. 11, a group of 93 high school seniors arrived at Penn. They hailed from 23 different states but had at least one thing in common: all were here as part of the Penn Early Exploration Program.

PEEP is a three-day program created to bring high school students from low-income backgrounds or historically underrepresented groups to campus. Penn covers all expenses for participants, including travel expenses to and from Philadelphia.

PEEP participants stayed in

dorm rooms with current students.

They attended sessions hosted by each of Penn’s four schools and spoke with Penn students and faculty. They also met with student leaders of various organizations for underrepresented groups on campus.

Of course, there were social elements as well, including networking, games, an open mic night and a starlight bus tour of Philadelphia.

However, the program isn’t only designed to attract students to Penn — it is meant to build the skills that will help high school students apply to any school. Students learned about the college application process by attending a workshop at the Kelly Writers House and a session on how to prepare for college

interviews.

“It’s not only about Penn,” Associate Dean of Equity and Access and Wharton alumna Nicole Maloy said. “That’s the beauty of it.”

Still, Maloy said, almost all of the students who attend the program end up applying to Penn.

College freshman Tonna Obaze, who attended PEEP last year, said that after attending the three-day program, she knew Penn was the place for her.

“I was looking for a college that I could call home, and when I got to PEEP ... that’s what brought me to Penn.”

This year, the 93 attendees were selected from an applicant pool of about 300. Despite receiving 100 fewer applications than last year, Maloy said that this year’s

coursepacks and online access codes, which prevents students from buying older textbooks.

For College junior and architecture student Phoebe Low, the most expensive classes she took at Penn were not her humanities classes or physics class, which cost about the same. It was her studio classes for architecture.

For studio classes, students need to purchase their own materials for sculptures, which can total above $200 per class. For some classes, such as Architecture 200, students need to create 3-D printed models that can cost around $200.

But Low added that even for such expensive classes, final costs can be flexible.

“I guess just buying all your textbooks on Amazon usually makes them cheaper,” Low said. “And for architecture in particular, you can probably save money by designing things that don’t involve as expensive materials, which isn’t always possible.”

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application pool was stronger than before.

PEEP is a result of the priority that Penn President Amy Gutmann has placed on emphasizing access and inclusion, Maloy said. “The stereotype of the Ivy League university doesn’t let students from certain backgrounds easily imagine themselves at universities like this.”

Both Obaze and Maloy emphasized the fact that PEEP isn’t just meant to lure students to Penn. Instead, it’s meant to help students, many of whom haven’t had access to the opportunities that other applicants have, understand and feel comfortable with the college admissions process.

“Even for those who don’t decide to go to Penn, it’s a great exposure to the college system,” Obaze said.

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OPINION A leave is not a failure

TUESDAY october 20, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 88 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor LANE HIGGINS Sports Editor

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n campus, the prevailing mentality is “work hard, play hard.”

Work as hard as you can.

Maximize your fun on the weekends. Maybe get some sleep; maybe not. Then back to work again.

Penn is an Ivy League school widely known for its preprofessionalism and overly competitive atmosphere. Taking a break can often seem like a fantasy.

Freshmen arrive in the rush of New Student Orientation and the Activities Fair and immediately start joining clubs, teams and other organizations. From then on until Commencement, students experience a nonstop whirlwind of triumphs and challenges.

It’s often hard for most of us to take a break — or even admit that we need one — because we are worried we might fall behind our peers.

And that desire to “avoid showing weakness” is a huge issue because it can prevent students from doing what’s best for them out of fear of others looking down on them.

Editorial This mentality has created a stigma around taking leaves of absence.

Most students don’t realize that going on a leave of absence — a formal break from the University — can be extremely beneficial and, for some students, even an integral part of their learning experience at Penn. In fact, as former Daily Pennsylvanian columnist Katiera Sordjan noted in a column about her year on leave, taking a leave could be the best decision students makes in their college career.

Being on leave gives students an opportunity to reflect on what they’ve done at Penn and whether they are working toward goals that make them happy. It gives them time to handle any problems they might have, away from the often toxic, over-stressed culture that Penn students foster on campus. Going on leave also opens up opportunities for professional growth — giving them time to volunteer or work for an organization or issue that matters to them.

When students return from

leave, they can come back to campus with more clearly defined goals and can be more prepared for the work and stress that comes with being at Penn. Prior research has shown that students who take a leave of absence for mental health reasons perform better in school after they return

least once during their four years on campus.

At Penn, 5 percent of students in every graduating class take a leave of absence — about 125 students each year. Some students go on leave to work on startups or political campaigns. Others go on leave because of a

[A leave of absence] gives [students] time to handle any problems they might have, away from the often toxic, over-stressed culture that Penn students foster on campus.” from their time off.

At several colleges, taking time away from campus is practically required for all students. At Northeastern University, 92 percent of graduates take at least one semester off from traditional coursework to participate in a co-op — an educational, internship-like experience in the private sector. At Goucher College, all students are required to study abroad at

physical illness or other incapacitation. And others take time off for their own mental health.

No matter one’s reason for going on leave, there’s nothing wrong with taking time away from campus to decide what’s best for one’s future.

Thankfully, Penn doesn’t have different categories of leave, so a student facing both academic and mental health struggles doesn’t need

to decide which one is the driving reason for their need to leave campus. That student just needs to tell their advisor that it’s time for a break, and then they can take it. This is a simple way that Penn makes it easy to go on leave while simultaneously reducing the stigma associated with doing so.

That being said, the process of taking a leave of absence can be a confusing and difficult one, and there’s more that the administration can do to help students taking leaves of absence. Because each student on leave has specific requirements they must fulfill in order to return to campus, it’s important that advisors continue to check in with students over the course of their leave about the progress they have made toward their goals. Penn should also ask students who have previously gone on leave whether they would like to serve as resources for students considering taking a break from coursework, and then provide their contact information to students who are contemplat-

ing taking a leave.

While Penn can improve how it deals with leaves of absence, there’s even more that we as students can do to create an environment welcoming of taking a leave. It starts with a collective effort to dial down the intensity on campus. Students need to stop implicitly and explicitly creating an environment overly focused on work and narrow views of what defines success — as if those are the only two things that matter in life. We need to stop competing over how much work we have, and start taking breaks more often. We can be anxious about the future, but we can’t let that anxiety consume us and let it fester into a toxic culture of competitiveness.

We need to create a culture where taking a break is seen as a positive — because for many people it is. That starts with accepting this fact: A leave of absence is not a failure; it is a step toward success. And it’s time for us to create a community where this message is crystal-clear.

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here is a poem

by Philip Larkin called “Home is so Sad.” The first several lines read: “Home is so sad. It stays as it was left/ Shaped to the comfort of the last to go/ As if to win them back.” These lines themselves are so sad. They evoke the idea of something patiently waiting for you to return, not knowing if or when you’ll come back or why you left in the first place.

Many of us grow up hearing “Home is where the heart is.” But what does that mean?

How do we, as college students, reconcile that when we no longer have a single place to call home? Part of me has been formed here in Philadelphia, but a huge chunk of who I am is irrevocably, permanently rooted in California, with the people and in the home where I grew up.

The first time I went home on break last year, I teared up when I walked into my room.

It felt like eons since I had been there, and yet nothing could have been more familiar. All of my pictures on the wall. The way the light came through the windows. Even my shampoo in the bathroom.

Everything exactly as I had left it. I hadn’t been home for three months, but the physical spaces that I had occupied made it seem like I had never left. It felt so natural to slip back into place. Re-sync.

But my chair waiting for me at the dining table couldn’t tell me that my brother had grown two inches and developed a deeper voice. Or that just as I had been experiencing new things and making my own memories in college, my family had also been embarking on their own adventures and creating memories between the three of them. They had instituted new family traditions, like eating Saturday afternoons at a restaurant I’d never been to before, and had inside jokes

I couldn’t completely relate to. Similarly, I often found myself referencing people, places and acronyms they weren’t familiar with. As we talked over dinner, I tried to bridge the gap between see-

self into those previously occupied spaces, you discover that you don’t fit exactly the same way you used to. Your shape has changed, and so have the shapes around you.

The environment has shifted

Home is a shifting, fluid amalgamation of experiences, a puzzle that is never really completed.” ing their three faces on a pixelated screen for months, 3,000 miles away and with a three-hour time difference, and suddenly seeing them in person, in the same dimension, in the same time zone.

Coming home is like trying to put together a puzzle.

You know what the puzzle pieces of you and your family and friends precollege looked like, but when you come home and try to reinsert your-

in subtle ways, and you have to feel your way around the new territory. You have to find your place in the delicate spider web of relations.

And you have limited time to do so. Now there is an end date associated with home.

There is an inherent urgency in trying to maximize every second with family while still seeing friends and eating favorite foods and catching up on favorite shows and reading

for fun, all in the space of a month. But there are only so many hours, so many meals, so many conversations before you’re getting your suitcase out of your closet again.

Driving to the airport at the crack of dawn. Every second on the plane widening the gap that you had just closed.

From one world to another in a matter of hours.

What makes home so sad — so complex, so bittersweet — is that when you go home you feel this tug between the way things were and the way things are. You feel the difference between “home” and “visiting home.” And in a couple of years we’ll face this situation from another angle.

We’ll have to create new homes for ourselves, separate from college, separate from our childhood homes. Add new places and new faces to those that have shaped our identities.

So maybe it’s impossible to concretely define home.

EMILY HOEVEN Home is a shifting, fluid amalgamation of experiences, a puzzle that is never really completed. But it must be something close to the feeling that I get when I step off the plane and see the faces of my parents and brother through the crowds at the airport. Here at last.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College sophomore from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@ sas.upenn.edu. “Growing Pains” appears every other Tuesday.

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Student survey gauges interest in dance program for credit Penn only Ivy League school not offering dance CLARIS PARK Contributing Reporter

There is no shortage of Penn students out dancing with friends on the weekends, but most have never considered dancing for credit.

Last Wednesday, a group of Penn students sent out an anonymous survey designed to gauge interest in a potential dance program for academic credit at Penn.

Penn is the only Ivy League school that currently does not have a dance program, and conversations about whether dance should should be offered at Penn have been going on for years. In 2013, 2015 Wharton graduate Alex Wiggins created a petition to try to establish a dance program.

College junior Ramita Ravi said she has been dancing for a long time, and the fact that Penn did not have a dance program was disappointing to her until she found Arts House Dance

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Company, a student-run dance company for which she now serves as artistic director. Wharton sophomore Jennifer Li, who is also a member of Arts House, said she felt the same way.

“It was probably my biggest reservation applying to Penn,” Li said.

Other Ivies have either a dance department that offers a major or minor or a dance program offered in conjunction with the theater or performing arts department. In the past, Penn has offered classes in dance history but not performance.

However, students organizing the survey said they are not entirely sure what they expect a dance curriculum to look like.

“That’s what we really want to use this survey to kind of see,” College sophomore Nicole Frazzini said. “What we’ve learned from these past efforts is that we really want to use the resources that we have, which is why we are taking a more academic approach.”

This movement is not without faculty interest either.

Penn professor Marion Kant, a musicologist and dance historian, has taught dance history classes before as part of the English Department and previously designed a curriculum for a minor in dance studies that was never approved by the College of Arts and Sciences.

“As an academic subject, dance has no tradition at Penn,” she said.

She shared that in the past, there have been efforts to integrate dance into preexisting programs such as theater.

“Dance studies and theater studies aren’t identical,” she said.

“Just to squeeze dance in there is not something [that] has worked and will work.”

The students hope to use the survey, which so far has had 200 responses, along with Kant’s dance curriculum, to create a more solid foundation for a potential dance program.

“A lot of dance groups say ‘no experience necessary,’ but that’s not completely true,” Ravi said. “So the great thing about an academic program is that it’s accessible to everyone.”

Innovative Med School study links social media and health Posts reveal information about patients’ healthrelated behaviors SUN JAE LEE Contributing Reporter

Your Facebook profile might reveal more about you than your social life — according to a study done by the Perelman School of Medicine, it can also indicate a lot about your health.

The study is the first to examine the intersection of social media and health. Researchers built a database with participants’ social media data and medical data to observe any correlations between their online posts and their health. More than 1,000 participants agreed to share their data. They looked at about 1.4 million posts and tweets, which dated as far back as 2009 and were comprised of almost 12 million words in total.

“It was interesting just how much people talked about medical matters on Facebook and on Twitter. It wasn’t just about minor complaints of a headache,

but we could link the language talking about their health back to actual entries in their medical record at Penn,” said Patrick Crutchley, a research programmer in both the Psychology Department and the Medical School.

The study found that posts revealed various details about participants, including adherence to prescribed medications, new medical conditions and health behaviors like exercise and diets. These results suggested that a language database could possibly link social media content to health outcomes.

“As our society becomes more connected via phones, online networks, et cetera, there are opportunities to harness these connections to better understand and improve health and the practice of medicine,” said lead researcher and Director of the Penn Social Media and Health Innovation Lab Raina Merchant. “My team is interested in making those linkages and studying ways to bring medicine into the digital age.”

Because this was the first study to delve into this type of connection, the researchers said they ran into obstacles.

“I think anytime you’re doing any kind of novel research, it’s a little bit more difficult because you can’t look at other examples,” researcher on the study Kevin Padrez said. “I think we had to forge our own path in many ways, which was exciting, but presented a lot of obstacles along the way.”

Crutchley said the Medical School will conduct further research to expand upon the study’s findings. The researchers hope to establish more connections between people’s online personas and their health and investigate ways to apply their findings.

“A long-term goal for the study is to explore how to best make digital footprint data more legible for patients so they can understand how the information they share on social media could be used to help them better understand their health and health behaviors,” Merchant said.

High schoolers pursuing early decision shed light on preference for Penn Penn has seen steady rise in early decision apps

VIBHA KANNAN Staff Reporter

For most high school seniors, the month of March marks an anxious finale to their college application process. But James Madison High School senior Katharine Filipovic hopes to fast-track the waiting game.

With less than two weeks until Penn’s early decision deadline, Filipovic is putting the final touches on her dream school application. She is among the increasing number of high school seniors taking advantage of early admissions programs.

Since Penn instituted its own Early Decision Program four decades ago, it has seen a consistent rise in early applicants. Last year marked an all-time high, with 5,390 students applying to Penn early decision.

Filipovic knew that Penn was the place for her the moment she stepped on Locust Walk. “I have visited other schools like UMichigan and NYU, but it’s just not the same,” she said.

For some early decision applicants, Penn became their top choice after they participated in summer programs on campus.

Great Neck South High School senior Matthew Lee always knew he wanted to go to business school.

But doing the four-week Leadership

in the Business World summer program at the Wharton School made Penn his top choice.

“I really got a feel for the atmosphere on campus, and meeting different professors and students made me want to apply to Wharton early,” Lee said.

Lee is among a growing number of high schoolers taking advantage of pre-college summer camps on Penn’s campus. These programs have exploded in recent years, letting students explore a subject and try out university life.

Now, Lee knows more about Penn’s campus than the average entering freshman. He said that this past summer, he lived in the Quadrangle, took classes in Huntsman

Hall and ate at 1920 Commons and Houston Market.

William Penn Charter School senior Andy Nguyen and Pascack Valley High School senior Zoe Ziegler also decided to apply early decision because of Penn summer programs. Nguyen took a Coursera course on campus the summer after his sophomore year of high school, while Ziegler participated in the Management and Technology Summer Institute last summer.

But not all applicants get the chance to visit Penn’s campus. 15 percent of students accepted to Penn last year were international, and many of them may only get to see Locust Walk on Google images before they apply.

Havergal College senior Nicole Shum, a prospective student from Canada, has not visited Penn, but she decided to apply early decision to Wharton after talking to alumni of her Toronto high school.

“I’ve tried my best to talk to different people in different concentrations, and I’m following the Humans of UPenn Facebook page,” Shum said.

But for Penn applicants, applying early decision isn’t just a chance to speed up the college application process. Some also see it as a way to increase their chances of acceptance. For the Class of 2019, the early decision acceptance rate was 23.9 percent, while the regular decision acceptance rate was 7.9 percent.

Last admissions cycle, 54.4 percent of the Class of 2019 was filled during the early decision round.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda has said that ultimately, admittance depends on the quality of the candidate rather than whether one applies early decision.

“If early decision could look like what we want the class to look like in regular decision, I’ll admit the whole class early decision,” Furda told The Daily Pennsylvanian in February.

But Filipovic sees this difference as significant. “Statistically, it seems to be easier to get in early decision,” she said. “And I’m really trying to do everything I can to get into Penn because it’s my dream school.”

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Tuesday, October 20th, at 6 p.m., Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Penn Professor, “We Are Who We Say We Are” A nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality. Focus is on the complexity and malleability of racial meanings within the US over generations. This rich global history, beginning in Europe—with episodes in Haiti, Cuba, Louisiana, and California—emphasizes the diversity of the Atlantic World experience.

Thursday, October 22nd, at 6 p.m. Sharon M. Ravitch, Penn Professor and Nicole Mittenfelner Carl, Penn doctoral candidate, “Qualitative Research” “Qualitative Research” presents the field in a unique and meaningful way, and helps readers understand what authors Penn Professor Sharon M. Ravitch and Penn doctoral candidate Nicole Mittenfelner Carl call “criticality” in qualitative research by communicating its foundations and processes with clarity and simplicity while still capturing complexity.

Saturday, October 24th, at 2 p.m. Cindy Lipton, “Ruth and Leonard” “Ruth and Leonard” by Cindy Lipton, is a small unassuming book that carries within it a valuable message. It is told from the point of view of Leonard, a “wonder to all - a talking dog.”

He takes us through his life. We find out how he feels about the seasons, his family, and eventually his friend Ruth.

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Jewish Progressive Alliance provides liberal atmosphere Club applies traditional Jewish values to discussion on social justice EUNICE LIM Staff Reporter

This semester, the independent and student-run Jewish Progressive Alliance joins other Jewish organizations on campus.

Founded by College junior Marissa Priceman, College sophomore Noah Weiner and College junior Justin Kirschner, the group hopes to create a concrete space for liberal-minded Jewish and non-Jewish students.

“If you look historically, Jewish advocates were at the forefront of various human rights movements, reflecting the traditional Jewish values that promote ‘tikkun olam’ — repairing the world,” Priceman said. “On this campus, though, we haven’t really seen these Jewish values being put into place for major issues going on, so we founded this group. We’re basically taking traditional values and applying them to social justice

and the rights of other people.”

While the group is still in the process of applying for official Student Advisory Council recognition, it has already held its first general body meeting and has events lined up for the semester.

Priceman noted that next month, the club will feature three “wellknown speakers” discussing institutionalized racism from the Civil Rights Movement up to the present.

“Our hope is that this event will illuminate the continued existence of racism within our legal system,” she said.

Priceman added that at some point in the future, there will be other speaker events on the IsraelPalestine conflict and labor issues, depending on how much membership builds up this semester.

DP FILE PHOTO The alliance has also been This semester, the independent and student-run Jewish Progressive working with Hillel, receiving Alliance will be joining other Jewish organizations on campus. advice on logistical issues and recruiting. Hillel’s executive life is that when something is expressions which should be visdirector Rabbi Mike Uram ex- missing from the spectrum of ible, we work to try to create it,” pressed enthusiasm for the new Jewish student group.

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Uram said. “So when a student group comes forward saying ‘we want more of this,’ we think that’s a great opportunity. I think that Hillel is a safe space for liberal and progressive students, but there was probably not enough programming going on, so this is a welcome addition to help build that.”

Moving forward, Priceman says there may be some backlash to the group. “I do think when you’re throwing in LGBT and reproductive rights and other touchy topics, people will react,” she said. “It won’t stop us from doing anything though, and I don’t think the negative reaction will come from students.”

Priceman also asserted the point that the group is not limited to Jewish membership. “While there is a Jewish connection because we’re taking Jewish values and Jewish social justice aspects, our group is open to everyone,” she said.

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Gutmann’s salary was also determined through evaluation of her performance — Cohen described the process as “an extensive annual process to set performance goals and then a detailed review of the President’s performance judged against those goals.”

Rather than promising administrators guaranteed salaries, the Board of Trustees correlates pay with performance in order to incentivize optimum achievement.

Cohen added that the large increase in Gutmann’s salary this year can be attributed to her success in the Making History campaign, in which Penn raised $4.3 billion, exceeding its donation goal of $3.5 billion.

“We have people here who are smart and competitive; people who want to succeed and are willing to be judged by the outcome of their work,” Cohen said. “That is a formula that breeds success.”

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has a lot of pride and that wants to make sure that their kids and their families have a better life than they did,” Garcia said of his hometown.

Garcia’s interest in politics began in high school, where he participated in the American Legion Boys State, a nationally-regarded program that introduces students to politics through activities such as legislative sessions, court proceedings, law enforcement presentations and trips to state government agencies.

After coming to Penn, Garcia joined the Fox Leadership Program’s Penn Leads the Vote project and the Latin@ Coalition, whose executive board he now chairs. In fall 2013, he spent a semester as a U.S. Department of Education intern

through the Penn in Washington program. This past summer, he returned to D.C. as a White House intern. These experiences helped him figure out how he could turn his interest in politics into a career.

“I always knew I was going to go into politics at some point, but not necessarily how I wanted to get into it,” he said.

Education is at the heart of Garcia’s campaign. He believes that education is the key to getting his district’s youth — many of whom come from low-income backgrounds — on the path to opportunity, success and economic productivity. Garcia personally feels an urgent need for reform since his younger sisters are still in Florida public schools.

“I want to make sure that students have the support and the networks to get out of high school, to go to college, do well and then come back and give to

the community,” he said.

G a r c i a’s c a m p a ig n i s driven by a strong belief in giving back, especially to hardworking, historically underrepresented constituencies like his own. He credits Penn with instilling in him a sense of civic duty and an obligation to remain involved in the community.

“It’s important that when I come back, people can see the representative and talk to them,” he said, adding that even if he had not decided to run for office, he still would have gone back home after graduation.

Although less than a week has passed since Ga rcia launched his campaign, supporters have rallied to his cause. Garcia estimates that 15 to 20 people at Penn alone have already helped him out. Back in Florida, his campaign has organized over thirty volunteers who are based at local schools,

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Creating legitimate, fullyfunctioning electric vehicles right here on campus, the Penn Electric Racing team is an opportunity to be involved in an elaborate engineering project that connects design, creativity and cutting-edge technology.

The club’s mission revolves around building a real-life electric race car that the team takes to competition. In fact, this past year, Penn Electric Racing won the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Formula SAE competition in an international field of over 100 teams.

“I see Electric as a small company,” said Engineering senior Manfred Reiche, who heads the team. “It’s like a start-up company.

You can get out of the experience whatever you want to get out of it.”

Penn Electric Racing offers different opportunities for team members in the form of divisions.

“We have a business division of about 15, including sponsorship, publicity and securing parts,” Reiche said. “We have about 15 on electrical, so the electrical engineers who oversee everything, and then the bulk majority are on mechanical

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Penn Electric Racing at Lincoln, Neb., where they won the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Formula SAE competition.

which is broken down by parts and other smaller aspects of the car.”

The team has seen a regeneration of sorts in recent years.

“A lot of the club members graduated in 2011, so the team slowed down for a few years. Then in 2013 the competition we attend opened an electric car racing division, and a bunch of us got together and said we really want to do this. So essentially based off a couple old models that we had, we completely redesigned

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the cars, we bought the latest technology, and we started building race cars,” Reiche said.

He added that two years ago the team built their first race motor, Rev0, with 10 people. The following year 25 people built Rev1, and the team took Rev1 to the Formula SAE competition in Nebraska.

They won seven of the eight events at the competition, each of which tested different aspects of the car such as overall design, cornering,

along with another twenty located throughout the district, according to his estimates.

Meanwhile, his campaign Facebook page already has 316 likes as of Sunday night, while a Twitter page and website went up shortly after he announced his candidacy.

“I keep saying that this is something we’re in together, that I can’t do this alone,” he said of his volunteers.

Despite this quick mobilization, however, the upcoming campaign will not be easy. Garcia’s district is one of the most competitive in Florida. The last election cycle, the district voted 51.5 percent Republican and 48.5 percent Democratic, according to Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan site that collects statistics on American elections.

This cycle, Garcia is running against another Democrat and three Republicans.

endurance and time-trials.

In multiple events, the team bested not only electrical vehicles but gas-powered vehicles as well.

Reiche says that winning the competition has helped put Penn Electric Racing on the roadmap, especially at Penn, as evidenced by the influx of applicants the club received.

Reiche also spoke about the club’s plans for the future. “We are completely redesigning our car,” he said.

“Our main goal is to get it under 400 pounds ... we’d be the first school in North America to build a car that light. We could take the same car to competition and probably do very well, but these guys want to keep pushing, so we’re redesigning.”

Penn Electric Racing also aims to prove that electric vehicles are “better than gas combustion vehicles,” as Reiche puts it. Gaining increased exposure in the community and generally being able to reach more people and educate them about electric cars is another one of Penn Electric Racing’s goals.

“My goal is to make sure this keeps running for the next 10 years,” Reiche said. “Hopefully we can keep growing a team that’s excited to learn.”

Campaign finance will pose another obstacle, as many in Ga rcia’s hometown cannot easily afford political contributions.

“It’s hard to go out and ask them, ‘Can you give me $10’ when that $10 is going to feed their kids for the next week,” he said.

Nevertheless, his supporters have great faith in him. Garcia himself was surprised by the large number of people, both at Penn and in Florida, who have already reached out to him expressing their support.

“I’ve gotten tons of Facebook messages saying ‘how can I help you?’” he said.

His Penn acquaintances, in particular, have been quick to back him, with many citing his campus leadership experience and ability to carefully listen to other people as strong qualities.

“He’s got his opinion — strong opinions — but he also

takes the time to listen and hear other people out,” 2015 Penn graduate Joshua Chilcote said.

Chilcote first met Garcia during a trip to Israel organized by the Anti-Defamation League. During this trip, Garcia navigated multiple heated student discussions about a number of controversial issues, including Israeli fortifications and settlements in the West Bank.

“He was able to listen to everyone else’s opinions, kind of synthesizing things, while also explaining his own,” Chilcote said.

Chilcote believes that governments need more people like Garcia in office, who listen to other perspectives and demonstrate as strong a commitment to service as Garcia has.

After all, the end goal, as Garcia notes, is not about helping himself.

“I’m not going for money,” he said. “I’m going to help people.”

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New spring course to run without professors Course on religion, mindfulness to be taught by guests ERIC LEI Contributing Writer

Imagine taking a class without any professor.

That’s what “From Miracles to Mindfulness,” which will run during the spring semester, promises to offer. The course will be run by a different speaker every week.

“It is an unusual course because it’s anchored around a series of guest presentations by different kinds of scholars, some scientists, some scholars of religion, psychologists trying to share new cutting edge research on what we understand about religious experience,” said Steven Weitzman, the course

coordinator and Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures.

“Each speaker is sharing a recent approach to what we can understand about religious experience.”

Notable speakers will include Religious Studies professor Justin McDaniel, who is giving his presentation on “The Reality of the Unseen.”

“I am giving a lecture on ghosts, spirit beliefs and worship in southeast Asia and Buddhism in general. I will be talking about miracles and contact with the afterlife, mostly Theravada Buddhism in southeast Asia, but also in Buddhism more broadly,” McDaniel said.

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Spirituality, ghosts and religion are only some of what the new course “From Miracles to Mindfulness” promises to offer this spring.

Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, is hosting a lecture on

“The Principles of Neurotheology.”

“Some of the things I will talk about are principles related to scientific investigation of these religious experiences and phenomena, how we interpret the data we obtain from these studies and how we define terms like spirituality, religion, God,” Newberg said. “How do we use this information to make sense about reality and how do we use this information on a scientific and philosophical level to really understand the world around us and how our brain interprets that world around us?”

There is a discussion component of the course that supplements the topics mentioned by the guest speakers. The purpose is to apply methods discussed in class to learn about religious experiences other students may have had.

“We want students to understand that these religious experiences are mysterious and other-worldly, but can be thought about, Weitzman said. “The secondary goal is to get people in the sciences to get into conversation with people in the humanities.”

“From Miracles to Mindfulness” will only be offered in the impending spring semester. Students who want to come hear the lectures without taking the course are allowed to do so.

“If you want to get credit and take the class, you have to enroll in the class. But if you just want to show up for a single lecture, you can do so. You don’t have to show up for every lecture,” Weitzman said.

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Red and Blue will host fan festival before Friday’s game FOOTBALL | Penn to give

away food, refreshments RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

If Penn football hosts a game under the lights and nobody is there to see it, does it really happen?

With the Quakers’ contest this weekend slated as a Friday primetime affair at Franklin Field, Penn Athletics is working to ensure that students can have an experience similar to what might be found at a school more passionate about football.

Prior to the Red and Blue’s first nationally televised home night game in program history, Penn will host a threehour pregame fan festival on

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Moravian Street. Free for all participants, the event will include music, giveaways and food and refreshments from nearby restaurants.

“This is an awesome opportunity for our fans to have a full gameday experience,” coach Ray Priore said. “It will make a great pregame atmosphere for all our alumni, fans and students and will strengthen our homefield advantage when all that energy and enthusiasm pours into Franklin Field at gametime.”

Beginning at 4 p.m., the festival will feature food from New Deck Tavern, Baby Blues and Doc Magrogan’s, all three of which border Moravian Street. Other refreshments from Coca Cola and Little Debbie’s will be on-hand, as

will live music from WXPN. While the event is restricted to those over 21, underage students can attend a barbecue in the Palestra before the Red and Blue’s matchup with Yale kicks off at 7 p.m.

Beyond this weekend’s game, the Quakers are also planning to host a pregame festival prior to the team’s Homecoming contest against Princeton on Nov. 7. Penn is coming off its second win of the season after defeating Columbia, 42-7, yet hasn’t captured a victory at Franklin Field in over a year.

“I really want to thank the Penn community and all of the sponsors who have made this possible. I can’t wait to see everyone at Franklin Field,” Priore said.

Two Penn rookies notch second Ivy weekly award Stephens, Pearson awarded for playmaking TOM NOWLAN Associate Sports Editor

What a time to be a rookie.

Two Penn freshmen — football’s Christian Pearson and women’s soccer’s Sasha Stephens — were named the Ivy League’s Rookie of the Week in their respective sports on Monday. For both players, it was their second such accolade of the season.

Stephens was actually the coRookie of the Week, splitting the nod with Princeton’s Mimi

Esom. The California native dominated last Tuesday’s 5-0 win over American, tallying two goals and an assist. Stephens now has four goals and 10 points on the season, both team highs.

Pearson also impressed during a blowout victory over Columbia, nabbing 10 catches for 126 yards. 25 of those came on a touchdown catch in the second quarter that put the Quakers up 14-7, a lead they would never relinquish.

“I’m just trying to catch the ball and make big plays, that’s all I’m trying to do,” the softspoken Pearson said following the 42-7 victory.

“Christian’s had a great start

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to his young career,” coach Ray Priore added. “That smile never comes off his face.”

Both Pearson and Stevens previously achieved the distinction during the first week of the season. The former earned the honor when he snagged a 45-yard TD in a loss to Lehigh, while Stevens scored twice in Penn’s season opener versus Seton Hall.

Both players will be back in action this week versus Yale, as Pearson and the gridiron gang will take the field on Friday night while soccer will look for their first conference win of the season at 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.

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final 4 games.

Non-conference performances aside, Penn is still looking to decisively prove that this season has the program trending upward, and improving their Ivy League record is arguably the easiest way to do that. We measure success at Penn

by Ivy Championships — that’s always the metric that coaches and administrators refer to — not wins over non-conference foes.

There are five games left on the docket for the Red and Blue, all within the Ivy League. Penn’s performance in those games is really going to write the narrative of this season.

If we truly believe that Penn is better than last year, Cornell shouldn’t hold much of a challenge,

and Brown and Princeton are certainly tough matchups but ones that are within reach. Harvard is still the dominant force that topped the Ivy League last year, and the Crimson’s game with Dartmouth will likely determine the league.

We’ve talked in depth about the coaching change and its effect, particularly in terms of the team’s attitude, but it’s also important to consider the personnel. Penn came into this year with a number of young players who would have to step into larger roles.

The team graduated a number of its top pass catchers — Conner Scott and Spencer Kulcsar, to name a few — and sophomore Justin Watson stepped into the leading role. Freshman receiver Christian Pearson showed his value against Columbia, leading the team with 10 receptions and his first 100-yard

receiving game.

On defense, we’ve seen a number of underclassman step up into key roles from freshman Sam Philippi, who has an interception and a fumble recovery, to sophomore Colton Moskal, who is second on the team in tackles.

With young players, we always see teams continue to develop as the year goes on. Regardless of whether they fully develop this year or next, it’s clear that the Quakers have an abundance of young talent.

But as every coach will say, it’s important to take things one week at a time. This week, Penn gets to measure itself against the Elis.

HOLDEN McGINNIS is an Engineering junior from Gladwyne, Pa., and is a sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at mcginnis@thedp.com.

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Quakers sweep field at Princeton XC | Men’s, women’s

that really was the key. It was the team aspect.�

For the women’s side, coming off a strong performance at Notre Dame earlier in the season, its top runners, as usual, paced the team.

Juniors Ashley Montgomery and twin sisters Cleo and Clarissa Whiting were all featured in the top 10, with Montgomery clocking a particularly impressive 21:02.6 on the 6K course.

In the end, however, the Red and Blue needed the help of some unsung heroes to consolidate their triumph. “[The team] had another very good race. Regardless of the

meet, it’s always fun to come out with a win,� commented Dolan. “Not only did Ashley and the twins have great races — Isabelle Griffith, who’s probably been the athlete of the week in two consecutive meets, has been a great fourth runner.�

The men’s side, after an average showing at the Notre Dame Invitational, improved dramatically at Princeton’s 8K course.

Junior Nick Tuck finished fifth, while senior captain Thomas Awad, showing no signs of rust in only his second meet of the year, placed seventh. Brendan Shearn, Patrick Hally and Clark Shurtleff

all crossed the line shortly thereafter, guaranteeing a Red and Blue victory.

The teams’ performances also confirmed that this season will go down as one of the most productive in recent memory. With its win on Saturday, Penn men’s cross country shot up to No. 2 in the Mid-Atlantic Region, trailing only Georgetown. The distinction represents the highest ranking the Quakers have ever achieved and, with the women earning an impressive No. 5 spot of their own, Penn cross country will enter next week’s Ivy Heptagonal Championships brimming with confidence. “Like anything in life, it’s nice to have momentum,� Dolan said. “Having increased our Mid-Atlantic Region ranking is definitely good for [the team’s] confidence going into Heps next week, and then in four weeks we’ll run at the Mid-Atlantic Championships. And that’s the step before Nationals.“ Of course, it’s still a while out, but success at Nationals is the dream that the Quakers are ultimately chasing.

So far, the Red and Blue have shown no signs of tired legs, and they will try to keep this dream of a season alive in the weeks to come.

summer baseball league, Wagner understands the dynamic of coaching members of the same family at the same time. “The oldest one is always the role model and sets the tone,�

Wagner said. “The younger ones sometimes end up even being better in the end. It can happen.�

He added it makes travel arrangements simpler for families wishing to see their sons play. “It’s nice to not have one kid playing in another part of the country. This way, they can go to the games and see both of them,�

Wagner said. “I’ve also over the years had brothers play here and also play at either Princeton or Cornell, and they played against each other, and the parents would have to switch sides at halftime.�

Because each set of brothers features one sibling on offense with the other defense, they inevitably come across each other during practice. When that happens, Wagner summed up the range of outcomes concisely. “The oldest one always wins,� he said.

The younger brothers weren’t so quick to agree on with those exact words. “Since he’s on defensive line and I’m on offensive line, we’ve gone against each other a few times, but there are a lot more defensive linemen than there are offensive linemen,� William said, adding he treats his brother on the practice field as we would any other teammate. “He usually beats me, but he helps me

afterwards. “I expected it to have a lot more mockery than it does. He’s surprisingly helpful.�

On the defensive side of the ball, Brendan enjoys the occasional matchup with his tight end brother. “Sometimes when we’re doing pass plays, I’ll cover him. It’s pretty fun, it gets me competitive.

I like to say stuff to him after the play,� Brendan noted.

When asked if he trashtalked any other teammates, the younger Lilley said such talk was reserved for his older brother. “You battle a little more than going against someone else,�

Brendan said. “Just because of the brotherly rivalry, it adds a little bit of extra flair to it.�

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Channeling the lyrics of rock legend Tom Petty, Penn cross country is certainly “running down a dream� this season. And, with every passing week, they seem to be getting closer and closer to transforming that fantasy into reality.

Saturday saw the Quakers travel to Princeton’s campus, where Penn’s Ancient Eight rival hosted its annual invitational.

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“When he would have been the same age to come play on the same team as me, he moved to go to private school, so we never really got that opportunity.�

Wagner, now in his 46th season coaching at Penn, has seen plenty of pairs of brothers playing at the same time. In the case of the Marin family, he coached two generations of players — father Michael Marin, who graduated in 1977, and sons Jordan and Jason, College graduates in 2010 and 2013, respectively.

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In games, Penn literally hits the ground running SPRINT FB | Quakers

dominate first quarter JONATHAN POLLACK Contributing Reporter

So that’s what the sprint in sprint football stands for.

The Penn sprint football team has been dominant in the first quarter of its games so far this year, rushing out to early leads en route to a 4-1 record.

Establishing solid play early on in games is always a goal for teams, regardless of the sport.

The Red and Blue have done just that. In their five games so far in 2015, the Quakers have come out of every first quarter with a lead — the exception being their lone loss to Navy on Oct. 2.

The Quakers’ dominance in the first quarter can be expressed in one simple number: 37. This represents their positive first-quarter point differential. Penn has outscored its opponents 49-12 in the

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data from GPS tracking vests worn during practice. These vests monitor heart rate and how far a player travels during practice, among other things, to provide the coaching staff with a more complete picture of player effort on the court.

Perhaps the most sweeping new technology in Penn Athletics is the SpartaTrac system. The technology was first introduced in the University’s varsity weight room back in Jan. 2015 at the suggestion of Strength and Conditioning Manager Jim Steel. The training system is designed to provide athletes with custom workouts based on their perceived strengths and weaknesses, no longer subjecting entire rosters to one-size-fits-all weight lifting routines at Weiss Pavilion.

“It’s something we’re setting the standard on,” Laudano said. “No one else in the Ivy League has this tool.

Only a select few Division I colleges in the nation have it and only a select few pro teams.”

Athletes first must perform a series of baseline tests on three signature movements: load, explode and drive. Based on the data collected, the SpartaTrac system then sorts athletes into categories based on which signature movements are their weakest.

According to Laudano, SpartaTrac enables a degree of workout customization never before possible.

“With these movements we can determine the deficiencies either in muscular weaknesses and movement patterns, and we are able to individualize each student athlete’s program based off of the broad team program,” he said.

“The end goal is to ensure that we’re addressing the missing link to not predispose student athletes to injuries.”

On top of the new workout regimens in the weight room, student-athletes can download the accompanying SpartaTrac app on their smart phones to monitor other factors related to sports performance, such as caloric intake and sleep. In the event of an injury, team trainers and physicians can access the data to prescribe a more informed course of recovery for student-athletes.

Additionally, because the SpartaTrac software is customizable, data from the BodPod and Donahue’s GPS tracking program can be incorporated into each player’s training regimen as designed by the SpartaTrac system. This influx of data and numbers into sports practice is overwhelming at first glance. However, in life as in sports, knowledge is power. Obtaining better metrics on athlete performance both on and off the field will only help push Penn Athletics towards its goal of perennial championship contention in all 32 of its varsity sports.

“I really think we’re positioned with a lot of relationships and resources that our peers don’t have,” Calhoun said. “I really think the sum total of what we can do surrounding, not just the training individual athletes to peak performance but the injury prevention [as well] is a combination now of our use of technology, our relationship with having a world-class medical school and health system not only right across the street but also the Sports Med Clinic in our building [Weightman Hall].”

The SpartaTrac system can’t be optimized unless both athletes and

first 15 minutes of its games, as opposed to a 95-67 margin in the other three quarters combined.

The Red and Blue’s strong first quarter play certainly has had a positive effect on the team.

“For me, there’s nothing better as an offense than having confidence,” junior quarterback Mike McCurdy said. “When you come out, and you’re able to move the ball on your first drive, maybe score on your first drive, it gives you a lot of confidence in everything that you’re doing.”

Coach Bill Wagner agreed.

“It gets everyone excited on the sidelines, it gets everyone into the game,” he said. “It’s important.”

This early success is not just mere happenstance. On the contrary, the Quakers plan to score early and often and prepare so that they can strike quickly after the initial kickoff.

“I think we’ve done a really good job this year preparing in film, feeling pretty confident about what the defenses will show

coaches go all in — athletes must input their results regularly, and coaches must heed trends in the metrics of signature movements.

Given that most of the new sports performance technology tracks long term trends, it is too soon to give a definitive answer on whether the programming will give Penn Athletics a clear advantage when it comes to wins, injury prevention and performance. And although the University’s teams have only been implementing the SpartaTrac system into their training since the spring, the preliminary results are promising.

Since first experimenting with SpartaTrac during spring practices, football coach Ray Priore has noticed a marked difference in the fitness levels of his players.

“I think our kids came back in a more well-balanced shape,” he

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Junior quarterback Mike McCurdy has been an instrumental part of the team’s positive 37 first quarter point differential in 2015.

us, especially on our opening drives,” McCurdy said.

Penn’s success in the first quarter hasn’t been due to just a few key plays. On both sides of the ball, the Quakers’ dominant first quarter performance has translated into results throughout the season.

said of his team’s return to campus in August. “For the first time in a long time we had less lower body muscle pulls — hamstrings and quads and hip flexors and stuff like that — which are sometimes based upon overuse and/or over- or undertraining.”

Priore’s observation tracks with what Laudano calls a preliminary snapshot of SpartaTrac data: For the handful of pilot teams that used the technology in the spring, injury risk is down by 40 percent.

What all of these new bells and whistles boil down to is helping coaches and trainers gather better metrics on their athletes — metrics that can only improve the quality of practice. And if practice makes perfect, better practices can only bring Penn Athletics one step closer to perfection, be it in box scores or season records.

For the offense, the success has been about efficiency, as the unit

has turned in many drives, both long and short, that led to points.

Penn’s offense has scored a touchdown on six out of 15 drives in the opening quarter, good for a third of the offense’s total touchdowns this year.

“We have some weapons where we can strike quick, and that always helps,” Wagner said.

“We’ve got a quarterback that can throw the ball and our young freshman at tailback has done really well.”

For the defense, their strong play has come from their ability to inhibit long drives and cause turnovers. In the first quarter of their five games this year, the Quakers have forced one fumble and three interceptions — one of which was returned for a touchdown — all while only allowing four drives of

more than 30 yards.

In fact, half of the points scored by opponents in the first quarter came from an interception returned for a touchdown in the game against Navy, meaning that Penn’s defensive unit has given up only six first quarter points all year.

“The defense has been very good, they’ve been giving a 1-2-3 boom and turning the ball over,” Wagner said.

The Quakers’ first quarter dominance has been instrumental in their 2015 campaign — and may potentially play a big role in this week’s showdown with Army West Point. If Penn can “sprint” to another early lead, they will find themselves in good position to take down the top-ranked team in the nation.

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EXPECTATIONS TRACKING ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE Part 1 of 4 New technologies put Penn in league of its own LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

In addition to the branding overhaul of the University, Grace Calhoun is quietly upgrading — no, revolutionizing — what it means to practice for Penn Athletics. No, we’re not talking an Allen Iverson-esque rant.

We’re talking bringing Penn Athletics to the cutting edge of sports performance on the collegiate and national levels.

“I’d like sports performance to be something that the Penn programs are really known for,” Calhoun said. Under her tenure as athletic director, she has helped the University acquire three new cutting edge technologies in the realm of

sports performance: a BodPod managed by the University’s first full-time sports nutritionist, SpartaTrac to be used primarily with strength training and GPS tracking vests for the men’s basketball team. What makes these technological upgrades so revolutionary? Penn is the only school in the Ivy League with this technology, truly putting Dear Old Penn in a league of its own.

Of all the new technology being utilized by Penn Athletics, the BodPod by far has the most clever and ominous name. Run by Kayli Hrdlicka, Penn’s first full-time sports nutritionist, the BodPod is a highly advanced machine that measures variables of healthy body composition.

The BodPod is not designed to be a dieting device — with the joint support of Hrdlicka, it is another tool to help student-athletes to hit their target fitness and performance levels.

Calhoun was a huge supporter of Penn’s acquisition of a BodPod, making the University the only Ivy League school with such advanced sports nutrition technology.

As Penn’s Associate Athletic Director for Sports Performance and Head Athletic Trainer Eric Laudano explains, “The new arms race in athletics is nutrition.

“Not only from a ‘don’t eat this, don’t eat that’ standpoint,” he said. “[The BodPod] allows the athletes to really see where they should be and where they are.”

Beyond just nutrition, Calhoun has supported specific teams’ attempts to maximize their training. For example, starting with the 2015-16 season, men’s basketball coach Steve Donahue and his team will base their training on SEE PERFORMANCE PAGE 15

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Quakers’ team of brotherly love For Penn football, SPRINT FB | Two rookies

join siblings at Penn JACOB ADLER Associate Sports Editor

It is commonplace for athletes to use the metaphor of brotherhood or sisterhood when describing the nature of their relationship with teammates. After all, many athletes live with teammates, spend time practicing and eating together and need to get along well with one another.

Yet in some instances, teammates can literally be siblings, as is the case with various members of Penn sprint football. This year, two freshmen have joined their older brothers to play on the same team.

Freshman linebacker Brendan Lilley and his brother — sophomore tight end Jonathan Lilley — were close growing up in Wrentham, Mass. The younger Lilley acknowledged that his brother’s presence at the University was highly influential in his own decision to come to Penn.

“Throughout our lives, we’ve always been really close to each other,” Brendan said. “We’re a year apart, so we’ve always been

there for each other, been really good friends, helped each other out.

“I didn’t really consider Penn before he started considering it.

[But] after he decided to come here, I decided to consider it a little bit, and I just really loved it. And I saw the opportunity to come play football, too.”

Junior defensive lineman Arthur D’Angelo used a different line of reasoning in informing his brother William — a rookie offensive lineman — why he should choose Penn.

The elder D’Angelo had heard about sprint football from his godfather telling him about his playing for Princeton. He reached out to coach Bill Wagner in his junior year of high school, and a few years later he was trying to convince his brother to take the same path.

“Especially as a lineman, pickup football is never the same because you’re never going to wear the pads again after it’s over,” Arthur said. “You can go out and throw the football around, but we don’t have good hands, we’re not that fast and, not being big, we thought that experience was really going to stop at the end of high school.

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Arthur and William D’Angelo — both linemen for Penn sprint football — are playing together on a team for the first time.

“I kind of told [William] how great the team is, having that experience to put on the pads for four more years. I really thought he’d regret it if he decided to end his football career then, because once [he had] made the decision to go to another school, [he] wouldn’t have had that option to put the pads on again.”

For the Lilleys, their time together with the Quakers will be the second time in which they have played on the same squad.

Although the duo overlapped for

three years at Boston College High School, the two only played one season of varsity football together in the fall of 2013. In contrast, this is the first year the D’Angelos have competed together.

“One of the coolest things about this was that my brother and I didn’t have a chance to play on the same football team ever before, because I went to public school,” Arthur D’Angelo said.

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n to the next.

Now that the dust has cleared, there’s not much more to say about Penn football’s win on Saturday. Setting aside any external storylines, Penn proved, as my colleague Riley wrote yesterday, that Columbia is still Columbia and Penn is back to playing ‘Penn football’.

But as every cliched athlete or coach likes to say, the season is taken one game at a time. The storyline of coaches past is thrown aside to be revisited next year, and Penn now has one of its most interesting games from a purely football perspective ahead of it.

A year ago, Yale was one of the best teams in the Ivy League behind senior running back Tyler Varga — now of the Indianapolis Colts. If you had told me Penn would even have

a fighting chance against Yale after last year, I probably would have laughed.

But going into Friday’s contest, it’s not unreasonable for the Quakers to come out ahead.

Depending on how significant you view the performances against Fordham and Villanova, Penn might even be the favorite against a 4-1 team.

The Elis, for what they’re worth, haven’t been particularly impressive despite their record.

Their wins include a 7-point victory over Cornell and a 1-point win against Colgate.

While they beat the same Lehigh team that decimated Penn in the Quakers’ first game of the season, Penn has looked significantly better in recent games.

If there was ever a game to measure a growing team at mid-season, this is it. A win puts the Quakers at their first winning conference record since the 2013 season that saw the Red and Blue start 3-0 in conference before losing their SEE McGINNIS PAGE 12

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