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The college experience should be ‘affirming for all’? Really?”

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Classmates called him a ‘proto-fascist’ and ‘horrible’ NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

PAGE promotes body positivity in multi-day event on Locust Their Body Love event concluded with a guest lecture on Tuesday

As 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump rose to the top of the field of Republican presidential candidates, his Penn classmates said they watched with dread.

“Like most Americans, and perhaps even most Republicans, I wouldn’t feel comfortable being in the same neighborhood as this guy,” said Donald Morrison, a 1968 College graduate and the editor-in-chief of The Daily Pennsylvanian that year. “When I think that we probably sat in the same classrooms together and — after we both moved to Manhattan — attended some of

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Members of the Penn community have repeatedly expressed unease with the close association Trump publicly makes between himself and Wharton, often using his degree as a boost to his intellectual credibility.

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CAPS offers discussions on race Peer group discusses discrimination and marginalization

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The Penn Association for Gender Equity’s recent Body Love campaign was not your average body positivity campaign.

On Monday and Tuesday, the campaign sought to challenge mainstream body positivity movements. The multi-day event ended on Tuesday evening with a workshop given by Sonalee Rashatwar, a social worker who specializes in body image, racial justice and sexuality issues.

“We wanted to do something new and do something that really isn’t talked about on Penn’s campus,” PAGE member and Wharton senior Ashna Bhatia said in an interview.

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the same social events, I feel the need to take a shower.”

Morrison now lives in Paris and said fellow expatriates and foreigners alike are stunned by Trump’s rise.

“They can’t believe we’d let an emotionally flawed, proudly ill-informed, proto-fascist sociopath like him anywhere near a teen beauty contestant, let alone a nuclear weapon,” he said.

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CAPS is now offering a support group to help students deal with the emotional impact of national events.

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Between racially-targeted rhetoric from presidential candidates or protests over racialized police violence, politics has become personal for many Penn students this election cycle. And administrators at Counseling and Psychological Services noticed in individual sessions, that the political and cultural climate was affecting students emotionally.

For the first time this semester, CAPS is offering a peer support group specifically for students a ffected by ma rgina l ization

and discrimination, facilitated

by CAPS psychologist, Batsirai Bvunzawabaya.

“I think we don’t always think about discrimination or marginalization as impacting our mental health in pretty significant ways,” Bvunzawabaya said. “And I think sometimes hearing students not even knowing they can use therapy to discuss these experiences.”

Both Bvunzawabaya and CAPS Director Bill Alexander have noticed that this political climate in general has taken a toll on students.

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Penn alumni band together to help nonprofits stay afloat

Renowned speaker gives talk at Civic House on engagement

Intensity of Penn prepared alumni for PennPAC

Lecture was part of annual series

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A group of Penn alumni comes together every week to analyze data, develop reports and meet with clients. With different ages, work experiences and skillsets, these individuals would seemingly never cross paths — but their passion for nonprofit work has led them to a common crossroad.

They are volunteers of PennPAC, an organization that provides pro-bono consulting services to nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia and New York City areas.

PennPAC is marking five years since its inception in fall 2011. Teams of six Penn alumni have been working with clients three to five hours per week for eight to 10 weeks, cumulatively providing over 15,000 hours of volunteer service.

“PennPAC seeks to leverage the pride and interest that Penn alumni express in interacting with other Penn alumni,” 1993 College graduate and PennPAC Executive Director Jackie Einstein Astrof said.

PennPAC members said the organization can resemble the atmosphere they experienced at Penn.

“When I receive emails from a fellow team member at 2 a.m., I am reminded of the tough projects and classes we worked on into the late night,” 2008 Wharton and Engineering graduate Atish Davda said. “I know that [the PennPAC volunteer’s] day job was tough, yet she gets right back to it when she gets home.”

PennPAC’s clients comprise a range of local nonprofit organizations of various sizes and missions.

“I really like meeting with the clients — groups of nonprofit leaders — who are very bright

Welcomed by a sea of applause, former Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University Nadinne Cruz stepped up onto the podium and greeted her audience, saying, “I speak as a practitioner who has stumbled, fallen and experimented with a lot of things.”

“It’s a beautiful night,” she added in in a Filipino language called Tagalog.

Nadinne Cruz was the guest speaker for the Civic House’s third annual Alvin P. Gutman Public Scholar Lecture. Cruz is an expert in the field of civic engagement. But the first thing she did was to clarify that she was here “not as a researcher or academic, but [someone] who primarily wants to share with you the mental map that guided my practice.”

This message resonated throughout her speech, which focused on the importance of shifting the priority and attention from the academy and

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PennPAC volunteers also work regular jobs during the week, alongside offering pro-bono consulting services to nonprofits.

and dedicated people working with constrained resources,” 1994 Wharton MBA graduate and PennPAC Chief Operating Officer Anne Turner said. “I love seeing [the] transformation of the leaders in terms of their knowledge, look at the final deliverables, and receive their thanks.”

One of PennPAC’s clients was Zina Rutkin, director of Competent Kids, Caring Communities — an organization that implements social-emotional learning programs in elementary schools.

When Rutkin approached PennPAC last spring, the nonprofit was running out of money and sought a strategic business plan.

“We thought we needed help in marketing, but [the PennPAC team] emphasized fundraising over marketing,” Rutkin said.

The sheer diversity of the PennPAC volunteers’

backgrounds and skills helps them support their clients in different ways.

Of the more experienced PennPAC members, Davda said they “looked at me equally and said that there [were] a lot of new skills they were not familiar with, such as social media.”

“The mindset at PennPAC is that I’m an expert in [a certain field], but you’re an expert in [a different field], so let’s combine skillsets,” he added.

PennPAC members do not work directly with the end recipients the nonprofits strive to assist.

“The communities we work in are not communities that have a lot of wealth or resources,” Rutkin said. “The volunteers understood that... and PennPAC provides a vehicle for people like them to make an impact... while still working full-time.”

the university to the expert knowledge that resides within communities.

“We don’t need more data, or 10 more theories about poverty,” Cruz said, adding “There’s an assumption that the expertise resides in the academy.”

Cruz started off her talk by discussing the indigenous Ifugao people of the Philippines and the town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, honoring the two communities as experts on sustainability and moral brilliance.

She claimed that the academy is only a small slice of the “circle of knowledge,” which includes many other epistemologies.

She urged institutions of higher education to “de-center.”

That is, to acknowledge that the university is not the center or the “big dog” of the show and to admit that the academy is not the core of the knowledge that is needed to effectively address the issues that are causing heartbreak and suffering.

“When the circle of knowledge is broken, when one part of it is privileged, or it ignores the rest of the circle, we lose a lot. It leads to disrespect and exclusion of different ways of knowing,” Cruz said.

She wrapped up the night by sharing stories of her development as not only an advocate for community-engagement learning practices in universities, but also as a human. Her stories ranged from how she quit university to take ownership of her own learning, to her battle with chronic depression.

Her talk was met with a standing ovation.

“I thought it was great…her talk just made me think in a new perspective and re-energized me. It was awesome,” College senior Rinzin Lhamo said.

“Her speech was really inspiring. It allowed me to think critically about how we engage in the community as Penn students and what that kind of relationship that could look like,” College sophomore Lara Jung.

Cruz’s talk was not only inspiring to many students, but also hopeful.

“We can create the ideal community here and now anytime,” she said. “The fabric of humanity is intact whenever each one of us dares to declare, ‘I’m human, and the human in me wishes to connect with the human in you.’”

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Renowned speaker Nadinne Cruz spoke at the Civic House on Oct. 19, on the topic of civic and community engagement, to much acclaim and applause from the Penn students in attendance.

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Antidepressants could delay Alzheimer’s, Penn prof. said The drugs may lower levels of amyloid protein

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Citalopram and its cousin escitalopram are two of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants for people beginning treatment for depression. But recent studies indicate that they might have a second use — delaying Alzheimer’s.

When Perelman School of Medicine professor Yvette Sheline studied the brains of people with a history of depression who had taken antidepressant medications, she noticed something surprising — they had significantly lower

levels of amyloid protein.

The brains of Alzheimer’s patients have significantly h igher levels of a myloid plaques, clusters of protein fragments that build up between nerve cells. Preventing or destroying those plaques, or the amyloid beta fragments that form them, are major areas in Alzheimer’s research.

As she tried to determine what was behind the link, Sheline began to focus on a specific set of antidepressants called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs. SSRIs include some of the best known antidepressants — like Prozac, Zoloft and citalopram and escitalopram, sold under the brand names Celexa and Lexapro.

Because their side effects are fairly low and are well-documented, they are often the first antidepressants doctors will prescribe to a patient.

“We’re doing this study in order to try to provide evidence that the common SSRI antidepressants have an additional mechanism of action, which is to lower the amyloid concentration in the cerebral spinal fluid,” Sheline said.

SSRIs increase activation of receptors for the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is frequently associated with depression. But it has another effect: Studies have indicated that serotonin also decreases the production of amyloid beta, reducing the number of plaques

that form. In a 2014 paper, Sheline found that SSRIs caused a 37 percent decrease in production of amyloid beta in healthy humans.

Sheline’s current study focuses on people between 65 and 85 years of age, who will each get either an active drug or a sugar pill placebo. Each patient will receive a spinal tap before and after the treatment.

Sheline hopes to expand to a larger study if her results look promising.

“It would be a preventative treatment,” she said. “We don’t think this is going to treat people with Alzheimer’s, but… even if it can only delay the onset of Alzheimer’s, that’s a pretty major thing to aim for.”

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senior Megan Yan echoed this sentiment, alluding to the shortcomings of blanket statements like “body positivity is for everyone.” Yan, who was also the former business manager at The Daily Pennsylvanian, pointed out that body positivity movements often fail to bring marginalized bodies — like disabled persons — into the center of conversation.

She said the effects of racism, ableism and colorism should be focused on more in conversations about body positivity.

Yan also spoke of the importance of speaking about body positivity in concrete ways: “It’s about making things tangible.”

Yan added that talking specifically about the elements of bodies that bring people shame is necessary to move body positivity forward.

Examining radical notions of body positivity was not the only goal of this year’s Body Love campaign.

PAGE also worked to destigmatize menstruation and educate students on non-mainstream options for menstrual care.

On Monday and Tuesday on

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An ongoing study by professor Yvette Sheline may suggest a link between taking certain antidepressants and delaying Alzheimer’s.

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The Penn Association for Gender Equity handed out free menstruation products on Locust Walk, in their Body Love campaign aimed at examining issues surrounding body positivity.

the area of Locust Walk in front of the Penn Women’s Center, PAGE members handed out free menstruation products at their table.

Group members said it would be great to see Penn provide free menstruation care products to its students in locations beyond Student Health Services, where these products are already provided for free.

PAGE members said they were aware of the success Brown University students had in a similar

pursuit: The Undergraduate Council of Students at Brown now facilitate the stocking of all bathrooms in academic buildings across campus with menstrual products.

PAGE has been in contact with Penn’s administration about making menstruation products more accessible and group members are pleased so far with the administration’s willingness to listen to them, members said.

“We’re work ing wit h

administration to see what is feasible and what the best course of action to take would be,” PAGE member and College senior Brianna Krejci said.

Though this is the first year that PAGE has conducted a Body Love campaign with such specific goals, PAGE members are hopeful about the achievement of the objectives of the campaign in the future.

Or, as Bhatia said, “The conversation just started.”

Assault: Oct. 7: At 6:00 p.m., an unaffiliated man reported being struck in the face by an unknown man at Fresh Grocer on 40th and Walnut streets.

Oct. 7: At 7:21 p.m., police saw an unaffiliated man who had been shot and stabbed in the vicinity of the 3900 block of Market Street and transported him to the hospital.

Oct. 9: At 1:13 p.m., an unaffiliated woman at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center reported being assaulted by a known person prior to being transported to the hospital.

Driving under the influence: Oct. 13: At 11:35 p.m., a 24-year-old unaffiliated man was arrested on the 3200 block of Walnut Street after being observed driving the wrong way down a one-way street and being visibly drunk.

Harassment: Oct. 11: At 8:23 p.m., an affiliated woman at the School of

Veterinary Medicine reported receiving harassing phone calls from an unknown caller.

Two confidential reports.

Narcotics: Oct. 8: At 5:44 p.m., a 29-yearold unaffiliated man was arrested on the 4000 block of Market Street after he was found in need of medical assistance and in possession of illegal narcotics.

Oct. 12: At 10:32 a.m., a 62-year-old unaffiliated man was arrested after being seen smoking an illegal drug while operating a vehicle and having illegal drugs in plain view in his car.

Other Offense: Oct. 12: At 9:11 p.m., a 45-year-old unaffiliated man with an outstanding warrant was arrested at the CVS on 39th and Walnut streets.

Public Drunkenness: Oct. 13: At 2:31 a.m., a 35-year-old unaffiliated man was arrested on the 3200 block of Walnut Street. The suspect refused to pay a taxi fare, was clearly under the influence and was disturbing traffic.

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OPINION The other PC culture CUP O’ JOE | Electronic device use in classrooms is hurting students

THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 89 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor WILL SNOW Sports Editor

Standing at the front of any given classroom on Penn’s campus, you will see students diligently typing, presumably taking notes on whatever important topic the professor is discussing.

Standing at the back of any given classroom on Penn’s campus, you will see students scrolling through Facebook or Instagram feeds, browsing Amazon listings, texting friends through iMessage or clicking away at the Reddit front page.

There may be others who only use devices for legitimate reasons such as notetaking or following along with PowerPoint slides.

In reality, most students who use devices do a mixture of both, taking notes when the professor is making an important point, but sending a quick text during downtime in between.

This multitasking makes focusing on lecture material far more difficult.

Multitasking is proven to have an adverse effect on learning and memory con-

solidation. A 2014 study

by Faria Sana, Tina Weston and Nicholas J. Cepeda shows that laptop-related multitasking in simulated classrooms lowers comprehension and test performance, not just for the user, but also for their peers around them, who are distracted.

I noticed this in my own studies, where I would constantly play on my phone and laptop (if I brought it), checking texts, social media, online news, etc. rather than focusing on the lecture at hand. Lo and behold, when it came time to study for the next midterm, I often felt like I had never seen this topic before, as if I was learning it for the first time. Because I was. I had never processed that information in lecture because I wasn’t paying attention. I had notes from the lecture, but I didn’t know what any of them meant. All that knowledge went in one ear and out the other.

However, let’s assume a student is using a laptop for

solely academic purposes — which is overwhelmingly untrue. They would still perform worse, as written note-taking leads to better memory and test performance than laptop note-

there is one notable exception: students with disabilities who, for whatever reason, need a device present. In these special circumstances, however, they should clear it with the

Someone using this device is not just willingly hurting themselves, but also hurting their peers who did NOT choose to use a device.”

taking, according to a 2013 study. There is an abundance of evidence showing that students comprehend material and retain information better when taking notes by hand.

So make students take notes by hand. Professors: Ban devices from class.

I will add that I believe

professor and the Office of Student Disabilities Services beforehand.

This semester, I have class in a basement lecture hall, so far underground that I can’t get any cell service or Wi-Fi. This is truly a blessing in disguise, because without these devices to distract me, I have noth-

ing better to do than pay attention in class.

Some may say that it is wrong for professors to try and force students to learn in a particular way. Even though science has proven laptop/tablet/cellphone use makes it harder to learn, it is still the choice of the individual student to decide how they will take notes.

Devices may be worse for academic performance, but students should have the individual freedom to choose how they learn, even if they choose an inferior method.

I have two responses to that argument: Firstly, a student using a device affects more than that one student. It has been shown that laptop use causes worse academic performance in students surrounding the laptop user. Someone using this device is not just willingly hurting themselves, but also hurting their peers who did NOT choose to use a device.

Secondly, the professor decides how to administrate their classroom, and

JOE THARAKAN their goal is to ensure that students learn and retain the material. They are educators and if you bring in a distraction that makes it harder to educate you, they have every right to remove it.

Professors, please ignore the inevitable student grumblings and ban devices from your classrooms.

While they may not thank you for it, their transcripts will.

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Reverse and remand FAIR ENOUGH | Education is not meant to be “affirming” Early last week, the University of Florida circulated a memo to its undergraduates, cautioning them not to wear offensive costumes on Halloween.

The issuance of such statements has become something of an October tradition on many campuses, and kerfuffle of some kind nearly always attends. Remember that last year, it was a dispute kicked off by a similar email at Yale that first put campus cultural politics into the national spotlight.

Even as under-thought administrative diktats go, UF’s memo was particularly bizarre.

It included not only the nowroutine solicitation for students to report each other to a “Bias Response Team” but also a possible threat that students’ social media accounts were being monitored.

The circular was accordingly lambasted in the right-wing press, but I’m not particularly interested in jumping onto that bandwagon. The Costume Wars have cost a lot of ink already, and my own views more or less track those Christakis expressed in her letter.

There was one line in the note, however, that received neither the attention nor the lambasting it deserved, and it had little if anything to do with Halloween costumes. In a throwaway note in the conclusion, the memo asserted that “as a community, we aspire … to maintain an affirming campus climate for all members of our community.”

Repetitive verbiage aside, that floored me. The college experience should be “affirming for all”? Really?

I posit that it can’t possibly be true. Education is the acquisition of new knowledge, new information that one didn’t have before. Even if that new information doesn’t cause a change in a person’s beliefs, it must at least make him aware of his prior ignorance. If it didn’t, it couldn’t be new information at all.

In either case, the learning process is not “affirming.” Neither changing one’s mind in the face of new data nor realizing one’s ignorance is a particularly reinforcing of the self-esteem.

They are, inherently and by necessity, process of disaffir-

mation. To be affirmed is to be upheld and validated, to survive challenge and scrutiny unchanged. To leave college with one’s mind and soul affirmed would be a profound failure.

Would any graduating senior be better off leaving Penn with

the administrative psyche, appearing frequently in the boilerplate pseudo-philosophy of the profession writ large. One of NASPA’s main constituent groups, the Gender and Sexuality Knowledge Community, even offers as its “vision” the

“The college experience should be ‘affirming for all’?

Really?” all his freshman-fall opinions affirmed? Would you?

I wish I were just harping on one unfortunate word choice by one random office in Florida, but I’m not. A search for the word “affirming” on the website of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators — the trade association for employees in the nebulous and ever-ballooning “student life” sector — returned nearly 88,000 hits. An unscientific review of the first hundred or so shows “affirmation” seems to have worked its way deep into

hope that “Each campus is safe, affirming and inclusive for all students, staff and faculty.”

There was a true gem of long-form narrative journalism in the Washington Post this past weekend, a profile of a young man named Derek Black. Black was raised, ironically enough, by white nationalists and, as an adolescent, rose to become something of a “thought leader” within that unfortunate subculture. At 21, however, he enrolled in college incognito, but was in time outed and ostracized until an

orthodox Jewish acquaintance decided to try, civilly but doggedly, to persuade him of the error of his ways. He succeeded, and Black left the white nationalist movement and renounced his former views. It’s a tale not only of the triumph of engagement and persuasion over exile and vilification, but of the immense power and value of being deeply challenged, ALEC WARD right down to the very core of your own self-conception, in of us aren’t avowed racists, but the relatively controlled envi- we could all benefit from that ronment of higher education. kind of challenge and self-exAnd where did Derek Black amination regardless of where go to school? The New College it starts or ends. That’s why in Sarasota, a campus of the we’re in college. Or at least, it same University of Florida sys- used to be. tem which issued the statement Affirmation is the opposite declaring their goal to affirm all of education, and the failure of students. those who lead our universities Did the New College fail to see that is a sad indication of when it disaffirmed Derek just how far away from teaching Black’s conception of his own and learning they have strayed. self and identity? Of course not.

The world is a better place, and ALEC WARD is a College Derek Black a better man today senior from Washington, because he was not affirmed, D.C., studying history. His because he was challenged and email address is alecward@ contradicted and forced to re- sas.upenn.edu. Follow him examine not only his beliefs, on Twitter @TalkBackWard. but his entire conception of “Fair Enoug h,” u suall y who he was as a person. Most appears every Wednesday.

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School of Social Policy & Practice announces top issues in 2016 election The issues included homelessness and poverty

services for children of minorities.

BOWMAN COOPER Staff Reporter

3. Gun Policy Debate What the problem is: SP2 says, “Gun policy discussions in the United States have been oversimplified into dichotomies such as an either-or choice between ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys.’”

What SP2 recommends: Not oversimplifying the issue because that has been “limiting our ability to settle on effective, substantive gun policies.”

The School of Social Policy & Practice has released the SP2 Penn Top 10, its list of the most important issues in the 2016 presidential election.

“The mission of the SP2 Penn Top 10 is to educate, enlighten, and empower a diverse audience of voters and policymakers from all walks of life,” Jessica Bautista, SP2’s Communications and Public Relations Officer, said in an email.

While some of the issues chosen are already featured prominently in national policy debates, such as homelessness and gun policy, others were chosen because they “deserve much more attention than they currently receive, both during this election cycle and all year around,” according to a statement from John L. Jackson, Jr., Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice.

Here are the issues SP2 chose along with their recommended solutions: 1. Homelessness What the problem is: 1.6 million Americans experience homelessness, according to the SP2 website.

What SP2 recommends: Rapid rehousing stabilization and permanent supportive housing.

2. Interventions for Youth What the problem is: Around 700,000 reports of child abuse and neglect are confirmed each year in the United States, according to the Penn Top 10 website.

What SP2 recommends: Allocation of greater funding to preventative services and programs, more training for case workers and the introduction of “better decision-making tools” to increase access to mental health

4. Urban Food Deserts What the problem is: Urban food deserts are “poor, urban areas with limited access to supermarkets.”

What SP2 recommends: Subsidizing the purchase of healthy foods, getting “the support of the food and beverage industries to create and market healthier foods” and having government entities help to fund new supermarkets in areas where there is a deficiency of private investment.

5. Youth Aging Out of Foster Care What the problem is: Per SP2, 26,000 individuals age out of foster care every year, and for each person who ages out taxpayers pay around $300,000 during their lifetime.

What SP2 recommends: Promoting “interdependent living” for those aging out of foster care, so that they can seek support from older adults, like “young people in the general population” who depend upon family members for support.

6. Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing What the problem is: The official poverty line “has become a less accurate indicator of economic need than when it was developed more than 50 years ago,” according to the Penn Top 10 website.

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The School of Social Policy & Practice has released a list concerning the top ten issues in the current election cycle.

What SP2 recommends: A “comprehensive, neighborhoodbased measurement that focuses on wellbeing rather than poverty alone” in order to paint a more detailed picture of the needs of those experiencing poverty.

7. Transforming “Work” What the problem is: According to SP2, “any job that generates income is seen as more valuable than other types of ‘work’ we can perform — parenting, family care, volunteering or artistic pursuit.”

What SP2 recommends: The United States needs to transition into a “postwork” society, in which “income-producing jobs are not considered to be the highest calling and primary moral duty.”

8. Mass Incarceration What the problem is: “The intersecting problems of substance use, incarceration and homelessness create risk in urban neighborhoods,” SP2 says.

What SP2 recommends: A “multilevel approach” that “must collaboratively engage communities at the street-level to provide services while simultaneously engaging the policy processes at the governmental level to establish comprehensive policy solutions.”

9. Mandated Mental Health Treatment What the problem is: “Only about 4% of violent incidents in the U.S. are committed by people who are mentally ill,” yet legislation continues to mandate mental health treatment that has been shown to be ineffective, according to SP2.

What SP2 recommends: The government should support voluntary community treatment.

For this issue, the Penn Top 10 website discusses legislation that allows for mandated mental health care in response to the media’s attention to violent acts committed by individuals diagnosed with a mental illness. The website also states that there is no evidence showing that this type of legislation is effective in preventing violence.

10. Child Poverty and Child Maltreatment What the problem is: 22 percent of American children live in poverty, and another 22 percent are members of low-income families.

What SP2 recommends: The United States should “introduce more effective policies and programs that address child poverty so we can reduce maltreatment of children.”

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draft deferment.”

“Every time he says something outrageous, you think ‘oh my god it’s all over it cannot get any worse,’ and then he says something worse,” Wilen said, calling these “drop-dead moments.” “How could anybody be saying the things he says, and also have a Penn degree?”

But while 1968 Wharton graduate Ted Sachs said he is not happy with this election, he said he will “absolutely” vote for Trump.

“The frustrations that have built up within our system are coming to the surface. It’s not very pretty, and it’s not very clean, but I think it is a real frustration,” he said.

Sachs pointed to an article written by Yale professor David Gelernter, which describes the “emasculated” voters who are not thrilled with Trump, but are adamantly opposed to Hillary

Wharton classmates told the DP that they largely did not remember Trump during his time at Penn.

This past July, over 3,000 Wharton alumni, faculty and current students signed an open letter to Donald Trump stating “You do not represent us,” in which they collectively denounced Trump and the hatred he “actively endorses.” Though the letter states that they chose not to endorse any other candidate, it explicitly condemned his use of the Wharton degree to enhance his credibility.

In October, a separate petition started by 1991 College graduate Nathaniel Popkin urged Penn President Amy Gutmann to publicly denounce Trump and formally distance the University from him.

Jane Rich, another 1968 College graduate, said she did not even realize he was in her graduating class at Penn until seeing him in an interview.

“I found it amusing many, many years ago when I saw him interviewed,” she said. “I heard him telling people - Dennis Wilen, 1971 College graduate that he was first in his class in Wharton.”

She said that she and her Clinton. husband believe him to be “I think this concept of voter “shockingly horrible and laugh- emasculation and the use of able,” adding that she “has what is polite conversation to put nothing good to say about the down an opposing argument is man.” not good for the overall society,” “I personally find it hard to Sachs said. believe anybody with an educaIn reference to Trump’s explotion could believe anything he sive comments, Sachs believes says,” she said. that “a lot of the volatile discusTo many of his own class- sion and a lot of the excitement mates, the prospect of Trump as that he’s stirring up is a way to president is horrifying. get people’s attention.” He added Dennis Wilen, a 1971 College that “people that don’t think graduate who entered Penn with like I do, think that it is crude, the Class of 1968 and was man- that it is authoritarian, that it is aging editor of the DP that year, fascist,” but Sachs chooses not referred to that time at Penn as to take Trump literally on his the period of time when college words. students began to smoke pot, “I am sure people will think demonstrated against the war I am nuts, but I don’t care. I am and worked for voting rights. not hateful, I am not vengeful,” The only thing he believes he said, adding that “I think we Trump picked up from this gen- have to be a lot smarter and a lot eration is “a cool way to get a more together.”

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outlet to voice their experiences in weekly sessions. Alexander felt that hosting discussions in a counseling setting would allow students to discuss how political events can seep into their personal life.

“Listening to the national conversation on the news, listening to some of the things that are being said, about minority groups, oppressed groups…are painful, I mean people are scared, people are upset,” Alexander said. “And so it’s one thing to address this at the political level, whether this is good for the country, but we hear much more on the personal level about, ‘This scares me.

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I think we also just wanted to acknowledge both aspects of it, that it’s not all terrible. I think there’s a lot of sort of resilience that builds from having these experiences that we wanted to acknowledge.”

Bvunzawabaya said turnout at the first meeting was not as high as they had hoped, but she said she hopes advertising the program better will bring out more students. Alexander acknowledged that the unfamiliar setting might have deterred some students.

“You don’t know what you’re gonna expect, can you imagine walking in and it’s kind of weird and seems somewhat contrived,” Alexander said. “I think we’ll do it because we believe in it and I actually believe students will benefit from it. But it might be slow to start because it’s kind of scary.”

Alexander also noted that although CAPS is hosting the sessions, the discussions are not limited to just mental health.

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Penn volleyball may be a young team, but they’ve seen all they need to see. With one trip around the Ivy League complete, the Red and Blue are set to begin the rematches with now more familiar foes, starting with the Ancient Eight’s best.

On Friday night, Penn (8-11, 3-4 Ivy) will head to New Jersey to take on rival Princeton in their lone game this weekend.

Princeton (13-3, 7-0) sit atop the league with an undefeated conference record.

In their first meeting on Sep. 24, the Ivy opener for both teams, Princeton edged out Penn in a five-set win at the Palestra, winning 21-25, 25-11,

25-15, 22-25, 15-5.

Since then, the Tigers have not lost a single set, winning each of their six subsequent Ivy matches 3-0. They have been led by senior outside hitter Cara Mattaliano, whose 3.78 kills per set in Ivy play are tops in the conference, and freshman middle blocker Maggie O’Connell, who ranks third with 3.30 kills per set.

The Quakers, meanwhile, have been playing some very close matches, with three of their four losses coming in five sets. Penn’s most recent action, however, was not as closely fought, with the Red and Blue falling to Yale 3-0 last Friday before ending up on the other side of a sweep in their 3-0 win over Brown on Saturday.

The match will be tough, but Penn coach Kerry Carr is as confident as you can be going up against an undefeated team.

“I think we’re in the best position to beat them because they didn’t have the best answer for us,” Carr said, recalling the first game. “We’re a much better team now [than before],

and they’re slightly better but they’re not hitting any better than they did that match. I think they had their best offensive match that night. We’ve gotten better, they’ve gotten better, but we have a couple tricks up our sleeves.”

The most important tricks will be the ones Carr uses to try and stop Mattaliano and O’Connell. Carr thinks her team is up to the task, but wouldn’t get too specific about her exact plans.

“I can’t tell you, or I’d have to kill you,” Carr laughed.

“We’ve made a couple of defensive changes that I think are going to take some of those kills away from them. But the primary thing is no matter what we do defensively to stop them, we just gotta get our offense on track.”

For Penn, an Ivy title is out of reach with four losses on the board just halfway through the season. But the team has its sights set on winning out, and the Quakers want this one a little extra.

“We want to be that team

that gives them their first loss,” sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn said. “Our main goal is to win out, obviously, but we want to beat every team that we have lost to.”

While Penn usually plays a doubleheader every weekend during the Ivy season, this weekend will give them a chance to focus entirely on one opponent. Carr mentioned the benefits this offers from both a fatigue standpoint and a preparation standpoint, but of course, the Tigers will have the same thing going for them. Each team will get the other’s best punch, and Carr is both ready and excited.

“It’s going to take a strong effort, probably the strongest effort we’ve done so far, to beat this team,” the coach said. “It’s gonna be a huge fight, and not something you wanna miss.”

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For Penn sprint football, the hard part is over, but the job is far from done. And that job continues this Friday when the Quakers face off against Chestnut Hill at Franklin Field.

Regardless of what happens Friday, it will be hard for the Red and Blue (4-0) to top the drama the last time they played in Franklin Field. In that game, Penn completed its sweep of the service academies by topping Navy, 29-23, in a thrilling overtime finish. The win also firmly established the Quakers as the favorite to win the championship in the Collegiate Sprint Football League. “We always knew we were a good team,� senior captain and quarterback Mike McCurdy said. “But to have it validated against a good team like that, in a real close win, doesn’t hurt.�

While it was a great win for the Quakers, Chestnut Hill (2-2) is just the first of three opponents Penn still needs to beat if it wants to finish the season undefeated for the first time since 2000. And since the regular season decides the champion in the Collegiate Sprint Football League, one bad game can ruin a whole year.

Penn is the heavy favorite against Chestnut Hill, but the Griffins have had two solid wins over Post and Cornell. They also present a strong passing attack that will attempt to spread the Red and Blue’s defense out.

Through four games, Chestnut Hill quarterback Michael Marino has averaged 160 passing yards and has been especially dangerous when getting

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the ball to his two favorite targets, Lew Roman and Reginald Robinson. The wide receiver tandem has combined for nearly 400 yards on the year already.

If you’re worried about Penn overlooking the Griffins though, don’t be. “As soon as we came back on Monday, all of our captains got on us. They were like, ‘Listen, we had a bye week, we enjoyed ourselves, but now we’ve got to get back to the grind. We’ve got to make sure we win these last three games, or the other ones don’t mean anything,�’ junior linebacker Quinn Karam said.

It would be easy for the Quakers to get caught in a trap game. This is only Chestnut Hill’s second-ever season, the first as a full-fledged member of the CSFL. But Penn’s focus isn’t external. Of course, it also helps when a player as talented as McCurdy is your biggest leader.

McCurdy, the reigning CSFL co-MVP, has been averaging 243 passing yards a game. “You can’t look ahead too far,� McCurdy said. “Every game is important from here on out. Every game is important this whole season. So we know our next opponent Friday

is Chestnut Hill, and we’re focused on that right now, and we’re just going to take it week by week from here on out.�

If the Red and Blue can take care of business against Chestnut Hill, they will be just two games away from securing the title. And with those two games being against Cornell and Post, who have a combined record of just 1-7, it is easy to see how the Quakers might get a little ahead of themselves. Those two games could not be further from the Quakers’ minds however. “We had good practices,� coach Bill Wagner said, “And I think, it’s again because of our four captains, the leadership that they present by example as well as verbally, watching film, and preparing for Chestnut Hill just like they were preparing for any other game. Chestnut Hill’s the one that’s coming up Friday night, and they’ve been focused all week. They can’t look beyond that game.�

It is clear that all the players are on the same page. But for those of us who are ready to turn the page and see the Quakers win a championship, Friday night serves as the Red and Blue’s final major test.

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story. Friday night will be the first night game in the history of the 102-year-old Yale Bowl. In fact, the stadium does not even have lights. An outside contractor will be bringing in temporary lighting to the stadium for the purposes of this weekend.

This marks the third straight Penn-Yale game to air on NBCSN, with the Bulldogs winning in 2014 and the Quakers taking 2015’s Friday night edition. The increased frequency of these NBCSN games have been something of a welcome development for the Red and Blue. “I think Friday nights are something we look forward to,� Priore said. “We like the short weeks too, for some reason. We prepare better — I don’t know why, even though we have less time. Just more focus and attention to detail throughout the week.�

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To be fair, this is not the Yale of old. The Elis (1-4, 1-1) won’t be winning their 15th conference title this year.

Still reeling from having graduated the heart of last year’s lineup, Yale has struggled to take control of games this season. Thus far in 2016, the Bulldogs have beaten only a vulnerable Dartmouth squad while giving up 55, 63 and 44 points to Colgate, Lehigh and Fordham, respectively.

While Yale may not this year be in the same class as the Ivy heavyweights to come — Princeton and Harvard are just around the corner — Friday night represents a big step for the Quakers into the heart of the Ivy slate.

After dropping the first two games of the year, the Red and Blue have stormed to three straight wins, most recently a 35-10 rout of Columbia. Perhaps most importantly, last weekend’s contest was the first where Penn coach Ray Priore’s squad really ground a game out in the second half instead of putting an opponent away

early. “I thought our kids responded really, really well,� Priore said. “We narrowed things down to a handful of plays, our kids came back in the second half very, very focused and, obviously, able to finish.�

They’ll need to rely on their star power in order to have a shot at a second consecutive Ivy title, and against Columbia they got some flashes of what the rest of the Ancient Eight could have to deal with.

Junior wide receiver Justin Watson had his best game since the season-opener against Lehigh, logging 114 yards and a touchdown on six catches while rushing for another 45.

His classmate, running back Tre Solomon, leapt and bruised his way to 127 yards on the ground with a touchdown — on top of a 23-yard touchdown pass he threw to senior wideout Cam Countryman. For his efforts, Solomon was named Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week, the first Penn player to win the award since Watson did it on Nov. 16, 2015.

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Yale’s junior back Kiwi Comizio is second in the Ivy League in assists with seven. “We watched some film on them. We try to just prepare our players for the opponent’s tendencies and then we just focus on our game plan,� Fink added.

The season is entering its final stretch, with high stakes for the Ivy League standings. Harvard and Princeton are in front, both 4-0 in conference play, while Penn sits alone at third at 3-1. “Everybody is fighting for an Ivy League title. Nobody is going to give it up easily,� Huang said. “So we always have to go in with our heads high, with confidence, knowing that we have prepared and had this long week of practice.�

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The Quakers (9-4, 3-1 Ivy) are looking forward to the final week of Ivy League play, with upcoming matchups against Yale (5-8,1-3), Brown (6-6, 2-2) and Princeton (9-5, 4-0) on top. The first of these tests will come in New Haven this Saturday.

Penn had its three game winning streak snapped on Sunday in a tough, 3-2 double-overtime loss to No. 8 Delaware. The Blue Hens dominated the first half, but the Quakers fought back in the second half to force two overtime periods. “I thought we played really well in the second half and the overtime periods. I think we got beat up quite a bit in the first half but we hung in there from the scorer’s line,� coach Colleen Fink said. “I think it was really good preparation for our defense to just maintain resilience. In the second half, we came on strong.

It was a really even second half and overtime.� “The lesson to learn just from that game is that if we just believe in ourselves and keep playing the way we know how, we are going to come

out on top and achieve our goals we set out to reach in the beginning of the season,� junior midfielder Rachel Huang said.

Penn has a long week of practice before playing Yale on Saturday at Johnson Field. “We are still just really focusing on our midfield play: our transitional midfield, our read between midfielders and the forward line, and also our offense just generating scoring opportunities in one versus one’s,� Penn’s seventh-year coach said. “We have a very selfless team, and they’re constantly looking to get other people involved, but sometimes in that attacking quarter of the field, you just kind of have to go for it yourself.�

In its last Ivy match, Yale defeated Dartmouth, 7-4, with six different players scoring. However, the Bulldogs struggled in their next game against nationally top-ranked Connecticut, falling 8-1.

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184.6 rushing yards per game

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Quakers look to shake conference scoring woes W. SOCCER | Win crucial only leading the team as forwards

as team heads to Yale CHRIS PROANO Contributing Reporter SATURDAY

Yale (5-5-3, 1-2-1 Ivy) 7 p.m.

The Palestra

Consistency at the top is the key for any team with hopes for a title. However, for Penn women’s soccer, staying consistent within the Ivy League is becoming a challenging task.

Fans have seen the brilliance and explosiveness of the Red and Blue (7-3-2, 1-2-1 Ivy) against non-conference teams and Cornell (in a convincing 5-0 victory).

Sophomore Sasha Stephens and freshman Emma Loving are not

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the Quaker’s 1-2 Ivy League record, but with the team’s losing streak at three, the matchup gains emotional importance.

“It’s a character check; it’s a gut check... I sound like a broken record but the performance between the eighteens was pretty good,” Fuller said. “But unless we can take care of things at both ends inside the box… everything else goes for naught.”

Penn will have to prove their

but also as the top scorers; scoring four and six goals, respectively, in 12 games.

The experienced back line, led by senior captain Paige Lombard, has been exceptional and only conceded eight goals this season so far. Freshman goalkeeper Kitty Qu is also having a great season, keeping a clean sheet in six matches.

Penn’s coach Nicole Van Dyke has built off of the solid defense of last season, and her team’s improved playing style, especially offensively, is evident in all the stats. The Quakers are outscoring their opponents, 26-8, getting more shots on goal, 172-81, and forcing more saves from the opponents’ goalkeepers. In terms of almost every statistic, Penn dominates the field and is definitely a difficult force to attack and defend against. However, the statistical

character and improve at both ends against Yale to have a chance to win. Routine crosses seemed to have difficulty finding attackers and defenders had trouble clearing crosses in their own end. Coach Fuller made a point of naming crossing as a weakness against both Villanova and Dartmouth – it’s clearly a cause of concern going forward.

The return of starting goalkeeper Etan Mabourakh should help, but the Quakers, as a unit, will need to a major team-wide bounceback Saturday to win.

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Gavin Barger was one of five Penn men’s soccer players to get a shot on goal against Villanova on the road, but none could convert.

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Though they have dominated non-conference opponents, sophomore Sasha Stephens and her team have failed to notch multiple Ivy victories.

advantages are not necessarily equating into wins for Penn in the conference.

After suffering two heartbreaking losses by the minimum lead against Harvard and Columbia and tying Dartmouth, 1-1, in its last match on Saturday, Penn

certainly wants to boost their form in Ivy play by securing a win at New Haven against Yale this weekend. The Bulldogs (5-5-3, 1-2-1) share the same conference record as Penn and will similarly hope to use this matchup as an opportunity to regain their form for

the end of the season.

Creating chances, keeping up momentum, and maintaining a formidable defense are not the biggest issues by any means for Penn — they have to be more efficient in front of goal. In preparation for their trip up to New Haven, Van Dyke is hoping that the team improves in making quality chances and capitalizing on them.

“We played well against Dartmouth,” she said. “However, this weekend, we want to do a better job making one more pass for a definite goal. Rather than getting too anxious while forward, I think that making that extra crucial pass can create really important opportunities.”

Van Dyke explained that she believes the Quakers can improve defensively in the middle of the pitch.

“Our forwards did a great job keeping the ball ahead, and

since we like to have numbers up forward, especially having the outside backs go up, we want to be better at transitioning from defense to offense so that we can continually win the ball in better spots.”

Van Dyke is also very confident in her team’s ability and is determined that they will have a stronger remainder of the season.

“We have proven that we are battle-tested on the road and we are not afraid of an away game.

We are making more good opportunities this year compared to last, but I know we can make better ones by completing one more pass and getting in behind the other team’s defense.”

Penn are currently sharing fourth place in the conference with Princeton and Yale. Saturday’s match against will be extremely crucial if Penn is to have a solid finish.

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Fresh off of a bye week, Penn sprint football hosts Chestnut Hill on Friday

Penn women’s soccer looks to resolve its conference scoring troubles at Yale

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’Nova easily dispatches Penn M. SOCCER | Quakers outshoot local

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rivals but can’t manage to find the net THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Contributing Reporter FRIDAY

Yale (2-6-2, 1-1-1 Ivy) 7 p.m.

New Haven, Conn.

BULLDOGS FOOTBALL | Penn set for Yale

Bowl’s first-ever night game NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor FRIDAY

Yale (1-4, 1-1 Ivy) 7 p.m.

New Haven, Conn.

Three road games, two home games and a potential Ivy title. That’s all that’s left for Penn football as it moves into the second half of the 2016 campaign.

First up on that list is Yale. Friday night, once again in front of a nationally televised audience on NBC Sports, the Quakers (3-2, 2-0 Ivy) will have a chance to remove all doubt that they are among the frontrunners to take the Ancient Eight crown.

“I think a lot of us get more pumped up on Friday nights, it takes us back to our high school days,” senior quarterback Alek Torgersen said. “We don’t get to do it very often, especially being under the lights — it kind of brings out the best in us.”

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They say the best team doesn’t always win. They were right.

They also say that the scoreboard doesn’t tell the whole story. Penn men’s soccer Head Coach Rudy Fowler would surely agree with that after his side’s worst loss this season in the form of a 4-0 result at Villanova.

Penn (3-4-5) had struggles at both ends against their crosstown rivals, but the gameplay did not reflect the final score. “You only have to look at the scoreboard to see that statically, it’s a game you would have expected to go the other way.” Fuller said.

Indeed, from a statistical standpoint, it seemed the Quakers had dominated, more than doubling the Wildcats (7-5-2) in shots and winning the corner battle.

However, as Coach Fuller acknowledges, the only statistic that matters is goals. “We say all the time in our locker room, ‘[play] between the eighteens doesn’t matter if we don’t win the box… It’s disappointing.

When you… give away four shots on goal and give up four goals it’s a disappointment.”

Penn struggled all game in and around the eighteenyard box, allowing two goals on free kicks and failing to score despite their numerous chances.

Villanova opened the scoring only twelve minutes in when defenseman Eric McKenna supplied the finish to a Miguel Polley free kick. It was the senior’s first career goal.

Seven minutes later Polley got his second assist of the night when Lucas Hodges was able to get on the end of another free kick. But in contrast to Penn goalkeeper Nick Savino’s struggles in net, the Quakers dominated in possession, allowing only one more Villanova shot for the remainder of the half.

The second half started brightly for Penn as more midfield domination caused more pressure on the Villanova backline. A particularly large chance was squandered in the 47th minute as junior Marc KaiziLutu broke free into the box but put the volley high.

Savino’s nightmare game continued in net with two more Wildcat goals in the 61st and 69th minutes.

Polley, presumably tired of assists, put it in himself after a Penn defensive breakdown lead to a breakaway.

Hodge scored his second on what Fuller called a “really good piece of soccer” to complete the scoring.

Savino failed to register a save in his first appearance this season.

The bright news for the Red and Blue is that their awful road trip is almost over. After giving up four goals in big losses to both Dartmouth and Villanova, only a trip to Yale on Saturday remains.

The Yale game was already important considering SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 9

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Beat. The Bulldogs. Battlestar Galactica.

This week’s matchup between Penn football and Yale might be the most important game of the year for the Quakers. Harvard will be harder, but in order to take it all, they’ll have to come out on top on Friday.

That’s what she said.

Look: Penn football and an Ivy League title are soup snakes. It’s meant to be.

But they’ll have to work hard to earn it back.

They’ve been good so far. They crushed Dartmouth after getting crushed last year. And they squashed Al Bagnoli’s Columbia.

Well, well, well, how the turntables…

But Yale is no joke. The Yale Bowl is like a prison — and the worst part of it is the dementors. If the Quakers aren’t careful, they could start off like they clamped their foot in a George Foreman Grill. Thanks to Tre Solomon and his renaissance in the backfield, though, it’s unlikely that the offense will spill the chili.

How would Solomon describe himself, by the way? Three words. Hardworking. Alpha male. Jackhammer.

Merciless. Insatiable.

And then there’s coach Ray Priore, the World’s Best Boss. A coach not to be truffled with. The Bulldogs are probably afraid of how much they love him.

But Penn shouldn’t walk into New Haven thinking they’re the favorites, I do declare! The Quakers haven’t won in the Yale Bowl since 2010.

They do, however, have an X-factor this year they haven’t before: junior wide receiver Justin Watson. JWat is Beyonce. Always.

Now I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious. And having Beyonce on our team seems like a good luck charm to me. Expect it to be a long, hard night, but look out for the Quakers to pull out for the win. … That’s what she said!

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