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UA Engineering election attracts six candidates 4 Seats, 6 Candidates

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Claudia Detre

Polls open

Akash Jain

Monday, Oct. 21 Midnight

Sydney Baker

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sophomore

sophomore

Sarthak Jain

sophomore

Polls close

Ronak Bhagia

Thursday, Oct. 24 5 p.m.

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Arnav Joshi

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Students complain that Sansom Place East, the only building available for graduate students to live in other than a few graduate associate positions, has issues with faculty appliances, pests, and mold. About 525 graduate students live in the tower.

Grad. students call for better housing Focus groups in November will discuss grad housing HARSHITA GUPTA Staff Reporter

After student complaints, administrators will hold focus groups next month to figure out how to improve housing options for graduate students on campus.

The only on-campus housing option for graduate students is Sansom Place East, unless they work as graduate associates in other dorms, including the high rises. Graduate students over the years have criticized the dilapidating conditions of Sansom Place East, including faulty appliances, the lack of cleanliness, and pests.

Sansom Place West is currently closed due to the lack of interest in graduate student housing.

Students said the building con-

ditions in Sansom Place East are deteriorating despite the onslaught of new undergraduate dorms on campus. Within the past four years, the Lauder College House was built and opened, Hill College House was renovated, and New College House West, which had a $163 million budget, is slated to open in 2021. In contrast, Sansom Place East hasn’t been fully renovated since it was built in 1970, though parts of it have been upgraded, said Douglas Berger, the executive director for Business Services.

After reviewing survey data, the Provost’s Office and Business Services are looking to hold focus groups in November, inviting graduate and professional students to discuss their housing and transportation needs.

This is the first time the Provost’s Office and Business Ser-

vices have approached the topic of graduate housing together, Berger said.

“We have a lot of data, but we want to hear directly from students and test that there’s not something we’re missing,” said Barbara LeaKruger, director of Communications and External Relations for Penn Business Services.

Stephanie Ko, a master’s candidate for professional counseling, chose to live at Sansom because she grew up in California and did not know anything about housing in the Philadelphia area. She said many of her amenities need updating, and her oven does not work. A major issue in the building is the efficacy of maintenance requests. Her sink gets clogged frequently, and it took her three separate maintenance requests and nearly three months to get a moldy shower curtain replaced.

“It takes a couple times to get those orders completed. Sometimes, the maintenance requests don’t do anything to help the condition that we live in,” Ko said.

Ko, who plans to attend the focus groups, said she is advocating for better lounges in Sansom Place East. Students do not currently use the Sansom lounges because they are all located in a windowless basement, and are in “pretty poor condition,” Ko said.

“I wish we were more integrated within the Penn community, and also I think part of that is due to the fact that we are isolated here.

It’s just one building, there’s nobody in the other one, and I think we deserve to be heard too. Our voices matter as well, and not just the undergrads,” Ko said.

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Four seats were vacant for six months CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

After zero students ran in last month’s special election, the Nominations and Elections Committee will be holding another election this week to fill the four vacant Engineering representative seats on the Undergraduate Assembly.

This time, six Engineering students declared their candidacies for this week’s election, NEC Chair and College senior Olivia Crocker said on Sunday evening.

The election opens on Monday and closes on Thursday at 5 p.m.

The six declared candidates represent a large uptick in interest for the UA Engineering seats — both the last special election and April general election had zero students formally declare candidacy. There is currently only one student serving in a UA Engineering seat because of a successful write-in campaign in April.

The lone representative is Engineering and Wharton sophomore Kshitiz Garg, who was elected in April as a write-in candidate. No other students formally declared their candidacies in the first general election. In September, the NEC held a special election in hopes of filling the four remaining Engineering seats, at the same time as the UA New Student Representative and freshman Class Board elections. Zero Engineering students ran for the empty seats, prompting the second special election this week.

To counter the longstanding lack of interest in the UA Engineering seats, Crocker said the NEC took a more active approach in promoting the election and reached out to Engineering clubs to encourage their members to run.

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Penn Nursing conference tackles mental health in health care “Reimagining Mental Health” featured local speakers ANYA TULLMAN Staff Reporter

A student-run conference in the School of Nursing Saturday drew nearly 200 students and community members to talk about incorporating mental health awareness into health care.

The “Reimagining Mental Health” conference featured speakers from across the Philadelphia and Penn communities who discussed harm reductionist and trauma-informed approaches to health care. “Harm reduction” refers to the practice of medical professionals accepting that illicit drug use occurs and working to limit its negative consequences rather than condemning its existence. “Trauma-informed care” means that health care providers assume that a patient has experienced some type of trauma and act accordingly.

The conference was organized

by Paige Martin and Jessie Axsom, two students in Penn’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. Martin and Axsom said they came up with the idea for the conference about a year ago when they realized that harm reduction and traumainformed care were almost never discussed in the Nursing School

curriculum. The two worked for six months to plan the interdisciplinary event that attracted undergraduate and graduate students from many schools at Penn.

“Trauma-informed care was actually identified as a critical need of the West Philadelphia community, and Philadelphia has been forced to become a leader in harm reduction in their response to the opioid crisis, but both of these topics have been completely left out of our nursing education in any meaningful way,” Axsom said.

“Our frustration and our anger drove us to organize an event that would at least start to address those needs.”

Before they reached out to potential speakers, Martin and Axsom said, they established a set of goals they hoped their conference would achieve. The duo hoped to increase awareness among health system workers and community members about harm reduction and trauma-informed care. They also hoped to provide audience members with tangible strategies to practice these methods in their everyday lives and future careers.

Martin and Axsom emphasized the importance of patient consent during any interaction with a health care professional.

They said that many patients do

not know they can deny medical treatment, a misunderstanding that inhibits trauma-informed care.

“What does [consent] look like? Is it used, is it practiced?

And my answer most of the time, especially in a teaching hospital, is no,” Martin said.

“Both trauma-informed care and harm reduction can provide very useful ideas and thoughts and improve patient outcome.

We have to educate and share with the people that we’re working with rather than telling them what to do.”

The conference included seven speakers and panel discussions which spanned a wide variety of topics. A woman struggling with mental health shared a personal story about how her recovery led her to empowerment through sex work, representatives from the West Virginia abortion organization Holler Health Justice discussed the importance of reproductive justice, and health care providers shared how harm reduction manifests itself in their jobs.

Saleemah McNeil, a retired postpartum doula, spoke at the conference about traumainformed care during the birthing process. She said she appreciates events like this one because they provide safe spaces for learning outside of a typical

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“Maternal mortality is my passion, and I do quite a bit of speaking engagements and advocacy efforts to make sure that not only are we raising awareness, but we are moving from stagnation to action orientation,” McNeil said. “I hope that [the audience] got resources so they can better understand how to delegate when issues arise.”

First-year social work graduate student Peter McBride said he hopes to incorporate the harm

reduction strategies he learned at the conference into his field placement at a men’s homeless shelter where most residents suffer from mental illness or substance abuse disorders.

“The most salient part from this that I’ll take back is to focus a little more on client expertise than patient expertise, with the knowledge that the practitioner expertise really doesn’t matter if the client doesn’t see how it’s useful,” McBride said.

Speaker Iris Kimbrough, a

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birth and postpartum specialist, emphasized how trauma informed care can play a role in daily life through peer support.

“It’s not like you have to be a licensed therapist or you have to have some kind of special degree to be able to hold those spaces for yourself and for your community as a whole,” Kimbrough said.

‘We really need to normalize that and make it more accessible and more of a thing that people are willing to even put themselves out there and do.”

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A week of sustainability events culminates in ‘Greenfest’ Hosted by Student Sustainability Association at Penn ABI MURUGADOSS Staff Reporter

Students filled College Green Friday for Greenfest, a sustainability expo featuring student groups and creative activities to get the Penn community thinking about environmental issues in their daily lives.

Greenfest is hosted each semester by the Student Sustainability Association at Penn, the umbrella organization for all student environmental groups. This year’s event featured booths from all SSAP groups, local activist organizations, and environmentally

conscious businesses and restaurants. Some participating groups included the Penn Beekeeping Club, Penn Democrats, and Indego, a Philadelphia-based bicycle-sharing company. “[Greenfest is] one of the few events that bring together this number of environmental-related groups at Penn,” Penn Environmental Group co-chair and College sophomore Marina Dauer said.

At the event, each booth featured creative activities to raise awareness about sustainability and highlight dire environmental issues. Penn Closet, a studentrun secondhand store, hosted a pop-up clothing sale to encourage students to purchase recycled

clothing. Epsilon Eta, an environmental fraternity, organized a bag-stamping activity with paint and stencils showcasing a number of environmental slogans. Penn Environmental Group created a competition to see which students could sort a pile of trash the fastest into landfill, compost, and recycling piles. Penn Beekeeping Club offered free samples of honey, and Penn Outdoors Club roasted s’mores.

Students said they appreciated the chance to learn more about campus sustainability groups.

“I was looking to get more involved with clubs that support sustainability, and I didn’t know where I’d start looking,” College sophomore Desiree Izecksohn

said. “This is a really great opportunity to know what’s going on on campus.”

“It’s cool that they’re reaching out to us and they’re telling [us] all these issues,” College freshman Hannah Yoon said, adding that she is especially interested in vegetarianism and the careful use of scarce resources such as meat and water.

Greenfest is the culmination of a week-long series of events known as GreenWeek, which is organized by the various SSAP groups. GreenWeek this year featured events such as a “Climate Justice and Environmental Citizenship” panel hosted by many student groups and campus centers. The Climate

Reality Project at Penn and Epsilon Eta also hosted screenings of the Netflix docuseries “Rotten” and the movie “Ice on Fire,” which both detail possible methods to reduce carbon emissions and combat the climate change crisis.

SSA P co -cha i r A nd rew Nyholm, a College and Engineering senior, said Greenfest in the coming spring semester will coincide with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. “This Greenfest should be more of a prelude to the one in the spring,” Nyholm said.

He hinted that SSAP may collaborate with the 1.5* Minute Climate Lecture Series and its founder, Germanic Languages

and Literatures professor Simon Richter.

College junior Samira Mehta said Greenfest gave Penn’s sustainability clubs the chance to come together. Mehta is the cofounder and co-president of Isla Urbana at Penn, an organization that supports the implementation of rainwater harvesting systems in Mexico.

“I really like events like this where we have all these clubs that are coming together and mixing and also talking to people about what they are doing,” Mehta said. “I think it’s a really great way to, one, spread a message about being green on Penn’s campus, and also to form relationships with other clubs.”

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Prof. to offer ‘Archaeology in Pop Culture’ course

Penn Med professor on finding the cure for his own disease Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with Castleman disease AMELIA MAULDIN Staff Reporter

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The new anthropology course, “Archaeology in Pop Culture,” will be offered as a freshman seminar taught by Anthropology professor Douglas Smit.

Students learn about Bigfoot and Indiana Jones ECE YILDRIM Staff Reporter

A new anthropology course this coming semester will let students learn about Atlantis, Bigfoot, and Indiana Jones.

The course, “Archaeology in Pop Culture,” will be offered as a freshman seminar taught by Anthropology professor Douglas Smit. Smit said the discussion-based class will analyze common archaeological tropes by pairing TV episodes and other short pieces of multimedia with academic readings. Topics discussed will include the New Age belief that monuments like Stonehenge and Machu Picchu held special power and people’s attempts to prove the existence of mythical creatures such as Bigfoot.

Smit said studying these popular archaeological beliefs can shed light on societies’ struc-

tures and values.

“Rather than trying to just spend the semester talking to students about why these things are false, I thought it might be more interesting to go more of a meta-textual way,” Smit said of his plan for the course. “Why are these stories about aliens or trail hunters or myths about what archaeologists do so successful in popular media? Because once you start to do that, then you start to realize that it actually sheds light on some interesting ideas about race, class, and gender in our society.”

Smit elaborated on one topic he plans to discuss in the course — theories surrounding massive mounds built by Native Americans in the United States.

“One of the things that people have always sort of wondered about those mounds is, well who built that? Well, the answer is obvious: the Native people built that,” Smit said.

“But that’s not good enough for some people. In the 19th century, people thought that they were built by the lost tribe of Israel, and more recently people have thought that they were built by aliens.”

Smit said he thinks the seminar will be “a fun course,” adding that some homework assignments will involve watching movies and writing response essays. He added that he hopes to direct students towards a deeper, more intellectual conversation on pop culture and help them think critically.

“When we tell stories about the past, often what we are really doing is telling the story about the present,” Smit said.

“There is a reason that Indiana Jones in the 1980s films operates in a certain way compared to the more recent one in 2010.

That has very much to do with not really Indiana Jones or archaeology, but the sociopolitical things going on in our society.”

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A professor in the Perelman School of Medicine wrote a book about his experience being diagnosed with a rare disease and conducting his own research to try and find a cure.

David Fajgenbaum, who received a Penn medical degree in 2012 and a Wharton MBA in 2015, published his book, “Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action” in September. The book details Fajgenbaum’s research and experience with Castleman disease, a rare disease that attacks the body’s immune system, which he was diagnosed with while enrolled in medical school.

When he relapsed while taking an experimental treatment and learned there were no other drugs in development, he began conducting research on his own samples and was eventually able to find a treatment option that kept him alive.

Fajgenbaum said his goals in writing the book were tri-fold: He aimed to share his experience and life lessons with the world, raise awareness for Castleman disease and rare diseases in general, and highlight his ap-

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graduate student in the Graduate School of Education, said the maintenance issues she encountered in her room at Sansom Place East included the lack of cleanliness, issues with the fridge and the fire alarm, leaking pipes, and pests.

Because of maintenance in her room last year, she and her roommate were temporarily moved to a room in Sansom West without a working bathroom. At one point, she had keys for three different rooms: her Sansom East room, her Sansom West room, and a separate bathroom.

“Most of my friends are living here and then they move out. There must be a reason: The housing’s not good,” Yu said. “I’m staying here because

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Professor David Fajgenbaum (pictured above) recently published his book entitled “Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action.”

proach to research.

“I learned a lot about life and a lot about living from nearly dying five times,” Fajgenbaum said.

The book also addressed his research approach, Fajgenbaum said.

When conducting research on Castleman disease, Fajgenbaum used unconventional methods to establish connections with researchers, health care providers, and patients in the United States and around the world.

This collaborative approach ensured the best possible measures were being taken to discover new treatment options and improve diagnoses.

In 2012, Fajgenbaum established the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, a foundation that seeks to expand research on the disease, spread awareness, and help connect Castleman patients, researchers, and health care providers through a singular database.

“I got sick with Castleman dis-

ease, but I created this foundation so that there’s actually something positive that has come from it,” he said.

“It wasn’t something I found, it was something I created.”

Fajgenbaum said he believes his approach of trying to create positive change in difficult situations can be applied more generally, beyond rare disease research.

“Though my book is about me chasing a cure for my disease, it’s really just a universal tale about getting up and fighting back after life knocks you down,” Fajgenbaum said. “Maybe when we go through tough times we should think about what silver linings we can create.”

Fajgenbaum said he hopes the book will inspire people to turn their hopes into action, just as he has done for himself through his research.

“If we can actually use our hope to inspire action, then I think hope is the best thing in the world,” he said.

I don’t want to waste my time packing up and then moving again, find new housing, find new roommates.

But it doesn’t mean that this is good.

I was forced to do this.”

Ko, who is also the Sansom representative for the Residential Services Advisory Board, told her concerns about Sansom to the rest of the board, which looks to connect students with interests in housing with Business Services and Residential Services.

“It seems that Sansom Place is on the bottom of the list every year, and I’m trying to hopefully bring it up because we are students here too. We deserve equal treatment,” Ko said.

“Personally, I think there’s a lot that could be improved, and I’m hoping we get some recognition soon.”

Sansom tends to be a convenient housing option for international students because of their inability to learn much about off-campus housing options, both students and admin-

istrators said.

“They’re looking for the easiest, the quickest place, and if we have places at Sansom, that’s an easier place for them,” Berger said. “It’s also an easy place because we’re on-campus housing – it’s safe, it’s secure, it’s convenient.”

Berger said about half of the residents in Sansom Place East are international students. However, Sansom is also a more convenient option for students in one-year master’s degree programs, as it offers more convenient nine to 10-month leases, said Anita Mastroieni, the associate vice provost for graduate education.

There are about 600 graduate students who live on campus, Mastroieni said. About 525 of these graduate students live in Sansom East, whereas the others act as GAs in the remaining college houses.

“We are in the process, as an institution, at looking at our options for Sansom,” Berger said.

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Academic exploration loses out under Penn’s lackluster ‘One University’ policy

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n the 1973 report “Institutional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania,” then-Penn President Martin Meyerson implemented the One University policy, which allows students to take courses outside of their fields of study. Penn boasts to prospective and current students of the opportunity for students to take classes across the College, Wharton, Nursing, Engineering, and its numerous graduate schools. The One University policy was originally intended to provide students with the chance to be well-rounded, and not to shy away from learning outside their respective fields of study. Penn must embrace academic freedom and encourage students to pursue education across the University, rather than restrict the courses outside of students’ respective schools that can be counted toward electives and requirements.

Students across several of the undergraduate schools can take a limited number of classes outside of their school. Students in the College are restricted to four courses outside of the College if they want those classes to count toward the minimum

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number of credits required for graduation. Engineering students are restricted to several free electives and only courses that meet specific Social Studies and Humanities requirements.

On the other hand, Wharton students are allowed to take an unlimited num-

ber of courses, save for their general requirements and concentrations, in other schools.

A complete education must cover more topics and perspectives than

what is available within one major or department. Many universities don’t have the wealth of options that Penn does, with four undergraduate and 12 graduate schools, which makes it particularly important that the University allow students to take advantage of

lege requirements. Yet, an arbitrary distinction is drawn such that classes outside of one’s school can only be used for a small number of these requirements. This only serves to limit the rich educational opportunities that could exist for students at Penn.

Reforming this policy would bring Penn’s advertising in line with the realities experienced by its students.

Campus tours tout the ‘One University’ policy as a driver behind Penn’s academic freedom and a factor that makes Penn’s academics special among peer institutions. To young students that are unsure of what they wish to study, this policy is especially compelling. Currently, this lofty and laudable endeavor falls short.

The University needs to reflect on what was promised to students in 1973. Penn must not hinder students from LYDIA KO learning about varied fields and disciplines. Rather, Penn these resources. Penn’s curricula al- must allow students to take courses ready acknowledge the importance of across all areas of study and require breadth in education by requiring stu- its undergraduate schools to be more dents to take a large number of elec- flexible with counting those courses tives along with their major and col- for credit.

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THE ANGRY PHILADELPHIAN | To increase equity and reduce stress at Penn, a university-wide test bank may be part of the solution

t’s midterm season, and as Penn students, we each have our own scars to show from it. Maybe one of the proofs was weird, maybe the essay prompt made no sense, maybe the test was totally different from what you were expecting. The point is, this season brings back bad memories, creates new ones, and is probably a part of our Penn experience we would be okay with forgetting.

But what if we could help mitigate those midterm “oofs” across the University? With rampant test bank usage throughout Penn, those without access face severe disadvantages. It’s time we embrace the bank and mandate it for all courses.

Now, based on survey data, roughly one-third of you readers may snicker at this proposal because you already have access to test banks. But for the two-thirds of you who do not, you probably

are mentally salivating at the idea of having access to past exams for all of your classes.

There are three important questions to answer regarding this proposal. One: Why would a test bank be needed? Two: How would it be allowed? And, three: How would it be implemented?

To answer the first question, one must consider the student body at Penn. We are an incredibly diverse population, not just racially, but also in our places of origin and academic goals.

First, consider our places of origin. Students come from all states and many different nations, and education varies considerably from place to place. Therefore, testing changes as well. One way to reduce imposter syndrome is to give students a heads-up as to what is coming down the line. To show them that the test is nothing they can’t handle, and that they have time to familiar-

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This is prime time for Penn to consider making these changes.” ize themselves with a new format of assessment. This helps reduce anxiety running up to the day of the test.

Second, look at our broad academic interests. Penn’s distribution requirements force all students to venture outside of our majors or concentration and take classes in subjects we may feel uncomfortable or unprepared in. While going outside of our comfort zone forces us to grow, throwing ourselves too far into the ocean only results in drowning. When there’s a big lag time from day one of class to the first assessment, it becomes difficult to measure how well you are doing in the class, and being able to measure progress against past exams can mean avoiding the drop deadline passing and having to burn a credit on a class we may not do well in or enjoy.

To answer the second question, you must realize that fairness is also a major concern. Our Code of Academic Integrity explicitly prohibits students from “gaining or providing unauthorized access to examination materials” in an effort to gain an unfair advantage over other students. The fact that test banks are so prevalent at Penn should be enough evidence that

something has to be done. It would be effectively impossible to take back all of the old tests currently held in banks, and the students without access to them face a great disadvantage in exam preparedness. At this rate, neutralizing the unfair advantage means equalizing the field by giving everyone access to test banks, not trying to limit them. (And if you are skeptical of the breadth of test banks, consider this: A Wharton Dean’s Advisory Board study found that every core class had materials available in test banks.)

Addressing the third question: This is prime time for Penn to consider making these changes.

With the NGSS system (Penn InTouch’s replacement) releasing within the next two years, being able to browse courses and peek at a past midterm is more possible than ever. Imagine getting an idea of what the class is like before you even step foot in the classroom, which could even make add-drop period less hectic.

The framework for this is rapidly being built, and we must take advantage of it.

Understandably, there could be concerns from faculty regarding the extra work and potential integrity issues required to both

ALFREDO PRATICÒ release a past test and create original test questions. There are alternatives to releasing exams, such as giving students study guides and having review sessions for students, though not all are as efficient or effective as releasing past exams. The simplest answer to maintaining exam integrity may be to restrict access to exams (such as not releasing solutions online or creating an examonly bank of questions), but this still does not remove the unfair advantage from students who have access to a preexisting test bank. Another option would be explicitly stating in the syllabus that the use of test banks are not allowed (as there is no policy on them, professors could do this).

While this would make it easier to prosecute test bank users, what happens in the dorms often stays in the dorms.

ALFREDO PRATICÒ is a College freshman from Philadelphia, PA. His email address is pratico@sas. upenn.edu.

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Penn must fire Amy Wax REMARKS WITH LARK | The firing of Amy Wax is long overdue

To prevent Wax from furthering her ideals through Penn Law, it’s time to see her fired from the faculty.”

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enured Penn Law professor Amy Wax makes her bigotry and disdain for non-white and non-Western immigrants clear. At the National Conservatism Conference back in July of this summer, Wax openly advocated for the favoring of Western immigrants over non-Western groups.

She has unapologetically claimed that Anglo-Protestant norms are superior and that cultures should be distinctly separated into “layers,” and advocated for the return to the 1950s American bourgeois culture. This should not and cannot be tolerated.

To prevent Wax from furthering her ideals through Penn Law, it’s time to see her fired from the faculty.

The Philadelphia and Penn communities have not been silent. Penn undergraduate and Penn Law students alike continue to gather together in solidarity to denounce her outdated and inflammatory remarks. Community members are taking action and actually doing something about the problem.

Several Penn Law student groups, such as the South Asian Law Students Association and the Latinx Law Student Association, have

organized protests and signed petitions calling for the firing of Wax. Over 50 students showed up to the protests, and the petition asking for Wax’s removal has garnered thousands of signatures.

The Penn student population and its supporters are taking action. The community is pleading to see Wax fired. And, given Wax’s extreme statements and teachings, it’s time for that to happen. But what has the Penn Law administration done?

After thousands signed a petition to reprimand Wax over her outrageous and racist statements, Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger issued a statement denouncing her claims and emphasizing that her values do not reflect Penn Law’s.

In 2018, after Wax claimed she had never seen a Penn black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, Ruger announced she would no longer be able to teach a mandatory first-year law course. However, Wax’s entire teaching rights were not removed, nor was she fired.

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LARK YAN and isn’t enough. As long as Wax remains a Penn Law faculty member, she stands on a powerful platform through which she can spread her dangerous ideas. Wax is misrepresenting Penn Law’s values.

The firing of Amy Wax is long since overdue; it’s time for more serious actions and proactive measures to be taken against Wax to protect the integrity of Penn Law’s teachings, values, and foundations.

The firing of Wax will demonstrate to the Penn community that Penn Law will not accept racism and bigotry, nor will it allow its students to learn within such divisive, toxic environments. By firing Wax, Penn Law has the opportunity to set an important and critical precedent — that bigotry, racism, and discrimination will not be tolerated at Penn.

LARK YAN is a College sophomore from Toledo, Ohio studying Health and Societies.

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‘Legacy of 1619’ events cover slavery and revisionist history Attendees filled Houston Hall for the Callaloo Conference BECKY DEMARRE Staff Reporter

Notable scholars of African American history gathered in Houston Hall Thursday to kick off the 2019 Callaloo Conference, analyzing the historical impact of the first enslaved people’s arrival to America 400 years ago.

The three-day conference, titled ‘The Legacy of 1619,’ began with a keynote address from historian Howard Dodson about the history and significance of the arrival of enslaved people to the United States. Dodson is the Director Emeritus of Howard University Libraries and former director of the New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

At the event, Dodson discussed his work in contemporary revisionist history of the African diaspora, which focuses on the responses of enslaved people to their experiences rather than their victimization.

The conference will continue on Friday and Saturday with readings and discussion panels on “The Future of Diasporas,” “Dissident Genealogies,” and many other topics.

“We’re taking 1619 as a jump-off point to think about the past but also to anticipate what’s to come in the future,” English professor Dagmawi Woubshet said of the conference’s theme.

The conference was organized by Callaloo Magazine, a publication established in 1976 to celebrate African-American creative literary works.

Woubshet, who is also an associate editor of Callaloo, explained that the journal hosts the conference at a different U.S. university each year. This year’s conference is taking place at Penn and is hosted by

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(From left to right) Howard Dodson, Hermine Pinson, Koritha Mitchell, and Dagmawi Woubshet were four of the scholars involved in the 2019 Callaloo Conference.

Woubshet delivered the introductory speech, and Dodson spoke about his work in contemporary revisionist history of the African Diaspora.

the English Department and several other campus departments and groups.

Following an introductory speech from Woubshet, Dodson highlighted the importance of studying the history of slavery.

“It is time to tell all the truths — I’m saying that plurally — about the founding moment in history of the slave trade, slavery, and racism in these United States,” he said. “Teaching and learning about slavery has not been at the top of Americans’ learning list.”

Dodson added that this historical study should look at perspectives beyond the victimization of enslaved people.

“In the midst of slavery, the record of history in America is not simply what was done to them — no people’s history is a record of their victimization,” Dodson said. “Rather, their true lives’ history is the record of what they did to change themselves and to change their world — slavery, segregation, and other forms of oppression notwithstanding.”

Penn has a long legacy of involvement in slavery. The Penn & Slavery Project, launched in 2017 as an undergraduate research initiative, has revealed that over 75 Penn trustees and faculty owned enslaved people, including the University’s first Provost, William Smith. In response to the group’s findings, Penn formally acknowledged the University’s ties to slavery in 2018, reversing a 2016 statement that said the University had found no direct involvement with the slavery.

“At this point, you know, there isn’t an American university that in one way or another, directly or indirectly, wasn’t connected to the enterprise of slavery,” Woubshet said. He pointed to Georgetown University’s sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838 to keep the university afloat in a time of financial hardship.

In his convening speech, Woubshet said the beginnings of slavery in America bear continued relevance to the country today.

“The next three days provide us an occasion to commemorate this world historical event, to bring to bear the great advances made in African diaspora literary, visual, and cultural studies, to understand the significance of 1619 and its continued reverberations, [and] to raise questions that remain so germane in our cultural and political present,” he said. “How do the political, economic, and cultural circumstances of the Virginia colony in 1619 speak to what’s in 2019 America?”

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Several candidates submitted statements to the NEC describing why they are running and what they hope to achieve if elected.

Sarthak Jain said his platform is centered on “wellness and inclusivity.” Some of his policy goals include training “wellness TAs” for Engineering students for stress management and having professors record introductory videos for their courses so students can get to know their teaching style.

Joshi said he wants to focus on professional development and mental wellness for Engineering students. He hopes to implement more avenues for engineers to meet employers and hold more events for students in the same major to develop a community.

Bhagia’s goals include introducing a no-study zone in the Engineering Quad to encourage students to de-stress with their peers. He also pledged to work with Career Services to expand options for non-Computer and Information Science majors at career fairs. Bhagia said he hopes to improve transparency within the UA by publicizing his projects and encouraging student attendance at UA meetings.

Baker aims to reach out to underrepresented groups within the Engineering school. She said she wants to allocate funds for conferences discussing underrepresented minorities in the engineering field and lobby for free access codes and textbooks for low-income students. She also hopes to implement napping spaces in Engineering buildings for students to take a break from studying.

Only Engineering sophomores, juniors, and seniors can run for the seats. These students are also the only ones that can vote in the election.

The newly elected Engineering representatives will serve until the UA general election in April 2020.

The voting period will open Monday, Oct. 21 at midnight and will close on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 5 p.m. Students will be able to vote through an online link. Results will be announced later Thursday night, unless a candidate is charged with violating the NEC’s Fair Practices Code, which sets guidelines for candidate conduct.

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Penn’s loss was historic and embarrassing THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS

Penn football has 18 Ivy League titles, tied for the most with Dartmouth. They will not win a 19th this season.

Saturday’s 44-6 loss at Columbia is enough to be sure of that. That Penn won’t win the Ivy title this season does not come as a large surprise — most commentators predicted the Quakers would finish fourth or fifth in the conference.

The bigger surprise was the indignity with which the Red and Blue lost to the Lions. Columbia is historically among the worst Ivy teams, Penn among the best. The Quakers have beaten the Lions 74 times in 97 opportunities all-time. This is not a team that Penn is supposed to lose to, let alone get blown out by. Penn went 20 games without losing to Columbia — a streak that was only broken two years ago in overtime.

There’s no other way around it: Penn football looked awful on Saturday. It was the biggest loss to Columbia of all-time and the worst Ivy League loss since 1981, a season in which Penn won just one game all season. This was the most embarrassing loss of the 21st century — in an entire generation.

Making it worse was the fact that based on the initial preseason predictions, this was one of the three Ivy League teams Penn was supposed to beat. Now, the Quakers will have to fight just to stay out of the cellar.

It is hard to imagine the Red and Blue stealing a win against undefeated Harvard or Princeton or preseason favorite Yale.

Every step of the way, the Quakers looked undignified and unprepared. The first play from scrimmage was a 47-yard flea-flicker. Penn managed 46 yards in the first quarter, fewer than the total from Columbia’s first play.

Somehow, it went downhill from there.

Penn’s best player, senior running back Karekin Brooks, was held to 56 yards from scrimmage, the first time all season that he was held under 100. Penn managed 232 total yards of offense; they entered the game averaging more than 457. The offense was kept off the scoreboard for the first time since 2016. More points were scored by the Columbia defense when Penn’s ofSEE PAPAZEKOS PAGE 9

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Football suffers worst Ivy League loss in 38 years The loss was Penn’s worst of all-time against Columbia JACKSON JOFFE Associate Sports Editor

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NEW YORK — The Quakers made the wrong type of history on Saturday.

Penn fell to Columbia by the dominant score of 44-6. Colum-

bia’s 38-point margin of victory over Penn (2-3, 0-2 Ivy) was the largest in the teams’ 141-year series history, and it marked Penn’s worst Ivy League loss since 1981.

Despite scoring 38 points against Sacred Heart last week, the Red and Blue weren’t able to find any offensive success in New York through 60 minutes of football, as they failed to score on offense.

Columbia (2-3, 1-1) forced four Penn turnovers in its largest homecoming victory in school history. The FCS rushing leader, senior Karekin Brooks, mustered just 60 rushing yards, and senior

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quarterback Nick Robinson completed just 37% of his passes. “[It’s] obvious by the final score of the game, we were outplayed from start to finish. They got the long pass play early on, and we had two missed field goals that really hurt us,” coach Ray Priore said. “It just seems like every opportunity we had to make a play we didn’t convert. Regardless, I take extreme ownership of this loss as a football coach.”

One reason for Columbia’s dominance was their rushing attack; the Lions out-gained Penn 265-93, and ran for more rushing

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Penn basketball is back.

On Saturday, the Palestra hosted the annual Red and Blue Scrimmages for both teams. In the women’s game, the Red team defeated the Blue team by a score of 70-51, and later in the men’s game, the Blue defeated the Red, 84-71.

The action began with the women’s scrimmage. The contest was highlighted by a defensive effort that allowed the Red team to control the game from start to finish. The Red team forced 14 turnovers while also tallying five blocks and seven steals. Senior guard Kendall Grasela, the Quakers’ defensive specialist, led the way for the Red team defense.

For this year’s Quakers, it is important that Grasela can utilize her defensive skills to create scoring opportunities for those around her.

“I didn’t shoot much [in the scrimmage], but I was getting the ball to people who were open, and I was forcing turnovers,” Grasela said. “[I tried to get] my hands on the ball to allow that to translate into transition.”

The scrimmage also featured a strong performance from junior center Eleah Parker, who put up a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Parker, the reigning Big 5 Player of the Year, will likely play a large role in how well the Quakers perform this season.

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Penn women’s basketball saw impressive performances from a few new players in the team’s scrimmage at the Palestra on Saturday.

Following the losses of Ashley Russell and Princess Aghayere, fans were curious to see which players would step up for the team. From the tip, it became obvious that one of those players would be freshman guard Kayla Padilla, who led the contest with 18 points and four three-point shots.

Padilla, who played with Penn’s starting five, has already impressed her teammates and coaches.

“I think Kayla had a good showing for her first time out.

[She] made some shots in the beginning, [and] it gave her a great deal of confidence,” coach Mike McLaughlin said.

In addition to giving new players the opportunity to adjust to team play, the Red and Blue scrimmage provide the team with

the ability to put practice into play.

“Even though it was just intersquad, it was nice to just be in the Palestra, have people watch us, and finally just put in our sets and see our results from practice,” Padilla said.

Saturday’s action at the Palestra continued as the men’s team took the court for the first time since last season’s Ivy League Tournament.

The contest between the Blue and Red teams featured strong performances from returning players. Senior forward AJ Brodeur, a unanimous first team AllIvy selection last year, tallied 16 points, while playing strong in the paint. Guards Eddie Scott and Devon Goodman also performed well offensively, putting up 18 SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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Quakers failed to score in final three quarters of game

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yards by halftime than they had in the past three weeks.

“I know the numbers aren’t great [the last few weeks], but if you look at the film, I think we have had the pieces to break off these big runs. Today, we hit targets correctly and were able to really put everything together,” said Columbia coach Al Bagnoli, who coached the Quakers from 1992 to 2014.

Columbia started the game out hot on an opening play flea-flicker that went for a 47-yard gain.

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In a defensive slugfest, the Quakers were unable to deliver the final punch.

Penn sprint football lost a hardfought, closely contested game to Navy by a score of 16-7 in Annapolis, Md. on Friday night. Although the score may not indicate it, the game was close most of the

way until Navy (5-0) kicked a late field goal to take a nine-point lead.

With the loss, Penn is eliminated from contention for the CSFL championship game. Navy will compete in that contest after taking home the South Division title for the second consecutive year.

Navy got the ball first and quickly settled for a field goal. The Red and Blue (3-2) then marched down the field and scored a touchdown on a 21-yard run by sophomore running back Laquan McKever.

Little did Penn know at the time that points would not be as easy to come by for the rest of the night.

“When the game started, we had scored a relatively easy touchdown on the first drive, and I think maybe we got a little too confident

and lost a bit of respect for Navy,” McKever said.

Along with scoring Penn’s lone touchdown, McKever rushed for 66 yards to add to his Collegiate Sprint Football League leading season total in rushing yards.

After neither team scored for 20 minutes of game time, Navy pulled off a trick play, as running back Caleb Champion found JT Thompson in the end zone for a 34-yard touchdown to take a 10-7 lead just before halftime.

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Senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins threw for just 116 yards and was intercepted twice in the Quakers’ 16-7 loss to Navy. The Red and Blue have been eliminated from CSFL championship game contention.

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Player of the Week: Sizzy Lawton W. SOCCER | Lawton led soccer history.

Penn to win over Dartmouth Freshmen don’t JACKSON JOFFE Associate Sports Editor

Freshman phenom Sizzy Lawton is starting to make this a weekly routine.

Just two weeks after tallying a goal and an assist against Cornell, the freshman midfielder was able to score the game-winning goal against Dartmouth. After receiving a pass from junior midfielder Paige Howard, Lawton fired a shot into the near corner, pushing it past the keeper’s hands. It was Lawton’s third goal of the season, and her seven points are tied for the most by a freshman in Penn women’s

often make large impacts for Division I sports teams, but the Fort Washington, Pa. native burst onto the scene early as she saw significant action against No. 2 Stanford and has been a mainstay in the Quakers’ lineup ever since.

Coach Nicole Van Dyke has started Lawton in three games so far this season, praising the freshman midfielder’s energy and work ethic.

Her goal against Dartmouth comes after goals against Cornell and Towson earlier in the season. Even though she is a freshman, Lawton has the third most points for the Quakers this season, and she is one of

six players to play in every game this year. She also has the second highest percentage of shots on goal among Penn players who have taken more than one shot this season.

Lawton has been particularly effective in conference play; she has six shots and five points in just four games. Given her productivity in Ivy League games so far, the Quakers will most likely rely on Lawton as they face Yale, Brown, and Princeton in the coming weeks.

Lawton and the Quakers are back in action on Monday in a nonconference matchup against Delaware State before they resume conference play and host Yale at Rhodes Field on Oct. 26.

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Lions quarterback Ty Lenhart punched in a one-yard run to give the Lions a 7-0 lead with 12:44 left in the first quarter.

Lenhart played nearly the entire game for the White and Blue even though he had split snaps in the previous weeks.

“They play a type of game very similar to that of Dartmouth, and we prepared for both of them heading into this contest,” Priore said.

The Quakers got the ball back and took the ball to midfield, but Columbia’s Ben McKeighan broke up senior quarterback Nick Robinson’s pass to senior wideout Kolton Huber on fourth down, and the Lions took over on downs. Despite starting in Penn territory, Columbia was forced to settle for a 43-yard field goal.

On the next drive, the Red and Blue started to pick up momentum on offense, as Brooks chipped in 20 yards rushing, but the Quakers stalled on offense and were forced

to punt after a false start on fourth-and-1. A dropped pass by sophomore wide receiver Rory Starkey on fourth down on Penn’s next drive was the second turnover on downs of the afternoon.

Energized by their secondstraight fourth down stop, Columbia drove the ball down the field — picking up big gains on passing plays — and Lions running back Dante Miller scored from 17 yards out to extend Columbia’s lead to 17.

Needing points before the half, Robinson looked to sophomore receiver Ryan Cragun and the Quakers were able to advance into Columbia territory, but kicker David Perkins couldn’t convert a 42-yard field goal to end the drive.

Perkins missed two field goals in the half.

Throughout the second half, Columbia continued to dominate on the ground as time ticked off the game clock. A big factor for the Lions was Lenhart, who got the starting nod over junior Josh Bean.

Lenhart was able to find lots

of room to run against the Red and Blue, as he posted 99 rushing yards and two touchdowns in his first collegiate start.

“They really were able to control the clock and the ball by running the ball inside, which I think [Lenhart] was really good at doing,” Priore said. “They really wore us down and we didn’t make any big plays, which is how you beat a team like Columbia.”

It looked like Columbia was going to shut out the Quakers, but senior defensive back Conor O’Brien scooped up a Columbia fumble and returned it 50 yards for the touchdown.

Those were Penn’s only points.

“I think we will evaluate everything holistically heading into next week, and that involves going back and watching the tape,” Priore said. “It wasn’t one player that did something wrong; it was all of the players, all of the coaches.”

The Quakers will travel to Yale next week with the hope of securing their first conference win of the season.

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fense was on the field.

The defense was better, but not by much. Aside from a fumble recovery for a touchdown in the game’s dying minutes, deep into garbage time, there was not much to celebrate. Allowing 37 points is not a good performance against any opponent, let alone one you were supposed to beat.

Special teams doesn’t get talked about much until things go wrong, which isn’t fair. But boy did things go wrong against Columbia. Penn missed both field goals it attempted and allowed its only extra point attempt to be blocked. The Quakers have only converted one field goal this season in five attempts.

It was an embarrassing loss, plain and simple.

“It just seems like every opportunity we had to make a play, we didn’t convert. Regardless, I take extreme ownership of this loss as a football coach,” coach Ray Priore said.

The feeling in my gut says things aren’t particularly likely to improve.

Penn has regressed since former coach Al Bagnoli left for Columbia. Bagnoli has immediately improved Columbia in the four years since he took the job. Meanwhile, Priore’s initial success has disappeared. If you point to recruiting as the big reason why, it isn’t hard to argue that Priore’s ability to bring in talent should be under question.

I’m not sold on that interpretation quite yet, but this loss marks a new low for the Quakers.

THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS is a College senior from Pittsburgh and Senior Sports Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at papazekos@thedp.com.

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Men’s soccer suffers first Ivy loss against Dartmouth Red and Blue outshot Big Green, 8-2, in second half VINNY VEERAMACHANENI Contributing Reporter

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Sometimes, the ball just doesn’t bounce your way.

Penn men’s soccer fell to Dartmouth, 1-0, on a chilly Saturday evening in Philadelphia, marking the team’s first Ivy League loss of the season and second consecutive defeat.

Dartmouth (5-5-1, 2-1 Ivy) took on the Quakers (4-5-2, 1-1-1) in a physical battle characterized by many missed opportunities, leading to the Big Green’s first road win of the season.

Dartmouth took control of the game early, generating many chances from the attacking third in the first half.

A stout defensive front for the Red and Blue, however, led by juniors Alex Touche and RC Williams, was able to counter the Big Green’s offensives.

Penn generated most of its offense in the first half through counterattacks. In the 10th minute, the first shot of the game for either team came from freshman defender Kai Lammers, who crossed the ball to freshman midfielder Jack Rosener for a header that sailed just high.

A few minutes later, sopho-

more midfielder Ben Stitz’s header off a corner from senior captain Brandon Bartel was saved by Dartmouth’s goalkeeper. Despite this exciting start for the Quakers’ offense, Stitz’s header proved to be the last good chance at a goal in the opening 45.

The Big Green, on the other hand, kept their foot on the gas throughout the first half. At one point, they even generated three shots on goal in one possession.

In the 44th minute, Dartmouth mounted an offensive, with the ball eventually finding its way to the back of the net.

Crisis was averted for Penn, however, as a foul on Dartmouth negated the goal and kept the game scoreless.

Though the score remained knotted at zero at the half, Dartmouth outshot the Quakers, 6-2, and seemed to be in control of the game.

The second half represented a major shift in playing style, as the game got much more physical. The officials chose to let the players play as opposed to calling many fouls.

“When the game gets going like that, what I read between the lines is that it’s competitive,” coach Brian Gill said.

The Quakers seemed to make some halftime adjustments, as both their offense and defense stepped up in the second half. Penn outshot the Big Green, 8-2, in the second half, and kept the ball on the attacking side of the field.

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Depsite leading the team with six goals this season, junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia was unable to help Penn equalize against Dartmouth.

“What we talked about at halftime was having a little bit more of an aggressive mentality of our own: to step out and make life harder for them, which I thought we did,” Gill said.

Despite the Red and Blue being in control, Dartmouth was able to capitalize first.

Off a counterattack in the 55th

minute, Dartmouth senior midfielder Zach Kalk led a through-ball to junior forward Tiger Graham, who was able to put it past Penn sophomore goalkeeper Dane Jacomen to break the tie.

“I think their goal kind of came against the run of play in the second half, and thankfully it was early enough in

the half that it gave us an opportunity to dig our way back into it,” Gill said.

From that point on, Penn played with more urgency and aggressiveness in its game. A yellow card was given to senior defender Casey Barone in the 77th minute, but the ensuing Dartmouth set piece was saved by Jacomen.

The last 10 minutes of the contest were almost solely played in Penn’s attacking third. Off a corner in the 89th minute, the Red and Blue were able to get two shots off, only to have both saved

by Dartmouth’s goalkeeper, ending any bit of hope for an equalizer to send the game to extra time.

Although the Quakers generated plenty of goal-scoring opportunities, it has been a struggle of late to find the back of the net, as the team has only scored one goal in its last three games. The loss dropped Penn to fourth in the Ivy League standings.

The Red and Blue hope to get back on track on Tuesday with a match against Drexel (5-6-2) before resuming Ivy play against undefeated Yale (9-0-2, 3-0) next Saturday.

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Watch out whenever Penn scores first.

After a loss to Columbia where the Quakers managed only two shots on goal, Penn women’s soccer hoped to bounce back at Rhodes Field against Dartmouth, which still hasn’t won an Ivy League contest.

The home team did not disappoint. With a strong performance on both ends of the field, the Red and Blue (7-4-1, 2-2 Ivy) took an early lead and never looked back, defeating the Big Green (8-5, 0-4) by a 1-0 score for the third consecutive year.

Both teams went back and forth right from the start. The Big Green threatened in the eighth minute, when sophomore Izzy Glennon received the ball at the penalty spot, forcing senior goalkeeper Kitty Qu into action with a diving save. Penn was quick to respond less than three minutes later, when senior forward Emma Loving crossed to junior Paige Howard, who managed to keep the ball after a tackle and found freshman midfielder Sizzy Lawton. The young Quaker shot from the edge of the box, leaving no chance for Dartmouth’s goalie and scoring her third goal of the season. “A lot of the time in practice, [coach Nicole Van Dyke] tells me to focus on opening up, because I tend to get back the way it came, so I’m trying to do that more during games,� Lawton said. “When I saw Paige winning that ball, I just made sure I opened up and hit it the best I could.�

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Freshman midfielder Sizzy Lawton scored her third goal of the season for Penn women’s soccer in its 1-0 victory against the Big Green at Rhodes Field. The win was Penn’s second of the Ivy League season.

matched from then on and didn’t challenge the goalkeepers. In the last minutes of the half, the visitors tried pressuring the Red and Blue’s defensive line when midfielder Alyssa Neuberger went around Qu, but she failed to get a shot off quickly, allowing the defenders to recover. Thus, the Quakers took their lead into halftime — something they have done five times this season, resulting in five wins. “The game in Columbia was too much transition, so we wanted to make sure we kept it here in our half as long as we could,�

Van Dyke said. “Today they focused on doing their roles and doing them really well. Our objective was to come out early and fast, because we know that when we score first, we win games.�

While the start of the second half could be described as quiet and even, the game grew onesided. Dartmouth ramped up its aggressiveness, incessantly looking for the equalizer, but the

Quakers were alert and ready to contain the attacks. In the 72nd minute, Big Green freshman Allie Winstanley left three defenders behind and took a strong shot. The attempt, however, was kept out by an impressive onehanded save from Qu. Dartmouth’s most dangerous opportunity came only six minutes later, when a free kick hit the crossbar and bounced right on the goal line, tricking the visiting fans into celebrating. Nonetheless, the Red and Blue quickly pushed the ball away to secure their fifth shutout of the season. “As a team, we executed the game plan really well. We were connecting more passes and playing them more physically,�

Qu said. “We definitely learned from our previous losses and grew, especially because everyone has been very adaptable and very willing to change into any role the team needs.�

Despite Dartmouth’s dominance toward the end of the

game, Van Dyke was not worried about the team’s performance. “Whatever team is a goal down in this league, they are the better team in the final 20 minutes,� Van Dyke said. “I know Dartmouth is 0-4, but they are still a very good team and it’s hard to get wins, so I am very proud of the girls. They prepared, they played confidently, they believed in themselves and in each other. We just want to keep building on that.�

With a remarkable improvement from last week’s match, it is clear that the Quakers have a recipe for success: taking advantages of their chances in the first half in order to score first, and then playing a more defensive game, always remaining well organized under pressure.

The Red and Blue get back in action next Monday, when they travel to take on Delaware State for the last non-conference game of the season.

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and 10 points, respectively.

Another familiar face returning for the Red and Blue was senior guard Ryan Betley, who took the court for the first time since suffering a ruptured patella tendon in last season’s opening game. A long year of rehab was finally capped off when Betley scored the first basket of the scrimmage and totaled eight points for the game.

While the team has relied heavily on Brodeur in the past, this year’s team offers the Quakers more options on the offensive end. “We go through AJ so much, and now we have some really good perimeter players,� coach Steve Donahue said. “I think we [have] a lot of players that can help us. I think we’re deeper than we’ve been the last couple of years.�

Helping to take the load off Brodeur are sophomores Michael Wang and Bryce Washington, both of who were doubledigit scorers on Saturday. “When we played well last year is when Michael [Wang]

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after a Navy field goal, senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins was intercepted in Penn territory.

Although Penn was able to hold Navy to a three-and-out, the Midshipmen had good enough field position to attempt and make another field goal to make it a two-score game, which effectively ended any chance the Quakers had.

After Penn punted on the subsequent possession, Navy ran out the clock and proceeded to win the game, 16-7.

For a Penn team that had scored 160 combined points over its last three contests, only being able to put up seven against Navy meant that it would have to rely on its defense. Even in the loss, the defense held a high-powered Navy attack to just 16 points. “Our defense played outstand-

and Bryce [Washington] were shooting the ball and were scoring the ball,� Donahue said. “Bryce Washington has taken a huge step in terms of where he was last year.�

The Quakers are also hoping that their freshmen can have an early impact on the team’s success. Freshman guard Jonah Charles figures to be a perimeter weapon for the Quakers this year after making 4-of-8 from beyond the arc in Saturday’s scrimmage.

The team also hopes to involve freshman Max Lorca-Lloyd, who showed potential as a threat in the paint.

As Saturday’s scrimmage showed, the Quakers have a handful of players that can contribute this season. “We could play a lot of guys right now. Now, who is going to play over another one, it’s up to them to decide,� Donahue said.

Both basketball squads will look to use this weekend’s scrimmage as a step toward their preparation for the season. The men will open the season on the road when they face Alabama on Nov. 5. The women’s team will start their season just four days later at home against Siena.

ing. They kept us in the game the entire way through, and, unfortunately, we couldn’t put more points on the board,� Jenkins said. “But I tip my cap to them. I really think they played their hearts out, and I really wish we could have scored a little bit more to win the game.�

The Red and Blue still have much to play for, with this being longtime coach Bill Wagner’s final few games at the helm. “We have a lot of competitors on this team, a lot of guys who play for the love of the game, and we’re going to play our hearts out no matter what, no matter who’s on the field against us, whether we can win the championship or not,�

Jenkins said. “I think we’re gonna go out and play as hard as we can.�

The Quakers will look to rebound next Saturday at Franklin Field against Alderson Broaddus (1-4) in what will be the team’s final home game of the season.

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