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fear. Immigrants are welcome here” and “Go home Homan.”

An official standing in front of the audience attempted to talk about Penn’s First Amendment rights and the event’s intention over the

Students criticized top administrators at a University Council meeting Wednesday over the lack of change between the last Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct in 2015 and the report that was released earlier this month.

At the meeting, Provost Wendell Pritchett announced new initiatives in response to the AAU survey, which showed that there was only a slight decrease in unwanted sexual contact among women on campus.

Pritchett said the University plans to expand staff members for Penn Violence Prevention and create a series of focus groups to analyze the survey responses.

“President [Amy] Gutmann and I, of course were, as we said in our message, troubled to see very little change from the last survey in 2015, in a number of students who reported unwanted or nonconsensual sexual contact,” Pritchett said.

The 2019 AAU survey, released on Oct. 15, found that 25.9% of Penn undergraduate women reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact, a slight decrease from the 2015 number of 27.2%. The percentage of transgender, non-binary, and genderqueer undergraduate students who experienced unwanted sexual contact since entering college rose to 21.5%, up from the 19% reported in 2015.

When the meeting opened up to new

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Students wielding signs that read, “Abolish ICE” and “No one is illegal on stolen land,” gathered inside and outside of Perry World House after the “Detention and Deportation from Obama to Trump” event. Before the protest, more than 500 students and alumni signed a petition demanding that Penn cancel the event.

Protests silence former ICE director Perry World House cited loud student chants PIA SINGH Staff Reporter

Perry World House abruptly ended a scheduled event on immigration policy and escorted guests off the

stage after one of the speakers, former United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan, was met with dozens of student protesters on Wednesday.

Students wielding signs that read, “Abolish ICE” and “No one is illegal on sto-

A new PPE director slammed for ‘Defending eugenics’ paper Students say the paper perpetuates a racist sentiment ASHLEY AHN Senior Reporter

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Penn students have sharply critiqued the recent hiring of Jonathan Anomaly as associate director of the Philosophy Politics & Economics Department for a paper he wrote in 2018 titled “Defending eugenics.”

Anomaly’s paper advocates for improving access to genetic education and technology and subsidizing contraceptives to allow people to make conscious decisions about their children’s traits. In the paper, he wrote that the eugenics he defends should be distinguished from the euSEE EUGENICS PAGE 7

len land,” gathered inside and outside of Perry World House minutes before the “Detention and Deportation from Obama to Trump” event, which was scheduled to take place from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Before the protest, more than 500 students and alumni signed a petition de-

manding that Penn cancel the event because of controversial policies Homan implemented when he led ICE. At around 4:45 p.m., protesters lined the outside of the building and sat in the event room filled with attendees. The students inside were chanting, “No hate. No

Design students plan town hall on renaming Students angry at Stuart Weitzman’s name at the school GORDON HO Staff Reporter

Amid backlash over the renaming of Penn’s School of Design to the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, students are moving forward with plans to confront the school’s dean in an upcoming town hall.

Earlier this month, students voiced frustration over Penn’s decision to rename the design school and asserted that Weitzman, a fashion icon and 1963 Wharton graduate, does not accurately represent the school because his profession as a designer is not related to any academic program offered at Penn.

The students also said they were upset with the lack of transparency and student input throughout the renaming process.

Third-year Architecture master’s student Mitch Chisholm, who is involved with the town hall’s planning, said the students wanted to have a faceto-face discussion with Design Dean Frederick Steiner. The students plan to host the town hall next week, but the exact date and time are not yet finalized, Chisholm said.

President Amy Gutmann announced that the school would be renamed after Stuart Weitzman in an email to the Penn community on Feb. 26. Gutmann did not disclose the amount Weiztman donated.

Weitzman Design associate professor and Architecture Associate Chair Annette Fierro said most faculty members were also blindsided by the renaming.

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A bust of Stuart Weitzman was unveiled during the official renaming of the Penn School of Design on Oct. 3, 2019.

The faculty were informed of the new name last spring, before the public announcement in February, Fierro said.

Design School faculty members were in a meeting when they received an announcement via email from Steiner.

There was no input from the faculty in the process, Fierro said, and the faculty found out about the renaming at the same time.

“It was a very closely guarded secret,” Fierro said. “We were taken by surprise, as the students were.”

Fierro said faculty members were

not informed of the exact amount Weitzman donated to the school.

Despite the lack of input from faculty members, Fierro said she was glad the endowment could help the students and provide the school with more resources.

“As a school, we have struggled financially for quite a while. I am not altogether comfortable with a one-to-one association with a commercial entity, but it was a generous gift,” Fierro said.

“Above all, the new endowment is going to help our students and because of

that, I am very happy.”

For years leading up to the renaming, the design school had consistently been ranked one of the University’s most tuition-dependent schools, which means that tuition was its primary source of revenue. The costly space and expensive technology, in addition to the limited research funding and gifts, placed the school in a situation with unique challenges.

Weitzman School of Design administrators did not respond to requests for comment.

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Penn grads dominate Forbes billionaire list

Elon Musk is No. 24 on the list with a net worth of $19.6 billion. President Donald Trump clocked in at No. 275 with a net worth of $3.1 billion.

Nineteen Penn grads on list, most of any school ABI MURUGADOSS Staff Reporter

Penn graduates occupy 19 places on the Forbes 400 list, a ranking of the richest people in America.

Penn is the most represented school in the rankings and 24% of the Forbes 400 graduated from an Ivy League school.

Some of the most well-known Penn graduates on the Forbes 400 list include co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk, who graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School

in 1997; 1968 Wharton graduate President Donald Trump; chief operating officer and president of Blackstone Group Jonathan Gray, who graduated from the College and Wharton in 1992; and Emerson Collective founder and 1985 College and Wharton graduate Laurene Powell Jobs.

The Forbes 400 list listed many of Penn’s wealthiest graduates, including Powell Jobs at No. 20 with a net worth of $20.5 billion, Musk at No. 24 with a net worth of $19.6 billion, 1954 Wharton graduate Leonard Lauder at No. 35 with a net worth of $13.4 billion, 1978 Wharton graduate Steve Cohen at No. 36 with a net worth of $13 billion, and 1966 Wharton MBA

Ronald Perelman at No. 49 with a net worth of $9.4 billion.

Trump clocked in at No. 275 with a net worth of $3.1 billion.

Some Penn graduates have demonstrated interest in philanthropy and donated their wealth directly to Penn.

1985 Wharton MBA Marc Rowan, the founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, who donated $50 million to Wharton in 2018, has a net worth of $3.2 billion and holds the No. 251 spot on the Forbes 400 list.

Many sites across Penn’s campus, such as Lauder College House and Perelman Quadrangle, are also named after individuals on the Forbes 400 list.

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business from University Council representatives, student representatives from Penn Association for Gender Equity and Penn Wellness expressed disappointment with the University administration on the lack of change from the last survey.

“There was no statistically significant change from the numbers reported four years ago. Data shows that our current efforts are not enough, and this is unacceptable” said College senior Maggie Zheng, who was the representative from PAGE. Penn Wellness Advocacy Chair and Engineering senior Kathleen Givan read a statement from Penn Wellness, PAGE, and Consent Collaborative, listing four demands from these organizations. The demands include mandatory assault prevention and consent training for freshmen during New Student Orientation.

“Data shows that Penn freshmen are disproportionally impacted by sexual assault. It is obvious that the one hour ‘Speak About It’ presentation is simply not enough in protecting our incoming students from harm,” Givan said.

Givan said the groups also called for further transparency and accountability regarding fraternity training on assault prevention.

“In 2017, only five out of

27 fraternities completed the mandatory new member education requirement regarding sexual assault prevention,” Givan said. “Penn must ensure that fraternities receive appropriate training or face significant repercussions in response to this critical issue.”

Other demands include a response to violence specific to transgender students and a switch to the third-party online assault reporting system Callisto, which offers the opportunity to anonymously report sexual assault without pursuing action.

“Even if a victim chooses not to go through with action, they can still be notified if someone else submits a report about the same person, allowing them solidarity and an opportunity to pursue action together,” Givan said. She added that many survivors and student groups have shown increased interest in Callisto, demanding a switch to that reporting system or detailed reasoning for why the University refuses to do so.

Pritchett told The Daily Pennsylvanian after the event that it is too early to give further information about the actions the University will take in response to the survey.

Pritchett did not provide more information about the new PVP staff members. He said the student focus groups will be designed to help the University learn more “about the experiences of Penn stu-

dents” and seek to understand the “best ways to provide information and resources and training on campus.”

After the event, Givan told the DP that the student groups will wait to see if the administration reaches out to them in response to their demands and they will update the Council at their next meeting in December. She said it was frustrating for her to see administrators put forth new programs when they have yet to comply with the basic demands these groups have made.

“We have already done the work for them in identifying what needs to change, and in addition to what they’ve proposed we feel that these demands are a must,” Givan said.

“All four demands we presented should be immediately pursued by the University as they represent the lowest bar.

They represent things that should have been done already.

They represent easy, immediate to-dos,” she added.

The Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct was a nationwide college sexual assault survey conducted by the Association of American Universities, which collects data on the unwanted sexual contact students experience on campus. Penn took part in the survey along with peer institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, and Brown University.

Penn Fund educates students about the impact of alumni donation The Penn Fund organized a new campaign this week to educate students about the impact of alumni donations on student life.

The weeklong campaign, “Penn It Forward,” is an extension of previous fundraising campaigns targeted at Penn seniors. It featured the Thank Penn Alumni Day on Monday, Oktoberfest for seniors on Tuesday, and Quaker Quest on Wednesday. Every class that reaches a 5% participation rate across the Penn It Forward events will receive $250 towards its Class Board budget, Penn Fund Executive Director Emily Kernan said.

The Penn Fund, which is separate from the University’s endowment, receives donations from undergraduate alumni and current parents that are used to enhance the undergraduate experience.

College junior Emily Solomon, Marketing and Communications assistant at the Penn Fund, said the

is something that I want to help do,” said attendee Carson Sheumaker, a Wharton freshman who previously worked at the Penn Call Center.

“I know we have a lot of opportunities, and it’s because people are willing to give money,” College sophomore Jeremiah Beeler added.

However, Beeler said he did not know much about the Penn Fund’s operations and specific contributions.

Kernan said almost 300 students wrote thank-you notes on Monday, and the event brought the Class of 2023 close to its 5% participation goal.

While Thank Penn Alumni Day and Quaker Quest are new events, Oktoberfest, an evening of music and German-inspired food and beer, is an annual Penn tradition.

Organized by the Penn Fund and the senior class board, Oktoberfest starts the Seniors for the Penn Fund campaign, which encourages seniors to make a donation to the University.

Wednesday’s Quaker Quest encouraged students to visit popular locations around campus made possible by alumni donations, in-

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The Penn Fund, which is separate from the University’s endowment, receives donations from undergraduate alumni and current parents that are used to enhance the undergraduate experience.

cluding the Arch, Class of 1959 Plaza, and the second floor landing of Houston Hall. Students who visited these locations received stamps from event organizers, and those who collected stamps from at least four of the seven locations received a free Schmear It bagel.

In the future, Kernan said, the

Penn Fund plans to run another campaign like Penn It Forward and may also do an event in the spring. Solomon added that the group also plans to revamp its website to make clearer how donations are spent.

Both Kernan and Solomon agreed that it is important to en-

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gage undergraduates in the donation process.

“Philanthropy doesn’t always have to be monetary,” Solomon said, adding that undergraduates can contribute by volunteering and coming to events. “They are not giving financially, but they are still part of the process.”

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group began planning Penn It Forward at the beginning of the semester to help students engage with the Penn Fund and learn more about the importance of alumni donations.

“A lot of undergrads don’t know where the money is going,” Solomon said. “I think that ultimately drives a lack of desire to give back to the University.”

Specifically, Solomon said Penn Fund donations are used for financial aid and for other initiatives such as improving campus Wi-Fi. “Sixty percent of the [fund] goes to undergraduate financial aid, which was huge for me to learn,” she said. “I’m on, like, full financial aid, so I think seeing that was a thing that inspired me and made me really grateful for the work all the people at the Penn Fund is doing.”

Monday’s Thank Penn Alumni Day event featured a table near Locust Walk where students could write thank-you notes and send pictures to alumni who donated to the Penn Fund. Students who did so received a free canvas tote bag and stickers.

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protesters, but they continued chanting.

At around 5 p.m., the speakers — including Homan, former Philadelphia City Solicitor Sozi Tulante, and former ICE Public Advocate Andrew LorenzenStrait — walked on stage as the chanting grew louder. Homan was chuckling and talking to Lorenzen-Strait, who was seated next to him. Fifteen minutes later, the speakers were escorted off the stage by an organizer, who announced the event was canceled.

Following the announcement, students cheered before officers escorted all attendees out of the building. More than a dozen students involved with the protest declined to be interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“Before the event even began, chanting by some members of the audience made it impossible to hold a constructive conversation. Since our founding, Perry World House has been deeply engaged with the timely and sensitive issue of immigration,” Perry World House Communications Director John Gans wrote in an email to The DP. “Members of the Penn community may disagree with a particular speaker at these events, but having conversations about those differences is part of what makes universities such as Penn essential locations for free inquiry, free expression, debate, and dialogue,” Gans added.

College junior Erin O’Malley, who participated in the protest, said she was not surprised the event was quickly shut down.

“There are a lot of people who are passionate at Penn,” O’Malley said. “When all these people come together, things like that can definitely happen and usually does happen.”

Homan was appointed by President Donald Trump and served as ICE Acting Director from January 2017 until his retirement in June 2018. During his tenure, ICE implemented

controversial policies that many say violated the rights of immigrant families, including the revocation of a policy that had allowed some critically ill undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States for medical treatment. Under former President Barack Obama, Homan oversaw thousands of border arrests. He also defended the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the border in the same month he retired.

Days before the event, a group of Penn alumni began circulating an online petition against Homan’s scheduled visit.

“Under Homan, ICE continued to be a violent organization responsible for terrorizing immigrant communities, for the separation of immigrant families, and for the persistent violation of the human rights of immigrants and their loved ones,” the petition read. “Consequently, inviting Homan as a guest speaker contradicts Penn’s claim of being a sanctuary campus that is committed to ensuring the well-being and safety of all of its students.”

Despite the backlash, the University stood by its decision to invite Homan.

On Tuesday, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an email to the DP that Homan was still scheduled to speak. Perry World House also released a statement on its website Tuesday addressing the controversy and confirmed the event would continue.

The petition also called for Penn to no longer invite current or former ICE or Customs and Border Patrol officials to campus; to create a Perry World House advisory board made up of diverse students and faculty; and to form an immigrant support fund and pay the renewal fees of students, faculty, and staff under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Dozens of people from other universities also signed the petition, including students from Drexel University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University.

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Students host event at the Kelly Writers House to celebrate Toni Morrison’s legacy as black female writer

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After College senior Imani Davis welcomed the audience, attendees stood at the front of the room and read passages from Morrison’s work that resonated with them.

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Kelly Writers House and the Center for Africana Studies remembered renowned author Toni Morrison in an event on Tuesday evening that celebrated her legacy as a black woman writer.

Students, faculty, and community members shared passages from the works of Morrison, who died in August. They also watched a documentary about the acclaimed author’s life and created collages with images and quotes from Morrison.

College senior Imani Davis and College junior Ashley Codner organized the event. The students, both Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows in the English department, said they were personally affected by Morrison and wanted to give everyone a space to remember

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her.

“We’re not the only people who have been influenced by her,” Codner said. “And to be able to celebrate one of ours, a black woman writer who has achieved such legacy within the canon, is amazing. We want everyone to be able to share in that space and make it communal.”

“She taught me that the work can be rigorous and lush without sacrificing my identity, and that I can write incredible, technically sound work about being a black girl,” Davis added.

After Davis welcomed the audience, attendees stood at the front of the room and read passages from Morrison’s work that resonated with them. Some were struck by the detailed imagery and use of language, others by the subject matter.

Margo Natalie Crawford, English professor and director of the Center for Africana Studies, read out the final passage of “Jazz,” and said she loved it because of its warmth.

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professor Herman Beavers shared a scene in a barbershop from “Song of Solomon,” focusing on how Morrison breathes life into her characters.

The open forum was followed by a screening of the documentary “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” which described how Morrison paved the way for literature that featured African-Americans and shifted away from a genre dominated by white males. The film also highlighted the universal nature of Morrison’s work.

Because the opening scene of the documentary characterizes Morrison’s work as a collage of black humanity, Davis and Codner gave attendees the chance to make collages of their own. The organizers filled a table with colorful, sparkling paper, images of Morrison, and pages filled with her significant quotes.

Students said they attended the event because they appreciated Morrison’s work and lasting legacy.

“No matter how old you are, or your race, class, or gender, it’s

important to understand the impact that Toni Morrison has had,” Temple University junior Cyè Jacobs said.

Wharton senior Kwynasia Young said she attended because Morrison is her mother’s favorite author and because she recently started reading “Song of Solomon.”

“It was really cool because when I was younger, I always imagined black characters, even if they weren’t black in the book,” Young said of reading “Song of Solomon.” “Now I can finally picture them as they were written.”

Davis and Codner said they have studied Morrison’s literature in multiple classes, including “Toni Morrison and the Adventure of the 21st Century” and “Introduction to African American Literature,” and hope to continue celebrating the author on campus.

“She was an occasion,” Davis said. “And it is one we will not ever have access to again.”

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Penn must recognize that a graduate student union will benefit everyone

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raduate students make up half the student body, yet they are often ignored and their concerns are often disregarded.

This was demonstrated once again this week, when Penn finally responded to graduate student complaints that have existed for at least the past year about the living conditions in Sansom Place East. Graduate students aren’t just students — they’re also workers, and they deserve a better, more direct way to complain to their employer. Graduate students need a union, and letting them organize will make Penn a stronger learning environment and home for scholarship for everyone. Penn should recognize the union voluntarily when elections are eventually held.

Last year, after fighting successfully to be able to hold a union election for two years, graduate student-worker group Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania opted to withdraw their application. This was for good reason, and one that will hold through at least 2020. As long as there is a Republican administration in the White House, there is a severe risk that the National Labor Relations Board will reverse the landmark 2016 decision that recognized Columbia University’s graduate student union

if Penn gave them a test case.

But this is not an excuse for Penn’s administration to continue to ignore the voices of graduate workers. The Trump administration will not control the NLRB forever, and graduate students may once again be able to plead their case for a union as soon as 2020.

Until then, the University must reconsider its position that it is not possible to be both a student and a worker.

This position is not only a rejection of the legal decision already handed down by the Philadelphia Labor Relations Board. It also impedes and damages the lives and futures of graduate students at Penn.

Penn could not function without the labor provided by graduate students.

They work as teaching assistants, researchers, graduate associates in on-campus housing, and much more.

Penn is also the primary or only employer for many graduate students who face enormous academic workloads and stressors on top of their labor.

It may not be convincing enough for the University that good working conditions are a basic right. Penn would be wise to consider their own interest as well. Institutions function better with union workers because they are more productive. For graduate students, better health insurance can mitigate anxiety over medical issues and higher wages can eliminate the need for an additional job, both of which allow these students to focus more on

teaching and research.

There are also other ethical considerations. Penn has a responsibility to provide better living conditions for graduate students who opt to live on campus, which administrators seemed to acknowledge by scheduling a focus group next month on this issue. A union could also help protect graduate students from sexual harassment and assualt, which is a serious problem at the University among graduate and undergraduate students. Penn could see this as an opportunity to address the troubling results of the Association of American Universities’ 2019 Campus Climate Survey, which found that 7.5% of graduate women and 2.7% of graduate men had reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact since entering college.

A graduate student union will make the University a healthier, more productive, learning environment for everyone — undergraduates with better TAs, professors with better research assistants, and graduate students with the resources and support to be both workers and students.

Penn has at least another year to keep fighting against GET-UP. Instead, administrators must stop seeing graduate students as adversaries, and start supporting their efforts to BRANDON LI unionize.

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SURAYYA’S SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE | I’ve let go of all external expectations and I encourage everyone else to do the same

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hen I entered Huntsman Hall for t he f i r st t i me, I discovered that Wharton had a mode of living and being entirely its own. The building was bustling with so much life and activity. I remember seeing men and women strutting past me in welltailored suits and the smell of ruthless ambition filling the air.

It soon became evident that everyone had a grander destination beyond their day-to-day classes or club meetings. They wanted to strike it big in an elite society built for capitalist success. The intensity was electric and mildly terrifying.

I was suddenly surrounded

by incessant career chatter, a territory my high-school self never ventured into.

Fr esh men t a l ke d about internships and concentrations as if they were set in stone.

Everyone seemed so “sure” of what they wanted to do. “Consulting” and “banking” were constantly thrown around.

I became acquainted with a fouryear timeline or formula that students aligned themselves with to increase their odds of “success.” Freshman or sophomore year you would try to get an internship, then maybe another one, and then an offer. You would join

Our four-year plans deprive us of the ability to use our ingenuity to develop new roles or ventures that align with our talents.” this or that club or engage in research or case competitions. It was a hamster wheel of sorts, and nothing about it seemed genuine.

Today, that timeline has absolutely no effect on my college experience, my long-term goals, or how I organize and plan my time. I’ve let go of all external expectations and I encourage everyone else to do the same.

The four-year sequence, while functional for some, swallows discovery and authentic pursuit for others. As a firm believer that success is a relative concept and that ever yone’s life runs on a different timeline, I find the pressure st udents place on themselves to become a certain version of success h e a r t b r e a k i n g.

We must open ourselves to discover ing what we truly want to become.

Even Penn proAVALON MORELL fessor A ngela

Duckworth admitted to discovering her career when she was 32 years old. Instead of restricting ourselves to rigid goal-setting timelines, we must remain open to the process. We can’t plan everything. Sometimes you intend to go one way and the world blows you in a completely different direction.

Our four-year plans, which often end with corporate “success,” deprive us of the ability to use our ingenuity to develop new roles or ventures that align with our talents. Corporate America isn’t for everybody. Let’s stop acting like it is. As a Wharton student, I allow my interests to motivate me, which discourages me from getting caught up in the career-comparison rat-race.

I seek meaningful experiences, regardless of whether they are “resume-worthy.” It’s fine to do something original; in fact, the world needs more of that.

Penn students tend to be multifaceted people. I’ve yet to meet one Penn student who isn’t eclectic or passionate about multiple things. The future is flexible and the job market is changing; new roles are always emerging. Why push yourself into a box or a timeline instead of creating opportunities for yourself? W hy not become the trendsetter, the person b r ave enough to pave their own path?

Our university is defined by its students’ innovation and creativity.

We should channel those traits into creating careers and lives that model our ow n unique growth and development.

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SURAYYA WALTERS peer advising program. Score your dream internship. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be ambitious. I simply believe that ambition shouldn’t be stressful and time-consuming, but the type of ambition that yearns for something larger than ourselves — the type of ambition that is okay with things taking longer than they “should.” Concern yourself with the macro things like your happiness, not whether you get that internship sophomore or junior summer or if your job offer comes before or after graduation.

Benjamin Franklin said that “by failing to plan, you are planning to fail.” I’d like to challenge that statement. For some of us our downfall isn’t a lack of planning but our desire to plan everything. Our desire to have it all “figured out” at such a young age is what cripples our development. Evidently, we all had a master plan for our lives, which is how we got to Penn.

The bigger question is, did we plan for our own personal fulfillment? The purpose of college is to find a purpose. Did we plan for that?

I’d like to leave you with this piece of advice: If you are to reach your full potential, you must remain open to your evolution.

That is what I tell myself on the days when I don’t feel ambitious enough or when I have no clear answer when someone asks me what I want to be when I grow up.

No matter what, I’ll remain open to the process of becoming. As for now, I’m striving to become the very best person I can be. Everything else is secondary, really.

SURAYYA WALTERS is a Wharton sophomore from New Rochelle, N.Y. concentrating in Marketing and minoring in Urban Education. Her email is surayyaw@wharton.upenn.edu

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he r esu lt s f rom t he 2019 A sso ciat ion of American Universities su r vey on sexual harassment were recently released. The report showed that there was no statistically significant change in the rates of sexual harassment and assault from those reported four years ago, and that more than 25% of Penn undergraduate women experienced unwanted sexual contact. President Gutmann deemed these findings as “deeply troubling,” and said these statistics should galvanize the Penn community to action.

It falls to the student body to take action to improve a campus climate, which, since 2015, has been increasingly described by female undergraduates as having an “extremely problematic” sexual misconduct problem. While it falls on all Penn students to help prevent

incidences of sexual harassment and assault, the men on this campus have a special responsibility to do so. In order to reduce the rates of sexual misconduct on this campus, the men on Penn’s campus need to hold themselves and each other to a higher standard and actively stop or prevent misconduct when they see it.

Men and women are both capable of preventing harassment and assault. But according to the AAU survey, men are more likely to do nothing after witnessing an assault than a woman in the same situation.

After witnessing a variety of forms of sexual misconduct, undergraduate men chose to do nothing 43.6% of the time, as compared to 33.3% of undergraduate women. These statistics are troubling not just because the do-nothing rate

for both sexes is i n t o l e rably high, but b e cause t he st at ist ic for men is so much lower than it is for women even t hough men often operate from a position of greater power on this campus.

Much of Penn’s social scene takes place in male-dominated spaces. Moreover, men are afforded the luxury of male privilege, and so from a social perspective, it is easier for a man to insert himself into a situation of misconduct than it is for a woman.

This is coupled with the fact that men are far more likely to be perpetrators rather than victims. For all cases of forced penetration or sexual touching

Sexual assault is largely a male-perpetuated issue and if the men on this campus made a cultural commitment to preventing assault, genuine progress could be made.” involving a female victim on this campus, 98.7% of the time the perpetrator was a man. For all cases of forced penetration or sexual touching involving a male victim, another male was the perpetrator 43.1% of the time. Although these statistics paint a picture that is not surprising, they underscore the point that sexual assault is largely a male-perpetuated issue and that if the men on this campus made a cultural commitment to preventing assault, genuine progress could be made.

Although approximately 90% of undergraduate men have attended at least one training session on how to prevent sexual assault or sexual misconduct, it will take more than a single

training session to make genuine progress — it will take a wholesale shift in this campus’s culture in the way that men interact with women and each other. Men need to hold each other accountable for comments that might seem harmless in the moment but create a culture of toxic masculinity and female (and male) objectification. At parties, this means keeping tabs on female friends and intervening when male friends get a little pushy. It means checking in, even with strangers, and making sure that they’re safe, comfortable, and aware of their surroundings. It means not sitting on the sidelines and letting what is a questionable situation turn into a full-blown situation of

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It’s also important to acknowledge the significant number of men who are themselves victims of sexual assault, and to recognize that women are capable of predatory behavior, too. Recognizing that men are not stoic, unfeeling statues but people that feel things just as intensely as everyone else is crucial in dismantling the cultural structures that predispose men to assault and allow men who have suffered from assault to get the help and support that they need.

Penn’s administration can do better by mandating more sexual assault education programs or finding ways to increase victims’ access to resources. However, generating real change in Penn’s campus culture ultimately lies at the feet of the student body, and particularly at the feet of male students. Men at Penn need to leverage their social privilege so that people of all genders can feel secure on campus and can experience Penn’s social scene without falling victim to assault or harassment. Until that happens, we can only expect that little will change between this survey and the next.

JAMES MORRISON is a College sophomore from Pipersville, Pa. studying English. His email address is jmorr2@sas.upenn.edu.

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Ortner Center hosts panel on violence against women in military History professor Kathleen Brown moderated the panel PRANAV ANAND Staff Reporter

The Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse in Relationships hosted a panel discussion on the prevalence of violence against women in the military on Tuesday evening.

The “Violence Against Women and the U.S. Military” conference, hosted at Penn Law, featured a former lieutenant, a behavioral scientist, and numerous professors who have studied sexual assault in the military.

The panel, moderated by History professor Kathleen Brown, discussed relevant policy research and highlighted the pervasiveness of the issue.

The panelists included Melissa Dichter, associate professor of Social Work at Temple University, Andrea Goldstein, former Special Opera-

tions Forces troop commander and Senior Policy Advisor to the Women Veterans Task Force, Emily Rothman, professor of community health sciences at Boston University, and Andrew Morral, author of congressional reports about sexual assault.

The event received support from the Provost’s Office, the Campaign for Community initiative, and the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women. Susan Sorenson, executive director of the Ortner Center, said the center chose to organize the panel as part of Penn Law Public Interest Week, which invites speakers to discuss various social issues.

“There are multiple problems with [the military] system, in that it discourages disclosure regarding incidents occurring within the military,” said Sorenson.

Brown said the issue is relevant in the wake of President Amy Gut-

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“It’s different [from non-military sexual assault] because you’re trapped in your unit,” Goldstein said. “The person who’s perpetrating the assault is someone who’s supposed to guard your life. That’s a fundamental betrayal that you don’t find anywhere except for the military.”

Morral discussed his survey of over 150,000 members of the U.S. military, which showed that sexual harassment was viewed as highly prevalent in the military. Morral added that sexual assault presents itself in the form of hazing, and both men and women in the military tend to be affected by it.

“When you’re looking for sexual assault, you’re looking for something that, quite often, many people don’t know about,” Morral said.

Dichter discussed her studies on sexual assault, comparing women

who had served in the military and those who had not. Military service, she said, does not in any way protect a woman from experiencing intimate partner violence.

“People tend to think of women who have served in the military as people who are stronger than others – just because someone’s served in the Marine Corps doesn’t mean they’re not deserving of help,” Dichter said.

Dichter also highlighted that assault victims in the military are faced with reporting incidents to higherranking officials who can possibly be the perpetrators themselves.

Buried in the bureaucratic structure of the military, Goldstein said, is a system that fails to support victims.

“They say treating sexual violence is a distraction from a mission,” Goldstein said. “But people are the mission. And I’d like to see it treated with real seriousness.”

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The Trump campaign has not announced plans to host a rally in Philadelphia or the surrounding area in the near future, despite Pennsylvania’s status as a swing state that Republicans are angling to win. Political analysts say the city’s liberal population makes the location an unlikely choice. Currently, Trump has no rallies scheduled in Pennsylvania.

Randall Miller, a Saint Joseph’s University History professor and an expert on Philadelphia politics, said the Trump campaign’s lack of a rally in the city is unsurprising, given its reputation as a bastion of Democratic support.

When he was a candidate in 2016, Trump hosted rallies elsewhere in Pennsylvania, such as West Chester, Newtown Township, and Manheim.

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than Philadelphia, which voted for Hillary Clinton over Trump in landslide proportions.

Miller said the 1968 Wharton graduate would likely face protests if he hosted a rally in Philadelphia, and Trump faces friendlier terrain in Philadelphia’s surrounding counties. “You can do something in Chester County, and you’re still going to make Channel Six news [in Philadelphia],� Miller said.

Earlier this month, the Trump campaign hosted a rally in Minneapolis, Minn., a liberal city in a swing state the Republican Party is targeting to win in 2020. The event was met with large protests and featured a spat between Minneapolis’ mayor and Trump in the buildup to the rally.

Penn Democrats Political Director and College junior Owen Voutsinas-Klose said if Trump hosted a rally in Philadelphia, the group would likely plan to protest the event. “[Penn Democrats and its allies] would definitely want to some kind of protest,� Voutsinas-Klose said. “It would be a great opportunity for us to make our voice heard.�

However, Trump has engaged in other speaking events in Philadelphia. In October 2018, Trump spoke in front of an electrical contractors

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movement that took a “racist direction� in the United States and Germany. Students, however, say the paper’s argument is still offensive and alienates certain students.

Eugenics is the controversial practice and study of creating a society with desirable hereditary traits. The term is commonly associated with Nazi Germany and the forced production of a superior race through biological experiments. “The title of this essay is deliberately provocative. Eugenics can be thought of as any attempt to harness the power of reproduction to produce people with traits that enable them to thrive,�

Anomaly wrote in the paper’s introduction. “Nearly everyone agrees that parents should provide an environment that promotes the welfare of their children.�

Anomaly said the paper was initially to be a part of a book anthology on ethics in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. Thinking his audience would be predominantly bioethicists, Anomaly said he did not think the title would garner the controversy it has with students today. “In hindsight, I just should’ve used a different title,� Anomaly said. “I should’ve just said defending genetic enhancement, but my audience, I thought, was just going to be bioethicists, but it turned out that word has become a buzzword and I think a lot of people now just use it as meaning something like Nazi eugenics.�

Some students said the word “eugenics� is inherently tied to negative historical connotations.

College junior Sabrina Ochoa, who is a PPE major, criticized Anomaly’s historical analysis of eugenics. After the department announced Anomaly’s hiring earlier this month

a hierarchy of biological races in his paper. “[In the paper] there are certain groups — he mentions Jewish people as an example — that are inherently genetically superior than everyone else, and that’s just so many layers even beyond what Amy Wax said,� Maxwell said.

In July 2019, Wax argued for an immigration policy favoring immigrants from Western countries over non-Western countries at the inaugural National Conservatism Conference. Thousands have since signed a petition calling on Penn Law to denounce Wax’s statements and relieve her of all teaching duties.

Ochoa said Penn needs to be “more careful about its hiring choices� in the wake of the Wax controversy and that Penn needs to consider how the views of faculty and staff members can alienate certain students at Penn.

School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty did not respond to request for comment.

Bravo said he appreciates Anomaly’s admittance that he should not have titled the paper “Defending eugenics� and that it is important to note that Anomaly does not argue for more government intervention as seen in the early 20th century, referring to Anomaly’s concluding sentence which reads, “Sometimes the best policy is not to have one.�

Anomaly said his upcoming book, “Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement,� to be published in 2020, is a more “mature� and less provocative version of his 2018 paper.

Anomaly said although he wished he did not use “eugenics� in the title, it is “not a way of apologizing,� and he still stands by the overarching argument presented in the paper. He said he “sympathizes� with the students who criticize his paper. “I would say to them, let’s have a conversation,� Anomaly said.

“In hindsight, I just should’ve used a different title.�

convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, touting the current state of the U.S. economy.

Penn Political Science professor Marc Meredith said Trump may not benefit from holding campaign rallies in Philadelphia, but could benefit by fundraising in the city. “Trump and his surrogates will likely conduct a number of fundraisers in Philadelphia over the next few months,� Meredith said. “It’s just a lot of money to be had.�

The Trump campaign fundraised multiple times in Philadelphia in 2016. In July, Trump raised $731,000 in the Philadelphia area, second to Joe Biden’s $818,000, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “When Trump starts holding rallies in the region, they might be in the further-out suburbs,� Meredith said. “He tends to have greater support [there] than in the city or in the suburbs immediately touching the city.�

So far this year, Trump has held 14 rallies, with two more currently scheduled in Mississippi and Kentucky in early November.

But Meredith did not rule out the possibility of a rally in Philadelphia. “It’s hard to predict anything with certainty with Trump,� Meredith said. “One never knows what he might decide to do.�

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in an email to majors, Ochoa searched his name on Google and found the paper. “Eugenics has historically been associated with controlling, punishing, and violence towards different people who had been racialized and you can’t really remove it from that historical context,� Ochoa said.

2019 College graduate Luis Bravo said the word “eugenics� was a flawed attempt to attract more readers. “You don’t title a paper ‘Defending eugenics’ without knowing some notion of what the connotation of eugenics is and what the potential reaction [to] that could be,� Bravo said.

Students argued that even if Anomaly had not used the word “eugenics� specifically, the

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- Jonathan Anomaly paper still promotes racial essentialism, or a “belief in a genetic or biological essence that defines all members of a racial category.�

Ochoa said the “racist connotations� can be seen when Anomaly discusses Nazi eugenics. While Anomaly calls Hitler’s attempt to exterminate Ashkenazi Jewish people “morally outrageous,� Ochoa pointed to parts of the paper that state, “a truly eugenic program might have encouraged Jews to breed more, not less� and that Ashkenazi Jewish people were “arguably among the most intelligent and productive people of the twentieth century.�

College junior Jackson Maxwell said especially in light of the controversy surrounding Penn Law School professor Amy Wax, he finds it shocking that Penn chose to hire Anomaly as PPE’s associate director.

Maxwell said while Wax’s statements were “super problematic� in discussing a hierarchy of cultures, he said Anomaly promotes the idea of

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Three Questions: Joey Bhangdia looks to continue strong conference play Field hockey is coming off a pair of narrow losses DP SPORTS EDITORS

Penn teams will have had their fill of competition from Yale after this weekend, as field hockey and both soccer teams will face off against the Bulldogs. Unlike this Saturday’s football game, where the Quakers travel to New Haven, Conn., this trio will all play at home.

Can field hockey improve to above .500 in conference play?

Penn field hockey (5-8, 2-2 Ivy) had a couple of tight losses against Columbia and No. 11 Delaware last week, but the team has an opportunity to come away from this weekend with a winning record in Ivy play.

The Quakers will take on a Yale (4-9, 1-3) squad that has stalled near the bottom of the League standings. However, the Bulldogs have won their last two contests, one of which was a 6-0 throttling of Dartmouth. The Red and Blue also

beat the Big Green, but it took them extra time to do so.

With just three more conference games remaining, Penn will be playing Saturday’s game — as well as the remainder of this stretch — with a sense of urgency.

“We’re hopeful to come out with a win,” senior forward and captain Alexa Schneck said. “We want to find a way to win, no matter what it takes; it doesn’t have to be pretty.

“Everything we’ve worked on in practice, we’ve gotten better.”

Last season, the Quakers beat Yale 2-0 with goals from the forward duo Schneck and Erin Quinn, who is now a junior. The Red and Blue are hoping for a similar result this time around, which would put them above .500 in conference play.

Will women’s soccer hand Yale its first Ivy road loss?

Coming off of a win against Delaware State this past Monday, Penn women’s soccer will return to Rhodes Field this weekend to continue their Ivy play. The Red and Blue (8-4-1,

2-2 Ivy) will compete against Yale (10-3, 3-1).

Last year, the Quakers beat the Bulldogs by a score of 2-1, extending their season’s winning streak to five games. This season the Quakers have had decidedly more mixed results, having lost more games already than all of last year.

However, the Red and Blue are confident to face Yale again, and this time at home.

“We’re in a really good place, we got them at home,” coach Nicole Van Dyke said.

The Quakers gained some wisdom from their win against Delaware State, which will hopefully lead them to success this Saturday. They outshot the Hornets by their biggest margin this season: 22-3.

“We probably gave up too many fouls in the game that contributed to some free kicks, but we don’t want to give anyone any chances that they don’t deserve,” Van Dyke said. “We felt like this week was about the small details and doing things that one percent better in order to prevent even less op-

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If you have been to a Penn men’s soccer game this season, the play of Ben Stitz has probably caught your eye one way or another.

Ever-present in the center of the field for Penn, the sophomore midfielder has impressed this season by dictating play in the attacking third, as well as providing a strong shielding presence in front of the defensive line.

Soccer has always been in Stitz’s DNA. Both of his parents played soccer at the collegiate level, so he was exposed to the sport from a very early age.

“Soccer was something that came to me from my family,” Stitz said. “It was just something I grew up doing and liking. I eventually started to play club [soccer] at six and played all the way up to my senior year of high school.”

Last season, Stitz was not afforded significant game time amid tough competition in the middle of the field. However, Stitz seemed to have flipped a switch toward the end of the season, as he started in seven of Penn’s last eight matches,

most of which were against Ivy League competition. In those games, he was a major contributor on the defensive end, helping the Red and Blue earn three shutouts.

This year, Stitz has already eclipsed his statistics from 2018. Having started in all of the Quakers’ 11 games so far alongside senior midfielder Brandon Bartel, Stitz has continued to shield his backline from opposing attackers, but he has also thrived in the attacking third of the pitch.

In particular, he has looked threatening when carrying the ball forward, as opposing defenders have failed to match up against his mix of both skill and power. Stitz’s marauding runs have put him in a lot of promising positions. His 20 shots taken, 10 of which were on target, rank second on the team.

Stitz believes his freshman year playing experience, as well as being deployed in a slightly more advanced role, has helped him further develop his attacking instincts.

“Last year I came in inexperienced [since] I didn’t really know what the coaches wanted from a systematic standpoint,” Stitz said. “Now just having a year under my belt, knowing what the coaches want, and being able to know [my teammates better], I’ve been playing

better as a result.”

In fact, Stitz’s improvements have already yielded tangible rewards on the scoresheet. His first assist for Penn came in the team’s home opener — a 1-0 win over Marist — while he notched his first career goal and another assist in Penn’s Ivy League opening win against Cornell.

Being on a team that is known for its stout defense, those offensive contributions are crucial. Stitz is one of only five Quakers who have scored this season. His two assists lead the team along with Bartel and junior forward Jake Kohlbrenner.

“It’s exciting,” Stitz said about his point tally. “Just being able to directly contribute to the scoresheet is something that obviously you want to do [when] playing as more of an attacking midfielder. Hopefully I will get a couple more goals and assists later on in the season.”

Even though his strong start to the season has been encouraging, Stitz is keeping his head down and vows to keep playing well for the team.

“Obviously we want to win the Ivy [title], and we want to have a winning record,” he said.

“I think that with team success, the individual success starts coming out.”

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Sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz has started in all 12 games for the Quakers this season. He has a goal and an assist in conference play this season, and his seven shots in League play lead the Red and Blue.

portunities for the opponent.”

The Bulldogs will hope to continue their three-game winning streak. When they played Cornell last Saturday, they outshot the Big Red 22-2.

Can men’s soccer pull off an upset of the No. 24 Elis?

Coming off an overtime win against 33rd Street rival Drexel, Penn men’s soccer hosts No. 24 Yale at Rhodes Field on Saturday. The Quakers’ conference season has been marginally successful so far; after defeating Cornell in their Ivy opener, the Red and Blue tied Columbia and lost to Dartmouth.

Junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia and sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz have been especially integral for the Quakers in conference play; between them, they have scored seven points on 13 shots. On the defensive side, junior Alex Touche, freshman Kai Lammers, and senior Casey Barone have anchored a Red and Blue defense that has allowed just one goal per game this season.

The Elis have impressive nonconference wins this sea-

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Against Ivy League-leading Yale, Penn men’s soccer will likely look to leading scorer and junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia offensively.

son over Central Connecticut State and UConn, and they are undefeated in Ivy League play.

Junior midfielder Mark Winhoffer and senior midfielder Miguel Yuste lead the way for

the Bulldogs, having scored 33 combined points this season.

Yale will surely prove to be a tough matchup for Penn, who hasn’t beaten a ranked team since 2010.

Gracyn Banks has become reliable presence in field hockey’s back line

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Sophomore defender Gracyn Banks has played more minutes for Penn field hockey than any nongoalie this season. Banks points to stretching and massages as key ingredients to her success.

Sophomore has started in 12 of Penn’s 13 contests GRACE HYLINSKI Sports Reporter

Not many players can say that they have played every possible minute of their season. But through 12 games, Penn field hockey defender Gracyn Banks was doing just that.

Banks, who is just a sophomore, has played 725 minutes this season over the course of Penn’s 13 games, the most of any non-goalie on the team.

During her freshman year, Banks did not see nearly as much action — she only played 81 minutes in total.

Taking on a bigger role sounds like a daunting step for an underclassman, but it is exactly what Banks wanted for herself personally and as an important member of the Red and Blue.

“I think the transition started from working hard in the offseason,” Banks said. “I was working on my conditioning and trying to play as much as possible over the summer so I could come into the season as prepared as possible. I’m hop-

ing to take on an even bigger leadership role in the upcoming seasons, as well as help my teammates and myself achieve our goals.”

One thing is for sure — Banks is not shy when it comes to becoming a more vital player on the field. She has received the help of the more experienced Quakers in implementing this change.

“It was an adjustment to step up into such an important role on the team, but it has not been stressful because my team is always so supportive and has helped me each step of the way,” Banks said.

Although she is only a sophomore, Banks hasn’t had a problem stepping up into a more vocal role on the field.

As a defender, she has an important role in communication on the field, as she has the best view of the opposing team’s attacking forces.

“I think I have been able to become a voice from the backfield by focusing on my communication within the defense as well as working to get the forwards and midfielders into position,” Banks said. “I think that my teammates trust that I always have their backs if

the ball does happen to get by them.”

With all the games the Quakers have played this season, it is more important than ever at this point in the season to make sure they are treating their bodies properly. “[Recovery] is extremely important,” Banks said. “Immediately after games, we cool down with some stretching. I always make sure to do an ice bath on Monday mornings after the weekend games to help my muscles recover. We also have massages, which are so nice to help with the soreness after the weekend.”

While the Red and Blue aren’t having the season they would’ve hoped for at 5-8 overall and 2-2 in conference play, they are still focused on winning games and playing at their highest level. With Banks in such an important role, she plans to continue to keep working as hard as possible while also helping her teammates perform at their best.

The Red and Blue will next take the field on Saturday at Ellen Vagelos Field, where they will face Yale in another Ivy contest.

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Once again, Penn is projected to share the top spot with a familiar foe.

In last year’s regular season, the Red and Blue tied with

Princeton for the top spot in the Ancient Eight. This year’s Ivy League preseason poll has placed both the Quakers and the Tigers in first place.

Both teams received 125 points, and Penn’s seven firstplace votes fell just short of Princeton’s 10. Harvard and Yale rounded out the top four, with 95 and 90 points, respectively. Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, and

Brown filled out the second half of the rankings.

For the past seven years, the Quakers have been selected for either the first or second place spot in the poll.

In last season’s poll, Penn was predicted to come in second with 107 points and two first-place votes. Though the Quakers tied for first with Princeton during the 2018-19 regular season, they

succumbed to the Tigers in the Ivy Tournament final.

Penn and Princeton’s rivalry has taken center stage in the Ivy Tournament over the past few years. The two top teams have faced off in the finals of all three tournaments thus far.

One of three returning starters for Penn this year, junior center Eleah Parker is expected to once again lead the Quakers on de-

fense. Last year, Parker was the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and unanimously made the League’s first team. The senior duo of Phoebe Sterba and Kendall Grasela will also undoubtedly play a crucial role for the Quakers.

The Red and Blue have had seven straight postseason appearances and will hope to increase this number to eight this season.

Ivy League play will commence for the Quakers on Jan. 11, when they open against Princeton for the 15th straight season.

The Quakers boast a record of six straight seasons with more than 20 wins. They will play a total of 12 home games this season.

Penn’s season opens on Nov. 9 at the Palestra, where they will face Siena.

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save of the game in the 42nd minute on a header shot from Drexel defender Anthony Amore.

The second half saw the physicality of the game ramp up. Drexel collected three yellow cards and Penn received one, while numerous fouls throughout the half presented opportunities for both sides to take the lead.

Drexel’s most dangerous chance of the game came in the 48th minute, when a Quaker defender headed away a shot from Laolu Daranijo right before it crossed the goal line.

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I went to Costa Rica. So I felt like I was on campus for the entire time.”

Training during the summer is a major factor that can allow runners to take their game to the next level.

“For cross country, the fitness can’t happen in a short period of time, so the work that’s done over the summer really sets the table for it,” coach Steve Dolan said. “The general fitness that they have from the work over the summer is really essential, and Ariana for sure worked re-

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While Penn has a one-game lead on Cornell in overall wins, Yale’s home triumph against the team should be taken as a warning for the Quakers. Cornell and Penn are tied in the conference at 0-2 and share a 1-2 away record.

A particularly revealing indicator of Saturday’s outcome could lie in Penn’s recent game against Columbia last week.

Columbia holds the same conference standing as Yale at 1-1.

Penn was decidedly defeated by a substantial 38 points last week, only getting on the scoreboard

The Quakers had several chances in the second half but failed to capitalize. A free kick by sophomore midfielder Ben Stitz in the 87th minute was saved, and his rebound was sent wide by Drexel keeper Stephen Kopsachilis. As the drought continued, the Quakers and Dragons headed to overtime.

The Red and Blue came onto the field for the third time with a vengeance. In the 97th minute of the game, junior forward Jake Kohlbrenner redirected a long pass from sophomore defender Brendan Hanrahan toward the far post.

Rosener was there to bury the ball in the back of the net to pick up his first career goal and win the game

for Penn.

“It felt really good to contribute to the team, and especially get a goal in overtime,” Rosener said.

“I think it’s a really good win for the team, because we’ve had two tough results against UMBC and Dartmouth, back to back, where we felt we played pretty good but just couldn’t put one in the back of the net. So it felt really good to get back to our winning ways.”

With this match concluding nonconference play, the Quakers will now set their sights on the remainder of their Ivy League schedule, which will continue with a meeting against No. 24 Yale at home on Saturday night.

ally hard, as did her teammates at large. That’s really a big part of the success we’re having.”

Dolan also emphasized how much Ariana and the rest of the Quakers have progressed from last year to this year.

“It’s been very exciting actually, because one season kind of builds on the next, and we had a very good track and field season last year,” he said. “So I think Ariana is a representation of how other runners had breakthroughs on the track and went into the summer motivated to take that to cross country. They worked really hard in the summertime and I think the success

of last track season and a good summer really set it up well for the fall.”

“It’s exciting, and the fun thing for the group is that as we go into the Ivy League championships, they’re one of the teams that’s dreaming about trying to win, which is a pretty exciting position to be in,” Dolan added.

The strong team dynamic is something that drives Ariana to continue to push her limits, and she believes that the commitment, teamwork, and accountability on her team make everyone feel that there are big things ahead.

after a fumble by the Lions in the fourth quarter.

As a result, the Quakers gave Columbia its only home win of the season and reacquired a losing away record. Yale’s additional home successes compared to that of Columbia only exacerbate the situation, and the Quakers have plenty of pressure on them to hold their own this weekend. Needless to say, the Red and Blue cannot afford to play the same way that they did against the Lions if they want to have a chance in New Haven.

With all that being said, Penn has the tools to improve its play at New Haven. While Penn falls

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behind Yale in passing touchdowns, the two teams have nearly the same amount of total touchdowns. The Quakers have average passing yards and third down conversion rates comparable to that of Yale and even surpass the Bulldogs in rushing yards per game.

Penn needs to find its groove in converting these plays to points in order to have a strong showing this Saturday. With other weighty opponents like Harvard and Princeton on the horizon, Saturday’s game could be one of Penn’s best chances to get back to its winning ways in the Ivy League.

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“It’s all part of Coach Morris’ script. He’ll go into it understanding on fourthand-short yardage situations — that could be from fourth and 1 to fourth and 5 — that you’re going to have a selection of plays depending where you are on the field, and the play is going to change depending on the opponent that we are playing that week,” Priore said.

At the end of the day, a fourth down or two-point conversion is the same as any other play during the course of a game in Priore’s book. There are plays ready to be called and depending on what the defense is showing, adjustments will be made. If you execute it successfully, you move the ball forward — it’s that simple.

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ers have found themselves sitting at the bottom of this metric. A year ago, the Red and Blue found themselves 0-for-8 in converting fourth downs. However, Penn was ranked first in the category just two years ago.

In terms of two-point conversions, Penn has only attempted two so far this year.

The first was an unsuccessful attempt in the final minutes of the season opener against Delaware, which proved costly in the 28-27 loss. The second was good but came late in the fourth quarter in the team’s loss to Dartmouth.

While it’s up to Priore to decide whether to go for it on a fourth down or twopoint conversion, offensive coordinator Kevin Morris is responsible for determining the play call.

that you’re playing,” Priore said. “What do they do in those situations — do they blitz, do they play soft coverage, do they play manto-man, do they play zone?

Everything is predicated on what you anticipate them doing. But that could be said about every down. Every down is treated that way so you don’t really treat fourth down or two-point conversions any differently.”

“I think that anytime you go for it on fourth down or go for two, it’s exciting. As a player, you like it because you get to stay on the field and roll the dice a little bit,” senior quarterback Nick Robinson added.

When it’s all said and done, fourth downs and twopoint conversions are fun to watch. They add an element of risk into a football game, especially when the outcome of the game all comes down to a single play.

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Overtime goal from Rosener vaults Penn men’s soccer over Drexel Rosener’s game-winner came in the 97th minute LOCHLAHN MARCH Contributing Reporter

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Despite the torrential rain, it looked like Penn’s goal drought might never end.

Coming off two 1-0 losses to

UMBC and Dartmouth, Penn men’s soccer was looking to turn its momentum around and win its last nonconference game of the season against Drexel. Scoreless in regulation, it took the Quakers six minutes of overtime to find the back of the net before they knocked off the Dragons, 1-0.

The goal — off the foot of freshman midfielder Jack Rosener — ended Penn’s 375-minute goal drought and snapped its losing streak at two. With this victory, Penn (5-5-2, 1-1-1 Ivy) nabbed the Philadelphia Soccer Six title, shared

with Villanova (8-5-1). This is Penn’s first title win since 2014.

Although the rain didn’t let up, the Quakers didn’t let the conditions demotivate them.

“I just think the group is really committed and really well prepared, so we try not to let any distractions get in the way,” Rosener said.

“I think, even though we came off two tough results, we were still really confident in ourselves and really confident in our abilities and we didn’t let any distraction stop us.”

The Quakers and the Dragons (57-2) went back and forth in the rainy

first half, with chances at either end but neither team able to get on the board.

Penn’s two best chances in the first half came from junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia, who sent one shot wide in the second minute of the game and narrowly hit the post with a second shot in the 13th minute.

Drexel’s offense couldn’t seem to locate the net, sending two shots high and wide. In his second career start, freshman goalkeeper Nick Christoffersen made his lone SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 9

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Jack Rosener’s first career goal came at an opportune time for Penn, as it gave the Quakers the win and pushed them back to .500 on the year.

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Coming off of a blowout loss to Columbia last week, Penn football has the daunting task of facing off against Yale this Saturday in New Haven, Conn.

The Red and Blue will have their work cut out for them this weekend. Yale has a significant home-field advantage, as the team is 3-0 at the Yale Bowl this season. On top of that, the Bulldogs’ points per game exceeds Penn’s by nearly a touchdown. With Penn still chasing its first Ivy win, this road test will be particularly demanding.

However, the Quakers have shown flashes of solid play in their nonconference schedule, as they averaged 31 points per game in those three contests.

This season, the two teams have had a common opponent in Dartmouth, and both were defeated by the Big Green. Penn lost to Dartmouth by far less than Yale, which

suffered a 32-point loss against the Big Green just two weeks ago.

On the other hand, Penn was able to consistently stifle Dartmouth’s advances after the first quarter of play, something Yale struggled with until the beginning of the fourth quarter.

While the shared opponents end there, some indications for Saturday can be inferred from how the two teams’ past competitors have fared this season. Unfortunately for the Quakers, this comparison proves to be in Yale’s favor. With Delaware and Richmond tied in their conference, Yale’s win over Richmond and Penn’s first-game defeat against Delaware can potentially provide some insight into the outcome of Saturday’s game, although both matches were decided by a mere point.

Penn secured a four-point win against Lafayette this season, but Yale’s decisive victories over Fordham and Holy Cross — two teams ranked far above Lafayette in conference standings — put the Red and Blue’s win into context.

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Following international competition, Gardizy shining for cross country

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Ariana Gardizy is making a name for herself as one of Penn women’s cross country’s most promising rising stars.

With a second-place performance at the USA Track & Field U20 Outdoor Championships and a fourth-place finish at the Pan American U20 Athletics Championships earlier this year, the sophomore is steadily improving and is thriving off the upward trajectory.

The Nursing student had an early introduction to cross country and was immediately drawn to the sport.

“Probably in sixth grade I got into running, or maybe fifth grade. My stepdad would run some 5Ks with my sister and me for fun,” Gardizy said. “I have a twin sister and we grew up doing every different sport together, like basketball, field hockey. We joined a CYO track group in sixth grade so we’d just be literally running for fun, and freshman year of high school, that’s when I started cross country.”

It’s fourth and goal from the opponent’s one-yard line. On one hand, a field goal would extend the lead, but it would remain a one-possession game. On the flip side, a touchdown would make it a two-possession game. The decision is put in your hands. What are you going to do?

In the sport of football, fourth-down plays and twopoint conversions are becoming increasingly important to the offensive strategy and game plan. In simple terms, a successful fourth down or two-pointer can be the turning point or deciding factor in a tight game.

However, the decision to go for it is by no means an easy one.

An unsuccessful fourth down or two-point conversion can just as easily swing the momentum to the opposing team — the reason why teams struggle with the decision. And for Penn

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Ariana Gradizy has steadily improved this year for Penn women’s cross country after spending the offseason competing internationally.

Fast forward a few years, and Gardizy was beginning the college application process. The Lansdale, Pa. native immediately fell in love with Penn.

“I knew I wanted to go into nursing or something healthcare related,” she said. “My mom’s a nurse so I always looked up to her.”

The Nursing and cross country programs both drew her to the school, but being close to home never factored into her decision.

“Everyone gets five official visits, but I only ended up taking two, just because I liked Penn so much I just cancelled all the others,” Gardizy said.

“I took one visit to Boise State

in Idaho, and then the next weekend I came here and committed.”

Gardizy’s journey hasn’t always been smooth, but she describes how training in Philadelphia for the Pan American Games in Costa Rica helped ease the transition from freshman to sophomore year.

“I thought it was so easy and smooth,” she said. “So I actually kept training at the end of spring track season and I was training after school ended just for the U20 Champs in the middle of the summer, which is why SEE GARDIZY PAGE 9

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Senior quarterback Nick Robinson has thrown for over 1,000 yards and seven touchdowns while tossing just one interception this year.

coach Ray Priore, it’s no different.

“I think it’s important to be smart on all downs, fourth down included. There are times where it makes sense to go for it, and there are times it doesn’t make sense,” Priore said. “It’s all driven by where the ball is on the football field, score, and time of the game.”

At the season’s halfway mark, the Quakers are 6-for-14

on fourth down attempts. At an underwhelming 42.9%, the Red and Blue are last in the Ivy League in this category.

To put that into perspective, Ivy-leading Cornell is currently converting 81.8% of its attempts, almost twice that of Penn.

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