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Gutmann says ‘black lives matter’ Gutmann and Price emailed black student leaders JENNA WANG Staff Reporter

Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price authored a letter voicing support for the University’s black student community on

Friday.

In the letter, which was distributed to black student leaders and posted on Gutmann’s webpage, Gutmann and Price proclaimed that “black lives matter.”

“Our nation has confronted far too many profoundly troubling incidents, including deaths in communities across the country, that highlight the

continuing and pervasive challenges faced daily by Blacks in America,” the letter began. “In the face of this struggle, we believe it is critically important to remind Penn’s entire Black student community that they are a treasured and respected part of our University.”

The letter went on to emphasize the diversity of the University’s student

body and the school’s efforts to reach out to and meet “regularly with student leaders.”

“Black lives matter, and as we have emphasized on so many occasions, at Penn everyone belongs,” Gutmann and Price wrote.

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A game has taken Penn women’s soccer coach Nicole Van Dyke across continents and oceans throughout a 25-year career ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

It’s 3:30 p.m. on game day.

Penn women’s soccer gathers for its pre-game meal, adds some final touches to the scouting report and briefly goes over the game plan one last time. Everything has been decided.

There is still time before kickoff, but little left for the coaches to do.

So Nicole Van Dyke leaves. She heads out the doors of the Hollenback Center, slowly making her way to a Starbucks a couple blocks away.

On the way, she pulls out her phone and dials her loved ones: mother, sister and husband, each with the same message and wish of good luck.

She picks up her coffee for a reason that can only be ritual.

A person like Van Dyke needs no artificial stimulant to prepare for an Ivy League matchup. She feeds off the pressure. But even for a tenured coach with her track record and experience,

a little pre-match anxiety can show up every once in awhile.

Separating herself from the team is a point of release for the coach.

“You have to make sure your thoughts are your thoughts, not being mixed in with other things,” she says.

Time continues to wind down, and eventually the second-year Penn coach finds her way back to the locker room, her assistants, her players, her passion.

Then, the peaceful Nicole, the one who needs her moment of respite all but vanishes, and the fiery, spirited one emerges — the one that never sits down, that paces up and down the sideline, whose voice can be heard on any part of the pitch.

The players finally take to the field.

‘The Most Competitive Player I’ve Ever Seen’ Born in Spokane, Wash., Van Dyke SEE NICOLE VAN DYKE PAGE 10

Another Penn grad is running for president

To deny the space for conservative opinions to be expressed on campus is a sad display of selfrighteousness…”

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Laurence Kotlikoff is vying as a third-party candidate ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor

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1973 College graduate Laurence Kotlikoff is running as an independent in the presidential election, although he is only on the ballot in two states.

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A fourth Penn graduate, that you probably haven’t heard of, is running for president — and he’s still hoping he has a shot, just weeks before Election Day. 1973 College graduate and economist Laurence Kotlikoff is running as a third-party candidate alongside economist Ed Leamer. His candidacy accompanies those of three other Penn graduates: 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump, 1983 College and Wharton graduate Lawrence Lessig — who has since pulled out — and 2011 Wharton MBA graduate Evan McMullin.

After attending Penn, Kotlikoff received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and is

currently a professor at Boston University. He has worked at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and served on President Reagan’s council of advisors.

Kotlikoff is well-known for his interest in “generational accounting,” the idea that governments should evaluate policies based upon how they will affect the nation’s finances far into the future — not just in the next 10 or 20 years, according to FiveThirtyEight.

His platform, which emphasizes economic reform, is focused not only the current national debt, which he calls “the tip of the iceberg” on his website, but rather seeks to account for federal obligations that will be incurred far into the future from programs like Social Security, which he calls the “fiscal gap.”

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Pennsylvania senatorial race closer than ever Penn students work with campaigns in Senate race LEONARD EISEN Staff Reporter

With only two weeks until Election Day, most major polls are showing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as the strong favorite for president. But for Pennsylvania, the results voters can expect on Nov. 8 are still anyone’s guess.

The senatorial race between Democratic candidate Katie McGinty and incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is one of the closest in the country, and for good reason — it could be the deciding factor in whether Democrats flip the Senate or Republicans maintain control.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported earlier this month that $81 million have already been spent on the election — by the candidates themselves and by super PACs and other outside groups — making it by far the most expensive Senate race in the nation. With so much at stake, students at Penn have been working with both campaigns in hopes of seeing their party win in this tight contest.

Nursing School junior Erin Hartman is an intern at the McGinty campaign and hopes not

only that the Democrats will retake the Senate, but that history will be made in Pennsylvania next month.

“The fact that she is a woman is important to me,” Hartman said.

“There’s never been a female senator from the state of Pennsylvania, so she’s trying to shatter that glass ceiling.”

Following the release of the now infamous tapes where Republican presidential nominee and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump referred to grabbing a woman “by the p**sy,” Hartman helped the McGinty campaign produce a commercial in which Hartman and other women voiced their responses to Trump’s comments.

“I said that I was deeply, personally offended by Trump’s comments,” Hartman said, “and that it should deem him unqualified to run for president.”

The ad, which has been running in central Pennsylvania, was meant as a criticism of Toomey, who has been decidedly vague on his opinion of Trump. Much of the $81 million invested into this election has been used to produce attack ads targeting each candidate.

For Wharton junior Sean Egan, the founder and head of Penn for Toomey, these ads have been a nasty reality of this election.

“If you turn on the TV anytime

around here, you’ve seen it — attack ad after attack ad,” Egan said. “You’ve got to think they just cancel each other out.”

The work Egan and Penn for Toomey have put into the election has been entirely grassroots: flyering on Locust, canvassing door-to-door and phone-banking, often in conjunction with the College Republicans.

These locally-focused efforts may be in vain on Penn’s highly liberal campus, which is situated in Philadelphia’s Ward 27. The ward voted 84 percent for the Democratic candidate, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), in the state’s last senatorial election in 2012.

In hopes of repeating these numbers, McGinty’s campaign has put focus into bringing out voters on college campuses in Philadelphia.

Earlier this semester, McGinty appeared with Casey and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Ma.) at the Penn Museum, for a series of speeches hosted by the Penn Democrats.

Jana Korn, a College junior and the current president of Penn Democrats, introduced Casey at the event.

“To be even a small part of that event was really special,” said Korn, who is also an intern for the McGinty campaign.

Like Hartman, Korn is excited

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Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price responded to black students’ concerns about national events in a letter on Friday.

Gutmann make a statement in solidarity with Penn’s black community,” College junior Shelby Barlow said. “I was especially excited that she explicitly said ‘Black Lives Matter’ because enough people are resistant to that idea that to even say it has become controversial and political. Being on a campus where the leadership is willing to publicly support the sentiment and the movement is incredibly meaningful to me.”

Some students who otherwise praised the letter were curious about the timing of the letter.

“I’m confused why she did this

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Candidates and super PACs have spent over $81 million in the Pennsylvania senatorial race, making it one of the most competitive Senate races of this election cycle.

by the prospect of electing Pennsylvania’s first female senator, and by the possibility of flipping the Senate. In her eyes, it’s imperative that Clinton not be road-blocked by Congress when coming into office.

“Since the Senate has been Republican-controlled, it has served as a force of obstruction to the progress President Obama has been

trying to make,” Korn said.

Egan said, however, that a Republican-controlled Senate is exactly what is needed if Clinton wins the election .

“If [Clinton] were to be elected to the presidency, as a candidate that people are really voting for just because they don’t like their alternatives, I think people are going

to want a check on [her] power,” Egan said. “I think that check could come in majorities in Congress.”

What Egan and Korn both agree on, however, is that the Pennsylvania senatorial race is going to stay heated until the last vote is cast.

“As always, it just comes down to voter turnout on Election Day,” Egan said.

right now, students have been asking her to acknowledge this for a long time,” College junior Destiny Bingham said.

Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy said Penn chose to publish the letter after concerns brought forth by black students about national events that had occurred earlier this year. The University chose to deliver its message directly to black student leaders and post it on Gutmann’s webpage, as it had done similarly with Muslim student leaders last year.

“It’s about time,” said College junior Kellie Ramdeen. “This is a step in the right direction and I hope we hear more statements like this from Penn in the future.”

In an email, MacCarthy said, “A number of Black students have recently expressed concern about events that have occurred nationally over the past year. This was a way to communicate to them that they are supported by the University and that they have a valued place in our campus community.”

While it is relatively rare for university administrations to comment on national social or racial issues, a few colleges have directly addressed the topic of Black Lives Matter along with Penn.

Last month, the University of Vermont penned a letter to its student body encouraging freedom of expression on campus after individuals stole a Black Lives Matter

flag from its pole on campus. The school said that it “vigorously supports freedom of inquiry” and noted that “the flag was displayed in accordance with University established procedures.”

At Yale University, administrators set forth a plan to “build a more inclusive Yale” after students protested the treatment of racial minorities and women on campus. In one instance, a fraternity had banned black women from one of its parties, and in another, an email sent out by a Yale administrator characterized culturally appropriating Halloween costumes as an infringement upon freedom of expression.

Staff Reporter Elizabeth Winston contributed reporting.

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on social issues: he is pro-choice, has advocated for stricter gun regulation and has denounced the war on drugs and mass incarceration.

Though Kotlikoff is only on the ballot in Louisiana and Colorado, he is eligible to win as a write-in candidate in most other states comprising of 91 percent of the electoral college — meaning

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that he technically could win the election, though the chance of him doing so are bleak.

Kotlikoff, however, believes he has a shot at the presidency with his focus on economic reform, and has criticized the dearth of media coverage surrounding his campaign, which has largely flown under-the-radar.

“I’m the best-kept secret here because the press has hidden my candidacy for the past six months,” he told the Philly Voice.

He later added, “Believing that nationally registered write-ins can’t win because they never have is likely forming an inference based on absolutely zero data.”

Kotliff considers himself a middle-of-the-road alternative to two undesirable candidates.

“I’m an independent,” Kotlikoff wrote on his website, “but I can be the Republican for this election.”

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Penn DPS cautious for Halloween weekend Penn generally does not see an increase in crime NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

You might think that with the increase of drunken people on the streets with dark costumes, Halloween weekend would lead to an increase in crime — but you’d be wrong.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said Penn does not see an increase in crime at Halloween. She did, however, allude to broader national trends as a reason to be more cautious this weekend.

“Our job is to know what goes on around the country,” she said.

“Law enforcement recognizes it could be an opportune time to wear a mask and commit a crime.”

Penn Police, she added, are diligent in looking at the types of costumes people are wearing and their specific behaviors.

Though Penn Police does not implement special precautions, Rush said that students should always be cautious of their surroundings, especially on Halloween when it is dark out and people are wearing dark outfits.

Rush strongly discouraged including weapons as part of a costume.

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graduate and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a “narcissistic, racist, sexist, spoiled, intemperate, uninformed demagogue.”

He adds that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is “someone who treats protecting national security as optional, lies under oath, substitutes sound bites for substance, [and] is mistrusted by millions and who over half the country views unfavorably.”

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National trends indicate that there will be spike in crime during Halloween, although Penn does not generally follow that trend.

how their costume might affect people,” she said.

If a student does see a gun, and worries that it could possibly be real, Rush advised to immediately contact the Division of Public Safety.

As for why there are no special policies for Halloween, Rush said that it is because they “cannot be monolithic” on one issue. It is important to keep in mind the broader campus and the usual job of keeping the students safe on

any given weekend.

She also said that it is even a little bit more convenient, rather than harder, that this weekend combines Halloween and Homecoming. Rush predicted Homecoming will provide activities for students to take part in and keep busy, so it will encompass pre-Halloween parties as well.

“We can never do just one thing,” Rush said. “We are definitely multi-taskers.”

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OPINION National bubble REID ABOUT IT! | Fighting the culture of American insularity

TUESDAY OCTOBER 25, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 91 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor WILL SNOW Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director ALEX GRAVES Design Editor

When I first came to Penn, one of the first questions I was asked about my home country was: “Isn’t Vietnam a democracy?” At first, it seemed like a harmless question, but after rethinking it, I saw the damaging knowledge gaps behind the query — the same lack of knowledge about the Vietnam War directly informs humanitarian disasters like in Iraq. So, to answer the question above, since the North Vietnamese Army won the war that America escalated, Vietnam is not a democracy.

I am both a Vietnamese international student and a passport-carrying American.

Coming from this background.

I’ve had to experience the repeating cliches of people questioning my fluency in English or people commenting on the exoticism of my hometown.

The problem that I, and other international students like me, consistently observe is the problem of being viewed as a foreign other.

Though it’s normal that Americans should be curious about other cultures, it highlights a flaw in the American cultural sphere. Even in higher education institutions, Ameri-

can students live in an insular culture.

Other nations are viewed as unknowable entities; politically, we begin to understand international issues as the world’s problem, not ours.

Last week, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a fullpage spread that affirmed its support for Hillary Clinton as president, and while the article endorses Clinton, it also acknowledges her email scandals: “It would be one-sided not to acknowledge Clinton’s shortcomings as well.”

“The fact that this one mistake has dominated the critical voices throughout her campaign also speaks to the fact that Clinton has fared relatively well over decades as a politician,” the DP Opinion Board wrote.

It’s true — our criticism of Clinton is disproportionately directed at her scandals and her unlikable personality, and less attention is paid towards her hawkish international record. In fact, during the recent debates, the candidates barely expressed anything but equivocal, throwaway statements on issues of international importance, like conflicts with

Palestine and Israel, or Saudi Arabia and Yemen, both of which the United States is militarily involved with. As such, the lack of coverage of these issues allows us as viewers to passively ignore issues that are

tory — how insincere is that?”

Do we ever really morally and personally grapple with our contribution to a more hostile international climate?

Do we ever grapple with how we view and contextualize —

Other nations are viewed as an unknowable entity; politically, we begin to understand international issues as the world’s problem, not ours.“ not exclusively relevant to us.

Moreover, the information taught in American high schools follows an Americancentric narrative. For instance, one junior in Penn’s School of Nursing comments on their personal experience of insularity by describing how “it starts in elementary school, until you learn how to be conscious …

Even in high school, we focus on AP European History, AP U.S. History, but the rest of the world just gets AP World His-

politically and socially — the foreign “other”?

American insularity occurs simultaneously with our country’s consistent inability to align our values with our actions. Though we believe in creating a safer America, our politicians consciously ignore how gun prohibition in other countries lowers rates of shootings. Though we know that we have been bombing innocent civilians in the Middle East for decades, we don’t

know how to react to it responsibly (considering our current presidential candidates have either hawkish or xenophobic perspectives on international relations). Though government officials occasionally acknowledge the existence of global warming, they do little to acknowledge how MEDCs, like the US, profit from fossil fuels, and how climate change is linked to natural disasters like the hurricane that hit Haiti.

Though we may know this “outside world” through headlines and sound bites, we cannot confidently call ourselves engaged global citizens if we continue to willfully ignore the experiential reality outside us — and our hand in creating this outside reality. It’s not because we’re not humanitarians; it’s because we’ve been raised insularly.

It is a difficult thing to be an American and, at the same time, acknowledge our complicity in this system of violence and obliviousness. But the first step is to consciously force ourselves to look beyond our cultural bubble. America needs to shed its culture of insularity, and that begins on a micro level. Its people, spe-

AMANDA REID cifically, must strive to gain a deeper understanding of this foreign “other.” In other words, we need to work to understand each other.

We shallowly understand other nations, cultures, experiences. But we must keep asking questions to understand experiences outside what we know and to understand the way we take for granted our relationships with the “other.”

How do we combat ignorance?

Ask, and ask, and ask again, until it’s no longer necessary to ask “Why is your English so good?”

AMANDA REID is a College junior from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, studying cinema studies & English. Her email address is amreid@sas.upenn. edu. “Reid About It!” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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A short preface: Penn, surely, is strengthened by its status as a progressive institution. It is diverse and eclectic, and it empowers all to seek the resources and opportunities they deserve.

As an institution it promotes the traditional liberal values (like tolerance of diverse opinions) which improve our modern society, and it provides a space where students can embrace these values.

Or so students can pretend to embrace them — that is, until the defiant conservative voice pipes up. Here, in spaces where minority rightist thought challenges majority leftist viewpoints, is where tolerance goes to die. Existent on campus is a culture dedicated to shaming conservative thought.

Never was this culture more evident than during last week, when students were hard at work ridiculing a student who posted in the Class of 2019 Facebook group — he announced his

interest in starting a “prolife club” on campus, and encouraged anyone interested or curious to inquire.

The student was roundly slammed in what quickly devolved into a forum dedicated to derision, mockery of his post and assaults on the pro-life stance. Student engagement on the post reached into the hundreds.

The less abrasive commenters left snide remarks and pictures; the nastier ones told him he was not entitled to an opinion, and some went further to deny him the possibility that his opinion is a valid one to possess.

Opposition to these types of commenters was seen, albeit to a lesser extent.

A reminder is in order that this circus of insults and jeers started because a young man merely asked whether there were fellow students interested in joining a club.

A further reminder that this example is far from being the only of its nature. What happened to the liberal man-

tra of tolerating different types of people?

A typical response to this by the “conservative-shamers” might be to declare “we won’t tolerate intolerance.”

be challenged. But there is a large difference between civil debate and mockery; this Facebook exchange overwhelmingly demonstrated the latter. And there

To deny the space for conservative opinions to be expressed on campus is a sad display of self-righteousness, and is antithetical to true liberalism.”

But this rebuttal won’t do — it is terribly vapid and woefully ignorant of the many motivations for conservative stances.

I will pause to say that surely this shaming behavior does not characterize all students. And surely free speech is free speech, and all ideas should (and must)

is cause to be concerned about concerted efforts to suppress thought.

To deny the space for conservative opinions to be expressed on campus is a sad display of self-righteousness, and is antithetical to true liberalism. Furthermore, it demonstrates only a selective capability

to embrace a core liberal tenet: tolerance. To engage in groupthink — and to believe that because conservatives comprise a small minority on campus, they must be wrong — is dangerous. To contribute to a culture that tells conservatives that they should expect or perhaps deserve to be belittled, and told their ideas are invalid, is toxic.

The Facebook exchanges might appear inconsequential, but they are only an example of a broad and hurtful campus culture. It is exemplary of the very culture that makes my conservative peers tell me they are afraid to “come out” to their colleagues, for fear of ostracism. It is the culture that silences them by branding them an –ist or a –phobe before they can make a case to the contrary. It is the culture that compels them to sit quietly in class, unable to speak their mind because they are certain to face ridicule. It is the culture that makes them

feel ashamed about their very identity.

Naturally it is imperative that this culture of respect cuts both ways. I merely seek to highlight how the disrespect seems to disproportionately affect conservatives. The deck is stacked against them already in terms of numbers. Imagine being left-leaning but having to sit in a room and debate with 20 people who think like Ted Cruz, and you will understand the kind of frustration that conservatives feel at times.

We know that the open expression of ideas across the entire spectrum of opinions is essential for a free and truly American society.

It is a message that Penn has rightly emphasized to us. It is our job as students and representatives to step up and ensure that we are upholding this value.

LUKE TORTORA is a College sophomore.

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Students with unique on-campus jobs share stories Four Penn students shared the highlights of their jobs KATHLEEN HARWOOD Staff Reporter

Many Penn students spend their spare hours doing homework or participating in extracurriculars — but some find the time to make a few extra dollars on the side.

Four students weighed in on their unique jobs.

College sophomore Susannah Pitt is working at the Van Pelt Circulation desk, Wharton sophomore Shane Meyers is working as a server at MadMex, Nursing sophomore Isabel Braun is working at the farmer’s market outside the bookstore and College sophomore Eric Ma is working as a barista at Williams Café.

1) How did you come to find your job?

“I found my job by looking on Craigslist. Since I didn’t have any prior food service experience, I had to apply to a bunch of different jobs all over the city. I was looking for the job because I felt like I had some extra free time during my spring semester and I wanted to have a little extra spending money for the weekends.” — Meyers “I actually found my job through

my uncle. He owns a plant business and travels to a lot of farmer’s markets throughout the week… Every Wednesday, he comes to Penn’s farmer’s market and asked me to work for him. I purposefully make my Wednesday class schedule light so I can work 5 to 6 hours there.”

— Braun “I had a couple friends who were already working/planning to work at Wilcaf, so it motivated me to apply, since I love spending time with them.” — Ma 2) What are your responsibilities? Is it challenging to balance your job with academic and social commitments?

“I assist Penn students and staff in checking out/returning library books. I think that having a job actually helps me stay on top of my schoolwork because it forces me to schedule my workload. Also, because it’s a work study job, I am allowed to do homework when it isn’t busy at the circulation desk.”

— Pitt “As a server, I do all the typical stuff that you would expect a server to do. But beyond that, I do some food prep, silverware rolling, and lots of cleaning. It has been kind of hard to balance my work with all of my other commitments. A typical evening shift for me will start

at 4 p.m. and I won’t get back to my room until around 3 a.m. after we close and finish cleaning the restaurant. I have to plan out my homework schedule well in advance because I know that I won’t be able to get any homework done on days that I have evening shifts.

I think it has taught me a lot about time management and prioritizing my work.” — Meyers 3) What is rewarding about your job? What is challenging?

“I really like working at Van Pelt. I get to meet and talk to a lot of different people that come into the library! Sometimes it can be challenging if someone has an issue with a book or with the library and is not in the most pleasant mood, but this does not happen often.” — Pitt “The most rewarding part of my job is the insight that it has given me. It sounds cliche, but I never had a job before coming to college and I feel like working at Mad Mex has really helped me realize the value of a dollar. Being able to take some of the financial burden of Penn off of my family has also been rewarding because I know that they have sacrificed a lot to send me here.

The most challenging part of my job is that the people I’m serving can often be a bit condescending. I

understand that being a server isn’t a job that exactly commands the respect of others, but it frustrates me when people treat me like I’m less than.” — Meyers “It is constantly rewarding to finish a rush between classes or early in the morning with a couple of great pals alongside me. I think the most challenging thing is when I make a joke to my coworkers/customers and they don’t laugh and I feel like melting into a puddle of espresso.” — Ma 4) Do you have a particular horror story/funny moment from work?

“One time I was running a little late to work and had to run from my apartment. I tripped and fell and got grass stains and dirt all over my shirt but I didn’t have time to change. Almost everyone checking out a book asked me what happened — it was pretty embarrassing.” —Pitt

“My biggest horror story is probably when two women came in, spent $60 on margaritas with expensive add-ins, and then left me just over a $1 tip…On the flip side, one of the most interesting tables I served was a group of people who were presumably homeless. Despite the fact that they were likely very poor, they tipped me about 18 percent so that was an unexpected surprise. One of the weirdest parts of the job is that I have served a considerable number of Penn professors and several of my past TAs. It’s always a weird dynamic, especially if they are ordering margaritas or shots, but I generally just laugh about it.” — Meyers “One time I had to meet at this girl’s house for a group project. I walk in and there is this huge cactus in a dark corner of her room. It was not in good shape. I immediately remember selling that exact cactus to her! I then started to tell her

exactly the best way to keep it alive in terms of how much water to give it and how much sunlight… It just seemed like a such a small world.

A few weeks later, she texted me to thank me because her plant was in much better condition.” — Braun “One time a lady asked for a double shot of espresso in a thermos, so I put the thermos under the espresso machine, pressed the double-shot button, and went to make another drink. After a bit, I grabbed the thermos and handed it back to her. Like 10 seconds later, she angrily handed it back, and said “This is empty!” after she had already paid for her double espresso.

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NICOLE VAN DYKE’S CAREER Scores 17 goals in a season, a school record

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Recent rivalry renewed for Red and Blue as West Virginia visits M. SOCCER | Squads have

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NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

With the final exam looming, Penn men’s soccer gets one more practice test.

On Tuesday, the Quakers will play host to West Virginia in their final non-conference tilt of the year. The Mountaineers (7-5-1, 1-2 MAC) are fresh off of an upset of No. 22 Akron and come to University City for their third-ever meeting with the Red and Blue (44-5, 2-2 Ivy).

Although West Virginia topped the Quakers, 1-0, in 2014, Penn took down the Mountaineers 3-2 on the road in overtime last year in what was the team’s marquee victory.

“We’re not the same team, they’re not the same team, but they’ve had some good results,” Penn coach Rudy Fuller said.

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yards in the second half but had already left his mark on the game.

This marks the second straight week the Quakers have won the award as a team — junior running back Tre Solomon received the honor after rushing for 127 yards and a touchdown in addition to throwing for another score.

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A beautiful run down the right sideline by Blaber morphed into a cross to find Hazelwood, who stuck the finish for Penn’s second and last goal with 21 minutes to play in the second half.

“The cool thing about our team is that our energy never comes from just one person,” Blaber said.

“On any given day, different people are stepping up. For a captain, that’s amazing, and that’s the kind of team you want to be a part of.”

Van Dyke testified to this

“They’ve had a good year, they’re up there in RPI, so it’s another good game for us on our home field and we’re excited for the opportunity.”

Headed into the matchup, Penn stands at 2-2-5 in non-conference play. Tuesday will offer a final tuneup before the last three Ancient Eight contests of the season.

Although they are not in total control of their destiny, the Red and Blue’s six points in conference play is just four back of Dartmouth and Harvard for the best in the league.

But right now, those six points are only good enough for fifth place. The compressed state of the conference means the squad could rise or slide with equal ease.

“We’ve just got to control what we can do, try to run out and see what happens with everyone else, see where the table falls,” Wancowicz said. “We’ve just got to play our best and see what happens.”

The game will be a strong test for Fuller’s squad — West Virginia has played three top 10 teams this year, beating then-No. 7 Georgetown,

1-0, and narrowly falling to No. 9 Seattle and No. 1 Maryland.

The Quakers are coming off of a strong 3-0 performance against Yale, featuring the first-ever goals from freshman Dami Omitaomu and sophomore Gideon Metrikin.

Thanks in part to his sixth-minute goal, Omitaomu was named the Philadelphia City Six Rookie of the Week on Monday.

For Penn to sustain success in the final stretch, they’ll need continued strong performances from the young guns and experienced hands Tuesday night. In that last match against West Virginia, nowsenior Alec Neumann scored the first goal, while current junior Sam Wancowicz netted the final two — including the game-winner.

“We don’t really think about the number of games coming up or who’s coming up,” Fuller said.

“This group has done a really good job all season long of just trying to get better and understanding the process. We preached it time and time again and they bought into it.”

For Omitaomu, he has won the first award of his career, receiving the honor in part for his first career goal, which came on the road against Yale in the sixth minute on Saturday. The score put the Quakers up early, and they went on to dominate the affair, 3-0.

Not to be outdone in a bout with the Bulldogs, Sands’ recognition also comes from a win at Yale — this time with a 79th minute goal that sealed the win

for the Red and Blue in an otherwise scoreless 1-0 affair.

This is the second time Sands has won the award and the third time Penn has this season — freshman goalkeeper Kitty Qu also earned rookie honors on Sept. 19.

The Quakers will all be playing together again this weekend for Homecoming, with Brown on tap for all three squads as the teams enter their seasons’ final stretches.

diversity of energy by not hesitating to empty the entire bench during the second half, subbing often to allow breaks for starters and playing time for those who had been participating from the sideline.

“We were able to get everybody that’s able to play in. It’s a good opportunity to get some game experience for some players that maybe don’t start. It keeps everybody sharp … and it’s always such an honor to play at West Point,” she said.

The Quakers commanded the pace throughout the remainder of the match, slowly eroding

the energy and intensity of West Point’s military-grade athletic squad. The final score read 2-0 — evidence of the composure the entire team maintained under the pressure of a late-season road game coupled with far less-than-ideal playing weather.

“The rain seems to follow us,” Van Dyke commented.

If the nasty weather has anything to do with Penn’s recent successes, fans and fellow Quakers should be doing the rain dance before the women’s last two Ivy matches against Brown and Princeton.

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When Penn men’s soccer traveled to West Virginia last season, they pulled out a 3-2 win in double overtime thanks to a goal from then-junior Alec Neumann and a pair from then-sophomore back Sam Wancowicz.

Whether the team is paying the schedule heed or not, there still remain just four more contests.

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favored Red and Blue would give a 1-4 Yale squad no life from the start.

Ju n ior w ide out Just i n Watson secured career-highs of 160 receiving yards and three touchdowns — and this was all in 30 minutes, as Penn outgained Yale 323-101 to surge to a 35-0 lead at the half.

(Keep in mind that Watson has already had a pretty decent career up to this point).

Going back a week further, let’s take a look at Penn’s 35-10 win over Columbia. With 2:05 remaining, the Red and Blue led that game 28-10 with the ball inside the Lions’ 25-yard line. Every player, coach and fan for both sides knew that this game was done — making up a three-possession deficit in two minutes without starting with possession is already nearly impossible, and Columbia entering the contest with the nation’s sixth-worst scoring offense only exacerbated this.

And with the outcome already having been essentially

Three of those round out Ivy play, and Tuesday night will give players, fans and coaches another chance

decided, what did Priore and Reagan dial up? A trick play with running back Tre Solomon running a direct snap toward the line of scrimmage before abruptly stopping and finding a wide open Cam Countryman for a 23-yard touchdown to put icing on the cake.

From a strategic standpoint, it certainly looked questionable. Why waste this trick play where it made no impact on the game’s result when it could be necessary in a closer game later on? What coach with any foresight would run this play and allow his future opponents — two of whom also happened to be unbeaten in conference play — to study up on that film and prepare for similar looks before facing Penn?

But that’s the whole point — there is no foresight with this team. The Quakers claim to treat every game like a playoff game, and then back up those words with the way they approach each opponent.

Until that final whistle against Columbia blew, Penn had no concern for what Yale

to see just what kind of team the Quakers can be with respect to the Ivy table.

or anybody else in the Ivy League was doing — and as soon that post-game celebration wrapped up, the Red and Blue treated any Ivies not named Yale as if they didn’t exist.

And it’s exactly that mentality which is why Penn has now won nine consecutive Ivy League games, including a 3-0 start to Ivy play this year that has me increasingly confident that the Quakers are capable of staking the claim of being back-to-back champions.

But my thoughts on Penn’s chances to repeat are irrelevant. Because I know that if you asked Priore and his players whether they see themselves as title contenders, you’d get their honest response: All that matters is Brown next weekend.

COLE JACOBSON is a College sophomore from Los Angeles, Calif., and an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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“If we were on a trip ‌ I would always need a milkshake on the drive home,â€? Tobin recalled. “Nicole used to hate it because it would single her out,â€? he said. “She’d go and get the milkshake in front of the whole team and would have to bring it back to the van where everybody’s thinking, ‘She’s always having to do a little bit more than everybody else.’ “She hated it, but she was always ‘anything for the program.’â€?

Van Dyke remembers those instances fondly, or maybe she just remembers them. She was the player who wanted to please the coach, always willing to put in the extra effort for herself and her team. “Here comes me, just looking like, ‘Here comes Nicole with a milkshake for the coach,’� Van Dyke recalls. “I remember being mortified, thinking that I must just be the biggest suck-up right now.�

But all the milkshakes, the balls in the back of the net and countless hours on the training ground only cemented what Van Dyke knew she wanted for a long time, for soccer to be a part of her life that went far beyond a college career.

Tobin took her under his wing as an assistant upon graduation, setting her on a journey that has spanned the better part of two decades. “It’s opened up every door I’ve ever had,� Van Dyke said.

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did not start playing soccer until she moved to California at 10 years old. A brother and a sister who lived across the street played the sport. For Van Dyke it was little more than “sure, I’ll join.�

It quickly became her everything. When the time came, she opted to play college at Cal State Bakersfield, a four-hour drive from her home of Palm Springs. “She was the most competitive player I’ve ever seen,� said Simon Tobin, who was the head coach at Bakersfield when Van Dyke was there. “I love it,� Van Dyke said. “The more pressure, the better.

The more competitive the environment, the better. The harder the tackles, the tighter the game, I really just thrive in that environment.�

By graduation, Van Dyke had established herself as one of the greatest talents to ever go through the system at Bakersfield. She is tied for second in both career points and goals and holds the record for most goals in an individual season with 17, which she set in 2000, her final year.

Numbers like these would lead some to question why she opted not to pursue a career at Division I program. Tobin, for one, firmly believes that she could have excelled in the top league.

She was the girl who asked for a bag of soccer balls for her birthday. She was the player who came to practice early and only left when the lights were to be shut off.

Tobin, who ran both the men’s and women’s programs at Bakersfield, often talks of two of his former players turned coaches: Van Dyke and current Stanford men’s coach Jeremy Gunn.

- Nicole Van Dyke “Without a doubt, I tell everybody that goes into this business that those are the two that you have to match ‘You’re Not Going to just do up to,� Tobin said. “I probably Physical Education’ knew within a couple of weeks Not quite ready to give up her of knowing them as players that playing career, Van Dyke packed they had something more.“ her bags and set off for Sweden, The high expectations that home to one of the world’s top Tobin held for Van Dyke, his star leagues for women’s soccer. player, sometimes manifested Despite the long journey, she in interesting ways: a pineapple knew from the start it wouldn’t milkshake, for one. involve a long stay. Early on, the

For a few years I lied about my age because the kids were like 21 years old.�

desire to coach became the dominant one in Van Dyke’s mind.

For those closest to Van Dyke, however, collegiate coaching did not always seem like a viable career option, especially as a woman in what was traditionally a man’s profession. “I think you have to ask her about her mother,� Tobin said. “Obviously it was a different time then, so many years ago,�

Van Dyke recounted. “I can remember my mom saying, ‘What are you going to study?’ I can’t imagine that she would remember this but it was like, ‘Well, you’re not going to just do PE, like physical education or something, right?’�

Van Dyke’s mother’s concern came at a time when a fair share of athletes would go into teaching subjects like physical education because they didn’t know what they wanted to do. “I still think that my mom would have been happy if I had moved home and coached at the local high school and taught there,� Van Dyke continued.

Nowadays, Van Dyke’s mother is one of her most fervent supporters. She watches games on the Ivy League Digital Network and flies out for matches whenever possible.

Though it is hard to imagine Van Dyke removed from the world of coaching — she already has a national title and two Pac-12 titles from her time as an assistant at Stanford — when she started out, she was barely earning money, if any at all, making for a parent’s worst nightmare.

One of the things that mattered most to Van Dyke, however, was a single piece of clothing: her own polo, the emblem of making it in the coaching world. “Nicole kept bugging me about when I was going to get her that polo shirt because her mother wouldn’t believe that she was a real college coach until she had a polo shirt,� Tobin said. “I remember Simon said, ‘Nic, give me your polo. I forgot my polo,’� said Van Dyke, poorly imitating Tobin’s English accent. “Well the moral of the story is obviously he had no problem wearing a tight shirt,� she joked. “But I remember being devastated that I had to give up this

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After a successful couple seasons as an assistant for Tobin, Van Dyke caught the eye of some other programs in the conference.

At the tender age of 23, barely out of college, she received her first head coaching offer from Cal State Stanislaus. “I was really young,� Van Dyke said. “For a few years I lied about my age because the kids were like 21 years old.�

She spent three seasons at Stanislaus, beating teams like Bakersfield to the title in her final year. “I’ll never forget that team.

They just enjoyed being the underdog,� she said.

But for Van Dyke, a young, ambitious coach with the ability to match it, a small D-II school with a campus that stretched little more than two streets could only contain her for so long.

The Highest Level Back in her less experienced days, Van Dyke had almost come to conflate her own personhood with the performances of her teams. She says she took each loss as an attack on herself, stemming from a belief that her integrity could be defined by her wins and losses.

For someone with such sheer determination, only the top league in collegiate athletics could provide the challenge and opportunity Van Dyke sought.

Luckily, it just so happened that her alma mater was looking in

the same direction.

In 2006, Cal State Bakersfield opted to make the transition to D-I and split the men’s and women’s soccer programs. Tobin shifted to just coaching the men and Van Dyke took over her old team as head coach. “I think still to this day I walk away, and I was like, ‘Man, I wish I would’ve done more there,’�

Van Dyke said.

After a challenging five seasons overseeing the transition to Division I, Van Dyke received what might go down as one of the biggest breaks of her career, an opportunity to work with the back-to-back NCAA runner-ups: Stanford.

She came on as an assistant for the 2011 season under head coach Paul Ratcliffe. That same year the Cardinal won its first national championship.

Van Dyke would go on to spend four seasons at Stanford. In her final year, Ratcliffe bestowed her the title of associate head coach, a new position he created to recognize her commitment and importance to the program. “Being promoted to associate head coach was ‌ I don’t even know what the word to explain that is,â€? Van Dyke said. “But deep down, I was a head coach before I went to Stanford, and I feel like I do have a lot of head coaching personality in me. “Ultimately I knew at some point I would be in a position that I can be selective of the institution that I want to coach at. Lo and behold Penn. I always knew I wanted to be in charge of a program again,â€? she said.

Starting a Family Penn men’s soccer coach Rudy Fuller was one of the first to reach out to Van Dyke about the Penn opening, hoping to welcome her to the soccer family.

Not too long before, however, Van Dyke had started a family of her own. In March 2014, she married Jason Werner, who she had met on a recruiting trip to San Francisco during her time at Cal State Bakersfield. “He seems to think I took the Stanford job for him,� Van Dyke said of her husband who was then coaching club soccer at Marin FC. “I’ve reminded him that it was Stanford, and yeah, it worked out.�

Werner is in the coaching business as well, and soccer serves as material for many of the couple’s conversations at home. Soccer was also the genesis of another big decision: to uproot their lives on the West Coast and head east to University City.

As if the move wasn’t enough, Van Dyke became a mother not long after arriving in Philadelphia, a new role that has been difficult to manage with the obvious strain of D-I coaching. “[My son] Rory is at the age where he can say, ‘Mama,’� Van Dyke said. “Just this last game he woke up and Dad’s watching the Ivy League Digital Network, and he’s saying ‘Mama, Mama, Mama.’ He’s upset. Part of those things you smile for, but part of you is like, ‘He obviously wants you there.’�

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Van Dyke often says Rory has 28 aunts.

“His only words so far: shoes, goal, kick it and ball. That was at least after Mom and Dad, so we got the priorities down,” Van Dyke said. “He’s such a rambunctious little boy. I mean, I want him to play soccer, but dad is more of the ‘He can do whatever,’ the more grounded.”

Recruiting has always been a key component of Van Dyke’s coaching approach — she still takes great pride in her work at Stanford, many of whose star players were brought in during her time there.

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relationships with families, hoping to add them to her own.

“I think being a mom changes your perspective on things a little bit,” she said.

“As we grow as coaches and with the more experience we get, it’s not the little stuff you have to worry about. It’s not that you have to have the right t-shirt on at practice or the right color socks on; those are the things that aren’t as important to me anymore.”

A Men’s Club Demi Moore is put into the Navy SEALs in the hope that she will fail out. She doesn’t. She gets accepted by all the guys, shaves her head and does one-armed pushups.

This is how Van Dyke describes the plot to G.I. Jane — and with an exciting storyline, feel-good ending and strong female lead, it’s not hard to see why the movie is her all-time favorite.

In fact, one might even be tempted to draw parallels

between Van Dyke and her cherished protagonist.

Van Dyke stresses that she is first and foremost a coach. She does not want to be classified into any one category, and yet, she is eager to embrace the good that she can do as a woman in what has long been seen as a men’s club.

“There are some brilliant young women coaches out there and sometimes they just need to be let in the door when they’re young,” Tobin said.

“I found out that that door was always open for boys, but I think because all these clubs were usually run by men, that always they were reluctant to get girls involved to start coaching.”

There is no contention regarding Van Dyke’s qualifications, but the implications of her success go beyond winning titles or amassing accolades. For many of her players, she is the first female coach that they will ever have.

Van Dyke herself has never had a female coach.

“You always want to break a glass ceiling,” she said.

“If I can advocate for more women coaches and for our players to maybe do something they think they couldn’t do,” she continued, “whether it’s [being] the CEO of a company or whatever they want to do, hopefully I’ve contributed to the fact that it is possible.”

Senior captain Paige Lombard is one of the many Penn players who has really taken to Van Dyke.

“It’s awesome having powerful women to look up to and see how they hold themselves,” Lombard said.

During the recruiting process, freshman Kelsey Andrews was sold on Van Dyke’s promise to bring Californian style soccer to the east coast, but she has appreciated the opportunity to play on her first woman-led team.

“Well honestly it just helps relate better,” Andrews said. “It’s a totally different style, but I like getting coached by girls.”

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A photographic reflection on last Friday’s Penn football rout of Yale

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stay undefeated on road SARA YOUNG Contributing Reporter

There’s something in the psyche of the athlete that’s unleashed when the rain starts falling, the sun disappears, the temperature plummets, and the field lights illuminate puffs of breath from red-faced players.

As fans bundled up and goalies hopped about for warmth, perhaps it was this air of intensity that fueled the tenacity for Penn women’s soccer to put the cap on a close match versus Army on Monday night.

A stubborn Army (4-11-2, 2-4-2 Patriot League)) defense held off six first-half attacks on goal by Penn (9-3-2, 2-2-1 Ivy), while the Black Knights’ only offensive threat during the first half came from a single shot.

The Quakers’ domination of possession was clear; decisive midfield passes, careful and calculated plays, and vigorous offensive drive kept the ball in Penn’s control for much of the first half.

“We did a good job keeping

possession tonight — we capitalized on some good transition moments between defense and offense,” coach Nicole Van Dyke said of her team’s overall control of the game. A strong finish off of the shot, however, was what the exhaustive back-and-forth field play was missing.

With nearly a third of the match behind them, the Quakers found the back of the net with a goal from senior captain and forward Olivia Blaber, who took advantage of a poor defensive clearance by Army.

“It’s an amazing opportunity to get to play at West Point. We got after it early to maintain the shutout on the road,” Blaber said.

This win adds to a season-long streak of away victories for Penn, further confirming their ability to adapt and run an energetic offense even after a stiffening two and a half hours on the road was greeted with torrents of unpredicted foul weather.

“We’re not really phased by stuff like that,” Van Dyke said. “When it’s this cold, you put an undershirt on and gloves on and you get out there.”

It was clear that Blaber and sophomore forward Cameo Hazelwood were far from fazed.

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In words and actions, Quakers keep their focus on the next game

Penn brings home trifecta of Ivy, City Six weekly honors

Watson, Omitaomu, Sands each get awards

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NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

All that matters is going one game at a time.

Interview a coach or player from any sports team and you’ll hear words like these. Who’s going to admit that his team can completely overlook the team it’s about to face? That the next game isn’t as emotionally significant as matchups later on might be?

It’s easy to talk the talk and say that you treat every game like it’s your last. But actions speak a lot louder than words, and Penn football’s ongoing tear proves that the Quakers can walk the walk too.

One quick glance at the box score of Penn’s rout of Yale on Friday night tells you all you need to know.

The Bulldogs entered the

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The 23-yard touchdown pass thrown by running back Tre Solomon against Columbia is proof that Penn football treats every game like the playoffs.

weekend with the second-worst defensive passing efficiency in the FCS, and the schemes from Penn head coach Ray Priore

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It was a good weekend on the field for Penn Athletics, and that’s translating to hardware off the field as the Quakers enter the week.

On Monday, football’s Justin Watson was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week, while men’s soccer’s Dami Omitaomu won City Six Rookie of the Week honors. Women’s soccer’s Emily Sands completed the trifecta, garnering a nod for Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

Watson won the award for the third time of his career, having won it in back to back weeks toward the tail end of last season. This past Friday at Yale, he put up an

PETER RIBEIRO | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman midfielder Dami Omitaomu scored his first goal en route to being named City Six Rookie of the Week.

unbelievable 160 yards and three touchdowns in the first half alone — both good enough for career highs for

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