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A look into OCR as a FGLI student Students cite lack of soft skills as a key challenge AMY LIU Deputy News Editor

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When a player gets up dazed: Part II An inside look at the culture of indifference toward head injuries on Penn sprint football WILLIAM SNOW | SENIOR SPORTS REPORTER

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ou don’t tell the trainer if you got a concussion. That’s rule number one.”

Matt Gorman vividly recalled how his football teammates in high school would routinely refuse to seek treatment for almost all injuries — including concussions. To give in to the pain, he said, would have imperiled the qualities that made them play

well in the first place: bravery, tenacity, and grit.

It’s ingrained in the sport of football, Gorman argued. It was ingrained in him from a young age, and stayed with him until playing through a concussion in college left him unable to continue his sport — or his education.

For the spring 2018 semester, he took a leave of absence from Penn to recover from his injuries.

But Gorman wasn’t alone.

During the fall 2017 season, Penn sprint football suffered an unusual level of reported severe head injuries. Three players were forced to quit the team after being diagnosed with concussions, two of whom also needed to take leaves of absence from school.

All three of them continued to play for varying lengths of time after receiving their concussions,

which they suggest may have exacerbated their symptoms.

And while these three players were the only ones on the team to suffer from diagnosed concussions last year, they all asserted that more than just the three of them suffered head injuries.

Gorman estimated that at least 10 of his teammates suffered and SEE DAZED PAGE 11

With a high grade point average and a slew of difficult classes under his belt, first-generation, low-income student Min Choi, hoped to secure a sophomore summer internship. However, Choi lacked any familial connections in the banking and consulting industries which took a toll on his application process.

“I got rejected by every single big company and I realized I need a network,” Choi, currently a Wharton senior, said.

“I had horrible sophomore slump.”

Like Choi, many FGLI students say they face additional hurdles in the on-campus recruiting process due to their backgrounds. In addition to networking, FGLI students cite lack of “soft skills,” expensive business attire, and competition with wealthy peers as key issues.

Penn’s Career Services Executive Director Barbara Hewitt has made it an ongoing goal to address these issues.

The office provides a Quaker Career Closet that offers lowincome students with professional clothing for interviews.

It also recently formalized a partnership with Career Wardrobe, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that supplies professional clothing to those in need throughout the city. Ca-

reer Services covers students’ transportation costs to the philanthropy’s location So far, 65 students have requested to visit the site this semester, Hewitt said.

“Image has a lot to do with how lucky you are in the job search. Me and my other friends haven’t really worn suits before and when we buy them, can’t afford nice ones,” College sophomore and FGLI student Siraj Qureshi said.

“We just don’t present ourselves as well as people who have been doing that since they’re children.”

Last spring, Career Services also started a FGLI advisory board to help the office more effectively help FGLI students.

Claire Klieger, the senior associate director of Career Services for College undergraduates, explained that the board is currently working to create employer treks through which FGLI students can visit company headquarters. It is also designing a FGLI-specific page for the Career Services website.

FGLI students note that the knowledge gap in soft skills, which depend on social capital, can be harder to address.

The Collective Success Network, a Philadelphia nonprofit with a chapter at Penn, aims to help bridge that gap for FGLI students.

“A lot of time [FGLI students] have the difficulty exSEE FGLI PAGE 8

Sexual harassment reports to Ombuds Office hit 5-year high

Furda calls for ‘safeguards’ in light of Allen bribery scandal

No reports were filed in the last several years

Furda says safeguards are needed for the future

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This year, Penn’s Office of the Ombuds’ annual report found a significant increase in the number of people who came to the office to discuss instances of sexual harassment and violence. In the past several years, the ombuds’ report has consistently reported that no student or faculty member reported instances of sexual harassment or violence. This year, the number jumped to five complaints.

According to the report, the increase was likely a result of a July 2016 change in University policy that made the ombuds office a confidential resource for instances of sexual violence. Lynn Hollen Lees, the University ombuds and a history professor, said more people who experienced sexual violence likely came to the office because of the policy change.

The ombuds’ report consists of data related to various types of conflict on campus reported by students and faculty. The office aims to mediate conflict and “settle problems informally” through confidential conversations.

In the wake of the admissions bribery scandal involving former Penn men’s basketball star and coach Jerome Allen, Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda is saying that safeguards need to be put in place in both the athletics and admissions departments.

On Oct. 5, Allen, who is currently an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics, pleaded guilty to bribery in connection to the recruitment of a student athlete – now, Wharton senior Morris Esformes – to gain him admission to the University.

Allen had been implicated in an indictment of businessman Philip Esformes, who had allegedly defrauded the federal government of $1 billion and had used some of that money to bribe Allen to help Morris get into Penn.

This kind of bribery, which had forced Allen to repay the $18,000 and $200,000 in fines, had been unprecedented in college athletics, as money typically flows the other way.

Furda said that the recruitment of student athletes is a joint action

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The ombuds’ report consists of data related to various types of conflict on campus reported by both students and faculty.

“Individuals with such concerns were not likely to contact us. If they did raise those issues, we had to advise them of our duty to share information if a legal demand was made for us to disclose it,” Lees wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Lees noted that some other

members of the Ivy League label their ombuds offices as “confidential spaces” to talk about occurrences of sexual harassment and assault.

“We think that the increased use of our office in discussion of such SEE OMBUDS PAGE 3

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“In the first weeks on campus, I watched my friends swept up in a flurry of recruiting sessions, auditions, BYOs, and GBMs for organizations with every abbreviation known to man.” - Julia Mitchell PAGE 4

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Jerome Allen, an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics, pleaded guilty to bribery in connection to the recruitment of a student athlete at Penn.

of the two departments and responsibility on the matter is shared.

“The way I approach any of this is it is a shared responsibility. And that’s built on the trust that we have between our departments. And that’s critical,” Furda said.

Furda suggested new professional development and training for staffers in both departments to prevent future incidents of bribery. He added that any staffer,

regardless of their seniority, should go through the training process.

Furda noted, however, excessive regulation of the recruitment and admissions process could hinder the ability of both departments to do their jobs well.

“Is One College Hall going to put up these walls so high that we can’t even recruit people? Will SEE JEROME PAGE 7

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A look into the Ivies’ representation on SCOTUS Penn Law has only had one grad. on the Supreme Court YONI GUTENMACHER Deputy News Editor

During his contentious nomination process to the United States Supreme Court, newly minted Justice Brett Kavanaugh referenced his time at Yale Law School repeatedly in defense of sexual assault accusations.

While students and administrators at his alma mater have denounced his nomination, the university can now boast of having nine law school graduates reach the highest court in the land — second only to Harvard Law School, which has seen 19 graduates serve on the court.

All the current SCOTUS justices hold law degrees from either Harvard or Yale, except one. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg holds a degree from Columbia Law School, but she attended Harvard Law before moving to New York and ultimately transferring schools.

Penn Law School has only ever

seen one graduate, Owen Josephus Roberts, go on to serve the Supreme Court.

“Since the Supreme Court has existed for over two centuries, any list of ‘where justices came from’ runs the risk of being an outdated time capsule. Five justices had no law school education at all (they did apprenticeships), and three went to the now-defunct Litchfield Law School in Connecticut,” Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“In this case, the past is not prologue – and appointments in the coming decades are unlikely to mirror past practices. So, however the Court’s composition may look today, there may yet be a few more Penn Law justices in its future,” Ruger continued. “Finally, we favor more diversity on the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the federal judiciary overall, not just limited to law school affiliation.”

Case Western Reserve University School of Law professor Jonathan Adler explained that the overrepresentation of Harvard Law and Yale Law alumni among the jus-

tices can be attributed to the prestige associated with the degrees from such schools, the tendency of presidents to seek to minimize feedback in the nomination process, and a form of self-selection among students.

“If you really know that you want to be a federal clerk and you want the opportunities, that might … make you more likely to try to get into Yale and Harvard,” Adler said.

Roberts, born in 1875, grew up in Philadelphia, and graduated from Penn with a bachelor’s degree in 1895. As a student, he was a member of the Phi Betta Kappa Society and edited the DP. He went on to earn his L.L.B. from Penn Law in 1898 and served as a law professor until 1918. He also worked as a partner in a Philadelphia law firm, before serving as assistant district attorney in the city and as an investigator under former President Calvin Coolidge in the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Former President Herbert Hoover nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court in 1930 after a pri-

Newly minted Justice Brett Kavanaugh referenced his time at Yale Law School repeatedly in defense of sexual assault accusations. The current justices hold degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Columbia Law.

or selection failed the nomination process in the Senate.

Two other men associated with the University served on the Supreme Court, but neither graduated from Penn Law. Norm Pattis, a civil rights lawyer and a legal author, wrote in an email to the DP that the high frequency of graduates from a select

group of law schools on the Supreme Court is indicative of larger similarities among the justices.

“This is actually a far more significant issue than the question supposes. It’s not just a question of why Harvard and Yale predominate — Columbia is a minor player. It’s really why all the justices appear cut from the same

mold,” Pattis wrote.

In all, though, he said he believed the overrepresentation of certain educational backgrounds is indicative of the goals of the schools.

“Why Yale and Harvard? They want it. They network. They fight for seats. Penn isn’t up to the game,” Pattis wrote.

Cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease reported on campus East Coast universities sees increase in disease this fa JULIA KLAYMAN Staff Reporter

Penn has seen an increase in the number of cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease reported on campus, following a trend of East Coast schools that have seen more cases of the disease this fall.

So far, there have been several reports at Penn among student athletes, another handful of cases found in the Quad, and one confirmed case in a fraternity, Executive Director of Student Health Services Giang T. Nguyen wrote in an email to

The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Multiple members of Penn’s Sprint Football team were affected by the disease. Nursing freshman and Ware resident Jack Clancy, who had been infected, said there were probably three cases of HFMD on the team.

“I had blisters on my face for four or five days,” said Clancy, who speculated that he may have gotten the disease from one of the already-infected players on the team.

“Once the first person started to show symptoms, they were told not to come to practice,” he said. “The equipment managers for our team had us take all our equipment to get washed. They

cleaned out our locker room and really did everything they could to prevent it from spreading any further. I must’ve gotten it just before all that stuff happened.”

There have been fewer than 10 cases reported among student athletes and fewer than 10 reports in the Quad as of Wednesday afternoon, according to Nguyen, who would not specify the exact number of individual cases.

“It wasn’t a frighteningly high number [at Penn], but just enough for us to keep an eye on it,” Nguyen said.

HFMD often causes painful sores in the mouth and blisters on the palms of hands and soles of feet, as well as a fever and

sore throat. Although it may be uncomfortable for infected individuals, the disease usually resolves on its own after seven to 10 days, according to WebMD. HMFD can be transmitted through close personal contact.

Other schools like John Hopkins University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and Lehigh University have all experienced a high volume of HFMD reports this year compared to the usual number of cases.

Nguyen said the number of cases reported at Penn was “nowhere near” the number of those identified at John Hopkins University and Lehigh University, which have reported 129 students as of Wednesday and

116 students as of Oct. 19, respectively.

Campus Health, the public health sector of SHS that provides health education and disease surveillance and prevention, sees cases of HFMD every year, but Nguyen said there has been a slight increase in the number of cases this semester.

In response to the increase in cases on campus, the University has taken preventative steps to stop its spreading, like cleaning common areas more often, installing hand sanitizer dispensers, and sending emails informing residential communities that the disease is spreading and to be careful.

On Oct. 17, Ware College

House staff sent an email informing Ware residents that a small number of students had been diagnosed with the disease. The email said that hand sanitizer dispensers were being added to various shared common spaces to diminish the spread of the disease and included illness prevention tips.

Wednesday afternoon, residents of Riepe College House were sent a similar email at 1:58 p.m.

Many college houses have seen extra cleanings of common spaces, said Director of Campus Health Ashlee Halbritter. She and Nguyen added that hand washing is the most important preventative measure in stopping HFMD from spreading.

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Penn student suicides prompt Pa. mental health bill The bill was originally introduced in Sept. 2017 MAX COHEN & BEBE HODGES Deputy News Editor & Contributing Reporter

In light of the recent suicides at Penn, a new Pennsylvania bill aiming to improve suicide prevention services and mental health resources at Pennsylvania universities is close to being signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.).

The legislation defines a new set of standards that four-year institutions must meet to become a Certified Suicide Prevention Institution of Higher Education, as recognized by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

In order to receive the certification, schools must provide contact information for suicide prevention hotlines, crisis intervention services, mental health services, post-intervention plans in the event of a suicide, and describe how these plans will be communicated with student body, said author of the bill state Rep. Mike Schlossberg (D-Pa.).

The representative confirmed that the certification would apply to all universities in Pennsylvania, includ-

ing private schools like Penn.

When asked to comment on the legislation, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said that Penn takes the mental health of its students “very seriously,” citing numerous actions the school has taken in the past years.

“We have appointed the Ivy League’s first chief wellness officer, expanded services at CAPS, and launched the Wellness at Penn initiative, which offers opportunities to reflect and engage on issues of wellness, stress, mental health, resilience, happiness, and personal and academic goals,” MacCarthy wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“I think colleges are really starting to realize the strain that mental illness is causing and the negative impact it can have, not only on students but on the institutions themselves,” Schlossberg said in an interview with the DP. “Colleges have to, on the whole, do a better job of providing resources and communicating the resources they have available — that’s what my bill is trying to get at.”

Schlossberg added that the issue of mental health on college campuses particularly hits close to home.

Schlossberg has had depression and

anxiety issues all his life, and he said they particularly exploded in college.

“When I was a freshman at Muhlenberg, I got lucky,” Schlossberg said. “The school was very aggressive in terms of pointing people toward the counseling center who needed assistance. I found the counseling center and they helped get me the help that I need.”

Multiple student suicides at Penn prompted State Sen. Vincent Hughes (D) to ask the official legislative research commission to conduct a study into how to reduce suicides in colleges, starting the legislative process.

Schlossberg said he saw the notice of the study and called up Hughes’ office, offering to write the House version of the bill.

Initially, Schlossberg’s bill required every four-year institution to communicate the mental health and suicide prevention resources that they had. But after pushback from conservatives in the House over this mandate, he modified the legislation to allow for the creation of a suicide prevention certification.

If a college meets the guidelines set out in the law, the school can use its certification in marketing and will

also become part of the Department of Education’s masterlist of certified schools.

Schlossberg originally introduced the bill in Sept. 2017, and it was approved by the State Senate on Oct. 17 and was sent to Wolf for final approval on Oct. 18, according to 69News. The governor’s office has told Schlossberg that Wolf will sign the bill into law soon, Schlossberg said.

Penn’s struggle with mental health crises has been prevalent for years, long before the bill’s initiation.

Penn’s Mental Health Clinic was founded in 1955 to assist students with mental health needs. In the 1980-90 academic years, seven Penn students passed away, three of whom died by suicide.

More recently, 14 Penn students have died by suicide since February 2013, including nine undergraduate students and five graduate students.

In December 2017, Penn Dental Department Chair Ricardo Teles died by suicide.

Penn has also made efforts to address students’ concerns. Following Wharton junior Olivia Kong’s death in April 2016, Penn changed its notification system so all undergraduate students are notified following

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The legislation defines standards that four-year institutions must meet to become a Certified Suicide Prevention Institution of Higher Education.

an undergraduate student’s death. In the 2017-18 school year, Penn held its first “Campus Conversation” to acknowledge students’ struggles, announced the hiring of five new Counseling and Psychological Services staff members, and expanded operating hours at CAPS. Schlossberg said he believes his legislation can help reduce student

suicides on Penn’s campus and change the negative cycle statewide.

“The more we can bring awareness to this issue the better,” Schlossberg said. “The biggest struggle that I’ve had with mental illness is that people don’t want to talk about it — but every time you talk about it you inspire someone to seek help or you inspire big institutions to do more.”

New initiative allows students to design residential programs The deadline to propose a SDC for 2019-20 is Nov. 2 GORDON HO Staff Reporter

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The deadline to propose an SDC the 2019-20 school year is Nov. 2, after which applications will be reviewed by the Program Community Committee in College Houses & Academic Services.

On Nov. 27, the school will announce application decisions.

Selected programs will also participate in the College House Living Fair on Jan. 23 so that more people will be aware of the available programs.

The application requires students to name a faculty or staff advisor who can work with the program and a tentative budget and schedule of events.

Some of the possible topics brought up so far included an anthropology-based community, a range of different wellness communities, more STEM-focused communities, and a community based on exploration of world religions, Keytack said.

He added, however, that it will be difficult to imagine exactly how these programs will function until the student applications have been submitted.

The number of applicants, amenities, and adequate program space all influence which college house will eventually accommodate which program, Keytack said. He gave the example that for a cooking community program to exist, there must be large kitchen spaces, which can be found in Du Bois College House, Gregory College House, and Stouffer College House but not in the high rises.

The room selection process for all college houses may also

change as Penn will need to ensure that each college house reserves enough space for potentially interested applicants.

“If you have a STEM-related community, there might have been 12 students who propose it,” Keytack said, “But we might hold 25 spots for that so other

students, who might not have met those students yet, have a chance to join that community and go for the process.”

Nursing sophomore Shannon Peters said the new program will offer students an opportunity to meet new friends. “As an upperclassmen, [the program will

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On Nov. 27, the school will announce application decisions. Selected programs will also participate in the College House Living Fair on Jan. 23 so that more people will be aware of the available programs.

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Penn’s residential programs have had mixed reputations, with some students alleging that they are better in theory than in practice, or otherwise too selective. As of this year, however, students will be able to design their own dream programs and consequently work with housing officials to implement them.

As part of a new initiative, current freshmen, sophomores, and juniors can work to propose their own ideas for residential programs in college houses.

These new programs called “Student-Designed Communities,” will be offered to residents next school year.

Director of Four-Year Houses and Residential Programs Ryan Keytack said this new initiative was pitched by students, and added that it was well-received at the two information sessions held on the initiative in midOctober.

“We want an opportunity to give [students] a chance to kind of take leadership and ownership of community, provide opportunities to create something meaningful for their following year,” Keytack said.

According to Penn’s new website on “Student-Designed Communities,” at least 12 students need to come together to propose an idea for a residential program. After their program is established, students can choose to open the program up to other residents, though those first involved in designing the SDC will receive priority.

allow me] to meet more people.

This gets more difficult the older you get,” Peters said.

College freshman Aseal Saed agreed. “I think it’s a really cool idea to have students to have their own communities and build their own communities,” she said. “It’s an interesting way for people to find their own niche.”

The introduction of SDCs is part of a broader University effort to focus on building community in college houses. In addition to these new living communities, Penn has also reworked housing structures and redesigned dining experiences.

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matters stems from the new policy of confidentiality for the ombuds office and also from the MeToo movement which has resulted in increased willingness to come forward with complaints and with concerns about how those complaints have been handled,” Lees wrote.

The last time the ombuds reported that a student or faculty member came to talk about sexual harassment was in the 2011 to 2012 academic year report.

Last year’s report suggested that there was an increase in instances of interpersonal conflict. This year, discrimination increased from one to five reported incidents while 34 instances of abusive behavior were reported to the office — the second most reported complaint after general employment issues.

“For the past several years, the most common complaint brought to us arises from resentments over what is seen as bullying and unfair treatment,” the report said. “Visitors describe intimidation, abusive language and disrespectful behavior, as well as the unwillingness of others to engage in dialogue about

an issue. Visitors report their perceptions of biases and micro-aggressions.”

In total, 163 individuals across campus consulted the office, which was a 5.8 percent increase compared to last year’s report. Penn staff were the most frequent visitors, while faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students followed. In this year’s report, there was also an increase in the number of faculty who came to the office.

Lees said the majority of their visitors are faculty and staff likely because students have more “alternative resources” and faculty have “fewer people to fall back on.”

Lees and Associate Ombuds Marcia Martínez-Helfman also said they added a new section in this year’s report that details the office’s work and how faculty and students can seek help.

The office fields complaints about matters relating to academic research, financial matters, and employment procedures as well.

In August, the University also launched a new online bias reporting form which allows students to report incidents, such as sexual misconduct and discriminatory harassment, anonymously.

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Pause the podcast, take out the earbuds, and listen to your thoughts SIT WITH ME | Your inner voice is your most important podcast

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hen I would start to stress out about school, my hands would immediately go to my phone and earbuds. I needed to listen to something to take my mind off my thoughts. I would put on a podcast or listen to some music.

But soon, it became a dependency. I couldn’t stand being in silence and thinking about the problems that I had ahead of me.

At night, I would try to play a video to distract myself until I fell asleep. I had to face the reality that I didn’t want to listen to my own thoughts.

There’s a general attitude on this campus that if you aren’t listening to something while walking between class, or doing any other activity, then you are wasting your time or spacing out. But in reality, your voice is the most important thing you should be listening to. You are your most important podcast. Listening to

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There’s a general attitude on this campus that if you aren’t listening to something while walking between class, or doing any other activity, then you are wasting your time or spacing out.” your thoughts throughout the day gives you time to think and process your emotions. It allows you to understand more about your feelings, so they don’t rush all in before you go to bed.

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drown out my feelings,” should not be so quickly dismissed on a college campus. A lot of us spend our days filling our ears with podcasts and music so that we don’t have to think about the stress of our lives. We do this so

that we can distract ourselves from personal problems or issues. I understand that sometimes taking a break from being lost in thought can be a good thing. Thinking deeply can be exhausting at times. But for many of us, this “drowning out” of our feelings is an avoidance of reality.

In a culture where we strive to maximize every moment, music can seem wasteful, but a podcast is informative. After all, if we’re listening to a podcast, we aren’t wasting time; we’re learning something new. But I want everyone to ask themselves: “Am I listening to this because I want to? Or am I listening to this because I don’t want to listen to my own thoughts?”

For me, I realized it was the

latter. There were moments during my summer at Penn where I realized that I had spent the entire day listening to something.

I checked social media in the morning, watched Youtube videos, went to work, listened to podcasts, and filled my entire day with external distractions and stimuli. I now recognize that those days I actually didn’t think about anything. I wasn’t even listening to anything attentively.

I did it so I didn’t have to think about the stress of other parts of my life.

There is so much focus on what we can learn from the external world. The culture around us tells us that there is so much information and knowledge at our fingertips. There certainly is, and I am in no way saying that

it is useless. But we fail to recognize that the internal is just as valuable.

I am not saying that we should stop listening to music or podcasts altogether. I listen to both regularly; they do have utility and entertainment. I am simply saying that a lot of us need a reset to make sure that we are listening to them because we actually want to.

If you’re unsure of how to start, my internal podcast goes something like this: I ask myself how my week has been going, and if there has been anything especially good or bad. I think about what has been stressing me out the most. Then, I like to look at the things ahead of me, and reflect on how I can improve on handling my fears and emotions.

Doing this isn’t just helpful, I believe it’s necessary for all of us.

Here’s my challenge to you: Remove the headphones for one day. Think about why you want to listen to that podcast. Conduct your own intellectual podcast with your thoughts, because it will be more relatable than anything you can find on iTunes.

JOEL LEE is a College sophomore from Groton, Conn. His email address is joelslee@sas.upenn. edu.

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In the rush to find our group at Penn, we can lose sight of ourselves SNAKE PIT MEMOS | The allure of most groups is rooted in exclusivity over substance

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he social circles of American teen movies are well documented — cliques, petty gossip and all. While the intense social hierarchies of “Mean Girls” don’t resemble a typical high school, most Penn students — regardless of background — assumed a degree of order in their social lives before college. Essentially, we arrive at Penn secure in our little corner of the universe; we know who our friends are and where to sit at the lunch table.

Suddenly, this comfort shatters.

The handshakes and rushed introductions of New Student Orientation had a clear expiration date.

Now, we, the freshmen, find ourselves bombarded with flyers for groups of every shape and size.

Their vague names and overlapping messages disorient us. Initially drawn in by free Insomnia cookies, we stay for the chance to find the “right” set of people to book a late-night GSR with. Of course, extreme displacement is a natural part of the college experience, but Penn replaces the somewhat orderly social routine that new students are accustomed to with a hazardous, tangled web of obligations and group loyalties.

This dynamic is embodied by Penn’s club culture. In the first

weeks on campus, I watched my friends swept up in a flurry of recruiting sessions, auditions, BYOs, and GBMs for organizations with every abbreviation known to man.

It was quite a sight witnessing sweaty-faced freshman flinging to-

spots wherever they can find them.

I’ll fess up to this craving — I can never be Jewish enough for Hillel, business-savvy enough for 180 Degrees Consulting, musical enough for Quaker Notes, or good-willed enough for the Netter Center. But

In the first weeks on campus, I watched my friends swept up in a flurry of recruiting sessions, auditions, BYOs, and GBMs for organizations with every abbreviation known to man.” gether business-formal ensembles, only to ditch them a few hours later in the race to frat parties. And while the Undergraduate Assembly, Student Activity Council, and the Wharton Council’s efforts to rebrand and remodel club recruiting are commendable, at its core, the process is still a rat race of juggling identities.

Amid the craziness of life at Penn, students need to feel secure in where they belong, so it makes sense that freshmen scramble for

part of me wants to have it all.

Group identity at Penn comes in rivaling forms, each with their own draw. The cultural identity groups offer comfort, the personal interest groups provide familiarity, the pre-professional groups promise the hope of a six-figure salary after graduation … the list could go on. While these groups aren’t mutually exclusive, it is impossible to reconcile them all — those with the ambition of singing in an a cappella group, playing varsity soccer, and

joining the board for an investment banking club will test their temporal capacity as human beings.

Diversity of choice — it’s a reason both to love and hate this university. Even in my first weeks here, I have watched the issue of rivaling group identities agonize my peers.

The confusing nature of social obligations at Penn comes from exclusivity. Faced with competitive application and initiation processes, new students try to display an unreasonable degree of commitment to earn their spot in a group, even when that means chugging Bankers Club during club initiation. By contrast, this leads students to judge non-competitive social groups as lesser obligations, regardless of which group is of greater value to them.

Another flaw in this baffling web of group identity is the lack of care for personal well-being — rest, reflection, and self-improvement are always in conflict with responsibilities to one group or another.

The natural extension of the overworked, thinly spread Penn student is the neglect of basic human necessities. Reasonable bedtimes, regular meals, impromptu adventures — we abandon it all when we let the struggle of rival group identities take over our lives.

JULIA MITCHELL Unfortunately, it is impossible to budget time for personal growth into Google Calendar. Growth happens in empty time-slots — the slow, boring moments between hyperactivity when our brains have time to process information.

As Penn students, we must earn our place time and time again. Ultimately, we can’t have it all. The paradox is, when we give ourselves to everything, we can’t ever fully commit to anything. Suddenly, the rush to escape one meeting for another takes over, and we lose the substance of what came before for what comes next. The end result: We obsess over the parts and sacriJULIA MITCHELL is a College and Wharton freshman from Yardley, Pa. studying international relations. Her email address is jcmitch@wharton.upenn.edu.

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SARAH KHAN is a College sophomore from Lynn Haven, Fla. Her email address is skhan100@sas.upenn.edu.

Our president is a nationalist. That should scare you.

OPENING ARGUMENTS | Fear through lies is a political tactic

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atred toward women, hostility toward a certain religion, and prejudice toward people of a different race rank among the most obvious sentiments we know not to express — no matter how much we may or may not feel that way. Oh, and let’s not forget, “I am a nationalist.” Surely, no adult in their right mind would be reckless enough to say that out loud … right?

“Really, we are not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, O.K.? I’m a nationalist. Nationalist! Use that word! Use that word!”

Oh, lordy …

That was Donald Trump at a rally in Houston for Beautiful Ted, also known as Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), on Mon-

Patriotism is love for or devotion to one’s country. It is associated with bravery, valor, and duty. Nationalism, on the other hand, takes things from the honorable to the dishonorable. What separates it from patriotism is the belief that one’s country, or people, are somehow superior to other people.

You’ve almost certainly heard of nationalism’s ugly cousin, white nationalism.

John F. Kennedy was a patriot. Richard Spencer, the rabid racist and white supremacist, is a nationalist. Kennedy loved his country and its citizens, but he did not see an American citizen as being superior to, say, a Swede like myself. Mr. Spencer thinks white Americans, specifically those of Anglo-Saxon descent, are worth more than those who do not fit this de-

John F. Kennedy was a patriot.

Richard Spencer, the rabid racist and white supremacist, is a nationalist.” day. Upon hearing the president’s proud confession, the crowd erupted in rambunctious chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”

One may wonder whether the crowd mixed up the distinction between patriotism and nationalism, or if Donald Trump simply attracts the wrong kind of people.

scription.

Human rights, as you may realize, holds little importance to a nationalist.

I would never say that all Donald Trump supporters are white nationalists. However, if you are a white nationalist, it isn’t hard to guess who you supported in 2016.

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This idea of superiority has a long and ugly history not just here in the United States, but also abroad. Slavery and the genocide of Native Americans here in the United States, and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 20th century were all justified on the grounds of superiority of one group over another.

Mr. President, you know there’s a reason you’re not supposed to use that word. You even said it yourself! I guess you just are not in possession of the impulse control that separates a child from an adult.

Or perhaps you just said it for the purpose of political gain, to attract more voters in spite of their moral turpitude. Quite frankly, I don’t know which one

is worse.

This, of course, should not come as a surprise. It is part of a pattern — one that feeds on fear of the other.

The large migrant caravan that is making its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border has drawn the ire of President Trump. To whip up the fears of Americans, Mr. Trump claimed in a tweet about the caravan, “Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in.” To see how ridiculous that claim is, let us imagine he tweeted something slightly different. “Criminals and unknown Swedes and Norwegians are mixed in.” Oh my god, someone call Homeland Security! Björn and Lars are fast approaching our border!

That was Monday. The day after, Trump was asked what he based his claim on. Facts?

Good one! Turns out, the president made it up. “There’s no proof of anything. But there could very well be,” Trump said of his claim. At the end of the day, it was all a bunch of gobbledygook.

But the damage is already done. People assume that, since presidents receive daily security briefings and the latest intelligence, they probably wouldn’t make such an outrageous claim unless there was proof for it.

Many of these people will see Trump’s tweet reported, but not his Tuesday admission of lying.

And here is the saddest thing of this whole debacle: That is

exactly what Mr. Trump and his enablers wanted.

Trump’s decision to label himself a nationalist and tout xenophobic conspiracy theories in the days leading up to the midterm elections is a pathetic effort to drum up support from fringe elements of our country whose support played a role in carrying him to the presidency.

These white nationalists whose abhorrent views were previously relegated to dark corners of the internet have now been given a champion in the Oval Office.

This is more than rhetoric.

Many of Trump’s most reviled enemies from former opponent Hillary Clinton to his predecessor, Barack Obama, and the “enemy of the people,” CNN, have been sent pipe bombs in the mail. Trump has awakened a terrifying element within our nation. Half-hearted calls for unity cannot reverse this.

MICHAEL A. KESHMIRI is a College senior from Stockholm, Sweden studying political science.

His email address is mkesh@sas. upenn.edu.

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KRISTEN YEH is a College sophomore from West Covina, Calif. Her email address is kristeny@sas.upenn.edu.

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Admin. talks global engagement at UC meeting U. fundraising campaigns will expand global opps.

JULIE COLEMAN Staff Reporter

At the University Council meeting Wednesday, administrators talked of their global engagement initiatives and the progress of the ongoing Power of Penn campaign, which is the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the University’s history.

The campaign spans from 2013 to 2021, with 2013-2018 serving as a “quiet phase,” in which fundraisers reach out to major donors, and 2018-2021 as the “public phase.” In the latter phase, the Power of Penn aims to raise $4.1 billion in four years, Vice President of Alumni Relations John Zeller said.

Penn President Amy Gutmann said the fundraising campaign helps Penn expand global opportunities, including making programs more accessible for students from firstgeneration, low-income backgrounds.

“Any global seminar has to be able to be open to our lowincome and first-generation students and not saddle them with costs,” Gutmann said.

“We want to expand what we can do by way of international experiences for our lowincome, first-generation students.”

Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel also discussed increasing Penn students’ global opportunities, such as diversifying Penn Global Seminars and the Penn Global internship programs.

Emanuel said it is critical

that Penn brings global scholars to the University and continues to focus on the success of international students. He said that Penn aims to increase the financial aid budget for international students with its fundraising efforts.

In recent years, Penn has amped up its efforts to engage globally in various ways.

In February 2018, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement had its official launch. Earlier in March 2015, the Penn Wharton China Center officially opened in Beijing.

Almost exactly a year after former Vice President Joe Biden was named a Penn professor, the Washington, D.C.based Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement will celebrate its official inauguration on Feb. 8.

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At the meeting with Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett, and other administrators were student representatives of various student groups, including UMOJA, Penn First, and the Lambda Alliance. Members of the UC were also at the meeting.

At the meeting, UC members had the opportunity to ask questions, but those unrelated to topics raised by administrators at the meeting were not addressed. Students expressed concerns about the spreading of mold in college houses, and administrators said they would discuss the issue at their upcoming steering meeting.

Gutmann also mentioned the importance of the new “Penn First Plus” office, announced last May, which is aimed at making resources more accessible to FGLI students.

“A part of Penn First Plus is to have summer experiences, research experiences, all of those, make it easy, financially, for Penn First Plus, and also, by way of mentorship,” she said.

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Pearl Kim is running in Pennsylvania’s 5th District ALEX GRAVES Contributing Reporter

Pearl Kim, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s Fifth District, said she is often mistaken for a Democrat.

During an event sponsored

by Penn College Republicans in Huntsman Hall on Tuesday night, Kim discussed her relationship with her own party, her bipartisan credentials, and the impact she hopes to have on politics.

Kim, who was publicized on the College Republican’s Facebook event as a “Penn alumna,” clarified that she attended Bryn Mawr College. She took Korean courses at Penn through the Quaker Consortium, which allows students at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore colleges to take classes at Penn that are not offered at their home school.

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athletics need to put things up within their own department – that they’re not going to be able to recruit people?” Furda said. “Can we overly regulate, legislate any of the pieces?”

No matter the amount of protection a program has, Furda said that it still may not be enough to deter the wrongdoing.

“You’re still going to have the human aspect of this,” Furda said. “Individuals are going to act in a way that would go around even any of the highest safeguards.”

Penn Athletics is currently in the “final stages” of an internal investigation conducted by hired outside legal counsel, Associate Athletic Director of Administration and Strategic Communications Kevin Bonner said.

“We remain in the final stages of the investigation. If or when we have more information, we’ll be sure to reach out,” wrote Bonner in an

Her opponent in PA-5, Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon, is a 1984 Penn Law graduate who has a 99.9 percent chance of winning the race, according to FiveThirtyEight.

Kim started out at Bryn Mawr as a fine arts major. After she was sexually assaulted her senior year, she was motivated to become a special victims prosecutor, due to her frustration with her experience in the criminal process.

A former assistant district attorney and a senior deputy attorney general in Pennsylvania, she said combating sexual assault is the “most important issue” she is campaigning on.

After discussing her political views, Kim said she sometimes gets asked why she’s part of the GOP. Her response? “Because I’m a fiscal conservative, and I believe in smaller government.”

When asked how she combats the notion of a stereotypical Republican, Kim said her stances on various issues do not need to match up with every other member of her

party.

“There’s a lot of diversity within the Republican tent — just as there’s a lot of diversity within the Democratic tent,” she said.

Marley Putt, a graduate student in the Master of Social Work program, said Kim’s politics are a driving factor in her support of the candidate. She said that Kim’s immigration standpoints are very similar to hers, taking a more centrist approach than the current mainstream Republican stance.

Putt didn’t know much about Kim before Tuesday, but decided to attend the event to educate herself on the election since she’s voting absentee in PA-5.

“After tonight, I feel like I’m decided on [voting for Kim],” she said.

Wharton junior Danielle Yampolsky is the political director for Penn College Republicans. Given the wide range of opinions within the Republican party, she said it’s important that College Republicans “strives to foster all of those

views.”

“If elected, [Kim] would bring a very unique perspective to Congress that many current Congress candidates lack,” she said.

Kim also emphasized her interest in bipartisanship, citing her previous experience working under Democratic Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

Wharton freshman Will Sealy said he thought this commitment to working across the aisle was a key part of Kim’s talk.

“What really stood out to me is that she is somewhat not going with the partisan flow,” Sealy said.

Kim said she sees her views, as well as her identity, as important in shaping the national conversation around who composes the different political parties.

“I’m running to change the narrative of politics, to change the narrative of what you expect your congressman to look like — [they] could actually be an Asian female,” she said.

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Pearl Kim spoke in Huntsman Hall on Tuesday night about her bipartisan credentials and the impact she hopes to have on politics.

emailed statement to the DP. Esformes was accepted to Penn in 2015 as a member of Allen’s final recruiting class before Allen was replaced by current coach Steve Donahue. Esformes never played or appeared on the men’s basketball team’s roster.

Penn Athletics follows the NCAA and Ivy League guidelines when it comes to the recruitment of studentathletes.

In an emailed statement to the DP, Associate Athletic Director for Student Development Matt Valenti wrote that potential recruits must be “academically representative” of the overall student body before their athletic ability and other intangibles within their respective sport is seriously considered.

“If those standards are met, our Penn Athletics staff works closely with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions to ensure that prospective student-athletes are viable candidates during the admissions process,” wrote Valenti.

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erting their presence. We come from a FGLI background, we’re the first in our background to be in an info session with those big companies,” Kevin Yang, co-chair of Penn’s chapter of Collective Success and College sophomore, said. “If you don’t have the confidence to understand that process, it’s hard to move forward and be that confident.”

Yang and College senior Anea Moore, another co-chair, said FGLI students must walk a delicate balance between marketing their FGLI background and operating in a “primarily middle- and upper-class space,” Moore said.

“Cultural capital looks like knowing how to maintain certain conversations with adults,” Moore explained. “When you’re sitting down with that coffee chat, maybe you both have a certain TV show or have done something FGLI students haven’t had access to due to their background.”

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In addition to networking, FGLI students cite lack of “soft skills,” expensive business attire, and competition with wealthy peers as key issues. Penn’s Career Services has made it a goal to address these issues.

focused its efforts on helping to bridge the gap for soft skills. Besides offering a year-by-year career planning guide for FGLI stu-

dents, it is currently working on a “brag sheet” to help them better learn how to market their backgrounds in the hiring process.

“Unfortunately, this is not a process where it’s warm and fuzzy,” Klieger said. “But they can come to us and should come to us

about how to shape that narrative because I think it is an asset that will work in their favor, but it has to be thought through.”

FGLI students agreed that their background should act as a plus in the hiring process.

“If they were to take into account a student’s background, they would end up finding better candidates. I think being able to solve real life problems, from things that have gone really bad in my life because of being FGLI, and being able to deal with them quickly and efficiently as I come, is very important,” Qureshi said.

Choi, who ultimately decided to pursue employment in the technology industry, said he believes his background will aid him once he starts working for Google.

“The fact that I was able to reach this much despite my background — the interviewers have been fascinated by my story. When I mention those, people were so impressed and amazed,” Choi said.

“They think my perspective will bring diversity to the company, so that played out very well.”

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W. SOCCER | Win at Brown would clinch share of Ivy League title

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Luck, skill, or clutch? Sands reflects on historic season W. SOCCER | Junior has scored 7 game-winning goals

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The Quakers’ consistent results have put them in a great position to challenge for the Ivy League title. After another strong all-around performance, Penn women’s soccer has proven yet again that it has a serious chance to lift the trophy at the end of the season.

A 6-0 victory over Delaware State on Monday night showcased the depth of Penn’s squad, as the win included goals from five different players and highlighted the talent of some of the younger athletes who haven’t seen much of the field throughout the season.

Coach Nicole Van Dyke emphasized the hard work of her bench players and their impact on the team.

“They contribute every single day in training, and they’re the reason that our starters and more of the impact players have gotten so much better because they compete against them in training,” Van Dyke explained. “It’s a great opportunity for them to get in and showcase themselves, and they were brilliant.”

From the very first whistle, Penn (12-1-1, 4-0-1 Ivy) established a stronghold on the game, dominating possession and creating several shooting opportunities that went high or wide.

Senior forward Sasha Stephens created havoc throughout the first half, attacking defenders one-on-one down the right wing and putting in cross after cross to try to find the breakthrough.

Junior forward Emily Sands had the first high-quality chance of the game, but she pulled her shot just wide of the far post off of a pinpoint through ball from sophomore defender Katherine Larson. Sands later became the

Eight goals, seven game-winners.

Call it luck, skill, or clutch.

Regardless, it is undeniable that junior forward Emily Sands has played a major role in Penn women’s soccer’s turnaround this season.

Sands, the team’s leading goal-scorer, has come up big in high-stakes situations this year.

All but one of her goals this season have been game-winners, enough for the second-most game-winning goals in the nation.

“I don’t know [if I consider myself clutch],” Sands said. “I think I’m just in the right spots at the right time.”

Sands’ most recent gamewinners have been the most dramatic of any of her goals this season. With just 52 seconds remaining in a doubleovertime game against Lehigh, Sands found the back of the net off an assist from freshman forward Abbey Duncan to give the Quakers a 1-0 lead. This goal extended the Quakers’ win streak to three games, and their

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Freshman Abbey Duncan has made an immediate impact for Penn women’s soccer, totaling two goals and three assists on the year.

playmaker, putting the ball on a plate for senior midfielder Allie Trzaska to tap in, but Hornets’ goalkeeper Leslie Fazio was able to slide across the goal line and make a quick reaction save.

The Quakers’ first goal came in the 25th minute from a surprising source, with junior defender Abby Reed putting the ball in the back of the net for the first time in her career. A clearance from a corner trickled out to Reed just outside of the penalty area, and she hit a curler with her left foot that traveled through a sea of players and nestled into the bottom corner.

Another debut goal made the score 2-0. A Penn free kick bounced into the box and sat up nicely for freshman forward Abbey Duncan, and she slotted it home to double the lead for the Quakers. A goal from sophomore forward Paige Howard, assisted by Duncan, gave the Red and Blue a three-goal lead headed into the locker room at halftime.

The flow of the game did not change in the second period.

The Red and Blue continued

to create scoring opportunities, and the goals kept coming.

Penn doubled its lead from the first half, featuring a second goal from Duncan and a first career goal from sophomore midfielder Cameron Keating, who assisted Duncan’s brace with a beautiful cross that hit Duncan in stride before she placed it in beyond Fazio.

The Quakers will now look ahead to an Ivy showdown at home against Brown, where they have a chance to clinch at least a share of the Ivy League title. Van Dyke, Duncan, and Howard all agreed that the team’s objective is to win the title, but they have refrained from looking too far into the future.

“It’s definitely in the back of our minds. It’s our end goal, but we take it game by game,” Howard said. “It’s really important to just stay in the moment. We are looking at Brown and we just want to get a win. Just each game, game by game.”

As the season comes to a close, Penn women’s soccer will be taking it one game at a time.

unbeaten streak to eight games.

Two weeks later, Sands scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Yale. The winner didn’t come quite as late as it did against Lehigh, but the 81st-minute goal did put the Quakers alone in first place in the Ivy League. Sands was named Ivy League Player of the Week for the performance.

However, to her, neither was her most memorable game-winner of the season.

“The [most memorable gamewinners] have been two in the Ivy League — the Columbia and Cornell [goals]. But, the Columbia goal was the most memorable just because it was a total team goal,” Sands said.

Prior to the contest, the Quakers had not beaten Columbia in Sands’ time at Penn. Then, in the second half of a tightly contested game, Sands struck.

Senior forward Sasha Stephens played a perfect ball in to senior midfielder Allie Trzaska. After the ball deflected off the goalkeeper, Sands was in the right place at the right time to put away the goal and get her first win against Columbia.

“Every goal is important,” Sands said. “The mindset of our team is, we know we’re not going to give up a goal so we just need to get that first goal and that will give us momentum.”

This offseason, Sands took on the daunting task of switching positions. In her first two years on campus, Sands played center midfield, but coach Nicole Van Dyke decided to move her up to forward. After the positional change, Sands has tallied eight goals compared to just one goal all of last season.

In addition to the positional change, Sands credits many of her opportunities to Penn’s defense, currently allowing the least goals per game in the country with just .241 goals per game allowed.

“Having such a good defense behind us gives us the confidence to close out games,” Sands said. “My goals wouldn’t be game-winners if we were giving up goals also.”

Sands’ spike in goal-scoring has helped the Quakers to a current 11-game unbeaten streak and a six-game winning streak.

During this stretch, Sands has scored four of the team’s six game-winning goals.

With the Quakers in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League, Sands will only find herself in increasingly higherpressure situations. If she can continue her clutch scoring, the Quakers could find themselves playing in November NCAA Tournament games.

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declined to seek diagnosis for concussions in the 2017 season. He, along with a number of his former teammates, described a culture that condones students’ decisions to play through injuries and shy away from medical staff.

In recent years, both Penn and the Ivy League have taken extensive efforts to increase education, prevention, and treatment for head injuries. And while coaches and administrators across Penn Athletics continue to tout the progress made,

October that left him concussed, but as he continued on through the first half, he knew he could feel it. He pulled himself from the game and sought treatment from medical staff at halftime.

But this was his fifth diagnosed concussion. He had played through some of his previous four.

“That is one of the things that I continue to regret the most,” said Ashton, who is on the second semester of a medical leave of absence resulting from the concussion. “If I had just come out one of those first times, it would have been a game changer in staying healthy.”

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Penn football and sprint football have begun using Defend Your Head, protective helmet shells designed to reduce the risk of concussions.

interviews with over a half dozen current and former sprint football players indicate that such progress has failed to permeate throughout Penn’s fourth largest athletic program.

“A Downfall of the Culture” Gorman started playing organized football in the third grade.

Football was his life, he said. His family is a football family, and he said his parents always pushed him to use the sport to be his best. “[My parents are] where I got the mentality of playing through injuries — if you can keep going, you can keep going,” the College sophomore said.

In his junior year of high school, Gorman tore his ACL — and played five more games after the injury.

On a number of occasions, he also played on after getting up dazed from a hit or awkward fall.

“I’ve gotten countless concussions that I’ve played through,” he said, before later estimating that he has likely suffered somewhere between eight and 10.

Gorman said playing through head injuries is a common occurrence in football, including on the sprint football team at Penn. Several of his former teammates echoed the sentiment, citing both the culture ingrained in players as well as the notion that it isn’t always easy for players to tell if they are concussed.

One current player, College and Wharton senior Ryan Leone, said he wasn’t aware of many instances of teammates playing through concussions, but added that those who tend to play through injuries do so because of internal pressures, not those from teammates or coaches.

When asked if there is a widespread stigma against seeking treatment for injuries, Leone replied, “Not at all. I think the opposite is true. If you didn’t get treatment, you would be criticized severely.”

Another sprint football player who suffered a career-ending concussion last year argued that there is a difference between playing through injuries to the body and playing through injuries to the brain.

Connor Ashton doesn’t remember one specific hit in a game last

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018 of a concussion: frequent and raging headaches. But other, lesser-known symptoms caused them equal amounts of trouble.

For months, Ashton felt a strong sense of fatigue. Gorman developed a lazy eye and an extreme sensitivity to light. Lajeunesse continually had ocular migraines — which he described as lightning bolts shooting across his field of vision — and woke up in the middle of the night with the feeling of needles pricking into his face. In addition to significantly reducing their levels of exercise, all three suffered various degrees of their symptoms for close to a full year after their injuries.

Such severe consequences are uncommon, but a grim reality of life in football, according to Dr. Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, a neurologist and the associate director of the Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair, who Lajeunesse says helped him during an appointment that accelerated his recovery.

Ashton, Gorman, and Lajeunesse suffered from Post-Concussion Syndrome, which affects roughly 10 percent of those who suffer concussions and means those affected endure symptoms for long after the typical two- to three-week period of expected recovery.

Some even experience certain symptoms for a lifetime, Dr. DiazArrastia said. Especially for those who require hospitalization for concussions, he put the likelihood of suffering a “persistent lifelong disability” at 50 percent.

But what worried Diaz-Arrastia the most were the risks associated with playing through a concussion. Not only are the symptoms of that concussion exacerbated as a result, but he said the possibility of suffering a second concussion is heightened — with potentially devastating consequences.

“The biggest danger is if a player suffers even a minor brain injury — and frequently they are unaware of it, because one of the features of brain injuries is that you have amnesia — is if they were to have a second minor brain injury soon after the first one,” Diaz-Arrastia said.

“The consequences of that second one are incredibly dramatic. They can go into a coma … and in some places, it’s lethal.”

The mortality rate of what DiazArrastia called Second Impact Syndrome is 90 percent, he said in an interview with ABC. The same research indicated the Syndrome exclusively affects people of a high school or college age.

“It’s kind of a thing in football culture, to be tough and play through injuries,” Ashton continued. “I’ve had so many broken bones — probably 10 to 12 — and I’ve probably played through some of them. But in my mind, a broken bone is a lot different from the head. I’d finish a game on a broken wrist if I could, but with the head, it’s a lot more serious.”

Ashton was the only one of the three Penn sprint football players with diagnosed concussions last year who sought treatment on the same day as the injury. And the three who did seek treatment — Ashton, Gorman, and Kevin Lajeunesse — all said that there were others who suffered concussions but kept playing and never sought any treatment altogether.

“We could do more to improve the culture of saying, ‘Hey, just go get it checked out,’” Lajeunesse said.

Ashton suggested that Gorman’s estimate of 10 players who played through concussions could be too high, but agreed that it is a systemic problem.

“It’s definitely a downfall of the culture in the sport right now, just not being open about it until you get to the point where you aren’t able to play anymore,” Ashton said.

According to Gorman, one of the 10 undiagnosed concussions last year was “major.” However, the - Matt Gorman player, an unnamed senior, was never reDocumented occurrences of ferred to athletic trainers, because Second Impact Syndrome are rare, “he wanted to keep playing.”

While it is unknown what kind of but playing through a concussion ineffects that player would have dealt creases the risk of it drastically.

Penn Athletics educates its stuwith after playing through a major traumatic brain injury, testimony dent-athletes on concussions and the from other players, as well as re- need to seek treatment for them. The search conducted by experts on the University — and the Ivy League — brain, indicate that it is not a matter have made efforts to prevent players from incurring them by making the to be taken lightly. game relatively safer.

“The Consequences...Are The sprint football team has a Incredibly Dramatic” pair of full-time athletic trainers to diagnose and treat concussions on The symptoms that Ashton, the sideline at practice and in games.

Gorman, and Lajeunesse suf- Every player interviewed for this fered were severe. They all story gave glowing praise of the endured the most standard aspect trainers for their high standards and

The culture of playing through injuries won’t and shouldn’t change.

This game is for savages...”

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Connor Ashton could feel his concussion coming on over the first half of what would become his final game. He stopped playing and sought treatment from medical staff at halftime.

diligence.

At fourth request for comment from the sprint team’s athletic trainers, Penn Athletics stated that it is standard policy to allow only Penn Athletics’ head athletic trainer to speak publicly for any story. Penn Athletics’ head trainer, Emily Dorman, declined to comment.

The players interviewed also noted that the trainers can’t spot every single concussion, and they sometimes need players to come to them as a result.

“Some of this stuff can fall on the players, where they have to take some responsibility,” 2018 College graduate and former captain Quinn Karam said. “All the trainers can do is test you, and if you’re even a little bit off, they’re pulling you out, but if you can, if you could fake your way through that test, it’s hard for them to tell you you’re concussed when you’re saying you’re not.”

The phenomenon of players faking their way through concussion testing was mentioned by multiple athletes — both sprint football veterans and athletes on other Penn Athletics programs — though Leone, a current member of the sprint team, said he was not aware of

on the team, agreed that teammates meant more bull-rushing, which injoke about CTE but disputed the evitably forced his head to take more notion that they don’t take it seri- contact from opponents.

But Karam and many others, ously.

“W hen people do joke about it, it’s definitely comical in nature,” Leone said.

“But it’s not frequent.”

Sam Philippi, a current captain of Penn football, said by taking brain injuries more seriously, student-athletes can learn to take the game a little less seriously in the grand - Quinn Karam scheme of life.

“Players must be responsible and follow guidelines and including Wagner, said worrying rules now when it comes to head about their heads while they’re out injuries, because we have seen in on the field is something they just the media and news how impact- can’t afford to do. ful some of these injuries can be in “I think if they were in a meetthe future lives of players,” Philippi ing like this and they were talking said. or they were listening to somebody, “[We] just have to be smart and they’d take it very seriously,” realize football does end at some Wagner said. “But once the game point in your life,” he added. “Foot- goes on, I don’t think they’re thinkball teaches us a lot about life as ing about breaking their neck or players; we can’t allow it to inhibit having a concussion; they’re worour future lives when one of the pur- ried about playing, and they let their poses of the game is to turn us into instincts kick in.”

I’m well aware that there’s a good chance someday I’ll be diagnosed someday with CTE.”

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Engineering sophomore Matt Gorman has played through “countless concussions” since high school and saw that as a necessary cost until he suffered a concussion that forced him to stop playing entirely.

any specific instances.

The widespread acceptance of the phenomenon’s feasibility points to the notion that regardless of the initiatives pushed forward by coaches, trainers, the school, or the league, there is still one vital group of stakeholders needed to buy in and make the game safer: the players themselves.

“It...Needs To Come From The Players” In a series of interviews, studentathletes on the roster have expressed varying levels of resistance to a number of issues pertaining to concussions and the sprint football team this season.

It began in August, when both the sprint football and football teams decided to implement a new safety feature to the outside of players’ helmets called Defend Your Head in the hopes of reducing the rate of concussions during practice. The padded helmet shells, which add roughly one pound of weight to the helmets, reportedly became the subject of considerable consternation among certain members of the sprint team.

“Do you know what the resistance was? They didn’t look good,” sprint football coach Bill Wagner said. “That was the resistance.”

“I think any time there’s a change, people are gonna be resistant at first,” Leone said. “But at this point in the season, no one even comments on it. They’ll make jokes about it, but I think the initial resistance to it was just a resistance to change that has dissipated since the beginning.”

Recent research has increased awareness nationally of the risks and consequences of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE — a long-term disease incurred by repeated sub-concussive blows to the head over a player’s career. The issue hit right at home in 2010 when the captain of Penn football, Owen Thomas, died by suicide and was later found to have had CTE. Multiple former sprint football players acknowledged they could realistically be diagnosed with CTE one day. In all sectors of the football world, stakeholders have begun to take the issue seriously.

But according to student-athletes on several teams, including sprint football, members of the sprint team continue to joke about having CTE and do not take the issue seriously enough.

Leone, the backup running back

successful future leaders in whatever industries and occupations we choose to pursue.”

In the middle of their season, though, what the members of Penn sprint football team are thinking about is how to reclaim the glory of their Collegiate Sprint Football League championship two years ago.

Just one current member of the team opted to speak on the record for this story. Others chose not to out of fear of retribution from the team or out of a desire to stay out of the story altogether.

Members of the team reportedly expressed anger at the release of Part I of this series, a profile of three former players who suffered careerending head injuries and struggled with the effects.

“I think many of the players were upset with the piece because it portrayed the team we love and the game we’ve grown up with in a less-than-positive light,” Leone explained. “It’s like saying your family or your culture could be ‘better.’”

Others, however, asserted that the players’ attitudes toward brain injuries needs to change.

“The coaches, the league, and everyone is pretty emphatic about how serious this is,” Lajeunesse said. “We’re Penn students — we’re not making any money from playing football. It’s definitely something that needs to come from the players.”

Lajeunesse asserted that it would be a topic he would be vocal about after rejoining the team as a manager this season. In addition to multiple of his former teammates, he expressed optimism at the players’ chances of achieving such change.

But others remained skeptical that substantive and attitudinal change could take place, citing not only the culture of the players on the team, but also the nature of the sport itself.

“This Game Is For Savages” Tackle football is necessarily a violent sport — with an injury rate of 100 percent, as one player noted.

For sprint football at Penn, head injuries are a part of the game, as Karam, the team’s former captain, noted — especially because of how the game’s maximum weight requirement of 178 pounds changes the way people tackle. For Karam, it

Even when they’re off the field, the players still often acknowledge that the benefits of playing football outweigh the costs of worrying about head injuries.

Simply put in their words, football means too much.

“Football does a lot of good for a lot of people,” Karam said. “I’ve had my own issues with depression, all of which occurred after having received multiple concussions. …

I’m well aware that there’s a good chance someday I’ll be diagnosed with CTE, and it terrifies me. But no matter what happens, the one thing I know for certain is that if I had a chance to go back and do it over, I wouldn’t change a thing.”

Karam and several of his former teammates indicated that the number of head injuries in the sport is unfortunate, but not worth changing the sport itself for. Each player said he knew the risks of playing the game, and it was on them whether they decided to keep playing or retire if the risks became reality.

Additionally, the players all said that a hard-nosed mentality will always be necessary to play the game well, whether it results in more injuries or not.

“I don’t think the culture of football is changing much,” Philippi said, “because football players are football players, and if it was easy, every person would play the sport.”

Philippi also emphasized how players must then be flexible whenever an injury does arise, knowing whether it is appropriate to play through it or not.

Gorman and several of his former teammates seemed to reject this notion, to an extent. Gorman compared his role on the team to that of a warrior in the military, knowing he may have to “pay the ultimate price.”

Wagner also at one point referred to his players as “warriors.”

It’s a game for warriors — or, as Gorman asserted, savages.

“The culture of playing through injuries won’t and shouldn’t change,” Gorman said. “This game is for savages, for lack of a better term. The purpose is to attack and create high speed collisions. To push yourself to a point of reckless abandonment. For that you need a culture that rewards toughness and grit. You need people with a mindset of being unbreakable.”

“The culture is the game. Is it harmful? Yes. But that’s the price you pay for the euphoria that it brings.”

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Men’s soccer blanked again in cross-city trip to Temple Penn has as many ties as wins and losses combined

on goal that Temple keeper Michael Samnik barely tipped out of bounds. The corner that followed posed another dangerous opportunity, played in by Bartel. Bartel’s kick found the head of senior defender Erumuse Momoh, but the redirect went wide. “We’ve had a couple strings of results that didn’t really go our way even though we’ve been playing well so I think guys were really fired up and ready to go tonight,� sophomore defender Alex Touche said. “Temple started off slowly and I think we took advantage of that.�

The second half welcomed a fiercer Temple squad, led by its usual offensive threat in junior forward Lukas Fernandes. Neither his shot in the 53rd minute nor Herman Doerner’s in the 57th could get by Penn senior goalkeeper Scott Forbes, though. After the game, Forbes gave credit to his defensive line. “I have a great team in front of me...I mean I was facing shots from 25, 30 yards out and that’s the kind of distance where I feel comfortable that I can save mostly about every shot,� Forbes said. “A lot of credit has to go to the defense and the players in front of me for keeping the shots far away without really letting in those close range

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In a battle of neighbors, Penn men’s soccer’s defense dominated.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, the team’s offense couldn’t capitalize.

On Tuesday, Penn tied with Temple 0-0 after playing two overtimes. The game marked the Red and Blue’s (2-4-6) seventh time going to overtime this season, and the fifth time Penn has seen its match end in a scoreless draw.

From the opening whistle, the Quakers’ offense applied the pressure. In the first half, they outshot the Owls (4-8-3) five to two, and junior midfielder and captain Brandon Bartel created a great chance for sophomore midfielder Wes Maki in the 13th minute off a corner.

This was followed not much later by perhaps the two best chances for Penn in the half. In the 24th minute, sophomore forward Jake Kohlbrenner fired a fantastic shot

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shots that might cause me some problems.�

Forbes continued to make clutch saves in the first overtime, as the Quakers had to survive several promising chances that the Owls’ offence produced. Penn looked stronger in the second half, but wasn’t able to find the back of the net. “I think this game against Temple gives a lot of momentum going forward because we created more chances than we have in the last three games combined,� Forbes said. “I thought it was great performance by our forwards even if we didn’t get that goal.�

Looking ahead, the Red and Blue (0-3-1 Ivy) will take on Brown (7-6-0, 1-3-0 Ivy) on Saturday at Rhodes Field in an important conference matchup as Penn seeks its first win in Ancient Eight play. “I think it’s a really big game for both sides looking at us right now at bottom of the Ivy League, if we win this we’re right back into the contention, at least the middle of the table,� Touche said. “We’ve had some really long trips recently up to Dartmouth, Columbia, and Yale, so coming back home, it’ll be great to play at Rhodes and hopefully get ourselves a result.�

VOLLEYBALL | Yale is tied atop the Ivy standings DUSTIN GHANNADI Contributing Reporter

This weekend, Penn volleyball will match up with both the top and bottom of the Ivy League this weekend, taking on first-place Yale and lastplace Brown. Despite a tough loss to Princeton last weekend — a squad tied atop the conference standings with Yale — the Quakers (5-14, 2-6) have shown signs of improvement since their rough start to the season. “This is the most resilient team I have ever worked with.

Their ability to bounce back from failure quickly is tremendous. They are some of the toughest people I have ever met,� coach Iain Braddak said.

Penn’s convincing home wins versus Columbia and

Cornell showed the Quakers have the ability to compete with any team in the Ivy League when they play at their best.

Looking ahead, Yale (13-4, 7-1) is coming off of a dominant 3-0 win versus Brown (8-10,1-7). The Bulldogs’ average kill percentage is one of the highest in the Ivy League, making them a tough matchup for the Quakers. “One of our main priorities right now is to serve [Yale] very tough. To keep them out of system [and] to force them into difficult offensive situations,� Braddak said.

Brown, on the other hand, has dropped its last five matches, with its last win coming in a comeback victory against Penn at the Palestra.

The key to the Red and Blue’s success thus far has been dominating the net and limiting errors. The Quakers have been the most successful

in games with a high volume of kills and blocks as the team has a 4-3 record in games that it finishes with more than 45 kills.

With respect to errors, its best performances have come in games where it limits the number of unforced errors. “We do our best every single match, every single practice, to reduce errors. I think ultimately, our strategy revolves around reducing errors on our side of the net,� Braddak said.

The Quakers have particularly struggled on the road as they failed to win a game in either of their Ancient Eight games away from the Palestra. “Our frame or lense [is] to look at the road as an adventure, to take what we do here with us. That competitive edge, that grit, that tenacity, when we take that stuff with us on the road, we are very successful,� Braddak said.

CHASE SUTTON | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Sophomore defender Alex Touche and the rest of the defense has played a critical role in keeping Penn in games despite an offense that has struggled to score all season.

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Despite a rough start to the season, Penn volleyball has a chance to climb out of the bottom of conference standings with its upcoming road trip to first place Yale and last place Brown.

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Tom Console forging a path of leadership on and off the field

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SPORTS | Senior will attend vet. school after graduation ZACK ROVNER Sports Reporter

At first glance, Tom Console is a sprint football player. But, to only label him as this would be a mistake.

Console is so much more. He is honest, a leader, a participant in Army ROTC, the president of the Penn Star Wars club, a future veterinarian — the list goes on.

In the coming offseason, Penn sprint football will be losing the senior defensive back and captain Console, a three-year starter whose impact on the team extends far beyond the field.

Since arriving on campus in 2015, Console has been a rock on the defensive side of the ball, continuing his high-level production this season. Through

five contests, Console has broken up two passes, recorded one interception, and made 21 total tackles, adding to his already impressive 38 tackle, three interception campaign in 2017.

“I haven’t been targeted too much by opposing quarterbacks so there hasn’t been many opportunities for big plays,” Console said. “But I’ve been consistent and all the guys around me have stepped up.”

Beyond his tangible attributes, Console brings a sense of leadership to the team. He anchors a defense that was forced to step up even more with the injury of junior starting quarterback Eddie Jenkins earlier in the season.

“He leads by example and he’s a really physical, tough, smart, young football player,” coach Bill Wagner said. “Hopefully he’s been able to instill that kind of leadership in the fresh-

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SPRINT FB | Win vs. Navy would send Penn to second-straight CSFL championship game JACOB WESSELS Contributing Reporter

Even after losing five 2017 All-Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL) players to injuries and graduation and its briefly going without its starting quarterback due to injury, Penn sprint football still has a chance to reach its ultimate goal — a CSFL championship.

Under the Friday night lights of Franklin Field, the Quakers will welcome Navy in a rematch of last season’s de facto south division championship. With a win in the final home game of the year, the Red and Blue can punch a ticket to their second-straight CSFL title game.

After displaying one of the best offenses in the league in 2017, Penn sprint football (3-2, 2-1 South) struggled out of the gate after junior quarterback Eddie Jenkins went down with an injury against Cornell in the second game of the season.

He was forced to miss next week’s 31-26 loss to Chestnut Hill, a game in which the offense committed three turnovers.

The offense’s struggles continued in Jenkins’s return. After losing 28-6 at Army two weeks ago, the Quakers got back on track last week dismantling Caldwell 38-14 behind a strong perforCHASE SUTTON | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Penn heads to Brown with title hopes hanging by a thread FOOTBALL | Brown is still winless in Ivy League play EVAN VIROSLAV Associate Sports Editor

On to the next one.

After suffering a 23-10 loss to Yale at home last Friday, Penn looks to keep its slim Ivy League championship hopes alive as it travels to Providence this Saturday to take on Brown.

The Quakers (4-2, 1-2 Ivy) can continue climbing out of the bottom of the Ivy rankings with a win this weekend and a Cornell loss to Ivy-best Princeton.

A defeat, however, would prove to be not only a probable goodbye to the Ancient Eight crown but also a devastating upset. The Bears (1-5, 0-3 Ivy) currently sit at the bottom of the conference standings amidst a struggle of a season.

“We understand the stakes right now,” coach Ray Priore said.

Last Friday in a nationallytelevised home game, Penn managed to put up a season low 10 points against Yale’s defense.

Penn currently sits in the bottom three of the Ivy in terms of

points scored and will look to turn that around against a porous Bears defense which has allowed the most points in the league.

A promising aspect despite Penn’s offensive struggles has been the running game. With a mobile quarterback in Ryan Glover and a top-five Ivy League rusher in junior Karekin Brooks, Penn has managed to generate a respectable amount of offense on the ground, currently sitting in the top half of the Ivy in rushing yards. Furthermore, the Quakers’ offensive line has allowed the second least amount of sacks in the Ivy League, demonstrating the good protection Penn receives up front.

On defense, the Quakers sit in the top three in points and yards allowed. Led by senior and 2017 All-Ivy middle linebacker Nick Miller, the Quakers’ front seven has been a force, recording the most sacks in the Ivy League this year. Despite allowing some big plays that kept them on the field versus Yale, this squad has a chance to make a statement against a Brown offense that rests at the bottom of the Ivy in scoring and yards.

“Brown resorts to a lot of

trick plays, plays that are going left, right, throwbacks, all over the place, so you’ve really got to be disciplined and sound,” Priore said.

The Bears have relied mostly on sophomore quarterback Michael McGovern, who has racked up the most passing yards in the conference — on the most attempts. But the young quarterback’s heavy usage has also led to him throwing a league-high five interceptions this season.

If Penn’s front seven can put pressure on the pocket, the secondary should be able to take advantage of any poor decisionmaking.

While this game might seem like an inviting matchup, a lot is on the line for the Quakers on the road this weekend. If the team sticks to what it knows — a consistent rushing attack with limited turnovers and a stout defense —then Penn can most likely get the job done and continue to keep its eye on the prize in another winnable game against Cornell in Ithaca.

Priore, though, isn’t focused on what may come down the line for the team.

“Control the controllable,” he said.

ERIC ZENG | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Coach Ray Priore and Penn football have the opportunity to get the wheels back on when they take on Brown in Providence this Saturday afternoon, a game that they need to win to remain in Ivy contention.

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Championship season begins for Penn cross country at Ivy Heps Men’s squad seeks a second title in three years OJ SINGH Sports Reporter

Under the guidance of coach Steven Dolan, Penn cross country seems to be taking a gauged but determined approach to this weekend’s Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.

While the Quakers’ men’s and women’s cross country teams have shown glimpses of promise on the backs of solid performances by veterans and newcomers alike, Dolan believes they’ve grown enough to shine when it matters. This Saturday at Princeton — the host of the Ivy Heps — Dolan’s runners will get their chance.

“The goal for cross country is always to be at your best at the very end of the season,” Dolan said. “We can’t really control other teams; we can just control ourselves. The goal is to have as many people as possible run their best race of the season on that day.”

On the men’s side, the Red and Blue are led by senior Sam Webb, senior captain Kevin Monogue, juniors Aaron Groff, Will and Colin Daly, and sophomore Anthony Russo.

The men’s squad has had a season full of ups and downs; in five meets, the team’s finishes have ranged from first out of 10 at the Bison Open to 31st out of 33 at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational. While the Wisconsin Invitational featured 18 nationally-ranked squads in the field, Groff highlighted how the event’s results relayed warning signs to the team.

“The Wisconsin weekend was a wake-up call for us. To the credit of the leadership of our group, we all kind of got together and said that this is not going to be good enough,” Groff said. “As a team, our mentality has been to get better every two weeks.”

And get better, the group did.

Over the course of the two weeks after Wisconsin, the

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Junior Aaron Groff led the men’s cross country team with a 32nd place finish at the Penn State National Open two weeks ago.

Quakers improved to a 28th out of 41 showing at the Paul Short Invitational, and then finished seventh out of 21 teams at the Penn State National Open.

“Penn State was a huge jump for all of us. [Even though] we adapted the mentality of underdogs, we have just as good of a shot as any other team in the league this weekend,” Groff added.

On the women’s side, junior Maddie Villalba has been the team’s most consistent pacesetter. Junior Juliet Kohli, sophomores Danielle Orie and Melissa Tanaka, and freshman Isabel Hebner have been solid as well.

The momentum of the women, however, seems to be slowing down after a strong start to the season. After finishing first out of 10 and second out of six in their first two meets, the Quakers have finished 11th out of 41 and 17th out of 28 in their last two meets.

Coach Dolan shared some candid, but optimistic, thoughts on this trend.

“On the women’s side, I’d say it’d be a challenge to try and win the championships this season. For us, our biggest goal would be to run our best and really compete in the competition.

Cross country is a stepping stone for track and field so we’d love to finish the season strong.”

Despite the concerns, the Red and Blue are still optimistic and excited to make some breakthroughs across the board. ”I think we are excited and ready to go,” Villalba said. “The Heps are just such a special race as we have parents coming, we have alumni coming [to watch us]. It is just going to be a great way for all of us to come together and cap off [our semester].”

Strong individual showings seem to have mustered enough belief in the Quakers, as a unit, to recognize their potential to be able to make this weekend a winning one. The men’s team will be aiming for its second title since 2016, while the women’s team looks to end a 28-year title drought.

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