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arlier this month, students on a range of email lists — including the freshman-year listserv for the entire Class of 2017 — received a series of emails from College senior Ashley Stinnett and members of her art collective. As a result of the email thread, Stinnett, who is also a Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion columnist, and several other students sent more than 60 emails to the inboxes of close to 2,400 people. Others who received “spam” email messages from Stinnett include: over 30 people on the 34th Street magazine staff, people on the Hub listserv at the Kelly Writers House and students who took Advanced Nonfiction Writing with instructor Buzz Bissinger in fall 2015. Stinnett is currently enrolled in two of the most unorthodox classes at Penn: Religious Studies 356, known colloquially as the “monk class,” and ”Wasting Time on the Internet.” Presumably, Stinnett launched this series of “email experiments” as part of “Wasting Time on the Internet,” in which students are asked to conduct social experiments to find ways that can make wasting time on the Internet a communal rather than solitary activity. However, Stinnett’s precise intentions are difficult to confirm because she has just entered a month of asceticism as part of her

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“monk class” and was unable to speak to the DP for this article. She has pre-written her columns for the DP, which are sent to the opinion editor by her friends. As of last Oct. 21 , Stinnett has had to observe a code of silence and avoid all electronic communication, among other rules. In response to a request for comment sent to Stinnett’s School of Arts and Sciences email, a group of her unidentified friends, some of whom asked to be referred to as the “Bad Monk Ashley” collective, said they were manning her account for the time being and responded with an emailed statement. Her friends think her “email experiment” began when she mistakenly crafted an application for the Truman Scholarship available only to juniors. After realizing her mistake, Stinnett sent her application in anyway but with a note that explained her mistake and contained an appeal for other opportunities that might be suitable for her, the statement said. Following this, she forwarded the entire gaffe to more than 70 of her contacts, including her former professors. Stinnett’s friends said that this was done as an experiment for “Wasting Time on the Internet,” but “also for giving people a good laugh at [Stinnett’s] mistakes.”

“Knowing her personally, she dislikes a holierthan-thou attitude and she also often complains of this complex often at Penn,” her friends wrote in the email. At the same time that Stinnett was forwarding her gaffe to contacts, her account was also sending messages to different listservs. Her classmates in “Wasting Time on the Internet” discussed responses to these “listserv spams” as Stinnett received them. Some recipients to Stinnett’s messages asked to be taken off the listserv. Others stated their displeasure at being drawn into her “email experiment.” One College senior, who received messages because he is part of the Hub listserv wrote, “This whole charade is the most narcissistic thing I’ve ever seen happen at Penn. Since when is ‘experimentation’ an excuse to impose oneself over another?” Stinnett’s friends said that they do not think her emails qualify as spam. They said that every time Stinnett starts a message threat to a listserv, she includes instructions on how to mark emails as spam for those who might be getting annoyed. There were also recipients who responded to SEE MONK PAGE 2

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Some College Republicans voting, campaigning for Hillary Clinton

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One student, Owen O’Hare, has even begun volunteering for the campaign

Wharton Computing emailed undegrads about the issue

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Some of Penn’s College Republicans are doing something unexpected — voicing their support and even campaigning for the Democratic nominee for president. College Republicans Executive Director and College senior Matt Shapiro said he is planning to vote for Hillary Clinton, not because of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s recent scandals, but just from a policy standpoint. “When [Trump] first got the nomination, I was planning on voting for him,” he said. “However, I looked more and more at his polices. I looked at his stances like isolationism … [which] I strongly disagree with … [and] wanting to punish women who got abortions, which, whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life, just sounds vile.” Trump actually clarified this position a few hours after making it, as CNN reported. He released a statement in which he said women who obtain abortions are the victims and that doctors who perform the service should be punished. But Shapiro also took issue with Trump’s comments concerning minorities and women.

Apple released minor updates to its mobile and desktop operating systems on Monday. The new software renders the AirPennNet service unusable across campus, according to an email from Wharton Computing. No University-wide communication has been made yet regarding the lack of Internet access for updated devices.

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Although Wharton Computing notified its undergrads about the incompatible software update, no communication was sent to all students as of Tuesday.

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Apple’s macOS Sierra Update 10.12.1 was released to improve “stability, compatibility, and security” of Macs and is “recommended for all users,” according to the update page on the Mac App Store. The iPhone and iPad description said that iOS 10.1 includes updates to “Portrait Camera for iPhone 7 Plus and transit directions for Japan.” In an email blast, Wharton Computing informed all Wharton undergraduate students of this issue, stating that Penn SEE UPDATE PAGE 2

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NYT reporter calls Trump policy ‘sea of contradictions’ David Sanger visited Penn through the Browne Center ALEX RABIN Contributing Reporter

The national security correspondent for The New York Times, David Sanger, had a lot to say about Trump’s foreign policy views when he spoke at Penn on Tuesday night. “Trump is a sea of contradictions,” Sanger said in the lecture. He had explained in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian prior to the event that Trump’s aggressive stance on how to defeat the Islamic State directly contradicts his “America First” approach, which encourages isolationism and withdrawal from international commitments. He said Trump “hasn’t been pressed much in the debates or on TV on how you square the question of the ‘we keep people at home and we keep people back, yet here’s what we will do to ISIS.” He also added, “I don’t blame him for that — he has not had to think of these sort of things for a living — but I think he’s going to discover it’s pretty

complicated.” Sanger also spoke about what he perceives to be the real estatebased nature of Trump’s policy views. He emphasized his belief that Trump largely overlooks and risks strategic benefits of alliances to instead focus on monetary compensation for American support. “It was pretty clear that Mr. Trump’s view of the world is very transactional, which is not really that surprising if you’ve spent your life as a real estate developer,” Sanger said in the interview. “And so the concept of building up alliances, which has been some of the fundamental underpinning of American foreign policy since the post-World War II era, is somewhat missing from his world view.” Sanger stressed how complex the international scene will be for whoever becomes president, and said that because of Trump’s contradictions and transactional worldview, “we don’t understand what kind of foreign policy president Mr. Trump would be.” He went on to contrast Clinton’s plan with Trump’s. “Secretary Clinton takes a

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much more traditional, alliancebuilding view,” Sanger said in the interview, describing her as “more hawkish in the Middle East … more confrontational with the Chinese and … less likely to get frozen by concerns about what the escalation ladder will look like.” He added, “But her view is almost a Republican view. It is very much more similar to what you would have heard from, say, maybe Mitt Romney, but certainly from McCain.” He added that any improvements Clinton would make over Obama’s foreign policy would be subtle and not likely noticed, and said she is still a firm member of the establishment. Associate Director for the Political Science Undergraduate Program Eileen Doherty-Sil said in an interview that she also believes the candidates have “such different worldviews.” Doherty-Sil, who helped plan the event, also said she wanted to bring in Sanger because of the uniqueness of the election. “This one seems pretty different — at least, that’s what the students are telling me, and we wanted to explore that,” she said. Later in the lecture and question-and-answer session, Sanger

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left the topic of the candidates to speak about the implications of the Russians’ breach of Democratic National Committee email system. He said it should shift public and governmental concern from that of a Russian cyberattack on the electrical grid to that of subtle acts such as interference in an election. In both the interview and lecture, Sanger also talked about potential party realignment. He said the Democratic Party must reassess its core values and determine which foreign policy strategy it will align itself with in the future — and the same goes for the Republican Party. “The Republican Party has sort of walked past the fact that Trump is rewriting their traditional scripts. So what does the Republican Party do in the next cycle … Do you go back to a party that looks more like the foreign policy of George H.W. Bush or does Trump have lasting impact?” Edward Mansfield, director of the Browne Center — which hosted the event — spoke in an interview about why he supported inviting Sanger to speak. “We want people who are sophisticated commentators but at the same time are interested in reaching the broader Penn

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The New York Times’ David Sanger called Trump a “sea of contradictions” and took note of his “transactional world view.”

community, especially the undergraduate community,” he said. “He has an excellent track record of exactly that sort of thing.” Mansfield said he thought a lecture on the election’s impact “was a terrific idea and that people in the Penn community would

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Stinnett’s emails positively. College senior Hannah Judd shared her own reflections on listservs and encouraged Stinnett to “interrogate … The idea that a listserv links people without their consent and predisposes them to viewing certain messages or images, which they then are forced to filter through.” Following this first “spamming” of email listservs, Stinnett’s account sent out a statement to the Hub listserv acknowledging that recipients were “legitimate” in reacting to her emails with both

benefit and be interested in an assessment of foreign policy implications and positions of the candidates” and added that Sanger “is a very distinguished individual who’s been analyzing and commenting on international affairs for some time.”

displeasure and joy, and that in hindsight, she should have asked for consent before including recipients in her experiment. The email added however, that “the discourse this is generating around consent/listservs/etc is actually quite generative, so I can’t say that I really regret my actions.” After this was sent out, Stinnett’s account asked individuals if they wanted to be added to a listserv for “spicy memes” which the account set up and ran with the pseudonym “Bad Monk Ashley.” Again, Stinnett’s account received responses ranging the critical gamut: The

younger brother of Stinnett’s high school friend responded, “Sure lol / Love a good spicy meme”; a person that Stinnett’s account described as a “very busy chair of a theatre group” replied, “No please--I get super anxious about unread emaivls.” Eighty-nine people were on this listserv as of Oct. 21. During Stinnett’s “vow of silence,” a group of students known as “puresexington” is running the email listserv on her behalf. Before Stinnett went offline, she sent an email to this listserv that said,“What a strange and wonderful way to be connected.”

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Loft ‘Space’ fosters discussion among strangers

College junior seeks to create discourse GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Staff Reporter

You might be skeptical if a girl you barely knew approached you on Locust Walk or on Facebook and asked you to show up to a loft in Center City to have meaningful discussion for three hours with 20 strangers. But so far it’s been working pretty well for College junior Serena Bian. Bian started the project, “Space,” in April after interviewing friends, acquaintances and strangers for fun in a process she calls “mind-mapping.” She noticed a common narrative of students wishing they could form deeper connections and friendships across different social circles. She came up with the idea of Space as a gathering to foster connections and understanding among students across different social groups. It is not a club, it has no social media presence or brand and it is not affiliated with any Penn organization. Participants will receive an email invitation asking them to show up exactly on time. When they arrive, there is only one rule:

No small talk. Following a short meditation, the people are asked to sit in front of someone with unbroken eye contact for five minutes, which Bian says helps them “learn to be vulnerable and uncomfortable sometimes.” Then, Bian will start off discussion with a story to get conversation flowing, but she stays silent for the rest of the time afterwards. “At Penn we’re so quick to get into our groups and be defined by what we’re involved with,” Bian said. “We’re all just so interesting, but I feel like the spaces and the culture that we are in doesn’t allow for these interesting parts of us to come out sometimes.” She decided to hold the space off campus to help students remove themselves mentally from Penn, as well as physically. “I’ve noticed how I feel in different physical spaces on Penn’s campus, and a lot of times I don’t feel great when I’m in Huntsman and I interact differently,” Bian said. She at first had the idea to hold the group in a warehouse, but soon found a loft in Center City on Airbnb that she felt was more conducive to friendly interactions than a space at Penn. She invited people she met on

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Serena Bian found the loft she uses for her project, “Space,” in Center City through Airbnb. Impressed by Bian’s project, the apartment owner offered the space for free.

Locust or messaged distant acquaintances. Although she told them only vague details about conversations with new people, Bian found most to be “surprisingly receptive.” Around 20 people gathered when she held the first meeting on a Tuesday evening in April. “[We] just had really amazing conversations that were deep, vulnerable, real,” Bian said. “I think like a lot of solidarity is built in

these spaces and connections are made but also just in understanding that other people go through the same things or that other people are so interesting.” After the first meeting, the owner of the Airbnb apartment was so impressed that he offered to let Bian use the space for free, she said. Since then, Bian has held about a dozen more gatherings, with anywhere from five to 20 people at each event. She held

several groups while she was in San Francisco this summer and hopes to expand further by involving graduate students and people from the city of Philadelphia. Penn’s Student Wellness communications coordinator and 2016 College graduate Ben Bolnick attended one of the meetings, which ended up going half an hour past the intended three hours. “Honestly we could have been there all night, talking,” Bolnick

said. “It was just a very, very, meaningful, deep, personal, enlightening discussion that I think everybody got a lot out of.” “Every single time it’s just like I’m blown away by just the depth of people,” Bian said. “And it really just humbles me that I’m surrounded by so many amazing peers.” Bolnick felt that the group filled a gap on Penn’s campus. “I think it’s tough to find space where it’s so natural to have such meaningful life discussions,” Bolnick said. “But something that all people need is to reflect, to discuss, to flesh out ideas and concepts and struggles with other human beings. And sometimes we just don’t get that often enough here, so I think that program really is one step towards getting us to have those kind of necessary discussions.” Bian hopes to continue the project by holding themed events like a TED talk night and speakeasy night, or by creating intentional spaces for people who already know each other. “I think there’s just this big desire for us all to connect with one another in deeper more meaningful ways,” Bian said. “And this is just a way that I’ve found to be successful.”

Researchers from Penn Medicine use iPods to track concussions The study was conducted with children at CHOP CLARE KEARNS Contributing Reporter

New research into the understanding and possible treatment of concussions has been uncovered at the Perelman School of Medicine, all with the help of some iPods. A team of researchers from Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia conducted a study of 34 children at CHOP who had recently sustained concussions, aiming to determine the feasibility of the real-time activity monitoring of concussion patients. Douglas Wiebe, lead author

of the study and associate professor at Penn’s Medical School, said the motivation for the study came from a noticeable gap in evidence about the correct way to treat a concussion. “The best guidance doctors can give kids right now is typically rest, cognitive and physical rest, and see how you’re feeling. But there’s no good basis to say that this is the best thing to do,” Wiebe said. The study aimed to fill this gap by gathering real-time data on the physical and cognitive activity of concussion patients, and in doing so, determine how feasible and reliable such a method of gathering information, called ecological momentary assessment, truly is.

To gather the real-time data, Wiebe and his co-authors developed a protocol, the key to which is an app given on an iPod touch to participants in the study. The app will chime three times a day at random, and will prompt the the patient to report how they’re feeling on a long list of symptoms, including headache, sensitivity to light and nausea. “If we just asked kids to go to SurveyMonkey at the end of the day and report how they feel, it wouldn’t be as effective. Concussion symptoms can be really fleeting and can change over the course of the day. If we just ask once for recall, recall may not be good, and also it may be hard to answer because sometimes

they felt good and sometimes they didn’t,” said Wiebe. The app pings people in real time and captures them in real life, thus providing more reliable and accurate data. The app also gathers data on physical and cognitive activity throughout the day. Patients wear an accelerometer that measures their step count and their sleep, and at the end of each day the app prompts them to answer questions about their cognitive activity, such as whether they

went to school that day, how much time did they spend reading, how many texts they sent and so on. The goal of the study was achieved: Researchers managed to accurately test the feasibility of ecologic momentary assessment. “All of the kids were engaged, they all wanted to provide us with good data, they all returned the iPod touches at the end of the study,” Wiebe said. Now that it’s been tested, the researchers

will now move on to use such protocol in larger studies. Some of the study results even differ from existing wisdom. The study’s pilot data indicates that more physical activity on one day corresponded with lower symptoms on the next day, which is different from the impression in the field. “That viewpoint was never really based on data,” Wiebe said. “People just haven’t monitored patients on the fly like this before.”

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Last week, The Daily Pennsylvanian ran an article about Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover, who posted in the Penn Class of 2019 Facebook group that he intends to form a chapter on campus of a pro-life group called Students for Life of America (SFLA). Naturally, Hoover’s post caused a bit of chaos in the group as pro-choice advocates began to berate him with comments such as “welcome to the middle ages.” While there’s no data to back this up, it’s probable that most Penn students are pro-choice and take great offense at those who would suggest that abortion be made illegal. Yet, in the interest of freedom of expression, all voices on a very legitimate and contentious issue such as this should be heard and represented on this campus. It goes without question that Hoover should be allowed to create a chapter of SFLA on campus, particularly since he attracted interest from approximately 15 students. That’s not what I want talk about though. The Statesman, Penn’s conservative-leaning

periodical, also published an article on the controversy surrounding SFLA — written by fellow columnist Jeremiah Keenan. Both The Statesman’s and the DP’s accounts of the backlash towards Hoover and pro-life stances on abortion were intriguing articles with lots of valuable information. Unfortunately, the members of the board of The Statesman weren’t pleased with the DP’s article in the slightest. The Statesman’s board published an article the same day the first newspaper article was published, condemning the DP for displaying “overwhelming bias against Penn’s pro-life community.” On the face of it, it is quite audacious for a publication to be critical of bias, journalistic integrity and “incendiary remarks” while simultaneously publishing articles with headlines like “Penn Students Memorialize Terrorists.” Never mind the clear conflict of interest in the fact that Hoover serves as the publication’s editorial editor and finance director. Something about

stones and glass houses? Media bias is a very serious accusation and only 32 percent of Americans say they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in the media to report the news fairly and accurately — the lowest re-

writer of the DP’s article, Rebecca Tan, blatantly misquoted Hoover in the line, “Rape is a horrific act of violence… possibly the worst crime imaginable. I don’t think that you’re not going to solve the act of violence like that with

The Statesman made the error of believing that the quotes in Tan’s article were chosen in order to promote one ideology over another ...” corded value in Gallup’s polling history. We should absolutely call out media sources when they feed us garbage, but The Statesman’s reaction is completely over the top and a pathetic attempt to make it seem as though Penn’s very own official newspaper is attempting to dismiss opposing beliefs. It’s not. The Statesman’s critique starts by claiming that the

another act of violence.” In an audio clip of the interview with Hoover, it’s clear that the “not” included in the last sentence was mistakenly added. The Statesman, in classic conspiracy theory fashion, argues that by including the “not,” Tan was deliberately attempting to make it seem as though Hoover had no idea what he was talking about

by using a double negative. This claim is simply absurd. Sure, there was a minor error in transcribing the interview with Hoover, but even with the “not” still intact, Hoover’s argument is just as clear and most people who thought Hoover sounded absurd most likely didn’t think so just because of the double negative. And, for the record, the DP has corrected the quote in the online version of the article and included an editor’s note apologizing for the mistake. Next, The Statesman claims that all of the opinions of students reported were prochoice and that there wasn’t enough diversity in reporting. This is a legitimate point and Keenan’s article does a much better job of including quotes from people on both sides of the issue. However, The Statesman overexaggerates the one-sidedness by including a quote from Carol Tracy in which she states that she is “opposed as anyone towards the pro-life agenda,” yet neglecting to include the part where she claims, “However, they have a right to be here.”

ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK The Statesman made the error of believing that the quotes in Tan’s article were chosen in order to promote one ideology over another, but the whole point of the article was to report on backlash to Hoover’s SFLA proposition, which Tan did. Calling out an article just because it doesn’t serve as a puff piece for your side is unprofessional on the part of The Statesman and an insult to the DP’s integrity as a publication. ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK is a College junior studying economics, from New York. His email address is alevan@ sas.upenn.edu. “Small Talk” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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Radically neutral FAIR ENOUGH| Gutmann did well to offer support without endorsement It was a rough year for the American social fabric. The existing political order was under deep strain. On the left, a new brand of implacable activism was exploding among the youth; on the right, racial hostilities long-simmering subsurface took concrete form as a pugnacious strain of explicitly racist populism. Campuses across the country were erupting into protest. A year later, the presidential race featured a power-hungry, unlikable political insider making a second attempt for the White House; one opponent pushing dramatic expansion of social welfare and decreased military involvement overseas; another riding a demagogic tidal wave of white populist resentment and anger. No, not 2015. 1967. On campuses across the country, then as now, students pushed their schools to get more involved in social and political causes. Despite its conservative reputation, the University of Chicago was a little different. In particular, a vocal and concerted movement was underway to pressure the university into taking a

stand against the mandatory drafting of college-aged men to serve in the Vietnam War. Responding to these pressures, Chicago’s then-president convened a committee. Chaired by esteemed legal scholar Harry Kalven Jr., the panel was asked to answer a fairly straightforward question: What — if any — role did the university have to play in “taking sides” in contemporary political and social debates? If President George Beadle intended the “Kalven Committee,” to produce a mealy-mouthed, equivocating statement which would provide the administration with cover, he was surely disappointed, for the answer it gave was no such thing. In its strongly-worded report, the committee answered resoundingly: none whatsoever. “The university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic,” Kalven said. “To perform its mission in the society, a university must … maintain an independence from political fashions, passions and pressures. A university, if it is to be true to its faith in intellectual inquiry, must embrace,

be hospitable to and encourage the widest diversity of views within its own community … It is not a club, it is not a trade association, it is not a lobby.” The university must, that is, remain a radically-neutral venue for the open clash of contradictory ideas about justice and truth, and for

Support of Penn Black Students.” As a believer in the Kalven principles, I’d be suspicious of a university message of support for anything, no matter how much I agree with the position — which, in this case, is quite a bit. The letter therefore came as a pleasant surprise. It endorsed no particular group,

I’d be suspicious of a university message of support for anything, no matter how much I agree with the position ...” faculty and students to, on their own, bring about those visions in whatever manner they might choose. In this way, as a passive facilitator, the university might enable ideas to compete on a level playing field so that the truth might, by its encounter with and prevalence over falsehood, be discovered. The story of the Kalven Committee came to my mind this week when I read President Gutmann’s “Message in

platform or ideology. True, it used the words “black lives matter,” but it offered them as a simple affirmation of the value of human life, not, by my reading, an endorsement of or show of solidarity with any particular group or ideology carrying that name. Instead, Gutmann offered encouragement to a community of students that has voiced concern that the school does not welcome its presence without taking a

stance on the greater political questions that gave rise to those concerns. That, I think, is not inappropriate. It certainly provided an elegant counterpoint to the University of Vermont’s choice to allow its student government to fly a stylized version of the slogan, used as an emblem by campus activist group, on the school’s central flagpole. That, I think, constitutes an institutional endorsement of a contemporary political movement; a “taking sides” which represents a clear violation of social and political neutrality. One could of course take Kalven even further and fault Gutmann for asserting an institutional belief in the inherent value of human life — there are, after all, philosophers who argue against it. That would be consistent with the embrace of a kind of institutional hyper-neutrality which I at times find appealing, but which is very hard to make work in practice. That life has value is, I think, uncontroversial enough a proposition that it may surface in a university communique without seriously impinging upon discursive freedoms.

ALEC WARD But the difficulty of drawing that line nevertheless means that Penn presidents ought not to make a habit out of issuing ex cathedra statements of institutional sentiment. Even when they do not take obvious political positions, they cannot help but skirt the neutrality line unnecessarily. Our administration ought to recognize, as a matter of practice, that moral consensus, no matter how strong, does not strip impartiality of the value for which it is maintained in the first place. ALEC WARD is a College senior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enoug h,” u suall y appears every Wednesday.

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UMC begins Unity Month series of programming The month’s theme is “Steps of Solidarity” ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

The United Minority Council’s Unity Month begins on Thursday with the theme, “Steps to Solidarity.” Throughout the month, each week is dedicated to a different step that minorities need to take in order to work together. The first step is “Gaining identity,” which allows participants to share their own experiences and gives them a chance to reflect on their own identities. “To understand solidarity and engage with others, you first need to engage with yourself,” UMC programming co-chair and College junior Maya Arthur said. “You need to find your identity.” The second step is “building

com munity,” where U MC members plan to encourage constituents to break out of the Penn-centric circle of influence. “You not only need to build a community around yourself at Penn, but with the greater Philadelphia community,” Arthur said. UMC’s goal during the week is to show Penn students how they can interact with the West Philadelphia community in a way that is active and collaborative. The club will be working with Books Through Bars, a nonprofit that exchanges books and educational materials with prisoners. The third step is “Make movements not moments,” which is focused on how to make social movements last, rather than trend for a few days and then disappear. “Social justice and protests have become something that’s

very fleeting,” UMC chair and Wharton senior Temilola Ransome-Kuti said. She emphasized that the problem is especially potent for millennials. “We are thinking about making them more long-term.” UMC is also planning to build a wall of solidarity that symbolizes how minority communities are often locked in or pushed out of certain environments. “It’s taking that idea and flipping it,” Ransome-Kuti said. “It can also represent cohesiveness, strength and solid structure. No matter what you throw at us, we stand together.” Over three days, UMC will host discussions about major social movements including Black Lives Matter, protests against the Dakota Pipeline and transgender visibility. On the wall will be messages of encouragement and shared experiences.

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Dogs are a Penn student’s best friend JACOB WINICK Staff Reporter

Sick of Penn refusing to accept K-9 students? Wish you could spend more time discussing your furry friends with other dog lovers? Drop your bowl of kibble and sign up for Penn for Paws, Penn’s brand-new dog advocacy club. Penn for Paws was founded last week by College sophomore Ashley Sayles to fill what she saw as an empty void — Penn’s lack of a dog-focused club. Sayles

hopes the club will help raise awareness for the welfare of dogs through “passion, advocacy and service.” “Dogs are my passion, and there wasn’t really anything on campus for dog lovers,” Sayles said. “So I decided to start my own club to educate the general public, volunteer at shelters and raise money for dog charities.” Sayles first announced her intention to start the club by posting in the Class of 2019 Facebook page. Since then, she has tried to keep the club small, limiting it only to sophomores so she has a chance to figure out the club’s direction. However, now that the

club has a mission statement and The club also plans to bring an inner circle of members, she dogs to campus during finals is hoping to open it to all under- season because, as Sayles said. graduate and graduate students. “We’re a dog club, so why Anyone can join Penn for Paws — it doesn’t require a transcript or any other qualification. “Anyone can join. This is based on people’s passion for dogs, so the more people the better,” Sayles said. “You can’t have too many people loving dogs, you just can’t.” Sayles hopes the club will address some serious K-9 welfare issues like dogfighting and edu- 4 4 4 3 33 cate students on the benefits of ST STST adopting rather than shopping for dogs.

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“Talking that way about other human beings doesn’t befit the office of president. [And] the whole xenophobic vibe about him … [like] his polices … just don’t represent the Republican Party or conservative values.” Although Shapiro said he “[doesn’t] see eye to eye with [Clinton] about all her policies,” he plans to vote for her to take the strongest measure against a Trump presidency. “Voting for Hillary Clinton is my way of clearing my conscious the most by knowing I did what I could to keep Donald Trump out of office,” Shapiro said. But another College Republican is taking his support of Clinton to still higher extremes. The College Republicans’ Chief of Staff and Wharton sophomore Owen O’Hare, is now volunteering with the Clinton campaign in Pennsylvania. “Trump is so bad, it really is a necessity to support Clinton. [But] I do agree with a number of Clinton’s policies,” O’Hare said. He noted his approval of Clinton’s stances on most social issues, namely gay marriage and abortion, as well as her positions on immigration and foreign affairs. He also endorsed what he considers Clinton’s moderate fiscal policy. “If you are a budget-hawk … and you look at Clinton’s tax plan … it is much less extreme than Bernie Sanders’ … and much closer to being deficit neutral than

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Some members of Penn’s College Republicans are voting for presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the basis of support for her policies.

Trump’s,” O’Hare said. “Trump kind of has a few things in there, like tax cuts, but they don’t add up at all … So from that standpoint [Clinton’s] probably more aligned with Republican fiscal thinking than [Trump].” But O’Hare’s primary motivation for supporting Clinton is not a specific campaign proposal, but instead, his approval of her character. Despite some reservations about some of the scandals she has been involved with, including using a personal e-mail server while secretary of state, O’Hare still evaluates Clinton as the much more emotionally and ethically sound candidate. “I mean, there are some things that concern me,” O’Hare admitted. “But if there was something really [illegal] that happened, the House special committees [or FBI] would have found it. … So [my backing of] Clinton is … based on her temperament.”

O’Hare and Shapiro’s support for Clinton is not universal among College Republicans. Some members of the group have remained resolutely loyal to their party’s nominee. “This is possibly the most emotionally charged election in decades,” College freshman Dominic Gregorio said. “So … I took a step back from the emotions … and logically determined which candidate has the most policies that approximate [my own]. And that was Donald Trump.” Gregorio explained how he agrees with many of Trump’s specific healthcare and foreign policy proposals. Gregorio also favors Trump as the candidate he thinks would best uphold the Constitution. “[Trump] will nominate a constitutionalist to the Supreme Court, which is important to me. Also, he will no longer [require] a religious test for immigration …

so he’s more closely aligned with a constitutionalist’s views [than Clinton],” Gregorio said. Trump said at the second presidential debate that he has amended his call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the United States to a policy of “extreme vetting” from areas associated with terrorism, USA Today reported. Gregorio defended his support for Trump even in the midst of Trump’s most recent scandals, including 11 women coming forward with allegations of his inappropriate sexual behavior. Gregorio cited the legal presumption of innocence. He said Trump hasn’t been proven guilty of any crime. “Just as Hillary Clinton hasn’t been convicted and we assume her to be innocent, Donald Trump hasn’t been convicted, so we must assume him to be innocent,” he said. Despite their diverging opinions, pro-Clinton and pro-Trump College Republicans agree on at least one matter — how to choose which candidate to support. All three members urged their fellow Penn students to ignore party loyalty and emotion, and to allow logical analysis to govern their vote. “Everyone has to make their own decision about who lines up with their views and who they should vote for,” O’Hare said. “And as long as they’re doing it because they agree with what that candidate stands for and what that candidate will do, then that’s okay.”

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Despite what was described by coach Rudy Fuller as “arguably the team’s best performance of the season,” Penn men’s soccer lost 1-0 to West Virginia on Tuesday night at Rhodes Field. The Quakers (4-5-5) came into this game riding high after a decisive 3-0 victory over Yale. But a look back past that game at the tough 4-0 and 4-1 losses to Villanova and Darthmouth gave reason to be concerned with how the back line would hold up, especially considering that the Mountaineers (8-5-1) had defeated #22 Akron 3-1 this past Saturday. In preparing for the contest, Fuller said that the attention was not on the upcoming opponent, but rather his own team focused on “trying to get better at what we do.” While the result was not the desired

one, this strategy certainly paid dividends. For much of the first half, the game was a midfield battle, with momentum shifting back and forth very consistently. The first real chance came in the 24th minute, where junior midfielder Joe Swenson forced a good save from Mountaineers keeper Jose Santos. West Virginia’s first opportunity occurred in the 40th minute, with a headed cross going just wide right of the goal. At the end of the first half, the Quakers led in terms of shots, with a count of five to three, but only two of those five had forced saves from the goalie. The Quakers led the possession battle in the first half and kept that up in the beginning of the second half, but West Virginia was able to notch a goal against the run of play in the 52nd minute. Felix Angerer was the goalscorer, and Steven James provided the assist. This ended up being the only shot for the Mountaineers in the second half. The concession did not deter the Quakers though, as the offense

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Freshman winger Dami Omitaomu and the Penn offense were unable to find the back of the net during Tuesday’s 1-0 loss to West Virginia, despite creating a number of chances as the game wore on.

continued to attack. By the 64th minute, the Quakers had created a number of chances on goal, chief among them being a header from senior forward Alec Neumann in

the 67th minute that went just wide. By the time the final whistle blew, the Quakers had put ten shots on goal, compared to a measly four for West Virginia. Unfortunately

for the Quakers, while they put up a big number in this category, the Red and Blue were only capable of forcing three saves out of the West Virginia keeper.

“Sometimes it doesn’t go in the back of the net, and other days every shot seems to go in,” Neumann, the team’s captain and leading scorer, said. “It was just one of those nights.” Fuller was, overall, very pleased by what he saw from his squad: “The team has every right to be angry and disappointed about the final result, but not about the performance.” Where the Quakers really shined was in the midfield, garnering praise from both Neumann and Fuller. The midfielders were instrumental in chance creation and were able to restrict the Mountaineers to much more of a counter-attack oriented approach. The Quakers take on Brown this coming Saturday, and the frustrating outcome of this game will make them extremely “hungry,” as the coach put it. “If we can build on this performance and be better than we were tonight and also tuck away some chances, we can play with anybody,” Fuller said.

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Quakers endure mixed 2015-16, look ahead to new season Reg. season losses, Kentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4th place NCAA finish THOMAS MUNSON Senior Sports Reporter

If at the beginning of the 2015 season you had told the members of Penn wrestling that they would have an All-American wrestler, no one would have blinked. Then-senior Lorenzo Thomas, after all, had already earned the elite title at 184 pounds in 2014, when he finished sixth in the nation. But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Thomas who would climb the podium in March for the

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Red and Blue. It was 174-pound thenjunior Casey Kent. The Norristown native, who sat out the entire 2014-15 campaign, pinned his way through the blood rounds of the NCAA tournament in New York City to finish as the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourth-best wrestler in his weight class. He was nearly joined by Thomas, who lost in the round of 12, ending Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chances of claiming two AllAmericans. But while Kent provided an exclamation point to the end of the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; season, the rest of the campaign was a mixed bag of successes and shortcomings.

Sydney Olympics. In his new role, in which he oversees the `training of elite wrestlers from the Mid-Atlantic region, Slay will often return to his old stomping grounds, bringing with him a wealth of knowledge and a train of Olympic hopefuls looking to grapple with their Penn counterparts. Practice aside, this particular class of eight freshmen will likely be called upon early and often as the season wears on. The graduation of several key performers, notably C.J. Cobb and Lorenzo Thomas, has left massive holes in the roster. While senior 2016 All-American Casey Kent and NCAA qualifier May Bethea can consistently submit dominant performances, the rest of the roster is more unpredictable. Tirapelle, however, intimated that the freshmen have not been shy about buying into his system and demonstrating their commitment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most noticeable thing for me for this class is that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem like they are going to take a back seat to anyone,â&#x20AC;? Tirapelle said with enthusiasm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the same page as the rest of the team right away and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working hard. They have established goals. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve adopted the team culture. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not easy to identify who the younger guys are because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working just as hard as the guys who have been here for a while.â&#x20AC;? Perhaps the biggest challenge

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knowledge as I can from the older guys on the team and evaluate at the end of the season,â&#x20AC;? Conway reflected. 149-pounder Jon Errico echoed his fellow freshmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to take advantage of the coaching staff and all the guys in the room. We have the PRTC [Pennsylvania Regional Training Center] here so I hope to take advantage of coach [Brandon] Slay,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I definitely want to focus on my feet, working on my stance in motion, handfighting, working on my defense. I have to hold my ground because when it comes to an older guy, bigger guy, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to get tossed around.â&#x20AC;? The coaching staff that guided Penn to its best NCAA championship performance in a decade should provide valuable insights for the freshmen, under the supervision of Tirapelle. And, as Errico alluded to, the presence of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest ever wrestler will supplement a year-long crash course on the ins and outs of collegiate wrestling. Brandon Slay, the newly minted PRTC Executive Director, graduated from Wharton as a two-time Ivy League Wrestler of the Year and reached the pinnacle of athletic achievement with a Gold Medal win in Freestyle Wrestling at the 2000

Penn finished the season 2-3 in the Ivy League, a disappointing finish for a team that had become accustomed to being recognized as the second-best team in the Ancient Eight behind national powerhouse Cornell. Sixth place was hardly the result that a roster featuring Thomas, Kent and C.J. Cobb was expected to achieve. Losses to Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Drexel came during a tough three-week stretch for the Red and Blue. However, the Quakers successfully rebounded during their postseason tournament slate. Three grapplers advanced to the second day of the NCAA tournament, and a 20th

for the newest members of the Red in Blue is one that faces all students entering the Penn bubble. Finding a balance and establishing a support system is crucial to success in the demanding atmosphere that an Ivy League school creates. According to Errico, however, he and his freshmen teammates have already established a chemistry that extends well beyond the wrestling room. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew some of the guys before we even came to Penn. ... We study together, we eat together, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all one big group.â&#x20AC;? Both Errico and Conway also emphasized that the veterans on the team have stepped up and helped them assimilate into the rigor of Penn wrestling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, Joe Velliquette [has been a mentor]. I come in the mornings, wrestle with him, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the tiniest things. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not pointing out huge holes in my game but just tiny things that added up will overall make me a lot better.â&#x20AC;? Errico mentioned that Bethea and senior Marc Mastropietro emerged as leaders in the preseason and as exemplars of the conditioning need to succeed in the collegiate ranks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the preseason runs, the goal for us was to try stay up with those guys. They were always in the lead. But everyone in general is doing a really good job with motivating the freshmen to be the best that they can be.â&#x20AC;?

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place finish is nothing to sneeze at. One question that loomed over the squad during those tournaments was the sudden departure of senior C.J. Cobb. Cobb, who fell one win shy of All-American status himself in 2015, had been positioned for a huge year. All season, he proved pundits right and floated around throughout the top ten rankings of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 149pound weight class. When he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show up for weigh-ins at the EIWA tournament due to a nagging injury, many were shocked. But, the team came together and rallied to put their best foot forward. The Quakers will aim to avenge their regular season losses from last

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Senior Casey Kent was a surprise star a season ago, winning AllAmerican honors in the 174-pound class, the Only Quaker to do so.

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outscores Big 5 rivals DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

Gut check. After enduring a heartbreaking 3-2 overtime loss to Ivy foe Yale this past Saturday, Penn field hockey took down crosstown rival Villanova, 6-4, in dramatic fashion on Tuesday night, cementing a 5-0 record against Philadelphia-area schools this season. The Quakers (10-5, 3-2 Ivy) did not get off to the start they wanted; the Wildcats scored a goal in both the 32nd and 33rd minutes of play to take a sudden 2-0 lead. But less than a minute later, sophomore Rachel Mirkin put in a rebound to earn her first career goal, a timely tally that cut the deficit to one for the Red and Blue before halftime. The second half saw the action break wide open for both teams. In an eight-minute span to begin the half, the Quakers scored three consecutive goals. Senior captain Elise Tilton scored her seventh goal of the season in the 41st minute in between two strikes in the 37th and 45th minutes from junior standout Alexa Hoover. Villanova, however, would make a comeback of its own. Kristen Mericle scored two goals in four minutes to draw even in the 52nd

minute. It was not until Hoover worked her magic in the 67th minute that the Quakers would break the tie. Hoover would then score her fourth goal of the game two minutes later on a penalty corner right before the final buzzer, capping off a rollercoaster ride of a game for the Quakers in the 6-4 victory. Junior Rachel Huang, senior captain Claire Kneizys and sophomore Sofia Palacios each finished with one assist for the Quakers. The game saw many ups and downs for the Quakers, who needed every minute of the game to ensure the win despite outshooting Villanova 21-10. While it may not have been their strongest performance of the season, the comeback win shows huge mental toughness and maturity for a team coming off a disappointing conference result just a few days prior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obviously some residual disappointment that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dealing with,â&#x20AC;? Fink said after the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main thing that we need to work on is avoiding selfdoubt. Sometimes individuals have a bad game, sometimes as a team we may have a bad game, but finding the ability to still have faith in what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good at and believe that we are a very talented team while dealing with that disappointment is a really good learning experience for our team, myself included.â&#x20AC;? The result simply would not have

been possible without Hooverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monster performance. Each of the four goals came in a timely fashion for Penn, and she showcased exactly why Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opponents struggle to contain her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be honest, I think sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mad,â&#x20AC;? Fink said of her star. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mad about what happened last weekend, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mad about where we are from an Ivy standpoint, and I think sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing with a chip on her shoulder. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really trying to lead by example and inspire others through her emotion. She had really good, aggressive goals today and she had a spark in her eye. We want her and all of her teammates to find that fire every game.â&#x20AC;? While an Ivy title looks fairly unlikely at this point in the season, the Quakers did get a nice consolation prize from their play on Tuesday: undisputed champions of Philly college field hockey. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a title that Fink takes pride in as a Philly native, and the team can take pride in being the best field hockey school in Philadelphia in terms of both academics and athletics. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been saying for some time now that we want to be the premier team in the Philadelphia area,â&#x20AC;? Fink said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clearly the Ivy title is always really important, but this is something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always going to strive for.â&#x20AC;? The Quakers return to action on Homecoming Saturday, taking on Brown at noon.

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under the mats forced the Quakers to adapt on the fly, adding an intriguing wrinkle to an already groundbreaking day. “Honestly for me, [the biggest adjustment] was probably that it’s a little bit hotter out here,” Mastropietro said. “And also the leaves on the mat was kind of a unique thing to have; wasn’t used to slipping on a

leaf before so that was kind of funny. But nothing too crazy, so it really ran pretty smoothly.” Mastropietro’s words were justified by a strong supporting crowd, with students and parents stopping by College Green all morning long. Needless to say, the team succeeded in its goal to attract attention — but it has no plans of stopping there. “I think curiosity intrigued a lot people stopping by. People taking pictures, a little video, sharing on

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social media, that’s exactly what we were going for,” Tirapelle said. “We’re going to continue to find creative ways to increase visibility and get people excited about the sport on campus. “There’s a big push across campus right now to get the undergraduate student body excited about Penn Athletics, so hopefully we’re able to do a little bit of our part and push the envelope in the right direction.”

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decision to make. “The only thing I had to think about was the logistics of it all,” he said. “But I knew my sophomore year when I got hurt that I wanted to be back for a fifth year.” The Quakers have had a particularly strong run at 157 pounds — taking charge at the weight class last year was May Bethea, who qualified for his first nationals as a sophomore earlier in 2016. Even though this was Bethea’s first run at AllAmerican status, he was by no means unfamiliar with the competition. His elder brother, Canaan, made it to NCAAs twice before graduating from

Penn in 2015, logging a 3-1 record between the two tournaments. With the experience comes an understanding of what it takes to make it to NCAAs. Not only have these grapplers been there before, they want to go back — after that first taste, the hunger is even greater. It’s one thing for the Red and Blue to send a talented slate of wrestlers out there each meet. Wrestling is a different beast. Raw talent alone isn’t enough to get the job done. But this team has more than just talent. They have four athletes who know exactly what needs to be done to take care of business. And if experience fosters confidence, the Quakers have plenty of reason to be cocky heading into the season.

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Four NCAA qualifiers return to team NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

Been there, done that. As Penn wrestling readies for the 2015-16 season, the Quakers have the security of four returning NCAA qualifiers in Caleb Richardson, May Bethea, Brooks Martino and Casey Kent.

“I’ve been there three times and I’ve come up short three times,” Richardson said. “You want to win all your matches, but it’s all a progression to be an All-American, a national champion. It’s always been my mindset to do that, but this year especially it’s not to get there. I’ve got to get it done when I get there.” Richardson comes in with the most extensive national resume — having qualified for NCAAs at 125 pounds as a freshman in

2014, then at 133 pounds each of the last two years. In those three runs, however, he’s been limited to just a 1-5 record. He’s the third youngest of the group, yet he’s been there the most. That experience matters. The rest of the team sees it and it has an effect down the roster. “I think we continue to set the bar higher for ourselves,” Bethea said. “We sent four guys last season and we to continue to send more, we want to send more guys this season — and we

think we can do that.” Unquestionably, though, it is Kent who comes in with the strongest resume. A year ago, 184-pounder Lorenzo Thomas was seen as Penn’s odds-on favorite to place at nationals. But when the dust cleared, it was Kent on the podium. In fourth place at 174 pounds, Kent had capped off a triumphant return after losing an entire year to injury. That injury also left him with an extra year of eligibility

— and he decided he wanted to come back for more. Kent wasn’t the only one to end up taking advantage of a potential fifth year, either. After missing his sophomore season, Brooks Martino qualified for NCAAs at 157 pounds. He went 0-2, but a return as a senior seemed more than just possible. It didn’t come to fruition, but the potential of a fifth year remained. There wasn’t much of a

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Red and Blue ready for Quakers welcome season on College Green strong freshman class Wrestlers host first-ever ‘Grapple on the Green’ COLE JACOBSON Associate Sports Editor

Penn wrestling is still more than three weeks shy of its home opener, but Philadelphia has already gotten a sneak preview of the Red and Blue’s talents. Last Friday, the Quakers participated in the program’s inaugural “Grapple on the Green” event, setting up a practice session on College Green from 9 a.m. to noon and giving onlookers a neverbefore-seen opportunity to observe the sport up close in a non-competition setting. “I think it went great; we had a lot of people stopping and watching, and it was pretty high-intensity,” junior Marc Mastropietro said. “It was a really good workout, and we showcased that to everyone.”

While an outdoor wrestling practice might seem unconventional, the Quakers merely produced the latest example of a nationwide trend involving attempts to bring greater fan attention to the sport. In fact, Penn athletes and coaches had pushed for a similar showcase event for several years, but logistical issues had plagued them until last week’s breakthrough — most recently including a rain delay for what was supposed to be the “Grapple on the Green” debut in November 2015. “There have been people across the country doing wrestling matches outdoors, matches in football stadiums, just trying to do creative things to market and promote the sport,” coach Alex Tirapelle said. “We felt like it’d be a good way to increase visibility for the program on campus, let people know that we’re an important part of the athletic department.” Understandably, the novelty of the outdoor practice brought heavy

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anticipation, with even the most experienced members of the Red and Blue eager to see how their pastime would be received by the school. “It’s really exciting because one, we’ve never done it before, and two, a lot of my friends will say like, ‘Oh, you wrestle? I’ve never seen a wrestling match before,’ let alone a practice,” fifth-year senior Brooks Martino said. “So we’re kind of bringing wrestling to them, and it’ll be interesting to see people’s reactions to us throwing each other around in an area where students are not normally doing that.” But while witnessing live physical contact in an area normally reserved for studying and ultimate frisbee might have been a change of pace for Penn’s passers-by, this adjustment was matched by that made by the athletes themselves. Dealing with sunlight, wind and a slightly uneven grass surface SEE GRAPPLE PAGE 13

Team adds high school national champ to roster SANJAY DURESETI Sports Reporter

The new members of Penn wrestling’s freshman class boast sterling resumes, ranging from academic honors to athletic success. The task of achieving such a balance in college, however, is not so simple. Along with hailing from some of the country’s best high school programs, including No. 2 Wyoming Seminary, No. 7 St. Edward and No. 16 Carl Sandburg, the newest Quaker grapplers have backed up their Division I status with plenty of hardware. Freshman Patrick Munn was crowned as the 2016 National Prep School champion at 138 pounds. 125-pounder Carl Atrassian graduated with a stellar 200-26 record and three top-four

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state championship finishes. Jack Conway led his team to two Ohio state championships and garnered two top-four distinctions at the individual state tournament. But, as coach Alex Tirapelle mentioned, achievement on the mat represents just the first qualification for entry into Penn’s wrestling brotherhood. In the tradition of the student-athlete, the Quaker freshman class includes Academic All-Americans, Honor Society members, and Cum Laude graduates. “It’s Penn. We look for excellence in both [athletic prowess and academic strength]. That’s usually the first hurdle for us,” Tirapelle said. “We’re obviously looking for good athleticism and wrestling potential but it all starts with a good academic profile and good academic standing. Right away, with that filter, we’re looking at less than 10 percent of all high school wrestlers across the

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country.” These smarts will help the collegiate neophytes fulfill their main objective for the season: to learn. “Right now, I’m focused on getting better. It’s a big jump from high school to college, and I’m trying soak up as much SEE RECRUITS PAGE 12