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Puppy love Having a dog on campus comes with added responsibility HANNAH NOYES Staff Reporter

Penn profs help win Nobel Prize A Penn team’s research contributed to help win the Nobel Prize in physics SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

With perseverance, a giant 1,000-ton “fishbowl” full of rare water and a manmade cavern 6,800 feet underground, Penn researchers contributed to a Nobel Prizewinning project that has revolutionized the modern world of physics.

Penn researchers were rewarded for their hard work this month when their contributions to science won the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics. The prize, which can be given to a maximum of three people, was jointly awarded to a Japanese and Canadian scientist who had led two separate projects studying neutrinos — subatomic particles millions smaller than electrons — in underground mines.

Penn research was critical in the Canadian

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Taco is a Samoyed currently residing in a house on Sansom Street.

Bringing a dog to your off-campus home might seem appealing, but current dog owners say it’s a lot more work than imagined.

Though you may not see these dogs on Locust Walk like fraternity-owned dogs such as Teddy of Kappa Sigma, Bruno of Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sky of Phi Gamma Delta, several Penn students have taken on the responsibility of owning a pet individually. While deciding to get a dog for a frat is a thought-out and votedupon issue, for some, getting a dog is more of a serendipitous undertaking.

This is how it happened for College senior Ed Cai, who decided to get his Samoyed dog Taco his sophomore year after a neighbor offered him one of their puppies. Cai had wanted a dog his entire life, but his parents didn’t allow it. When most of the litter was gone within two days, Cai realized he had to make a quick decision. Though he’d mentioned to his housemates that he wanted to get a dog, they were surprised when he actually showed up with a puppy. "[Taco] started off really small ... hard to say no to a small puppy,” housemate and SEE PUPPIES PAGE 3

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Kassie Donnels originally planned to keep Teddy home with her parents throughout her senior year, however she had him shipped after missing him.

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Senior Angela Lee has lived with Taco for over a year now.

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English class draws inspiration from James Franco

... [Penn] cannot continue to implicity laud Cosby.”

Course uses Franco suggested texts as a springboard RUIHONG LIU Staff Reporter

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James Franco will serve as a scholarly springboard into contemporary literature this coming spring.

Do you want to submit a Snapchat story or a book review written “James Franco-style” for a class assignment?

Next spring, Penn students will have the chance to do just that. The class, taught by English Department professor Jean-Christophe Cloutier, is titled “Recommended by James

Franco (Mostly)”.

According to the course description, the class will use James Franco’s literary recommendations as a “springboard for surveying representative texts from the 20th and 21st centuries, with an emphasis on the more recent works.”

Cloutier said the inspiration of his class comes from his conversation with students and his analysis of Franco’s reviews. As a faculty fellow at Stouffer College House, SEE JAMES FRANCO PAGE 2

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“Possible arson” at Castle house prompts investigation The alarm system went off early Friday morning LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY Staff Reporter

A “possible arson” was reported at the Psi Upsilon — also known as Castle — fraternity house at 4:04

a.m. on Friday, Division of Public Safety Chief of Fire and Emergency Services Eugene Janda said.

The house — located at 250 S. 36th St. just off Locust Walk — had its alarm system go off. The Philadelphia Fire Department, Penn Police Departmentand Penn Fire and Emergency Services were all

alerted immediately, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

Upon arrival, evidence of an active fire was found, along with indications that the built-in sprinkler system had managed to contain the blaze. The Philadelphia Fire Department said that by the time

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New Penn Symphony director inspires and energizes OWAIN WEST Contributing Reporter

The University’s largest musical ensemble has a new figure at the helm, and the Music Department couldn’t be more pleased.

Thomas Hong, the new director of the Penn Symphony Orchestra, brings experience, charisma and flair to the position.

Michael Ketner, the Music Department’s director of performance, attributes the feeling of excitement about the coming year’s performances to Hong’s new role as full-time director.

“What really excites me is … [the students’] excitement,” he said.

“Last year [Hong] was the interim director and we solicited feedback from the students. Without a doubt, the response to Thomas

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Cloutier mentioned that James Franco’s name appears frequently in conversations about literature and culture. Moreover, Cloutier finds Franco’s involvement in contemporary literature valuable.

“Not only does he have degrees in literature, he studied at Yale and now at NYU, but he is also a writer himself,” Cloutier said. “He is a poet; he is a novelist; he is a short story writer; he directs and adapts canalized literary works. I don’t see any other celebrity of his popularity status doing the same thing.

Franco also made his life an art project.”

For Cloutier, Franco is an important figure to frame the course about contemporary American literature around.

“He has made a big part of his celebrity culture to celebrate and embrace the literary world. Because he also writes reviews of

Hong was extremely positive.

There were a lot of students who really, really wanted to see him get hired.”

Hong is no stranger to university and professional ensembles alike: He spent eight years total leading the Rice University and Haverford College orchestras and has worked with the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony, New York Youth Symphony and Seattle Youth Symphony.

For Hong, the issue is not so much technical perfection as it is bringing about the best experience possible for both the audience and the orchestra. “You’re still drilling, but the end goal is very different,” Hong said. “The performance is meant to be a completely new, interactive experience. Emoting together is the goal.”

That emotion and care is facilitated by Hong’s character, according to Ketner. “[The

novels as they come out, he has a kind of a critical conversation, an ongoing critical conversation with contemporary authors, especially with the contemporary American tradition,” Cloutier said.

For Cloutier, Franco’s book reviews and book list act as an important way for him to investigate the public life of contemporary American literature. “If you look at Faulkner, Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy, basically they look a lot like Franco. They’re white men. It’s an interesting rarefication of certain view of American literature — maybe a canalized one,” Cloutier said.

According to Cloutier, people today read through many interfaces simultaneously, which makes it hard for writers to obtain visibility.

“That’s why it’s interesting that someone like Franco uses his celebrity status to bring visibility to certain writers like Gary Shteyngart,” Cloutier said.

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The Penn Symphony Orchestra kicked off a new era last Friday, as Thomas Hong conducted his first performance with the ensemble.

students] make great music because they really want to,” he said. ”[Hong] is very energetic.

He is definitely not one to be stoic. He lets it all out there, and the students love that. That

According to Cloutier, he de- course?” signs the class assignments in a “I’m interested in allowing for way that will make them relevant the spontaneous and the accidento contemporary culture. One tal and the real to make it inside assignment requires students to the assignments.” Cloutier said. post a Snapchat story.

Despite the course title, CloutCloutier said that he thinks ier emphasized that the class will a Snapchat story will allow always focus “on the literature students to have a more com- and on the films, short stories, prehensive relationship to poetry, graphic novels that are the course and their own life. going to be part of the contem“Hopefully what we are going porary moment.” to get are very unique ways of “So in a way I’m kind of thinking, interpreting, reflecting using him [James Franco] as a on these works of literature and foil but also as a very proactive art,” he said. one,” Cloutier said, “in order Another assignment for the to interrogate really important class is to write a review of one questions about who gets to have of the assigned texts — but to visibility today and who gets to do it in Franco’s style, which, have their stories adapted and according to Cloutier, often in- told and what kinds of stories cludes many professional and are we interested in seeing and personal experiences inside reading about, and he has helped the story. “Because all of these popularize that.” things are available now, that’s “I’m not expecting a passel why I’m using them as part of of James Franco fans,” Cloutier the assignment,” Cloutier said. 4 said, “but if it’s a way that will 3 3434 “There is no denying that that’s STallow STST more people to be interthe world we are living in now, ested in reading literature, I’m so why not try make it part of the all for it.”

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and the fact that he is one of the nicest people you’ll come across.”

PSO’s first performance this past Friday was well-received by students. “The Rachmaninoff [that they played] was particularly moving,” College freshman Niyathi Chakrapani said.

Their next concert is on Dec. 5, with what Hong calls “a sampler” of the best in symphonic music.

“We want to cater to students at a busy time of the semester,” he said. “Our number one priority is for the students. The second concert … is three movements from different symphonies by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. We chose this repertoire to bring all the familiar stuff to the students, playing it at a high level, but making it a very accessible concert.”

After a concert on Feb. 20, which will feature solo pianist Amy Yang, a member of Penn’s

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Alongside DPS, both departments will be working on an ongoing investigation into what was described by Janda as a “possible arson.”

Castle President and Wharton senior Michael Pozzuoli declined to comment on the fire.

Janda was quick to point out the effectiveness of both the alert and sprinkler systems in this instance, mentioning that without the systems, this could have been a “totally different story.”

Just a few weeks ago, on Sept. 24, Phi Gamma Delta’s off-campus house experienced a fire when a dryer went in flames while a resident was doing laundry.

Implementation of the sprinkler systems in Greek houses began in the 1960s and 1970s. The systems were so effective that by the

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Chamber Music faculty, playing Schumann as well as works by Mahler and Ravel, the orchestra will finish its year with a large and audacious night by performing Mahler’s Second Symphony on April 29.

“The fact that they’re doing Mahler’s Second is … to be honest, something I never thought I would see here,” Ketner said. “I never thought we would have a conductor … who would take [on such a difficult piece]. So I’m happy to see that we have someone who’s willing to try something like that.”

The concert will feature over 100 orchestra members and the University’s largest choral group.

“A great performance is not possible without a great audience,” Hong said. “And we challenge everyone to give us a try. We promise not to disappoint.”

early 2000s, Penn had spent at least $32 million ensuring that all 14 residential buildings on Penn’s campus had them in place. “Everyone has a sprinkler over their heads at night,” Janda said.

Janda emphasized safety measures that can be taken to avoid potential disasters.

“Get up, get out, and account,” is the main thing to remember in case of a fire, he said. “Account” refers to checking on the status of fellow residents and reporting any missing persons to responding emergency personnel. Greek houses in pwarticular are encouraged to have a coherent, established plan in case of emergency. Though this may not be the most exciting topic to bring up at the next chapter, Janda knows it very well might save a life.

Staff Reporters Lily Zandi and Anna Hess contributed reporting.

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Financial aid, scholarships are offered to almost half of all Penn students Prospective students can find info on Penn’s websites REBECCA LaPOINTE Staff Reporter

About 45 percent of the Class of 2019 receives financial aid and scholarships to attend Penn.

Student Financial Services reports that the 45 percent has stayed consistent over the past decade.

Since the creation of Penn’s allgrant financial aid program, students have been able to receive more aid.

When making the decision to attend Penn, prospective students have the opportunity to seek out scholarships and grants offered by the University.

“We have money that is restricted and unrestricted,”SFS Director of Communications Marlene Bruno said. "We use all of it.

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Engineering senior Angela Lee said.

Cai had to get used to coming home for lunch to take care of Taco and to the distraction pet ownership caused from his studies.

“I definitely don’t regret my decision at all, but he was definitely a lot more work than I thought he would be the first couple of months,” Cai said.

However, when Cai went abroad his spring semester of his junior year, the responsibility of taking care of Taco fell to Engineering senior Jack Weir, another resident of the house. Weir has been caring for the dog for about a year now, since Cai is taking a semester off for an internship with Facebook.

Weir explained that it was too hard to organize any sort of walk schedule for housemates to take

We just need to find what students fill certain criteria. If a student doesn’t fill a certain criteria for a named scholarship, they’re still going to receive a Penn grant.”

The restricted funds given to the University by donors are limited to students that fit into a certain criteria, meaning that donors can delineate specific restrictions of where their money goes.

Students can also apply for outside scholarships, such as National Merit scholarships, QuestBridge and others.

SFS advises prospective students to do their homework, including checking with their local communities or leveraging online resources such as Penn’s financial aid website. SFS also has links on Penn’s financial aid website to help students get a better idea of the financial opportunities available.

But international students are

in a different situation. Bruno explained that Penn only accepts a certain number of students that are asking for aid.

“While need-blind admissions for international students is a goal for the future, we currently do not have that in place,” Bruno said.

Scholarship money is credited to the student bill for the fall and spring terms. Assuming that students have completed their financial aid application, SFS assistant directors conduct an evaluation. Only then will the the funds be credited.

Coming from a low-income background, scholarship recipient and College senior Sarah Harris shares that during her college search, financial aid was helpful.

“For me it was a really easy process. I can’t remember anything being super hard, and if it was it was really easy to [get in touch]

care of the 50 pound Samoya. Although Cai pays for all of Taco’s expenses, Weir is currently his main caretaker.

“Jack does everything ... other people in the house just play with him occasionally,” Lee said.

Nursing senior Kassie Donnels also has help caring for her dog at school. Her boyfriend conveniently lives next door and is able to take care of her Miniature American Eskimo, Teddy, when she is at clinicals on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Originally, the plan was for Donnels’ parents to keep the dog until she graduated from college.

But after an internship in Albany, N.Y., she decided that she missed Teddy too much to wait. Donnels’ parents shipped the puppy in a plane to Philadelphia, where he joined her in August. Donnels and Teddy currently live in the Sigma Kappa chapter house.

“I sent individual messages to everyone in the house asking

if anyone had any allergies and if everyone was okay with him,” Donnels said.

The response from Donnels’ housemates was mostly positive, as Teddy spends most of the time on the fourth floor of the house and Donnels takes care of him exclusively.

Donnels acknowledged the difficulty of having a dog on campus, especially walking him on Spruce St. on Friday and Saturday nights. Drunk people often get really excited and try to pick Teddy up or interact with him, which Donnels considers one of the worst parts of owning a dog on campus.

“People I don’t even know who are super drunk are asking to pick up my dog,” she said, laughing.

Both Donnels and Cai agree that their dogs have had a positive impact on their mental health.

“I’m definitely happier; he’s a positive thing in my life,” Cai said.

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with financial aid,” Harris said. “I feel like if I had problems [with the process], I would remember.”

For Harris, who came to Penn from Wyoming, the monetary aspect determined where she ended up going to school. Harris said that she knew Penn had a good financial aid program, which aided in her decision to apply.

Harris is the recipient of multiple scholarships, both outside and from Penn, and has held a work-study job to supplement her funds.

“When you go out to eat and different things, I have to be just a little bit more careful .... I figured out beforehand how much I can spend ... and if I can’t spend a lot then I don’t go [out to eat],” Harris said.

The only instances where Harris had to take out a small loan were when she went abroad and when she took summer classes.

Harris advises next year’s

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The Franklin Building is home to Penn’s Financial Aid department, which provides 45 percent of the Class of 2019 with financial aid.

prospective Penn students to explore all of their options. She believes that if finances and money are really important in school choice, Penn specifically is helpful.

“My advice is don’t shy away from opportunities because of finances,” she said. “Go and ask financial aid ... talk about it because there is bound to be a way.”

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OPINION Penn, revoke Cosby’s degree

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or over a year now, Bill Cosby has been the subject of numerous accusations of sexual misconduct. As of today, over 50 women have come forward alleging that Cosby either raped or sexually assaulted them.

Some women claimed they were assaulted by Cosby while they were teenagers. Others said they were assaulted as adults.

Several of the women are models. One is a journalist. Another is a director of Temple University’s women’s basketball team.

One woman claimed that Cosby is the father of her child.

Women have been accusing the once-beloved comedian of sexual misconduct since 2000.

On Friday, two more women came forward against Cosby.

One of those women alleged that she was sexually assaulted on our own campus, at the 2004 Penn Relays.

In light of the over 50 allegations against Cosby, several universities have rescinded honorary degrees granted to him — Tufts, Lehigh and Baylor universities among them. Penn, which granted Cosby an honor-

Editorial ary degree in 1990, has declined to comment on whether the University plans to take away his degree. But we think there’s a clear path for the University to follow: Revoke his honorary doctorate.

Some might argue that Penn shouldn’t rescind Cosby’s honorary degree because he has not been convicted of any crimes.

Cosby, for his part, has vehemently denied the accusations against him. And so have his daughter and his wife. It would

If Cosby had not previously received an honorary degree from Penn, there’s no way the University would give one to him now.

And there is a reason for that — a reason that goes beyond the formal proof of Cosby’s guilt or innocence.

The University is not a court.

It does not require legal precedence or jurisdiction in order to take a stand against someone or something that does not uphold its core values. Regardless of

The University is not a court. It does not require legal precedence or jurisdiction in order to take a stand against someone or something that does not uphold its core values.” similarly be wrong for Penn to rescind Cosby’s degrees just because other universities have done so — because following the crowd doesn’t mean you’re doing the right thing.

Instead, Penn should revoke Cosby’s degree because he is no longer deserving of the honor.

whether all of the allegations against Cosby could hold up in a court of law, the number of women that have come forward makes Cosby a man of dubious morality.

Furthermore, recent probes into Cosby’s own comments on past accusations do not help

his record. In a 2005 deposition — which a judge unsealed this year — Cosby admitted that he obtained quaaludes with the intention of giving them to women with whom he wanted to have sex.

If the University gave Cosby a degree at this year’s graduation, it would reinforce the stigma surrounding sexual assault and discourage students from reporting when they have been the victims of sexual violence.

When the University honors a man who has been accused of sexual assault by nearly 60 people, victims might question whether they can trust Penn to take their experiences seriously.

If Penn wants to be serious about sexual assault — and, more generally, good citizenship — it cannot continue to implicitly laud Cosby. The University should realize that taking away Cosby’s degree would not be in the same realm as a punishment in the legal sense. Instead, it would be a condemnation of Cosby’s character and would represent the fact that his character is not in line with the University’s standards.

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Most of the students we interviewed for this article agreed that “brown town,” as the Indian-American community at Penn is known, is driven by these elements and more. We aim to demystify and explain the various components of our experience to eradicate the stereotyping and misconceptions that we have observed.

We spoke with Jessica*, an Indian-American College junior, who described her brown town experience as superficial.

“Never before have I had people try to be friends with me just because I am a brown girl.

Welcome to brown town. It felt extremely superficial — to bond only over the color of our skin and nothing more.” That being said, she saw “the positives of having a South Asian community on campus — a place to connect over South Asian culture, to meet people with similar backgrounds and to find people going through the same problems as you are.”

Brown town, also occasionally referred to as “SAS,” has a

lot of moving parts. We present this definition: The central arena of brown town is the South Asia Society and its nine constituent performing arts groups — Dhamaka, Masala, Masti, Atma, Raas, Naach, Sargam, Naatak and Thillana. They, as well as the members of the SAS executive board and committees, comprise a majority of the visible Indian-American population. (Full disclosure: We both are a part of SAS.) Indian Americans are of course involved on campus in other spaces. However, brown town refers most generally to the social events that the students who are part of these groups engage in together.

Students overall tended to have nuanced feelings about identity and relationships.

Amanda*, a College junior, agreed to an extent with Jessica. “I was pleasantly surprised by how welcoming they were, though it seems like the same set of people are extremely close with each other. If you aren’t good friends with them, some brown town events can seem too cliquey.”

Satya Yerrabolu, a Col-

lege and Wharton junior, has also had a mixed experience.

“When I hear the term brown town, I’m flooded with a rush of emotions that ranges from happiness to contempt, and that finally rests on confusion. … People outside of brown town regularly look in with disdain or intimidation … [but it’s] a community of highly

munity specifically faces a number of issues. Given that many are involved in performing arts groups, these issues arise from the the performance of ethnic identity and cultural authenticity. The underlying connection in brown town is shared heritage and identity, and perhaps in order to be a part of the group, one has to

Almost everyone touched on exclusion, which brought us to wonder: If so many have observed or felt it, who’s doing the excluding?” motivated, intelligent, loving people who are still diverse and interact like a family.”

Cliques exist all over Penn.

It’s college, after all. But what makes group politics particularly difficult in ethnic minority communities is that minority students often rely on this group as a support system and as a place to feel welcomed, as Jessica mentioned.

The Indian-American com-

express identity in a certain way. Exclusion can thus be quite damaging as it may manifest itself as a loss of part of one’s identity.

Nikita Sood, a College and Wharton sophomore, reflects positively. She maintains that “the connection between SAS and brown town is just like any other organization and its social component. … There is no ‘list’ to get on or set group of

people who can get you ‘in.’”

Almost everyone touched on exclusion, which brought us to wonder: If so many have observed or felt it, who’s doing the excluding?

Chetan Khanna, a College senior, has observed growth in the openness of brown town throughout his involvement in the last three years but acknowledges that it could be his own open-mindedness. He also agrees that “it can definitely be tough if you’re not in a performing arts group, and it can also be tough to enter after circles have formed … [but] I think some people have the feeling that brown town is rampant of elements of judgy, gossipy and is almost high schoollike. I think that’s a little unfair and a bit of a mislabel.”

Despite the diversity of stories, the fact that most students requested to be anonymous speaks volumes about this subject’s sensitivity. Brown town, as related to other social groups, is distinguished only by ethnic identity, but even that could not explain everything that came up. As it is a selfdefining community, it is diffi-

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project conducted at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which was led by Arthur B. McDonald and funded by the Office of Nuclear Physics in the Department of Energy Office of Science.

More than a dozen members of the Canadian team, which consisted of hundreds of researchers and technicians from all over the globe, were from Penn.

Neutrinos are the secondmost abundant particle on earth, with 100 billion passing though just the tip of a finger every second. Until now, scientists had been puzzled by why their calculations detected far fewer neutrinos than predicted by theoretical models. The prizewinning research has revealed that the difference in calculations had occurred because neutrinos can “flip” type, implying that they have mass.

Physics professor Joshua Klein, who led the data analysis that produced the first results showing that neutrinos

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oscillated, said one of the reasons this discovery is so groundbreaking is that it challenges the Standard Model of Physics. “[T he] Sta nda rd Model, before we made this discovery, described every experiment that was ever done on earth to unbelievable precision, and now with the discovery of neutrino mass, we no longer have a theory that can make predictions,” Klein said.

He added that the new discovery opened up many new discussions in physics, such as how neutrinos get mass, and the relationship between neutrinos and their antiparticles, which could possibly be explored in the future to explain why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter.

The project began around 1989, and Klein made its first data acquisition in 2001 after joining the project when he was a postdoctoral student.

The experiment used a huge, underground spherical detector with a 40-foot diameter filled

with 1,000 tons of heavy water, which physics professor Eugene Beier — the U.S. co-spokesperson for the SNO Collaboration — playfully referred to as a huge “fishbowl.” Heavy water, a very rare type of water that contains a scarce isotope of hydrogen, is so precious that the water filling the detector is worth $300 million.

Beier said the special properties of the heavy water made it ideal for interacting with neutrinos in a way that they can be detected. The spherical container was lined with 10,000 light sensors that looked for small flashes of light to detect the interactions of the neutrinos.

The Penn team built cuttingedge electronics to read and analyze the results of the light sensors and transported it all the way from Philadelphia to Canada in a truck.

“We have a capability which is unusual for a university in that we can build large electronic systems that are very sensitive,” Beier said, emphasizing how this precise technology is usually

only available in national labs.

The experiment detected all three types of neutrinos instead of only searching for the one initial kind that was expected to come from the sun, which is how it was able to discover that neutrinos change type.

The detector was placed far underground so that cosmic rays would not interfere with the highly sensitive sensors. Researchers and specialists went down with miners and even had to take the same training as underground contractors in preparation.

Instrumentation specialists Richard VanBerg and Mitchell Newcomer mentioned working underground was an unforgettable experience.

A cage-like, double-decker elevator with a capacity of about 80 people warped the team in under two minutes. The team members then walked a mile to a clean room, where they showered, changed and put on hairnets. Unlike the rest of the muddy cave, the clean room was absolutely pristine because even

a tablespoon of mine dust in the detector would have ruined the experiment.

Team members spent eight to 10 hours underground each day.

The higher air pressure underground would have made people feel tired more easily so they had to be extremely responsible in remembering their tools because they couldn’t easily back up to get them. Still, the challenge had its positives.

“It was a good bonding experience,” VanBerg said.

Newcomer, VanBerg, Klein and Beier agreed that Penn is unique in that it allows young people to gain handson experience working on groundbreaking projects. Many postdocs were able to directly work alongside the professionals and actively discuss ideas with them, while the experts tried to be as accessible as possible.

“When we sit in group meetings, we can ask about the details of what [students] are doing, and they can ask us and always fit it inside the bigger picture,” Klein said.

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Penn Dining helps students with dietary restrictions navigate dining halls Students with allergies get highly personalized meals JEFFREY CAREYVA Deputy News Editor

“Vegan,” “vegetarian,” “made without gluten-containing ingredients” — with all these labels and more, Bon Appétit tries to help students with severe allergies and dietary restrictions navigate dining facilities.

Students who are required to have a meal plan their first year might worry about safety of food in dining halls. In August 2014, College sophomore Victoria Greene was hospitalized after eating food in a dining hall she

thought was allergen-free, but actually contained dairy, to which she is severely allergic. But Bon Appétit says they are willing to go to great lengths to accommodate students with special dietary needs, though it relies on students to reach out for help.

When students first register for a dining plan online, there is an option to self-identify as someone with a dietary need or concern.

Students can list their allergies, deficiencies or dietary preferences like vegetarian or vegan.

This information is forwarded to Bon Appétit dietitian Dan Connolly, who tries to get into contact with them. However, student response rate is generally only 25

percent, he said.

For students who respond and want to meet to talk about their dietary concerns, Connolly sits down with students individually and arranges meetings between students and dining facility chefs.

“I explain to them how to decipher the core icons we use, how to go through our menus and understand what ingredients are in each item being served and reassure them and their parents that all of [Bon Appétit’s] staff is trained and knowledgeable about allergies and cross-contamination,” Connolly said.

For most of the students Connolly meets with, the offerings dining halls already have are sufficient for their needs, he added.

Individual plans are developed for students, and students normally work with a particular chef at the dining hall they want to frequent the most.

“My first goal is to make sure the students are comfortable to come in,” Executive Chef at Hill College House Donald Stauffer said. “They generally let me know when they’ll be coming in to eat, and I get to know their class schedule a bit.”

Chefs and their staff do personalized cooking for students with allergies to prevent any cross-contamination, and they try to have the meal ready for when the student would normally come in to eat. Separate pans are used for gluten-free and each major allergy, and lists of students who need individual attention are kept behind the kitchen so that all the employees can be better aware of who they’re cooking for.

“Though we normally have food already out that the students with allergies could eat, we want to take the necessary precautions and let the students feel safe and comfortable when they have our food,” Stauffer said.

Some of Stauffer’s staff at Hill have gotten particularly close with the students with allergies.

“A cook was really close with one of the students who he worked with, so when she was sick one night and didn’t feel well enough to come down for dinner, he walked her meals upstairs for her until she felt better,” Stauffer said.

The goal is to make the interaction with chefs convenient and prevent it from being awkward, Stauffer added. Allergen-free

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Bon Appétit ​provides accommodation to students with food allergies, but they count on students to share their restrictions.

food is cooked beforehand so that students who suffer from allergies don’t need to wait any longer than those who don’t.

Beyond working with students who require special dietary attention, Bon Appétit and Penn Dining want to hear feedback and recommendations from their

consumers.

“We want to talk about the food. We want to have feedback.

Students just have to realize that they can talk to chefs and request what they want or ask about anything,” Connolly said. “We want to hear from all students from the beginning.”

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Graduate students design their way to top honors Penn Design students redesigned local buildings ANDREW ZHENG Contributing Reporter

For two Penn students, the world as they see it today is not enough.

When they look outside their window, they see a canvas, and they are on a mission to paint cityscapes.

These are the minds of School of Design graduate students Wei Tang and Jianan Zhang, two minds that recently won first place and third place respectively in the Bower Lewis Thrower Architects — or BLTa — Student Design Competition.

Now in its fifth year, the competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in certified architectural programs. Each year, BLTa identifies a real-world building site and asks its contestants to give it a redesign.

A Philadelphia firm, BLTa has only picked locations from the local area as a way to reaffirm its community focus. This year’s competition was at the Leon H.

Sullivan Human Services Center, near Temple University on North Broad Street.

“The purpose of the Student Design Competition is to engage potential employees and students in the profession as well as give back a little bit to the industry,” said BLTa Director of Marketing of Business Development Heidi Thiede.

As the contest winner, Tang not only took home a sizeable cash award of $1,000 but also won himself a potential future at the firm with a paid internship during 2016.

Zhang, who also received honors, was awarded a cash prize of $250 for her design entry.

This marks the first Student Design Competition in recent years in which a Penn student has taken home the grand prize, coming at a time when the competition is seeing fewer and fewer Penn contestants each year. BLTa attributes this to the rigorous classwork and schedules that might inhibit Penn students from entering such contests.

Through the promotion of public,

open space in his design, Tang stressed the connection between his building design and the city inhabitants. Citing the Drexel University courtyard as a source of inspiration, he said he wanted to create a vital wand robust building and juxtapose his design with the typically flat facades of Philadelphia buildings.

“I wanted to give some public area back to the city so that people could come and go as they pleased,” Tang said.

Zhang also saw the need for open space but chose to contain it within the confines of the building, creating a unique and serene courtyard atmosphere. Her design featured an outer ring to serve as potential residential housing and then an inner centerpiece that could house offices and more professional services.

When Tang and Zhang graduate this winter, they will do so with these new accolades as well as their diplomas.

“I want to have a real impact on the world,” Tang said. “I want to reshape buildings, and maybe after years I can shape cities.”

SLAP continues to fight for PILOTs Penn is one of two Ivies that do not pay PILOTs

JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

Following nearly a year of protests and discussion with the administration, activist groups on campus remain frustrated over the issue of PILOTs, or Payments in Lieu of Taxes.

Last year, the issue was highly discussed on campus after members of the Student Labor Action Project and Students Organizing for Unity and Leadership organized a protest at Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual Christmas party, asking that the University adopt a PILOTs program wherein the university would pay $6.6 million in aid to Philadelphia public schools, since it is exempt from property taxes as a nonprofit. But even though the issue has died down on campus, SLAP is still fighting for the cause.

The most recent protest promoting PILOTs was held by SLAP on Oct. 12. The group made signs with names and photos of Philadelphia schools that would benefit

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from the proposed program and stood on the steps of College Hall and Van Pelt Library. In March, SLAP member and College junior Devan Spear addressed Philadelphia City Hall about the proposal, and Democratic mayoral candidate Jim Kenney has publicly supported the push for PILOTs. In December, protesters came out strongly against Penn’s policy of not paying PILOTs. “Selective disinvestment in black and brown communities is racism,” SOUL member and College senior Gina Dukes said in remarks addressed to Gutmann during the protest in 2014. “Every day that Penn lobbies against PILOTs, it writes a new page in this country’s legacy of racial justice.”

While the protest and the several that followed generated significant buzz on campus at the time, the University has yet to act towards the positive adoption of PILOTs. Currently, Penn and Columbia are the only two Ivy League schools that do not participate in the PILOTs program, but Penn contends its involvement in the Penn Alexander School is significant outreach.

“PILOTs would actually require a comparably tiny amount of Penn’s money,” Spear said. “The University’s Consolidated Operating Budget for 2015 was $7.1 billion ... PILOTs would be somewhere around 0.1 percent of that.”

Spear believes that while Penn’s participation in the PILOTs program alone is not enough to fix the issues within the Philadelphia public school system, Penn’s decision to participate would have a domino effect on the other nonprofit institutions in the region.

“We believe that Penn has the potential to be a leader in jumpstarting the PILOTs program.”

Spear said. “If all of Philadelphia’s biggest nonprofit institutions contributed to the PILOTs program, the School District of Philadelphia would have a significant boost in funding.”

While continued activism is a part of SLAP’s plan to get Penn to adopt PILOTs, it is not the only method they are pursuing.

“Continued activism is only one part of the campaign for PILOTs, which in turn is only one part of the fight for fair funding for Philadelphia’s public schools,” Spear said.

Wharton team earns spot in final round of investment competition 202 teams across 24 schools applied SARAH EISLER Contributing Reporter

A team of Penn students are advancing to the final round of the annual case competition held by Point72 Asset Management.

The team is composed of Wharton junior Jackson Wei, Wharton sophomore Jiecheng Bao and College and Wharton junior Han Tian. According to Jessica Anderson, the head of Investment Talent Development at Point72, the firm started the competition to recruit talented future investors.

“What better way to attract top talent than to have a competition?” Point72’s Managing Director and Head of Corporate Communications Mark Herr added.

Competition and talent seemed to be the operative words. According to Anderson, the Point72 Case Competition has seen a 100 percent increase in applications since it began in 2014.

This year, 202 teams across 24 schools applied to the

competition. Of this pool, 63 teams across 19 schools competed.

“Submissions were of extraordinary quality,” Anderson added.

The competition asked teams of three students to present stock recommendations on JetBlue Airways to Point72 representatives. Competitors created PowerPoint presentations and Excel models and presented the rationale behind their decisions and price targets. The competition was narrowed down to the top five teams, which included groups from Penn, Binghamton University, Duke University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan. After assigning a mentor to each team, Point72 gave the competitors three days to revise their presentations. Then, the company flew the finalists to New York for the final round of the competition, which took place on Saturday, Oct. 17.

Herr said that competitors had to be “really smart, really dedicated and really good to get it right.” Anderson added that all of the finalists “generally had a great perspective”

on the stock and were able to support their conclusions with “rigorous data and research that they had done.”

According to Herr, the winning team will be announced this week. In addition to a monetary award, the winners will receive special consideration if they choose to apply to Point72’s Summer Analyst Program. The tenweek training program is led by Point72 investment professionals and is part of the Point72 Academy, which provides university graduates with training in equity investment.

“It’s the only one of its kind,” Herr said of the program.

Point72 considers qualified Academy members for positions within the firm following their completion of the program. According to Herr, Point72 seeks candidates who “have the skills and the mind” to be great investors.

“What we’re looking for is performance, not pedigree,” he said. “The next generation of great investors is sitting in a Penn classroom somewhere.

We want them here.”

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In 2015 Ivy League volleyball, the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Just barely through the midway point of conference play, all eight teams have at least two Ivy losses, and all but Cornell own at least three wins. “There’s normally a team with a group of really experienced players, and I don’t think anyone right now has that,� Penn senior captain Alexis Genske said. “Every team is really deep this year, and there’s no super dominant team or player right now.�

Cornell has lost to Brown, who’s lost to Princeton, who’s lost to Yale, who’s lost to Harvard, who’s lost to Dartmouth, who’s lost to Penn, who’s lost to Columbia, who completed the chaotic cycle by falling to Cornell on Saturday — with six conference games still remaining for each team. “We’re pretty young across the board as a league, and so when you have a bunch of graduations from a team [Yale] that dominated the league, you get some parity,�

Penn coach Kerry Carr said. “It’s really fun this way, because you don’t know who’s going to win each night.�

While several individual games have had surprising outcomes, the biggest shocker so far has been the emergence of Dartmouth, which only won nine Ivy League games from 2012 to 2014 but is currently tied for the conference lead with Harvard at 6-2.

Led by fifth-year coach and 1998 ACC Player of the Year Erin Lindsey, the Big Green are on pace to tie the 2002 Harvard squad for the largest single-season jump in conference wins (seven) in Ivy history. “Dartmouth has a great young coach, and I cheer for her,� Carr said about Lindsey, who played under both Carr and former Penn coach Joe Sagula during her career. “She

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Penn volleyball has had an up-and-down season thus far. The Quakers started the season 3-1 in Ivy play before dropping four straight.

has learned so much from all the other coaches, and I knew she would do well once she got all her recruits.�

However, even Dartmouth hasn’t been exempt from the upset bug, hitting a season-low -0.061 in a surprising 3-0 setback to Penn on Oct. 2. “When we beat them up there, I felt like it was just a bad night for them,� Carr admitted. “It wasn’t anything special with coaches or strategies, just a really off night.�

With the momentum from that significant win, the Red and Blue looked to be the league’s darlings, starting 3-1 in Ivy play to briefly hold first place after finishing 5-9 in 2014.

The thrill was short-lived, though, as the Quakers subsequently fell to seventh-place Columbia in four sets on Oct. 10, starting an ongoing four-game skid for the Red and Blue. “We don’t have a conference tournament, so every match means more and everybody’s more motivated,� Columbia coach Brie Katz said. “A lot of our focus has been on minimizing errors and winning the service game, and against Penn, we really just did that.�

Columbia kept its mojo as the league’s most dangerous underdog going briefly, topping Harvard, 3-1, on Oct. 16 for its second consecutive win over a squad ranked more than 100 spots higher in RPI. But they too felt the sting of an

upset soon after, falling to Cornell in five sets to give the Big Red their only conference win of the year. “It was unfortunate that [setter] Jennifer Petrovich was out, and we needed to do a better job of overcoming that,� Katz said. “We let the momentum swing away from us, and we have to credit Cornell, because they closed when they needed to.�

All of this chaos has perhaps served as a distraction from the fall of Yale, which has returned to Earth after graduating first team all-Ivy players Mollie Rogers and Maddie Rudnick. The four-time defending Ivy champions were swept in a weekend doubleheader for the first time in five years, before falling to Brown for the first time since 2005. “I’ve seen what I refer to as ‘cycles,’ where one team gets a really good player and wins the league for a few years,� Carr said. “It might be someone else’s turn now, although Yale’s not out of it by any means.�

Ultimately, even with the Quakers seemingly out of title contention — no Ivy champion has ever finished with more than four conference losses — 2015’s results so far have shown that nothing is out of the question. “We still want to win every match for the rest of our season, it’s a matter of pride and going out on a strong note,� Genske said. “We know that everyone’s up for the taking.�

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“It gave us a nice swagger coming into the game,� junior goalkeeper Carrie Crook said. “Hopefully we’re going to have it for the rest of the season.�

Although the hats have only recently taken campus by storm, their roots can be traced back to the Red and Blue’s matchup with Harvard last year, when Crook and former Penn defender Haley Cooper brainstormed ways to excite the team as it headed into one of its biggest matches.

The duo raided its drawers for matching bucket hats and rugby shirts until they had constructed two fully matching outfits. After an impromptu photoshoot, the isolated incident quickly became a movement when now-juniors Olivia Blaber and Lindsey Sawczuk pulled out matching rugbys, hats and Converse sneakers of their own.

This year’s bucket hat revival has gone above and beyond its

humble beginnings from last season. With such fantastic success against American, the Quakers decided to keep the hats lying around, sporting them before their Ivy games against Dartmouth and most recently Yale. “A lot of the people on the team are superstitious, myself included,� Blaber said. “So when we find something that works, we’re sticking to it.�

In the beginning, however, not everybody on the team took to the bucket hats – first-year coach Nicole Van Dyke was one of those original critics. “I think bucket hats are ridiculous,� Van Dyke said. “My husband used to wear one, and I walked in and I thought it was a wind-up for me at first. “I was like ‘Do they know I don’t like bucket hats?’ And then I found out it had nothing to do with me, it was just their deal.�

With that misunderstanding out of the way, Van Dyke has taken the bucket hats and rolled with them. Though she may not

be wearing one anytime soon, she recognizes the importance of building team camaraderie. “This is their team,� Van Dyke said. “Ultimately they drive the culture so I want them to have fun and enjoy themselves. If it meant more wins, then maybe we’d start wearing them all the time.�

That being said, superstition is not part of the Van Dyke playbook, as she claims that confidence is driven by preparation. And while a team can always use a bit of luck, the Quakers rely on hard work more than anything for their results.

Having just grabbed an empathic win over Yale last Saturday — Penn’s first Ivy win of the season — those results are looking pretty good. Whether or not the bucket hats played any part in that has yet to be determined, but with just two games left in the season, don’t expect another Red and Blue goal drought anytime soon.

As Blaber said, “When it rains, it pours, so get your buckets.�

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Though he is only in his first season with Penn women’s rowing, coach Wesley Ng is off to a hot start. In last weekend’s Head of the Schuylkill regatta, the Quakers won three golds and four silvers.

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“trying to get the most out of what we’re doing here at Penn. “The situations are very different, but the challenge of combining academics and athletics and doing it in a really positive way is pretty challenging, so that’s what we’re really trying to do,� Ng said. “I think that my approach at Trinity was to be very data-driven, methodical and process-oriented, and that’s something I’m trying to impress upon our athletes. “It doesn’t have to be a turbulent experience, it can be one that is pretty consistent and exciting to see progress.�

Looking forward to the future, the new coach has set lofty aims for the team and himself based on their current dominance on the Schuylkill last weekend. “Certainly, the overarching goal is to earn our way to the NCAA National Championships, and qualifying Penn for the first time to do that. That will be the goal every year,� Ng said. “And the goal after that will be to try to place as high as we possibly can within that.�

So, rounding out an exciting weekend for Penn rowing, this just might be the year that the silverware starts to pile up.

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and the Novice Fours, as well as silvers in the Championship Fours, the Club Eights, Championship Eights and the Novice Eights.

In the Club Eights, the Quakers finished first and second, with only four seconds between them, while the next boat to finish was a full 25 seconds behind the runners-up.

Following this trend, in the Women’s Championship Fours, Penn once again took the top two spots, claiming the only times under 16 minutes for the competition.

The Red and Blue’s boat in the Novice Fours demolished the competitors, with a resounding 47-second victory over second-place Temple.

In the Championship Eights, Penn captured silver, with its other two boats placing eighth and 15th out of the 19 total. In the Novice Eights, the Quakers came within a single second of first-place Connecticut of the 44 boats in the field.

Leading the women’s team to this unprecedented success in only its second regatta

is first-year coach Wesley Ng, formerly of Trinity. Coming back from an arduous Head of the Charles Regatta — where only one of the three Penn boats had a top-10 finish — Ng gave his take on the triumphant weekend. “We had a really clear target at the beginning of the week coming out of the Head of the Charles that we wanted to have a great team performance across the board, and it meant that every boat in each event had to do their absolute best,� he said. “Seeing the novice four, championship four and club eight all come back with gold medals was good, but the fact that our second crews in those [last two] events came back with silvers medals was even better.�

Ng is not a newcomer to success, as he guided his team at Trinity to the NCAA title in 2014. For his efforts that year, he was consequently named the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Division III Coach of the Year and the ECAC Coach of the Year.

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majority of its remaining games as favorites.

Of course, that’s an enviable position to a certain extent, but it also adds to the pressure the team will face moving forward.

Thus far, the Quakers have proven that they’re more than capable of handling pressure in game situations. But the kind of pressure that they will face on Homecoming, as favorites, potentially in front of 15,000 Red and Blue faithful is a different ballgame entirely.

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When the Quakers have gotten their back pressed up against the wall, they have actually played looser. And better.

Think back to their breakout win on the road against perennial powerhouse Villanova.

Despite totally controlling possession for the majority of the game, Penn found itself with its back against the wall with a slim lead and the Wildcats driving. How did they respond?

With a 90-yard fumble return for a touchdown from linebacker Donald Panciello.

And think about their most recent matchup against the Bulldogs. Down 10-0 early, Penn easily could have let the game get out of hand. Last year’s team almost certainly would have.

Instead, Priore’s squad responded with some of its most

aggressive play of the year, highlighted by two forced turnovers on the defensive side of the ball by the red-hot Tyler Drake.

There’s no doubt that the team has exceeded almost all expectations heading into the season. Personally, I thought the Quakers would be lucky to get three wins over the course of 10 games.

Through six, they have already matched that projection.

And with four games remaining and several of their toughest contests in the rearview mirror, they look primed to blow it out of the water.

But all of the success the team has had this year has come without the burden of expectations. Sure, its matchups with Villanova and Yale were both “big games,” at least superficially, but it wasn’t expected to win either.

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COLIN Only a few short years ago, this HENDERSON wouldn’t have been all that noteworthy. It’s easy to forget, but hasn’t been all that long since the Quakers were a legitimately dominant force enn football found itself within the Ivies. This is a program in an unfamiliar spot on that put together consecutive undeFriday night. And no, that feated seasons within the Ancient spot isn’t only the winner’s Eight only five years ago. column.

But in the world of collegiate athNo — on Friday night, in their letics, five years can be an eternity.

34-20 home defeat of Yale, the Red It’s at least enough time for the vast and Blue found themselves squarely majority of Penn’s undergraduate in the spotlight. student population to cycle through Primetime. Under the lights at its four years and be replaced by an Franklin Field. Nationally televised entirely new set of Red and Blue

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It’s no secret — memories of Penn football’s “glory days” are fading fast, especially amongst the school’s student population.

And with these memories, attendance at home games has faded accordingly. Not only in terms of numbers, but also in terms of enthusiasm and fandom.

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Basketball season may not start for a couple weeks, but a certain Penn sports team has taken it upon itself to correct the lack of buckets around campus.

But these buckets aren’t being interpreted in the traditional sense. Instead, they’re taking the form of bucket hats, and Penn women’s soccer has a surprising amount of them.

Wearing bucket hats has become the newest addition to the Quakers’ gameday regimen, and while it may seem trivial, that simple act has radically changed the way the team looks, both off and on the field.

After going scoreless for five straight games, the Red and Blue searched far and wide for that spark of inspiration that would finally see the ball find the back of the net. The floodgates eventually opened on Oct. 13 as the Quakers dispatched a lowly American team, scoring

marquee programs, but over the year or so, the Quakers have operated under the radar.

Out of the spotlight.

At least when it comes to their play on the field, that is. Al Bagnoli’s departure has certainly brought a lot of attention to the program as a whole, in some sense, but it seems to have actually taken attention away from the team’s play on the field.

And it’s shown in the team’s play.

Whereas last year’s Red and Blue squad seemed to crack under the expectations of potentially contending

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The day Penn women’s soccer wore bucket hats to hype up its game against American, first-year coach Nicole Van Dyke lead the team to end a five-game scoreless streak.

one goal to make up for each game of their scoreless drought in a 5-0 win.

While practice and preparation certainly played their part in the win, a growing number of players on the team are starting to think that the missing piece may have been the dearth

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of bucket hats in the team’s pregame apparel. In the days leading up to the matchup with the Eagles, sophomore defender Jill Kennedy proposed that the entire squad don bucket hats on gamedays.

And the results speak for themselves.

Statisticians might be wary of claiming a causal relationship between wearing bucket hats and scoring goals, but many players on the team see some merit in the their newfound sense of fashion.

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When it comes down to medal count, Penn rowing certainly did not miss the boat.

This past weekend at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, the Quakers’ lightweight crew picked up a silver and bronze, the heavyweight squad took home two golds and silvers while the women’s team also commanded three golds and four silvers in the local meet.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, the lightweights had five of the 19 total boats competing in the Men’s Championship Pair and finished in third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh places, displaying remarkable consistency across the board.

In the Championship Fours, the lightweight team narrowly came in second, only 4.38 seconds behind the gold-medal winners.

Luckily, the victors in this race were none other than the Penn heavyweight team, with sophomore Torin DiSalvo taking control in the stroke seat.

The heavyweights secured their second gold in the Club Eights race, where they bested Delaware by over 13 seconds. This effort was led by junior Daniel Kennedy-Moore in the stroke seat and under the direction of coxswain Emma Brown.

In the Men’s Championship Heavy Eights Final, the Red and the Blue placed second. However, Penn was the top collegiate team in the field, as the gold went to perennial powerhouse Vesper Boat Club. The last medal for the heavies belonged to the Freshmen Eight, who fell within five seconds of the winning Princeton boat.

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