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Campus internet hit with series of outages Two different service interruptions affected AirPennNet on Wednesday ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects

AirPennNet access was restored Wednesday afternoon after a set of two outages prompted an AirPennNet investigation. Penn Information Systems & Computing’s website said access was restored as of 4:03 p.m. After a number of informal reports of outages on social media, Penn Information Systems & Computing confirmed earlier on Wednesday that AirPennNet went down in certain campus locations. Around 11 a.m., a problem with a “wireless local controller” in

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For Rodin College House residents, recent weeks have produced an untimely amount of maintenance hazards. And some residents were not exactly pleased

with the developments. A spokesperson for Facilities and Real Estate Services was not available to comment on this article, but a former FRES mechanic, Mike Patruno, provided answers for why certain maintenance issues recur in the high rise college houses. Why did Rodin flood so badly

from just a sprinkler going off? When a sprinkler gets activated, water comes “flying out” until someone can come shut the valve off, Patruno said. The reason so many floors get flooded when that happens, he said, is just a combination of the sheer volume of water that the sprinklers put out coupled with the fact that only two people on

duty at any given time have the capability to turn the valve off. “Especially if they’re on the other side of the campus, that water could be down in the lobby” by the time they get there, Patruno said. “That’s one issue that should be corrected. There should be people there.” SEE RODIN PAGE 7

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If you only saw me as this one identity in one space, I was much less threatening or mind-boggling or less of an Other.”

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Mary Reid Kelley is the third Penn employee to be awarded the MacArthur Fellowship since 2013. The program is commonly known as the “Genius grant.”

Mary Reid Kelley, a senior critic in the School of Design’s Master of Fine Arts program, was recently named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. MacArthur Fellows, who are chosen by the MacArthur Foundation, must show “exceptional

creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work,” according to the MacArthur Foundation website. Fellows receive $625,000 for what is commonly known as the “Genius Grant.” Kelley’s art uses history and SEE GRANT PAGE 2

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Center for first generation, low-income students to open After a year of negotiations, Penn First gets their center REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter

Until last semester, Penn First thought that opening a center for first generation, low income students would take 10 years.

FGLI students at Brown University took eight years to negotiate for a center and leaders of Penn First were anticipating a similar timeline. But on Thursday, just a year since Penn First was formed, members will attend the opening of a campus FGLI Center — the second of its kind among Ivy League universities. Housed in the Greenfield

Intercultural Center, the FGLI Center consists of two rooms: a lounge for students and an office for two staff members recruited over the summer to coordinate the FGLI program that began this semester and includes initiatives such as a donation-based food pantry and textbook library where FGLI students can take out resources for free.

The GIC has a history of working with FGLI associated groups, which made it a natural option for Penn First when they considered locations for the FGLI center. “The GIC is an incubator,” said GIC Director Valerie De Cruz. “Many of the resources on campus supporting SEE CENTER PAGE 3

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literature to produce videos and performances that delve into the historical role and treatment of women. Some of her past projects include “You Make Me Illiad” (2010) and “Priapus Agonistes” (2013), which use a mixture of film, verse, sculpture and painting in order to explore and criticize ideas from different periods of history. Her most recent collaboration with her creative and roma ntic pa r tner Pat r ick Kelley is entitled “This is Offal.” The black and white performance piece, in which Mary Reid Kelley stars, takes place in a morgue. The piece depicts the reactions of a woman’s organs to her “awful” suicide. The final performances of the piece will take place later this year. It has been performed in Berlin and Belgium and the film was shown in

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THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM Switzerland. The next step for Kelley is to find a new source of inspiration. “What I’m doing right now is trying to figure out what the next piece is. So it basically means that I’m sitting in a big pile of books and just following random thoughts, which is a part of the process that I really enjoy — just that feeling that anything is possible.” Growing up, she always identified as an artist. After studying art and women’s studies at St. Olaf College, she went on to earn her M.F.A at Yale University, where she is currently a critic in painting. It wasn’t until her years in graduate school that she realized she wanted to write as well as paint. “I went to graduate school in my late twenties as a painter. It wasn’t until then that I discovered something else that I kind of was able, or wanted to do, which was to write in verse,” Kelley said. “I think

that even if you have really strong ideas about who you are you can always surprise yourself — there’s always a part of yourself that’s a stranger and you can be lucky to meet that stranger. Art is a good way to kind of go looking for that stranger.” Recipients learn of their selection just before the chosen fellows are announced publicly. “One of the great things about the award is that they want you to do just what you want with it. They do something fantastic — almost crazy — by just giving you, unannounced, this award and the sum of money that goes with, but they don’t ask in return that you do anything unusual,” Kelley said. “At this point what I want to do is carry on with what I’ve been doing,” she said. “It’s just nice to know that life isn’t as precarious as it was a couple months ago.”

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Management groups effecting positive change Team projects for Management 100 — a staple of the Wharton School freshman experience — are in full swing. Check out what three teams of students are doing: Students design viral social media campaign — the “Castleman lemon challenge” — to raise money for rare illness By Kolby Kaller You may have poured a bucket of ice water on your head for Lou Gehrig’s disease or sported a beard in “movember” to support men’s health, but soon enough you might be smiling with a lemon in your mouth to raise awareness for Castleman disease. A group of ten freshmen teamed up with the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network for their Management 100 project to create a viral social media campaign and short video series to generate public discussion about the little-known disease. Id io p a t h ic mu lt ic e nt r ic Castleman disease is a “rare and deadly illness where the immune system attacks and shuts down multiple vital organ systems,” according to the CDCN website. A patient with iMCD may only display flu-like symptoms at first, but the illness is as deadly as cancer. Engineering and Wharton freshman Xiaoya Song, a member of the Management 100 team, referred to it as “the deadliest disease you’ve never heard of.” The Management 100 team was faced with the challenge of creating a campaign that could launch awareness for Castleman disease and CDCN in the same way the ice bucket challenge did for ALS, a condition dealing with nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Their solution: the “Castleman lemon challenge.” To participate, one simply places a lemon in their mouth and smiles. “It’s basically an analogy of what patients with Castleman go through,” Wharton freshman Juan Carlos Ortega and member of the Management 100 team said. He added that, “Although they’re suffering and going through this disease, they smile at life.” David Fajgenbaum, who received his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine in 2013 and MBA from Wharton in 2015 and is the cofounder and executive director of CDCN, initially sought the help of the Management 100 project. His organization is at the forefront of raising awareness and research efforts for

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Management 100 is the staple of students’ Wharton undergraduate careers. Inspired by viral marketing, such as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, one team worked for Castleman Disease Collaborative Network to create a social media campaign to spread their message. The team created the “Castleman lemon challenge,” where participants smile with lemons in their mouths.

Castleman disease. Fajgenbaum’s relationship with Castleman disease extends beyond his contributions to the field, however. “I have a personal connection to the disease,” he said at a Wharton Health Care Business Conference last February. “It nearly killed me. During my third year of medical school, what started out as fevers and night sweats led to kidney, liver and bone marrow failure.” Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with iMCD in 2010. His condition became so grave that he had his last rites read. After receiving treatment, he returned to medical school to conduct research on the disease that could have killed him. “When we heard David tell his story, we were really moved and we knew [he] would be a client we would be honored to work with,” Song said. Making low-income housing energy efficient By Kelly Heinzerling When you think of lowi ncome housi ng, “energ y efficient” might not be the first phrase that comes to mind. A Wharton Management 100 group is looking to change that. The group is organizing the

event “Bridging the Gap Between Public Health, Energy Efficiency and Poverty” for the Philadelphia Energy Authority, an independent municipal authority committed to creating sustainable low-income housing that was created by the Philadelphia City Council and then-Mayor Michael Nutter. The Management 100 group has created what will be the keynote event of the year for the billion-dollar Philadelphia Energy Campaign. The campaign, launched last February, focuses on “the intersection of public health and sustainable energy,” Wharton and Engineering freshman Emily Tan clarified. Its goal is to create sustainable energy for people with low-incomes who might not typically have access to this type of technology. These renovations could also help the residents become healthier and prevent asthma and allergies. The group plans to host its event on Nov. 30 at the PECO Lounge and will be sponsored by Wharton’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership. The event will be a place for experts in public health, energy efficiency, poverty reduction and housing to come together

and “streamline their efforts to try to make these houses more efficient and healthy,” Wharton freshman and group member Chelsea Kibler noted. The group aims to see an attendance of around 150 people and is hoping to fill the audience with energy experts and Penn professors in the energy and health fields. The project came to them by way of Emily Schapira, the recently appointed Director of the Philadelphia Energy Campaign. Schapira, who received her MBA from Wharton in 2009 and her BA from the College of Arts and Sciences, was the founder of the Wharton Sustainability Program. Using connections she made at Penn, she brought this new project to Wharton’s Management 100 classes in hopes of revamping the typically smaller annual event. Group members have taken these desired changes to heart and have restr uctured the event around three keynote speakers giving TED-style talks that Shapira hopes will showcase successes of community-oriented energy projects in Philadelphia and other cities such as Baltimore and New York. Group members were drawn

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diversity, including the three cultural centers, all started here. The FGLI program is how we continue to support emerging communities.” At 5 p.m. on Thursday, Provost Vincent Price and Vice Provost for University Life Valarie SwainCade McCoullum will oversee the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the FGLI center. Penn First launched officially in the fall of 2015. In the spring semester of 2016, the group reached out to Penn’s administration for support, receiving more than 150 responses from staff and faculty, many of whom indicated that they were formerly FGLI students. Some of these conversations grew into actual programs such as the Library Resource Liaisons program proposed by staff at Penn Libraries. Under this program, four FGLI students are given workstudy positions where they train to become library resource liaisons for other FGLI students. During the spring semester, Penn First began meeting with high level administrators to articulate the infrastructural support they wanted for FGLI students. In April, they met with Cade, asking for a program budget. Two weeks later, she verbally confirmed that a FGLI program budget had been approved and plans for a FGLI center were underway. “I can’t express how it felt for us to be heard by important administration,” said College sophomore Anea Moore who was present at the second meeting. “[FGLI

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After a year of negotiations, Penn First establishes the First Generation, Low Income Center — the first of its kind at Penn. The center was created with support from faculty and administrators.

students] are used to having to solve our own problems... so it felt really, really great that someone was finally trying to help us.” For members of Penn First, having a physical center to call their own is important on many levels. As a place that can be “radically different” from the neighborhoods where FGLI students grew up in, the center provides a point of contact for students and particularly freshmen seeking help and solidarity, said College junior Jeffrey Arango, one of the 11 co-founders of Penn First. Nursing senior Mary Marquez agreed. Even while schools have increased recruitment of FGLI

students, “It’s one thing to be able to pay for school and another thing to be able to live in a community like Penn,” she said. For College senior Juana Granados , the center is symbolic of the presence that FGLI students occupy on a campus that did not traditionally include them. “If you walk around campus, you don’t see a lot of FGLI footprints,” said Granados, who is a co-founder of Penn First. “The fact

that we have a space means that our community has a legacy on this campus and our community has made our mark.” New initiatives under the FGLI program such as the center and the food pantry are not just meaningful for current students but for FGLI Penn alumni, Granados said. When she told her FGLI alumni mentor who graduated from Penn in 1985 about the new FGLI program, he started tearing up.

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to this project as it is a means to not only benefit local communities, but also to have direct interaction with experts in the field. What makes the project unique, Tan said, is that it allows students to work with experts in a segment of the city government and “directly make a change in community lifestyle that’s very visible.”

Meet the Givologists, a Management 100 group of freshmen. The main objective and focus of their project is to expand the social media campaigns of their client and namesake, Givology. Givology is a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting donors to students in need of financial assistance for education or for accessing academic resources. Donations come in all shapes in sizes; Givology uses crowdfunding — best known from the platform Kickstarter — to maximize the amount of donors who help contribute to the cause. The Givologists have a threepronged approach to their social media campaign expansion:

daily posts, interactive campaigns and trending hashtags. Social media is the most effective way to interact with donors and to raise awareness for the organization, Wharton freshman Cathy Ding said. The group plans to unravel its new campaign, which will feature Instagram picture cutouts adorned with Givology campaign slogans and hashtags, soon on Locust Walk. Crowdfunding is not the only unconventional element of Givology’s model. As a 100 percent volunteer-run organization, Givology knows the power of a strong personal narrative — its website features the stories of the students they help, creating a “Humans of Givology” look book. The students in the Management 100 team are not the first Quakers to be involved with Givology — the organization was co-founded by Wharton graduate Jennifer Chen, who was named in Forbes’s “30 Under 30” list in 2014 for educational innovations through her involvement with Givology. Currently, Givology has chapters at a handful of schools throughout the nation, either as extracurricular clubs in high schools and universities or volunteer groups.

“[Having a program and center] means a lot to alumni because these were things that were very far off for a very long time,” said Associate Director for Recruitment at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and 2005 College graduate Jamie-Lee Josselyn . “This was not just because of institutional limitations but because the students themselves did not always identify as FGLI,” added Josselyn, known as a “Penn First mum.” Yet, even while people celebrate the grand opening of the FGLI center today, 2016 College graduate Cheyenne Rogers said she hopes students recognize the work that went into creating this space. “This is a space that didn’t necessarily have to exist and wouldn’t have existed without FGLI students putting time and work into

it,” Rogers, who is a co-founder of Penn First, said. One reason the FGLI program took off so quickly is that there is now a critical mass of FGLI students at Penn, Cade said. Twelve percent of the Class of 2019 are first generation. She added that the process was accelerated because leaders of Penn First were clear, consistent and practical about their needs. “We worked at [Penn First] like it was our second job. Or our third or fourth in the case of some people,” Granados said. Granados added that Cade, among other administrators, was crucial in pushing for the center. Cade was the first in her immediate family to attend college and said she experienced many of same difficulties that FGLI students raised during their meetings with her.

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OPINION Penn’s reasons for not divesting are lacking EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

THURSDAY OCTOBER 27, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 95 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor

On Sept. 22, the University Board of Trustees announced that Penn would not be divesting from fossil fuels. This decision comes after a March 2015 referendum in which 33 percent of students voted, with almost 90 percent favoring divestment. In April 2016, Fossil Free Penn released an open letter advocating divestment signed by 100 faculty members from 10 of Penn’s 12 schools. This overwhelming display of support from students and faculty alike was not enough to persuade the trustees that the time has come for divestment and real action on the environment. Penn’s divestment would be a powerful signal of disapproval against the ac-

tions of the fossil fuel industry. Initiatives like the Climate Action Plan and related environmental research have little impact in comparison to the effects of maintaining investments with fossil fuel companies, which are major contributors to carbon dioxide emissions and the health of local communities where oil companies operate. Penn’s decision not to divest is hypocritical. Whether or not Penn’s investments have a meaningful impact on the finances of fossil fuel companies, continuing to invest makes an immediate statement about where Penn’s values lie. The University’s investments directly support an industry which harms the climate, and whose ac-

tions disproportionately affect those living in poverty. The school can’t truly

while Penn continues to invest in fossil fuels. The Board of Trust-

Whether or not Penn’s investments have a meaningful impact on the finances of fossil fuel companies, continuing to invest makes an immediate statement about Penn’s values.”

claim to have pro-environmental values and encourage students to pursue studies that could produce environmental solutions

ees decided not to divest partly because the actions of the fossil fuel industry don’t meet their definition of moral evil, which

is “activity on par with apartheid or genocide.” The Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion Board questions this threshold of morality. As Penn students, we can’t support the institution we attend in its funding of companies whose actions are immoral, discriminatory or dangerous and have been shown to lead to “apartheid or genocide,” even if such atrocities are not full-blown. This stan dard for divestment is unreasonably high. The University Engagement and Action section of the Board of Trustees’ letter does not adequately explain their refusal to divest. They suggest enhancing existing efforts at Penn relating to climate change, as well as considering the environmental practices

of the companies in which Penn invests. However, the business models of fossil fuel companies intrinsically lead to detrimental effects on the climate, meaning that even those with the best practices still release high levels of emissions in order to conduct business and remain profitable. Divestment is the best way for the school to show that it genuinely cares about climate change and the environmental future of its students. By its refusal to take action by divesting, Penn demonstrates that it doesn’t consider climate change — widely considered our generation’s most important threat — to be a real concern.

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Searching for your body GUEST COLUMN BY MAYA ARTHUR: STEPS TO SOLIDARITY Identity. Identity is a word that floats throughout life. It can be a badge of honor for some, something shiny and embossed. A big, fat star that you wear on your lapel at all times. You are defined by that honor. You revel in that honor. For some, it’s like an overcast cloud, plaguing you like you’re a cartoon character moping as you walk down the block. Your personal rain shower when things get too dreary. It’s a word that overwhelms, yet it’s ubiquitous. I treated my identity like scraps of paper. The edges of the paper were serrated and torn, but I never tried to connect them back together. The scraps were all separate and defined, and in my head I believed they should never be one. And essentially, that’s how I lived my life – separate, distinct, never being fully one. Yes, I am black. Yes, I am a woman. Yes, I am queer. However, I thought to myself, “They don’t really need to intersect or connect, do they?” And initially when entering college, it seemed impossible that these identities could overlap.

In a way, these scraps encouraged me to not even fully commit to those three identities. I am black, but, like, not too black (whatever that meant in my freshman head). I am a woman, but not like other women (or y’know, girls). I am queer, but, like, I can try to pass. With this segregation, there was always an attempt to neutralize myself in social spaces. If you only saw me as one of these identities in one space, I was much less threatening or mind-boggling or less of an Other. My biggest fear was to just be placed in the box of an Other. I feared that I would never be recognized for all of my characteristics and nuances, but only known as different and incomprehensible. And through this misunderstanding of my identities, I would just be invalidated and dismissed. My whole being would be suppressed. However, my response to that fear was to Other myself by different means. I isolated myself from the very identities that I previously abided by. The community I cultivated for myself my first two years of college was homogeneous;

it was rich in the aspects I enjoyed, but not in the aspects I particularly needed to survive and understand myself. Recently, I was talking with a friend over lunch and we both discussed how we created these spaces and worlds on Penn’s campus, turning away from the features that defined us or that we couldn’t particularly hide. We made ourselves palatable.

hand them the things that they want from us by our very own hands? The “good stuff” we gave them? It was a whitewashed and toned down version of ourselves. It was catering to their tastes and preferences, not our own. We both had to deny the intricacies of our blackness and our womanhood and instead sculpted the nice tokenized and “cheery” black woman. We weren’t radical or militant or angry.

If you only saw me as this one identity in one space, I was much less threatening or mind-boggling or less of an Other.” But in order to make ourselves palatable, we had to strip away the supposed bad things, the guck. We had to cut away to the “good stuff.” I mean if we didn’t, people would only nibble around our identities, picking and choosing. Why let people work for that (and face the fear of rejection) when we can

We thought we could mold ourselves into the mainstream, into the status quo. But then we realized something: Neither the structures of Penn nor of the United States has ever granted us access to that mainstream. So no matter how much we fought to be accepted and to be palatable, we would only get an

inkling of acceptance. Why were we working in these toxic spheres in such toxic ways when there was no satisfaction in the end? I don’t have a concise answer. Lately, I’ve been trying to search for my body. Trying to find ways to glue the loose scraps of paper that are my identity so they are one. If that doesn’t work, I’ll paste those identities on a new, clean piece of paper. I’ll create a collage of what was once me and try to make it beautiful. Searching for your body can take on different modes, but ultimately my own search is seeking the ownership of space for my body to perform in all of its identities – to reclaim my body again. Searching for your body is searching for what your body represents, not to your environment, but to yourself and only you. There is power as well as limitations that come into the numerous spaces that make up this world and especially make up the small, insular world of Penn. As I grow older, I realize that I need to constantly and critically think about these imposed upon and self-made

spaces. To unlearn the negative aspects. Be resilient to the toxicity that can form over time. Get back to my roots so I can greater comprehend and appreciate what is at stake when I minimize them. I truly believe that before you can mobilize and take action and look out for others, the first action is to assemble your body and look out for yourself. It can feel narcissistic or selfpossessed, but more than anything, it is self-growth. It is just one of the steps to not only being a better you for you, but to being a better you for much greater, much bigger causes that affect the loss and invalidation of other’s identities. It is a step to solidarity. I’m slowly picking up the pieces of my identity, but it will take time. I am taking time to work upon myself and improve, and I will remain hopeful and excited and critical about the search for my body and my space. And I will keep asking questions. MAYA ARTHUR is a College junior studying English. She is coprogramming chair of the United Minorities Council, whose unity month begins on Oct. 27, 2016.

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Patruno said sprinklers are one maintenance issue that Penn has little to no control over. Unless they have more people on duty ready to shut off the valves at a moment’s notice, flooding will continue to happen. The sprinklers can also be set off for a number of reasons, not just a fire. “In the Mayer dorms, a couple of students were playing football in the hallway and hit one of the heads and the sprinkler system went off,” he said. “You’ve got no control.” Federal regulations now require sprinklers, he said, and there are really no alternate options. “It’s either water damage or loss of life, and that’s a little bit more important I believe,” Patruno said. Why was the water black that came out of the sprinklers? The water in the sprinkler lines sometimes sits for so long that it comes out black, Patruno said. “I don’t know if they treat it with something,” he said. “I think it’s just from the water sitting in the lines and it is dark when it blows.” It is the norm for sprinkler systems, he said, not something unique to Rodin or Penn. “It gets all over the place and it can’t be helped,” he said.

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Did Rodin flood for the same reason as Harnwell College House last May? Harnwell also flooded because a sprinkler went off during finals week last school year. The water dripped from the seventh floor all the way down to the mezzanine. Patruno said the same thing applied to Harnwell College House as it did in Rodin: The water was so devastating because it takes time to shut the valve off. “You have to get up that elevator, get to that floor, turn that isolation valve off, and then whatever water’s in the line will cease,” he said, but added, “Those heads blow. It’s havoc. I worked in the Quadrangle

and we got there pretty quick but it floods pretty good. They let out a lot of water.” Rodin’s fire alarm also went off on Saturday. What was that about? “There was a Penn worker working on the steam ventilation system and that caused the fire alarm to go off,” said Cornell Pitt, the Rodin building manager. Pitt didn’t know why staffers were working on the ventilation system, or what exactly had happened to cause the alarm to sound. Interim Rodin House Dean Rick LaRosa said he also wasn’t sure what had happened, and wasn’t sure who would.

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TV reigns supreme at MOOCs: the future Kelly Writers House panel of higher education Students discuss personal links to favorite shows LEXI LIEBERMAN Contributing Reporter

This year’s fourth annual Writing About TV program at the Kelly Writers House featured six speakers and macaroni and cheese. The humble Kelly Writers House Arts Cafe was packed with Penn students, faculty and community members eager to learn about the connection between six selected TV programs and the theme of “home,” as well as enjoy the home-cooked dinner that followed. The speakers were all different TV fans, critics or watchers, who each selected a show to discuss, using “home” as the driving theme or thread to guide their remarks. This edition of the Writing About TV program included a range of shows, which spanned classic favorites, cult highlights and even some forgotten titles. The student speakers included College seniors Tyler Burke, Syra Ortiz-Blanes and Brad Pettigrew. The other speakers were Associate

Director for Recruitment and Penn’s Creative Writing Program instructor Jamie-Lee Josselyn, reporter and blogger for Colorlines Sameer Rao and Philadelphia Media Network employee Molly Eichel. Burke, who wrote about “The Tick,” produced the strongest reactions from the audience. In his discussion of the show, he mentioned that his dad – who was a member of the audience – was the actor who portrayed Mothman, one of the leading roles in the show. Burke proceeded to play a funny clip from the show and produced pictures from his childhood of him playing on the set of “The Tick.” “It’s easy to look up to a dad who is kind and loving and supportive,” he said. “It’s even easier to look up to a dad who is a superhero.” This, of course, led to a resounding “awww” from the audience, and Burke even shed a few tears. Another fam ily-or iented speaker of the night was College senior Syra Ortiz-Blanes. In her discussion of “Jane the Virgin,” she pointed out that her connection

to the protagonist Jane Villanueva runs deeper than the Spanish they both grew up speaking at home. Ortiz-Blanes pointed out that, like Jane — who was raised by her grandmother Alba and her mother Xiomara — she herself was influenced by two independent and strong women who shaped her into who she is. “When I encountered the Villanueva women, I immediately recognized the intergenerational dynamics, because I share them with my grandmother and mother,” Ortiz-Blanes added. Jessica Lowenthal, director of the Kelly Writers House since 2005, hosted the event, introducing all of the speakers. “We take TV seriously here,” she said. “A lot of people watch a lot of it, and we want to honor that.” “We’re looking to talk about TV in ways that are real,” she added. College freshman and The Daily Pennsylvanian Copy Associate Zoe Braccia said she enjoyed the event thoroughly. “I just come to everything [at the] Kelly Writers House,” she said. “I like being involved.”

MOOCs have revolutionized learning CHASEN SHAO Staff Reporter

More than five-and-a-half million students representing nearly 200 countries are enrolled in Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, offered by the Penn Online Learning Initiative. But according to Penn Online Learning Initiative Associate Director Lauren Owens, these numbers belie the degree to which students from around the world are really impacted by the courses. “The biggest advantage is access,” Owens said. “[MOOCs] are getting [Penn’s] brand out there to people who have never considered [Penn] before.” Students who live in disadvantaged regions of the world now have access to courses

offered by Penn professors. Although the courses aren’t always immediately available to Penn students, certain professors have already used the content developed for MOOCs in their classes. Wharton professor David Bell believes that MOOCs will not completely replace current education — but hybrids have the potential to transform university education. Bell, whose research concentrates on the impact of internet startups on physical stores, explained the necessary hybrid structure of education by pointing to Amazon’s development of physical stores to accompany its website. “New interest will come into the [online education] market as university platforms for online education continue to grow,” Bell said. Before MOOCs became widely accepted as a

successful form of large-scale education, many people feared that MOOCs would eventually replace traditional forms of education in classrooms. But Owens said the benefits of online learning outweigh any potential threat to Ivy League schools. Students and professors who participate in MOOCs can often develop close relationships despite the lack of an in-person relationship. “The overwhelming feedback is extremely positive,” Owens said. “Professors get effusive letters of thank you and gratitude, which is really nice to see.” And as for Penn, Owens believes it can use MOOCs to broaden its reach. “At Penn, we have often depended on the platforms to reach new audiences,” Owens said. “The many millions of people clicking through Coursera and edX contributes to the number of learners that we have.”

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Harvard (6-11, 4-4 Ivy) 7 p.m.

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Penn volleyball will try to finish strong in the second half and put a scare into its Ancient Eight counterparts ahead of the Quakers in the standings. The last time the Red and Blue (8-12, 3-5 Ivy) tangled with the two northeastern schools, it resulted in a 2-0 home stand for Penn as the team eked out a close five-set victory over Dartmouth (8-11, 1-7) before taking down Harvard (6-11, 4-4) in four sets on national TV. Since that weekend, the Red and Blue have been reeling, losing four of their last five. The team hopes that this road trip weekend will help break them out of this funk as the second half of the conference slate progresses. “We just have to bring back the offense we had against Harvard that we haven’t had against stronger teams,” Penn coach Kerry Carr said. “It’ll be challenging

“It’s all about having confidence to go for things instead of playing it safe,” Carr said. “Getting more than 15 kills per set has been really successful for us.” Penn will arrive first to Cambridge on Friday to face a Harvard squad which will be looking to build on its one game lead over the Quakers and keep Penn out of the top half of the standings. The Crimson have yet to find any stability in their Ivy slate thus far, alternating between wins and losses over their past six games. Harvard has also shown defensive vulnerabilities, as they rank at the bottom of the league in digs, opening the door for Penn’s offense, which ranks second in the league in kills, to put up some big numbers. Waiting on Saturday for the Red and Blue will be a date with Ancient Eight cellar-dweller Dartmouth in Hanover. Facing a team with just a lone conference win over Cornell, the Quakers

will have to remain wary if they want to avoid a reversal of their close 3-2 win over the Big Green just under a month ago. In a matchup between the league’s most error-prone offense in Dartmouth, with a conference high 383 errors, and the league’s most stout defense in Penn, with an Ancient Eight-leading 1,223 digs, junior libero Michelle Pereira could prove to be the star of Saturday’s clash. “[Pereira]’s doing great,” Carr said. “She’s in a tough position to take a lot of digs and we’re asking a lot more of her but she brings it every game.” With the season winding down to a close, each game will be crucial for the team’s development. With a team devoid of seniors, the second half of the conference slate presents the Quakers’ final opportunity to build team chemistry to help them contend next fall. Positive results from this upcoming road trip could go a long way in helping position the team for a deep Ivy run next season.

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so he’s in charge of the offense. And when the game’s going on, he helps all those kids. He directs them, and does a super job doing that. He probably knows everybody’s assignments on the team.” Of course, every great quarterback also needs great teammates. And McCurdy has had that this year with a deadly wide-receiver unit led by Aidan Kelly, Andrew Sutton, and Marcus Jones, who have combined to catch 10 of McCurdy’s touchdowns. “All three of them are really great vertical threats,” McCurdy said, “And in addition to Chaz [Augustini] coming in the offseason, you make four guys you have to take account of every play. So I think that’s really done wonders for me.” After its game against Cornell, Penn will have only one more game this season against Post. If the Red

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championship since 2010. And that isn’t something the Quakers are taking lightly. “We got a championship to play for on Friday night,” Wagner said. “We’re ready to roll.”

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Penn set to host Brown before final Ivy contests M. SOCCER | Quakers in coach Rudy Fuller felt as though the

5th, one point from 3rd

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Brown (7-6-1, 2-1-1 Ivy) 7:30 p.m.

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Another big Ivy weekend is here for Penn men’s soccer. Currently 2-2 in league play, the Quakers are looking to defeat Brown and rise above .500 in conference play going into the final weeks of the season. “Mindset-wise we have to come in with the same attitude and play it the same way as West Virginia,” junior midfielder Austin Kuhn said. “We need to not make any errors and be totally solid on the defensive end.” Although the squad was defeated 6 games in their matchup against played, the Mountaineers this past Tuesday, Penn

team played one of their best games of the season. In their past two games against West Virginia and Yale, the Quakers (4-5-5, 2-2 Ivy) have been having trouble finding the back of the net. However, that makes the team hungry for the win going into Saturday’s game. “I feel like it really started to click for us at Yale and we are all really enjoying playing soccer together right now,” Kuhn said. The team has three games left in the season, as they currently stand fifth in the Ivy League behind Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia and Brown (7-6-1, 2-1-1). As the team prepares for the Bears this coming weekend, they are going in with a goal-oriented mindset. “We are taking one game at a time. We approach it as the next game is the most important game of the season so our goal right now is to beat Brown,” Kuhn said. “All we can worry about is 3Brown games right Ivy now. We can’t worry about what other teams are doing,”

senior midfielder Matt Poplawski added. Fuller remained positive about his team’s performance going into the weekend. The veteran coach felt that his squad played to its full potential, but West Virginia took one of its few opportunities and capitalized with a goal. “If we put in games like that on a consistent basis, we will win a lot of games,” Fuller said. “As we look ahead to Brown we need to do the same on Saturday and play at the same level. I tell the team to continue to get better each game.” Fuller ultimately agreed with his athletes when saying that they have to take care of Brown first and proceed game by game. Their sole focus is getting the win over the Bears and carrying that energy into their final two Ivy match-ups. The team knows it will be a tough game this Saturday, but they are looking forward to a successful homecoming weekend in University City. With their eyes on the prize, anything is possible for this determined squad.

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As Penn men’s soccer tries to take control of the midfield against Brown, it will turn in part to junior Austin Kuhn in that endeavor. Heading into the weekend, the Quakers are just one point out of third in the conference.

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in the conference other than the Quakers. With Dartmouth on taking place on Friday night, the tap, the Crimson are easy faplay.” Points: 187. (31.2 per Red and Blue got a long week vorites to keep their conference game) “We just talk about, ‘do your heading into Homecoming, a streak alive. job,’” Watson added. “No one welcome respite before the final One week away from PrincTouchdowns: rush. person feels like they have13 to pass, stretch13 of the season. eton and two weeks out from have a superhuman performance “Saturday, to finally have Harvard, this weekend does not for us to get a win. … It’s great a day off and get to just watch represent the most important 7.5 toYards/Attempt, 211.2 per knowingPassing: you don’t have put college football, I think it’s game just game on the horizon for the a ton of Rushing: pressure on yourselves good for guys mentally,” Watson 5.2 Yards/Attempt, 197.5 per gameQuakers. Still, with Homecomand no one has to do something said. “As student-athletes, I ing on tap, University City has a more than they’re capable of.” know there’s all kinds of guys chance to celebrate its teams — Although Brown, is allow- going through job interviews an atmosphere the Red and Blue ing just 306.7 yards per game, and all kinds of distractions. hope to positively contribute to. opponents are still scoring That extra day is huge to just “Whether there’s 12,000 more than 28 points per contest take a deep breath, spread you people out there or 8,000, we’re Penn overall against them — defense, seventh in the work play out and(allowed) just enjoy yourself going to play as hard as we can Ivy League. Penn certainly has a little bit.” and it’s going to be really fun experience scoring on the Bears, Penn will tell you that there’s seeing some guys who used to 22.8 Points per game putting up 35 in the first half no scoreboard watching going play,” Watson said. against them last year en route to on at this point in the season. Into this weekend, the ima 48-28 blowout. Nonetheless, the Ivy race is al-Rush. portant number is not 12,000 or 370.8 Yards per game. 241.7 Pass, 129.2 If the Quakers’ nine-game Ivy ready heating up. 8,000, though. It’s four. Penn has winning streak were not enough After last weekend’s overtime four games left. Four more shots to provide momentum into the3 fumbles win over Princeton, Harvard to defend its title. That process 6 interceptions, recovered, 9 resacks. weekend, they’ve also had a little mains the sole undefeated team continues with Brown.

OFFENSE

OFFENSE YARDS:

YARDS: 1853 total, 727 rush, 1126 pass

2452 total, 1185 rush, 1267 pass POINTS: 187 (31.2 per game) TOUCHDOWNS: 13 pass, 13 rush

POINTS: 126 (21 per game) TOUCHDOWNS: 11 pass, 5 rush PASSING: 4.8 yards/attempt, 187.7 per game RUSHING: 3.2 yards/attempt, 121.2 per game

PASSING:

7.5 yards/attempt, 211.2 per game RUSHING:

5.2 yards/attempt, 197.5 per game

DEFENSE 28.3

DEFENSE

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306.7 Yards per game 189.7 Pass, 117.0 Rush 6 interceptions 5 fumbles recovered 16 sacks, one defensive touchdown

22.8 Points per game 370.8 Yards per game 241.7 Pass, 129.2 Rush 6 interceptions 3 fumbles recovered 9 sacks

Brown Offense, overall play: Yards: 1853 total, 727 rush, 1126 pass Points: 126 (21 per game) Touchdowns: 11 pass, 5 rush. Passing: 4.8 Yards/Attempt, 187.7 per game Rushing: 3.2 Yards/Attempt, 121.2 per game Brown defense, overall play (allowed)

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and 46th overall this past week at the Wisconsin Invitational. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been on Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heps team every year heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a student here, and the meet is always a highlight of his season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been racing some of these same guys since my freshmen year ... since high school, even,â&#x20AC;? he remarked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It definitely gives a competitive edge when you look over and see someone youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been racing against for four years. You just want to beat every single jersey you see.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re definitely coming in with a new confidence we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have before, with higher expectations for ourselves,â&#x20AC;? junior Abby Hong said. This will be her third Heps, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going in with a race strategy built around that same competitive spirit that Shearn exudes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I start off a little more on the conservative side and then move up throughout the race. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a confidence

build off of 2015 finish GRIFF FITZSIMMONS Sports Reporter SATURDAY

Ivy Heptagonal Championships 11 a.m.

Princeton, N.J.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most wonderful time of the year, as far as Ivy League cross country teams are concerned. This Saturday, two dozen of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fastest men and women will be making the short trip up to Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s West Windsor Fields for the annual Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phenomenal. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most exciting meet of the year,â&#x20AC;? senior captain Brendan Shearn said. The senior finished first for the Quakers

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Senior Brendan Shearn looks to lead Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross country to improve after finishing second at the 2015 Ivy Heptagonal Championships.

booster when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re passing people the whole race.â&#x20AC;? Though the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team has never won an Ivy League championship and the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t won since 1990, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason that this wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be their year. In fact, with

second and third place respective regional rankings in the latest USTFCCCA poll, Penn is positioned to be successful not just at Heps this Saturday but in the NCAA postseason meets in the weeks to come as well.

However, no one understands the importance of concentrating on the task at hand better than coach Steve Dolan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just want to run the best races we can at the Heps for the Ivy League title,â&#x20AC;? he insisted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let the dust settle and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll focus on the next step.â&#x20AC;? Dolan, who was optimistic about both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chances at Heps, emphasized that the Quakers have done all they can to prepare for the race. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely put in a good twoweek training block when you add it up,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A week out we ran pretty hard workouts, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing lighter work today and tomorrow trying to make sure that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fresh for Saturday.â&#x20AC;? Dolan also mentioned, however, that the Ivy Championships are usually anything but predictable. Rather than focusing on variables over which the team has no control

like all the emotions of the day, Dolan says that the Quakers are â&#x20AC;&#x153;just really trying to focus a lot on us being ready to run our best race this Saturday.â&#x20AC;? And what better place to show off a seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of training than at a race so steeped in tradition, a meet that Dolan calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;a celebration of the Ivy League and our runners.â&#x20AC;? Like Shearn, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coach was quick to mention that Heps is by far his favorite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best race of the season in my mind, just because of the history of the Ivy League,â&#x20AC;? Dolan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The athletes and coaches all know each other, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a lot of alums that come back to watch. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty awesome. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an atmosphere like no other meet.â&#x20AC;? The Princeton course is marked by small rolling hills and all grass footing. If nothing else, it will be a fair course to determine this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ivy League champions.

Quakers look to catch Brown with Homecoming weekend win

W. SOCCER | Penn just 3

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Brown (8-2-4, 3-1-1 Ivy) 5 p.m.

Rhodes Field

After a long journey, Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer will come back to Rhodes Field one last time to wrap up its 2016 campaign. The Quakers (9-3-2, 2-2-1 Ivy) will host Brown this Saturday in down in Penn Park for their senior game and second-to-last game of the season. A lot will be riding on this contest, as the Bears (8-2-4, 3-1-1) are currently sitting in third place in the conference while Penn sits right beneath them in fourth. The Red and Blue are coming in with a full head of steam, after defeating Army, 2-0, on Monday to continue their undefeated run on

the road. In fact, they have picked up 10 points from their last available 12, only conceding once in those games. As far as strategy goes, Penn coach Nicole Van Dyke knows that if her team can continue to play their style of soccer, the results should follow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are focused a bit more on ourselves this week, we are confident with our abilities to compete with everyone in conference and any anyone that we play,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working on offensively are maybe using the width a bit more effectively in the attack, but outside of that, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just hoping that in the last couple weeks weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting everything together to get us that last win at home.â&#x20AC;? Brown will not go down easily though, as they enter this game on the heels of a 1-0 win over Cornell where they outshot the Big Read on goal, 5-0. Van Dyke believes the teams are neck-and-neck in most regards, but believes her squad can triumph. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of parallels

between the two teams. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a bit of a chess match. Both teams are difficult to score on, but we do feel we have a bit more firepower. So in those key moments, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need 10 opportunities, we might need just one or two and be really precise in those moments,â&#x20AC;? Van Dyke said. For senior Oliver Blaber, who is coming off a goal and an assist at West Point, this game will be quite different in feel than the many others in her four years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy to think that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our last game. I remember thinking freshman year that senior night is so far away, and now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upon us, which gives us a little extra to play for,â&#x20AC;? Blaber said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have to keep in mind our goals for the season, and letting emotion fuel us, but not take over. We want to go out swinging and put on a great performance, and really leave it all out on the field for our last time stepping on Rhodes.â&#x20AC;? To that tune, fellow senior Tahirih Nesmith is aware of the emotions running high for her final contest at Penn and what it means to finish

strong. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest thing for us now is how we finish. A lot of people wanna look at other teams and how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not really something we do. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really just worried about ourselves and how we can improve,â&#x20AC;? Nesmith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This last home game, especially for us as seniors, is really about having an ending that will lead to a better beginning for the next generation of girls on the team. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the final cherry on top and giving the future teams the foundations to build off of in the next seasons to come.â&#x20AC;? As far as the rest of team, Nesmith believes everyone will rally around this final curtain call match. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a very family-oriented team and I know that the girls really wanna play for the older ones who only have two games left, and one at home, so I think everyone really wants to give their last, best efforts for this group.â&#x20AC;? Regarding the gravity of this contest, Van Dyke underscored what this win could mean for the team and players individually.

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Senior Tahirih Nesmith will play in Rhodes Field once more on Saturday as Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer plays host to Brown on Homecoming weekend.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We feel that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re one of the top teams in the conference so getting the win against Brown, which moves us into third place above them on head-to-head, will be great for our seniors and the entire team at this point,â&#x20AC;? Van Dyke said. Although first place may be out of reach, Penn is still fighting to finish the season on a high note, and still passionate for every game.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a great opportunity this year to close out this week against Brown and then next week against Princeton and try to finish in the top three, which is a really good position to be in the last two weeks,â&#x20AC;? Blaber said. So for one last â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hurrah,â&#x20AC;? Penn will put it all out there at Rhodes Field and hope to send the seniors off with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;W.â&#x20AC;?

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2016

Penn unanimous Ivy favs

W. HOOPS | Quakers

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NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

In Tuesday’s Ivy League preseason media poll, Penn women’s basketball was unanimously tapped to finish atop the Ancient Eight for a third title in four years. The Red and Blue received all 17 first-place votes, outpacing the rest of the Ivy League by a mile. With 136 points, the Quakers finished 26 points ahead of perennial rival Princeton (110). Harvard’s 104 points mark a comfortable separation between these three teams and

the rest of the conference. Following the Crimson are Cornell (76), Dartmouth (66), Yale (56), Brown (40) and Columbia (24). Under McLaughlin, Penn has never stood alone atop the poll. When they won his first title in 2013-14, the Quakers were slated to finish third. The next year, they tied for first with Princeton. Last year, the Tigers got 16 of 17 first-place votes after going undefeated the previous season. This is the fourth time overall that the Quakers have topped the poll since the inaugural edition in 1999. Penn won the poll in each of the first two years it was held, in addition to the tie with Princeton two years ago. The 1999-2000

poll marks the only other time the Quakers were selected to win the league unanimously. Although the Red and Blue return all five starters from a year ago, the path to an Ivy title isn’t as clean as it was in years past. This season marks the implementation of the league’s conference tournament, meaning the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament will come from a four-team playoff — not simply the regular season title. That said, Ivy play is a long way away. For now, the Quakers have their eyes set on Nov. 13, when they will open the regular season on the road at Duke. Then, once January rolls around, the title defense can begin.

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Brown (2-4, 1-3 Ivy) 1 p.m.

NICK BUCHTA

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Senior Sports Editor

This Homecoming weekend, the 1986 Penn football team will return to Franklin Field in honor of its 10-0 campaign 30 years ago. As today’s Quakers keep the hope of an undefeated Ivy season alive, the visitors

may be able to offer some inspiration. Penn (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) enters the weekend having won its first three Ancient Eight contests by an average of 24 points. Brown (2-4, 1-2), however, just logged its first conference

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victory last week — an overtime thriller against Cornell. Attention this weekend will turn to the Bears’ Ivy-leading defense just as much as the Quakers’ Ivy-leading offense, presenting the biggest challenge to Penn’s offensive weaponry since the start of conference play. That said, the Red and Blue boast the last two Ivy League Offensive Players of the Week in junior running back Tre Solomon — who has an Ivy-best 103 yards per game — and

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junior wide receiver Justin Watson — whose 99.5 yards per game and six touchdown top the Ancient Eight. “Importantly, when you’re looking at our offense, there’s no doubt that we’re taking the opportunities that are there,” Penn coach Ray Priore said. “And that’s the planning that goes in, week in and week out, to take advantage of who is going to be open and available on this particular

The season might not be over, but one thing is clear. Up until this point, Penn has been the best team in the Collegiate Sprint Football League. But that distinction won’t mean anything if the Quakers can’t finish out the season strong. For the Red and Blue (5-0), who already have wins over both service academies, the quest for perfection continues this Friday on senior night against Cornell (2-3). The Quakers enter the game as heavy favorites, but don’t expect the Big Red to give in easily. While Cornell has struggled against the CSFL’s better teams, their two victories over Mansfield and Post have both been by double digits. For Penn’s defense, the key to stopping Cornell will be containing Big Red dual-threat quarterback Rob Pannullo. Through five games, the senior has been averaging nearly 50 rushing yards per game to go along with his 90 passing yards. Offensively, Penn will try to build off its performance last week against Chestnut Hill. In that game, the Quakers lit the Griffins’ defense up for seven touchdowns en route to 53 points. Five of those touchdowns came from the arm of senior captain and quarterback Mike McCurdy, as he led the way with 339 total yards. While McCurdy’s play was nothing short of spectacular, it was backup Edward Jenkins who might have opened the most eyes last week. Jenkins was not subbed in for McCurdy until the fourth quarter, but he was able to make a big impact in his limited playing time. In addition to completing two passes, the freshman showed off his running ability with four carries for 63 yards and two touchdowns. So while the Red and Blue look set at quarterback with Jenkins for the next three years, don’t be mistaken. This is still McCurdy’s team. The reigning CSFL co-MVP has been even better this season. He needs only one more passing touchdown to match his 13 from last year and with 1,292 passing yards already, he is well on pace to reaching his 1,513 from a year ago. “He’s a coach on the field,” Penn coach Bill Wagner said. “Obviously he’s the quarterback,

Somehow, Brown football has even more trouble kicking a football than Snoopy’s pal, and there is no Lucy to blame for their 1-for-9 record on Field Goals through six games. Heights. Roaches. Thunder. Rigged elections. Spiders. Guns. Ghosts. Sharks. Bees dying at an alarming rate. Roller coasters. Feet. Goblins. There are many things to be afraid of. Brown’s football team is not one of them. Penn’s is, though. Who has scored the most points in Ivy League play? Penn. Who has allowed the fewest points in Ivy League

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play? Penn. The Quakers are allowing just 13.7 points per game in Ancient Eight action. That’s fewer than two touchdowns. Ray Priore’s defense is currently stingier than Ray Priore, who totally hands out raisins as Halloween candy. On the other hand, Alek Torgersen, with his Ivy-leading eight passing touchdowns, is the smiling mother who gives out Reese’s at the door. And Brown’s defense is that smiling, portly young lad approaching the door, blissfully unaware that he has a peanut allergy.

Penn leads the league with 9.1 yards per passing attempt and 5.2 yards per carry. The quarterback scores rushing touchdowns and the running back throws for passing touchdowns. The list of ways the Quakers can hurt you is longer than the list of actors who have played Peter Parker. So Brown should be very, very afraid of Penn football’s terrific, balanced team. Also, Justin Watson is going as a clown-pirate, which is super scary. Prediction: PENN 42, Brown 17

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