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Engineering election fills all vacant seats The four seats have been vacant for months CONOR MURRAY Senior Reporter

University. Following Kao’s departure, ASAM steering committee member and History professor Eiichiro Azuma said the ASAM faculty steering committee looked to other departments to hire someone with expertise relevant to lead Asian American studies, but could not find a replacement, leading faculty members to take on interim positions, includ-

After a six-month long struggle to ensure sufficient Engineering representation on the Undergraduate Assembly, a special election on Thursday night has filled the four seats that have been vacant since April. Engineering sophomores Sydney Baker, Sarthak Jain, Ronak Bhagia, and Arnav Joshi each won a spot on the UA with 98, 72, 70, and 66 votes, respectively. The newly elected representatives will join Wharton and Engineering sophomore Kshitiz Garg on the student government body. Garg was elected as a write-in candidate in the UA general election in April. Wharton and Engineering sophomore Akash Jain and Engineering junior Claud Detre finished in fifth and sixth with 53 and 22 votes each. This election concludes a longstanding effort to fill the four vacant Engineering seats on the UA. Zero candidates formally declared their candidacy for a UA Engineering seat in the April general elections. Garg was elected after a successful write-in campaign, and has since been the only Engineering representative on the body. The Nominations and Elections Committee held a special election to fill the vacancies in September, but again failed to attract any candidates. This prompted the NEC to reform its promotional tactics for the second special elections. NEC Chair and College senior Olivia Crocker said the NEC members directly

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The Asian American Studies program has struggled with maintaining leadership since the founding director of the program left Penn in 2017. Josephine Park was named the ASAM program’s interim director in 2018 and was set to serve for a year.

ASAM interim director becomes official leader Josephine Park is also the undergraduate chair of English HAWTHORNE RIPLEY Senior Reporter

After two years without an official director, the Asian American Studies program now has a formal leader in Josephine Park, who assumes this role in addition to being undergraduate chair of the English

Department and teaching ASAM courses. ASAM has struggled with maintaining leadership since the founding director of the program left Penn in 2017. Park was named the ASAM program’s interim director in 2018, and was set to serve for a year. She officially started as formal director this academic year, and will continue to serve in the role next year as well. Now, Park said she hopes to bring in more undergraduates to the ASAM minor,

expand the program’s breadth of course offerings, and recruit faculty members from other Penn departments to ASAM. “We need to be more innovative and work with the deans to find ways of bringing in faculty, and this is a key reason for my interest in postdoctoral fellows and senior visiting faculty,” Park wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. In June 2017, former Director Grace Kao left her position to teach at Yale

Houston Hall renovations look to foster student community Renovations include artwork and pool tables DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

After students voiced complaints that Houston Hall was not a student union and instead

essentially functioned as an event space, Penn administrators and student government made plans to renovate the hall to serve its primary role as a hub for student life. The changes, which began last semester, are slated to be ongoing SEE HOUSTON PAGE 6

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The new renovations include new arcade games, ping pong tables, a foosball table, new seats, and more new artwork on the walls.

OPINION | Penn, safeguard against fraud

Penn’s admissions process is one of the most selective in the world, but the most important principle that must be respected is fairness - The DP Editorial Board PAGE 4

SPORTS | Football falls to Yale in shootout

Penn football hung around with Ivy preseason favorite Yale for most of the game, but eventually fell one touchdown short in a shootout loss. BACKPAGE

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The Penn Museum celebrated Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, on Saturday with dance performances, crafts, and activities. The day-long event brought together people of all ages and cultures to honor deceased loved ones.

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A special seminar will study the authors’ works

Number of classes is consistent with recent years

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This coming semester, students will have the chance to not only study works of literature, but to meet the authors who produced them. Authors Saidiya Hartman, Erín Moure, Jenna Wortham, and Wesley Morris will visit Penn’s campus as part of the Kelly Writers House Fellows program, which has brought authors to campus since it started in 1999. In the KWH Fellows seminars, KWH Faculty Director Al Filreis said students analyze the writers’ works throughout the semester and have a chance to discuss the works with them in a “very intimate setting” when they visit Penn. Creative Writing Program Director Julia Bloch, who will teach the seminar in the spring, said the course will be discussion-based and require students to write short position papers and creative responses. This is Bloch’s second time teaching the seminar, which is usually taught by Filreis. “A typical class is going to involve the deep collaborative study of a number of different texts by these writers,” Bloch said. “The beautiful thing about the course is that it’s always going to focus on what the most contemporary writing is happening right now.” Each fellow visits KWH for two days. To organize the visits, the fellows were booked “almost a year in advance,” 2012 College graduate and Assistant to the KWH Faculty Director Lily Applebaum said. Hartman, a Columbia University English professor specializing in African American literature, will visit on Feb. 17-18, 2020. In 2019, Hartman received a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” an annual prize awarded to individuals in the United States who have shown extraordinary originality in their

Penn’s Asian American Studies program, which has long advocated for additional funding and faculty members, is offering two new courses next semester. Overall, the ASAM program is offering eight courses this upcoming semester, which is consistent with the number of courses that have been offered in recent years. Nine courses were offered this fall, ten in spring 2019, and eight in fall 2018. “The program is not expanding, just stable right now,” ASAM Associate Director Fariha Khan said. English professor Chi-ming Yang and Fine Arts Chair Ken Lum will co-teach “The Chinese Body,” a new seminar on how Asian bodies have been represented in city planning, literature, and film from the middle of the 19th century onwards. The second new course, “Asian American Women: Nation, Self, Identity,” will be taught by South Asia Studies lecturer Raili Roy and will examine Asian American women’s identities with a focus on racial and gender stereotypes. In previous years, Penn’s ASAM program consistently faced difficulties such as lack of a permanent director and physical space, leading students and faculty to call for increased support from the University. In 2018, Penn hired Rupa Pillai as the first full-time lecturer in Asian American Studies. ASAM Director and Undergraduate Chair of English Josephine Park said Pillai teaches two courses a semester, which has let other professors develop new courses and allowed ASAM to double the program’s lineup since she arrived. This spring, Park added, Pillai will

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Authors Saidiya Hartman, Erín Moure, Jenna Wortham, and Wesley Morris will visit Penn’s campus as part of the KWH Fellows program.

creative pursuits. “Saidiya is a literary critic who has busted open the genre of academic writing,” Filreis said. Applebaum said Hartman’s new book “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments” has garnered “a lot of positive attention and press.” The book highlights intimate relationships of black women in the early 20th century. Moure, a Canadian poet and translator who has been publishing for over 40 years, will visit on March 23-24, 2020. She has translated books and poems from Galician, French, Spanish, Portuñol, Portuguese, and Ukrainian to English and written her own poetry. “It’s nice to be able to bring poetry across borders,” Moure said of her work as a translator. “Otherwise our society will become too narrow.” Moure said she first encountered KWH through ModPo, an online course created by Filreis. She had also visited Penn on a campus tour. “[Moure] is also someone who believes in the importance of community, poetic community,” Filreis said. Some of Moure’s most recent works are “The Elements,” a book

of original poetry, and an English translation of “Camouflage,” a poetry book written in Galician by Lupe Gomez. On April 27-28, 2020, Wortham and Morris will visit KWH. Both are New York Times writers who launched their joint culture podcast, “Still Processing,” in 2016. Filreis said Wortham and Morris are the first duo and the first podcasters in the program. Bloch describes the duo as “kind of a dream” for students interested in podcasting. She adds that some themes discussed in “Still Processing,” like identity, culture, and the politics of language, will also be covered in the seminar. Applebaum said any student interested in the class, from freshman to senior, can submit a written statement on their interest and relationship with the fellows’ works to apply for the program. Students must also be able to commit to the fellows’ visits. “The whole idea of this course is to take really famous people and bring them into this little intimate cottage,” Filreis said. “People can interact with them in a human way rather than [having them] sit on a stage way up.”

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ASAM Associate Director Fariha Khan said ASAM has several new programs planned for the spring, including lectures and a book talk.

teach “Asian American Gender and Sexuality” and “The Asian Caribbean.” Students who have taken ASAM classes said many courses ended up being deeply personal and relevant to them and their sense of identity. College junior Erin O’Malley, who is the events co-chair for ASAM’s Undergraduate Advisory Board, transferred to Penn as a sophomore specifically to study Asian American studies. “I was never able to consider myself a writer until college, where I saw writers like me at an institutional level,” O’Malley said. “This was super validating.” College sophomore Claire Nguyen also emphasized how validating ASAM courses have been for her. “Asian American studies feels so real. It is empowering and really just affirms my experience as an Asian American woman and gives me insight into [mine] and others’ experiences,” she said. “It has changed my worldview, making me see how race operates in the world and helped me recognize that my body is a politicized and racialized one

and how I live daily is an extension of this.” ASAM UAB Co-Chair and College senior Louis Lin said the courses have also given a valuable academic perspective. “ASAM has helped me better understand the greater narrative of how Asian Americans fit into the culture-history lexicon of America and shaped how I apply my knowledge in other classes,” Lin said. Beyond courses, Khan said ASAM has several new programs planned for the spring, including the Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture and a book talk from English professor David Eng on Asian American students’ mental health. Khan said the program is looking to provide more opportunities for students, such as creating an ASAM undergraduate fellow. “At the end of the day, we are really fortunate to have ASAM and want students at Penn to know that,” Khan said. “We are one of the only Ivies that has it, and students should not take it for granted. We’ve fought hard to be here and want our place to be sustained.”

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All of the performers in Ballet Folklorico Yaretzi had their faces painted as skulls. Other performances included an Azteca Prehispanic dance, a folkloric ballet, and storytelling sessions on legends.

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Penn must implement safeguards against admissions fraud

MONDAY OCTOBER 28, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 49 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor ALICE HEYEH Print Director BEN ZHAO Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor MANLU LIU News Editor MAX COHEN News Editor

s the Nov. 1 early decision deadline approaches, Penn’s Office of Admissions is likely flooded with applications from students across the country, including many of the future stars of Penn Athletics. In response to last year’s nationwide admissions scandal and one involving fraud in Harvard University’s athletic recruiting, Harvard announced that its Athletics Department would be implementing two new policies to thwart fraud in the admissions process. Despite the revelation of a similar scandal at Penn, unlike Harvard, Penn has failed to announce any such reforms. Former Penn men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen pleaded guilty in October 2018 to accepting bribes to help a student gain admission as a recruited athlete. Considering this scandal, which highlighted the serious potential for fraud in athlete recruiting, Penn Admissions must announce the results of their internal investigation and implement safeguards like Harvard to protect against future abuses. At Harvard, coaches must now provide materials, such as national rankings or newspaper articles, that admissions officers can use to independently verify a prospective student’s athletic ability. Coaches are also now required to go through conflict of interest training. These new policies should be considered a model for strengthening Penn’s own admissions procedures for recruited athletes. Penn’s admissions process is one of the most selective in the world, but the

most important principle that must be respected is fairness. Without protections that safeguard against fraud, future applicants to Penn should not trust that they are engaging in a fair and just system. Penn knows that a perception that fraudulent admissions practices are acceptable is a threat to its fundamental legitimacy as an institution and the prestige that is so coveted. It’s the reason they had such a strong response to the revelations about Allen. But it’s critical that administrators follow the strong statements made last year with strong actions. After news of the scandal broke in March 2018, Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said the University would consider revising its processes related to recruitment and evaluation. Penn also hired an outside consultant to review internal procedures after new details emerged about the Jerome Allen scandal in October 2018. “Penn Admissions and [the University’s Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics] have worked with an outside consultant to review and strengthen our processes for the recruitment of student athletes and, in light of the current charges, will again consider whether any further changes are called for in our recruitment and evaluation processes,” Furda wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian in March. While it is encouraging that administrators have committed to safeguarding against future incidents of bribery and

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fraud in the admissions process, there has not been transparency in regard to the specific policies or initiatives instituted in the wake of these scandals. Furda has yet to provide specific details on the findings of the outside consultant or whether these suggested changes are being implemented as the Class of 2024 applies to Penn. Penn must be transparent about both its findings from the consultant and what it plans to do in response to those findings, or risk losing the trust of future applicants. Penn should follow Harvard by creating an athletic verification system in which the athletic credentials of recruited athletes can be checked. Penn admin-

istrators and athletic officials must also be educated about ethical admissions practices. The Jerome Allen scandal and other similar scandals around the country exposed some of the serious flaws and potential vulnerabilities within Penn’s admissions process for recruited athletes — who represent a sizable percentage of each incoming class at Penn. Both Furda and Penn Athletics Director M. Grace Calhoun have a responsibility to address these flaws and explicitly state the actions Penn is taking to prevent future fraud. They must take action, and they must be transparent about a process that is traditionally shrouded in secrecy.

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Stop blaming sexual assault on alcohol

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SNAKE PIT MEMOS | Acknowledge the risk of situational drinking while refusing to tolerate sexual violence

e are quick to fight over bla me when alcohol is linked to sexual violence. The first step was admitting to the problem, but we did that. On a national scale, it took an epic power shakedown for leaders to acknowledge the ubiquity of sexual assault across institutions. At Penn, student groups, individual voices, and Penn President Amy Gutmann have repeatedly brought attention to sexual assault on campus. But the results of the 2019 sexual assault survey from the American Association of Universities tell us that increased awareness and scrutiny of sexual misconduct doesn’t translate to fewer acts of violence. Across the 21 universities surveyed by the AAU, the share of women reporting “nonconsensual sexual contact or inability to consent,” rose from 23% to 26% between 2015 and 2019. The game of alcohol-related excuse-generating and finger-pointing was recently played out very publicly in the Justice Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Kavanaugh’s defenders claimed that drinking made him stupid and violent. After all, he was just a guy in college doing what college students do — getting drunk and hitting on girls at parties. This attitude isn’t dissimilar to how we used to treat drunk drivers. Before shifts in public

opinion during the 1980s, drunk drivers were often pitied and their accidents excused as symptoms of alcoholism. Meanwhile, their harm toward victims was considered peripheral. This level of risk needs more than recognition, because to say that 26% of Penn undergraduate women experiencing unwarranted sexual contact is “troubling” doesn’t even scratch the surface. Sexual violence should be treated more like we treat drunk driving: as a pervasive public health issue that requires understanding of risk met with a refusal to use alcohol as an excuse. Alcohol consumption creates risk by altering individual behavior. But the environment in which you drink adds to risk by distorting expectations. In other words, drinking matters, but so does context. If you are at a party, your immediate sensory surroundings and whatever you were expecting about yourself and your environment is magnified. Critically, these distorted assumptions include what Kavanaugh assumed — that his conduct could be excused because he was at a party engaging in “horseplay.” Neither he nor those around him challenged those assumptions until decades later. What do Penn students implicitly assume when drinking at bars

We deflect the job of calling out menacing behavior that we witness in this setting unless it becomes obvious.” and parties? We assume — like Justice Kavanaugh — that people (and especially women) who drink at parties are easily targeted. We assume that drinking makes us wild and reckless. We assume that sexual aggression is more likely to ensue in these scenarios. Still, we proceed to drink, hyper-aware of a climate that feels all-consuming but uncontrollable. Even when we recognize risk, it doesn’t translate toward responsibility. In reality, we often drink as an excuse to be irresponsible for a night. So, of course, we deflect the job of calling out menacing behavior that we witness in this setting unless it becomes obvious. Criminology professor Aaron Chalfin published research this year on the link between crime and alcohol consumption. In an interview for MarketWatch, Chalfin explained an implication of his findings: that motivated offenders seek out targets rather than perpetrators simply losing control when they drink enough. It’s

not that drinking inevitably makes someone reckless — perpetrators can choose to drink because they think it will excuse reckless or harmful behavior. According to this model, the “loss of control” from excessive consumption of alcohol is preceded by the decision by perpetrators to drink. Of course, alcohol does not play a role in all sexual assaults, and when it does, it is used to discredit victims as much as to excuse perpetrators. Chanel Miller, the long-anonymous victim referred to as Emily Doe until she spoke publicly this September to decry interpretations of the 2016 Stanford rape case as an intoxicationinduced misunderstanding. Miller claimed instead that “alcohol could never be the root of something that is part of such a greater pattern: when you look at the thousands of cases [of violence against women], the common thread is not that we are drinking too much.” As the Kavanaugh case illustrates, if we recognize that alcohol increases

JULIA MITCHELL the risk of bad decisions but doesn’t excuse the decisions themselves, we can’t just eliminate risk by policing alcohol consumption. What can be done is to increase accountability by acknowledging that we aren’t divorced from our drunk selves. The distorted expectations that surround drinking culture at Penn and American college campuses are not an inescapable or inevitable reality. It is not a rite of passage to act stupidly or violently. Instead, let’s acknowledge the risk of situational drinking while refusing to tolerate sexual violence. JULIA MITCHELL is a College and Wharton sophomore from Yardley, Pa. studying business and international studies in the Huntsman Program. Her email address is jcmitch@ wharton.upenn.edu.

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Your online personality should not revolve around Penn

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SURAYYA’S SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE | We need to be mindful of the messages we communicate

e are approaching a robust admissions season. With an increasing amount of students applying each year, elite college acceptance is more coveted than ever. But some of us have failed to leave the college admissions race in our senior year of high school. Whether by posting our stats on College Confidential or creating YouTube videos entitled ‘’What got me into Penn,” we have indirectly contributed to the toxic culture surrounding admissions. All Penn Youtubers, College Confidential posters, or Reddit admissions ‘’coaches’’ need to consider how they can create content surrounding their educational trajectory more healthily and inclusively. When we post our stats and resumes, we fail to remember how we felt during that precious college admissions season. I remember being increasingly anxious about going into the admissions process. I was bombarded with YouTube videos with students at prestigious universities detailing their entire highschool experiences, almost as if they had a formula for their admission. I would go on College Confidential and look through admissions threads, looking

for the ‘’perfect applicant’’ attributes in myself. This behavior could have left detrimental effects on my self-esteem. Countless studies are referencing social media and its role in perpetuating a cycle of low self-esteem through social comparison. College Admissions anxiety is enough for these students to bear. Let’s allow our admission and their admission to be something of a pleasant surprise, instead of back-tracking our acceptance to key moments. There’s a difference between aiming to inspire someone and gassing yourself. What got you into an elite college surely won’t work for someone else. With the Harvard affirmative action case exposing the multitude of metrics that go into evaluating elite college applicants, there is no way we can predict what led to our admission or anyone else’s. In a world where people are allowed to buy their way into college, meritocracy is nothing but a glimmer of hope for most applicants. This reveals broader ethical questions that we must continuously wrestle with. Does it make sense to detail your entire college application online? When you do this, you raise the assumption that your applica-

tion is the standard for prospective students to follow. Their life and upbringing may be something entirely different from yours. If you are a legacy or someone who benefitted from our system of income inequality, what help can your story give to a high schooler who is filling out college applications while homeless? Instead of highlighting your accomplishments as a rubric for one to follow, try posting a disclaimer first. Instead of saying that this is the essay or extracurricular that got you in, just share your story without the college application superlatives. Stop ‘’chancing’’ applicants and start encouraging them to choose a school based on their interests and not on prestige. We must encourage others to tell their stories and walk in their truth because that will make a difference. There are Penn content creators who experienced great success outside the realm of Ivy League admissions content. The best content creators are flexible and appeal to a wide audience. Take Morgan Brown, who is a recent Penn alumna. Her channel itsHeyMorgan boasts over 600K subscribers. Her infectious personality and passion for fashion rapidly

increased her viewership. What interests or hobbies do you have? What opinions do you hold? There are so many avenues besides fishing for compliments from admissionscrazed high schoolers. Alongside admissions, the wave of ‘’my life is so perfect here at this university,’’ needs to stop. With the Ivy League’s under 10% admissions rates, most people will not get the opportunity to attend a school like ours. We should accept our position with humility, instead of flaunting it via our social media accounts. We should be proud of our school, but going to Penn doesn’t make anyone more special than the next person. Lower admissions rates don’t equate to higher student satisfaction. With the Penn Face epidemic, I’d love to see more content in which we are vulnerable and truthful. We have enough videos explaining how awesome the classes are or social life is. Why not share some imperfection? With the Ivy League receiving sub-par mental health ratings, it’s time that we share the truth about life here at Penn and its peer institutions. No school is perfect, but we shouldn’t perpetuate an ideal that doesn’t exist.

SURAYYA WALTERS We all should be representatives of our school through our online presence. We simply need to be mindful of the messages we communicate regarding college admissions and the elitism associated with it. With content created to empower and uplift, rooted in humility and a desire to see others succeed, we can reach millions of students who see themselves in us. Like the adage says, ‘’It’s not what you say, but how you say it,’’ that makes all the difference. SURAYYA WALTERS is a Wharton sophomore from New Rochelle, N.Y. concentrating in Marketing and minoring in Urban Education. Her email is surayyaw@wharton.upenn.edu

Penn, we are not as diverse as we think

THE FRIENDLY DISSIDENT | When I think of diversity, I do not think of numbers or statistics

enn President Amy Gutmann has stated that “understanding and appreciating diversity is one of Penn’s most important priorities and is fundamental to success in today’s world.” Penn advertises itself as diverse. On Penn’s website, a significant number of the pictures represent students from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. Although the pictures tend to be candid, these photos are not an accurate representation of diversity at Penn. When I think of diversity, I do not think of numbers or statistics. If I did, I would commend Penn for being more racially diverse than most of the K-12 institutions I attended. In the fall of 2018, 773 black, 1,085 hispanic, 2,208 Asian American, and 4,264 white

people attended Penn’s undergraduate schools. Additionally, 1,339 international students attended Penn’s undergraduate schools. Ethnically, we were more diverse than the national average. So yes, comparatively and numerically, Penn is somewhat diverse. But this is not the diversity I value nor the type of diversity the marketing pictures seem to suggest. When I think of diversity, I think of inclusivity. Let’s first return to those stereotypica l, racia lly diverse photos plastered all over Penn’s website. What makes those shots perfect for marketing is the fact that each student is either smiling or laughing. A shot with even one disengaged student would not have made the cut. Not only do these photos suggest that those

It is important to recognize that someone being racially, ethnically, or culturally different from you does not equate to them having nothing in common with you.” smiling students work well together, but more importantly, the photos suggest that they are friends. Now, let’s look at Penn. The best place to evaluate inclusivity is not necessarily in the classroom but outside of the classroom, particularly in social settings. It is no secret that certain frat parties are racially exclusive. If we truly were those smiling students in the photos, we would be more welcoming and inclusive. When I walk outside and see college

students, I rarely see friend groups of different races. For the most part, the Asian girls are with other Asian girls and the white guys are with other white guys. While the students in those photos are inclusive, Penn students are not. The next time you walk around, evaluate how diverse Penn truly is. I promise you that you will not see those marketing photos. To make those photos a reality, change lies in the students. First, it is important to recognize that someone being

racially, ethnically, or culturally different from you does not equate to them having nothing in common with you. It’s common to gravitate towards those who look like us and not even consider a friendship with those who don’t. In fact, we tend to see someone and point out their differences. For most of high school, I went to a diverse boarding school and lived with, spoke to, and learned from people of very diverse backgrounds. But I would not have been able to become friends

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EMILIA ONUONGA with them if I was stuck on our apparent physical differences. Try to fight your instincts. Try to reach out to that person who you think is nice and actually get to know them. As Gutmann once stated, “the diversity of our university must reflect the diversity of the world around it — and the diversity of the world that we want our students to lead.” That being said, the only way to truly understand someone of a different race or from a different country is to develop a relationship with them. Capitalize on the fact that you are at an institution with people of different races, values, and home countries and engage with your community. So take a moment to think about your friends at Penn. Not the ones you talk to here and there in class, but the ones you go out with on Saturday nights. Are you making the most of your Penn experience? Can you see yourself in a stereotypical marketing photo? Or are you off to the side, talking to someone who looks just like you? EMILIA ONUONGA is a College freshman from Middletown, Del. studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Her email is eonuonga@sas.upenn.edu

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throughout the school year. The new renovations include new arcade games, ping pong tables, a foosball table, new seats, and more new artwork on the walls. Administrators hope to bring in new furniture, such as beanbags, this school year and create gender-neutral bathrooms next summer, said Vice Provost for University Life Associate Director Laurie Hall. Administrators and students

began working on the new renovations last November, when two Undergraduate Assembly members, now Wharton and Engineering senior Nick Pa rkes and College senior Arjun Swaminathan, brought up that students don’t consider Houston Hall a student center. “Students had lost sight of the fact that Houston Hall was the nation’s first student union and is supposed to be our student union,” UA President and College senior Natasha Menon said. “And so I think a lot of us felt like it didn’t necessarily

reflect what we look like now as a university.” “There’s always some people working somewhere on laptops, doing homework. And then there’s this culture of you’re sitting there seeing all these other people doing work, and you feel pressure to always be stressed always be working,” Parkes said. “So that was kind of the whole idea behind renovating Houston, since the entire purpose of the building is to be a student union and a place people go to get away from all the stress of classes.”

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Hall, who worked with the UA on the new renovations, said that when she first took a walk through Houston Hall, she thought the building looked “library-like.” Hall came to Penn in 2017 and had previously started Princeton University’s student union. She said for a time, Houston Hall and the Perelman Quadrangle were tasked primarily with generating revenue from being spaces for events, so that was why the space could not look more student-centered. Almost all of the existing portraits in Houston Hall depict the 1896 period when Houston Hall was founded. “But now the goal has changed, and it’s to marry the revenue targets with also having Houston Hall serve as a student center,” Hall said. “Students who are here now are just as much a part of Penn’s history as students who were here in 1896,” she added. VPU L hired an outside

consultant that had previously designed Princeton’s student center, Menon said. The consultant provided blueprints of what Houston Hall would look like and the UA was involved in the final approval of these plans. “We made sure that there was one very specific stipulation, which is that there should be no tables, no place where you can sit down and do work. We just wanted to be kind of a no work, only play space,” Parkes said. Although tables still ended up being placed in the game room, the goal of making it more of a recreational space has seemed to work out, Parkes added. Menon said the renovation project is not without its difficulties because of Houston Hall’s old age. “So that’s why most of the wall coverings or vinyl decals can be easily removed without harming the walls behind it. A lot of the newer posters or signage are leaning up against the wall instead of being tacked

against the wall, so that way it doesn’t harm the walls either,” Menon said. The UA is now looking into ways to get feedback from the student body about ways to make Houston Hall more of a student union, Swaminathan said. “We are definitely looking into gaining further ideas and getting more feedback on ways to improve it. We really want to make sure it’s a place where students can have a great time and really feel like they’re part of a broader community,” Swaminathan said. Parkes said the work to improve Houston Hall is part of the mental health discussion on campus. “This has always been a big draw, especially on the UA, in terms of making sure that everybody’s staying mentally healthy,” Parkes said. “We thought this was a good way to make some sort of tangible change there.”

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Penn hosts first Energy Week to unite researchers in different fields Events focused on science, technology, and policy SHRIYA KARAM Staff Reporter

Penn hosted its first-ever Energy Week from Oct. 21 to 25 to highlight the breadth and depth of energy innovation at Penn. Led by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Energy Week was Penn’s first formal collaboration designed to unite energy researchers across six schools at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels. The week featured a formal launch event, seminars on engineering and economics, the Carnot Prize, and the Wharton Energy Conference. City and Regional Planning professor Mark Alan Hughes, faculty director for the Kleinman Center and one of the organizers of Energy Week, said the event had three goals: to increase awareness of the breadth and impact of energy research, to demonstrate the multidis-

ciplinary nature of energy research, and to open avenues for potential collaboration. It was the first formal collaboration between the Kleinman Center, which focuses on energy policy, and the Vagelos Institute, which focuses on scientific research in energy. “We’d like to demonstrate for students and faculty who reasonably don’t fully appreciate how much is going on at Penn and how much of that volume of activity is distributed across a number of different schools and disciplines,” Hughes said. The largest events were the Carnot Prize, which is the Kleinman Center’s annual award to individuals who have made a significant impact on energy policy, and the Wharton Energy Conference, which features programs on clean energy transitions and energy investment to unite Wharton students, faculty, and alumni in the energy space. Hughes said the planning process involved scheduling these large events into a single week and then adding additional smaller ones. “It was first a matter of starting with things that we knew about, and

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trying to handle the logistics of getting them to all happen in a single week,” Hughes said. “But after that, it was a lot more serendipity, and things that we didn’t know about starting coming in.” Energy Week began Monday, Oct. 21 with a presentation of stu-

New Wharton vice dean encourages student versatility Robertson urges students to study a range of topics GORDON HO Staff Reporter

Diana Robertson, the new vice dean of the Wharton School, is building her vision for undergraduates around four words: purpose, agility, community, technology. Robertson said she hopes Wharton undergraduates become more agile in their learning and can reflect more on their purpose during their time at Penn. Wharton announced on May 22 that Robertson would serve as the new vice dean of Wharton undergraduate programs. A Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor, Robertson officially replaced Wharton Vice Dean Lori Rosenkopf on July 1. Robertson, who has been a professor at Wharton since 2007, focuses on business ethics and corporate social responsibility in her research. Robertson encourages students to reflect more about their purpose while at Penn. She said the reflection should go beyond academics and career options, and should focus on who each student is as a person and what makes one happy. “You can’t wake up one morning and say ‘Oh, I know what my purpose is,’” Robertson said. “It’s an iterative process. It takes time.” Robertson added that students should balance their academic and professional life with their recreational life. “Balance is a word I don’t hear students talk about very much,” Robertson said. Another aspect Robertson focused on is for students to

become more versatile in their skillsets. “Agility is saying that you are willing to explore lots of different pathways,” Robertson said. “The world is changing so fast. As a school, we are preparing students for careers to work in firms and maybe even industries that didn’t exist 10 years ago.” Wharton needs to offer students a set of skills so they can explore a wide variety of avenues in the future, Robertson said. Robertson cited “Wharton 101: Business and You,” a course that all Wharton freshmen must take, as an example of developing an agile skillset. The course was designed to expose students to all 10 departments and 19 concentrations at Wharton. While many already know Wharton’s finance department, Robertson said the course introduces students to other departments, like marketing, accounting, real estate, management,

and statistics, so that students can learn about other potential careers. Robertson said one of her goals is building community and making the school a place where each student can have their voices heard and make a contribution. During this year’s New Student Orientation, Robertson said there was an increased focus on talking with freshmen, rather than a simple tour of buildings, in order to foster a closer community. “I want students to feel proud to be at Wharton, to feel proud to be at Penn,” Robertson said. “And for every student to feel that they belong here — which is hard.” As the world is changing rapidly, Robertson said the school should continue offering education on technology and analytics to prepare students with the technical skills they need in workplaces in the future.

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Diana Robertson is building her vision for undergraduates around four words: purpose, agility, community, and technology.

dent and faculty research in disciplines ranging from chemistry to mechanical engineering to business, as well as a car built by Penn Electric Racing. College and Engineering senior Zachary Whitlock, who is part of the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research, at-

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reached out to student groups, such as the Engineering Student Activities Council, and met student leaders in person to encourage their members to run. Crocker also said this election saw higher voter turnout than past Engineering special elections. In their statements to the NEC, the candidates laid out the goals they would like to accomplish on the UA. Baker said she wants to reach out to minority and low-income students in the Engineering school. She hopes to pursue initiatives such as lobbying for subsidized textbooks and access codes and allocating funds for conferences discussing minorities in Engineering. Sarthak Jain’s platform largely consisted of wellness initiatives,

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ing Park. Since 2018, ASAM has only been able to hire one full-time senior lecturer. “We are pleased that Professor Park is serving Asian American Studies so well and hope that other Penn faculty continue to engage with this important program,” School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty wrote in an email to the DP. Fluharty said requests for new faculty searches originate from the faculty of an individual department rather than the dean’s office, but the office continues to encourage requests for faculty members suited to teach in ASAM. Azuma called Park’s decision to fulfill this second administrative role on top of her leadership in the English Department “an enormous sacrifice on her part,” which he said should not have had to be made by individual faculty members. Park was one of two candidates for the position, both of whom had

tended the launch to present his work as an undergraduate fellow in the Research and Education in Active Coatings Technologies program. He stressed the importance of looking at the social side of environmental issues while doing scientific research. “Students need to be considering social factors as well as a technical education,” Whitlock said. “Engineering and tech doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it exists in a greater and difficult social context, and climate change is just one example.” On Oct. 24, Provost Wendell Pritchett presented the Carnot Prize to Cheryl LaFleur, who served as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2010 to 2019. In an interview, LaFleur commented on the need for academic spaces like Penn to facilitate the dialogue between energy and policy researchers. “Universities have an important role in educating future leaders, who are the ones who are going to solve most of today’s problems, but also have a role as a convener and publisher of ideas, because of

such as lobbying for “wellness TAs” for Engineering students for stress management purposes. Bhagia said he wants to work with Career Services to expand options at career fairs for Engineering students who do not major in computer and information science.

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leadership experience in the English Department. She said it is not uncommon for faculty who work on programs to also have a full load of responsibilities within their own department. “We really do it out of our passionate commitment to the program,” Park said, calling ASAM the “real work” she does at Penn. “It’s not something that we line our pockets with. It’s a service that we actively want to do.” Azuma said the limited number of candidates for program director mirrors a “fundamental institutional problem” at Penn, stemming from the dearth of committed tenure-track or tenured faculty members that the program can depend on for leadership. Park explained that new faculty hires at Penn are reserved for departments, and since ASAM is classified as a program, they are forced to depend on relevant hires from other departments. Because of this, Park said she aims to draw faculty members in other departments to ASAM in order to expand on their existing course offerings.

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Joshi hopes to work on professional development for Engineering students by creating more ways for Engineering students to meet employers and by holding majorspecific events for students. The newly elected representatives will serve until the next UA general election in April 2020.

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their perceived neutrality and their level of credibility,” she said. “They aren’t an advocacy association, and they aren’t affiliated with a particular industry or technology. They are an institution dedicated to learning. They are both a convener, educator, and researcher.” The week also featured several presentations from researchers at Penn. Penny Liao, a postdoctoral researcher at the Wharton Risk Center, shared her work on sea level rise at the Energy Economics and Finance seminar on Oct. 23. Liao said her research looks at the social costs and efficiency loss associated with federal subsidization of flood insurance, bringing together environmental studies, public policy, and economics. “It’s a necessity to take an interdisciplinary approach to these environmental and energy issues,” Liao said. “If we want to study the economic and financial consequences and the evolution of a natural system, it’s necessary to understand the natural processes and to understand the engineering aspects of these things.”

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Another one of Park’s main motivations is to continue supporting ASAM’s Undergraduate Advisory Board, which engages students in the program and fosters conversations on Asian American issues through events and conferences. UAB member and College senior Hannah Singer, who minors in ASAM, said Park is one of the most thoughtful professors she’s had at Penn. “She’s very caring about her students beyond the course material,” Singer said. “She’s been so supportive of the UAB in helping us materialize our ideas to engage undergraduates.” ASAM UAB member and College senior Jessica Li described Park as a “really respected professor among students.” Li said UAB members were not involved in or aware of the process of electing a director, but were delighted at Park’s appointment. “She’s been teaching for so long, and her Asian American literature class in particular is a really highly sought after course,” Li said. “A lot of people love her.”

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continued to shine in his breakout season with 13 receptions for 205 yards, while Robinson amassed 395 yards passing and three scores against one interception. That interception proved to be costly. The resulting short field allowed the Elis to take a twopossession lead that Penn never overcame. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Robinson] has got to go through the full read,â&#x20AC;? Priore said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We got a bad read on it and the backside safety did a really good job of stealing it. He came out of nowhere.â&#x20AC;? Meanwhile, running back Abe Willows had an impressive game, totaling 63 rushing yards and a trio of touchdowns. Prior to this game, the senior had only 28 yards on the season.

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halftime, the Quakers started the second half with a couple of highlight-reel plays, including a broken tackle by sophomore wide receiver Ryan Cragun. Robinson found fellow sophomore wideout Rory Starkey in the end zone on a seven-yard fade. Their offensive success continued throughout the second half, as the scored 28 points in the final two quarters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we moved the ball consistently; we scored,â&#x20AC;? Robinson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an improvement [from last week], but at the end of the day you want to win.â&#x20AC;? Several players on offense stood out Saturday afternoon. Cragun

However, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offensive fireworks were matched by Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retorts. The Red and Blue defense gave up more than 40 points for the second consecutive week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most important thing [on defense] is to get pressure, and the quarterback was sitting in the pocket for a very long time, letting his receivers get downfield. We honestly have to do a better job getting after the quarterback, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on us,â&#x20AC;? senior defensive lineman Prince Emili said. With the loss, Penn falls to 0-3 in Ivy League play after winning two of their first three nonconference contests. The Quakers will return home and begin preparing to face Brown next Saturday at Franklin Field.

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band together and made themselves much stronger, and it was a full team effort, and they all took care of business.â&#x20AC;? Although last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss to Navy means Penn will not play for a CSFL title, Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s result was a dream end to Wagnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50 years of coaching at Franklin Field. It was only right that the Quakers would put up almost 50 points in the win. The Penn Band was also at the game to honor Wagner by playing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;? at his final home game. The crowd began to chant â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank you, Wags,â&#x20AC;? as the

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light of the game, the defense is what kept the Battlers out of the end zone for most of the game. The Quakers held the visitors to 54 total yards, a season best for Penn. The only touchdown they allowed came after a Jenkins interception at the end of the first quarter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The defense really has come around, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve hustled, and they overcome a lot of things,â&#x20AC;? Wagner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was a tough weekend [against Navy], however, they

clock expired to show their appreciation for all Wagner has done for the program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been the biggest part of my life, other than my family. But this is my second family,â&#x20AC;? Wagner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alums supported the program, and were loyal to the program, and have made us into a first-class varsity sport, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to move forward with that, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be here another 50 years.â&#x20AC;? The emotion will sure to be even higher next weekend as Wagner will coach his last game for Penn on the road against Caldwell.

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rebound on goal off a penalty corner. Both Yale and Penn had more chances to put themselves on the board, but the defenses and goalies came up with several goal-saving efforts. The score would remain 1-1 until the Quakers were able to break free at 40:47, with freshman defender Elita van Staden putting in a beautiful penalty stroke to the middle of the net past the Yale goalie. The lead would not last for long, as nearly two minutes later, Yale scored the equalizer off of a deflection in front of the net that Rosati was unable to stop. With about nine minutes remaining, the Quakers notched the game-winning goal from an unlikely source: senior back Laura Shelton. Shelton drove through the Yale defense for a shot that found the bottom-left corner of the net. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a back, I feel like I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a lot of opportunities to score ever, and I just went up because [junior back] Reese [Vogel] was taking a free hit outside the 25 [yard box], and I saw space so I just went for it, and I pushed it to the goal and it ended up going in,â&#x20AC;? Shelton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew we needed some play to push us forward and I figured anyone can do it, so why not?â&#x20AC;? Penn put an exclamation mark on the game with another goal on a penalty from van Staden at 55:21. With this dagger, the Quakers secured the 4-2 win to improve to 3-2 in the Ivy League race.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;After last week, [the kids] were embarrassed,â&#x20AC;? coach Ray Priore said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like the outcome of that.â&#x20AC;? Few expected Penn to turn around and beat Yale. What fans and followers did expect was improvement â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some signal that the team still had life. I expected the same. I expected Penn football to prove to observers that embarrassments are temporary and rare. Penn didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win, but at least the Quakers met expectations. Penn hung with the preseason conference favorites all game, matching Yale blow for blow. On a day when Yale quarterback Kurt Rawlings set multiple program records and cemented himself as among the best at his position in school history, his counterpart, Nick Robinson, did just enough to hang around. Robinson wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perfect by any stretch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Priore pointed to his interception as one of two moments that lost Penn the game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but he did enough to

keep his team in the game. The Penn defense weakened as the game went along but kept the Quakers in it in the first half. As expected, the Red and Blue eventually succumbed to the Rawlings-led Elis, but they did enough to give the team a chance to win entering the fourth quarter. In the end, despite doing enough to be within striking distance, Penn, the underdog, lost. But at least the Quakers kept it close. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After last week we knew we had to come out and make a statement,â&#x20AC;? defensive lineman Prince Emili said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like we did that today even though we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the result we wanted.â&#x20AC;? Priore came out in the postgame press conference and framed the result the same way. It was clearly the message all week long â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that the Columbia loss, embarrassing as it was, cannot be allowed to define the team. That the players and coaches had to step up in the face of that adversity and deliver a performance they can at least be proud of, even if it

comes in a loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a team of fighters,â&#x20AC;? Priore proclaimed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They do not waver one bit on their mindset, their culture. We will definitely build from this. These guys know how hard theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked to get to this point. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of fight left in them.â&#x20AC;? The season is over as far as title aspirations go, but that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean there are no more expectations left for the Red and Blue to meet. I expect Penn to beat Cornell and Brown at home and finish the Ivy season with at least two wins. And I expect the team to be motivated to accomplish those goals, show grit and determination even when overmatched, and to not let losing become a contagious habit. Penn football lost, but in doing so proved that the team is not a lost cause. THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS is a College senior from Pittsburgh and Senior Sports Editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at papazekos@thedp.com.

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touch towards the end line and [the Yale defenseman] just cleated me out.” With only Yale sophomore goalie Elian Haddock standing between Penn’s first win against a ranked opponent in nine years, Bartel took a deep breath and hit his mark. “I don’t know if I would necessarily say that it was hugely different than a lot of the games that we’ve played over the last two seasons,” coach Brian Gill said. “I think what we did get though, were a couple good moments where we can hang our hat on and say to ourselves, ‘There’s the opportunity to win the game,’ and we did, and that’s rewarding for everyone in the program.” Kohlbrenner emphasized the gravity of this win and how everyone — from freshmen to seniors to the coaching staff — contributed. “The team has spent so much work from when I was a freshman. [With] the upperclassmen leading us all the way until now, it has been a long time coming,” Kohlbrenner said. “All props to the coaching staff [and] upperclassmen — they have gotten us to a really good place, and we want to keep going from here.” The Quakers will travel to Providence, R.I. next weekend, where they will face Brown.

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Penn sprint football has suffered two losses in 2019, and senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins appears to have made a habit of rebounding from defeat in a big way. A week removed from falling, 16-7, at Navy in a slugfest that eliminated the Quakers from Collegiate Sprint Football League Championship contention, Jenkins completed 14 of 21 pass attempts for 263 yards with three touchdowns and an interception in a resounding 49-7 win against Alderson Broaddus. In addition to torching the opposition through the air, Jenkins was a force to be reckoned with in the running game. Averaging 8.2 yards per carry, he rushed for 106 yards on 13 carries, hitting paydirt four times in the process. He was responsible for each of the Red and Blue’s seven total touchdowns on the day, a mark that equaled his season high. Jenkins’ outlandish numbers have become the norm for Penn’s star quarterback. After six games, and with only a Nov. 2 contest at Caldwell remaining on the sched-

ule, Jenkins has already put together a season that has merited significant MVP discussion. As a passer, he’s 68-for-102 for 1,029 yards and 10 touchdowns against seven interceptions. His 170.0 passer efficiency rating is the best in the CSFL among passers with more than six throwing attempts, and he is second only to Chestnut Hill quarterback Michael Marino in passing yards. Arguably more dangerous as a runner than as a passer, Jenkins has 72 rushing attempts for 462 yards, as well as 15 touchdowns. Despite playing as a quarterback, the senior ranks fifth in the CSFL in rushing yards, and he leads the League in both total offense and points per game, with 1,491 and 15.3, respectively. Marino is second to Jenkins in total offense, but Jenkins outgains Marino by over 35 yards per game, on average. Having already scored 25 touchdowns during the 2019 season, Jenkins long ago eclipsed his previous season high of 17 touchdowns, when he contributed six on the ground and 11 through the air during the 2017 season. In what will be the finale of both the Quakers’ 2019 season and Jenkins’ career, the senior has one more opportunity to put up monster numbers against a struggling Caldwell team that has managed just two wins on the year.

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body on a play-action fake to find junior tight end Sire Woods for a touchdown to cap a 14-play, 78-yard drive. After the teams again traded punts, Rawlings scored again, this time on a 37yard rush, to put Yale in the lead by just six after the extra point was blocked. Yale then drove 75 yards in just 56 seconds to take the lead before the half. In a career day for the Yale quarterback, Rawlings completed all three of his passes on the drive to become the Yale all-time leader in touchdown passes. He would later take the Yale record for total offense. Coming out of the locker room at

Look, it’s kind of silly to watch a team’s third straight conference loss and try to root around and pull evidence for hope from it. It’s pretty much always the wrong take when you point to a bad result and claim it as some sort of victory. Penn football’s loss to Yale could be an exception. The bar for success, having been lowered so demonstrably by the previous week’s outing at Columbia, was surpassed despite the final score. Perhaps some context is needed. Teams should only be judged based on our expectations for them in the first place. It makes little sense to heap praise upon a lopsided favorite when they do, indeed, blow out their opponent as expected. Similarly, it’s unfair to harp on a minnow’s loss when they weren’t expected to win in the first place. Penn football is no minnow. They are not — and never should be — classified among the Ivy’s worst teams. They do not get the benefit of the doubt on that front. This is not Brown. That is precisely why the Columbia loss was such a big embarrassment for the Quakers to endure; we expect better from them. They expect better from themselves too.

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Football is a game of inches, and the Quakers learned that the hard way on Saturday. Penn fell to Yale by a score of 46-41 on Saturday afternoon at the Yale Bowl.

Looking to improve from last week’s poor performance against Columbia, the Quaker defense was beat on several deep throws throughout the game and ultimately surrendered seven touchdowns. In a game that Penn (2-4, 0-3 Ivy) led at start of the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs (5-1, 2-1) ultimately pulled away and emerged victorious from the high-scoring Ivy League affair. “This was one of those shootouts. I’m not sure that either of the defensive staffs — when they watch the game tomorrow — will be happy,” coach Ray Priore said. “The key [was] the touchdown before the half — we [needed to] keep them to a field goal attempt — and the turnover in

the middle of the third quarter.” After the two teams traded punts to begin the game, Yale quarterback Kurt Rawlings was able to get the offense flowing. Rawlings completed a couple of quick passes before launching a deeper throw to receiver JP Shohfi, who reeled the ball in for a 30-yard gain. Rawlings subsequently completed a 19-yard pass along the left sideline before proceeding to run the ball into the end zone himself to give Yale the first lead of the game. On their next possession, the Red and Blue slowly marched down the field and eventually found themselves in the red zone. Facing a third-and-goal from the one-yard line, Robinson threw across his

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Overtime is where the Quakers shine. On Saturday, Penn (6-5-2, 2-11 Ivy) hosted No. 24 Yale (9-2-2, 3-1-0 Ivy) at Rhodes Field. On a day where Penn faced the Bulldogs across multiple sports, the Quakers were eager for another victory. The Red and Blue knew the odds were stacked against them; they hadn’t beaten a ranked team since 2010. And yet, from the opening whistle, Penn played with poise and confidence. At the end, patience — something the Quakers are used to, as they’ve played in four overtime games this season — paid off for the Red and Blue. Both teams struggled to get good looks at the goal throughout regulation and overtime, but a mistimed challenge from a Yale defense-

man gave Penn a penalty. Senior midfielder Brandon Bartel then calmly buried the walk-off penalty kick straight down the middle. “It was such an awesome feeling,” Bartel said. “Obviously, it’s really a mental game to step up into that scenario. Just to be able to keep my calm and score, that felt awesome, and it was great to get a win against such a highcaliber team.” Six minutes after the opening whistle, junior defender Alex Touche sailed a shot wide after receiving a pass off of a corner kick. Looking to respond, Yale pressed the Quakers’ defense, forcing a diving save from sophomore goalie Dane Jacomen. Late in the half, the Quakers averted danger when the Elis sailed a shot inches left of the net, and Penn and Yale entered the half scoreless. “We weren’t too happy with [the first half] to be honest. But we tried to use this as inspiration: Throughout the game, we competed smarter and harder,” Touche said. “Just winning those battles got us into better positions. We keep working on the offensive side of the ball. Guys are working really hard to get

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some looks.” With tensions running high coming out of the break, Penn found room offensively in the 52nd minute, but the Quakers couldn’t convert on a header and a free kick from 35 yards out. “I think we did a good job getting the ball into the final third,” Bartel said. “I think then, it’s just a matter of being a little bit cleaner in executing our passes into a little bit more dangerous spots.” As the game progressed, the Bulldogs found offensive opportunities. In the 75th minute, a Yale free kick drifted just over the bar, and nine minutes later, the Elis couldn’t convert from 18 yards out. “We have a very similar back line to last year and we had a good defense in 2018,” Touche said. “This year, I feel like we slipped at the beginning, but now I feel that we are getting back to the staple where our good defensive play can help us stay in the game.” Without a score in 90 minutes of regulation, Yale and Penn headed into extra time. Yale had two opportunities to win the game with a golden goal, but Jacomen stood strong and made two saves. In the second overtime period, the Quakers created more offensive opportunities through solid passing and ball control. Moving the ball past midfield, junior midfielder Joey Bhangdia slid into the top of the box and played the ball to junior midfielder Jake Kohlbrenner, who drew a Bulldog foul. “Joey made a really good run across the top of the box, then played it to me,” Kohlbrenner said. “I kept trying to drive towards the goal and took a bigger SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 9

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Sophomore wide receiver Brendan McCaffrey hauled in five passes for 116 yards, including a 68-yard bomb for a touchdown that put the Red and Blue up by two touchdowns early in Saturday’s contest.

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It was coach Bill Wagner’s last game at Franklin Field, and Penn sprint football was sure to give him a proper send off in a dominating win. After a heartbreaking defeat to Navy last weekend took the Red and Blue out of contention for a Collegiate Sprint Football League Championship, the Quakers bounced back in their first-ever game against Alderson Broaddus in a convincing 49-7 win. Senior quarterback Eddie Jenkins again played a big role with a career-high four rushing touchdowns on the day. For Penn, this win has special importance because it was the final home game of Wag-

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ner’s legendary 50-year career. “We still had a lot of motivation for this game, with it being coach Wagner’s last game at Franklin Field,” Jenkins said. “His last game in 50 years on this field, we really wanted to come out and make sure we send him off the right way.” Penn (4-2, 2-1 South) came out energetic, put the pressure on early, and never let up. Alderson Broaddus (1-5, 0-3) got the ball first to start the game, but the possession didn’t last long as junior defensive back Josh Trybus intercepted Battlers’ quarterback Joshua DeRocher on the first play of the game. On the next play, Jenkins rushed for 16 yards to open the scoring. “Josh is a playmaker, he brings the energy, and him making a play right off the bat just set the tone for the rest of the day, and we just fed off that energy,” Jenkins said. The defense would then hold the Battlers to a three-and-out to get the Penn offense back on the field, and Jenkins and the Quakers immediately took advantage with a 68-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Brendan

McCaffrey. The reception for McCaffrey was a career long for him, and a season-long pass for Jenkins. “[McCaffrey] gets open all the time, and if I can just put the ball somewhere near him, he’ll go out and catch them for me,” Jenkins said. Although the win seemed in hand with Penn up 35-7 at the half, the home side added two more touchdowns in the second half for good measure. The Quakers were once again powered by Jenkins at the helm. He ended the day with 14 completions on 21 attempts, accounting for 263 yards and three touchdowns. He particularly shined with his play on the ground, leading all rushers with 106 yards and four touchdowns. “[Jenkins] has been our leader on the offensive side of the ball, and the offensive line really has done a great job as well, you have to have that good combination,” Wagner said. While the offense was the highSEE SPRINT FB PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640