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Penn may have produced the most billionaire alumni of any school in the country, but in terms of median salaries, its Philadelphia peer colleges far outpace the University. According to the United States Department of Education College Scorecard for 2016, graduates of the University of the Sciences and Thomas Jefferson University earn a higher median salary than Penn graduates within 10 years of beginning school. The median salary for Penn graduates, $79,700, is still higher than the national average salary of $33,400, according to the College Scorecard website. However, Penn still trails Thomas Jefferson University, whose graduates earn a median salary of $86,300, and USciences, whose graduates
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t took a game with two onside kick attempts, a 47-yard Hail Mary, two blocked PATs, a 93-yard drive with no timeouts and 101 seconds left, a late two-point conversion and double overtime, but Penn is back atop the sprint football world. With a 27-20 win over Cornell on Friday, the Quakers clinched at least a share of the Collegiate Sprint Football League title for the first time since 2010. Eight seniors won their first title on Friday. Coach Bill Wagner won his fifth. And it was the senior leadership that got them there. “It feels great. I don’t want to be content with it — it’s hard not to be right now,” senior quarterback Mike McCurdy said. “We’re definitely going to celebrate tonight, it’s what we’ve been working for.” Out of the gate, however, the picture
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wasn’t so rosy. The Big Red (2-4) recovered an onside kick to open play. They weren’t able to score off of it, but a fumble by McCurdy on the Quakers’ opening drive translated into seven points for Cornell, putting Penn (6-0) in an early hole. A 35-yard field goal extended the lead to 10-0, and it looked like that was where things would stand at the half. Stuck at 4th-and-15 near midfield, Wagner elected to go for it with five seconds left, and McCurdy was able to find sophomore receiver Marcus Jones deep in the end zone for a 47-yard score as time expired. The deficit was narrowed, but a blocked PAT dampened the halftime celebration. “This team has been really special for me,” Wagner said. “They really know a lot about playing the game. Sometimes
they think know more than they really know. I think that they think they have all the answers sometimes, but in some cases they don’t even know the questions. However, I love them.” Somehow, the game managed to get even crazier from there. Cornell kicked another field goal to make it 13-6, and when Penn found the end zone to potentially tie it up, the PAT was blocked again. Throughout regulation, the Quakers didn’t seem to have an answer for Big Red quarterback Robert Pannullo — and the four-play, 70-yard drive he led with three minutes left seemed to seal the deal. Down 20-12, with no timeouts and on their own 7 with 1:42 remaining, the dream of a perfect season seemed dead. But those feelings discounted Mike SEE SPRINT PAGE 9
UA announces special election results after resignations
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Members resigned for a variety of reasons
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New representatives were named to the Undergraduate Assembly after a series of resignations left several vacancies.
Last week, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced the Special Elections results after five Undergraduate Assembly members resigned. College junior Gabrielle Jackson, College sophomore Samara Wyant
and College sophomore Kevin Myers were elected to three vacancies for UA School of Arts and Sciences Representative, with College sophomore Santosh Nori as the runner-up. Earlier this semester, five UA members resigned for a variety of reasons. College senior and UA President Kat McKay cited time commitment as the biggest issue members face. “It’s hard to gauge in April if you will really end SEE UA ELECTION PAGE 5
How a Penn student negotiated almost $50,000 in aid He originally received a letter stating he was ineligible JINAH KIM Staff Reporter
When College and Wharton sophomore Freddy Chang learned that he had been accepted early decision to Penn, he was thrilled — until a few
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days later, he received a letter informing him that he was ineligible for financial aid. For Chang, this was crushing — without a financial aid package, it was unlikely that he would be able to attend Penn. After speaking with family and friends, he decided to send a letter to Penn’s Student Registration and Financial Services
asking it to reevaluate his aid package. It worked. The office soon offered him a new package of almost $50,000, he said. “I was actually very surprised that this had even happened, because Penn, especially when they were marketing admissions and whatnot, were saying, even in their highest bracket of income, which is like
$220,000 a year plus, their median aid given was like $20,000,” Chang said. “So I thought, I don’t know if there’s a mistake, because my family’s definitely not making over $220,000 a year.” According to SRFS statistics for the Class of 2019, 31 percent of SEE WHARTON PAGE 5
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A dark history of Halloweens throughout Penn’s history One year, a research associate was murdered REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter
October 31 is here again, though not many Penn students are likely to head out on Halloween night after a weekend packed with holiday activities and Homecoming celebrations. While Halloween night may be quieter this year, there have been many years past where shocking events occurred. Here’s a sampling of what The Daily Pennsylvanian uncovered from past Halloweens at Penn. 1984: University police apprehended a man who broke into the Quadrangle and tried to rob two female students. Students told the DP at the time that a man got past Quad security by coming in with a group of students. He entered a building in the Lower Quad around 1:30 a.m. and asked two girls to give him their money. One of the students who had been assaulted said that when they had taken out their money, the man looked at it and said, “Don’t you have a beer or a joint? I don’t want your money — if you had a beer I might take that.” University police apprehended the man before any students were
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earn an even higher median salary of $95,800. USciences graduates earn the highest median salary in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, according to the school’s website. Penn alumni, on the other hand, earn only the fourth-highest median salary.
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children went on this route, visiting various fraternity and sorority houses for treats. Students living in the Quad were also involved. Some students organized a “Penn Halloween” experience for children by decorating their floor as a scary tunnel, complete with blood on the walls.
1991: The Greek Social Action Committee, together with the
Panhellenic Council, 36 fraternities and sororities as well as volunteers from the Asian, International and Arts House Residential Programs organized a range of Halloween celebrations for the residents of West Philadelphia. This was the first time that so many student organizations had collaborated for a philanthropic event. One of their initiatives was a trick-or-treat route along Walnut and Spruce Streets. Around 150
Street and Larchwood Avenue. On the night of Oct. 31, Sled was walking with his fiance Cecelia Hagerall when they encountered a man later identified as Eugene Harrison, who tried to steal Hagerall’s pocketbook. Sled engaged in a struggle with him, prompting another woman, Bridgette Black, to stab Sled five times, causing his death. In December, Harrison, Black and another assailant Yvette Stewart were convicted of Sled’s murder. Hagerall, also a researcher at Penn at the time, was not injured during the incident. After Sled’s murder, she returned to her home country of Sweden. Sled also left behind a 12-year-old son, Dima, who returned to New Jersey to live with his mother, Sled’s exwife. Students and faculty of the time remembered Sled as a “sweet” and “shy” man who played the classical guitar and loved Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. They added that the incident was especially traumatizing for the school because it occurred just a week after protester and activist Kathy Change set herself on fire in front of College Hall.
1996: University research associate Vladimir Sled was murdered near campus at the intersection of 43rd
2003: Judith Rodin threw her last Halloween party as Penn President before stepping down in June
Penn is not included in the top ten ranking of universities in the Mid-Atlantic Region, taking the 22nd spot nationally. Both schools likely hold a ranking advantage over Penn graduates because of their focus on science and technology. An article on the USciences news website attributes its
graduates’ high salaries to “the University’s practical approach to learning.” “A credit to the quality of the USciences education, students have a proven track record of graduating on time, landing jobs in their fields, paying back their college loans, and earning top dollar during their careers,” the article says. The Penn administration
appeared unaware of the ranking when asked about it last week. “When our folks look at http://www.payscale.com it is not the case,” Vice President for University Communications Steve MacCarthy said in an emailed response. He did not reply to follow-up emails asking what Payscale.com data he had been referring to.
Penn falls behind Philadelphia schools like University of the Sciences and Thomas Jefferson University in median starting salary post-graduation.
1986: In 1986, a woman accused a 1988 Wharton graduate, then a junior, with assaulting her at a Halloween party held at Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Eyewitnesses said that at approximately 3 a.m. on Nov. 1, the suspect banged the woman’s head against a concrete wall after she resisted his advances. The suspect, who was then a varsity football player, also hit a male student who tried to intervene, knocking him onto the floor, The DP reported at the time. In February the following year, the suspect took a leave of absence from the school. In 1987, Penn administrators also said that the status of the case was “confidential” and did not comment on whether disciplinary action was being taken. In 1988, as a senior, he was charged again with assault, this time for striking a man at Smokey Joe’s. He hit the man on the side of his head with a glass bottle and was eventually charged in municipal court with aggravated assault, simple assault, possession of an instrument and reckless endangerment.
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Halloween events at Penn over the last 30 years have ranged from community trick-or-treating to a murder near campus.
2004. She went as “Judge Judy” to the annual party open to students and faculty at the President’s residence at 3812 Walnut Street. “It was either going to be this or J-Lo,” Rodin said at the event. “I kept debating, but I decided I didn’t have time to shop for cargo pants.” 2006: At her annual Halloween bash, Rodin’s successor, Penn President Amy Gutmann, dressed as a fairy, took a photo with a student dressed as a suicide bomber. Engineering senior Saad Saadi, who is not Muslim, attended Gutmann’s party wearing camouflage pants and a scarf, along with fake bullets and dynamite strapped to his body. He read passages from a pocket-sized Bible, which he pretended was the Quran. When Saadi posted pictures of himself posing with Gutmann and Associate Vice Provost for Equity and Access William Gipson on Facebook, he received swift backlash. “This is something that is distasteful to the whole community at Penn,” said 2008 Wharton graduate and then-Muslim Student Association president Khalid Usmani. Gutmann later released a statement that said she did not realize what Saadi’s costume was when she took the picture with him.
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Alums in media talk interactions with presidential candidates The media panel was held at the Kelly Writers House REBECCA LIEBERMAN Contributing Reporter
Students and alumni gathered in the Kelly Writers House on Saturday for a discussion on political journalism and media coverage of the presidential election. But, as is common when Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are the topics of discussion, the conversation quickly turned to focus on emails, rallies and dishonesty. The panel was led by Dick Polman, a national political columnist at WHYY’s NewsWorks, in honor of Penn’s Homecoming weekend. It also included two young political journalists — 2007 College graduate Jim Newell of Slate and 2011 College
graduate Emily Schultheis of CBS Interactive. The discussion began with a question about Hillary Clinton’s emails. Polman asked if his fellow panelists believed that the news that the FBI was investigating new emails could change the presidential race. Both panelists and Polman said it was too soon to tell. “Jim Comey seemed like he was pretty much in a ‘cover-your-ass’ kind of position,” Newell said. He explained that if there was something incriminating uncovered in this investigation, Comey would be blamed by Republicans for not releasing it before the election when it could have potentially affected the results. Polman directed his next question at Schultheis, who has covered the Clinton campaign for over a year, asking her about her impression of Clinton. Schultheis replied that Clinton
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Penn alums currently working at organizations such as Slate and CBS Interactive gave their impressions of the candidates’ accessibility.
is someone who is not particularly open and forthcoming with the press. “You go and try to ask her a question, and you get the ‘oh, great to see you, great to see you,’
and she walks away,” Schultheis said. Newell added that when he was at the Republican National Convention, he saw Debbie Wasserman Schultz. He discussed
how he went to ask her a question, but her aide got in his way by pretending to talk to her. Newell moved around to her other side, and the exact same thing happened, he said. Polman agreed that limited accessibility to public figures presents difficulties for journalists. “You used to be able to get information from somebody at a bar at 11:30 at night and get all kinds of stuff on background that you could seam into your coverage later on,” Polman said. Now, however, journalists focus more on the image candidates put out, he added. But limited accessibility gives journalists more freedom to express their own opinions, and as Polman put it, to make “snarkier” comments. Newell said that he found it liberating to have the freedom to say what he believes to be true.
“There are times when I can maybe, like, not make that one joke and burn that bridge forever, but, you know, that’s something I’m learning to deal with more as I get a little bit older,” Newell said. Despite the unfavorable articles Newell has written on Trump, Newell said Trump’s campaign is nice to him, especially Trump’s press secretary Hope Hicks, who he said was very good at responding to his emails and questions. Polman recounted interviewing people at a Trump rally, and he noted that contrary to stereotype, everyone was “super nice” to him after learning he was a reporter from Philadelphia. “There were a few that were toting their assault weapons for open-carry in Ohio,” he said. “I stood on the other side, away from them. But they were really nice one-on-one.”
UMC event takes ‘Steps to Solidarity’ through poetry, music
Students share experiences as minorities at Penn MANXI WANG Contributing Reporter
Participants and members of United Minorities Council shared poetry readings, a cappella performances and multilingual raps Thursday night to express their experiences as minority students at Penn. One Mic, the first event of UMC’s Unity Month, represented the theme of “gaining identity,” which is the first of four “Steps to Solidarity” the group has identified. The subsequent weeks will each include programming focused on the next steps in the process — “building community,” “creating movements not moments” and “mobilize.” Col lege ju n ior Jocely n
Afadapa wrote and read a poem dedicated to her grandmother at Thursday’s open mic. “My grandmother has always been there for me and a lot of my traditions and my cultures come from her,” she said. ”I wanted to write something that would be a way to honor her. The event is about finding your identity and I find my identity with my grandmother.” College freshman Amaya Dianafelt inspired by the event. “It’s interesting to hear the perspectives from a large variety of students from campus — and honestly the poems are really good,” Diana said. “They put their hearts and souls into them.” “It’s just a very intimate event. You reflect a lot in that space,” Wharton senior and UMC chair Temilola Ransome-Kuti said. Voicing her
appreciation for the ability to turn identity into art, RansomeKuti said the open mic was “definitely a moving event.” After the eight per formances, participants formed conversation circles by various identifications including sexual orientation, disability and lowincome or first-generation status. Many students stepped up to share their personal experiences. “Being [a] minority doesn’t have to be non-white students at Penn,” UMC programming cochair and College junior Maya Arthur said . “Minorities are just like voices and cultures and experiences that aren’t the dominant norm on campus.” “You would inherently perform as an individual, and you perform a certain identity, a certain mode, et cetera. It presents
an honesty, a vulnerability as minorities at Penn, because I think at a lot of times we try to be guarded about certain things,” Arthur said. Ransome-Kuti noted how the UMC brings different minority groups together and facilitates discussions on how various identities intersect. “We try to find intersections with our group such as disability awareness campaign[s] and we’ve talked a lot about sexuality, all different things and how they connect,” she said. “Race and ethnics affect everything so we can talk about all these different ways of minorities but always draw back to what it is meant to be a person of color, because that’s the lens we want to focus on.”
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OPINION The American story THE CONVERSATION | Chicago Cubs’ quest for history
MONDAY OCTOBER 31, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 96 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 SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor
The Chicago Cubs are in the World Series. Do you know what the true power of a good story is? A compelling story, based on a world that may or may not be similar to ours, forces itself into our particular universe and becomes a part of it. Life imitates art, not the other way around. We understand the world through such stories. Even in a world defined by the data in every aspect of our lives, our interpretations of it are inherently story-like in nature with characters, plots and themes. The story of the Chicago Cubs is as follows: They are the lovable losers. They lose — that’s what they do. They have not won a World Series since 1908, which sounds more impossible the more you think about it. It is almost certainly true that no one reading this article has lived to see this happen. Yet, for Cubs fans, there exists another dimension to the Cub story. They do things the right way. They
play more day games than other teams, which is the way that the game was “meant to be played.” They play in one of the oldest, most revered ballparks in the world and were the last team to hold out from adding a video scoreboard until 2015. And now they are in the World Series, fighting for the next chapter of this legacy. Of course, the problem with stories is that reality will always prove them insufficient. The Cubs are not some kind of ideal. In fact, they are a business that charges ruthlessly high prices for tickets and has an owner with questionable political donations. Wrigley Field is crumbling and filthy. The image of the Cubs as a group of scrappy, hardworking losers is a clever marketing strategy. But also consider this: The story of the Cubs intersects ever so briefly with that of a certain child, growing up in the Chicago sub-
urbs. Their story really does a number on the kid — he stays up nights watching games, and for a short time wears nothing but Cubs gear to school. His first email ID is cubsnut820.
during cold military winters, and slowly, in his mind, the story of the Cubs begins to morph into the story of America itself. And if we are talking about stories, certainly
America has always held diversity to be one of her main assets. That whole assumption is now under siege.” The plot of his story will take him to a boarding school in northern Massachusetts, where he will encounter Massholes — a different breed of beast entirely. He will watch as, during his five years in Mass, the city of Boston go nuts as the Red Sox win World Series title. He writes his college essay about the Cubs. He keeps them in his heart
we must discuss the great American story. The American story, of course, is a much disputed one. This is increasingly true today, when people are more divided than ever, and are more aware of these divisions than ever before. The presidential race shows this very clearly. It’s been pretty disheartening to watch some of the debates.
Many people, including myself, cannot help but question the idea of American exceptionalism. But the idea of an America that is open, free and willing to stand for certain ideals continues to shape the decisions of the country today. America has always held diversity to be one of its main assets. That whole assumption is now under siege. Before he dropped out, Bernie Sanders used to say that the Middle East’s war with ISIS was a battle for the “soul of Islam.” I do not consider it an exaggeration to say that this election concerns America in a similarly fundamental manner. And I sincerely hope by the end of this war that there will remain a firm belief in the idea that America is great because it is good, and when it ceases to be good, it will cease to be anything at all. By the time that this piece is published, the World Series will probably be over and the Cubs will
JAMES LEE either have broken the most famous curse in history or will head into spring with the perennial battle cry of “There’s always next year.” Either way, I suspect that the events preceding it will not change the underlying story behind the things they stand for. I hope I will be able to say the same about the events of November 8. JAMES LEE is a College junior from Seoul, South Korea studying English and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. His email address is jel@sas.upenn.edu “The Conversation” usually appears every other Monday.
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The other minority REAL TALK | Conservative students feel oppressed on campus, should we be surprised? In the words of Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price, “ … at Penn everyone belongs.” It’s a strong sentiment; an ideal we should strive to reach. But unfortunately, in the eyes of many students, including College sophomore Luke Tortora, that sense of belonging has yet to be realized for one group in particular: Republicans. In his recent op-ed published in The Daily Pennsylvanian, Tortora described what he sees as, “a culture dedicated to shaming conservative thought,” at Penn. Tortora isn’t alone in his opinion. According to a recent guide released by the Heterodox Academy, Penn and the majority of the other Ivies rank outside the top 25 universities, in “viewpoint diversity,” — a conclusion they determined by rating each of the top 150 universites’ free speech codes and relative acceptance of conservative/ libertarian viewpoints. Penn scored highly for free speech but was only somewhat friendly to those on the right. Groups like Heterodox Academy are generally con-
cerned with the idea that the proliferation of liberal students and professors on college campuses is creating an “orthodoxy” of opinion wherein viewpoints like Tortora’s are no longer tolerated. To what extent this orthodoxy exists and conservative viewpoints aren’t accepted, is itself a matter of opinion. But what’s undeniable is the fact that Tortora, and conservatives like him, feel this persecution to be real. The idea that any student might feel unsafe to speak their mind is clearly a threat to our free and open discourse. However, given the implications of some conservative opinions, and the steady rise of the far right, the divisiveness of our political culture is likely to grow. Given that the movement for greater viewpoint diversity is generally driven by a perceived lack of conservative voices, it’s important to first determine what we view as the state of political discourse on college campuses. While it’s true that since the early 90’s the proliferation of self-identified liberal profes-
sors has increased, some, like The New York Times opinion columnist, Paul Krugman, interpret the pattern differently. In his view, it’s not so much that college professors have shifted to the left as it is that both political parties have
Trump’s candidacy, The Daily Pennsylvanian’s editorial board had published an article saying we need to create an environment where students feel “empowered” to voice their support for a candidate who’s called for banning im-
“... trying to maintain a balance of liberal and conservative opinion on campus has taken on a whole new meaning given the rise of alt-right politics.” drifted right. This increase in far right thinking means that what passes as conservative politics will likely become increasingly radical. Therefore, given the rise of the alt-right, trying to maintain a balance of liberal and conservative viewpoints on campus has taken on a whole new meaning. Imagine if prior to Donald
migrants based on their religion. Such a position might have seemed absurd given that it flies in the face of our supposed ideal of belonging. But in the era of Donald Trump this has become a legitimate political viewpoint and therefore the DP felt Trump’s followers should feel safe to speak their mind.
On the outset it’s easy to see why the silencing of Trump supporters would be a problem. At Penn, our commitment to diversity means we are accepting of all identities and positions. But for Muslim students, Mexican students and any other group who feels personally threatened by Donald Trump, the very presence of his politics can be read as a threat to theirs. This is what happens when the rise of identity politics meets a movement that’s intolerant of certain identities. The clash of diametrically opposed viewpoints also puts University administrators in a very difficult position. How can Penn maintain a commitment to being accepting of two viewpoints which are increasingly incompatible? In the abstract, ensuring viewpoint diversity on campus is undoubtedly an important issue. Having a limited range of acceptable opinions is detrimental to intellectual discourse and allows for commonly held beliefs to go unchallenged. But what happens when those challenges
CAMERON DICHTER amount to questioning our fundamental belief in the value of acceptance? Conservative politics, like all brands of politics, deserve their place on college campuses. But how can we balance our dedication to the free exchange of ideas while maintaining an accepting environment for minority students? If Trump’s popularity is any indication of what’s to come, then the solution to this question will only become more difficult to determine. CAMERON DICHTER is a College junior from Philadelphia, studying English. His email address is camd@ sas.upenn.edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.
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students with household incomes of $220,000 or greater were offered financial aid, with a median package of $15,935. Rates were even higher for lower income brackets, with 84 percent of students in the $190,000 to $220,000 being offered financial aid. Chang had already received a substantial aid offer from Babson College, but he still hoped to attend Penn. So he sent SRFS a letter elaborating on his financial situation, asking it to look at his finances again to see if he might be eligible for more aid. “On paper, we might have seemed more well-off, but realistically ... [the recession] put us in a tough financial situation where we were essentially getting no income at all,” Chang said. Chang was also attending private school at the time, which may have given the impression that his family was sufficiently well-off, even though he was receiving financial aid for his tuition. “I wrote an appeal letter basically saying, first of all thank you for accepting me to UPenn ... but the nonexistent financial [aid] package you gave me would prevent me from being able to thrive at Penn,” he said. “I went into my family’s specific financial situation ... and I sort of leveraged the other [aid] packages that I had.” The SRFS website mentions that re-evaluations are possible in a section designed for
up having the time to focus on the UA in October … we respect the choices of our former colleagues to pursue academic, personal and professional successes in other ways,” she said. For College sophomore Hannah Sweeney and College senior Ivan Sandoval, the decision to resign was caused by a unique class they are currently enrolled in called “Living Deliberately” — commonly known as “the monk class” — which allows students to experience aspects of monastic asceticism. The course limits their communication by requiring participants to take a vow of silence and refrain from using social media, culminating in a trip to Thailand
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College and Wharton sophomore Freddy Chang was originally told he was ineligible for financial aid, but later received almost $50,000.
parents, which asks families to notify their office about any change in financial status such as those caused by unemployment or a reduction in income. But as Chang’s experience shows, a change in income isn’t always necessary for a better aid package — sometimes, just a bit of persuasion and a request to look again at your original situation can do just as well. Chang received advice from NextGenVest, a startup that guides students through the financial aid process. He currently works as an advisor with the
organization, talking other students through the financial aid process. “It was just really baffling to me that they originally told me that my family was completely ineligible for aid, but then after just asking, they gave me $49,000,” he said. “I think there’s just this huge information gap about if you can do this ... I think there’s so much advantage to be had from simply asking a question. The thing with appealing financial aid is that you can’t get a worse package if you ask, [it] can only go up after asking.”
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possession. Solomon’s seven touchdowns this season are the best of any running back in the Ivy League. The Red and Blue defense held Brown scoreless in the first half, the third consecutive game in which they have taken a shutout into the break. The Bears produced only 98 yards of total offense over the game’s first 30 minutes — meanwhile, Watson alone racked up 158 receiving yards over that time. “It’s just how we come out. We’ve chosen to defer on the coin toss so that we start on defense every time,” sophomore defensive back Sam Philippi noted. “We want to set the tone of the game — we don’t want their offense to have any momentum.” In the second half, Penn withstood rushing touchdowns from Johnny Pena and Thomas Linta that brought Brown within one score. The Bears looked to be in position to tie the game late in the fourth quarter, but Philippi picked off a Linta pass in the end zone to seal the win with 1:28
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2016 remaining in the game. “We settled down. We got everybody to play with confidence and poise down the stretch,” Priore said. Both Penn and Brown missed makeable field goals. Bears freshman kicker Dawson Goepferich missed a 34-yarder in the first quarter – which set up the Quakers’ first score – while Penn sophomore Jack Soslow missed a 28-yard kick in the fourth. Soslow, usually the kickoff specialist, kicked in place of Jimmy Gammill, Penn’s typical field goal kicker. Gammill is just 1-for-4 on field goal attempts on the season. “Jimmy has been a little erratic on his field goals,” Priore said. “We went with Jack — Jack’s done a good job during the course of the week. But [field goal kicking] is something we have to fix in a hurry. We have to get those points on the board.” The Quakers, tied with Harvard atop the Ivy standings, will face tough matchups over the next two weeks as they head to Princeton Saturday before hosting the Crimson in a likely de facto Ivy title game on Nov. 11.
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Priore's Ivy win percentage: .909 (no Penn coach has ever been better) Tre Solomon leads league with 670 rushing yards and 5.5 yards per carry As a team, 6.1 yards per play on offense, top in league Torgersen: 151.1 pass efficiency, top in league Watson: 807 receiving yards, top in league Team is second in conference (behind Princeton) in turnover margin
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place over their Ancient Eight rivals and are now one game ahead of Harvard in the standings. Now sitting in the top half of the Ivy League, Penn has found much to be optimistic about heading down the stretch of this season. “Getting those two big victories on the road was huge,” Carr said. “It speaks volumes to how hard they worked this season.” Heading into their last four games of the season, the Quakers will face up with a few teams that were able to best them in tough five-set matches in Columbia and Cornell. Carr’s squad will try to reverse those outcomes to make a final statement before starting the preparations for next year. With all the key pieces of the teams set to return next year, the conference has been put on notice that this team will be ready to contend for the top spot in the 2017 season.
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It happens all the time in the movies: the hero achieves the ultimate triumph for her team when all else seemed lost. For Elise Tilton, that is exactly how her final game on Ellen Vagelos Field played out. On Friday, Penn field hockey toughed out a gritty 3-2 victory over Brown in their penultimate conference game. The Red and Blue (11-5, 4-2 Ivy) recorded the 29th victory in their 40th meeting with the Bears (7-8, 2-4). The game served to celebrate the Quakers two graduating seniors: Claire Kneizys and Elise Tilton. Coach Colleen Fink remarked on what the two captains have meant to the team. “These two girls have been a huge part of the success of this program,” Fink said. “They’re both just real true competitors and I’m glad we could get the win today for them.” The game started strongly for the Quakers. After early strong defensive play from junior back
Jasmine Li and sophomore Paige Meily, the Quakers offense found their rhythm. Junior forward Alexa Hoover opened the scoring on a pass from junior midfielder Gina Guccione. The Quakers aggressive play translated into nine shots on goal in the opening half. “It was nice that we got on the board first,” Fink said. “It’s definitely something that we’ve talked about.” After halftime, it seemed as if the second half would play out similarly to the first. However, the Bears came out of the locker room strong. In the 51st minute, Brown freshman Gina Openshaw won the ball off a scramble in front of net and delivered the leveling goal past Penn junior keeper Liz Mata. Four minutes later, Brown scored the go-ahead goal off an impressive shot into the high left corner from senior forward Jaclyn Torres. When asked, Fink identified transitional defense as the reason Brown got back into the game. “I think we got caught on our heels, and gave them some opportunities in transition,” the seventh-year coach said. “It’s just something defensively
where we need to be more organized, more composed.” But Penn fought back. It took only three minutes for the alltime leading scorer for Penn to bring the Quakers back level. Off a penalty corner entry from junior Rachel Huang, Meily set up Hoover for her second goal of the game. Kneizys praised the Quakers’ ability to step up in tight moments. “It comes down to who wants it more,” the senior captain said. “You can be down and if you play every second like its 0-0, you’re gonna win.” Fink echoed her player’s sentiment. “Because we sometimes have gone down early, we’ve learned it’s not the end of the world,” she said. “If there’s minutes on the clock, you just have to keep on fighting.” Penn kept on battling, and eventually, it paid off. With a little over six minutes left in the game, Penn received its 13th penalty corner. Huang delivered another entry ball and senior Tilton deflected a shot from freshman Alexa Schneck to score the game’s final goal. “That’s what dreams are made of right there,” the
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Senior midfielder Elise Tilton excelled in her final home contest, netting the game-winning goal with six minutes remaining. With the win, the Red and Blue moved to 4-2 in conference play.
two-year captain said. “It was just right place at the right time. It feels good to finish out the last game on this field like that.” For Fink, the game’s ending was, if nothing else, extraordinarily fitting for the occasion.
“It’s great that Elise was able to score the game winner,” she noted. “It’s exactly how you’d like to write it up.” It couldn’t have happened any better if it was scripted. The Quakers will play its final
conference game of the season Saturday versus Princeton. And for Claire Kneizys and Elise Tilton, a storybook ending has already been written for a hard-fought season and two commendable careers.
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This year’s real challenges for the Quakers are still upcoming their way to what could be, but very well might not be, a real (read: solo) Ivy League championship. In Ancient Eight play, Princeton is 3-1 to Penn’s 4-0. But Princeton’s lone loss came in a 23-20 overtime loss against Harvard, a powerhouse the Quakers have not yet had to face. Princeton’s wins, meanwhile, have been incredibly convincing, with a relatively tame 31-7 win over Brown sandwiched between 48-13 and 56-7 maulings of Columbia and Cornell, respectively. As for Penn, the wins have kept coming in bunches against Ivy foes, as the Quakers have not lost a conference game since the first game of 2015. But the Red and Blue have not encountered a worthy foe such as Harvard or Princeton through these first four games. The 42-7 win over Yale was an absolute clinic, and the 37-24 win over a regression-plagued Dartmouth team (Dartmouth grabbed a
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It’s easy to feel like Penn football is an obvious favorite to beat Princeton this Saturday and (eventually) win another Ivy League title. It’s hard to argue with ten straight Ivy wins (which I’m about to do). Now, I don’t think Princeton will beat Penn on Saturday. And unlike a pair of recent NFL games, NCAA games can’t end in a tie (Weird, right? You’d think the NFL would be more intent on ensuring each game has one winner and one loser. Anyway, I digress. Back to the “student-athletes�). I expect the Red and Blue to pull out the victory on the road in New Jersey, but there is no clear favorite. This is the first of two massive obstacles the Quakers will have to clear on
share of the title a year ago, but these are not your older brother’s Big Green) was more convincing than the scoreline shows. But the 35-10 win over Columbia was closer than it seemed, and certainly closer than it needed to be. The Quakers kept the Lions in the game for far too long, and held just a 7-0 lead at halftime before opening things up after the intermission. And this past Sunday, the Red and Blue certainly got a Halloween scare in a game they had no business losing (or coming close to doing so). After opening up a 21-0 halftime lead when Brown couldn’t sustain and then finish its drives, the Quakers allowed the Bears to claw back to 21-14. An interception in the end zone ended a dangerous final drive from Brown, but Penn’s inability to score a point in the second half was all too reminiscent of the second-half offensive mediocrity Penn displayed against
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Lehigh and Fordham. The Princeton offense, with the most yards gained and points scored in Ivy League play, will be the greatest test a very good Penn defense has seen this season. The Princeton defense is the strongest in those two categories as well, so the Penn offense is in for a similar challenge. Despite the above, I am fairly confident in the Quakers this Saturday. Why? Because I think the Quakers are better on offense, and better on defense. If the Red and Blue had played Cornell’s “football team,� Penn would probably catch and surpass Princeton on the offensive and defensive statsheets. But the only thing of which I am very confident is that we will see a battle when these two teams take the field. Last year, the Red and Blue stole the game thanks to a blocked field goal that kept the win, and their slice of the Ivy championship pie, within reach. For the second
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year in a row, and the first time this season, the Quakers might need more than just greater skill and superior athletic ability to beat an Ivy opponent.
TOMMY ROTHMAN is a College junior from New York, N.Y., and is a sports editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at rothman@thedp.com.
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also represented the last time those seniors would don the Red and Blue at home. Despite that, the seniors and the rest of the team were unfazed. “I don’t think it really affected us too much,� coach Nicole Van Dyke said. “It was just another opportunity for us to celebrate more Penn women’s soccer. Even though it was a draw, that one game doesn’t define who they are as people and what their contributions to Penn women’s soccer was. I think we tried our best to stay even-keeled.� After a scoreless first half, the Bears kicked off the scoring in the 54th minute with a header from sophomore Amanda Lane. The goal represented the first score in the run of play that Penn had given up since 12 minutes into the first game of the season, as all other goals came from free kicks, corner
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The adage normally goes that you win some, and you lose some. But when you are Penn women’s soccer, apparently you also tie some. After 110 minutes, there was nothing to separate the Quakers (9-3-3, 2-2-2 Ivy) and Brown (8-2-5, 3-1-2), as the two teams fought to a 1-1 draw this Saturday at Rhodes Field. The day started off with a Senior Day pregame ceremony honoring Penn’s six seniors, where the players were recognized on the field with their families for their contributions to the program. The game
kicks, or penalty kicks. The streak has defined the Quakers’ season, as their hallmark throughout the year has been a stingy defense that refuses to give up goals. Penn responded quickly, with a goal of their own in the 69th minute, courtesy of sophomore Allie Trzaska. The Yardley, Pa., native found the ball on her foot after it had been sent in on a corner, and she promptly snuck it inside the right post to tie the game up at one. “I thought we had some good opportunities, a few in the first half and few in the second,� Van Dyke said. “I think we definitely could have won the game, but there are also times where you think a draw is a fair result. To get the equalizing goal in the second half showed some great character from our players.� Despite a push from the Bears in
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On a chilly night in Philadelphia, the Brown Bears began their hibernation. Just a few hours after its gridiron counterpart fell to the Ivy-leading Quakers on Franklin Field, Brown men’s soccer came up just short in a wild back-and-forth match that featured some exceptional strikes on goal from both sides. Penn, cheered on by a legion of friends, family and former players, marked this year’s edition of Homecoming with a 2-1 overtime victory over a team that has owned the Quakers in recent years. The win also catapults Penn (5-5-5, 3-2 Ivy) into contention for the Ivy League championship, a trophy that seemed out of reach after its 4-1 shellacking at the hands — or, rather, feet — of Dartmouth just
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scoring for the Quakers. Saturday marked the final Ivy League Championships for seniors Montgomery, Cleo and Clarissa Whiting, who saved their best Heps performance for last — the team had finished sixth in 2013, eighth in 2014 and fifth in 2015. Likewise, the seniors on the men’s squad have experienced a parallel transformation and development over the past three years, with Dolan’s program embarking on a rapid rise through the national ranks on both the men’s and women’s side. “It’s been phenomenal to watch [the] team go from the back when we were freshman to champions now that we’re seniors,” Shearn said. “We couldn’t do it without everyone here.” Last year, the men’s team came up one point short of capturing the Ivy Heps team championship at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City. But
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two weeks earlier. Saturdays match was intense from the opening kick-off as the margin between the two teams was, as Penn coach Rudy Fuller commented after the game, razorthin. Initially, both squads were somewhat passive, sending long balls down the field and making probing runs along the side of the pitch. By the final whistle, the shot total was a balanced 12-10 in favor of Brown, and the two sides had an equal amount of set piece opportunities. But the biggest difference in the match came in the form of its smallest player: Penn freshman Dami Omitaomu. The rookie was a force to be reckoned with, as his artful dribbling drew double and triple teams from the bigger Brown defenders. What the 5-foot-7 midfielder lacks in height, he makes up for with elite speed and total field presence. The reigning Philadelphia Soccer Six Rookie of the Week capitalized on his slower opponents early in
on Saturday, at West Windsor Fields, they put that memory far behind them. “Its been a crazy journey,” said senior Chris Hatler, who finished eighth overall in 24:08.4. “We were sixth our freshman year, and now we’re champions.” After Saturday’s meet, the Quakers now have 60 studentathletes that have earned All-Ivy honors in the cross country program’s history. On Saturday, Shearn and Tuck repeated as multiple award winners, receiving first team All-Ivy accolades after earning second-team honors in 2015. 54 of the All-Ivy honorees have come under Dolan, who is only in his fifth season as the Quakers’ coach. “Its been a real honor working with Coach Dolan,” Tuck said. “He’s helped us and always has been so confident in us.” Both teams will continue the journey at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals in two weeks, where they hope to once again earn bids to the NCAA Championships in November.
the second half with a beautifully timed run past the back line. Senior goalscorer-turned-facilitator Alec Neumann lobbed the ball to the upper-right corner of the penalty box and Omitaomu, positioned in front of the defense, outran first team All-Ivy defender Jack Hagstrom and calmly chipped the ball over the head of the approaching goalkeeper. Brown (7-7-1, 2-2-1) was not to be outdone, as the Bears countered with a brilliant individual display of their own. Brown’s leading goal scorer and sophomore Matthew Chow overcame a poor first touch and a diving challenge from Penn sophomore Austin Kuhn to curl a hard-hit strike past sophomore goalie Etan Mabourakh into the top left corner in the 83rd minute. The members of Penn men’s soccer have not been strangers to ties over the course of the season, as the Quakers’ five draws are tied for the second-most in the nation. So when the whistle sounded signaling the end of regulation, the
Red and Blue were probably thinking, “Here we go again.” Omitaomu, however, came through once again, this time in game-winning fashion. After the Bears conceded a free kick in the Quakers’ own half, junior Sam Wancowicz sent a ball across the pitch to Neumann. What happened next can best be described by Omitaomu himself, revealing a mature tactical mind that belies his rookie status. “When we got the foul, I set up near the back post because their team was pushed toward the other side,” he said. “Neumann also came over and played it over and told me to flick it on. I saw the keeper was cheating off his line and so I tried to just get it over him and catch him off guard.” The freshman’s 25-yard golden goal sealed a crucial win for the Quakers, ending a six-year winless streak against their Rhode Island rivals. Fuller had nothing but praise for the progress Omitaomu has made
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Quakers scored to open the second overtime — and they did so when sophomore lineman Angelo Matos caught a deflected pass in the end zone. Cornell still had its chance, but an interception by sophomore defensive back Tom Console sealed the deal. “It’s just so crazy to think about, I’m still thinking about that game and how it ended,” Cai said. “So many crazy things had to happen like the two-minute drive at the end of the second half, that long pass at the end of the first half, the two-point conversion, the tipped pass to the offensive lineman — to have two of those plays happen in one game is crazy. To have four or five of them is just insane.” With only one game remaining in the season, no one else in the CSFL can pass the Quakers. At worst, should Penn somehow fall to a winless Post squad next
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McCurdy. The senior quarterback methodically led the Quakers down the field in 11 plays, connecting with sophomore wide receiver Chaz Augustini in the end zone with just 10 seconds to play. Yet the Red and Blue still needed a two-point conversion just to tie. Even that wasn’t simple. A false start moved the Quakers back to the 8, but McCurdy was able to find Jake Klaus out of the backfield for the conversion. “After all that, then you’ve got to come back and get the two,” McCurdy said. “We drew up a play that we knew would work, back came out, super free and I hit him, it was just unbelievable.” Without time for anyone to catch their breath, overtime started right up. Senior linebacker Robert Diorio picked Pannullo off, but Penn couldn’t score — they needed a second overtime. As if the preceding events hadn’t been insane enough, the
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Freshman forward Dami Omitaumu scored both of the Red and Blue’s goals in a 2-1 victory over Brown, pushing the team over .500 in Ivy play.
over the first months of his career. “The two goals were very different and I think it shows off his ability to either get in behind and show off his pace or have a good
second-range shot and show off his ball striking abilities,” Fuller said. “He’s coming along really nicely. He’s gotten a lot of opportunities this fall and it’s paying off.”
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weekend, only the winner of the Army-Navy game could pull even with the Red and Blue. “An undefeated season means everything,” Diorio said. “Clearly we came out flat today and it almost came back to bite us in
the back. I guarantee that won’t happen again.” But the trip to Post is still far enough in the future. For now, there’s only one thing that’s certain: Penn sprint football is the national champion.
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DAMI-GOD
In the final home game of the year for Penn field hockey, they came back to beat Brown, 3-2
A pair of goals from freshman Dami Omitaomu propelled Penn men’s soccer past Brown
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2016
Quakers bring home Heps win
IT’S
ELEMENTARY
XC | Despite loss of Awad,
Shearn, Tuck lead way to Ivy title
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MICHAEL GROSS Sports Reporter
FOOTBALL | Watson’s TD, 210 yards receiving lead Penn past Brown
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GRIFF FITZSIMMONS | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
Junior Nick Tuck finished Heptagonals with an individual time of 23:56.7, good for fourth place.
TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor
Who said it needs to be pretty? Penn football, despite not scoring in the second half, ground out a gritty 21-14 victory over Brown on Saturday to stay perfect in Ivy League play. The Quakers (5-2, 4-0 Ivy) relied heavily on the star power of junior wide receiver Justin Watson to jump out to
a 21-0 lead in the first half. Despite offensive struggles in the second period, however, the Red and Blue were able to hold strong on defense to come away with the Homecoming victory. “Good teams find a way to win,” Penn coach Ray Priore said. “We’re going to build on this and take some positives away to Princeton.” Watson had the best game of his standout career thus far, catching 11 passes for 210 yards — the most by any
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Penn player since 1981 — and scored on a long 67-yard touchdown from senior quarterback Alek Torgersen. That score – on a perfectly executed deep ball – put the Quakers up 7-0 with 6:53 remaining in the first quarter. “It was actually [a play] that we just put in this week,” Watson said of his seventh touchdown of the season. “It worked to perfection.” The Red and Blue scored twice more in the first period, each on lengthy,
deliberative drives. Christian Pearson — whose strong sophomore campaign has been largely overshadowed by Watson — reeled in a 17-yard strike from Torgersen to cap a 15-play, 87-yard drive with 9:53 left in the second quarter. Nine minutes later, in the waning seconds of the half, junior running back Tre Solomon plunged in from a yard out to cap another marathon 16-play, 82-yard SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 6
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Penn men’s cross country started its postseason with a bang on Saturday, as the Red and Blue captured their first Ivy league title in 43 years. At the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, the Quakers placed all five individual scorers in the top 12 en route to a dominant team victory. “The guys were off the charts and it was such a great team effort,” Penn coach Steve Dolan said. “We executed a great race today.” The team’s season began with one looming question — how was the team going to fare without three-time NCAA Championship qualifier and defending Ivy League champion Tom Awad, who graduated last spring? Seniors Nick Tuck and Brendan Shearn answered that question on Saturday, leading the way to the men’s team championship, a feat that the Quakers were never able to accomplish in Awad’s career. Tuck finished the 8K course in fourth in a time of 23:56.7, while Shearn was right behind him in fifth at 23:58.3. “Nick and I tried to get out in front and stay in the front throughout the race; we wanted to make sure we were as high [in the standings] as possible,” Shearn said. “At three miles we were third as a team, but by mile five we had won by 20 points.” “For the first two miles there were 30-40 people in the [leading] pack, but when it thinned out to the top15, we still had all five of our guys up there,” Dolan added. “The second half of the race was a really good run for us and we finished strong.” On the women’s side, senior Ashley Montgomery continued her impressive season, finishing second overall and leading the Quakers, who are currently ranked 24th in the nation, to a third-place finish, their best since 2005. Montgomery’s individual finish is the best in the history of the women’s program. Their 77 points was the team’s best tally since 1991, with Clarissa Whiting, Cleo Whiting, Erin Feeney and Abby Hong joining Montgomery in SEE XC PAGE 9
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Penn gets first double sweep of Harvard, Dartmouth since 2010 VOLLEYBALL | Quakers
down Harvard in just 3 sets
COREY HENRY Sports Reporter
Call it halloWeekend now. After losing four of its last five Ivy matchups, Penn volleyball busted out of its rut in a big way, picking up victories over both Harvard and Dartmouth on the road. The 3-0 win over Harvard (6-13, 4-6 Ivy) was especially meaningful as it marked the first season since 2010 where Penn (10-12, 5-5) won both matchups with the Crimson. The match was much closer than the scoreboard indicated, as only nine points separated the two teams in total points won. After a clean first set left the Quakers with a .312 hitting percentage, their percentage regressed back towards the mean, but was still just enough to finish off the sweep of Harvard.
Sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn led the team in kills with 13, but was also able to tally 11 digs for her first double-double of the weekend. “It was good we got to play them at full strength,” coach Kerry Carr said. “It shows that the first win wasn’t a fluke or anything.” Riding high off their first victory of the weekend, the Red and Blue used the momentum to build a 2-0 lead over Dartmouth (8-13, 1-9) early on in the match. The Big Green proceeded to stage their own comeback, taking the third and fourth sets to force a decisive fifth set. “We really came out on fire in those first two sets, but Dartmouth came back,” Carr said. “They were digging everywhere we were hitting so we had to change things up and be more aggressive.” With the score knotted at 13, Penn was able to finally put away their Ivy counterpart after Dartmouth committed consecutive
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errors to clinch the 3-2 win. The aggressive approach to the game paid dividends at the expense of their hitting percentage, which dipped all the way down to .062 in the fifth and final set. “It was good to see the team respond like that,” Carr said. “I’m super proud that they were able to find a way to win.” Key to avoiding the upset aga inst the Big Green was sophomore Courtney Quinn’s contributions on both sides of the net. Quinn’s double-double of 16 kills and 28 digs led the way as Penn clinched their second Ivy weekend sweep of the season. Junior libero Michelle Pereira also reached a career high with 37 digs to lead the way for the Quakers on the defensive end. “[Quinn] is our go to hitter,” Carr added. “When the game is on the line the ball goes to her and she’s able to get a kill.” With the successful weekend, the Red and Blue leaped to 4th SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 6
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Thanks in part to a career night for sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn — who logged 16 kills and 28 digs on the night — Penn volleyball beat Dartmouth in five sets to complete the season sweep.
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