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Penn admins won’t specify how the task force targets sexual assault President Gutmann said the task force’s goal, broadly, was to keep students safe DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor

Penn administrators have offered few details as to how the recommendations released by the University task force specifically combat sexual violence and harassment. This is in spite of a foundational goal of the task force being “to foster a campus climate and culture that is free of sexual harassment and sexual violence.”

In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn President Amy Gutmann said the task force’s “overarching” goal had been to keep students safe from all types of harm, from sexual assault to “falling behind in their studies.”

“The goal,” she said, “is to keep our students safe — not only safe in one way; safe in all ways.”

The phrase “sexual violence” does not appear once in the list of recommendations released in April by the task force. President Gutmann and former Provost Vincent Price formed the task force in November 2016 with the broad goals of combatting sexual violence, holding off-campus organizations — which function largely as underground fraternities and sororities — accountable for disciplinary violations and clarifying the Code of Student Conduct.

Since the task force's formation in November 2016 and throughout the its months-long process of gathering feedback from student groups, administrators have repeatedly noted that the group’s purview was broader than just preventing sexual violence. Nothing in its official name, the “Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community,” suggested a specific focus on sexual violence prevention.

In an email sent to the student body on Aug. 17, administrators said the task force “explored student social culture and concerns related to alcohol and other substance abuse, sexual harassment and hazing.”

Despite its apparently broad focus, students and other observers have typically conflated the task force with a University-sponsored effort at sexual violence prevention due to the circumstances surrounding its formation.

In September 2016, protesters plastered the LOVE statue and other spots around campus

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ive Graduate School of Education students have started a petition to improve sexual harassment policies within their school after students have called attention to instances of sexual harassment by faculty.

First publicized last month by Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania, a group of graduate students who have been working to become recognized as a union, the petition addressed GSE Dean Pam Grossman and called for her to “inform the GSE community as soon as possible about actions [she has] taken or [plans] to take to ensure that GSE students are safe from sexual harassment.”

The petition cited the 2015 Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey, in which 42.4 percent of female Penn graduate students who filled out the survey

reported being the victims of sexual harassment. (Close to 28 percent of total, female graduate students completed the survey.)

Graduate students were more likely than undergraduate students to identify faculty members as offenders.

“Especially for graduate students who work for Penn, the power and supervisory role of faculty can make reporting difficult and retaliation a serious threat,” the petition reads.

Miranda Weinberg, one of the petition’s authors and a Ph.D. student in GSE, said that when she spoke to graduate students in GSE about workplace issues, many students spoke about being sexually harassed by professors.

These students found reporting procedures for these incidents unclear and expressed doubts that such reports would be kept confidential.

“One of the things that kept coming up was

stories of harassment by professors targeting graduate students,” said Weinberg, who is also a GET-UP member. “We wanted to address that because we think it’s unacceptable.”

The petition currently has 92 signatures from Penn students, faculty and alumni.

GSE’s sexual harassment policies are not different from any other graduate or undergraduate school at Penn. The University has a standard set of sexual harassment policies that remains largely the same across all schools, and investigations for violations of this policy are outside of the GSE’s purview.

Fellow GSE Ph.D. student and petition writer Mark Lewis noted the standardized policies, but said that the petition is more foSEE GRADUATE PAGE 3

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Indecent exposure did not warrant a UPennAlert Incident took place on 39th and Delancey streets OLIVIA SYLVESTER Deputy News Editor

Almost a dozen safety alerts have been sent out to the Penn community since the beginning of this summer — but students have been surprised to find out that not all crimes on campus prompt a notification.

After a man indecently exposed himself outside of her kitchen window near 39th and Delancey streets, College sophomore Sabrina Palacios was surprised to find out that no UPennAlert was sent out.

At about 2:40 p.m. on Thursday Sept. 21, Palacios and her two roommates made eye contact with a man blatantly urinating outside of their kitchen window and then watched as he sat on their front steps afterward. After calling the Penn Police Department, Palacios’ roommate

College sophomore Lilly Balla, said she also witnessed the man engaging in lewd acts.

Palacios said that the Philadelphia Police Department called the incident “no joking matter,” because of the man’s criminal record, which included convictions for sexual assault.

“As a girl on a college campus, that was an issue,” Palacios said.

Palacios and Balla said that Philladelphia Police discouraged them from writing a report because it “would get swept under the rug.” Instead, Palacios and Balla said, they just let the man go free.

Palacios said she was “livid there was no alert” sent out to other people in the Penn community, especially because the man was let go after the incident. When she spoke to Penn Police, she said they told her that it was policy to only send out alerts when the identity of the perpetrator is unknown.

Palacios said they told her it would “dilute the system” to continually send out alerts even when they know who the perpetrator is and it may create a similar effect to a “witch-hunt.”

The Division of Public Safety’s Director of Operations and External Affairs Kathleen Shields Anderson wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the “UPennAlert Emergency Notification System is only activated for significant emergencies that are confirmed by law enforcement personnel and with the approval of the University’s senior leadership.

“The UPennAlert is not activated if in the professional judgment of the responsible authorities such a notification would compromise efforts to resolve the emergency,” she added.

Anderson said that this has been the policy of DPS for several years.

Drexel University shares this alert

policy, clarifying on its website that DrexelALERT is only sent regarding potential threats such as “ [an] armed suspect on the loose, [an] active fire or [a] credible bomb threat.”

“DrexelALERT notifies the community of real-time potential threats, not general public safety incidents that may not amount to an ongoing threat,” the website stated.

Palacios, however, said that “as a student, [she] would like to know” about what incidents occur on-campus, especially since in this case, this man “was still walking around” after the indecent exposure. She CARSON KAHOE | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER suggested that the University create another system to notify students of College sophomore Sabrina Palacios saw a man urinating outside sexual assault-related crimes spe- her kitchen window. She said she was “livid there was no alert.” cifically.

Balla agreed, saying she was She called for “more transparen- of the Penn community interested in shocked that students were not cy about incidents and greater focus finding out about criminal activity made aware of this situation. placed on these issues,” questioning in the Penn Patrol Zone can either “They just let him free,” Balla how often these situations occur on check the daily crime-log on the said. “He could’ve just wandered to campus.

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Students demand transparency in transfer process Penn does not publish internal transfer statistics

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When College and Wharton sophomore Max Grove decided at the end of his freshman year to apply for a dual degree with the Wharton School, he was surprised to find virtually no way to gauge his chances of getting in.

Penn publicizes its general, undergraduate acceptance rate each year, but does not release the precise admissions statistics governing internal transfers or dual degrees. For Grove, applying for a dual degree without any means to judge his application was not only “mysterious," but “scary.”

Despite the lack of available data, internally transferring into Wharton or pursuing a dual degree with the business school is still a common phenomenon among rising sophomores and juniors at Penn.

Out of all College undergraduates who hold dual degrees, 86 percent of students

sought a second degree with Wharton, while only 13 percent pursued a second degree in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and one percent pursued a second degree in the School of Nursing, according to a University report. Similarly, an overwhelming 71 percent of students pursuing a dual degree in the Engineering School hold their second degree in Wharton, while the other 29 percent hold their second degree in the College.

“From the chart, we can conclude that the Wharton School is an especially attractive option among Penn students seeking a second degree,” the report stated.

Jonathan Katzenbach, the managing director of the Wharton Undergraduate Division, confirmed that the largest amount of dual degree applications come from College students.

Given the competitive nature of applying to Wharton, students expressed frustration that the school does not have any publicly available statistics re-

garding the number of internal transfer and dual degree applications or their acceptance rates.

“I found it kind of strange that they did not release any information about [acceptance rates],” said Wharton sophomore Jack Copaken, who transferred into Wharton at the end of his freshman year. “It was pretty difficult to find out information for how competitive it was and how good I thought my chances were.”

The lack of information available to him still did not deter him from applying to transfer.

Wharton’s website only states that the “number of seats available for [both internal transfers and dual degree applicants] vary each semester, depending on the current undergraduate student enrollment at Wharton.”

In an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Wharton spokesperson Peter Winicov said there are no publicly available statistics about internal transfers. Katzenbach said in an email, however, that more students applied for dual

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Other undergraduate business schools, like Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, have available statistics. A FAQ page on McDonough's site lists the average acceptance rate for internal transfers as approximately 30 percent.

Wharton is not alone among Penn's undergraduate schools in declining to publicize statistics about internal transfers.

The College also does not track specific statistics on acceptance rates for internal transfers, according to Niel McDowell, the associate director of academic advising in the College.

McDowell noted in an email to the DP that the percentage of College acceptances is “quite high," since a student need only meet a minimum 3.0 GPA, be in good standing and have a reasonable academic plan.

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WH: 71% Boruta, who is looking to internally transfer into the College, said that the College was much more transparent about the process. She was able to receive verbal confirmation from McDowell that she would be able to transfer at the end of the semester if she maintained a grade above a B. “If anything, I feel like it should be an easy process for the person transferring,” Boruta said.

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cused on GSE students.

“When we sought to address issues within GSE, we were concerned about what is the footprint of these policies at GSE, how are they implemented at GSE, who do people go to within GSE when they’re reporting a case and how is that going to be resolved,” Lewis said.

Lewis and Weinberg both said inadequate sexual harassment policies are problems for students at other Penn graduate schools as well. When GET-UP formed, the group collected statements from students who wished for better procedures to report workplace problems. One of the statements, written by a School of Arts and Sciences graduate student, documented how sexual harassment by a colleague in addition to a lack of confidence in University response to such reports led her to leave her Ph.D. program.

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Eve Troutt Powell, who oversees Ph.D. programs across the School of Arts and Sciences, declined to comment on sexual harassment policies within her school.

Attempts to reach the spokespeople at Penn Law School, the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine with questions about their respective sexual harassment policies were redirected to University spokesperson Ron Ozio, who emailed back with a link to Penn’s general sexual harassment policy.

On Sept. 25, a few days after the GET-UP petition initially circulated, Grossman emailed the GSE community, including Ph.D. and masters students, reaffirming the existing sexual harassment reporting procedures despite Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ decision to roll back the Obama administration’s guidance on how universities should implement Title IX. Grossman included in the letter a promise to establish mandatory sexual harassment training for all faculty and staff at GSE starting this year.

“Penn GSE takes any accusation regarding sexual harassment extremely seriously, and we are committed to addressing and resolving any issues while engaging in fair processes to all parties,” spokesperson Kat Stein wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Stein added that GSE follows all University policies for sexual harassment and believes “in operating with as much transparency as possible.”

Although Grossman’s letter addressed all the initial concerns circulated in the petition, Lewis said this is only “the start of conversation” and that he is hoping to ensure student input on the content of the mandatory sexual harassment training and revisions to the reporting system.

“We want to make sure that students, in a powerful way, in a way that starts with New Student Orientation, receive the message that there is absolutely no tolerance for sexual harassment, and that the reporting structure is something they could trust,” Lewis said. “My suggestion, from me alone, would be that every step of the reporting process has a notification to students of what to do if they’re unsatisfied with that step.”

On Sept. 29, the GET-UP members sent a letter to Grossman with the petition and followup questions including clarifying how complaints are investigated after they have been received by Grossman’s staff. Members of the group later met with Grossman and Associate Dean of Penn GSE Matthew Hartley on Oct. 4 to discuss concerns around sexual harassment policies and reporting structures.

In a email sent out to the GSE community, GET-UP said that GSE administrators would be actively soliciting student feedback and that they “feel optimistic that Dean Grossman and Associate Dean Hartley are willing to take action to change sexual harassment policies with student input.”

Weinberg also cited recent news reports of unaddressed sexual harassment by faculty as one of her motivations to advocate for clearer sexual harassment policies at GSE. “There is a pattern of faculty members behaving inappropriately toward graduate students, in ways that are particularly upsetting because of the power imbalance between faculty and graduates,” she said. “We want to be sure that Penn is not the subject of the next one of these articles.”

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Penn has largest private police force in Pa. Penn Police Department employs 120 officers KELLY HEINZERLING Deputy News Editor

The 120 officers of Penn's private police have their headquarters at the top of campus on the corner of 40th and Chestnut streets.

According to the Penn Police Department, they're not only the largest private police force in Pennsylvania, they are also the second largest private police force for a private university in America.

Although it is quite common for a university with the size and scope of Penn to employ a private police force, Penn Police has more than triple the number of sworn officers than its closest neighboring institution in Philadelphia.

Drexel University has only 38 sworn officers, which is more than 80 officers fewer than Penn's 120. Their police department was formed in 2010, while Penn Police is more than 40 years old. It is also

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DPS website or in their office at 4040 Chestnut St. on the kiosk or in a printed copy.

“The Division of Public Safety encourages all present and prospective members of the Penn community to educate themselves about the various types of criminal incidents occurring in the Penn Patrol Zone,” Anderson said.

College sophomore and Communications Director of the Undergraduate Assembly Jordan Andrews said she was also concerned that someone with a known criminal history who had exposed himself was free to walk around campus.

“If an alert can’t go out because of procedure, still make others aware,” Andrews said. “I

located in the 16th district, a smaller patrol area with traditionally less crime than that of Penn, which is located in the 18th District.

The website for Temple University, located in North Philadelphia in the 22nd District, said its police force has more than 125 sworn officers that monitor the Temple area, although Temple officials could not confirm this number over the phone. The Temple University Police Department is publicly funded, which is why Penn Police is still the largest privately funded force in Pennsylvania.

In an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said the large size of Penn Police is meant to “support the ever-growing population of University City.”

“Over the past 20 years, the Division of Public Safety, including the Penn Police Department, has grown to support its mission of providing safety and security to the entire Penn community,” Rush

know that student outreach and student voices can be heard a lot on this campus, especially recently with articles, petitions and even Facebook posts going viral.

“Not that the onus should be on the students, but students really are powerful and have a voice, especially if they are concerned about something,” she said.

Andrews said that in her experiences with DPS, she has found that student safety is always their primary concern. She said that there can never be too much awareness of their services, though.

“Even if one student didn’t know there was a log existing on a website where they could find out their relative safety or if there were a known perpetrator in the area that would be a problem,” Andrews said.

said.

She said the three mile patrol zone includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Presbyterian Medical Center, every college house, fraternities and sororities and the larger West Philadelphia community.

In the Ivy League, Penn Police has the largest number of sworn officers, with 120 in total. The school with the second largest sworn police force is Yale University, located in New Haven, Conn., which has 89 sworn police officers as a part of their force.

Brown University, located in Providence, R.I. has 53 sworn officers and Princeton University, located in Princeton, N.J. has 33 sworn officers.

Dartmouth College and Columbia University do not have sworn officers, but rather have security officers. A representative from Dartmouth Department of Safety and Security said the department has existed since Dartmouth’s establishment in 1769. Dartmouth

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The Penn Police Department has more than triple the number of sworn officers than that of Drexel University.

currently has 35 security officers and works closely with the Hanover Police Department.

Harvard University declined to comment to The Daily Pennsylvanian about the size of their force for this article.

Due to regulations in New York City, Columbia has 147 full-time security officers rather than sworn officers. These security officers have the ability to detain suspected criminals on University property, however they are not able to carry firearms or arrest individuals.

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What’s the deal with intro-level STEM classes?

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Mention the phrase “pre-med” to a bunch of fall semester freshmen and quite a few of them will perk up and mention that they are, in fact, that specific moniker. Talk about the pre-med track to these same students two years, one year or even one semester later, and they might say, “Oh, I dropped pre-med” or “It wasn’t for me.”

They’ll have an “oh well” look on their face. Was the pre-med track just not for them, or was there something more to it?

Replace “pre-med” with just about any STEM major and you will probably get the same set of reactions. Many college freshmen start their undergraduate careers with bright eyes and huge aspirations. They not only excelled at but also genuinely enjoyed their AP Biology, AP Chemistry and AP Calculus classes. Maybe they worked at a laboratory one summer that intensified their interest in STEM. Why then would they discard their science- and mathoriented pursuits so quickly and so permanently?

Introductory-level STEM classes might be the reason.

A lot of introductory-level courses seem to “weed out” prospective majors or pre-med students from taking further steps into the world of STEM. These classes are often so large that professors will probably not know even a

quarter of their students’ names by the end of the semester. Each course also goes through heaps of material at lightning pace. Most of the material seems to be focused on abstract concepts that are completely unrelated to medicine or topics in math and science.

Is being “weeded out” of a major circumstantial? Probably not.

In fact, approximately forty percent of college students who plan to pursue a degree in science or engineering switch majors or fail to get their degree.

Why then are these intro classes so painfully difficult? Isn’t there a good reason to encourage us to be at the forefront of scientific innovation when we graduate?

Part of the reason might be to highlight the so-called exclusivity of STEM. Though this is not consistently the case, STEM majors tend to make more money after graduating college. The bridge between STEM and non-STEM, therefore, is widened by this financial gap. The proponents of difficult intro-level STEM classes see these courses as an initiation that prospective students need to undergo to see that many zeroes on

the horizon.

In other words, adults with careers in STEM have “earned” higher salaries, in part because they were able to do relatively well as college freshmen or sophomores in their intro-level classes. I don’t agree with this in its entirety, but post-graduation prospects play an undeniable role in the struggle inherent in these courses.

The other two reasons may, in fact, be slightly unintentional

many different topics at the surface level.

Second, professors would often rather teach students who truly want to delve into the minutia of an area of study that piques their interest, not just an introductory prerequisite that most students just want to finish. I, and many other students I’ve talked to, have observed that most of the professors who teach any sort of 101 class are either new to teaching or are disgruntled by their students’ profound lack of interest. Either way, the very notion of fulfilling prerequisites to get to the next level makes the idea of those courses even less appealing to students.

Making the content easier for underclassmen may seem like a good idea, but the problem is that it’s an almost impossible proposal that will lead to few, if any, benefits. It’s not worth it to water down the material if it will hurt students when they take far more rigorous upper-level courses a year or two later.

How, then, could we lessen the agony of introductory-level STEM classes? Simply having more midterms may be an apt first step.

If college administrators want their students to pursue careers in STEM, they should encourage, rather than dissuade, their students through accessible courses that actively engage them.” and entirely unavoidable. First, a lot of these introductory classes have to cover a wide range of topics to prepare their students for a higher level of understanding. The breadth of the material, though, causes the course to be taught so superficially. Even the most riveting of these classes need to cover

ALEX SILBERZWEIG Freshmen make up the majority of these classes. Hence, most of them are used to high school classes, where more than two or three tests determine the grade for an entire semester. Breaking up the heavy material into more sizable pieces can ensure that students understand the material and are not cramming information that they cannot truly understand.

If college administrators want their students to pursue careers in STEM, they should encourage, rather than dissuade, their students through accessible courses that actively engage them. Isn’t a major objective of a university to ignite students’ passions rather than to diminish them?

ALEX SILBERZWEIG is a College sophomore from New York, studying mathematics and economics. Her email address is alexsil@sas.upenn. edu. “Brutally Honest” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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On a hot summer day, after being lost in the maze of the Quad, I finally found my room on the fourth floor. Through my sweating and panting for a breath of air, I saw a tall man stare at me from the corner while I was trying to figure out how to scan my PennCard to get into my new room. I was flustered, annoyed and tired because ,after a long day of traveling and lugging my belongings up so many flights of stairs, I couldn’t figure out how to do something simple.

After going through so many trials and tribulations to make this door budge, I asked for help from the man who just so happened to be my graduate associate. In an instant, I was shown how to get into my room. After expressing my words of gratitude, I formally introduced myself: Carlos from Stamford, Conn. — just like it says on the creative movie ticket my GA had printed out and placed on my door.

As soon as my floormates arrived, we gathered in the room of my GA, Kent Grosh, for introductions. In a room full of 10 other strangers, our anxiety and awkwardness were suddenly cut through by Kent’s welcoming and chill attitude. He expressed to us

that we could visit him during his office hours to talk about anything that is going on in our lives. Personally, I felt the sense of community within my floor that he was trying to create, and I appreciated that.

I implore students to get to know their resident advisors or graduate associates on their dorm floors better. They are the hidden gems of support beneath the craziness of being a freshman in college. You get to know about their experiences in their personal lives, their aspirations, their travels, their studies and the similar problems they faced as undergraduate students.

Some of them are third- or fourth-year college students. Others are graduate students in various fields of law, medicine, engineering, et cetera. They have a plethora of knowledge and are aware of the resources to help any resident’s need. The transition between high school and college life is difficult, and these people have been trained to help our young, naive selves thrive at Penn.

After speaking with other fresh-

men, I learned that most don’t go to their RAs’ or GAs’ office hours.

For some students, they don’t find a need to talk to their advisor.

And, that’s OK. Every dormitory floor has a different dynamic and interaction between the residents and their advisors. Undergraduate students run from classes to clubs to volunteering, which takes up all of their free time. Nevertheless, in between our full schedules, we

am a part of my RA’s section that is responsible for … residents living above me, and I don’t really see them a lot.”

Since New Student Orientation, all the residents on my floor have made friends with one another. I believe that our GA was instrumental in helping these bonds form because of all the small things he has done for us. For example, instead of going the traditional route of informing residents about his office hours, he makes it a point to invite us personally when he sees us in the halls or through the GroupMe chat he created called, “Fourth Floor Friends.”

Third-year Medical student Kent Grosh, a fourth-year GA, spoke to me about why he likes being a GA for freshmen. “You have an amazing opportunity to get to know people and their interests in the dorms.

This is my fourth year, and I sort of feel like I have my personal style of doing my own things and set a tone and create a space for a community for the residents I have. For office hours, I feel that it is important to

I implore students to get to know their resident advisors or graduate associates on their dorm floors better.” should not be afraid to reach out to our RAs or GAs if we have a problem.

Wharton freshman Anna Jellinek commented to me on why she does not attend office hours: “I see the weekly email. It conflicts [with] when I’m working on homework.

I live in a really small hall and I

CARLOS ARIAS VIVAS make it available for people who want it.”

Through our many chats on searching for the meaning of life that could result in a spiritual journey through the mountains of Nepal, I realized that my GA was just as lost as I am — a young boy trying to find a way to make everything work. Before you move out of your first-year dorm, take a trip to your local RA’s or GA’s room.

You’ll never know what they have gone through or see the extent of how they can help you if you don’t try to connect with them.

CALVARY ROGERS is a College freshman from Stamford, Conn., studying communication. His email address is cariasv@sas.upenn.edu.

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Let’s talk about the Second Amendment THE CONVERSATION | The conversation needs to be about repeal Sunday night, I received a news alert on my phone saying that a gunman had opened fire at a Las Vegas hotel. I was naturally worried and distressed, but it wasn’t until the next morning, when I found out the unimaginable scale and nature of the attack, that I began to react emotionally to the tragedy.

I hated myself for becoming numb and accustomed to incidents like this, and for immediately recalling tragedies in Orlando, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook. I hated how President Trump ended his consolatory tweet with an exclamation mark, and how it echoed the way he had ended many of his nonsensical messages, with a now infamous “Sad!” Then, I hated myself for having that thought when the nature of the message was surely good. I hated bringing politics into an issue that had not even been fully resolved yet.

As the outpour of information and reactions continued, I read Nicholas Kristof’s article in The New York Times urging Americans to action to prevent future incidents like this. Kristof lists eight steps for gun reform.

While I agreed with most of these proposals, I couldn’t help but again feel despair and some anger, for I felt that all of this was missing the point, that we were lacking the conversation that we actually needed.

When is the last time that we’ve heard from a politician or a public figure challenging the legitimacy of the Second Amendment itself? It seems that almost every plan for reform is accompanied by countless reassurances that no one is coming to take away guns from people along with a statement of support for the right to own arms.

Everyone seems to be working with the inherent assumption that this right is fundamental to America’s identity.

It is true that tenets like the Constitution act as fundamental bases for collective identity, especially for a pluralistic society such as the United States. However, it is wrong and irresponsible to act as if everything within that system is equally important. Can we really say that the right to keep and bear arms is as important to American values as the freedom of speech, the free exercise of religion, due

process and the right to vote?

The right to bear arms plays no role in maintaining the legitimacy of political institutions like elections, nor does it have any actual significance in protecting fundamental liberties.

The oft-stated argument that citizens need guns to protect against government tyranny is

As an international student who has grown up in the States for most of his life, I often feel obligated to act as an ambassador for America to people who have never been to the country.

However, even as someone with great reverence for American values, I struggle to explain its infatuation with the Sec-

and whether it’s guns or people who kill. The last subject, for so long the basis of the National Rifle Association’s mantra, has always struck me as profoundly idiotic. People kill with the use of guns — unless your plan is to magically identity all malicious people and to get rid of them, we obviously need to address the means used to address the problem.

Penn’s motto reads “Leges sine moribus vanae,” which translates into “Laws without morals are useless.” It is this observation that laws reflect our ongoing quest towards justice and that they are not foundational truths that ought to make us care about this issue as students. It is no secret that the Constitution, including many of its amendments, has changed throughout the years to reflect the ongoing progress of the country. Make no mistake: This does not weaken the validity of the law — it strengthens it. It reflects the thought that America itself is an ideal to which we edge closer to throughout time.

Many critics have written that America essentially gave up the debate over gun rights after

Can we really say that the right to keep and bear arms is as important to American values as the freedom of speech, the free exercise of religion, due process and the right to vote?” laughable in today’s world — no militia could resist if the government or military actually wanted to strike against its own citizens. Besides, American democracy is far more stable than in the age of the founders, with more safeguards than they could have imagined.

ond Amendment. After countless tragedies like this week’s, other countries’ reactions and discourse is based around the question, “Why not just outlaw guns?”

Yet, here in the States, we remain mired in questions around background checks, age limits

JAMES LEE the Sandy Hook incident, that when the country decided to value such rights over the lives of children, it lost all hope. I do not agree with this. I do not believe in a vision of America as Moloch, the great ancient beast to whom children had to be sacrificed. Yet, to prove it, we need to shift the gun rights conversation towards the philosophical and moral legitimacy of the law itself, rather than continue in this dangerous dance with moral relativism. So let’s talk about the Second Amendment.

JAMES LEE is a College senior 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.

‘Tis the season to support MERICAN IN AMERICA | Why we should attend student shows I still remember every friend who came to watch Club Singapore put on their biennial musical “Sing City” on March 26 this year. I remember every single person who happily purchased tickets from me, even though I was only going to be sitting in a small dark room at the back of the theater calling light transitions through a headset. I remember — with a tinge of embarrassment — my endearingly overzealous friends screaming my name whenever they saw the stage lights change. It was hilarious.

A Facebook post on the Mask and Wig Club’s upcoming fall show reminded me that ‘tis again the season of arts group performances and of countless Facebook invitations to concerts and events. In other words, ‘tis again the season to be mobbed by flyers on Locust Walk.

Looking back, I regret not going to more performances last year. I “didn’t have time,” “had a schedule conflict” or perhaps

just “did not care enough to go.”

I wish I had. I wish I had gone to a friend’s Pan-Asian Dance Troupe performance and a club member’s Disney A Cappella show. I wish I had gone to see what exactly “musical sketch comedy” was or the sort of “experimental theater” iNtuitons produces.

For most of the year, we are busy working and attending to our own commitments and interests. We go to our own sports practices, organize our own general body meetings and put together our own speaker panels and events. We are wrapped up in our own pursuits. We organize too many things and, perhaps, attend too few. We are always looking inwards, to our own ambitions and our own needs.

Instead of always spending time agonizing over how to boost the number of people attending our club’s next event, we should perhaps take some time to go to a friend’s concert or activity.

To attend a friend’s performance is to look outward beyond ourselves and to set aside time to appreciate the people around us. It means sitting in the anonymous darkness of the theater while our friends shine onstage. We see the talent and passion of the people around us.

What a beautiful thing that is!

ing this place less as a cold, individualistic rat race, and more as a warm, supportive community.

Our friends perform with grace; each turn, transition, accent all perfected and fine-tuned over months of repetition and practice. Their months of love and dedication to their art, on

Instead of always spending time agonizing over how to boost the number of people attending our club’s next event, we should perhaps take some time to go to a friend’s concert or activity.”

Looking outward brings balance to our lives. It turns the “I” in our heads into “you” and “we.” We will perhaps start see-

display for a mere hour or so, for us to appreciate. Every performer yearns for an audience; every friend appreciates support from

those close to them.

At Penn, many of us are far from home, and our parents and siblings — our usual cheerleaders — are not able to attend our performances. Our friends take their place — the ones showering us with flowers, cards, photographs and love after a performance.

School performances are also just so fun. The main difference between a professional performance and a student one is the complete irreverence and lack of decorum. Any moment is okay for you to scream your friends’ name, or for the audience to descend into a cheering war. Any moment is OK to clap or scream “whoo!” During the Sing City musical in March, it was so much fun, hearing the audience screaming, “Just ask her out, Johnny!” and “Whoo, Johnny!” at every turn of the developing love story onstage. A student performance is a rowdy, noisy, beautiful celebration.

So go, when your friends mes-

SARA MERICAN sage you about attending their show. Go, if your college house is offering discounted tickets.

Go, if someone waves a flyer at you on Locust Walk. Go, get a group together and snag tickets at a lower price. It’s worth it.

To my dear friends, please hit me up with invitations and ambush me on Locust Walk with flyers. I look forward to seeing you onstage!

SARA MERICAN is a College sophomore from Singapore. Her email address is smerican@sas. upenn.edu. “Merican in America” usually appears every Monday.

A task force on alienation and incompetence GUEST COLUMN BY BLAZE BERNSTEIN To err is to be human, but to be a Penn administrator is to never learn from those mistakes.

Penn likes to put off problems and never solve them. A task force is the perfect way to do that — a group of people only semi-qualified or unqualified to deal with a situation, assembled with a vague and convoluted purpose in mind.

A 1999 task force at Penn at-

tempted to tackle the issue of alcohol abuse in response to several incidents. At the time, 94 percent of Penn students believed that no policy change would affect their alcohol consumption.

One student in particular was quoted as saying that any changes would merely push the appeal of off-campus parties. I was shocked to learn on-campus parties were ever popular,

as there are so few today.

The 1999 task force ended up making several recommendations, including a genius suggestion for a “late-night, alcohol-free music club” that was never implemented, much to my dismay. Of these suggestions, two subsections resonated with me most, as they represent opposite ends of Penn’s alcohol-related policies today: “Ensuring a Supportive Envi-

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SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla. Her email address is skhan100@sas.upenn.edu.

ronment” and “Minimizing Risk.”

“Ensuring a Supportive Environment” represents the idea of relaxing alcohol-related policies in order to encourage students with issues to seek help. “Minimizing Risk” targets tightening alcohol-related policies in order to discourage the issues from happening in the first place and to reduce the University’s liability. These two concepts are checks and balances on a college campus, especially since they require the University to turn a blind eye to inevitable yet illegal behavior in order to maintain a degree of openness with its students.

That is something Task Force Chair and Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum does not understand. Cade’s task was to oversee the portion of the hot-button “Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community” aimed at creating an on-campus culture “free of sexual [assault], alcohol [and substance] abuse, and other [inappropriate] behavior.”

The final report is rife with references to booze and unsanctioned behavior, yet not a single reference to sexual assault or harassment can be found.

How can we tackle the issue of sexual assault if we cannot call it out by name? Cade’s actions indicate she believes alcohol and a “fraternized” campus culture have a causal relationship with sexual assault. To tackle the implications of alcohol abuse and hazing is one matter — to tackle the issue of sexual assault is another. They are not analogous substitutes.

Cade’s failure to address all three of her tasks has only led to an increase in the secrecy and victim-blaming attitudes that got us here in the first place. Organizations do not have the funds nor the desire to comply with ridiculous new event guidelines — not to mention, these guidelines fail to address any real issues.

Cade’s counterparts Maureen S. Rush and Beth Winkelstein were tasked with increasing enforcement and awareness of safety and responsibility-related policies, jobs they have been extremely successful at.

Cade was unable to see that she was the complement to Rush and Winkelstein. We now only have policies that “Minimiz[e] Risk” and none that “Ensur[e] a Supportive Environment”. All this being said, this is by no means a personal attack, and Cade deserves little blame in this situation. Her

training clearly demonstrates a background in adolescent psychology and the finance and bureaucracy of education. A woman so skilled in bureaucracy has no place in a situation requiring immediate action.

She does not have the skill set to tackle such a nuanced set of issues, and Penn President Amy Gutmann should never have appointed her in the first place.

Penn administration and Gutmann need to do away with ridiculous task forces and find people with appropriate and adequate training whose specific jobs are to tackle the tough issues on campus, like rape culture, if they wish to actually enact any change. They need someone who steps up and provides clearly reasoned policies and procedures, implemented with hard deadlines in mind, in order to try to foster the type of cultural shift so many students and faculty desire. We just want Penn to be a place where students feel safe and comfortable and at ease with the administration.

What they’re doing now is nothing short of alienating and incompetent.

BLAZE BERNSTEIN is a College sophomore from Foothill Ranch, Calif.

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with a sexist party invitation sent specifically to freshmen women by the off-campus organization OZ. Protesters cited the invitation as an example of how rape culture can be perpetuated at Penn. A media storm surrounding the incident quickly arose, with figures ranging from Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf to actor Ashton Kutcher publicizing the protest.

When the task force was initially announced in a University-wide email that November, Gutmann and Price specifically mentioned the OZ email as an inciting incident.

“Penn has made widespread, concerted efforts to prevent sexual assault and sexual violence on our campus and to create a healthier and safer environment for all members of our commu-

nity. There is always more work to be done,” the email read.

“Groups such as OZ operate outside the University and engage in high-risk behaviors that may be injurious to their members or others, and undermine our collective efforts to create a respectful and healthy environment for all of our students.”

The recommendations from that task force has spawned a crackdown on unregistered events and formal attempts to regulate off-campus groups.

However, in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Gutmann and Penn Provost Wendell Pritchett could not name a single new policy or enforcement strategy stemming from the task force that is directly targeted at combating sexual assault.

“There are many things we have done preceding and following the task force, whose goal [was] to keep students safe from

sexual assault, safe from accidents and safe to pursue their studies in a productive way,” Gutmann said.

Many of the task force’s recommendations, which have included tightening the rules around registered social events and extending them to all student groups, have confused critics who fail to understand how these restrictions lead to student safety. Without a detailed explanation from administrators as to which policies target which problems, students seem to be left in the dark as to how systemic, campus problems like sexual violence are actually being targeted.

Pritchett, who officially became provost months after the task force released its final report, said he has met repeatedly with undergraduate and graduate student leadership to discuss the controversy over the task

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Penn forms student network to prevent assault Penn Democrats and Sigma Nu have joined the program GIOVANNA PAZ Staff Reporter

Penn Violence Prevention is adding a new resource to its list of programs designed to combat sexual violence on campus.

This year, PVP launched the Anti-Violence Engagement Network, which enlists student groups on campus to help improve Penn's culture toward sexual assault prevention.

Director of Sexual Violence Prevention Jessica Mertz said the organization wanted to interact more with student groups that may already be interested in addressing sexual assault within the Penn community.

For over two years, PVP has been overseeing the Penn Anti-Violence Educators program, which trains students to run workshops for their peers on the role bystanders can play in preventing instances

of sexual and relationship violence.

Mertz said AVEN was designed to add to existing resources like PAVE. "Doing that one presentation or having that one workshop never really felt like enough," she said.

In order for student groups to be accepted into the network, they must undergo a series of six steps, starting with appointing a group liaison and connecting to a PVP staff member. According to the website, other steps include educating members, promoting sexual-violenceawareness events and including an anti-violence statement in the group's constitution.

At the end of each academic year, PVP plans on publishing a list of groups that are a part of AVEN and hosting an event honoring those groups.

Mertz said PVP is currently working on recruiting student organizations and has already partnered with groups such as Penn Democrats, Sigma Nu and Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention. She

added that there is no deadline this year for a student organization to commit.

College sophomore Gabriel Brodsky, who serves as the student liaison for the Sigma Nu chapter, said that although his chapter is also involved with other campus organizations, such as Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, AVEN was appealing because it has a broader focus, and looks at situations beyond those present in Greek life.

"AVEN is attempting to deal with a whole lot more and that was something that we were interested in becoming involved with," Brodsky said.

Another key component of AVEN is its new partnership with ASAP. The group spearheads the annual "Got Consent?" campaign, which creates posters for participating student groups stating what consent means to them. Last year, over 60 groups participated.

The bar will be set higher this year for student groups that want to be a part of the "Got Consent?"

campaign: Only those in AVEN will be able to join.

College senior Kellie Ramdeen, who serves as the community outreach chair for ASAP, said ASAP has worked closely with PVP, and plans in the next few weeks to bring new student organizations into the network.

"Change takes time and it takes work," Ramdeen said. "Because [AVEN] is a year-long process, I think that's a good way to keep groups involved and keep them talking."

Mertz highlighted that the most common reason for not reporting sexual assault, according to a 2015 survey, is the fear of negative social consequences.

"Ideally, even one way we can work to eliminate that barrier, is if we have a more informed student

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Nearly all student groups have been affected OLIVIA SYLVESTER Senior Reporter

A little more than a year after students protested rape culture at Penn with flyers exposing a sexually suggestive email from offcampus group OZ, Penn administrators have rolled out a series of policies changing the way social events are held on campus.

Many of these policies are based on recommendations set forth by the Task Force for a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, which convened earlier this year with the purpose of addressing sexual harassment and violence, substance abuse and other student conduct code violations.

The enforcement of these recommendations have affected nearly all student groups — and not just off-campus groups that were initially the subject of debate — confusing many students about the Task Force’s actual goals and intentions.

Among other policies, all student groups, both on campus and off, now have to register their social events with the University or risk having it shut down by Penn Police. Another controversial policy is the introduction of event observers patrolling late-night events, which students have said “encroaches on student liberties.”

The Task Force set out to address “the negative influence of unaffiliated and unsupervised groups,” which have had a long history on Penn’s campus, but their goals seem to have departed from their implementation.

What is an “off-campus” group?

Since the 1980s, off-campus groups, which function like underground fraternities and sororities, have maintained a growing influence on Penn’s social scene.

Most of these groups started as on-campus Greek chapters that were forced to disband after being found guilty of some violation or policy. Others decided to “walk off-campus” to avoid sanctions.

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The University task force was formed after outrage to a sexually suggestive email sent to freshman women by off-campus group, OZ.

By moving off-campus, students no longer had to follow the same university regulations or restrictions.

The Tabard Society was one of Penn’s first recorded off-campus groups, created in 1987 to offer a less-restricted alternative to oncampus sororities.

Following Tabard, a slew of Greek organizations facing university suspensions, national sanctions or other disciplinary actions began to follow suit. Rather than comply with the University’s rules or punishments, students decided to disband their chapters and begin unregulated, off-campus groups instead.

After sending two students to the emergency room for alcohol poisoning and bodily injuries, Zeta Beta Tau faced two years of suspension in 2004 during which members started an off-campus group called “OZ” — the same group responsible for sending the suggestive email last year.

The University has struggled to manage off-campus groups for years The University has voiced disapproval of these off-campus groups in the past, but until this year, has not formally attempted to hold them to the same standards as on-campus groups.

After a University task force called the Working Group on Alcohol Abuse outlined stricter party registration and supervision in 1999, The Daily Pennsylvanian

reported that on-campus parties had dropped by almost 25 percent a year later.

In 2002, the DP reported that the Interfraternity Council was launching a full-fledged “crusade against ‘pseudo-Greek societies’ – specifically Theos, an underground fraternity formed as a remnant of Sigma Alpha Mu, and Owls.

But by 2008, the University still had not required off-campus groups to register parties or follow the same initiation policies as oncampus organizations.

Scott Reikofski, former director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, told The Daily Pennsylvanian in 2008 that while other universities have implemented such rules for off-campus groups, it would be “somewhat inconsistent with [Penn’s] philosophy” to do so as the “students have the power at this institution.”

Campus uproar to the sexually suggestive email from OZ in September 2016 changed the University’s approach.

After student activists posted hundreds of printouts of the email around campus headed with the words “THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE,” Penn President Amy Gutmann and former Provost Vincent Price announced the creation of a task force to tackle off-campus groups.

Penn officially established this Task Force in 2017 with the explicit aim of “holding students in unaffiliated and unsupervised groups accountable for violations

of University policy to the maximum degree permitted.”

After two months, the Task Force officially released a set of eight recommendations, including proposals to identify and regulate off-campus groups though it was not made clear how the University actually planned to mandate these new policies for unaffiliated groups.

Before the start of the fall 2017 semester, administrators sent out an email stating that the University would begin enforcing the Task Force’s recommendations beginning with this fall semester.

The email said off-campus groups would be required to register events, which had previously only been required of affiliated fraternities, sororities and other campus groups, and that Penn had expanded the team of alcohol monitors, now re-branded as “event observers,” to ensure that registered events were following policy and to alert Penn Police officers of unregistered events.

The implementation of these recommendations confused and upset various student groups When students returned to campus this semester, many noticed an uptick in social event closures across various social groups.

The implementation of the Task Force’s recommendations seemed to affect on-campus social groups — both Greek and non-Greek — more so than it did off-campus organizations.

After this perceived uptick in event closures, over 2,500 Penn students signed an online petition on Sept. 17 titled “The Ability to Have a Social Life at Penn,” which blames the University for worsening students’ mental health by increasing regulation of social events. Other students have criticized this petition for being insensitive in its wording and lacking important context about recent mental health initiatives at Penn.

Apart from the petition, students have expressed their confusion with which events are being shut down and why. Reports have been made of Penn Police disrupt-

ing birthday parties, “ice-cream socials” and philanthropic events such as the annual “Mac n’ Phis” event hosted by the sorority Alpha Phi, which was registered with the University. Rush has said that the specific closure of the Alpha Phi event was a “mistake.”

Students have also pointed out the “large financial burden” of registering parties with the University.

According to the regulations for registered events, host organiza-

tions must hire a University-approved bartender and a pair of security guards, which cost $25 and $65 per hour respectively, adding up to a total of $450 for one fivehour event.

The IFC told all fraternity chapters that it will pay for half of the total costs for a registered event, but groups with little-to-no dues “aren’t just burdened by the new mandatory costs” — they are prohibited by them.

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A Penn alumna has been fired from her post as vice president and senior counsel of CBS after posting a controversial Facebook post about the victims of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in United States history, according to The Washington Post.

On her personal Facebook account, 1997 College graduate Hayley Geftman-Gold wrote, “I’m actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are [R]epub-

lican gun toters.” The shooting occurred during the closing song of country music star Jason Aldean’s performance.

A CBS spokesperson told Fox News, “Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families.”

Geftman-Gold issued a statement after her dismissal, calling her post "indefensible."

“My shameful comments do not reflect the beliefs of my former employer, colleagues, family, and friends," she wrote.

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Player of the week Eddie Jenkins dominates for sprint football

He scored five touchdowns in the 45-15 win at Cornell MARC MARGOLIS Associate Sports Editor

Saying Penn sprint football's Eddie Jenkins had a bounce-back performance on Friday would be a gross understatement.

After the worst game of his career against Army, the sophomore quarterback fired on all cylinders in Penn sprint football’s 45-14 win at Cornell to earn him this week’s edition of DP Sports’ Player of the Week.

On the night, Jenkins completed 16 out of 21 passes for 335 yards and three touchdowns through the air while also running for 24 yards and two touchdowns from seven carries on the ground. This is a far cry from last week when the talented quarterback rushed for -32 yards on

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the ground to go along with three turnovers — two fumbles and one interception.

Part of what makes Jenkins so deadly is his ability to use his legs.

Though two-time Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL) MVP Mike McCurdy was elite in his own right, Jenkins is proving himself to be more than adept at handling the Quakers' offense in McCurdy's absence.

More mobile than his predecessor, Jenkins enables Penn to add more designed quarterback runs to keep defenses on edge, as evidenced by his two rushing scores on designed quarterback runs against Cornell.

This game was an encouraging sign for those who were concerned about Jenkins' ability to lead the offense. However, in order for the Quakers to repeat as CSFL champions, Jenkins and Penn will need to produce more Cornell-esque performances.

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“Justin Watson is deserving of all the honors and records he is breaking,” Priore said. “He’s doing things that are very rare in our League and we’re fortunate to have six more games with him.”

The second half was all

CCSU. The Blue Devils defense pitched a shutout in the remaining two quarters, while forcing another Penn turnover. Offensively, CCSU had long drive after long drive, scoring on drives of 86 and 88 yards in the third and fourth quarters respectively.

Those long drives also kept the Red and Blue offense off the field for long stretches of time, making any possible comeback attempt that much harder.

“This was probably all the clichés of a tough road game with critical turnovers, defensive touchdowns against, and injuries to key players making it hard for us to ever gain momentum. [That] made this an uphill battle for us,” Priore said.

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Sprint football bounces back big time at Cornell Team shows significant improvement after Army loss MARC MARGOLIS Associate Sports Editor

What a difference one week can make.

After struggling offensively against Army last week, Penn sprint football bounced back with a commanding 45-14 win over Cornell on Friday night.

Junior defensive back Tom Console made the first big play of the game for Penn (3-1, 2-0 South Division), intercepting Cornell (2-1, 0-0 North Division) quarterback Connor Ostrander to give the Quakers the ball at their own 48.

Sophomore quarterback Eddie Jenkins did the rest, leading Penn on a nine play, 52-yard drive that ended on a two-yard design run from the dual-threat quarterback.

The two-yard run was one of Jenkins’ four first-half touchdowns — two on the ground and two

through the air. His impressive performance resulted in twice as many touchdowns as incompletions in the first half.

“We had a good day offensively, and everything was really clicking,” Jenkins said.

Following Jenkins’s first rushing touchdown, senior linebacker Quinn Karam recovered an Ostrander fumble in the end zone after sophomore linebacker Matteo Murgia forced a strip sack, pushing the score to 14-0.

“It felt amazing. It’s my first time getting in the end zone as a college player,” Karam said. “But truth be told, I owe it all to my dude Matteo Murgia, who got a great hit on [the quarterback] before he could get the pass off.”

With a ton of momentum, Penn continued its surgical precision on offense and dominant play on defense. The offense engineered touchdown drives on three of its last four offensive possessions in the first half while the defense forced three turnovers, helping the

Red and Blue go into halftime with a 35-0 lead.

Despite dominating the game on both sides of the ball, the first half was not all good news for the Quakers. Towards the beginning of the second quarter, Console, one of Penn’s leaders in the secondary, suffered a shoulder injury and was forced to leave the game. Fortunately for the Red and Blue, he was able to return to the field and did not miss any further action.

To start the second half, Penn briefly gave Cornell some energy after junior running back Jake Klaus fumbled in the red zone.

Cornell then ran for a two-yard touchdown on its ensuing offensive possession to bring the score to 357.

However, Penn bounced right back after an 86-yard touchdown from Jenkins to senior wide receiver Andrew Sutton for his third passing touchdown of the game (fifth total). From here, the Quakers took their foot off the gas and began rotating the first stringers out

of the game.

Aside from wanting to win the game, Penn travelled to Ithaca looking to correct some of the many issues that plagued them against Army.

Last week, one of its main problems was turnovers.

This week, besides the miscue from Klaus when already up 35-0, the offense was able to hold onto the ball and not give Cornell extra possessions. Penn also made Cornell pay for its mistakes, scoring 21 points off turnovers — including the Karam fumble recovery in the endzone.

In addition to fewer turnovers, the Quakers were able to establish a running game. After finishing the Army game with a net total of negative 32 yards on the ground, Penn found its running game early and often, gashing the Big Red defense for 137 yards and two scores on the ground.

The Red and Blue also saw more success through the air, finding holes in the Big Red secondary for

336 yards and three touchdowns through the air.

“We were able to spread the ball around to all the receivers outside,” Jenkins said.

All of Penn’s leading wideouts — Sutton, junior Aidan Kelly, and senior Marcus Jones — had touchdowns.

In addition to the wideouts, sophomore tight end Billy Murphy rebounded from his two drop outing against Army to haul in four receptions for 43 yards, giving Jenkins a security blanked when his deep threats were not open.

Still, the big improvement offensively was in large part due to better blocking from the offensive line.

After being hailed as possibly one of the best sprint football offensive lines in recent memory, the talented group struggled against a stout Army defensive line, surrendering seven sacks and numerous quarterback hurries.

“We definitely took it very personally after our performance against Army,” sophomore tackle

Matt McDermott said. “So we got together, watched film, made sure in practice we went over everything technically.”

Few were more happy to see the offense get back on track than its defense, who have carried the burden of keeping Penn in the game the past two weeks.

“I know when our offense has an off game, we’re going to pick them up and when we have an off game, they’ll pick us up,” Karam said. “But it was great to see our guys get back to scoring big like we know they’ll be doing the rest of the year.”

Looking ahead, Penn plays Post in two weeks following the upcoming bye week. The week following Post, the Quakers will play a de facto South Division championship game when it plays Navy on October 27th, This win is a huge confidence boost for Penn’s championship hopes, but it still needs to run the table if it hopes to rematch Army and defend its CSFL championship.

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Many teams would have crumbled after this kind of lost opportunity, but the Quakers proved they were not one of those teams. “I told the team [after the second set] to refocus and to not let one point here or there rattle us,� first-year coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley said.

Penn responded to Schumacher-Cawley’s message and came back out firing to win the third set’s first four points before extending their lead all the way to 20-12.

The fourth and final set featured Penn and Dartmouth frequently exchanging points, as the teams entered the final points deadlocked at 19 apiece.

The Red and Blue pushed their way to a 23-20 lead, behind a couple of kills from Jones, only to drop the next three points.

Unlike the second set, however, the Quakers finished the job and took the fourth set 25-23, crushing the Big Green’s comeback hopes.

While the high-flying Jones was the star of the match for Penn, the team saw a solid con-

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Senior outside hitter Kendall Covington contributed to Penn’s win over Dartmouth on Saturday with seven kills and four blocks.

tribution from many of its players.

Freshman Raven Sulaimon had an impressive ten kills and three blocks, while upperclassmen Kendall Covington and Brooke Behrbaum racked up seven and eight kills, respectively, with each adding four blocks.

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Freshman sensation Jones takes Ivy League by storm Rookie leads team in kills and double-doubles WILL DiGRANDE Contributing Reporter

Introducing Penn volleyball’s newest golden girl.

Already garnering such impressive titles as Ivy League Volleyball Rookie of Week (twice in three weeks) and DP Sports’ Player of the Week, freshman Parker Jones is making her presence well-known very early in her college career.

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“We remember our official visit,” Morton says, before her teammates reveal that for the setter from Atlanta, the road almost ended there. The seniors recall how Morton was sick (or “deathly ill,” as Molnar puts it) during that first trip to Penn.

“We thought she was really quiet, but she was actually dying the whole time,” Pereira (or “Perry”) says.

The team laughs as they recall Morton wearing sweats in a seemingly 100-degree ice rink. Friedler remembers thinking, “We don’t know her, but she does NOT seem OK,” before the players decided to take their future captain to the hospital.

But things have changed. These six know each other as well as anybody now, and they’ve each grown into their own roles on and off the court. As Pereira explains, “Sydney’s the mom” (“Yeah, you’re very mom-like,” confirms Molnar, who is “the fun one,” but also “very competitive”).

Pereira continues dishing out roles, calling Stephenson the “team therapist.” The senior from San Diego agrees, saying, “people come to me with a lot of personal problems.”

“I feel like K-Cov is the energy provider. She’s the spark. She’s

Jones’ level of play has been at an unprecedented level, especially for a player simultaneously making the transition to college. In the season’s first tournament, the George Mason Invitational, she showed Penn’s opponents from the start that she was a player to keep an eye on. Jones notched a double-double by scoring 13 kills and 14 digs in her very first game as a Quaker and has led the team in kills throughout the season, including a team-high 21 against Central Michigan.

Having led Acalanes High School to the California Division

III State Championship in her senior year, Jones has been accustomed to playing in the high-pressure world of competitive volleyball, but college is a whole separate arena.

“It’s really different being on a team with girls who are twenty and twenty-one years old, since starting the season I was only seventeen, so it was a big difference not only in age but also in level of maturity and skill,” the rookie said about the transition.

However, she is happy in choosing to come across the country to Philadelphia for the Quakers.

“Socially and academically, the culture here is just awesome. I don’t think I could have chosen a better school to go to,” she said.

Of the 12 games the Red and Blue have played so far, Jones has led the team in kills nine times and has earned a team-high seven double-doubles. Making an impact both on and off the court, all of her coaches and teammates only have good things to say about her.

“She’s just a great athlete and a lot of fun to be around”, said firstyear head coach Katie SchumacherCawley. “I’m happy she’s here at

Penn and looking forward to seeing how she grows throughout her tenure here.”

Junior Courtney Quinn echoed her coach’s praise for the rookie.

“When teams are playing us she’s someone they’re worried about and she’s only a freshman. By the end of her four years here I think she’s gonna be a power player in the whole conference. She’s been such an asset for our team.”

Jones seems to be just the spark Penn needed after its sixth-place finish in the Ivy League standings last year, and although the team is only

1-2 in conference play so far, Jones’ ascendency has given the team a new dynamic that could enable them to run the table as the season goes on.

Despite her early success, however, Jones refuses to be complacent.

“You can’t take any days off because you’re competing for a spot and you definitely have to push yourself to limits you didn’t think you could achieve,” she said.

And with the Quakers’ newest golden girl working as hard as ever, Jones could keep making headlines for years to come.

someone we can look to when we need energy or leadership by example, and I feel like Sydney is someone who is really good behind the scenes, good at coordinating things.”

Pereira struggles to give herself a role, ultimately settling on “the chill one.” But her teammates, even the younger ones, have no shortage of things to say about her.

“Perry is very, like, weird in a good way,” star junior Courtney Quinn says with a smile. “If you’re sitting next to Perry at dinner, it’s not going to be a surface-level conversation. It’s gonna be something weird, and extroverted, and it’s gonna blow your mind.”

Friedler is the smallest in stature, but nobody takes her lightly.

“I would say that I’m probably more of the lay-down-the-hammer type,” the Illinois native says as she makes her fist into her palm.

“Emmy, she’ll tell you how it is.

If you want blunt, you really want to know what’s going on, she’ll tell you,” Quinn laughs. “If I want to feel good about how I’m doing, I’ll go to Steve.

“They all have such big personalities that are so unique and fun,” Quinn adds.

But while the seniors (even Friedler) are lighthearted in front of a microphone, they’re dead-serious (even Molnar) on the court, and

they provide a massive share of the team’s overall production. With their careers winding down, those around them who are in it for the longer haul know that an era is ending.

“I think from the day I stepped on campus, the senior group has had tremendous leadership qualities,” first-year coach Katie SchumacherCawley says. “That’s a big group to lose, and I think that each of them is so different, and adds a lot of personality to the team, and it’ll be interesting to see how the team meshes once they’re gone.”

The younger players in particular will need to adjust on and off the court in the absence of the seniors’ production and presence.

“It’s gonna be a big hole to fill.

The seniors are the heart of our team. You look up to them,” freshman Parker Jones says.

“We’ve grown up with them,” Quinn says. They’ve been my best friends for three years, I can’t imagine them not being here.”

Even if Quinn and the younger Quakers can’t imagine a Penn volleyball squad without Molnar, Covington, Pereira, Morton, Friedler and Stephenson, they won’t have to for long — it will soon be a harsh reality. But until then, the seniors plan on leaving it all out on the court.

“We only have six to eight weeks left of volleyball, we’re all trying to

enjoy it.”

But the seniors know that, even after they take off their uniforms for

the final time, Penn volleyball will be a gift that continues to give.

“I learned more life skills being

on the team, than I did in the classes I took at Penn,” Stephenson says, to unanimous approval.

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n college athletics, every new season brings plenty of new faces and, more painfully, a host of goodbyes. But this was not the case last season for one Penn team, a rarity which will make the end of this season all the more bittersweet.

The Penn volleyball class of 2017 was a complete non-factor on and off the court.

This is not an attack on their playing ability or leadership qualities, but merely a consequence of the fact that they did not exist. After the star-studded class of 2016 with its five captains departed following the 2015 campaign, last year’s team had zero seniors, relying on an extremely young squad for both production and leadership.

While the Quakers struggled on the

court last year, the constant refrain around the program was that it was a “two-year team,” and that the 2017 season would be an opportunity to build the learning experience of 2016. This year, the team is once again top-heavy in terms of age, with six seniors leading the way.

Kendall Covington, Sydney Morton, Aimee Stephenson, Michelle Pereira, Emmy Friedler and Hayley Molnar all enter their final season with a full year’s experience of being the elder stateswomen

of the team. For all intents and purposes, they’ve been the old kids on the block since before they were even upperclassmen. Gathering before practice one afternoon, they reflect on their journey: “Sophomore spring [after the seniors played their final game in the fall of 2015] we all had to step up and be leaders,” says Morton, one of three captains along with Covington and junior Taylor Cooper.

“Having been the oldest on the team for two years now, I feel like

we seem, really, REALLY old,” Friedler says. “And we’re kind of used to that role, so it doesn’t seem like a shift for us at all.”

“It’s more of a habit now,” Stephenson (or “Steve,” as she is known) says. “I don’t really remember not having been a leader on this team.”

But if you push them hard enough, the senior six can remember their earliest days with the Red and Blue — and even further SEE SUPER SENIORS PAGE 15

Penn football struggles to overcome injuries at CCSU

Volleyball’s junior captain Taylor Cooper leads team by example

Starting quarterback was forced out in the 2nd quarter

Cooper recorded 92 kills and 11 digs last season

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Hardworking: (of a person) tending to work with energy and commitment; diligent.

The first word that comes to mind when thinking of junior volleyball co-captain Taylor Cooper is hardworking. Dedicated to the sport and her team, Cooper constantly works to attain more both on and off the court.

A native of the Lone Star State, Cooper spent her early years living in the suburbs of Houston. From a young age, Taylor remembers constantly trying to keep up with her two brothers who were both competitive athletes involved with countless sports. In fact, one of her brothers, Stanford, is currently a student at Cornell, where he is a member of the track team. Clearly, athleticism is something that runs in the family.

Cooper was always ready to try something new, and was especially intrigued by volleyball. So in seventh grade, she joined her school’s team, where she became teammates with fellow Penn junior, Courtney Quinn. In 2016, Quinn was named HonorableMention All Ivy for volleyball and was the only Quaker to start in all 26 matches of the season, which is clearly an attribution to the foundations of volleyball both Quakers learned during their formative years on the court. Cooper soon left Quinn, however, as her family moved from Texas to Colorado.

“I completely fell in love with volleyball. Then I moved to Colorado and started playing club and it

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In the end, it’s good for Penn football that non-conference games don’t count in the Ivy League standings.

Penn football struggled for all but 10 glorious minutes in the second quarter against Central Connecticut State (CCSU) in a 42-21 loss. Injuries and sloppy play made it hard for the Quakers (2-2, 0-1 Ivy) to get anything going.

On the first play from scrimmage, senior quarterback Will Fischer-Colbrie found senior tight end Nicholas Bokun for a 45-yard dagger. Fischer-Colbrie looked for his tight end again on the subsequent play, but the ball bounced off his hands and was intercepted. To add insult to injury (or injury to insult?), Bokun was hurt on the play.

Following the turnover, CCSU (3-3, 1-0 NEC) drove 70 yards on a long and methodical touchdown drive. After forcing a Penn three-andout after the ensuing kickoff, the Blue Devils repeated a near-identical drive to go up 14-0 in the first quarter.

Penn’s offense finally looked to get things going in the second quarter, but a promising drive was cut short

by Fischer-Colbrie’s second

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Sophomore quarterback Nick Robinson stepped up in relief of Will Fischer-Colbrie, but was not able to overcome a 21-0 deficit.

interception, which was returned 79 yards for a score.

That throw would be the senior’s last of the day, as he was replaced by sophomore transfer Nick Robinson due to injury.

Robinson would lead a furious second quarter comeback to narrow the CCSU lead to seven by halftime.

“The team responded well in the second quarter, Nick did a good job coming in when Will was injured and finding open receivers,” Priore said.

When asked about the situation at quarterback two weeks ago, coach Ray Priore stressed that it had been a quarterback controversy but never a competition. Now, it might have blossomed into one.

Fischer-Colbrie has struggled between stretches of solid play in his first season as a starter. Still, Priore has stuck

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with him except for a few plays of mop-up duty delegated to Robinson. Today, however, the senior threw as many interceptions (2) as completions before his injury.

Robinson, however, promptly drove Penn 69 yards for a touchdown in his first drive, finding Christian Pearson in the end zone to get Penn on the board. That would be the first of Robinson’s three touchdown passes on the day.

“The second quarter gave us a chance to get back in the game, but Central Connecticut responded well,” Priore said.

“All credit to them, they did not allow us to carry our momentum into the second half.

If we get an early score in the third quarter, maybe it’s a different result.”

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Junior co-captain Taylor Cooper finished second on the team in total blocks in the 2016 season.

just became my life. It’s what I want to keep doing,” Cooper said.

And doing is something that Cooper focuses her volleyball leadership on. Cooper hopes to to teach her fellow Quakers how to speak to each other with honesty in order to create a sense of unity. Knowing how high the pressures of Division I volleyball can get, Cooper hopes to remind her fellow Quakers that being a member of a team makes you accountable to each other every time they step on the court.

“I prefer to be someone that leads by example and by my actions. I try to be really honest. I always say that if I am telling you something its because I believe you’re capable of doing it… I try to not just talk the talk, but actually walk it too,” Cooper explained about her leadership style.

Taylor has also established a close relationship with new head coach, Katie Schumacher-Cawley.

As a junior, Cooper will be a key leader on the team for the next two seasons. In tandem with the coaching staff, Taylor hopes to motivate her team members to achieve greatness for the Red and Blue.

“Taylor is a great person. I think

she is a person who genuinely cares about her teammates on and off the court. I think the world of her. She’s just a great worker. Volleyball wise, she’s one of the hardest workers on the team and leads by example all the time,” Schumacher-Cawley praised.

And leading by example is something Cooper takes very seriously. Throughout her volleyball career at Penn, Taylor has seen significant improvement, making major strides last season when she started in 24 out of 26 matches as a sophomore. She finished 2016 ranked second on the team in total blocks (54) and first in blocks per set (0.67), to go along with a total of 92 kills and 11 digs.

Her senior classmates recognize the dedication possessed by Cooper.

“We all work hard, but Coop works harder,” senior Michelle Pereira joked.

While no definition can truly capture the work ethic possessed

by Cooper, it is only fair to attribute her successes thus far to her hardworking dedication to the sport of volleyball and her fellow Quakers.

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